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LED as Flashlight, Applications

Okay so in the internal T-Mobile myTouch Champion website a user
posted a thread like this to share information about which apps will
work to light up the LED for the myTouch Slide.
Free Applications:
LED Desire Light: This application allows you to alter the brightness of which the LED lights up in 5 different increments. It also has a text entry space of which the application will then turn into Morse code through the LED.
LED Light: This application isn't as bright as LED Desire, but it comes with a nice widget with similar styling to the default widgets of the phone. Although these widgets are not the same size.
Akari: This application has the same brightness as LED Light but with a very simple UI...just one large "On/Off" button. This application takes up practically NO space too. So if you want a light app...this is it.
BeamWidget: I really like this widget, it allows you to tweak the brightness and more closely resembles the default settings widgets but the icon is a TID BIT larger than the default settings widgets. I believe this one MAY be as bright as LED Desire Light. Download Here
Post here if you find more and I'll edit my original post to include your recommended application.

I use BeamWidgets, someone over in the Desire forum is developing it. Simple widget... You set the brightness when you add it, and it works wonders.
You can download it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676328

LED Desire Light works gret on the slide. I love the fact that it offers brightness controls. I also use Flashlight, a market app that uses the screen for light. It allows for one-handed brightness controls and puts off good light if used in a smaller area.
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After using all of these applications I definitely have to say that Beamwidgets has to be my personal favorite. The link in the OP will direct you to the dev's thread on XDA where he mentions to be launching other widgets soon which will also be very nice.
Its simple to use and very bright which is something that other similar widgets can't offer in terms of brightness.
Everyone should definitely check that link out.

thanks for sharing

One thing to remember is these LEDs were not realy meant to left on at full power for long periods of time. If you are not carefull they WILL burn out. Use wisely folks.

I will use this, but the only time I ever regularly use my phone as a light, is at night, when walking from my living room to my bedroom after all the lights have been shut off... so 10 seconds at a time shouldn't be a problem

Awesome! Nice to have, when you drop something in the dark. I set the power to about 75%, puts out pretty good light even in a well lit room at that setting.

Another one that I found is led light by picolyl. It works pretty good as well. Has a 1x1 widget. Tap for on, tap for off.
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Never mind. It was here alredy. Lol. Sorry.
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Automatic brightness adjustment?

Anyone know if there is a way to adjust the automatic brightness function - i.e. have it still be automatic, but be a little bright or darker for a given ambient light?
would really like to keep using it, but want my overall brightness turned down. using manual brightness with widget for now, but don't see why automatic brightness could not be tweaked. tried searching for an app to do this, but have not come up with anything. nothing came up in a google search of xda either. anyone got anything?

I want to know as well, I wouldn't mind setting the auto brightness to be more fine tuned as well, smaller changes.

Yes a better working app is needed. something like My Light or Lumos for winmo

Auto Screen Brightness is too dark

Hi all,
I found that the default auto brightness setting always render the screen darker than my favourite. For certain I want to keep the adaptive approach (i.e. the screen brightness will change according to my physical enviornment), however I would like to fine tune it such that it will always return a +1 / +2 brightness on top of the default return. Do anyone know any apps / tricks can I do so?
p.s. I know I can place an widget to manual adjust the brightness, but I am now looking for a way to fine tune the automated value.
Thanks all!

HKcow said:
Hi all,
I found that the default auto brightness setting always render the screen darker than my favourite. For certain I want to keep the adaptive approach (i.e. the screen brightness will change according to my physical enviornment), however I would like to fine tune it such that it will always return a +1 / +2 brightness on top of the default return. Do anyone know any apps / tricks can I do so?
p.s. I know I can place an widget to manual adjust the brightness, but I am now looking for a way to fine tune the automated value.
Thanks all!
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Did you ever solve this. Posted numerous times about a similar issue but never really found a proper solution.

You can use Tasker. Set up profiles for depending how much the light sensor sees, you can have the brightness exactly how you want. Note: You need to disable auto brightness for this to work.

adjusting auto-brightness range

Looked on google for this and found other people asking about it but no answer so far.
If i leave the screen brightness set to auto-adjust, the phone NEVER adjust the screen brightness down to it's lowest setting, even if i am sitting in a pitch dark room. Is there some way to adjust the range of the brightness setting so that it will actually use the lowest brightness? It seems beyond stupid that in a pitch dark room the screen doesn't go down to it's lowest level.
Most of the time i find the screen to be too bright, so if i could adjust the auto-brightness over-all to be darker, that would be cool too.
failing that, is there an app that makes adjusting the brightness quicker then digging down into the settings to move the slider?
thanks

I use widgetsoid (free) from the market place to do what you speak of and 7 other things as well.

i think i already have something that does what it looks like widgetsoid does. I have a button on the screen that i can tap that switches the screen between 3 brightness settings. i was just wondering if there was one where you could tap and get a slider. Seems silly to have the actual slider itself on the screen since that would take up so much room. But a button that would open up into a slider would be nice.
I'd still prefer to be able to adjust the autobrightness settings and use that if possible.

