Dear All, There are only 4 settings for display brightness (the first one turns it off), I need a MUCH dimmer setting while working in the dark. Spouse cant sleep with lights on! The lowest setting still strains my eyes. Any tweak?
One word: STOP.
Seriously, if you think you need to be working while you're laying in bed next to your spouse, you might want to take a hard look at your priorities! Trust me, she's not mad that you have a light on, she's probably mad that you'd rather poke at your phone than poke at her...
Put down the phone, and go to sleep, man! If you can't sleep, then go be annoying in another room of your home.
Also, no, I don't believe there's any way to dim the LCD without turning it off.
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Hi. Is anyone else annoyed by the high illumination of the screen whilst driving, especially at night? Does anyone know if there is a fix out there for it?
Apart from keeping the screen closed..! like to have it open so I can see who is calling, setting it so the screen is at minimum illumination and shuts itself off after a minute whilst on power, but it's still too bright and well the next setting down ain't much help.
Great toy, but it's really starting to annoy me. Any advice, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
You could always wear some sunglasses :lol: or put it in a dark plastic ziplock baggie...hehe
Abdn_Exec_Al said:
Hi. Is anyone else annoyed by the high illumination of the screen whilst driving, especially at night? Does anyone know if there is a fix out there for it?
Apart from keeping the screen closed..! like to have it open so I can see who is calling, setting it so the screen is at minimum illumination and shuts itself off after a minute whilst on power, but it's still too bright and well the next setting down ain't much help.
Great toy, but it's really starting to annoy me. Any advice, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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sounds like u need:
1. fag lighter charger to prevent shutoff
2. a dark theme to reduce the brightness
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I have the charger. That's fine, what I meant was I had set the settings to dim the screen after a minute (that's the minimum you can select whilst on charge), not that the unit was switching off. Sorry for confusion. My issue is the difference between the two lowest levels of brightness. With one you can see the screen, with the other you can't. What's this dark theme you mentioned? Is it between the two?
What would be great would be a night level similar to what TomTom offer on their gadgets.
Alternately you can use a profile management program such as pocketzenphone or the still under development phonealarm and set a profile for night driving with reduced screen brightness.
Kind Regards
Doesnt shut off at all. What the hell? Anybody have an idea?
There are TWO backlight settings, really. The first dims the screen after a set amount of time (found in Backlight settings), and the other turns off the screen entirely after a set amount of time (found in Power settings).
I, too, have found that the backlight just goes down to a very dim setting, but I haven't found it to have much of an impact on battery life, since I have the device set to sleep after just a minute.
And what about listening to mp3? Is it possible to listen without backlight on?
babicka said:
And what about listening to mp3? Is it possible to listen without backlight on?
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Software solution: Pocket Player for WMppc. You have the option to turn off the display yourself or after a certain amount of time it will turn the display off for you.
NEXT!!!
Clarification
Hey people your responses are still quite confusing. Let's make things finally clear:
SuperRob: So it's there an option to turn it off completely or not?
NeoDMD: Have you tried it on Herald?
Thanks
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I finally got mine so I can answer the above for those, who may be interested.
1. So there is no option to turn the screen completely off and still not to put device tosleep in the settings.
2. Yup, Pocket Player is able to turn off the screen as well as the freeware utility ScreenSwitch.
So so far, everything is great
I know I know..
Holy old thread revival batman!
but I'm having this same issue does anyone have the cab files to make one of these work. The screen being on all the time cuts down my battery life and makes the phone get warm
I have noticed that the Automatic control for the backlight on the HD2 works very well. I have never feel like the phone is too dim and only in the darkest rooms do I find it to be a little too bright.
The Auto backlight does not seem to have the ability to get down the the lowest backlight level of the HD2 screen. If I turn off the auto function the screen can get to that "barely on" setting, but on auto the lowest is seems to go is to around 30%, which can be bright in the car at night or reading in bed.
Is there a way to make it so that the automatic backlight control can go all the way to the lowest setting when appropriate?
Have you looked into using 'lumos'? You can find it in the HD2 apps forum section.
I used it before and it should work for you to get the lowest backlight. I stopped using it since I figure 30% is good enough for me in most situations. During my commute, the light sensor gets hit too much and the backlights changes too often so I just turned it off. (I think it may also save me some power as well.)
If I'm reading in the dark I manually set it to 10% and in the morning I set it back to 30%. It's not too often that I will read in the dark so it's not a major issue for me.
I guess along the same lines, is there some app or widget that can be called from the home-screen icons that can control brightness on the fly?
