I i was wondering if anyone else had an issue like this. When the phone starts the screen is so dim that its impossible to see anything unless you look at it from an angle even then I cant see well enough to go in and adjust the brightness. This is the second time it has happened but i have no idea what causes it.
Univsoldur said:
I i was wondering if anyone else had an issue like this. When the phone starts the screen is so dim that its impossible to see anything unless you look at it from an angle even then I cant see well enough to go in and adjust the brightness. This is the second time it has happened but i have no idea what causes it.
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welp not sure what happened but i held my finger over the light sensor and it woke back up........
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its really dark and the lights wont turn on >/ this is reallly annoying..its doing this on my phone and my girlfriends..we both came from nexus ones so were not used to order of the bottom buttons yet..any way to activate the lights?
bobdude5 said:
its really dark and the lights wont turn on >/ this is reallly annoying..its doing this on my phone and my girlfriends..we both came from nexus ones so were not used to order of the bottom buttons yet..any way to activate the lights?
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they are on by default over here..i haven't used android long enough to change the setting if it even has one so mine has to be default. I have my brightness set to auto but im pretty sure that was default also.
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they are on by default over here..i haven't used android long enough to change the setting if it even has one so mine has to be default. I have my brightness set to auto but im pretty sure that was default also.
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ya i dont think there is an option for that because ive been using android for a loonngg time..my brightness is on auto too >/ man this sucks
hmm thats weird its happening to both phones. i dont know if it makes a difference or not but i havent pushed the OTA update to my phone.
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hmm thats weird its happening to both phones. i dont know if it makes a difference or not but i havent pushed the OTA update to my phone.
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me neither :/
Mine also automatically lights up when I hit the power button. I have not done the OTA.
That's SO weird. After reading the title of this thread, a few seconds later, my lights stopped coming on, too.
Turned it off, pulled the battery, and now it works fine.
ya mine just randomly started working with no reboot ahah..how weird..now to get my ota >/ still havent got it yet
I just came in here to find this thread (how do you search in the XDA app??) because I am using my phone in the dark for the first time (hotel, trying not to wake my girlfriend) and my buttons weren't lighting up.
I did a quick Google search and found they won't light up if you turn the screen on when the phone is plugged in, and this is apparently by design.
For some reason mine never work in the morning in the dark (when I actually need them to), but they always work during the day. I figure there is just some bug with the light detector.
For those having issues with the lights not turning on, are you plugged into a USB cable? Mine do not turn in when a USB cable is plugged in, but they do otherwise.
Mine never turn on at all. They haven't since I got the phone. At first I thought it was by design then I realized how stupid that would be and looked it up. Sure enough here is the thread with people having the same problem...I'm on hold with HTC as we speak...
Capacitive Touch Buttons won't Illuminate
I found this thread in a Google Search and wanted to bump it:
I just picked up my white EVO today. I just noticed my capacitive touch buttons don't light up, though they do function. This makes the phone impossible to use in the dark. I was going to ask if this was a setting I was missing, but after reading this thread it seems like a small bug. Have anyone found out what the status is on a fix? thanks!
Ok guys I discovered that the button lights have a light sensor, this sensor is located under the earpiece speaker on the left side looking at the phone. If you have it plugged in you can cover the sensor up with your thumb and the lights will turn on. The lights also will not come if you are outside or in a well lit room. I hope this helps, and still dont know what to tell the OP as his happened in the dark.
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.
Anyone else seeing this?
I could have swore that on my first Nexus device (RMAed due to bad speaker), I could turn the brightness all the way down and use the tablet on the lowest setting.
On my new Nexus (no issues so far), if I turn the brightness dial all the way down, the backlight totally shuts off, causing the screen to be impossible to be seen.
I'm not RMAing this one because it's perfect otherwise, it's just very weird behavior
I got the brightness on mine all the way down & the screen isn't off.
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Anyone else seeing this?
I could have swore that on my first Nexus device (RMAed due to bad speaker), I could turn the brightness all the way down and use the tablet on the lowest setting.
On my new Nexus (no issues so far), if I turn the brightness dial all the way down, the backlight totally shuts off, causing the screen to be impossible to be seen.
