Adjusting rotation and screen auto on/off - Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know of a way to adjust the speed at which the sensors react to motion, for rotation.
Also, like when using the phone, it takes forever for the sensor to recognize that you removed it from your head so you can use the screen. Would love to speed that up.
Also would love to speed up the time it takes to wake the screen from sleep, takes a couple seconds, entirely too long.
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*#!$ capacitive button backlighting!

Is there any way to adjust it? I use screen filter at night, or when I have a headache, but I can't see past the damn buttons.
On the Moment, you could change the keyboard lighting time-out and they would only light up if touched, but I don't see an option here.
I just want them to shut off after a few seconds.
EDIT: if you uncheck the dim backlight box on screen filter, it will shut themoff altogether, along with the keyboard.
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Auto brightness only brightens, never dims

I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
Noticed this too but seems to only occur when I use a widget to toggle between Auto and 100%.
If I leave the setting in Auto from within settings then it seems to work. Brightness widgets seem to break the auto functionality.
Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
Strahlenkanone said:
Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
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Must be an all around bug then. If you turn the Atrix off and back on then the auto brightness functionality is restored.
Strahlenkanone said:
I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
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This must be an Android thing. My Atrix does the same thing, as did the Nexus One I had before. I've had several (high end) Nokia's that dimmed/brightened perfectly. After 5 seconds, they would brighten (or dim) accordingly. I was hoping Motorola was better at making phones than HTC (the KING of bad battery life). We ALL lose here. Our precious battery life is being drained by the poor execution of a simple function.
This is a stock android thing (problem). Custom ROMs can allow it to dim and change brightness smoothly rather than in discrete steps (Cyanogen).
That's what I thought. I found this free app called "esdimmer". It supposed to be for Galaxy phones, but it's somewhat working on my Atrix. Does this function work any better in Gingerbread?
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Well it's good to hear that it's a stock android problem and not the actual phone. I did find a way to get around this problem but it's very limited. You can get the screen to dim by first putting the phone into standby and then press the standby button once again (which gets you into the lock screen). You'll notice that the screen then dims (if coming from a well lit area/room to a darker one).

Orientation sensor "fix" for 2.2 and the landscape blues!

I'm sure everyone has noticed that with 2.2, the orientation control blows. In previous versions, the orientation sensor was active anytime the display was on and it was quick. But now it is only active when an app using it is active. If you're on the home screen, the orientation sensor is not active. So, if you have the phone in landscape and back out to home, the orientation remains in landscape regardless of how you hold the phone after closing the app. If you hold the phone upright and open an app, it will open the app in landscape mode even though you're holding it vertical. It takes up to several seconds for the orientation sensor to come back on, recognize you're vertical, and rotate itself. This is annoying at best and can cause some serious lagging if the app is trying to do other things at the same time.
So what we need is a way to make the orientation sensor be active all the time again. No such option. So we'll trick it! Solution? TASKER!
Create a new profile in tasker, I called mine "Orientation Un-F&ck". Set the context for State > Orientation > Standing Up. It doesn't really matter what orientation you pick, we're just making it check the orientation. For tasks, it doesn't actually have to do anything so I made the task be Tasker > Stop. So it literally just does nothing.
So now tasker is always monitoring the display orientation. The phone doesn't give a crap why or what it does. It just knows something cares about orientation so the orientation sensor is active and doing its thing.
Result, when you back out of an app in landscape, and open an app in while vertical, it immediately switches to vertical. No delay.
I do not know what effect this will have on the battery. Probably nothing since no matter what you do, the orientation sensor is off when the display is off. Most people don't sit there staring at their home screen for hours so I anticipate no adverse effects on battery draw.
MCL1981 said:
I'm sure everyone has noticed that with 2.2, the orientation control blows. In previous versions, the orientation sensor was active anytime the display was on and it was quick. But now it is only active when an app using it is active. If you're on the home screen, the orientation sensor is not active. So, if you have the phone in landscape and back out to home, the orientation remains in landscape regardless of how you hold the phone after closing the app. If you hold the phone upright and open an app, it will open the app in landscape mode even though you're holding it vertical. It takes up to several seconds for the orientation sensor to come back on, recognize you're vertical, and rotate itself. This is annoying at best and can cause some serious lagging if the app is trying to do other things at the same time.
So what we need is a way to make the orientation sensor be active all the time again. No such option. So we'll trick it! Solution? TASKER!
Create a new profile in tasker, I called mine "Orientation Un-F&ck". Set the context for State > Orientation > Standing Up. It doesn't really matter what orientation you pick, we're just making it check the orientation. For tasks, it doesn't actually have to do anything so I made the task be Tasker > Stop. So it literally just does nothing.
So now tasker is always monitoring the display orientation. The phone doesn't give a crap why or what it does. It just knows something cares about orientation so the orientation sensor is active and doing its thing.
Result, when you back out of an app in landscape, and open an app in while vertical, it immediately switches to vertical. No delay.
I do not know what effect this will have on the battery. Probably nothing since no matter what you do, the orientation sensor is off when the display is off. Most people don't sit there staring at their home screen for hours so I anticipate no adverse effects on battery draw.
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I look at the home screen for about 10 hours a day everyday.
thanks
00_MACKIE_00 said:
I look at the home screen for about 10 hours a day everyday.
thanks
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Well there is nothing Tasker can do for you other than generate a timed pop-up that says "Get a life"

slow rotation

I am noticing when i am texting and turn the phone sideways it take a while to rotate. almost 4 seconds...that seems like a long time. how can i fix this?
Disable Smart Rotation and the screen will rotate instantly.
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What triggers the screen to come on

I keep noticing the screen turn on when I'm holding the phone in my hand. I'm not pressing the power button
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Settings->Display->Ambient Display
I read it in another thread, but found out it applied to me as well. I had Light Flow installed and it was the culprit. If I use the power button to shut off the screen, ambient display would kick the screen back on. Same happened just randomly while I'm driving down a smooth road (no sudden bumps/shakes) and the screen would randomly turn on. I switched to Light Manager and so far the behavior has stopped.
I stopped using light flow long ago as it would usually cause issues. Let me check out ambient
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Yeah ambient I don't need and disabled it
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I tried to like ambient display but ended up turning it off. It got annoying when I was holding the phone and my touch woke the phone up from ambient. What exactly is supposed to trigger this thing? Light? Motion?
No lightflow here but I do have a skinomi techglass which I thought I read could screw with the light sensor.
Yeah I feel the same way about the ambient display. I have no real need for it. My screen turned on at least 5 times while I was holding the phone in a cab. Annoying
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