You can set autobrightness levels with tasker. There's a thread floating around with details.
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merkk said:
i think i already have something that does what it looks like widgetsoid does. I have a button on the screen that i can tap that switches the screen between 3 brightness settings. i was just wondering if there was one where you could tap and get a slider. Seems silly to have the actual slider itself on the screen since that would take up so much room. But a button that would open up into a slider would be nice.
I'd still prefer to be able to adjust the autobrightness settings and use that if possible.
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Again, Widgetsoid does this. Once it is setup, modify, settings/Brightness Modes and set it Custom (Seekbar) or use one of the other 2 settings. You can change those as well with custom. Exit. Go to toggle and you have slider with one click on one button, which option of adding 7 more.

devnulldroid said:
Again, Widgetsoid does this. Once it is setup, modify, settings/Brightness Modes and set it Custom (Seekbar) or use one of the other 2 settings. You can change those as well with custom. Exit. Go to toggle and you have slider with one click on one button, which option of adding 7 more.
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ah ok, cool, thanks. I'm going to see if i can find the thread about tasker since i'd prefer to have auto-brightness working better. if that fails then i'll give widgetsoid a try.
thank you

Just what I was looking for Screen brightness less then 10% and Less then Curvefish's toggle to 4%. I was looking for the 1% brighness and I think i got with the Widgetsoid only compaint is no exit after setting... Thanks

[Tutorial] How to reactivate autobrightness

I just played with the brightness of my Arc and noticed that the autobrightness was deactivated afterwards.
I downloaded a lot of widgets to set it back to auto, but it didn't work with a lot of them.
Then I finally found "widgetsoid" and that finally worked to set it back to auto.
So if anyone else has the same problem, here you have the right widget and don't have to spend time on finding the right app or widget.
Hope that helps you guys, because I found it beeing very annoying.
Regards,
Flo

In SE's Xperia line of phones, auto-brightness is ALWAYS enabled, no matter what you do (unless you run a non-stock custom ROM).
Try this, put the brightness slider around the 40% mark, shine a light on the sensor, if there's enough light, it will go to full brightness in no time. The same goes conversely.

And how to disable without use third part apps?

have anybody tried this app ? is it good ?
i read bad reviews like :
- unable to uninstall
- lag
- flood the widget list with so many stuff
etc etc
but it just reviews, so it might not be true, i don't know...

@ doomed and Lucas:
I just put the slider to max and then back down and it didn't work untill I set it to auto again with the app I mentioned in first post.
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Widgetsoid is a fantastic program and works 100% with the Arc / Arc S
The auto brightness feature does work to a point, but you can also toggle 3 different percentages to suit where you are. I have mine set at 30%, 70% and 100%. You can also have a slider if you wish.
No problems at all with the app, although it's a bit complex to set up first time you won't be able to live without it in the end. Loads of options and configurations to keep anyone happy!
Keith

Flo95 said:
@ doomed and Lucas:
I just put the slider to max and then back down and it didn't work untill I set it to auto again with the app I mentioned in first post.
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Auto brightness is disabled at the minimum and maximum point, only in the middle.

Ah, didn't know that.
In the middle it just worked a bit if even
After setting it back with the app I got it working again and I hope to have the stock SE setting back now.
I'm happy.
For people who get the same strange bug this might be usefull.
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+1 for widgetsoid - I'm a long time user with my current Arc and previous HTC Desires and Hero phones.
As has already been said, its a bit complicated to set up initially but allows great functionality in a single widget.
Well worth a try.

i've been playing with it for a day now.
haven't check the auto-brightness feature yet, i downloaded this app at 6pm, so its already dark here. i've taken the arc on the street at night, and under room lighting, so far i think its always stay at 30% brightness. i'll see if this feature works under direct sunlight
there's a widget to view cpu temp and storage (rom,sd,ram) status now
just wondering, is there a way to make the storage status more accurate.
most the time, the ram status doesn't show the latest status. maybe there's a setting to make it check the ram status more uptodate

doomed151 said:
Auto brightness is disabled at the minimum and maximum point, only in the middle.
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i have no idea about this. please explain it for me

The only thing I hate about widgetsoid is that you can't backup your setup, so if you do a Nandroid restore, you'll have to set up each widget again. I had about 8 switches, and then you have to choose a function, colour, opacity. Really sucks.