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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
Does anyone know how backlight is suppose to work for Home, Menu, Back and Search keys? Is it suppose to stay on as long as the screen backlight stays on or is it certain amount of time? What triggers them to come on- key press, screen touch, trackpad touch or all of the above? Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason, at least I couldn't trace a pattern. I know that I was messing around with the phone last night in the dark and they would come on and go off as they pleased. Does light sensor have anything to do with it? Please sound off your findings and ideas.
Thanks!
Mine don't seem to follow any rhyme or reason either - it's a bit maddening. And the same goes for the backlight of the physical keyboard (sometimes it comes on, sometimes it doesn't - no telling why), and also the automatic adjustment of brightness (i use the phone for a minute and suddenly it gets super-bright).
Hopefully these are all just bugs that will be fixed with an OTA update, but it is weird and I'm glad to know it's not just my unit since I don't want to replace it (I got a solid hinge - good stuff!).
I think I figured it out. Backlight for touch keys is controlled by light sensor and also has a timer (few seconds), so if it's bright enough outside - they will not even come on. If it's dark - they come on and stay on for certain time then go off untill you press one of them again.
Now, the other thing that I'm noticing is that my haptic feedback is not working when pressing one of those buttons or long-pressing the screen. Anyone else has that problem?
I have used my phone primarily in the dark. All my lights are always on (when the screen is) and the auto-brightness is too bright. If I turn brightness to minimum, the always on lights are way too bright compared to the screen. I really wish the designers had tried to use this phone in the dark (laying in bed) and realized the auto-brightness and lights are too bright in pitch-dark!
Also I am getting real sick of rotation. On my G1 I could disable it completely unless the keyboard was out. I like to lay in bed or on a couch and use my phone sideways, but not rotated. This seems impossible to do on the G2. Disabling rotation doesn't do anything for 3rd party apps or even GMail for that matter. For some reason this was not the case on the G1.
It will be hard to go back to the G1's one-second+ lag after every press and the incredibly slow loading webpages now that I have experienced the G2, but there are too many really annoying problems, so I think it is getting sent back.
if you have your backlight set to automatic... it will cut on only if the room is dark... check your backlight settings
It's an issue with the way android uses the light sensor. It's very poorly coded.
this was asked in another fourm but never got a solid answer. I have my tablet connected to my TV in my bedroom and it is connected to my media server so i can watch movies from it and have it displayed on the tv. The issue is im staring at the tablet and TV both screens are on. Here is the question that the other user asked on the other fourm
"Is it possible to turn the a500 display off when connecting to a TV using HDMI out? If you try to lock the device (hit the power button), it halts the device completely. There is not brightness option for "completely off," so that's not an option. Ideally, I'd like to save battery if I'm watching a movie via HDMI.
Does this require a 3rd party app, if so, do you know of any? Thanks in advance! "
Yeah I stumbled on that one too and I don't think you can I hope someone prove me wrong I hope.
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it's dual screen so no way to turn it off, unless Acer decide to do it so...
but why not just cover the screen..... with the case..
I think the point of turning it off is to save battery. I also am in the same position. I use it to watch netflix on my upstairs tv but it sucks cause it depletes the battery quicker then if I could just turn the screen off on the tablet. Hopefully something can done to resolve this. Maybe a mod or something.
don't tell me that you are not going to watch 8 hours in a row movies from the tablet on your TV.... without plugin on power your tablet... or even if you are in a friends house, you are watching a 3 hours movies but you will not stick to your tablet 8 straight hours...
or you bring your powercharger...
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don't tell me that you are not going to watch 8 hours in a row movies from the tablet on your TV.... without plugin on power your tablet... or even if you are in a friends house, you are watching a 3 hours movies but you will not stick to your tablet 8 straight hours...
or you bring your powercharger...
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+1 +1 +1 +1, if you wanna use it as a dvd player plug it in.
You could conceivably use Widgetsoid or something similar to reduce screen brightness to 0%.
Has anyone tried looking at Tasker to see if it has functionality to allowing this?
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You could conceivably use Widgetsoid or something similar to reduce screen brightness to 0%.
