I've had my Incredible for a days now. I'm also new to Android. Can anyone tell me the logic with the front panel lights? I would like to have them on more often, including in low light situations. Is there a way to enable this? Thanks.
you mean the home menu etc buttons? aren't those always on as long as the screen is?
Those lights time out .
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On mine they sometimes are on and sometimes never come on. Since I got home they have been on constantly. I was in a coffee shop last several hours and they never came on. Just tried turning room lights off to bright but no change. makes no sense.
They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.
They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.
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Precisely. Pitch black room as I type and the lights haven't gone off since the screen has been on.
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They should come on automatically when the lighting darkens to a certain point.
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Precisely. Pitch black room as I type and the lights haven't gone off since the screen has been on.
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You can simulate this by putting your thumb over the sensor. There are two circles that can be seen on the left hand side of the Verizon logo at the top of the phone. Cover them with your thumb and it will turn them on.
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Is there a way to turn these off? They're annoyingly bright in dark rooms.
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Is there a way to turn these off? They're annoyingly bright in dark rooms.
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You want to turn them completely off? Doesn't it turn off when the phone goes to sleep?
Yeah I want to be able to turn them off at will. I like using an ereader and at night I turn the screen brightness way down but the leds from the front panel lights are too bright to read in the dark comfortably.
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biscoradio said:
Yeah I want to be able to turn them off at will. I like using an ereader and at night I turn the screen brightness way down but the leds from the front panel lights are too bright to read in the dark comfortably.
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I'm with you on this one - would love to disable the lights when in a reading program ....
Maybe change the autobrightness settings off auto.
Autobrightness doesn't affect the front panel leds.
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I realize now they are activated by low ambient light. The label is set too low for my liking though. Would be nice if we could control this setting.
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Hi guys just want to ask if this is normal? cause whenever my X10's battery reaches 10% or below(blinking red LED) the screen automatically changes it's brightness, can i turn this feature off(if it IS normal)? cause i can't use my phone properly especially during daytime when the screen's brightness is sow low...
yep, happens me too.. when you have normal power, go to display settings and set brightness to 80 or 90% then whenever the screen dims just go to that setting again and uncheck automatic brightness.
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bjohnny85 said:
yep, happens me too.. when you have normal power, go to display settings and set brightness to 80 or 90% then whenever the screen dims just go to that setting again and uncheck automatic brightness.
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So i still have to go to the settings and set it the brightness for the screen to be brighter?...cause it's such a hassle to do that every time my screen turns off...
ya i think so, i couldnt work out a way to keep it bright. got to admit it is relly annoying..
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bjohnny85 said:
ya i think so, i couldnt work out a way to keep it bright. got to admit it is relly annoying..
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Yeah...hopefully someone could share us some light...
This is not being caused by the auto-brightness. I turned auto-brightness.off weeks ago, and still have the screen fun at 10% battery or less. I think it has more to do with power conservation.
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This is not being caused by the auto-brightness. I turned auto-brightness.off weeks ago, and still have the screen fun at 10% battery or less. I think it has more to do with power conservation.
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I agree. But i don't see any settings that allows me to turn it off...
So my original brightness setting was automatic and i was using it at bed one night. Decided it was too bright and brought the slider down to the minimum. The next day, I forgot all about it and used it as per normal. The brightness didnt even affect me. Before the streak, i was on the iphone 4 and when the brightness was low, its obvious.
I think the brightness could go even less before it becomes unreadable.
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So my original brightness setting was automatic and i was using it at bed one night. Decided it was too bright and brought the slider down to the minimum. The next day, I forgot all about it and used it as per normal. The brightness didnt even affect me. Before the streak, i was on the iphone 4 and when the brightness was low, its obvious.
I think the brightness could go even less before it becomes unreadable.
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I made a post about this very thing not to long ago. Auto and lowest setting suck when in a pitch black room.
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I agree the screen brightness is not dim enough at the lowest setting. Imagine the addition batterylife that would be saved if the streak could dim the screen even further . Maybe its a simple fix with next rom update, dell is aware of it.
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If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
My screen flicker when I reach less than 10% with adj screen brightness. Am I the only one ?
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If you click on the clock icon in the menu to bring up the clock, on that main page there is an icon on the top right, looks like a sun icon half colored in. Click on that and the brightness goes way down, so i know it can be set lower. I think its a sleep mode or something
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If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
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Thats pretty good.
