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A new way to control screen brightness??

One day I was sitting in my class just looking at my screen. I randomly was just dragging my finger across my phone and I notice my Brightness changed. It you hold your finger between the top of the screen and phone the screen brightness will change. Anybody else come across this?

digijuan said:
One day I was sitting in my class just looking at my screen. I randomly was just dragging my finger across my phone and I notice my Brightness changed. It you hold your finger between the top of the screen and phone the screen brightness will change. Anybody else come across this?
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That is old news.

Yes, I have, there is a small line right under the notifications bar that you can open and slide.
And it never hurts to put helpful tips in for new comers, it would be difficult to search for something you don't know!!!!!!!!!
And new tips beat old complaints!!!!!!!!!!

LOL... holy Smoly... I knew that messing with the notification bar messes with your brightness.. but I didn't know you could control it like THAT! IF you drag it to the LEft it dims, Drag to the Right it gets brighter.. nice find. more things to show off to my friends..

Its quite a cool f3eauture of touchwiz,
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I hate it, wish I could disable it, because I always make my screen brighter by accident.
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What's this like the 6th thread on this topic alone. Come on fellas we don't need repeats
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Notification bar burned onto the screen

I just got a new nexus one swapped 2 days ago from HTC under warranty. I'm running MIUI on the new nexus and I just noticed that my notification bar burned onto the screen. I had MIUI on the last nexus for about a month and nothing happened to the screen, had to get it changed for different reason.
I was thinking it was due to the fact that miui's notification bar is transparent or somehow the screen didn't turn off during the night, but then all of the other things(icon, etc.) would have burned onto the screen.
Im going to call HTC and find out what they have to say. But does anyone have any insight to this. I really dont want to leave MIUI, really like that rom.

This is going to be a risk you run with refurbed Nexus Ones. Most people run them with white notification bars. I have two Nexus Ones and even being careful I have some burn-in. I run my everyday Nexus with a black notification bar and still there is slight burn in(uneven wear). I've never personally seen a Nexus without some form of burn in(uneven wear) from the notification bar. It is the most persistent part of the UI, even when you hide it with something like LauncherPro, etc.., it will pop up when in the market, and other apps that do not have the option to hide it. etc..

I'm running mine with the stock white notification bar as I'm 100% stock. I don't see any burn in on my screen. Any ways to check with an app that makes it more visible?
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msavic6 said:
I'm running mine with the stock white notification bar as I'm 100% stock. I don't see any burn in on my screen. Any ways to check with an app that makes it more visible?
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try going in to the Gmail app, then go in to an email with not much text and scroll down until you have a white screen, and look at the left side of the screen(in landscape) against the white background.
that said, if you do not notice it now, I WOULD NOT GO LOOKING FOR IT...you will most likely find it and it will start bothering you.

I guess thats why gingerbread went with black notification bar.

I only notice the burn in on my N1 when I'm on Google's homepage

Old MuckenMire said:
try going in to the Gmail app, then go in to an email with not much text and scroll down until you have a white screen, and look at the left side of the screen(in landscape) against the white background.
that said, if you do not notice it now, I WOULD NOT GO LOOKING FOR IT...you will most likely find it and it will start bothering you.
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I'm not gonna look for it as I wont be able to forget about it.
Hopefully gingerbread shows up soon so the black notification bar wont burn into my screen.
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Old MuckenMire said:
try going in to the Gmail app, then go in to an email with not much text and scroll down until you have a white screen, and look at the left side of the screen(in landscape) against the white background.
that said, if you do not notice it now, I WOULD NOT GO LOOKING FOR IT...you will most likely find it and it will start bothering you.
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Yeah, I noticed it using Floating Image myself, a nifty program that floats images from your camera dirs and the internet past you. Noticed the notification bar area looked odd, then looked closer and realized it was darker.
I've since started using a ROM with a dark notification bar, maybe mitigate it a bit, although I suspect the clock being in the same place all the time will burn up there too.

