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Identify hardware inside Magician

Hello all,
I opened the Magician to repair the phone speaker, but also painting the housing. As I carefully document the parts I found one piece of hardware that draw my attention. I have a clue what it might be, but would like to share it, so maybe you know what it might be.
First some pictures
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Location of the unknown hardware. When you hold your magician face up (screen up) it's under the red phone button.
piece we're talking about.
Where the 2 contact point on the unknown hardware connect to. Just like the phone speaker it kind of floats, so no wires..
As I watched carefully I noticed the shape of a half cylinder. By moving your PDA vertically/horizontally the heavy side moves towards where gravity is, meaning it always points down. (see picture 2)
I think it's some kind of hardware that suppose to, if a software supports it, turn your PDA display horizontal or vertical when you turn it. Something like iPhone demonstrated or even closer Wizard. Wizard's screen automatically goes in horizontal mode when the keypad is sliced out.
If this unknown hardware is what I think it is, why isn't used then? It would be a very nice feature
What do you think it is?

its your vibration motor.
ie: when you have 'vibrate' enabled, and your phone rings, that little motor spins like crazy and the uneven shape of the weight creats the vibration.

Yes, Definately that is the vibration motor.

Yeah... I forget Magician was a phone too... Since I don't use the phone I lost focus
Anyway... It would be great if it could have the ability to turn the screen auto. My guess would be that if that small motor could send it's position back to a chip it should be possible for software (OS for example) to act. (dual function)

I'm trying to fix my vibrator and your pics would help but the links no longer work.
Can you please relink or rehost them or send them to me?

eInk cellphone display swap ideas

AFAIK there is no Android phone with an eInk display.
eInk Display swap:
I wonder if there's a device out there with a modem that would be a good candidate to replace the screen with an eInk, or at least, sunlight readable display?
The last time I looked into this the graphics driver itself would probably need replacing too, making it much more difficult than a simple screen swap. Also I was unable to get find a donor phone with a screen size to match off the shelf eink displays and also sourcing an eink display was difficult too. I need to learn more about how displays work and how I can search to get a phone and screen to match. Any ideas on this?
Kindle:
Perhaps I need to come at it from a different angle? The old kindle is eink and Android... and it has 3G... but it's hard to hack with... it wouldn't be easy to turn into a proper phone. That I will have to investigate. Any other ideas?
NookTouch:
The NookTouch would be a lot of work to turn into a phone but it's technically possible. You could go hostmode, usb hub for mic/speaker/headset and add a USB modem but that's going to be messy. To do this neatly you'd be cutting up the Nook and would at least want a low profile way of connecting into the USB port. Plus charging might then become difficult, especially if trying to do the induction charging hack. I think other avenues are better to try.

I don't think that the old kindle is android based, and besides it wouldn't be ideal as it's not touch-screen
or you could go down the 50/50 route and follow this guide:
I use a matte screen protector and using an app like Cool Reader (since I'm on Android). I change the background to a moderate to light grey and the font to a dark grey about 25% -30% lighter than black. Turn down the screen brightness to about 75% outside and 45% in doors. Then change the font by adding fonts to the system fonts to a more soothing type face like "antipasto". Increase line spacing to about 125%-150% and margins to no more than 10pt on all sides.
See the above image for what this looks like. It isn't exactly like E-Ink, but it is nicer than staring at a bright white screen. This trick should work with any app that lets you tweak the text and background colors, on iOS or Android.
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Why is there no Auto Brightness Adjustment on US Carrier models? (Auto +1 etc)

I'm talking about this:
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I don't understand why Samsung devices have systematically seen this option removed on US carrier models since the S4 or even earlier. It doesn't make any sense. Especially given the dim screens of previous Samsung products, "Auto +1, +2, or +3" makes tremendous sense for those keeping them on Auto all the time. My HTC One was literally twice as bright as my S4 when both set to Auto and that noticeably negatively impacted my everyday viewing experience.
I propose we make this issue known to US carriers. If enough of us complain, we CAN get this added back in. I talked to both Sprint and Samsung yesterday. Samsung said it was a carrier choice. The Sprint CS rep agreed with me that this should be in, and forwarded my issue to the tech team, who are now hopefully aware of this. I haven't gotten around to calling them yet but I will. Any reasonable explanation for why this was removed?

