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I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
tuyulaneh said:
I have the o2 XDA mini and just realised that after i adjust the screen to maximum brightness. When u press the camera button, the screen suddenly increased its brightness for 1 second before it enters the camera function. When u go to tools->adjust, you can even see that the screen turns very bright and clear which is much clearer than the screen itself on maximum brightness. Anyone knows whether that this only is a defect in my device or happens in every HTC magician. Try it and please tell me whether u seen the screen differences. After having the device for 4 months then i realised this effect hehe. :?:
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Your device is not defected it happens to other devices too depends on the rom that you're using..
depends on the rom????
i tried a qtek rom and a imate jam rom and they have the same
behaviour, in camera mode the brightness is increased.
i try also to hack the registry keys, but nothing happens.
who can explain?
Maybe its simply the camera application instructing the screen brightness to 'gain up' to make using the viewfinder for pictures in dark conditions more clear.
Alot of digital camera reviews say an camera digital display that gains-up at night/poor light is a plus as it allows you to see the subject of your photo more clearly (wanna buy a digicam and keep reading about this in all the reviews)
Could this offer an explanation?
Oh and P.s. My Qtek S100 with WWE 1.12 rom also does this.
Gero
Do you think that its possible to do something with the registry and increase them to same brightness as camera mode?? It would have amazing screen them!! I am really bad at registry tweaking hehe . Need advice from the pros pleaseee :lol:
Screen Brightness increases when camera is on
Did anyone figure out how to tweak the registry so that the screen brightens can be left at the higher level that it switches to when the camera is turned on? I would really like to keep my Jam's screen at that brightness level at all times. There must be something in the camera exe file that changes the brightness level beyond what is allowed in the settings.
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
ratcom said:
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
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I'll second that !
daffie said:
ratcom said:
vijay555 said:
Hey guys, I've made an ugly hack to achieve this - brighter screen as you get with the camera, but in normal use of the PDA. However, it prevents the use of the camera until soft reset.
What do you think, could you live with this compromise?
V
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YEP! please!
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I'll second that !
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Me too! :lol:
Guys,
After having a brainwave this morning about how to do this, I've knocked together a little app to enable it. However, the technique has some issues I want to sort through to make it a bit more foolproof for you guys. It's not a great way to do it, but it does work for now until someone can think of a better way.
I'm a bit curious why HTC didn't enable it by default. It's not MUCH brighter, but it makes a difference, and going back to the old brightness is quite disappointing!
Just keeping you all informed
V
Great invention again..
More brightness can't be that bad i guess...
....but doesn't it drain your battery quicker ?
I suspect this won't only affect battery drain but display lamp life time. May be this setting is slightly above specs which is ok for a few seconds, but it might most probably decrease your displays life time if you leave it enabled for hours.
That's my assumption why HTC did not make it available to the average user.
I agree. As it happens, I might not release this at all.
For now it only works once per soft reset. After powering off, it goes back to normal brightness. Then you can only get the superbrightness again after a soft reset. Too impractical to be of any use, but an interesting idea for me to play with.
V
When i put my hands on the Qtek S100 (MDA Compact to be exact, in my case), i was so amazed by the screen and its high resolution/size (i never had a PPC/PPCPhone before) but a co-worker of me bought the SP5 (aka HTC. Tornado) and that screen is 4 times brighter compared to the S100's screen.
Chatty - about the screen life. I guess it must be relatively safe if it's enabled by default in the camera mode. Potentially you can leave you phone in camera mode all day, and there's no automatic time out or power off or anything.
I imagine the issue is more battery life than screen life. And for most of us, I guess we'll all be upgraded in < 1 year?
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@vijay555: So any progress in making it usable? What API is used for that? RIL?
@Chatty, as I said in my earlier post, I'm not going to release this because it's not properly usable. Yet :wink:
The effect works, and you have superbrightness across the system, but only until you power off the system. When you switch on again, I can't get it to re-enable the superbrightness or the camera until you soft reset. HTC have used some curious programming. So it works once per boot for now, and that's nearly useless.
I'm only using a very dodgy hack to do this (which achieves the goal), but the best way would be to reverse engineer the camera/LCD drivers, and frankly I haven't looked into this at all, no time.
I doubt RIL would help, I think this requires direct interfacing to the screen driver/hardware.
My way is simple, and works, but not something I would put my name to as a release product...just an interesting trick for now.
V
vijay555, if you don't intend to release this "software" can you share the trick?
kta - let me see if I can pack it together into an app that won't cause hardresets. Soft resets I can live with, hard resets are a pain in the bum.
