Hello,
Does anyone know whether the setting for the backlight is hardware or software. I really would like to conserve power by setting the backlight to a lower level and off is not an option.
Currently there are only two settings as you know and the ipaq has many settings.
Anyone know?
Anyone.. Anyone...Anyone
Tap SETTING/SYSTEM/BACKLIGHT the select On/Off menu.
thats not what he meant Chasl.
Bedammit, its hardware. I tried changing the value in a registry key, and it only accepts a value of 0 (off) or 255 (on). I wanted to reduce the brightness as well, but its not possible. you may think abt tinting the screen though!
hmm
Thanks...
I was hoping to save power.
Ho hum
I hope the XDA II has it...
Then again..
I may not get an XDA II
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I don't like having to wait for my keyboard backlight to power up whenever it's dark. And while it may not be 20 seconds, it's not what I would like it to be either. Is there any kind of registry tweak out there that'll either keep the light on all the time, or speed up it's activation? I've already got my screen's backlight turn down quite a bit, and a 15% stronger battery, so I'm not worried about battery life here. I just want a *very* quick phone.
Is this something I'd be better off waiting for the for new video CAB? I know it'll speed up the portrait-landscape switch, but would it in some way also help the keyboard backlights?
I'm not sure why it would be slow. My keypad lights up as soon as I tap a key even in hallways that are just dim.
turn backlight auto sensor off
sovrce said:
I don't like having to wait for my keyboard backlight to power up whenever it's dark. And while it may not be 20 seconds, it's not what I would like it to be either. Is there any kind of registry tweak out there that'll either keep the light on all the time, or speed up it's activation? I've already got my screen's backlight turn down quite a bit, and a 15% stronger battery, so I'm not worried about battery life here. I just want a *very* quick phone.
Is this something I'd be better off waiting for the for new video CAB? I know it'll speed up the portrait-landscape switch, but would it in some way also help the keyboard backlights?
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Start>Settings>Buttons>Backlight and uncheck the box
sovrce said:
I don't like having to wait for my keyboard backlight to power up whenever it's dark. And while it may not be 20 seconds, it's not what I would like it to be either. Is there any kind of registry tweak out there that'll either keep the light on all the time, or speed up it's activation? I've already got my screen's backlight turn down quite a bit, and a 15% stronger battery, so I'm not worried about battery life here. I just want a *very* quick phone.
Is this something I'd be better off waiting for the for new video CAB? I know it'll speed up the portrait-landscape switch, but would it in some way also help the keyboard backlights?
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have you ever used a kaiser? the backlight on the keyboard is on instantly when you slide it open. i know what youre talking about with the painful slow delay waiting for it to come on, but dont know any fix for it.
This worked for me
Reg key is \HKCU\COntrolPannel\Backlight
Set AutoSensor to 0
Set QKeyLedOnOff to 1
Set QKeyLedTimeout to 0
johnw230873 said:
This worked for me
Reg key is \HKCU\COntrolPannel\Backlight
Set AutoSensor to 0
Set QKeyLedOnOff to 1
Set QKeyLedTimeout to 0
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AutoSenor to 0 is the same as going into the System settings and unchecking the backlight option.
HKCU/ControlPanel/Backlight/QKeyLedTimeout
Is the amount of time (in seconds) the keep the light on... so someone could change it to 30 or 99 or whatever (I dont know if there is a "max value") and it would stay on for 30 or 99 seconds.
Not sure what LedOnOff does, thats probably the key to keep it on all the time (but does that mean it stays on even when the unit is closed?). Could potentially be very battery drainining.
Thanks for the info rajuabju BUT the end result is if you make the changes does it give you the results sovrce is after.
FYI with a lot of timeout values 0 means infinity
You're right... silly of me.
0 means there is no timeout value.
can someone please tell me how to disable auto brightness on
x10i eternity rom build 003
i tried using every brightness app/widget possible to turn it off but as soon as i turn it off and put the phone under different light setting i can see that the auto brightness is still on
i tried using adjbrightness but it keeps telling me that my phone isnt rooted; anyone get this app to work on x10??
please help n sorry if this questions been asked and answered before. this forum is getting too big and broad sometimes to find anything
thx in advance
Have you tried Sparepart? (That's the name)
Strange, i can't seem to turn on my autobrightness. It used to work perfectly in android 1.6. And i haven't noticed it untill recently. When auto brightness is checked, it just stays the same, even when i hold it directly under a lamp. Maby there is a bug in the software that prevents switching it on or off?
I'd also like an answer to this problem, because with auto brightness on the telephone is a battery eater.. you have to keep it to the minimum level to disable it, but when you are under a strong light, like outdoor with a sunny weather, it's difficult to see your screen's details. as you select a brightness level different from zero, the autobrightness turns on and eats the battery.
I hope I'm missing the solution to this, and somebody will help, because all the applications i've tried (spareparts included) didn't worked.