Its a guess but i do know that screen brightness is the biggest battery hog culprit.. it could be that on a quest to obtain better battery life that the scale was changed.. just a guess....

If you are rooted, there is a way to enable it. Go to /system/etc and look for "floating_feature.xml" open it with a text editor and scroll down until you see the "auto brightness detail" change from false to true, save, and reboot. The +1 +2 detail settings will be under the display settings, not the notification brightness adjustor.

Install the LUX app

Another vote for lux app.. Far easier than convincing the carriers

sejtam said:
Install the LUX app
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It does not seem to work properly on note 4. It adjusts brightness only when you open the app.

Trick I use to save battery

I know some people won't want to do this, but it's something I do that I personally find helps with battery life. Nothing revolutionary, and some people won't want to but... different strokes for different folks. It's very tempting with this beautiful screen of ours to blast the brightness and get the most out of the Super AMOLED (or whatever they're calling it these days) but I've found if I'm in the same environment reading/watching videos/whatever to turn the brightness ALL the way down. Struggle with that for a few minutes while your eyes try to adjust, then turning the brightness up just a tiny bit will be (or at least seem) plenty bright. Anyway, combining that along with having rooted with Scott's CleanROM (I'm on Verizon) and my battery life has been golden! [emoji2]

Here's a screenshot of where I'll often have my brightness after doing this.
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Seems really low, but I have no problem reading or doing anything at this brightness, unless I'm out in direct sunlight or something. Anyway, just my .02

Nvm
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This is not a trick.

Suggestion then

I use the slider on the left to turn down the brightness in mxplayer which is my de facto movie watching app.... Turn it to 15 in bright day time environments and down to 5 indoors or in dark scenarios. Otherwise the system wide default is +5 on the notification slider and auto. Able to cross 5.5 SOT easily with this much.

I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.

BehelitOutlaw said:
I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.
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I've been wondering how to open the phone, thanks!

You should try out adaway! It's much more powerful than adblockplus, it actually modifies the host file. Also, try out lux if you haven't. It's seriously my favorite and most essential app. I don't know how I survived without it all these years.

BehelitOutlaw said:
I have a trick to open the phone. I use the power button on the side or the home button on the front of the phone.
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Thanks mate, now I finally know how to operate this phone

I use this as my lockscreen image to save battery

Need to go in
Battery Life Discussion Here
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[FIX] Yellow/Green/Red White Balance fix without Root. Yellowish tint , Yellow tint

Hello all, after getting my LG G4 yesterday I have noticed the screen on my unit exhibits a yellowish tint, especially whites look too yellow for my liking. Now, because of Boot-gate I don't want to root it this early just in case ( although I have a 607 serial number so chances of that happening are significantly smaller.)
So I researched some fixes, tested some apps and came to the conclusion that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.quickdoc.screenbalance app is the best solution if you are not rooted.
Because, unlike all other apps, it is not an overlay but rather uses the built-in accessibility service baked into android, it is much more accurate, is system wide ( so yes, the virtual buttons as well!) and is more energy efficient.
Now the problem is that functionality is pretty limited if you are not on the pro version. By any means , use ''your way'' to get the app because I love to support devs but asking 3 euros is just too much for a very simple app. Please support the developer however because without him we would not have had this amazing solution
My settings are as follows: (Please note that the screenshots are not INDICATIVE of the real thing, in real life it is much less blue.)
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Before and after ( sorry for horrible pics from TF300t lol)
Before and After
Feel free to post your configuration as this is still not perfect, I would love to see them and try them out to come to that perfectly calibrated white balance
Tips and tricks: Use the LG G4's feature to pin the app, this way the app will stay even when you clear all
... ( add suggestions I will add them)

Hello Xdekker I got same problem too. Thanks for ur conclusion. I have SN 607 too and bought from Europe. Maybe our G4 production in same batch.
Then I downloaded the app, pin and block the notification. Its look much better now. I hope LG update the system to add white control in the developer option just like Nexus 5X.
Sorry for my bad English...

Screenshots
Settings
http://i63.tinypic.com/6qiowp.png
Before & After
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30mo4lu&s=9