Too much for not looking for it. I just went on the Google homepage in landscape and I saw a tiny tiny bit of burn in like barely noticable. So I turned my brightness to Max to see if it was more visible and I couldn't see it on 100% brightness. Only when its on lowest brightness am I able to see the burn in. Good enough for me
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khaytsus said:
Yeah, I noticed it using Floating Image myself, a nifty program that floats images from your camera dirs and the internet past you. Noticed the notification bar area looked odd, then looked closer and realized it was darker.
I've since started using a ROM with a dark notification bar, maybe mitigate it a bit, although I suspect the clock being in the same place all the time will burn up there too.
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yeah pretty much anything that is persistent is going to possibly cause an issue. I'm glad Google is going with black now. I think it looks better and is safer for our AMOLED screens. As far as I know, this is not an issue for folks with SLCD Nexus ones since LCD phosphors have a much higher half life so do not show this issue until you are pretty much ready to upgrade your device....if it ever shows. LCD tech is much further advanced in this area than AMOLED.
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Too much for not looking for it. I just went on the Google homepage in landscape and I saw a tiny tiny bit of burn in like barely noticable. So I turned my brightness to Max to see if it was more visible and I couldn't see it on 100% brightness. Only when its on lowest brightness am I able to see the burn in. Good enough for me
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Just be careful of using high brightness: it will age the pixels quicker and make it even more noticeable. Best thing to do is use a launcher like Launcher pro and hide the bar as much as you can for awhile to "wipe" the worn pixels. Same with any apps that allow for hiding the notification bar in settings. That will improve it some and then you can use the black bar that will come with Gingerbread and you should be good. It wont be gone 100% but will be barely visible at that point.

Old MuckenMire said:
Just be careful of using high brightness: it will age the pixels quicker and make it even more noticeable. Best thing to do is use a launcher like Launcher pro and hide the bar as much as you can for awhile to "wipe" the worn pixels. Same with any apps that allow for hiding the notification bar in settings. That will improve it some and then you can use the black bar that will come with Gingerbread and you should be good. It wont be gone 100% but will be barely visible at that point.
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I always leave my brightness on automatic and now i hid the notification bar in launcher pro. i'm set until gingerbread

My 2nd hand Nexus One has burn in of the title bar. TBH I'm not that bothered; its very unlikely I'll even still have this phone this time next year. How long do some of you folks really think you'll own this phone for? Its aged well, but in 12 months time, I reckon it'll be a pretty small percentage of people posting now who still use one of these with any regularity.
I just ignore it.
I do use a theme with a black bar now anyway.
I wonder if the SAMOLED stuff suffers this issue?

tameracingdriver said:
My 2nd hand Nexus One has burn in of the title bar. TBH I'm not that bothered; its very unlikely I'll even still have this phone this time next year. How long do some of you folks really think you'll own this phone for? Its aged well, but in 12 months time, I reckon it'll be a pretty small percentage of people posting now who still use one of these with any regularity.
I just ignore it.
I do use a theme with a black bar now anyway.
I wonder if the SAMOLED stuff suffers this issue?
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I plan to use my nexus one until the end of 2011. I only got my phone in may 2010.
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msavic6 said:
I plan to use my nexus one until the end of 2011. I only got my phone in may 2010.
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Yes, but I bet you'll replace it by then.

Same exact thing happen to me on a swap and the went me another one that was in perfect condition without hassle
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Buck Shot said:
Same exact thing happen to me on a swap and the went me another one that was in perfect condition without hassle
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That's been my experience with HTC, they've never hassled me about anything I've wanted help with. I sure wish they were making the next Google phone.

cant we make the notification bar more transparent using some sort of theme or something ??? :S

Screen brightness trick..

Ok, I don't know how well known this is but I've just discovered it by accident and i'm sure there are other nubile note owners like me.
If you bring down the notification bar just a little so that just the first little bit appears, you can slide your finger along it to adjust screen brightness, or just bring it down with your finger on the amount of brightness you want.. i.e finger right to the left for dimmest or to the right for brightest...or anywhere inbetween!
I image this is well known amongst the android community but for me it's a revelation that I thought was worth sharing, as, and for, a first time android owner.

I didn't know that
thanx

To bad did not work for me.

It only works if DON'T HAVE AUTOBRIGHTNESS ON.
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I didn't know that either! Works lik a charm, thanks!

Cool. Didn't know that.