I'm quite confuse now.....
What actually do we need......
Turn it on...
or
Turn it off...
LOL
heh, so some people want a way to turn it off and others, like me, want to find a way to turn it on?
what a crazy phone..
I'm sure there used to be a tick box in the display settings to turn on/off the auto brightness. Anyway, i've tried various applications myself to get it on but nothing does it. I think the best solution is for us all to swap phones .
Spare Parts doesn't work for me, i tried enabling it, restarting the phone and jumping under my duvet.. but it didn't change
Did you update to 2.1? It was disabled in 2.1 as far as I know.
So the easiest solution, upgrade to 2.1! Else, I don't remember the menu but it's somewhere in the settings under 1.6.
I think we've all updated to 2.1 here =)
and yes, in 1.6 there was a box to tick to unable/disable autobrightness.
But, in 2.1, this feature has disappeared, leaving a seekbar and a damned widget which doesn't allow you to set or no autobrightness.
Hi,
The autobrightness is still there. It can be turned on/of from a stock SE connection widget. The different state for brightness is "minimum" -> "auto" -> "maximum"
MxCraft said:
It can be turned on/of from a stock SE connection widget. The different state for brightness is "minimum" -> "auto" -> "maximum"
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Thats pretty much, exactly, what dpk0875 said, if i'm not mistaken.
As soon as i turn it off and put the phone under different light setting i can see that the auto brightness is still on
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I can get, either 0%, or 100% brightness, with the ambient sensor disabled. Anything in-between, fades constantly.
No fix for this, i presume?
Reading websites while the screen fades in/out every couple of seconds drives me mad.
Ive never had any problem with it as long as you dont lean in front of it all the time lol.
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With some bad setting(cyanogenmod setting) now my back+menu softkeys are not backlighted....does anyone know how to turn on the backlight ??
BoneMo said:
With some bad setting(cyanogenmod setting) now my back+menu softkeys are not backlighted....does anyone know how to turn on the backlight ??
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Yes, I know ;-)
Settings menu => Display => Touch-Key-... something with light duration.
It_ler said:
Yes, I know ;-)
Settings menu => Display => Touch-Key-... something with light duration.
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could you elaborate please ?
with cm7.1 i had the light to stay on all the time for some reason/setting, and i couldnt find any settings for 'timeout of soft buttons'. I found a setting for turning off the 2 buttons' lights..but it doesnt always work.
changed the button's values from 255 to 0 in cm7settings>display>aut. backlight>edit other levels. now the soft button led lights are always off.
theres an app called 'screen filter' that can turn them on and off, if one want to keep that app running just for that. its annoying there isnt any proper settings and adjustment of these buttons..
i am on omega 6. (i am asking in this forum cos i don't know its its omega 6 ROM related)
the buttons are working fine just not lit up.
the only time they are lit up it's when rebooting.
so i think its software issue.
did it happened to anyone else?
anyone can have a direction to how to solve it?
Thank you.
Have a look in Settings > Display > Touch key light duration. What's it set to? If it's set to "Always Off", there's your problem.
anthropolyte said:
Have a look in Settings > Display > Touch key light duration. What's it set to? If it's set to "Always Off", there's your problem.
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Tnx alot . that solved it.
Change the minimum brightness level from usual 10 to 1. It doesn't modify the autobrightness level map so automatic brightness won't be lowered (though it can be easily adjusted on CM11).
This is so far exactly the same as GravityBox offers (modifying 'config_screenBrightnessSettingMinimum').
But Minimum Brightness offers one unique feature - it also modifies the lower brightness levels in MX Player (free/paid). Because no matter whatever you use manual or auto brightness, MX Player always uses minimum brightness of 0.05 (12/255, 19/255, 27/255, 36/255...). To actually lower the brightness, you would have to turn off brightness control in MX Player or use one of many 'overlay filter brightness app'.
So Minimum Brightness module retains the same quadratic function for brightness levels but includes lower values (1/255, 4/255, 9/255, 16/255, 25/255...).
Minimum Brightness uses value 1/255 which might not be suitable for every display (meaning LCD) but it suits perfectly my Super AMOLED screens (Galaxy S5 / Galaxy Tab S 8.4) and watching videos at night is still enjoyable.
There are many excellent auto brightness apps (Lux, Darker etc) that can use overlay filters to lower brightness even more so it's up to everyone to try and decide.
This module has been merged into new module http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-xposed-tweaks-cm-t3279109. Please check that module for any future updates.
Hello! Thanks for the mod, I will test
Works very nice on Xperia Z2, however minimum brightness is absolute darkness Could you please add an option to define minimum brightness value?
_mysiak_ said:
Works very nice on Xperia Z2, however minimum brightness is absolute darkness Could you please add an option to define minimum brightness value?
