Is it possible to remove the brightness sliding feature at the top of the screen? I don't use automatic brightness so the brightness always changes when I slide down. It's very annoying to me. Thanks!
bigdbag said:
Is it possible to remove the brightness sliding feature at the top of the screen? I don't use automatic brightness so the brightness always changes when I slide down. It's very annoying to me. Thanks!
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Doesnt seem to happen with custom kernels
I also find this very annoying. I would think there is a service or file we could remove to stop this.
So mixup kernal stops this "feature "?
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rjmjr69 said:
Doesnt seem to happen with custom kernels
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Oh yes it does.
I noticed this last week. I don't like it. I change my brightness on accident all the time.
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I have a problem where the screen brightness varies by itself without any input from me. I have turned off automatic brightness and set the screen brightness at the lowest level in an attempt to save battery life. However, when I use the phone at a later time I would recognize a difference in the screen brightness. When I go to check it in settings, the screen brightness level is set at a different level.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
b1indsided said:
Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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Yeah I've done both of those things.
Gagstr said:
also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That must be it! Thanks! I must have swiped left/right on the top of the screen without realizing it. Kind of annoying for them to sneak in a feature like that. I can see it being useful but I prefer the power control widget. Any idea how I can disable that feature of touchwiz?
getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
Gagstr said:
getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
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How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
There was a thread on here for that from what i can remember, i cant look for it right at this moment because im at work but you should be able to find it yourself. Search for "removing touchwiz UI" if you cant find it go to google (it might have been a diff forum/Blog it was a few days ago).
You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
mesasone said:
You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
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If you root the epic, you CAN manually uninstall all touchwiz packqages to remove the ui...
That notification taskbar swipe is pretty handy tho... thanks to whoever shared it... I like to keep my screen dim for the most part... but that is soooo much easier to use when, say I go outside and need to adjust quickly! It even works in landscape mode! Nice!
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bojackson63044 said:
How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
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Root your Epic, download Root Explorer from market (worth the price), make sure you already have Launcher PRO running, then go to running applications and force close TouchWiz30Launcher then go to root explorer > system > app (make sure you mount it as r/w) > and delete TouchWiz30Launcher.apk and .odex, then reboot and that's it.
You can also use terminal app if you're familiar with commands.
Gagstr said:
also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That... is... awesome! Did not know that. Guess I can get rid of the brightness app since adjusting the brightness through the menu on the fly was painfully boring.
Ok so i deleted the brightness.apk in the system and supposedly its suppose to disable the brightness slider on the notification bar. But it doesn't anyone know how its driving me crazy. i always accidentally make it max brightness when pulling down my notifications.
Please Help.
Thanks i would appreciate it.
davidrules7778 said:
Ok so i deleted the brightness.apk in the system and supposedly its suppose to disable the brightness slider on the notification bar. But it doesn't anyone know how its driving me crazy. i always accidentally make it max brightness when pulling down my notifications.
Please Help.
Thanks i would appreciate it.
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I don't even have a brightness slider in the notification bar
Dameon87 said:
I don't even have a brightness slider in the notification bar
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Your brightness doesnt adjust when u slide your finger across the notification bar? The black part? Left & Right? Do u have auto brightness on? Thats the only way i know how to disable it.
davidrules7778 said:
Your brightness doesnt adjust when u slide your finger across the notification bar? The black part? Left & Right? Do u have auto brightness on? Thats the only way i know how to disable it.
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Whoaa Learn something new everyday lmao. I never have noticed that. Sorry to mess your thread up lol
Dameon87 said:
Whoaa Learn something new everyday lmao. I never have noticed that. Sorry to mess your thread up lol
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Ya well i noticed it i just turned on auto brightness i shall see if that holds up. If not i still need a solution to have auto brightness off. For now this will work.
I never knew that! I like that feature, now I don't need power control widget cluttering up my screen anymore
davidrules7778 said:
Ok so i deleted the brightness.apk in the system and supposedly its suppose to disable the brightness slider on the notification bar. But it doesn't anyone know how its driving me crazy. i always accidentally make it max brightness when pulling down my notifications.
Please Help.
Thanks i would appreciate it.
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yeah i removed brightness apk also it use to fix it but not any more i think since DI18
Two things regarding brightness I've found in 2.1 and wanting to know if I'm just missing something or what:
No more automatic brightness setting
The maximum brightness setting is about 2x as bright as the maximum setting on 1.6
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Belazor said:
Two things regarding brightness I've found in 2.1 and wanting to know if I'm just missing something or what:
No more automatic brightness setting
The maximum brightness setting is about 2x as bright as the maximum setting on 1.6
/discuss
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There is auto brightness. it is done through a widget called power control which lets you control wifi gps etc..on the most right is ascreen brightness selector. 3 options. min auto and max brightness
law910 said:
There is auto brightness. it is done through a widget called power control which lets you control wifi gps etc..on the most right is ascreen brightness selector. 3 options. min auto and max brightness
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There is no AUTO setting....
Download Spareparts from market and choose auto brightness there
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Seansmit17 said:
There is no AUTO setting....
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Yes there is, through the widget with the wifi, gps and the other stuff.
