Database Users

Tap Screen only to brighten the display

Is it possible to modify the behavior of the screen tap in such a way:
If
tap when screen is dim then don't do anything but brighten the display
else if
tap when screen is already bright then interact with screen as usual
Basically trying to avoid the device from opening an app when I only want to tap the screen to brighten the display.

that's actually a really good idea!

Thanks, i hope there is a reg mod that can be included in Advanced Config and/or Keiser Tweak tool(s)..........that thing always bothered me, I have to carefully tap on the task bar area since rest of the screen is almost full of things

lol.. that's pretty funny.. i was just thinking about it today.

Good idea, hope someone comes up with something!
What I used to do so far is press UP on the D-pad. Usually does no harm when the device is just standing by.
N.

[APP][Updated 29/08] Flashlight v 1.2

Have you ever been alone in the dark with only your cherished Diamond wishing you had a better light source than its dark theme can provide? It certainly happened to me, and here is the solution: Flashlight.
Why a new such program when a few freeware already exist? Well, this one is TOTALLY finger friendly.
While in the main screen, drag your finger upwards to increase the light or downwards to decrease it.
The program can also be used as an emergency beacon, flashing two colors. To set the colors, again move your finger (horizontally this time) on the red, green or blue markers. The settings are saved on exit.
Compact Framework 3.5 needed!
Update 24/08/08 v 1.1
Added SOS function. This uses Color1 from Options.
Update 29/08/08 v 1.2:
Added menu item to disable Auto backlight. This allows to get maximum luminosity. The program will remeber the setting. When exiting, it will restore your backlight to what it was before.
To use this facility with the best results, do the following:
Start -> Settings -> System -> Power -> Backlight
Uncheck Auto adjust backlight
Slide both cursors to maximum
Check Auto adjust backight
Now start flashlight, go to Options, click on Auto backlight (to uncheck it) and your device shoud have maximum light. Don't worry, it will go back to Auto when you leave the program (or whatever setting you had before you ran it).

Looks very nice and convenient especially for users who don't have flash on their devices; downloading now.

I needed this thanks!

does your tool set the backlight to the maximum or just fill the screen with a color?

Haha, very nice/funny app. Ive never used a cellphone as a flashlight. But hey, im gonna install this one. I like it

ageye said:
does your tool set the backlight to the maximum or just fill the screen with a color?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just fills the screen. Quite honestly, I don't know how to change the backlight, but if you have any pointers I'll try.

Really useful for me
Would it be possible to use vertical dragging to change the flashing speed ?

Timbermill said:
Really useful for me
Would it be possible to use vertical dragging to change the flashing speed ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting idea. I can do that...

You need to find a way to disable the light sensor and adjust to the max brightness for this to work efficiently.

why i can not have white light without flashing? if i disable flashing i get a grey light
flashing OK, i choose red and white

KukurikU said:
why i can not have white light without flashing? if i disable flashing i get a grey light
flashing OK, i choose red and white
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try to slide your finger upwards...

Can you make it flash SOS it could be usefull in an emergency...
I think it is 3 short 3 long 3 short flashes...

There is also another flashlight app. It called 'pLamp'. Version 1.5 is compatible with VGA. Google for it. It's freeware. Works great on my diamond.

aydc said:
You need to find a way to disable the light sensor and adjust to the max brightness for this to work efficiently.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I realize that. Changing the backlight is not API implemented though as it is hardware dependent. I've been googling it for a couple of hours already and no luck yet.

so use registry?
to disable the light sensor
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LightDetectOn
set it to 0->Sensor is off (will change immediatly)
this should make it ways brighter
don't know which key adjusts the brightness level but you may set Battery-Brightness-level to max and enable Lightsensor. So if you now disable it, you have max brightness
works well for me, jsut implement it in your app and i'll be very happy

Update to v 1.1: added SOS function. Download in first post.

kikakeule said:
so use registry?
to disable the light sensor
HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\LightDetectOn
set it to 0->Sensor is off (will change immediatly)
this should make it ways brighter
don't know which key adjusts the brightness level but you may set Battery-Brightness-level to max and enable Lightsensor. So if you now disable it, you have max brightness
works well for me, jsut implement it in your app and i'll be very happy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The problem with changing the registry is that it won't update the brightness until a soft reset, unless I'm mistaken.

