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Screen Too Bright? Screen Filter!

Found this app the other day and can't believe I went this long without it!
Screen Filter. It's free from the marketplace. It tones down your brightness significantly under the lowest setting in TouchWiz.
I used to keep sunglasses next to my bed for sleepy-time Reddit browsing, but not any more!
Here's an A-B for you non believers. First photo is at lowest brightness setting in TouchWiz. Second photo is at 34.1% brightness (toggled by Screen Filter widget)
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...and of course, with our AMOLED displays, less bright:less battery drain!
*I am not the author of this app, just a fan*

Skrazz said:
I used to keep sunglasses next to my bed for sleepy-time Reddit browsing, but not any more!
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Are you me? I actually used to do the same thing but then I also found this app a, couple or few months back. I just never thought to post it. Good idea
I also use the shortened led buttons mod found in the dev forum and it makes for a much better experience.
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bobloblaw1 said:
Are you me? I actually used to do the same thing but then I also found this app a, couple or few months back. I just never thought to post it. Good idea
I also use the shortened led buttons mod found in the dev forum and it makes for a much better experience.
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Thanks for the feedback! Is this the mod you used? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1018093
just flashed it. VERY pleased with this combination!

Does it have an auto adjust function?
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Good find!
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I use this for said purposes like in the morning and it works great. However, it seems to drain the batt quicker because I don't think it actually lowers the display output, just filters it like a lamp shade and uses some cpu powr. correct me if im wrong..
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Skrazz said:
Thanks for the feedback! Is this the mod you used? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1018093
just flashed it. VERY pleased with this combination!
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Yup thats the mod. So much easier on the eyes this way.

Dude thank you for mentioning this app. Checking the phone immediately after waking up has become so much more pleasant. Now just need to find the best way of putting this on a schedual.

MattRussNC said:
Dude thank you for mentioning this app. Checking the phone immediately after waking up has become so much more pleasant. Now just need to find the best way of putting this on a schedual.
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Ahh yes! You definitely should be able to automate this. Let me know how it goes!

I'm sure tasker could start it on schedule.
I've been using this app since I got my phone, but thanks for the post
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This app is great. I found it awhile ago as well and use it for my phone in the docking station as my alarm clock. The brightness used to wake me up in the middle of the night sometimes it was so bright.

bigmike88 said:
I use this for said purposes like in the morning and it works great. However, it seems to drain the batt quicker because I don't think it actually lowers the display output, just filters it like a lamp shade and uses some cpu powr. correct me if im wrong..
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The blurb about the app in the market states that it saves battery on s-amoled displays... Can't vouch for that myself, but I haven't noticed any increase of battery usage while using my phone in the dark .
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Finally I have found app with additional RGB adjust and so awaiting autorun
Waiting a long time for that
Screen adjuster at market

3 months.....
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noobish noob is noobish.
Regardless, this is still a great app that everybody should keep installed to save battery and your eyes at night!

My app, made for educational purpose (and for a friend who complains about the lack of autorun in screen fillter) =)
EOT

Great app I don't want to miss,
but whenever I have it enabled it's not possible for me anymore to install apks.
Weird. But still power-saver No1 !

XXLPB General Help + First Impressons

BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP, PLEASE USE SEARCH
First see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1463665 (LP6 first impressions thanks to ithehappy)
And also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477672 (LPB first impressions thanks to ithehappy)
And also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420996 (General info thanks to Faryaab)
Just installed through Mobile Odin:
Good:
NO FCs YET!
Wifi data indicators back!
Network mode setting back!
3D effect in launcher!
FM Working again!
XILA2 overscroll glow, more subtle.
Deep sleep works. It always has! Stop asking!
GPS works in maps app and GPS test apps!
Extremely fast GPS lock, even indoors! Extremely unreal of Samsung devices
Quite stable.
Private browsing.
Market works perfectly.
Faceunlock works. *sigh*
USB mode works!
USB host working apparently!
Vibration works well.
Data stats shows individual apps!
Data indicator working!
Helvetica S replaced by Helvetica Neue (used on retina display iPhones).
Bad:
Google widgets still can't be resized.
You have to manually set APN sometimes.
Market FCs when you try to use voice search.
MHL not working.
Ugly:
New samsung animations, similar to GB.
Google Apps logos in notifications bar look distorted and ugly.
Task switching looks weird. See below in screenshots.
Mirrors for those asking:
http://samsung-updates.com/download/?id=270 ~thanks Grooby
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Should you use this as a daily ROM? I think yes. This is the most mature ICS rom Samsung has released, with 97% of things working. There will be people who don't like TWlauncher, but it's just a matter of haters gonna' hate. Besides, there will probably be a lot more people complaining if things were drasticaly changed.
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USB host working?

Nope, still have to use MTP

What do you mean by "New samsung animations, similar to GB."??

App opening animations. You know, like the ones ported from ICS to GB

In previous alpha builds the gallery would freeze up on me viewing pics and videos. Do you see any lagging or have any weird force closes yet?
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What's horizontal swiping like?
The LPB kernel on CM9 works great, with the exception of a much longer swipe being required to go from screen to screen.
Edit: should add the GPS module works as it should on LPB as well.

