After upgrading to official 2.1, I am unable to switch off Sense in the "normal" manner.
i.e. Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/HTC Sense/Clear Defaults.
Also the brightness is not going down to 1.5 minimum brightness level, which means I can't use my Hero as a night-time book-reader. I suspect this is a Sense problem.
I downloaded a program "Home Switcher" to see if there was another Home program to use, and it reported that Sense was the only Home program.
I've tried a few brightness controls and it seems that the brightness is not going below ~9%. I've tried the HTC power widget stuff and display/settings etc. All to no avail.
The brightness thing aside, this implies that there is no stock Android home app shipped with official 2.1. Could anyone confirm this?
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Hm. Tried Launcher Pro as an alternative Home app. Did replace Sense. Didn't fix the brightness problem tho.
HTC changed the default settings for auto brightness in 2.1. It still works, just works differently to how it used to.
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I'm after a widget so i can dim the screen more easily than dropping into setting after setting.
There's loads i hear you shout..
Well all i've tried set the screen nice and dim for the screen only to getting brighter again as soon as the app is closed. I've tried it with auto adjust brightness on and off and all allow the system to revert back to the initial brightness set.
Help before the wife kills me while i midnight browse in bed.
All of the widgets i have used do the same thing as you describe. The 'Toggle Settings' app works fine for me though.
EDIT: no it doesn't. Arse.
yup tried that and failed lol
also tried making a short cut to the systems settings for brightness but failed on that as well.
Noticed something possibly odd about this- The brightness scales on Toggle Settings and in the actual settgngs menu have a different scale. It's possible to make the TOggle Settings app say that you have minus 10% brightness.
I've no idea if that helps
anything new about this? i tried some, but they all changed the brightness for a short time, and then the hero changed it back
Okay, I don't know if this is the right place.. Or if it is currently even possible. (I know root isn't done or even close).. I figured development and this would be app development so it sorta works in this area.. But here's a little request for someone whose good with code and making apps:
But I want wondering if someone could create a custom auto brightness app that lets you set the max and min for the the auto brightness on the Incredible. I like the auto feature on the Incredible, but it gets way too high and drains the battery too quickly so I have to turn it off ..
So I would like to have an app that lets you set like EX: 5% as the minimum brightness and 40% as the maximum. Make it so you have have ajustable bars to move back and forth to pick your percentage or something along the lines of that. I think if someone managed to work some code and create this app it'd be heavily downloaded. So I was wondering if someone could make an app like this eventually in the future? Thanks again guys
Yeah, this would be cool. I am no developer, and there isn't anything in the market for this type if thing either, so i would assume it is really hard to do.
All you want it to do is be able to set the brightness? Just as a shortcut in a sense?
Dazzle is a pretty good alternative for the time being. hopefully someone can come up with something with something that does it automatically too.
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All you want it to do is be able to set the brightness? Just as a shortcut in a sense?
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(Sorry I'm Incredible53517 but I accidently had two accounts so we closed that one and now I'm just using my old one).
Okay, I want auto brightness but I want to choose how bright the phone gets bright and dim. I want to be able to set the max and min is what I'm saying and then have it automatically change by my surroundings...like the stock auto brightness does. I just think it'd be a nice features to have.. That's all. It'd save battery too.
This seemed like a good idea so I looked through the source code for Eclair and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. All you can do is toggle auto brightness on or off and adjust the brightness when auto brightness is set to off. There is now way to cap the minimum and maximum brightness in the auto mode. Perhaps this is required by the hardware.
Sure, but couldn't you write a program to automatically adjust the brightness (with auto turned off within the OS settings) and set your own caps?
I'm not an Android developer, but this seems like it might be possible.
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I am only a noob dev myself, and I'm only seeing a way to set the brightness, not sense how bright it is (read from light sensor).
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This seemed like a good idea so I looked through the source code for Eclair and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. All you can do is toggle auto brightness on or off and adjust the brightness when auto brightness is set to off. There is now way to cap the minimum and maximum brightness in the auto mode. Perhaps this is required by the hardware.
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Okay, that's fine. I figured it would be hard since no one has really made it yet. But thanks for trying! I appreciate it!
if you use the android widget for... "power Control" it has all your stuff you like to turn on and off... wifi/BT/GPS/Sync/Brightness... if you tap brightness it goes from auto> full brightness> lowest brightness> back to auto... I didn't know this until I just started using the widget
the widget is included with the phone its not a download
It seems that the phone brightness and the browser are not one in the same. I have auto turned off in the phone settings as well as power saving mode off. I typically use the notification bar slide method to adjust brightness and it works great on everything except the stock browser. It keeps getting jacked up to full on it's own, and even when I turn it down, the bookmark screen has a different intensity.