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The situation is the same on my Xperia SP. When I set the brightness to miniumum the screen is totally black, also when the backlight decreases after 10 seconds screen gets black.
Hi! Tried min brightness but when screen is set to the lowest level, I get a white screen after locking the phone.
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Really great tweak!! I'm noobie in Android enviroment with my new Elephone P3000S and the lowest screen brightness is to high for me so your tweak is very usefull.
I also have the issue that the lowest brightness level sets the screen completly black and I have been scared for 1 hour truing to solve a completely black, touching all buttons but the phone didn't "wake up". Finally, pressing power buttom + volumen up + home soft key it has worked :angel:
So it would be very important to prevent black screen by allowing the user to set the minimun level.
Thanks!
Hey, I know making GUI is a pain in the ass so can you please make alternative version with minimum brightness set to 2? That will satisfy most of people complaining here. Your app is currently the only dimmer working on lollipop.
Dri0m said:
Hey, I know making GUI is a pain in the ass so can you please make alternative version with minimum brightness set to 2? That will satisfy most of people complaining here. Your app is currently the only dimmer working on lollipop.
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I will have a new device soon so that could make me change my mind about lowest value and UI.
@Dri0m
In the first post you can find archive containing multiple versions of module with different low values.
How to disable this module...?
I installed this module last night, enabled it in Xposed Framework, but did nothing with it. Then this afternoon I opened the Settings menu, went to Display, and before I could do anything else I received a phone call. As I terminated the call, the screen flashed, the phone rebooted--and after restarting it is completely, or almost completely blank. If I repeatedly tap the power button I get a fraction-of-a-second glimpse of the SIM PIN screen at normal brightness. This leads me to the suspicion that, by some weird combination of bad luck and an accidental touch of a finger after terminating the phone call, that the Minimum Brightness somehow got set--although why the phone then rebooted I don't know.
Anyway, by luck and good judgement I finally managed to enter the correct SIM PIN and then the phone unlock PIN. However, I can do nothing else. The screen is still blank, and as the phone is currently unlocked I don't want to touch the power button. Before sending the phone back to the manufacturer or anything drastic like that, I would like to try disabling the Xposed Framework. Whilst trying to find something useful in Windows Explorer I found Xposed-Disabler-Recovery.zip in the Internal storage\Android\data\de.robv.android.xposed.installer\files folder on my phone. I assume that this should be what I need. However, as I cannot see anything on the screen I would need to know the exact buttons to press, in which order and how many times etc, in order to enter the Recovery menu and do what is needed. According to the phone manufacturer the OS is unmodified Android 4.4.2., although strangely they will not even tell me which keys to press to enter the Recovery menu (long story, the upshot is, they flat out refuse to help apart from suggesting returning the phone).
Note that I only suspect it is the Minimum Brightness module that is causing the problem, however the problem did not exist before yesterday (when I installed the module), and as I was about to do something with the brightness when the phone rebooted itself, it seems too much of a coincidence to be anything else. If I cannot disable the module/framework, the only other thing I can think of is a factory reset--but again I would need to know exactly which buttons to press, in which order etc. Unfortunately at the moment USB debugging is not enabled, and again without the screen I cannot access it to turn it on.
Any help or suggestions hugely appreciated.
PL
@Papalazzzaru
Xposed now sports a safemode which allows you to disable Xposed during bootloops. To disable Xposed, you'll have to repeatedly tap one of the hardware buttons (Power, Volume, or Home) on your device during startup.
During boot, your device will vibrate twice when it detects the first key press. You'll then have five seconds to press that same button four more times, with each keystroke producing a short single vibration. After ending with a long vibration, your device will disable and prevent most of Xposed's actions, allowing you to easily troubleshoot problematic modules.
Sorted
Outstanding, thanks.
Papalazzzaru said:
I installed thi............. gely appreciated.
PL
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Device model please?
Caterpillar S50, on Android 4.4.2, baseband version LTE_S0201121.0_S50_0.017.00.
it is compatible with lollipop?
imam88 said:
it is compatible with lollipop?
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The MX Player part still works. I don't know about the lowest value of brightness in general but at least with CM12 & Samsung the brightness goes to the hardware minimum by default.
Thanks, this is exactly what I want.
Could you make it for LP ?
I want my phone be absolute zero brightness for driving navigation.
Tested it on CM12.1 Nightly on the Nexus 6. It works here, but on 0 the screen is a bit purple. However, I guess this is the screen's fault
Gesendet von meinem Nexus 6 mit Tapatalk
moneytoo said:
The MX Player part still works. I don't know about the lowest value of brightness in general but at least with CM12 & Samsung the brightness goes to the hardware minimum by default.
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Yes it works
This module seems to be working well on the Moto X Pure Edition (Motorola xt1095) running Lollipop 5.1. It's an AMOLED screen, and I personally find the minimum brightness on 5.1 too bright, so this has helped solve that.