yes yes yes turn backlight for max is more usefull then plenty of colours, btw 9 basic colours will be enough and still finger friendly... but still nice app

pedmond said:
Try to slide your finger upwards...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
multzumesc! thank you..it's all in the finger...lol

pedmond said:
The problem with changing the registry is that it won't update the brightness until a soft reset, unless I'm mistaken.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just try it yourself
after changing the key the sensor will be deactivated immediatly
no soft reset needed
and with the workaround I posted early you will get max brightness very easyly
but even without the workaround this will increase brightness massivly as the main usability of a flashlight is to enlightend darkness and the sensor dimms the display to minimum in darkness^^

BATERRY and GSENS. I HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING???

I have make some proves, work with the diamond without moving it an work with it in movement.
In Movement diamond uses more than 350% battery than in "no movement" use.
Is it possible to disable completletly the G sensor?

Is it possible to disable completletly the G sensor?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't know the answer to that.
However I believe your theory is flawed for two reasons:
1) The battery use vs movement relationship is likely to be more to do with phone signal strength than G Sensor use. (Perhaps you could do your testing again with the phone disabled and report back if it is the same.)
2) The G sensor should still be in use when the phone is stationary, otherwise it would not be able to detect that you are moving it.

logger said:
2) The G sensor should still be in use when the phone is stationary, otherwise it would not be able to detect that you are moving it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hahaha!! good point

patterns said:
hahaha!! good point
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes you can disable it but you need taskmanager 3.1 goto services tab and disable ... not sure as i have athena

irus said:
yes you can disable it but you need taskmanager 3.1 goto services tab and disable ... not sure as i have athena
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Makes sense.
What you fellas think?

did anyone tried it yet?

I had a quick look in TaskaMGR 3.1 processes tab and there is nothing there that is obviously related to the G Sensor. boitouch.exe is about the only thing that sounds related but I have read in other thread that it not. In any case killing it does not disable the GSensor.
To disable GSensor you need to edit the registry (Again you can do this readily with TaskaMGR 3.1.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCSensor\GSensor\
DeviceAvailability=1 (on) Change it to 0 (Off)
Doing so appears to disable photo rotation so I assume GSensor is disabled. When toggling it, make sure you close out of "Album" or GSensor will appear not to come back to life when you re activate it. ie Album looks for DeviceAvailability during its launch.
Someone else can test the battery life as I believe it is a red herring.

logger said:
To disable GSensor you need to edit the registry (Again you can do this readily with TaskaMGR 3.1.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\HTCSensor\GSensor\
DeviceAvailability=1 (on) Change it to 0 (Off)
Doing so appears to disable photo rotation so I assume GSensor is disabled. When toggling it, make sure you close out of "Album" or GSensor will appear not to come back to life when you re activate it. ie Album looks for DeviceAvailability during its launch.
Someone else can test the battery life as I believe it is a red herring.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I came across this registry entry as well. I wonder if this simply makes the sensor unavailable to the applications or it actually "powers off" the sensor. If the sensor continues to operate and draws power, then the point is moot.
I'd be interested to hear the test results.

logger said:
2) The G sensor should still be in use when the phone is stationary, otherwise it would not be able to detect that you are moving it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Zerobit could be right. Much like a wireless mouse goes into a lower power state when idle to conserve it's battery power, and movement brings it back into full power mode.
I'll disable in the registry to test.