Is this a problem specific to my phone or the OS in general. I'm running stock at the moment as I haven't been brave enough to root my phone yet.
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browser brightness is its own setting.
while the browser is open hit the menu button, then the more option.
brightness settings is at the bottom.
Found it, so at least I know I'm not crazy. Still find it odd though that I can change the brightness of the browser with the notification slide, but it apparently doesn't save unless you change it directly in the browser setting.
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Amazing, isn't it?
Makes one wonder if Sammy even has a Usability Lab at all.
I'm guessing "no".
Just recently got the Shift and so far its a big nice upgrade from the hero.
I don't currently have root access and am pretty much running stock everything, with the exception of Launcher Pro and some custom icons.
The issue I am running into is that occasionally my alarm clock goes off w/o the option to snooze or dismiss.
The only way to remedy this is to yank the battery... (at least thats how I deal with it at 6:am and I want to snooze)
Anyone else have this problem or know of a way to fix it?
Thanks.
I had the problem show up a few times on my Hero before the official 2.1 release, but I don't remember if anything I tried fixed it. Just letting you know it's not just you.
I know the alarm clock snooze/dismiss settings are tied to HTC Sense. Maybe launcher pro is messing with Sense somehow.
I think the controls to dismiss or snooze the alarm are tied to the lock screen. I don't use launcher pro, but I wonder, does launcher pro replace the stock lock screen?
Ive had similar problems...im stock rooted and still using sense and occasionally have this problem...i usually use audio manager widget to lower the volume so its not driving me crazy and then set a new alarm for like a min later...when the snooze/dismiss options appear for the new alarm i hit dismiss and all the alarms stop
Why not install DeskClock.apk?
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shaunmt said:
I think the controls to dismiss or snooze the alarm are tied to the lock screen. I don't use launcher pro, but I wonder, does launcher pro replace the stock lock screen?
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No, it doesn't.
^ Shift Faced
That's the same way I've been solving it Seems that if I turn off the phone (Kyocera Zio 2.2) whilst having an app on screen (ie turn it off from within an app or fxn) the incidence is quite high. If turned off from home screen, doesn't occur (or at least not very often - can't quite be sure, but 95% certainty) Just wanted to make someone aware of it. Glad to see it wasn't just me who noticed it. Having to take the case off, battery out, et al are annoying, and just seems a goofy fix for what is generally a nice piece of equipment! Someone else (Hero user?) is changing their vol setting and then setting another alarm for a min later to have the shut-off option appear. I may try that in the future. THANK YOU for the site!!
After installing NovaLauncher and Apex and have found both are unable to auto-rotate the desktops. Once in an app or menu, the display rotates. Has anyone seen this? I have used NovaLauncher for years now and I've never seen the app behave badly, so I am guessing there is something happening between EMUI and the launcher. I am running EMUI5 on my P10+ and everything runs perfectly. Totally stumped... Is there a setting somewhere that needs to be enabled? Just to be clear, the default launcher works 100% fine. Thanks for reading
Hmm, interesting made me go look as I'm using nova, now my home screen and app drawer don't rotate but all my apps do..including my settings.
Did you try to enable Auto Rotation in Nova Settings->Look&Feel->Screen Orientation?
For me it works on Default, maybe setting this to auto-rotate fixes your issue.
It could also happen because Nova sees your tablet as a phone, as many other apps do. Setting the Screen density in developer options to 711 or higher(my current setting, some lower values may also work) also fixes this.
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Did you try to enable Auto Rotation in Nova Settings->Look&Feel->Screen Orientation?
For me it works on Default, maybe setting this to auto-rotate fixes your issue.
It could also happen because Nova sees your tablet as a phone, as many other apps do. Setting the Screen density in developer options to 711 or higher(my current setting, some lower values may also work) also fixes this.
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And we have a winner.. Did as you suggested turned on auto rotate on the phone and all was good..
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And we have a winner.. Did as you suggested turned on auto rotate on the phone and all was good..
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And ... you did not know this?
Kzyw said:
And ... you did not know this?
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To be honest I never really thought about till I read the thread as I really never flip it over when on the home screen.. then I like hey,,what's going on here..lol
edit..hell I didn't even know we had a floating till today..lol I really should read the manual..