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If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
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Wow, weird. Now, with that app installed, my extended control widget back light button controls the button backlights. Weird ****
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I noticed this as well, also I don't think the ambient light sensor is sensitive enough or not working at all because when I set mine to auto it doesn't adjust at all.
If your not rooted, check out the app screen filter.
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I noticed this as well, also I don't think the ambient light sensor is sensitive enough or not working at all because when I set mine to auto it doesn't adjust at all.
If your not rooted, check out the app screen filter.
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hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
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hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
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Well the idea for me isn't saving battery, it not getting blinded in the dark room, such as in the middle of the night when I get a text and open the WHITE screen to read it
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hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
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Well the display isn't as bright so in fact it does save battery...
And like the previous person, I don't use it to save battery but for when I'm using the device in a very dark area like before I go to sleep and I want to use the device.
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I seem to have found a weird problem with my Nexus 7. I can't wake it up in the dark. If i turn on the lights in the room, the nexus will wake up when i hit push the power button. I can recreate the problem in a lighted room but putting my covering up the camera and light senor. If i turn off the "auto-brightness" feature, It works like normal.
Anyone else having a problem using the Nexus 7 in the dark?
Auto brightness is pretty buggy currently.
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Auto brightness is pretty buggy currently.
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True that. When I put mine on auto, it just stays at the lowest it can go. Doesn't move no matter what.
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True that. When I put mine on auto, it just stays at the lowest it can go. Doesn't move no matter what.
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Exactly same thing here, or it'll get bright but never go down. Glad I'm not the only one.
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I seem to have found a weird problem with my Nexus 7. I can't wake it up in the dark. If i turn on the lights in the room, the nexus will wake up when i hit push the power button. I can recreate the problem in a lighted room but putting my covering up the camera and light senor. If i turn off the "auto-brightness" feature, It works like normal.
Anyone else having a problem using the Nexus 7 in the dark?
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I ran into the exact same problem. I wonder if it is just our tablet. Since I was not sure if this is a hardware issue or a software I started a RMA.
was just about to start a new thread asking about this issue...
well, at least it's good to know that I'm not the only one experiencing this defect.
I wonder if this is a hardware or software issue.
I cover up the light sensor and it wakes up like normal and very dim. Remove my hand and it brightens as I would expect.
You may want to check out an app called "Display Brightness" by Big Rubber Pepper. It will also save you battery by allowing you to control your brightness from 1 to 100% with the swipe of your finger with an invisible slider at the very edge of your screen that can be customized for any location.
yeah this bug is annoying me. Hope they fix it soon.
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I seem to have found a weird problem with my Nexus 7. I can't wake it up in the dark. If i turn on the lights in the room, the nexus will wake up when i hit push the power button. I can recreate the problem in a lighted room but putting my covering up the camera and light senor. If i turn off the "auto-brightness" feature, It works like normal.
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Powers on fine here with auto-brightness in complete darkness. Return it to stock to see if it clears up.
I'm getting this too. Also if I manually do the brightness slider all the way to the bottom the screen goes off.. I thought it was bricked at first then turned the light on and hey presto! I'm running a stock rom but its rooted, deodexed and also running the tablet ui patch (dpi set at default 213).
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I ran into the exact same problem. I wonder if it is just our tablet. Since I was not sure if this is a hardware issue or a software I started a RMA.
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Just an update... I got the replacement and that Nexus 7 tablet doesn't have the auto-brightness issue so I guess it was a hardware problem and I am glad I did the RMA or else it would have kept bugging me
Also finding the auto brightness to not work right, one of the applications I downloaded showed the sensor bouncing around a lot. I picked up Lux brightness and it seems to do a better job of moderating automatic brightness with the ability to set custom levels based on the ambient light.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nnevod.loggraph&feature=search_result
ok, so try going to 0 percent brightness in a dark room and start like moving around the menus, or using Tapatalk.. do you notice it randomly gets more dim, or more bright, on its own correlating to how much stuff is on the screen? like, I was in the touch buttons display menu and as I moved up and down I noticed sometimes it's brighter, and sometimes it's darker. I think the dna kind of did this too but not as harshly as this.
it's not on auto brightness. I'm on 0, but i think I've noticed this at other levels as well. yeah confirmed i notice it ever so slightly on 40 percent. hard to notice since it's brighter, have to look close. easiest to see on 0.
care to give it a try and let me know?
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it seems like it gets brighter when there's more white on the screen. when there's more gray or darker colors, it gets dimmer. seems to do it consistently on Tapatalk when going from like a thread full of white background and then going back to my subscribed which is only like 3 things, so 3 little white backgrounds and the rest is gray.. so it's dimmer there.