This does not disable G-Sensor completely. I have tried it three times in a row because I want to disable autorotation on Opera Mobile 10. I change the value to "0", soft reset, launch Opera Mobile 10, test rotation, Autorotation is still active, check registry and value is back to 1.
So either Opera Mobile 10 reenables autorotation by changing the value back to "1" after launch or that value cant be changed.
Take in mind though, it might be due to the Custom ROM I am using. I am on Sprint TP2 running LEAD ROM. I just did a fresh flash yesterday and havent installed much on it to be interfering.
I JUST WANT TO STOP OPERA FROM AUTOROTATING, IM SO FRUSTRATED.
I use my phone all day at work because most of it is web based and I rather use my portable phone then the laptop they provide me. The autorotation drives me insane. Its the only reason I rather run Android on my phone because I can control the Autorotation on my web browser. I Hate IE, and other versions of Opera Mobile or Mini or Skyfire dont work properly on TechNet/CSG Systems I log into to do my work on the internet. So Im stuck using Opera Mobile 10 which doesnt work 100% either on TechNet but better than all the browsers I mentioned. Android browser and Dolphin HD work 100% but Android is not complete to the point I can use it all day, specially running off the Storage Card.

Found solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502871
Issues coming out of landscape with keyboard open/close on Native WM Messaging. Solved by clicking Start Button then open/close KB. Im back to portrait.
HTC Messaging works fine with open/close KB.

HW Keyboard Backlight OFF when it's not needed (WORKING SOLUTION pls)

Hi All,
Xperia's hardware keyboard is very good, and the backlight is really of help when the ambient goes dark or even darker.
The HW keyboard is also quite cool in the daylight, the buttons' surface letters are very clear and crisp.
But here we have, an especial feature: needless automatic backlight, in spite of bright (or not so) day light? The letters become blurry not to say hardly visible. Not to mention this is wasting battery, too.
Is there a way to turn off the HW keyboard backlight, when it's not needed?
XDA gurus, help our batteries live longer and us users type faster! Please...

I hear you!
Yeah i've noticed the same problem, so ive started making a program to set the brightness etc, ive interrogated the registry for the backlight and have a small app working now whare all the brighness levels and timmings etc can be modified.
I was going to add a menu on the progam to changes the settings based on time of day / profile used on the phone, the rogram would need to be ran in the backgroud all the time but im sure it would not drain the battery much to do this as its a lightweight process that will wait for the profile to change.
I can put up what ive done, its very simple and you can suggest improvments / whatever.
Main functions would be:
allow user to change settings based on their currently selected sound profile (on, vibrate, off) and they have individual settings.
Allow the user to change all backlight related values (I have 11 of them editable in my program currently.
I would like this to have the keyboard light off during the day really as the keyboard light coming on makes it hard to see keys during the day.

awshanks said:
Yeah i've noticed the same problem, so ive started making a program to set the brightness etc, ive interrogated the registry for the backlight and have a small app working now whare all the brighness levels and timmings etc can be modified.
I was going to add a menu on the progam to changes the settings based on time of day / profile used on the phone, the rogram would need to be ran in the backgroud all the time but im sure it would not drain the battery much to do this as its a lightweight process that will wait for the profile to change.
I can put up what ive done, its very simple and you can suggest improvments / whatever.
Main functions would be:
allow user to change settings based on their currently selected sound profile (on, vibrate, off) and they have individual settings.
Allow the user to change all backlight related values (I have 11 of them editable in my program currently.
I would like this to have the keyboard light off during the day really as the keyboard light coming on makes it hard to see keys during the day.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sounds promising! Can you post your app? I would like to try it out.

Here you go...
It just modifies timers and sensors on/off at the minute, but its a start. I made it to give better control over the backlight for myself, happy to help others!

Thanks Andrew! Longlive Ireland!

awshanks said:
It just modifies timers and sensors on/off at the minute, but its a start. I made it to give better control over the backlight for myself, happy to help others!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, bud!

So Features
What do you want it to do?
look better? YES , lol!
i was going to use tab screen to seperate out the info, there are some more values to add that can be changed, i need to group them together (eg ac and battery ones) and have a proper explanation on them (input value limit etc.)
So let me know what are the features you would like (in order of priority) and i will get cracking, lets see if we can make a good little app here.

