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Change keyboard backlight brightness?

Is it possible to one day change the keyboard backlight brightness? Under normal lighting conditions the backlight on the bronze G1 washes out the letters making it extremely difficult to see the keys.
The backlights under the keyboard and the chin buttons seem to be very dim and I would guess that there is a way to adjust the brightness as can be done with the display backlight.
Hopefully someone can look into seeing if it's possible or an official patch is released to raise the brightness. A different color would have been better, too bad the whole "put blue LEDs in every damn consumer product" trend is over, I think blue LEDs would be much more visible.

i haven't had any problems with the brightness, but what really bothers me is that the backlight turns off so damn fast. On my old Dash, the keyboard light was controlled directly by the screen's backlight. If the screen was lit up, so was the keyboard.
I'm getting really tired of hitting the menu button to turn the lights back on without messing anything up.

chefgon said:
I'm getting really tired of hitting the menu button to turn the lights back on without messing anything up.
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It annoys me too, but tip: nudge the trackball a tiny bit, not enough to move the cursor. You'll get used to it until there is some type of fix.

[Problem?] Soft Keys Brightness

Hi everyone!
I got a new Atrix today and I've noticed something. Its not a huge problem & maybe some others have the same "problem" too.
The Settings and Home soft touch buttons aren't as bright as the back and Search button. Is this just in my case or does others noticed the same? (or maybe im too fussy)
I mean its not a problem everything works perfect but yeah the 2 soft keys left arent as bright as they should i think..
This is how it looks like:
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Mine are all uniform brightness, but they do adjust based on ambient light

Screen flicker workaround

Hi everyone
I want to share a workaround to all of us who owns a defective S5
Symptom: You unlock your phone and it doesn't show anything. Actually, the phone is working. Capacitive buttons light up and you may heard some activity in the phone
Your phone has a defective screen. There are a lot S5 which have this problem, according to several forums. After several tries, unlock and lock over and over, the screen light up and you are able to use your phone. The problem is when you receive a call and you want to know who is calling you, the screen doesn't illuminate and you won’t be able to know who is.
Here's a workaround which makes your powerful S5 usable and take out from your drawer.
Solution:
The more effective way to fix it is: change defective screen! But sometimes it could cost as much as a new phone, or simply you can't afford it, and it's better to change your phone instead, and you put your S5 in a drawer.
The technical explanation of this problem is: Screen doesn't receive enough electrical current at low brightness levels (maybe the flex is defective, get old, etc)
Most probably the wake up problem exist together with screen flicker at low brightness levels
The wake up problem rises up more in dark environment, when light sensor make low bright screen
The lock screen light up screen, with a dim effect: when you lock the phone, it slowly turn screen off, and when you unlock, it make and effect of dim screen.
When you are is in dark environment, the effect is very slow, preventing the screen illuminate because the technical problem explained before.
When you are in very light environment, you lock screen and sensor light make the screen very brilliant and chances are you defective phone wakes up correctly.
We can use an app which give us complete control over brightness subsystem. I use an app called Velis AutoBrightness:
Once installed from Play Store, it shows a Setting Wizard. Follow the instructions. Below are some notes
• 1/7: Welcome Screen
• 2/7: How bright... Most probably is your phone always have flicker in low brightness. Choose "AMOLED" or "AMOLED bright". By the way choosing any one of those cure always minimum brightness failure!
• 3/7: Choose High sensitivity
• 4/7: On, if you want additional brightness when charging. Irrelevant for this thead. Choose your favorite setting
• 5/7: Same of 4/7
• 6/7: Choose enable: That enable the app
• 7/7: Some additional notes: Press Done
Now important settings: go to Menu > Settings > General: Settings Mode > Advanced
Service Activation settings:
• Disable system handler > ON: When you use Power saving mode, you surely noted screen flicker, which is very annoying, and make unusable power saving mode. By set this ON: Android doesn't set screen too dim; instead Velis have a minimum of brightness set by Wizard 2/7. (Surely you find out that you avoid screen flicker, by setting autobrightness off and slider in 8-10%)
Sensors settings:
• Screen-on sensor value override: Set this value to 30000. Read below this post if you want technical explanation of this setting
After you establish these settings, you'll be able to unlock your phone all the time!
This is the trick: When you unlock your phone, you'll note that the screen is very bright (because Screen-on to 30000) and quickly adjust to the environment light. The failure is that electrical current to screen is defective, and when exterior light is dark, the screen make a dim effect and doesn't light up.
Note to Marshmallow users:
• This app make use of Screen overlay permisions: And marshmallow is very restrict with this kind of app. This is specially true when you are installing an app. All you have to do is deactivate the app in notification screen: press "OFF" button, adjust system brightness upper enough to not flicker the screen, install your app, and activate Velis Autobrightness again
• Because of Doze mode, wake up from this mode may avoid your screen light up, the first time you use your phone. Let 10-15 seconds your phone wake up, lock again, and unlock again, and velis will make its work!
I hope this post make your smartphone usable. I barely apply this trick to two phones, but I think this is a good workaround!