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and when I pull the keyboard up to reply, I'm using a gray keyboard... so it gets dim bc the screen has more dark color on it.. when I drop it down, it's gone and the screen has more white so it's brighter haha
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I haven't noticed any dimness or brightness. I have noticed a flickering of sorts on my call icon and home screen wallpaper. Maybe I'm going nuts or maybe its my eyes...doesn't bother me if its happening. Interesting though.
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Maybe it has to do with that graphic ram thats on the display. They said its suppose to save battery. Honestly i thought ive seen this happening on a couple of review videos.
oh yeah? I'm wondering the same. at 0 brightness my dna would change brightness levels around and I noticed it often.. wasn't as hard of a change as the g2 though but perhaps you're correct with the gram!
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care to give it a try and let me know?
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It's called dynamic contrast and is present in all modern TVs and smartphones
Your TV set is probably CRT, hah?
I would think the constant change in brightness would mean sensors are constantly running and chewing up battery. But then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about
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I would think the constant change in brightness would mean sensors are constantly running and chewing up battery. But then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about
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Lol u sound like me, then again i have no idea what im talking about. Yeah i was just guessing on the graphic ram. But i coulda swore on one of the vids i saw the phone was really bright and then it changed and was noticeably dimmer, let me see if i can find it, could have been auto brightness but in the same lighted area it was a huge change if it was. Do u have auto brightness on?
Mine almost flickers if I have auto brightness on,its very subtle but it's there
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It's called dynamic contrast
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this. Maybe once its rooted we can find where that is defined... hopefully it is not something supper deep within the code and is something simple like a variable.
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It's called dynamic contrast and is present in all modern TVs and smartphones
Your TV set is probably CRT, hah?
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lmfao jerk nah man i have hdtvs... i've never seen that before.
do you know the explanation as to why it does it? I'm glad it's not just my phone lol. what's the point? save battery?
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My G Pro have same problem too.
But i notice when only watching movies, and not always. weird
Here is how it is disabled on Tegra 3 devices. I'm sure there is just an easy of a way for qualcomms chip... we just have to find it after we get rooted
can't wait for root!
btw, there was a secret menu for the att version where you could turn off the dimming when the phone got hot. if we could get that menu maybe we could turn that
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can't wait for root!
btw, there was a secret menu for the att version where you could turn off the dimming when the phone got hot. if we could get that menu maybe we could turn that
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Yeah buddy.. i forgot to include my link.. like an idiot. Here is what i was referring to lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834387
I'm not sure if it's the same thing as dynamic contrast, but it also sounds similar to some content-aware brightness settings included in some ROMs.
Does auto brightness even work on this phone? I will pull down the notification shade, uncheck auto brightness, put the brightness all the way down, check the auto brightness box and it does absolutely nothing. Anyone else notice this?
Upon further review, if I go to settings and display settings and check the box from there, it seems to work. Maybe it's just broken in the pulldown notification shade?
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Mine gets dimmer when texting...
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Does auto brightness even work on this phone? I will pull down the notification shade, uncheck auto brightness, put the brightness all the way down, check the auto brightness box and it does absolutely nothing. Anyone else notice this?
Upon further review, if I go to settings and display settings and check the box from there, it seems to work. Maybe it's just broken in the pulldown notification shade?
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Yes I felt the same. There is absolutely no change i noticed when i set the auto brightness. I just set it to 30% manually. Not sure if there is a issue with the sensor or just the software..
Guys im looking for some help, everytime my phone goes from a well light room or a dark room my screen gets brighter or gets dim is there away to turn this off so that it stays at brightness at all times. I think i tryed everything , i tryed the 4 or 5 different screen modes so is there another way???
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Guys im looking for some help, everytime my phone goes from a well light room or a dark room my screen gets brighter or gets dim is there away to turn this off so that it stays at brightness at all times. I think i tryed everything , i tryed the 4 or 5 different screen modes so is there another way???
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Swype down and uncheck auto in brightness bar.
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norbarb said:
Swype down and uncheck auto in brightness bar.
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Its unchecked i never check that
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Its unchecked i never check that
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean. If you have auto brightness unchecked your screen will won't automatically change based on your surrounding illumination. If you do check it-it should brighten when in direct light and dim in the dark. So are you're saying it isn't changing brightness based on surrounding light correctly (when checked) or you're expecting it to change brightness not checked?
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If you have the screen mode to adaptive display , that might be the cause of it. Go to settings/display/screen mode.
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