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But if you reduce the screen brightness to zero, will it not in turn reduce the output to your tv to zero? As far as I know, the tv will show exactly what the tablet shows. As someone else pointed out, just close the case. That's what I do! And heck yes, plug the tablet in so you can enjoy the awesomeness longer
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vanisleguy1976 said:
But if you reduce the screen brightness to zero, will it not in turn reduce the output to your tv to zero? As far as I know, the tv will show exactly what the tablet shows. As someone else pointed out, just close the case. That's what I do! And heck yes, plug the tablet in so you can enjoy the awesomeness longer
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Changing the brightness on the tablet does not affect the brightness of what's output over HDMI.
Also note that I said "conceivably" I woudn't suggest actually lowering the brightness to 0%, and hitting OK, it'd be difficult to get it back up whiel blind poking.
This is tight up with whatever player your using even without plugin to anything when turn screen off the video stops is very simple.
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bummer. there should be an option for the screen to go dark/off until you hit a button or something. i can turn off my phone's display and still listen to music and access and play the music & videos stored on the MicroSD via USB.
one of the reasons i bought this is so i can plug it into other TVs in the house that don't have access to a digital media player. i would find it annoying to have two light sources in the room. plus the fact that you're draining the battery even more and putting miles on the screen's life. and i'm guessing you can't even charge via the HDMI port.
i won't be able to find out for myself until tomorrow because i just picked up the A500 tonight and it JUST started its 4 hour pre-boot charge.
The widgetsoid idea won't work. When you manually change the brightness to the lowest level that is what the system defines as "0%"
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The widgetsoid idea won't work. When you manually change the brightness to the lowest level that is what the system defines as "0%"
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I've been rereading your post and I'm not 100% sure what you're saying.
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I've been rereading your post and I'm not 100% sure what you're saying.
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If you open your settings and turn off auto brightness and manually drag the brightness slider all the way to the left: this is considered "0" for the tablet.
So I was saying that you can try setting up a Widgetsoid widget to change the brightness to "0" but it won't be any darker than the previous "0" level.
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If you open your settings and turn off auto brightness and manually drag the brightness slider all the way to the left: this is considered "0" for the tablet.
So I was saying that you can try setting up a Widgetsoid widget to change the brightness to "0" but it won't be any darker than the previous "0" level.
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I see.
But, I can most definately achieve darker screen settings with Widgetsoid than I can with the built in brightness control. Try it yourself, 0% is actually 0%.
smd3235 said:
this was asked in another fourm but never got a solid answer. I have my tablet connected to my TV in my bedroom and it is connected to my media server so i can watch movies from it and have it displayed on the tv. The issue is im staring at the tablet and TV both screens are on. Here is the question that the other user asked on the other fourm
"Is it possible to turn the a500 display off when connecting to a TV using HDMI out? If you try to lock the device (hit the power button), it halts the device completely. There is not brightness option for "completely off," so that's not an option. Ideally, I'd like to save battery if I'm watching a movie via HDMI.
Does this require a 3rd party app, if so, do you know of any? Thanks in advance! "
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What I do is use mobo player. Just swipe down on the left hand side of your screen and you drop the brightness down to 1%, which is pretty much off, you can't see anything on the screen. Hope this works for you.
I tried with mx video player, but couldn't get the brightness as low.
solutions?
Anyone find a solution? I've been trying to do the same thing with a G Tab.
Just fiddled with the brightness levels in Widgetsoid app. Even at the lowest screen brightness when I hit OK it reverted back to about a 10% from what I could tell. Must be a failsafe so you won't end up with a black screen. SO I agree with a previous poster. Doesn't look like it can be done at least with Widgetsoid.
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Anyone find a solution? I've been trying to do the same thing with a G Tab.
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Try backlight kller... I've nt had a chance yet, but found that suggestion in anther post. It lowers the screen brightness, usin. Long press of the bak button to bring up the menu.
Jwb
So I've been doing some general googling, and I haven't come across a good solution for my issue, so I thought I would post it here. Nexus 7 is mounted on the dash of my car. Powers on and powers off (deep sleep), connects to hotspot fine, generally, is working great. HOWEVER, there is one feature that I would love to be able to replicate from OEM in dash systems that I've seen. I would like the screen to dim when the unit isn't actively being used. Not time out and go to sleep, just dim (or maybe even turn off the LED backlight). Then, when I tap the screen, I want the screen to come back to automatic brightness mode based on the ambient light sensor. I've found plenty of apps that will turn the screen on or off with various gestures and such, but they all seem to require disabling or otherwise changing the way the ambient light sensor works. From those of you that use these in your car, I'm hoping that you have some suggestions. Thanks in advance.
