Hi everyone!
I got a new Atrix today and I've noticed something. Its not a huge problem & maybe some others have the same "problem" too.
The Settings and Home soft touch buttons aren't as bright as the back and Search button. Is this just in my case or does others noticed the same? (or maybe im too fussy)
I mean its not a problem everything works perfect but yeah the 2 soft keys left arent as bright as they should i think..
This is how it looks like:
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Mine are all uniform brightness, but they do adjust based on ambient light
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Hello,
is there any programme that lets you adjust the backlight with the volume keys (e.g. the volume keys on the left side of the Touch)? It would be fine if so, because after using the patched HTC Home - Plugin I can not change the backlight by tapping onto the backlight button in the HTC Home - Application-Starter
So far...
haven't seen one using the buttons, but there is a today plugin that is pretty small and useful. it's called mvbk light or somethign like that. It puts a little slider on your today screen. It can be skinned also...
here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379270
need this as well
i'm looking for this kind of app as well. due to low battery performance of our o2 atom, we have to keep the backlight at minimal seeting. the problem start if we're outdoor, the screen is hardly visible because backlight is set to the lowest. so the app mentioned by joshrys is not the solution because of the outdoor situation mentioned. please advice...
Does anyone know how backlight is suppose to work for Home, Menu, Back and Search keys? Is it suppose to stay on as long as the screen backlight stays on or is it certain amount of time? What triggers them to come on- key press, screen touch, trackpad touch or all of the above? Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason, at least I couldn't trace a pattern. I know that I was messing around with the phone last night in the dark and they would come on and go off as they pleased. Does light sensor have anything to do with it? Please sound off your findings and ideas.
Thanks!
Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason either - it's a bit maddening. And the same goes for the backlight of the physical keyboard (sometimes it comes on, sometimes it doesn't - no telling why), and also the automatic adjustment of brightness (i use the phone for a minute and suddenly it gets super-bright).
Hopefully these are all just bugs that will be fixed with an OTA update, but it is weird and I'm glad to know it's not just my unit since I don't want to replace it (I got a solid hinge - good stuff!).
I think I figured it out. Backlight for touch keys is controlled by light sensor and also has a timer (few seconds), so if it's bright enough outside - they will not even come on. If it's dark - they come on and stay on for certain time then go off untill you press one of them again.
Now, the other thing that I'm noticing is that my haptic feedback is not working when pressing one of those buttons or long-pressing the screen. Anyone else has that problem?
I have used my phone primarily in the dark. All my lights are always on (when the screen is) and the auto-brightness is too bright. If I turn brightness to minimum, the always on lights are way too bright compared to the screen. I really wish the designers had tried to use this phone in the dark (laying in bed) and realized the auto-brightness and lights are too bright in pitch-dark!
Also I am getting real sick of rotation. On my G1 I could disable it completely unless the keyboard was out. I like to lay in bed or on a couch and use my phone sideways, but not rotated. This seems impossible to do on the G2. Disabling rotation doesn't do anything for 3rd party apps or even GMail for that matter. For some reason this was not the case on the G1.
It will be hard to go back to the G1's one-second+ lag after every press and the incredibly slow loading webpages now that I have experienced the G2, but there are too many really annoying problems, so I think it is getting sent back.
if you have your backlight set to automatic... it will cut on only if the room is dark... check your backlight settings
It's an issue with the way android uses the light sensor. It's very poorly coded.
Tried the auto brightness option but it doesn't make a difference with various ambients.... I've seen it worked when first bought it and while setting up for the 1st time... but that's about it
nothing installed at all, beside from the Google maps update, Flash 10.3... that's it.
not a big deal... I rarely uses that feature anyway, manually adjust the brightness most of the time.... odd that it isn't functioning like it should.
Thanks.
having the same issue
same situation here .
I had this happen too...
Just turn on autobrightness and then reboot (turn off en on again), solved it for me...
In do, however, prefer to set the brightness manually
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UnicornKaz said:
Tried the auto brightness option but it doesn't make a difference with various ambients.... I've seen it worked when first bought it and while setting up for the 1st time... but that's about it
nothing installed at all, beside from the Google maps update, Flash 10.3... that's it.
not a big deal... I rarely uses that feature anyway, manually adjust the brightness most of the time.... odd that it isn't functioning like it should.
