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N7 Unstable Brightness?

I am using a stock Nexus 7 with Android 4.2.1
I never use automatic brightness; and when I use the lowest brightness, the backlight kind of vibrates a lot.
When I increase the brightness it becomes more stable.
I have made a factory reset, and reloaded my apps and setting with my backup application, yet the problem continues. I don't remember this happening before 4.2.1, but I am not really sure.
Any idea/suggestion is appriciated.
Thanks.

Try disabling HW Overlays.
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android88 said:
Try disabling HW Overlays.
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I will try it, but i heard that it might reduce the performance and drain battery.
What else might there be to try?
Anyone had a similar problem?

Rma it, sounds like the back light is starting to go out I had that same problem on a phone of mine and the back light ended up going out a couple weeks after it did the whole stutter thing
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Zhoene said:
I will try it, but i heard that it might reduce the performance and drain battery.
What else might there be to try?
Anyone had a similar problem?
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I don't think it does.

How can I do that hw overlay?
Do I have to root first? because I searched the forum and I couldn't find the android preferences setting file.

i think you have the screen flickering problem
is it flickering like in this video?
maybe you should take a look
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773767

Root the device
Install "Trickster MOD" from Google Play
Open the app
Scroll to the very right
Disable "Smart Backlight" (also known as NVidia Prism)
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Yes, what do I do to stop it?
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Fatal1ty_18_RUS said:
Root the device
Install "Trickster MOD" from Google Play
Open the app
Scroll to the very right
Disable "Smart Backlight" (also known as NVidia Prism)
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Did not work.
What else could I possibly try?

Does anyone use Smart Stay?

I'm on the fence about leaving smart stay on? It only seems to work sometime, and I can't tell whether it is killing my battery or not. Just curious if anyone out there is using it?
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I never used it in my Note 2 and immediately disabled it in the Note 3.

PhilPan said:
I'm on the fence about leaving smart stay on? It only seems to work sometime, and I can't tell whether it is killing my battery or not. Just curious if anyone out there is using it?
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I have been keeping it on, but it doesnt work very well for me thus far. If you look away for more than a sec or so and then look back it will still shut the screen off. I havent noticed battery drain though.

I turned off Smart Stay and all the other "Smart" features, they rarely ever work properly. For instance, Smart Stay requires that I stare at the sensor for the screen to stay on. In addition, now that I have a case with a lip on the front of the phone, I think the lip interferes with the sensor and none of the Smart features have worked since.

I use it. It doesn't work 100% of the time but enough to leave it on.

I've used S3, S4, and now Note 3, and I've always enabled it. I never realize how much I've depended on it until I got the Nexus 7, which didn't have this feature. The Nexus 7 would always dim the screen when I'm browsing/reading something. So good job to Samsung. They made a feature that is not only useful, but also transparent.

oilfighter said:
I've used S3, S4, and now Note 3, and I've always enabled it. I never realize how much I've depended on it until I got the Nexus 7, which didn't have this feature. The Nexus 7 would always dim the screen when I'm browsing/reading something. So good job to Samsung. They made a feature that is not only useful, but also transparent.
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ronaldheld said:
I use it. It doesn't work 100% of the time but enough to leave it on.
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Same here. The notification "eye" annoys me a bit, but that's bc @beanstown106 roms spoiled me haha

I never used it with my Note 2, honestly never even knew it was there :laugh:
I didn't like the screen dimming all the time, I do read a lot on my phone so have it enabled for that purpose makes it worthwhile to me.

pitbulledEvo said:
Same here. The notification "eye" annoys me a bit, but that's bc @beanstown106 roms spoiled me haha
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If you're rooted you can disable that "eye"notification using Wanam Xposed.
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It does not seem to work for me, probably because I wear glasses. I disabled it after a week and did not notice any difference.

virx14 said:
It does not seem to work for me, probably because I wear glasses. I disabled it after a week and did not notice any difference.
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I thought about that too but I tried it without my glasses, didn't work.

GirLuvsDroid said:
If you're rooted you can disable that "eye"notification using Wanam Xposed.
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Thanks. Do you know if wanam xposed can change the clock position /color? I don't have much experience with Xposed.

pitbulledEvo said:
Thanks. Do you know if wanam xposed can change the clock position /color? I don't have much experience with Xposed.
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yes

Waste of battery IMHO.