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So I've been doing some general googling, and I haven't come across a good solution for my issue, so I thought I would post it here. Nexus 7 is mounted on the dash of my car. Powers on and powers off (deep sleep), connects to hotspot fine, generally, is working great. HOWEVER, there is one feature that I would love to be able to replicate from OEM in dash systems that I've seen. I would like the screen to dim when the unit isn't actively being used. Not time out and go to sleep, just dim (or maybe even turn off the LED backlight). Then, when I tap the screen, I want the screen to come back to automatic brightness mode based on the ambient light sensor. I've found plenty of apps that will turn the screen on or off with various gestures and such, but they all seem to require disabling or otherwise changing the way the ambient light sensor works. From those of you that use these in your car, I'm hoping that you have some suggestions. Thanks in advance.
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Hi, bigdogbts...
What you suggest certainly sounds feasible. I have no immediate solution, just some ideas/pointers.
Three pieces of software come to mind...
A Custom Launcher such as Apex or Nova. These give you a double tap gesture on the screen, which you can associate with some action to run... app, shortcut or 'activity'.
Lux Auto Brightness.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
This is capable of reducing the screen brightness right down to zero, such that the device looks likes it's turned off.
Tasker.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
An app which is capable of automating all sorts of things on an Android device. You can associate an action instigated by the the user with a desired objective. Unfortunately, it has a bit of a steep learning curve... I bought it myself a few months ago, and I still haven't got around to really fully understanding it.
I suspect that if you can 'associate' Lux Auto Brightness (set with some pre-arranged brightness settings, ie., a completely dark screen) with a specified action (like double tapping the screen) with either Apex or Nova launchers (via gesture) or possibly with Tasker, maybe via a script...then you may be able to accomplish your goal.
As I've said, I think that what you're asking sounds possible... it's just a case of finding the right apps, and 'stitching' them all together. And maybe with a bit of tinkering with the apps I've mentioned, you can, hopefully, get something that works,
Good luck.
Rgrds,
Ged.
I think tasker can do something like that.
I would take a video of this issue, but I don't have a good enough camera. It's really, really hard to capture unless you have good video recording tech, which I don't have. :crying:
My issue is that, when I set the brightness to its lowest level on my Zenfone 3, the screen starts flickering. This is especially noticeable with white backgrounds. You can tell that the screen is flickering (perhaps refreshing?) rapidly and it makes the phone painful to look at.
Someone actually created a thread about this issue here on XDA a few months ago, with a video showing this issue, but unfortunately, the video doesn't capture the flickering properly. Here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3/help/ze520kl-low-screen-light-level-20-t3603502
How to reproduce:
-Turn auto-brightness off
-Slide brightness bar all the way to the left (AKA to the lowest level)
-Open a white background/grayish background or blank page in Chrome
-Screen starts flickering
It happens across the phone, and intermittently. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. In Chrome, in games, whatever. I once thought it could be related to charging the phone, but the screen has flickered on low brightness even when my phone wasn't plugged in, and at 70-80% battery. I might try resetting the phone to see if it's a software defect; I really hope it is.
Turning off hardware overlays in Developer Options does not resolve this issue.
I'm currently on ASUS stock Nougat, unrooted. I can't root right now. I don't have any screen overlays apart from CF.Lumen, which isn't set to come on during the day, when the flickering happens, and I don't use any screen color modes apart from the default settings. I also always have auto-brightness turned off.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue. I might try recording it one day.
Thanks.
Update 1: Removed my 64GB SD Card from the phone to see if that made a difference. It didn't. So the flickering isn't related to power management, AFAIK.
Next step is to wipe the phone completely, including its cache partition from stock recovery, and set the phone up as new again. It might be a hardware issue, but my fingers are crossed.
I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
sensi277 said:
I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
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I always have auto-brightness turned off. I think it might have to do with the ambient light sensor. I've tested it using SMMI and it works just fine. But I wish there was a way to disable it, since I don't need it. I'm kind of disappointed in this phone.
I'm going to try a full reset, and perhaps a custom ROM to see if it's a hardware or software issue.