Thanks.
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update...
I have a "flashlight" app on my Nexus One ...
If I shine the light at the sensor - ( located directly at the bezel border inline with the screen orientation lock button ) - the auto-brightness will again work
seems like it needed a "kick-start" ... but as you use your tablet ... at a later time... the bug will again appear... and you need the "kick-start" allover again...etc
hopefully the more people report this... the issue will be address by Acer
I know my tablet's auto-brightness works, it just seems the change is incredibly gradual so maybe that's why it appears to not be working.
If i you enable disable it, it would seem that it doesn't enable but after a few seconds the brightness definitely changes.
is there anyone else beside me think that the sensor should have been a visible hole similar to the camera instead of under the dark/black bezel ??
other tablets I've seen you can visually see the sensor window/circle... The Iconia's sensor is really hidden under the bezel... you really have to look hard or at a certain angle in a bright lit area in order to vaguely see it... maybe a design flaw ?
Hi!
I've acceidently broken my phone's screen. New one came, installed it but the button backlight seems to be turning on, no matter where i touch the screen. It goes off after a while. But it also feels mutch brighter then the original one.
So my question is: Am i stuck with glaring backlights forever? Or i can make them somehow less brighter? Or even make them work as they suppose to (lights only when i touch the button) ?
Thank you!
button 's bscklight turn on always when the screen is awake and/or you touch it. Yes people say the replacements are brighter.
I have S3 Advance and the buttons where always on when using the screen, not only when touching a button. perhaps you don't remember because they were not so bright
JiaYu S3, Nougat 7.1
Yes. Probably that's the truth. Still any option to make it less bright? I remember on some rom i could change it.
Thank you btw!
not any option about it (yet) but I don't think anyone will take care to make the LEDs from buttons darker.
JiaYu S3, Nougat 7.1
there may not be a hardware controlling the brightness so the only way is to lower the voltage which is not configurable in kernel.
So the left hack is to add a resistance behind the leds i guess ?
How about the files in "/sys/devices/platform/leds-mt65xx/leds/button-backlight/", could I modify one of those to dim te hardware buttons?
Anyone else noticed the button Backlight brightness being very low?
It's like a dark blue light and I almost can't see it.
Also the Touchscreen doesn't react sometimes while scrolling. For example while seeking trough files in a file manager it stops sometime instead of scrolling further while swiping.
Yes, I've seen both.
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Yes, I've seen both.
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But I've seen someone
But someone on this thread have uploaded a picture where it's much brighter
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/help/button-light-t3626993
The backlight on the buttons is very dim, yea. I think that pic was just in good lighting to show the lights well, I don't think they are any brighter than what we have. I wish they were brighter as well.
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The backlight on the buttons is very dim, yea. I think that pic was just in good lighting to show the lights well, I don't think they are any brighter than what we have. I wish they were brighter as well.
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I can't see any buttonlight at cloudy daylight. This makes it pretty useless. If there were visible dots at daylight, the light would be usefull for night use but as I said you can't notice any dots at daylight
The big problem is the RGB led luminosity. It's like the button backlight, but it is useless if i can't see it...
The odd thing, or I guess another observation in general...is that I have rarely had "misses" with the back or recent buttons. It seems like they made the touch area much much bigger than just around that dot. So, although this is annoying, the actual effect it's having is minimal to me.
Yes, I was tempted to find a transparency to stick on the top just for effect I do sometimes hit the "Reply" icon in Outlook messaging when I mean to hit the back button below it.
It would be nicer if the blue light was a lot brighter. Maybe a firmware update?
Alan
What I don't get is why OnePlus just didn't give an option to always keep the capacitive buttons lit permanently, or at least increase their timeout period. With all the other ways you can customize Oxygen OS, this seems like an odd miss. Samsungs have had that option forever.
Elsydeon said:
What I don't get is why OnePlus just didn't give an option to always keep the capacitive buttons lit permanently, or at least increase their timeout period. With all the other ways you can customize Oxygen OS, this seems like an odd miss. Samsungs have had that option forever.
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As mentioned in another thread about this, there is an app called Keyboard Backlight Controller. I have it so they stay on when the screen is on. You have to disable and enable after each boot but it's not awful. It's better than nothing. In sunlight though, you can't see it at all.