Yeah it's lame. I thought it'd be cool but it pauses way too much
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Anyone got the rear LED working with Lightflow?

Anyone figured out how to get the rear power button LED working with lightflow or similar? Lightflow controls the front LED nicely, and I've played with controlling the other LED's with it, but none of them work, and I'm not sure which is supposed to be the rear LED. It would be really cool to get it to flash for texts and such.

Are you referring to this or something more detailed?
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mrstarzan said:
Are you referring to this or something more detailed?
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I have that checked, but it doesn't do anything, at least for me. Front LED works great, no luck on the rear one. Does yours work? I'm on CM11

That's for "button back light" meaning the light behind the front buttons not "back button light". Big difference there.
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Thanks for clarifying. I actually wondered about that. But I couldn't figure out what difference it would make my checking it. I never have my phone facing down to really care what the light on the back button is doing anyway. Lol
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nismology said:
That's for "button back light" meaning the light behind the front buttons not "back button light". Big difference there.
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Crap, I knew there was a reason I didn't originally have that checked. I'm dumb, lol.
Anyway, as far as the "non controled" LED's listed at the bottom, anyone have any luck getting them to work
I like having my phone upsidedown sometimes.

xian_online said:
Crap, I knew there was a reason I didn't originally have that checked. I'm dumb, lol.
Anyway, as far as the "non controled" LED's listed at the bottom, anyone have any luck getting them to work
I like having my phone upsidedown sometimes.
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I had that working on my HTC DNA..yes it has also a back LED! But now on the G2 it seems that lightflow has no control on it
If anyone has a solution please share!

Lightflow should support it after the most recent update. Enable root mode and it should work
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vPro97 said:
Lightflow should support it after the most recent update. Enable root mode and it should work
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Are you sure?? Is it working for you? Because I enabled the root mode, and it shows back led 1 and back led 2, so I enabled both of them but nothing light .... could you please explain step by step how it does work for you???

santacruzdz said:
Are you sure?? Is it working for you? Because I enabled the root mode, and it shows back led 1 and back led 2, so I enabled both of them but nothing light .... could you please explain step by step how it does work for you???
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did you figure it out? if not, i think i can help you

kassy_ok said:
did you figure it out? if not, i think i can help you
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Can you give me some help too? ;D
I'm on CM 11 and it seems like the light turns on when i get a call and SOMETIMEs when I get a text but thats it.
i would like the rear light button on the back to act exactly as if i was in stock.

Well I tried it out and bought the pro version of light flow and to say I'm dissapointed. The control of the back light does work but it doesn't pulse or pulse slowly on and off. the power button light just stays lit.
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ddzado said:
Just tried one of the new LEDs I have control over...
It was the camera LED. Flashed myself in the eyes and then it rebooted.
#fail
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Which brings me to my next question.... anyone know what the light is called in the settings?
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You have to go to settings go all the way down the page and it should be listed in additional LEDs as button blacklight. I enabled 1 and 2 because I think I enabled just one and half of the button lit up when I enabled both the button was fully lit
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did you figure it out? if not, i think i can help you
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Yes, I did thank you...by installing ButtonLED apk, it works on the LG G2 by enabling the back light, however I'm curious about your solution??

santacruzdz said:
Yes, I did thank you...by installing ButtonLED apk, it works on the LG G2 by enabling the back light, however I'm curious about your solution??
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Can you share the apk please?
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xxxrichievxxx said:
Can you share the apk please?
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1958939
You have to intall the apk manually, it is not available on the market.

santacruzdz said:
Yes, I did thank you...by installing ButtonLED apk, it works on the LG G2 by enabling the back light, however I'm curious about your solution??
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i did it using light flow, but only managed the keep the light always on (while screen is off), no blinking.
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I used G2 Tweakbox, a Xposed module, it activates the rear led for a lot more notifications
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kassy_ok said:
i did it using light flow, but only managed the keep the light always on (while screen is off), no blinking.
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I had the same issue...ButtonLed apk makes it blink....

santacruzdz said:
I had the same issue...ButtonLed apk makes it blink....
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can you please share which version of the apk you installed.?
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"Ok Google" Anywhere breaks video recording.