I used this app & the flickering is still available

What worked for me is downgrading the firmware on my g900f all the way back to Android 4.0. My phone came with version 5.0 and I noticed the problem only after I kept installing samsung's system updates. Will report if the problem starts up again but I'm running rooted and running nougat just fine so I don't see a reason to keep upgrading the firmware.
Edit: nevermind, this didn't work

Reyse said:
The technical explanation of this problem is: Screen doesn't receive enough electrical current at low brightness levels (maybe the flex is defective, get old, etc)
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Does anyone know for sure if it's the flex cable or some capacitors? I notice only the lower half of my screen flickers.. I bet there's a simple electrical fix for it instead of replacing the whoooole display

fbs said:
Does anyone know for sure if it's the flex cable or some capacitors? I notice only the lower half of my screen flickers.. I bet there's a simple electrical fix for it instead of replacing the whoooole display
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Hello,
Have you change jour battery? If it s old it could cause some issues...
But try to buy a genuine one, I think that your battery must be old now.
Bye

cedouic said:
Hello,
Have you change jour battery? If it s old it could cause some issues...
But try to buy a genuine one, I think that your battery must be old now.
Bye
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it doesn't make any sense. the lower half of the screen flickers in green even on charger

fbs said:
it doesn't make any sense. the lower half of the screen flickers in green even on charger
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I noticed that screen only flickers at low brightness when using Boeffla kernel for LOS14 and others based on it.
No issue for the same device with LOS or Stock based kernels.

zlazaar said:
I noticed that screen only flickers at low brightness when using Boeffla kernel for LOS14 and others based on it.
No issue for the same device with LOS or Stock based kernels.
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you're wrong
I was using los16 with stock kernel for months with flicker everyday

fbs said:
you're wrong
I was using los16 with stock kernel for months with flicker everyday
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+1 to that , i even went back to stock and the screen flicker appeared and such issues are well known already with samsung amoled panels back in 2014-even some panels from 2018 . So def not kernel related.

I was using los 15.1 and this problem got worse. The phone was barely usable as mentioned by the op. In my case, the screen would start flickering below 60%. Then I switched back to stock marshmallow. I noticed that 100% brightness in los 15.1 is actually only about 70% in the stock rom.
I have been using the phone at 80% brightness for some weeks now and the problem has significantly reduced. But not completely gone, it's much much better. Also, you might want to avoid using dark wallpapers.

Button Backlight brightness way too low.

Anyone else noticed the button Backlight brightness being very low?
It's like a dark blue light and I almost can't see it.
Also the Touchscreen doesn't react sometimes while scrolling. For example while seeking trough files in a file manager it stops sometime instead of scrolling further while swiping.

Yes, I've seen both.

alan sh said:
Yes, I've seen both.
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But I've seen someone
But someone on this thread have uploaded a picture where it's much brighter
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5/help/button-light-t3626993

The backlight on the buttons is very dim, yea. I think that pic was just in good lighting to show the lights well, I don't think they are any brighter than what we have. I wish they were brighter as well.

xgerryx said:
The backlight on the buttons is very dim, yea. I think that pic was just in good lighting to show the lights well, I don't think they are any brighter than what we have. I wish they were brighter as well.
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I can't see any buttonlight at cloudy daylight. This makes it pretty useless. If there were visible dots at daylight, the light would be usefull for night use but as I said you can't notice any dots at daylight

The big problem is the RGB led luminosity. It's like the button backlight, but it is useless if i can't see it...

The odd thing, or I guess another observation in general...is that I have rarely had "misses" with the back or recent buttons. It seems like they made the touch area much much bigger than just around that dot. So, although this is annoying, the actual effect it's having is minimal to me.

Yes, I was tempted to find a transparency to stick on the top just for effect I do sometimes hit the "Reply" icon in Outlook messaging when I mean to hit the back button below it.
It would be nicer if the blue light was a lot brighter. Maybe a firmware update?
Alan

What I don't get is why OnePlus just didn't give an option to always keep the capacitive buttons lit permanently, or at least increase their timeout period. With all the other ways you can customize Oxygen OS, this seems like an odd miss. Samsungs have had that option forever.

Elsydeon said:
What I don't get is why OnePlus just didn't give an option to always keep the capacitive buttons lit permanently, or at least increase their timeout period. With all the other ways you can customize Oxygen OS, this seems like an odd miss. Samsungs have had that option forever.
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As mentioned in another thread about this, there is an app called Keyboard Backlight Controller. I have it so they stay on when the screen is on. You have to disable and enable after each boot but it's not awful. It's better than nothing. In sunlight though, you can't see it at all.

Capacitive keys backlight bleeding..

I've noticed that the 3 capacitive buttons are doing some backlight bleeding on the side of the screen just above them.. This is visible only when they are turned on, on a dark black screen mostly and with the brightness at the lowest level. And of course it's visible after you unlock your phone using your fingerprint with the brightness again at the lowest level... I have seen this on 2 Mi A1 (4/64) devices so far.. The one is mine (black variant manufactured batch 11.2017) and the other is my brother's device (black variant manufactured batch 09.2017).. Do you think that it's a reason to return the phone for RMA or is it something common.? Thank you in advance ..

I guess it's normal. Most A1 and other mi phones have this. I have redmi note 3 pro in the past and i noticed some bleeding too.

And just a question.. Now that the kernel source is out.. Is there a possibility to make those keys like on Oxygen OS?? On my OnePlus 3 those keys are only light up when you pressed on them and not everytime you tap on the screen.. Is this possible? Or is it possible to reduce their dim so that the bleeding on the screen shouldn't look so bad?? Even I you are using a low screen brightness level.. Thanks

stathis_21 said:
And just a question.. Now that the kernel source is out.. Is there a possibility to make those keys like on Oxygen OS?? On my OnePlus 3 those keys are only light up when you pressed on them and not everytime you tap on the screen.. Is this possible? Or is it possible to reduce their dim so that the bleeding on the screen shouldn't look so bad?? Even I you are using a low screen brightness level.. Thanks
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I'm using a mod to disable the backlight completely