By now I only wanted the app to turn off keyboard completely. Hope the author will succeed in that. Though I'm afraid the HW keyboard backlight settings are hardware related issue solely, nothing to do with registry/driver routine.
All the other settings are quite handy to play with the backlight of the device. Perhaps a bit more detailed instructions and explanations will be just fine.
Yet the 'About' and 'Copyright' options, maybe some easter eggs - without it the prog is a no-go

Have you tried adding the key HKCU\Software\SonyEricsson\Illumination\QWERTYBrightness ? I found this one when digging into the illumination application.
This will override the automatic brightness values for the keyboard, setting it to a fixed brightness when the light sensor turns it on.
I've set mine to 50, which works fine even if the light goes on at daylight.

Thanks bro, this is very useful hint!
I noticed also, that with '50' (it's not 'key' actually, but a 'value', I input this as a REG_SZ value), light sensor works with HW keyboard much better, more adequate - no backlight when in sunlight or electric lamps at home or in office, slightly dimmer backlight when in the dark. That must save battery life too!

on8a said:
Have you tried adding the key HKCU\Software\SonyEricsson\Illumination\QWERTYBrightness ? I found this one when digging into the illumination application.
This will override the automatic brightness values for the keyboard, setting it to a fixed brightness when the light sensor turns it on.
I've set mine to 50, which works fine even if the light goes on at daylight.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Odeon said:
Thanks bro, this is very useful hint!
I noticed also, that with '50' (it's not 'key' actually, but a 'value', I input this as a REG_SZ value), light sensor works with HW keyboard much better, more adequate - no backlight when in sunlight or electric lamps at home or in office, slightly dimmer backlight when in the dark. That must save battery life too!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That's may seems silly but i cant find "HKCU\Software\SonyEricsson\Illumination\QWERTYBrightness"
I found only patters and default....
Could please help?

you shall create this parameter if it isn't available.

Odeon said:
you shall create this parameter if it isn't available.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did and it worked! thanks
But still, isnt there anyway to turn it off?

Typing a nightmare?

If you find that it's really difficult to type using the hd2 - I advise you Align the screen.
The device doesn't make you do this when you first boot it but I found it solved my problem.
go to....
settings >> menu >> all settings >> system >> screen
I advise you not to use a stylus to do this but your finger - may be a bit tricky but if you can touch the crosses accurately enough with your finger you will find this benefits you when using everything.
I also turned on ClearType as I always had that on and default is off.
hope it's not been mentioned already.

spvc500 said:
If you find that it's really difficult to type using the hd2 - I advise you Align the screen.
The device doesn't make you do this when you first boot it but I found it solved my problem.
go to....
settings >> menu >> all settings >> system >> screen
I advise you not to use a stylus to do this but your finger - may be a bit tricky but if you can touch the crosses accurately enough with your finger you will find this benefits you when using everything.
I also turned on ClearType as I always had that on and default is off.
hope it's not been mentioned already.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thats really good to know. A lot of people said that with capacitive screens you don't align them but with my Hero I had to.
Very very good news, thanks for this

I think it has a lot to do with the keyboard manager.
I've tried HTC's, Resco's and SPB's keyboard, and SPB is by far the best for fingers, since it does not change letters after you type them, and it even allows full-screen keyboard when you need to type a lot of complicated symbols.
Resco's is too small and makes it hard to type symbols besides letters; HTC's is overly predictive and corrective to the detriment of productivity. SPB just works.

Wow!!! What a diference. You barely even need the predictive keyboard after aligning the screen.

good to know for when it arrives, thanks!
im pretty sure I posted this, but im dead tired, so since im here...
anyone tried this keyboard, http://www.mobiletextinput.com/about.php

yeah someone who had a HD2 before me told me they had to hard reset after trying align..
so I tested it earlier (just to see) and of course it works fine.. typing is now a joy rather than a bear to use !

fards said:
yeah someone who had a HD2 before me told me they had to hard reset after trying align..
so I tested it earlier (just to see) and of course it works fine.. typing is now a joy rather than a bear to use !
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hard reset would just clear away the setting causing you to do a new alignment, back and fort
think you mean soft reset?

br3nt said:
hard reset would just clear away the setting causing you to do a new alignment, back and fort
think you mean soft reset?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I know EXACTLY what I meant, thank you very much!
the guy who tried the screen align could no longer use the screen, so resorted to a hard reset to get rid of it.
I'm wondering what they did wrong to cause it not to work...

fards said:
I know EXACTLY what I meant, thank you very much!
the guy who tried the screen align could no longer use the screen, so resorted to a hard reset to get rid of it.
I'm wondering what they did wrong to cause it not to work...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After posting above I did run into some trouble in landscape mode. However, a soft reset got everything working perfectly.