Furthest to the right is a brightness icon that you can press to get auto brightness.
dj1337 said:
Download Spareparts from market and choose auto brightness there
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Can anyone confirm that this works?
Seriously, why in the world would SE remove a feature!
citsym said:
Can anyone confirm that this works?
Seriously, why in the world would SE remove a feature!
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They didn't!
Seansmit17 said:
There is no AUTO setting....
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The middle setting is auto. In fact, Kindle even says 'To enable display brightness, turn off the automatic brightness adjustment in display settings.'
Mine does not ask a thing. Doesn't seem as auto option but a medium setting instead.
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I have to say i miss that feature too. A lot. The middle setting is not auto. I downloaded Spareparts and enabled auto brightness but it does not seem to work. Not like 1.6 did anyway.
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Jep, same her... ATM I toggle between 1%, 50% and 100% with extended controls...
gotta love the people that dont read aye? xD
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They didn't!
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Hmm...did you actually put it infront of sunlight and check if the brightness automatically changes?
Alright everyone I was wary about the absence of the auto-brightness as well but I just did a test and I can confirm that the middle setting in the brightness setting on the power control widget is for auto-brightness. You can test this too by shining a bright light at the sensor, the screen brightness should INCREASE. Obviously a few of you mistook it for MEDIUM brightness which is understandable as the auto-brightness is between the minimum and maximum brightness under most circumstances, does that make sense?
Testet it with the Widget.
Seems to work. But in my opinion it worked better in 1.6.
Ah, good! Auto brightness is a critical feature IMHO.
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The maximum brightness setting is about 2x as bright as the maximum setting on 1.6
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Really? I've set the brightness in 2.1 to 100% which is as bright as 1.6 on 50%.
UserX10 said:
Testet it with the Widget.
Seems to work. But in my opinion it worked better in 1.6.
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I second that. Much better in 1.6. Here it does not even change. You barely notice it when going from inside to outside etc... I also tried on the Desire of a friend, and same thing. So 1.6 must have been better at that I guess.
Somebody can tell me how to disable the feature of automatic brightness, leaving it at the value I want, independently by the light? sorry if it has already been asked, but with the search function in the threads I can't answer it myself.
Hope somebody will help, because now my battery is drained too fast =(
Baldolo said:
Somebody can tell me how to disable the feature of automatic brightness, leaving it at the value I want, independently by the light? sorry if it has already been asked, but with the search function in the threads I can't answer it myself.
Hope somebody will help, because now my battery is drained too fast =(
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I use the Brightness Profiles app. It seems to hold the settings after reboots.
Do any of the new ROM's have the Brightness adjustment when you slide on the Notification Bar? It was on Eclair.
Nevermind I found one.
They should all have this feature. Just make sure auto brightness is turned off.
schizopunk said:
They should all have this feature. Just make sure auto brightness is turned off.
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Not to start up a 5 day old thread; but I'm running Quantum Rom v2.0.0 and the slider bar in the notification window isn't there. And; I have the auto brightness off.
In fact; I don't think I've ever had it on any of the roms I've had since we switched to 2.2.
Squeaky369 said:
Not to start up a 5 day old thread; but I'm running Quantum Rom v2.0.0 and the slider bar in the notification window isn't there. And; I have the auto brightness off.
In fact; I don't think I've ever had it on any of the roms I've had since we switched to 2.2.
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It is on super nova.
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Its in every one of them,they removed the bar,its still there but trickey to get working,you have to barely pull down the bar.
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Sometimes you have to do a long press to get it to work.
stir fry a lot said:
Sometimes you have to do a long press to get it to work.
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That worked perfect!
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Thats strange,I always thought you had to pull it down before in 2.1,,,but I guess it works from the notification bar now.
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I must be losing it; cause I still don't see what you guys are talking about.
So here's a screenshot, hopefully I am just looking in the wrong place and it ends up I'm a moron.
Squeaky369 said:
I must be losing it; cause I still don't see what you guys are talking about.
So here's a screenshot, hopefully I am just looking in the wrong place and it ends up I'm a moron.
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Hold your thumb anywhere along the black status bar at the top to adjust your brightness. You need to have auto brightness turned off in order for it to work. It used to be that you could slide your finger along the status bar but it hasn't worked for me as of recent but long pressing it does. You don't need the entire notification screen pulled down, just have the status bar showing ie: If you have Launcher Pro hiding the status bar it will not work.
Got it!!
I thought it was going to be an actual slider like the Galaxy TAB has, but that is nice to have that hidden gem.
Thanks for the help!!
This is my most disliked "feature" on android. It is way to easy to inadvertently change the brightness when dragging the slider down. there should be a larger dead band around where your finger starts before the brightness change becomes active because most people do not swipe down perfectly straight every time. I have yet to make it a day without the thing changing brightness by mistake.
In fact as soon as we get the source, I'm going to compile a version with this "feature" removed...
Please remove,lol,thank you in advance
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I miss the brightness slider my S4 had in the notification pull-down. Is there a way to add that? I'd rather not install a custom just for that feature.
Thanks.
kenkamm said:
I miss the brightness slider my S4 had in the notification pull-down. Is there a way to add that? I'd rather not install a custom just for that feature.
Thanks.
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Hmm. I must be the only one that wants this.