Just in case you weren't already aware. The "OK Google" hot word detection apparently breaks the ability to record video. It makes the camera app think your on a call. Kinda crazy. I hope it's something on the Google end and they fix it. I was using it for the last day and LOVED it!
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Are you sure Google should fix this? Seems to me more like lg job (or our mod devs). The Google camera video recording works. Anyway thanks for the info!
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jcnbama said:
Just in case you weren't already aware. The "OK Google" hot word detection apparently breaks the ability to record video. It makes the camera app think your on a call. Kinda crazy. I hope it's something on the Google end and they fix it. I was using it for the last day and LOVED it!
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Working fine....tried FHD and UHD....maybe you didn't hang up your phone while recording.........
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Having the same issue where video recording doesn't work anymore when enabling Ok Google word detection on every screen. I'm on xdabbeb's camera. Anyone having this problem on stock camera?
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rogconnect said:
Working fine....tried FHD and UHD....maybe you didn't hang up your phone while recording.........
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That's odd. If you Google it there are other people complaining about it as well. Also I am using Xdabbebs modded camera app.
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jcnbama said:
That's odd. If you Google it there are other people complaining about it as well. Also I am using Xdabbebs modded camera app.
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Probably your modded camera app......but i am on CloudyG3 1.1 stock camera app which is modded too.
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Maybe other people will try it and report. It is very frustrating. I want Google now everywhere. Maybe I will download a 3rd party camera and see if it has the same issue.
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Downloaded Google Camera from the Play Store and it works. So, guess it's a mod problem.
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I've found the issue is with on screen phone. Turn off on screen phone and OK Google hot word detection works but no video recording with stock camera app (the Google camera app will record). Turn on screen phone on and video recording works fine but OK Google hot word stops working. Very strange.
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Semi on topic, but this also breaks the alarm when the phone is plugged in. The phone thinks that you are on a phone call, so it doesn't let the alarm fire with sound.

Sfkn2 said:
Semi on topic, but this also breaks the alarm when the phone is plugged in. The phone thinks that you are on a phone call, so it doesn't let the alarm fire with sound.
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Yup just tried it and it automatically snoozes the alarm. Dang, such strange issues.
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Mobius360 said:
Yup just tried it and it automatically snoozes the alarm. Dang, such strange issues.
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It's not strange really. Always listening makes the phone think you're in a phone call. Alarms don't go off when you're talking on the phone. This is an oversight in design.

Sfkn2 said:
It's not strange really. Always listening makes the phone think you're in a phone call. Alarms don't go off when you're talking on the phone. This is an oversight in design.
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Yeah, now what I wonder is if it's a LG issue or Google? Who should fix it? Lol
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Does the nexus have the same issue? LG phone and all. I'm guessing it's an LG issue but who knows. At least it's easy to switch between modes by turning on screen phone on or off.
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Mobius360 said:
Does the nexus have the same issue? LG phone and all. I'm guessing it's an LG issue but who knows. At least it's easy to switch between modes by turning on screen phone on or off.
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Alarm works fine on my nexus 4.

Question about fingerprint scanner

So if you jailbreak iPhone 5s/6/6plus you can unlock the phone by just putting your finger on the home button without unlocking the screen. Is it possible with some tool in Samsung Galaxy s5 by just swiping the pad without turning the screen on making the phone unlock?
Thanks for answers
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No one knows?
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I would totally like that if it is possible, and think it won/t use too much battery as if it is only the print sensor on, I hope somebody can help us with this.
romdroid. said:
No one knows?
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alexpu1u said:
I would totally like that if it is possible, and think it won/t use too much battery as if it is only the print sensor on, I hope somebody can help us with this.
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Yes its a very awesome feature and I think its possible if some dev looks into it. I dont have S5 atm but I am considering buying the phone if this is possible

As of right now, there is no mod that allows this. but i'm sure sooner or later some dev will get it to work, as the posters above me have already said.

alexpu1u said:
I would totally like that if it is possible, and think it won/t use too much battery as if it is only the print sensor on, I hope somebody can help us with this.
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It will take a hit on the battery since this feature will be emulated through software since the hardware restricts it. For that to happen we have to modify the kernel to make the cpu stay awake at all times at low power. It's just like the Double tap to wake feature that is also sort of "emulated".
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trettet said:
It will take a hit on the battery since this feature will be emulated through software since the hardware restricts it. For that to happen we have to modify the kernel to make the cpu stay awake at all times at low power. It's just like the Double tap to wake feature that is also sort of "emulated".
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I see, you may be right
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