After using resistive screen we need to remember to raise fingers that little bit further when typing. I'm beginning to type pretty fast now without mistakes.

So are people definately finding improvements in accuracy of typing when using aligning feature or is it best to leave it alone?

spvc500 said:
If you find that it's really difficult to type using the hd2 - I advise you Align the screen.
The device doesn't make you do this when you first boot it but I found it solved my problem.
go to....
settings >> menu >> all settings >> system >> screen
I advise you not to use a stylus to do this but your finger - may be a bit tricky but if you can touch the crosses accurately enough with your finger you will find this benefits you when using everything.
I also turned on ClearType as I always had that on and default is off.
hope it's not been mentioned already.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow that sure helped a lot.
Thanks!
Should be added to the sticky tips and tricks post!

problems with typing
I did align the screen and turned on the cleartype.
After doing that it was just a tad better than it was before.
And it was a nightmare !!
But i tried to turn cleartype OFF.
And it is alot better now !!

Does anyone find it annoying how sentences don't actually automatically capitalise after using a full stop?
I have 'auto capitalise new sentence' option ticked under input settings too. Oddly, it auto capitalises after the use of '!' and '?' but just not a full stop...

I too am finding this keyboard hard to use. Sometimes impossible. I have aligned the screen and am trying to be as gentle as possible. In fact I find u don’t even have to touch it to set it off. Just hover your finger above the screen. And even hovering your finger above it can cause it to go mad and press every button in sight.
Sometimes if I press backspace repeatedly, it will press m, n, b, and v buttons too for me. I mean that’s about a finger and a half away from where I’m touching.
I have tried using the keypad as the buttons are bigger and again here I find if I press 7 (pqrs) it can press the one button too, and u can see it twitching all of the place when u hold. I held the power button to get the shutdown/lock options screen up, and without even touching the screen it selected silent. I’m finding it very very frustrating. I have been used to using the iPhone 3GS for few months, which I hate, but so far the screen is miles better.
I even opened notepad and drew some lines and on some swipes u can see instead of producing a smooth line it jaggers all over the place. To me it seems over sensitive/broken, but from what others say is this correct? The touch HD input was better than this. But I have no problems using the phone elsewhere than the keyboard.
The phone is great but currently I’m hugely disappointed with the screen. And so its letting the whole unit down.
Am i being useless or does my unit sounds bust?

simplymee said:
Does anyone find it annoying how sentences don't actually automatically capitalise after using a full stop?
I have 'auto capitalise new sentence' option ticked under input settings too. Oddly, it auto capitalises after the use of '!' and '?' but just not a full stop...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My HTC Hero does this also, which is quite annoying!

Ok, when the Touch HD was out there was a program which allowed you to increase the sensitivity of the screen, think it was HD Tweak. This improved the sensitivity of the screen quite well.
Maybe there is a registry tweak we can do to turn down the sensitivity of the screen to help out?
Has anyone informed HTC about this yet?

I found typing accuracy slightly worse after running the alignment process which is weird.
The problem is, we're blazing a trail with the HD2 as there are currently no other winmo devices with a capacitive screen. The HTC full qwerty doesn't seem to be ideally suited to capacitive - the keys register presses far too readily and sometimes, as your finger is lifted from the screen, it's very easy to register a press in an adjacent button.
After a couple of days using it, it seems accuracy and a light touch are the order of the day - until HTC (or another enterprising software house) release a keyboard that's actually tailored to the Leo

Is this setting is what need to be changed for changing the sensitivity?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Touch\Filter]

skr_xd said:
Is this setting is what need to be changed for changing the sensitivity?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Touch\Filter]
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tried set it to 1,10,100 and did not notice anything. But would love to find something like that.