Sense's brightness control is hidden behind far too many presses to make it comfortable to switch quickly. It's a bit annoying when I'm checking my e-mail at work walking under a set of lights, the screen will dim, then brighten, then dim, then... every two steps. Jumping to the menu to change the settings is too cumbersome, something along the lines of two clicks would be much better.
use Lumos
I had the same problem, Lumos works very well in the HD2.
Does anyone know how backlight is suppose to work for Home, Menu, Back and Search keys? Is it suppose to stay on as long as the screen backlight stays on or is it certain amount of time? What triggers them to come on- key press, screen touch, trackpad touch or all of the above? Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason, at least I couldn't trace a pattern. I know that I was messing around with the phone last night in the dark and they would come on and go off as they pleased. Does light sensor have anything to do with it? Please sound off your findings and ideas.
Thanks!
Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason either - it's a bit maddening. And the same goes for the backlight of the physical keyboard (sometimes it comes on, sometimes it doesn't - no telling why), and also the automatic adjustment of brightness (i use the phone for a minute and suddenly it gets super-bright).
Hopefully these are all just bugs that will be fixed with an OTA update, but it is weird and I'm glad to know it's not just my unit since I don't want to replace it (I got a solid hinge - good stuff!).
I think I figured it out. Backlight for touch keys is controlled by light sensor and also has a timer (few seconds), so if it's bright enough outside - they will not even come on. If it's dark - they come on and stay on for certain time then go off untill you press one of them again.
Now, the other thing that I'm noticing is that my haptic feedback is not working when pressing one of those buttons or long-pressing the screen. Anyone else has that problem?
I have used my phone primarily in the dark. All my lights are always on (when the screen is) and the auto-brightness is too bright. If I turn brightness to minimum, the always on lights are way too bright compared to the screen. I really wish the designers had tried to use this phone in the dark (laying in bed) and realized the auto-brightness and lights are too bright in pitch-dark!
Also I am getting real sick of rotation. On my G1 I could disable it completely unless the keyboard was out. I like to lay in bed or on a couch and use my phone sideways, but not rotated. This seems impossible to do on the G2. Disabling rotation doesn't do anything for 3rd party apps or even GMail for that matter. For some reason this was not the case on the G1.
It will be hard to go back to the G1's one-second+ lag after every press and the incredibly slow loading webpages now that I have experienced the G2, but there are too many really annoying problems, so I think it is getting sent back.
if you have your backlight set to automatic... it will cut on only if the room is dark... check your backlight settings
It's an issue with the way android uses the light sensor. It's very poorly coded.
I recently aquired this phone, brand new too! Bought unbranded of course, and fully unlocked etc etc..
Problem is, when i sit in my couch at night, with my light turned on, bout 50-80cm away, that light is bright enough to fool the sensor to think im outside in full sunlight or something, cuz the "white light" in the home, menu, back, search button lights up for 1 second about, then shuts off, and dont come back on, unless i turn off the light, or hold my fingers above the top part of the screen, then it turns on, and stays on, untill i remove my hand or turn on the light, and then it shuts off after 1-2 seconds again...
Is there a way to either disable this ambient light sensor, or change its sensitivity to light... Cuz this is crazy!
Is it supposed to do that ? I think it's broken.
I have no such problem with my phone.
theorion said:
I recently aquired this phone, brand new too! Bought unbranded of course, and fully unlocked etc etc..
Problem is, when i sit in my couch at night, with my light turned on, bout 50-80cm away, that light is bright enough to fool the sensor to think im outside in full sunlight or something, cuz the "white light" in the home, menu, back, search button lights up for 1 second about, then shuts off, and dont come back on, unless i turn off the light, or hold my fingers above the top part of the screen, then it turns on, and stays on, untill i remove my hand or turn on the light, and then it shuts off after 1-2 seconds again...
Is there a way to either disable this ambient light sensor, or change its sensitivity to light... Cuz this is crazy!
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Go to Menu -> Settings -> Display -> Brightness -> uncheck the automatic brightness! this should fix your problem!
I dont think its actually broken though... I just realised that my HTC Desire is acting the same after the latest update, well, maybe the wildfire is just a tad more sensitive.. But if i fx just have one of the lamps on, then it activates after 1 second... :| Stupid sensitivity!!
sQeeZ said:
Go to Menu -> Settings -> Display -> Brightness -> uncheck the automatic brightness! this should fix your problem!
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Already done! The phone switched brightness settings too damn often for me to be sane! So that setting got torn off about 1 min after the phone was done updateing to latest kernl.