Thanks a lot for saving my work. Please update it with more points, it will help us all.

No, gallery very smooth. And I have lots of pics.

Does phone enter deep sleep?
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Lol, Ill keep it updated but ill have to sleep in few hours as Im in UK.

porkchopbolt said:
Does phone enter deep sleep?
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Yes, it always has.

Deep sleep ok?
GPS working?

Is this better/more stable then CM9?

xethor said:
Lol, Ill keep it updated but ill have to sleep in few hours as Im in UK.
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Nice.
I might do it as well then.
It's 01:40 here however

Nah, i don't think you need to. I'll be up for a while.

samsung hitting back at the TW critics with the new transition effect, god it looks gorgeous! Not using treb launcher on this build

drelite08 said:
samsung hitting back at the TW critics with the new transition effect, god it looks gorgeous! Not using treb launcher on this build
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I don't think I'm using trebuchet on this either

USB host ? Do you mean the connect the phone in USB mode ?
Works fine here.

xethor said:
I don't think I'm using touchwiz on this either
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Is it possible to set vibration & sound ?
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Tissues 4 My Battery Issues (SOLVED)

Pardon me if I posted this on the wrong forum and kindly move it.
OK where do I begin, recently I flashed paranoid android from for galaxy note on my phone and while it was pretty good, it wasn't yet developed enough for my usage, one main feature that's missing is that you can't play mp4 videos which suck but anyways after playing around with the rom I decided to go back to ginger bread and I did.
After flashing back and rooting the rock everything was fine except the battery life. Previously the battery wasn't this bad like now. I ignored it for a couple days but last night pissed me off.
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Can someone tell me what went wrong where. I was awaken at around 5 30 am and switched on my phone and immediately went to sleep and a couple hours later at around 10 I look at my phone and it had drained so much battery and no one used the phone, so how can it drain so much battery when no one evem touched it, and also it was in airplane mode. I honestly don't know what is wrong but can someone help me with my battery issues
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Yeah android is not user friendly in terms of analizing batterylife stuff best to check betterbatterystats here on xda forum, with this, also not to user friendly you can check wakelocks. Wakelocks are what awaken your device and preventing it from deep sleep. Deep sleep is the most efficient mode your phone should go into when not using it.
With cpuspy you can check if your phone actually goes into deep sleep. Download that first.
Now regarding PA, its based on cm9, I think in CM9 thread in general section there are tons of post about deep sleep issues and how to fix it.
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baz77 said:
Yeah android is not user friendly in terms of analizing batterylife stuff best to check betterbatterystats here on xda forum, with this, also not to user friendly you can check wakelocks. Wakelocks are what awaken your device and preventing it from deep sleep. Deep sleep is the most efficient mode your phone should go into when not using it.
With cpuspy you can check if your phone actually goes into deep sleep. Download that first.
Now regarding PA, its based on cm9, I think in CM9 thread in general section there are tons of post about deep sleep issues and how to fix it.
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OK I should download CPU spy to check if my phone goes into deep sleep (which I doubt it does) and if it doesn't what do I do next, currently I'm not on PA rom, I switched back to gb 2.3.6 and am very hesitant to update to stock ICS.
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This is the screen shot from CPU spy
So..... Now what, is something not right?
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shut down your phone .. take the battery out for a while ... put it back in and reboot ... should be able to enter deep sleep ...
and disable gps if you're not using it

zekurosu said:
shut down your phone .. take the battery out for a while ... put it back in and reboot ... should be able to enter deep sleep ...
and disable gps if you're not using it
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OK will try this method, I have GPS on for Samsung dive, I always have GPS on to 'track' my phone if its lost, I read somewhere that having the GPS on gives a more accurate telling of where the phone is buy doesn't seem true!!!
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OK I tried the method prescribed and this is what happened
Looks like it works now but I switched to airplane mode, switched off and took my battery out for about 10 mins before putting it back in and switching it on.
Thanks for solving this issue and to the people who helped.
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solved
glad i can help...

zekurosu said:
solved
glad i can help...
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Really appreciate your help, I just wanted to post one last reply to say how grate full I am for the fix. It is amazing and back to normal now, this fix was crucial as it not only wasted energy which is precious but also money as charging often, I thought I had to do a full wipe and start a fresh phone to fix this issue I'm glad I didnt have to.
Thanks once again and I feel that this thread should be a sticky just so that people with battery issues try this method and if it doesn't work than post on this forum.
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This is a recent screen shot to show that its completely back to normal
Peace!
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check if doze is working on your s7.

so if anyone uses gsam, check to see if doze shows up at all when you goto graphs and goto the end. mine doesn't doze at all it seems. and when I look at screen usage, it seems the percentage is higher when the screen is off lmao. wtf.
btw battery history hours are wrong in this pic. gsam does that sometimes. I'm really only like 5 hours off charger.
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jayochs said:
so if anyone uses gsam, check to see if doze shows up at all when you goto graphs and goto the end. mine doesn't doze at all it seems. and when I look at screen usage, it seems the percentage is higher when the screen is off lmao. wtf.
btw battery history hours are wrong in this pic. gsam does that sometimes. I'm really only like 5 hours off charger.
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It looks like mine has been dozing. Not as long as I thought it would, but it DOES work. Do you have always-on turned on?