The trick? Sure: start the camera, click on the tools button near bottom right (you will now be in normal brightness), choose tools menu, then adjust. You should now be in superbright mode. the trick is keeping it there :wink:
V
I was wondering if there's a app that allows the screen to turn off when you put the phone to you head? Then when you bring it out and in front of you, it turns back on. My Iphone did that and I loved that feature.
upping cause i'm intersted too
im believe this feature on the iphone is provided by a proximity sensor, you can probable do this with the light sensor but it would only work in the day time bc at night the screen would always be off...
not unless you use the gsensor too? i think if you work with the light sensor and the gsensor..you can get it to work. maybe have it only work when theres a active call.
This is an extremely good idea!
now if I was only a programmer
i'd love to see this feature on my diamond/blackstone too, i always have problems with the cursor jumping somewhere else when taking a note while in call...
theres already a thread about that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=451456
sweet. thanks
I really love that fuction on iPhone as well. I found some program that can adjust the Light Sensor to dim the back light as you want. I never try it but surely not work in the dark. If any news on this issue, pls advise!!
I think the g-sensor is the answer, off course in combination with light sensor. If someone could make an app that would turn off the backlight during an active call AND when phone is in vertical position; this could resolve difficulties with light sensor.
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I was wondering if there's a app that allows the screen to turn off when you put the phone to you head? Then when you bring it out and in front of you, it turns back on. My Iphone did that and I loved that feature.
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There are a couple out there that attempt to solve the same problem the iPhone does.
One I know of is Touchlock Pro - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444215
It is free but it still has a little way to go before it is a polished solution
The other is PocketShield -- http://www.pocketshield.net/
It's not free but I found it so effective for the in-call problem as well as general locking/unlocking that it was worth paying for
I've also, as a developer by trade, played with the light sensor, g-sensor, and stylus sensor APIs and tried to create a basic proof of concept that solved just the in-call problem very well and found that without the approach taken by Pocketshield it just was not reliable enough for me.
fireweed said:
There are a couple out there that attempt to solve the same problem the iPhone does.
One I know of is Touchlock Pro - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444215
It is free but it still has a little way to go before it is a polished solution
The other is PocketShield -- http://www.pocketshield.net/
It's not free but I found it so effective for the in-call problem as well as general locking/unlocking that it was worth paying for
I've also, as a developer by trade, played with the light sensor, g-sensor, and stylus sensor APIs and tried to create a basic proof of concept that solved just the in-call problem very well and found that without the approach taken by Pocketshield it just was not reliable enough for me.
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All these programms are great software but are nowhere near the iphone solution... like i already said, the problem is e.g. that if you are on the phone and the person on the other end tells you a phonenumber you need to write down - the cursor always jumps to somewhere else as soon as you put your phone back to your ear (and then take it away again ofcourse to continue to notice the number).
ive messed with those apps before with no luch for what i was looking for. Simple app...JUST for incall and end call. light goesout..then comes back in. those other apps are pretty detaild
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All these programms are great software but are nowhere near the iphone solution...
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Very true, but unfortunately this hardware does not have the same sensor as the iPhone so you can only fake it so much.
I'd love to see this developed as well. But just wondering as some have mentioned using the gsensor; what if your laying down using the phone?
any developers out there. this would be awsome. make it simple. only works when the phone is in call. the gsensor sensing the phone from 0-45 degrees and only 0-5% light. seems sorta simple when u look at it like that.
hey everyone. My HTC Touch Pro came with this functionality out of the box. And i really don't like it at all. I think the difference to the iphone is that the screen does not turn back on until the power button is pressed.
millab said:
hey everyone. My HTC Touch Pro came with this functionality out of the box. And i really don't like it at all. I think the difference to the iphone is that the screen does not turn back on until the power button is pressed.
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My diamond does this already?
mine didnt. very weird.
For what it's worth, S2U2 v.1.42 has an option called "blank screen on call" which essentially disables the touch screen and makes it turn off when a call is connected (both sent and received). To get the screen to turn back on, simply press any hardware button. (Note though that pressing the END button while on a call will end the call as well as turning on the screen.)
I've found this feature to be VERY useful and figured it's as close as we're going to get for the time being .
I am new to WP7 from Android. I was worried about it's lack of customization and settings but must say I have already grown to love its simplicity.
A few things bother me though:
LED does not indicate any missed messages (maybe calls but have yet to miss any)
When hanging up a call a loud tone comes through the speaker
The keypad lights only illuminate when they're being pressed.