Do like! Thanks op
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Thanks bro! Discovering more useful tricks too

This feature has been on the original galaxy S as well. Make sure that auto brightness setting is disabled in the display settings otherwise the slide notification bar trick wont work.

Notification bar brightness slide
Dancairo said:
. . . If you bring down the notification bar just a little so that just the first little bit appears, you can slide your finger along it to adjust screen brightness, or just bring it down with your finger on the amount of brightness you want.. i.e finger right to the left for dimmest or to the right for brightest...or anywhere inbetween! . .
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You don't actually have to slide down at all, just touch and hold, then slide left or right. I discovered this from reading the fantastic Galaxy note review on AndroidNZ: http://www.androidnz.net/2011/12/samsung-galaxy-note-complete-review.html

cushcalc said:
You don't actually have to slide down at all, just touch and hold, then slide left or right. I discovered this from reading the fantastic Galaxy note review on AndroidNZ: http://www.androidnz.net/2011/12/samsung-galaxy-note-complete-review.html
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Haha.. me too!! Also where I learnt about sliding left or right on a contact to choose to send SMS or call them

SWEET! Nice find!!
This also explains why on a few occasions my brightness was inexplicably lowered. I was doing this and wasn't even aware of it...ha!

Thank you.
I didn't know. Nice tip and very useful.

Great tip :-D

Theres a really nice thread in the sgs2 forums that I cant find at the moment. But this might help find some other little tips that carried over from the sgs2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLe5_zTik8
website for video above(text)
http://thehandheldblog.com/2011/06/14/galaxy-s2-tips-tricks/

A newbie to Android and did not know that.
Great tip and works very nicely. We are learning all the time.
Thank you.

Excellent, glad it wasn't just me then
@intruda119 Good youtube vid, particularly liked the screen dead pixel test and s-pen test at 5.00
Thanks

It helps at times to read the manual. I
There are few others like taking a screen shot by swiping the side of your palm across the screen.
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drgopoos said:
It helps at times to read the manual. I
There are few others like taking a screen shot by swiping the side of your palm across the screen.
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Yes, well the hand swipe thing was featured in the advertising videos so we all know about the obvious ones. And, what man reads the manual? surely that takes half the fun out of any gadget and leaves nothing more to discover! although my wife has pointed out that you could be a woman so that would explain the manual thing
Dan
(firmly with tongue in cheek)

anyone know if you can make the screen go less bright the minimum brightness is still a bit intense when your using in the dark, say in the morning or at night in bed?

How do you like on-screen buttons?

Hi everyone.
I just started using on-screen buttons and I like them, in most aspects....
I love the portrait view with the buttons, it is a lot nicer then the Nexus soft keys we have in my opinion. Especially because I made the screen buttons blue .
However some things about these buttons really annoy me. I can't stand that in landscape my screen feels cramped and I don't get that 'full' feeling. Actually I think the only thing bugging me is landscape views...
What do you guys think about on-screen buttons? Do you like/hate them, favorite part, all of that stuff. I know they're pushing me to getting a real Galaxy Nexus haha .
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I haven't used them yet, but in principle I am totally against them.
Not sure why I should waste my screen real estate with an area that has a completely static function.
At the moment, all phones are forced to have a bezel of some size, so why not stick buttons in that area and keep as much screen space active as possible!
In the future, when we have bezel-less devices, then I guess we will be forced to have on screen buttons

I absolutely love 'em. Having a navbar is now a prerequisite before flashing a rom.
Only gripe is I can't change mine. I like the reflective style and have tried several methods but mine won't change. Not a big deal.
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Don't care for em.......not even sure I'll grab a GNex because of it.....the HTC One X got it right....
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Galaxy Note Wiyh SoftKeys

Hi
Which one is better in CM9 in your opinion?
With SoftKeys?
Without SoftKeys?

I don't get why youd even want softkeys, why would you want to waste a portion of your screen with keys that you have already have anyway

i didn't buy a device with a 5.3" screen because i like wasting screen real estate...

i did buy a device with a 5.3" screen because i like wasting screen real estate!
Tablet mode with touch keys is how i use it now.
I even disabled the original menu/back button, cause i touch them while typing.

Soft keys for the multitasking button. With such a large screen we can easily afford to waste screen real estate.