wow.
no, i don't use that. so wtf is causing my stupid s7 to stay awake like that then?

jayochs said:
wow.
no, i don't use that. so wtf is causing my stupid s7 to stay awake like that then?
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It could be a certain app keeping it awake.

but in gsam, absolutely nothing is keeping it awake. my biggest wake times are android system or android OS.

ironbesterer said:
It could be a certain app keeping it awake.
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I thought doze's biggest selling point was that an app couldn't keep it from activating unless specifically told to do so...?

Apparently if the phone is moved even a little bit or the motion sensors are tripped, Doze does not work. It still needs some work.

ahh maybe I'm moving and touching it then. ok so doze is absolutely useless to me. I checked at the end of the day, and not one time throughout the day was it active.
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check it out, my phone dozed for the first time in it's life.....and that's only bc it was completely still and not even being moved for a long time in my desk at work. well, atleast i now know doze is working....hilarious though 5% of my battery was used when display was on, and 20% was used when off lmao...wtf!
http://imgur.com/a/CBQR8

jayochs said:
check it out, my phone dozed for the first time in it's life.....and that's only bc it was completely still and not even being moved for a long time in my desk at work. well, atleast i now know doze is working....hilarious though 5% of my battery was used when display was on, and 20% was used when off lmao...wtf!
http://imgur.com/a/CBQR8
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You can turn Doze off if you think it is causing issues... Go into battery under settings, then hit "more" at the top then "optimize battery usage"
That will allow you to disable it completely or just for individual apps.

Whoops looks like I somehow flipped the switch off. Thanks for mentioning that.

Good lock battery drain

Has anyone noticed increased battery drain since activatinh good lock? Ive been using it today and it seems like my battery is draining faster. Thanks

No.
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Yes.. a bit battery drainer and makes my device a bit warmer mostbof the time
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There is slight drain, but it's nothing really noticeable.. at least not on the latest version of good lock. I had about 2hr 35min SoT at 54% today with good lock running the entire time.. To put it into perspective, I had about 3 hours of SoT with the normal system UI with 49% left.
Either way, the battery trade off is well worth having a vanilla android UI but with all of Samsung's lovely customisations.
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To be honest, I have not noticed a battery drain at all.
Even if there is, it should be very minuscule that you would hardly notice

Yes, due to always request location on each wake...

yea its a bit of a drain....i mean..i like it so much it doesn't bother me lol as much as if it was just a ****ty touchwiz alternative lol.... but maybe as it progresses it will get better on battery...the last update from the 5th shows some improvement ...so over time we should it better with more stabiltiy.

Code124Y said:
Yes, due to always request location on each wake...
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The latest version doesn't require location, according to Samsung.

meyerweb said:
The latest version doesn't require location, according to Samsung.
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u mean xx.0.6?

Yes. I can't find it now but somewhere Samsung wrote that they fixed the location requirement. I haven't verified that, however. I had another issue that forced me to uninstall it.

meyerweb said:
Yes. I can't find it now but somewhere Samsung wrote that they fixed the location requirement. I haven't verified that, however. I had another issue that forced me to uninstall it.
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The latest version of Good Lock does not constantly prompt location, which is why I installed it and ran it for a bit. The first version did, and that's why I uninstalled it. But since I've decided to root and use Xposed modules, I'm back at the normal system UI.
What issue caused you to uninstall it? I'm rather curious.

any possible way to show icon labels for wifi bluetooth,location ect... in the pull down menue

Seems to consistently take about 4% off my battery. Haven't decided if that's enough to really care. Really like the lock screen.

It took over 15% of my battery (no location enabled, just "everywhere"). It was next under the screen in battery stats. Needless to say I uninstalled it because of that only. Otherwise I kind of liked it except for the multitasking.

dannejanne said:
It took over 15% of my battery (no location enabled, just "everywhere"). It was next under the screen in battery stats. Needless to say I uninstalled it because of that only. Otherwise I kind of liked it except for the multitasking.
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I've seen a little bit of battery drain but I get an entire day out of my phone so I'm not worried about it. Never as much as you say though. Maybe uninstall and reinstall it. I love the new UI. Also HUGE update came out today

I think that the battery usage is dependent on the number of routines that you run. I personally just set up the default routine to my liking and don't have any others set up and Goodlock typically stays under 5% usage.

My wifi keeps switching off
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Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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dannejanne said:
Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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I don't see the Google search bar in recents and I have the latest version installed with the new recents UI turned off.
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dannejanne said:
Newest version does not give me any drain at all. Now it's also optional to have the new multitasking or not.
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The only thing I don't like turning off new recent apps screen it that it takes away the "close all" button but nevertheless shows Samsung is working in it and giving us options based on feedback
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