I'm not RMAing this one because it's perfect otherwise, it's just very weird behavior
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Did you find a solution?
I have the same problem. If I turn down to minimum brightness (10% or less) my screen goes black. The only way I can see what's on the screen is if I shine a light, and then I can barely make out what the screen says. I assume this is an easy software fix. Also, if auto-brightness is on and I'm in a dark environment the screen will occasionally dip to the lowest setting and turn off.
I'm on my second device also. My first one had bad screen lift, flickering and occasionally screen glitches with black lines flickering through the screen. This one had no noticeable screen lift out of the box, but I'm reserving my judgement, as the device I just returned was fine for the first few hours and then got worse as I used it more.
I have both devices side by side, since Google mailed me the new one first. Comparing the two, I notice the old one's screen is slightly brighter, maybe about 10% or so, but definitely noticeable. Also my new one has a little bit of bleeding on the left side; not terrible as some pictures I've seen, but definitely there.
Update: The screen flickering returned, so I just requested a second replacement. This is actually ridiculous.
Has anybody experienced any issue with their screen colors seemingly fading out to create what almost looks like a "negative" effect? It's like it gets very bright and washed out. It's fixed by turning off the screen and turning it back on, but I don't think I should have to do that. Anybody experience anything similar to this?
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Has anybody experienced any issue with their screen colors seemingly fading out to create what almost looks like a "negative" effect? It's like it gets very bright and washed out. It's fixed by turning off the screen and turning it back on, but I don't think I should have to do that. Anybody experience anything similar to this?
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This I believe happens on Galaxy S5 Mini (I have it) where when it is set to Auto Brightness and I go outside under direct bright sunlight, the screen will boost brightness beyond the manual Maximum setting that you can set. In turn though, the colours on the screen will go psychedelic where things look very bright and washed out. When I go back inside, usually it stayed extremely bright, soI had to put it to sleep then wake it up again to put the psychedelic brightness back into sense.
On the Note 4, I tried this yesterday, colours didn't go crazy, it stayed pretty much spot on, but I still had to put it back to sleep and wake it to fix the brightness.
It's possible I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to return brightness back to normal after leaving direct sun light, but I did give it 10 seconds and it didn't go back.
I got the same experience with my note 4. At the beginning I thought that it was an issue with my screen. But it could be good to know if it is or not. If one day I will get a black broken screen... This issue appears only under the sun light.
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Has anybody experienced any issue with their screen colors seemingly fading out to create what almost looks like a "negative" effect? It's like it gets very bright and washed out. It's fixed by turning off the screen and turning it back on, but I don't think I should have to do that. Anybody experience anything similar to this?
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Have you tried disabling the "Adjust screen tone" under display settings to see if it has any effect?
volrus said:
Has anybody experienced any issue with their screen colors seemingly fading out to create what almost looks like a "negative" effect? It's like it gets very bright and washed out. It's fixed by turning off the screen and turning it back on, but I don't think I should have to do that. Anybody experience anything similar to this?
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its brightness boost happens in bright environment if you close the auto brightness it will be gone. its not an issue. but gets too bright when not needed sometimes. but in direct sunlight where manuel max brightness not enough it helps alot and it doesnt look weird in a situtation like this.
Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"
Mine is extremely fast
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Zeffir said:
Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"
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Yeah it is affected by ambient light sensor... just tested it myself now... but sayin so.. might also be affected by the low battery,
misiokicio said:
Yeah it is affected by ambient light sensor... just tested it myself now... but sayin so.. might also be affected by the low battery,
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I'm guessing it's purpose is so it doesn't turn on too bright in dark or dimly lit rooms and allows your eyes to adjust. Which is a nice feature now that I think about it, I've been blinded by previous phones numerous times when I turned them on at night. I don't know though, it just lacks a certain smoothness that the device's other animations have.
What bothering me the most is that we can't adjust the brightness on the always on display... is too bright
Zeffir said:
Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"
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In display settings you have an option called "keep screen turned off", which prevents the screen turning on accidently in dark places such as a pocket or bag.