Also softkeys are not good for our SUPER AMOLED screens, they will be permanently burned to your screen after a few months!
No kidding!
Read about the AMOLED burn-in problem on Google.
Cheers!
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Rayan said:
Also softkeys are not good for our SUPER AMOLED screens, they will be permanently burned to your screen after a few months!
No kidding!
Read about the AMOLED burn-in problem on Google.
Cheers!
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So will your status bar.

I personally love the onscreen buttons. I disable the other ones and disable the backlight as well. I do this for the fact that my kids and I would constantly back out of things when grabbing the phone landscape. I like the fact that with the onscreen you have somewhere to grab the phone without backing out. And although not a big deal, its less stress not having to press the big button, and this I would think would help the longevity of the hardware button itself . But in the end, it's purely preference, oh and I don't worry about the burn in as I have mine set very low so its just noticeable and It moves when I open apps and when I go landscape.

Spartoi said:
So will your status bar.
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I think that was so freaking obvious so I didn't mentioned it.
Point is, why have yet another static object on screen?
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skillz9669 said:
And although not a big deal, its less stress not having to press the big button
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That is the main reason why I enable software keys on every ICS ROM I try! When you try on-screen keys you will feel how LONG it takes to launch the recent apps panel using the long-pres on Home button! Add to that I got very used to multitask using the recent apps softkey then physical button will only hinder my speed and will wear out in a matter of couple months

I've flashed the soft keys and disabled the back lights of the hardware keys, but how do I completely disable the hardware keys so I won't press them by accident?
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Rayan said:
I think that was so freaking obvious so I didn't mentioned it.
Point is, why have yet another static object on screen?
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I think its so freaking obvious that you're gonna have a burn in (allegedly) regardless.
Point is, why even bother trying avoid a screen burn in if its inevitable.

Rayan said:
I think that was so freaking obvious so I didn't mentioned it.
Point is, why have yet another static object on screen?
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Point is if u enable softkey , ur status bar blend in with the keys to to bottom of the screen. Where is the another static object comes from? It is still one black bar just different position.
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Rayan said:
Also softkeys are not good for our SUPER AMOLED screens, they will be permanently burned to your screen after a few months!
No kidding!
Read about the AMOLED burn-in problem on Google.
Cheers!
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Have to quote this again so people are aware. Amoleds are notorious for ghosting due to pixel wear out burnout whatever you want to call it. Using the ICS on screen virtual buttons will surely destroy your screen.
That's why I also autohide my notification bar on the home screens.
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Spartoi said:
I think its so freaking obvious that you're gonna have a burn in (allegedly) regardless.
Point is, why even bother trying avoid a screen burn in if its inevitable.
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Burn out is avoidable provided you don't leave static images on the screen for long periods of time. With the notification bar it is always there unless you use a launcher that hides it on the home screens and apps that have the option to hide the notification bar as well.
I use opera mobile so I can browse in full screen and not worry about static notification bars. Also use launcher pro so I can hide the notification bar.

Azeazezar said:
i did buy a device with a 5.3" screen because i like wasting screen real estate!
Tablet mode with touch keys is how i use it now.
I even disabled the original menu/back button, cause i touch them while typing.
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How did you disabled them??? Is there an easy way?

I like to use the softkeys simply becuase it allows me to completely disable the capacitive buttons and use my s pen to go back, home and bring up the multitasking window pane :good:

Rayan said:
Also softkeys are not good for our SUPER AMOLED screens, they will be permanently burned to your screen after a few months!
No kidding!
Read about the AMOLED burn-in problem on Google.
Cheers!
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That's one of those old wives tales.
The burn-in isn't so much related to the technology as it is related to build quality.
Most of those issues are stemming from Gnex owners, and the ones with problems usually have other build quality problems too... they just were unlucky to have a bad batch that skipped QC.
I've got a friend who had the Gnex from day one, and to this day... no burn-ins!
I would normally prefer physical buttons (ftw) but I'm going to have to agree that the Note needs "soft buttons" aka on-screen Navigations.
Why?
Because it gets annoying shifting finger to stylus and back again during the daily use.
Bonus reasons:
- without it, the device looks much better (like the Gnex or N9)
- these can be customized for colour, glow, function and gestures