hey guys
like a lot of us i'm setting my nexus 5 brightness mode to manual and with low value in order to save some battery life.
the problem is that when i get a call while driving in daylight i can not see anything on the screen and i have to start messing with my phone while driving......
this is why i developed this app.
it uses the car's Bluetooth to tell when i'm in the car and then sets the screen brightness mode to Auto. when disconnecting from the car's Bluetooth it set it back to what it was before.
i have been using it for a few months and i can tell that it is very useful for me.
it is a very simple App....and it does NOT effect battery life when installed.
i hope you will enjoy it as i am
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shmazi.brighttooth
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Hi. Is anyone else annoyed by the high illumination of the screen whilst driving, especially at night? Does anyone know if there is a fix out there for it?
Apart from keeping the screen closed..! like to have it open so I can see who is calling, setting it so the screen is at minimum illumination and shuts itself off after a minute whilst on power, but it's still too bright and well the next setting down ain't much help.
Great toy, but it's really starting to annoy me. Any advice, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
You could always wear some sunglasses :lol: or put it in a dark plastic ziplock baggie...hehe
Abdn_Exec_Al said:
Hi. Is anyone else annoyed by the high illumination of the screen whilst driving, especially at night? Does anyone know if there is a fix out there for it?
Apart from keeping the screen closed..! like to have it open so I can see who is calling, setting it so the screen is at minimum illumination and shuts itself off after a minute whilst on power, but it's still too bright and well the next setting down ain't much help.
Great toy, but it's really starting to annoy me. Any advice, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
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sounds like u need:
1. fag lighter charger to prevent shutoff
2. a dark theme to reduce the brightness
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I have the charger. That's fine, what I meant was I had set the settings to dim the screen after a minute (that's the minimum you can select whilst on charge), not that the unit was switching off. Sorry for confusion. My issue is the difference between the two lowest levels of brightness. With one you can see the screen, with the other you can't. What's this dark theme you mentioned? Is it between the two?
What would be great would be a night level similar to what TomTom offer on their gadgets.
Alternately you can use a profile management program such as pocketzenphone or the still under development phonealarm and set a profile for night driving with reduced screen brightness.
Kind Regards
Hi!
I wonder if there is a way to lower the backlight levels on auto adjust (or increase for those who think its still not bright enough). Point is I think having the backlight on generally lower levels will naturally increase battery life. I know I can change the the brightness to a fixed level that suits me - but that would just be right for the current situation. I still want it to adjust to different lighting situations. Ideas?
It would be nice if it was possible to change how dim the backlight gets on total darkness and how bright it gets on your average sunny day.
I've been messing around with the reg to see if I could find max and min values but I can only change manual settings, not auto mode using the light sensor.
One note though: The sensor itself uses battery to measure ambient light. That being said, if you spend most of the day under a constant light source (say an office) manually dimming the device should consume less energy since the sensor is not doing much good for you anyway.
I guess it's not your case. I had this app on my Cruise to change backlight intensity. never used until now. it works on leo (running 1.48 but that should not matter) and changes backlight in 25% increments. You can copy a shortcut to the startmenu and add a quick link to your home tab or map it to a hard or soft button somehow.
I wold really like to know how to change max and min levels on auto backlight.
Try Lumos - it's a backlight replacement that allows you to customise how you want your auto backlight to work, ie. what the minimum/maximum brightness is, how fast the backlight changes, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450318
Seems to work fine. Still some tunning to do. Thanks!
I'm using Lumos now and it works great! Simple to set up and easy to customize. Thanks for the hint!
lumos is great but I found it was draining the battery quite fast on the leo.
Admittedly I was using it with the wm6.5 Check for active programme only setting. I never tested it to see if it worked without checking that box.
As far as I can tell by now the batterylife appears to be rather better than before. I haven't put in any application exceptions and didn't check the one checkbox in the settings tab. I also use a custom curve where the backlight stays at 30% until the sensor hits about 400 (30% is plenty in my opinion and still brighter than my friend's iphone in normal light condition inside).
you should try AutoLight http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=548402
it works fine on Leo
hi , Does anyone know how resilient HD2 screens are to image burn in.
Is there a way to have the backlight go off rather than dimmed after a time on non use without disabling the auto screen brightness on normal use. I want to have the HD2 working (gps app) 24/7, and have had to untick switch off after a certain period of activity to keep it from switching off, but I cant find an option or hack to have the backlight off but the unit still operative other than to disable the auto brightness which I like and then manually turn it down. Its automatic dimming still leaves it unnecessarily bright with no one looking at it and I did think about image burn with extended periods even at 30 percent brightness. Thx folks.
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.
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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.
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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).
Hi,
The issue has appeared only in last few days.
- HU is running fine but always appears to be on the lowest brightness setting. It's usable by night but too dim for sunlight.
- If I try to adjust brightness, the UI shows the slider but it has no effect on the screen brightness.
- I've looked for and disabled any and all "auto brightness" settings which could be interfering.
- The unit can also auto-dim the screen when my headlights are on. I can tell it's getting this signal because the buttons on the unit light up when my headlights are on but it has no effect on screen brightness.
That's about all. Wondering if anyone has any ideas what could be going on? This is my 2nd Android Head Unit in as many years so I'm getting unbelievably frustrated.
Thanks.