Are these bugs that I will have to deal with or are fixes available?
well, if that is all the problems you have noticed with running WP7 on your HD2 then think yourself very lucky
but seriously now, there are issues with WP7, and the chances of them getting fixed are slim, the things you mentioned are relitively small compared to the touch screen, battery, camera, volume etc, but even with all of this, i still find the HD2 with WP7 on it quite remarkable, ill not be changing back to android.
So the answer to your question is, at the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, your going to have to live with it.
Thanks for reply and the heads up on what else I should look out for. Not had any problems with touchscreen so far. Not really tried the camera but I had the green tint issue on android. External speaker volume seems very, very loud. In call volume however seems really quiet. From what I have read a couple of registry tweaks can help with volume. Had better battery life trying a NoDo rom but using Green Mango at the moment. Perhaps I could try a different radio? Any
recommendations. I don't really want to go back to Android, its so cluttered and unorganized in comparison, so any tips and tricks would be much appreciated.
ive not noticed a difference between radios, there is a couple of tweaks you can use to help, first is to restart your phone before you set it to charge, then when it thinks its charged, restart it again and charge some more, quite a few folk who complained about very poor battery life simply didnt have a fully charged battery
another tweak that has had some success is to fully charge using teh above method, then use the keys to get the camera open, turn it on to video recording, then hit the home button, that for some unknown reason seems to reduce the standby current draw in some situations.
Hi,
I have Xperia arc S. Recently it is behaving in a crazy way during a phone call.
when I call or I receive a call, and put the phone on my ear, the sensor works and get the display off which is normal... but what is not normal, is that many times the screen keeps off and It doesn't get back on.
It's more happening when I am outdoor.... and in many times I need to remove the battery to get it working again.
does any one face the same behavior? any suggestions?
Thanks alot,
I used to have the same problem. It's normally one of two things, either the sensor is obscured(eg some cases, or it's greasy) or low ram. If it's the sensor then it would be pretty obvious, with the ram issue then you can try a ram cleaner from the market, or a ram management app/script, or a custom rom(these all need a rooted phone, with a custom rom/kernel you'll probably need your bootloader unlocked).
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Same Problem
a_k_gano said:
Hi,
I have Xperia arc S. Recently it is behaving in a crazy way during a phone call.
when I call or I receive a call, and put the phone on my ear, the sensor works and get the display off which is normal... but what is not normal, is that many times the screen keeps off and It doesn't get back on.
It's more happening when I am outdoor.... and in many times I need to remove the battery to get it working again.
does any one face the same behavior? any suggestions?
Thanks alot,
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I have the same problem. I haven't found a solution, but in my case the screen will return when the call ends. I found an option in the phone to use the power button to end a call. That allows me to end a call when the screen won't activate. I can then push the middle button and the screen comes on.
I have investigated the sensor suggestion, but I don't think that is it. The screen will work perfectly in normal light conditions, but has problems in either low light conditions or outside when it is very bright. I don't think the latter case would be an issue if it was due to a blocked sensor. It is more like the software not being able to distinguish a change in light level either due to insufficient light or being overloaded by too much light. I had hoped 4.0 would fix it, but it hasn't.
Are you on a Custom ROM?
Or tweaked the autobrightness with a tool?
I only had this issue when i was on a Custom ROM that had bugs...
So if its official ROM, try wiping it...
Otherwise it could be just a bug of your rom, and you need to get an update if available
I think its a bug on stock ICS 4.0.4 because I had this problem too and only pulling out a battery would fix this. This happened to me only on pure stock unmodified ICS.
try another Rom, i guess it is your rom's bug
Ok, so I am using my transformer at my desk to show my todo list, etc. I have a little holder for it and its plugged into ac power. Id like to basically have the screen on all the time, but when im not actively doing anything with it, it dims to the lowest setting possible (blacking out would be preferred), but i want to be able to wake it up by simply tapping the screen once or twice.
I know there is an app called tap tap that uses the proximity sensor, but i couldnt get it to work and it think it might be because its pretty dark in my office at night (I only have the monitors on), so maybe its not enough light for that to work. Plus id rather not have to wave my hand just right to get it to work. Tapping the screen would be much easier, but i understand if it turns the screen completely off, its not going to work.
Suggestions?
what about the microphone? try yelling at it maybe it will wake up
Why not simply have the screen on all the time ? Its in setting screen time out and change it to never ?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/revolverbannercopy.jpg/
Why are people responding with questions that dont have to do with my question? Obviously I know how to keep the screen on all the time at regular brightness, but thats not what i asked how to do. And chatch15117 was just plain trolling.
Maybe "Tasker"? This app can do almost anything.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsIm5ldC5kaW5nbGlzY2guYW5kcm9pZC50YXNrZXJtIl0.