I know this is a bit counter intuitive for some but is there a way to turn off the orange blinking light when the batter is low? It is getting really annoying, I prefer not to be reminded all day by some blinging light.
Thank you very much in advance!
Have always found it ironic that the lower your battery gets the more it uses, you get low battery and phones start beeping and messaging and lighting up. How dumb!
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I'm starting to see a correlation between absolute crap-for-crap batter life and having the ambient light detector enabled. I'll do a test tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure if I just left my screen on full brightness all day, that I wouldn't get as bad of battery life as I do with the ambient light detector turned on.
Is there a problem with the fascinate's polling period? or possibly how much power is being sent TO the sensor? This might explain the problems on hacked roms where people are noticing a buzzing/hissing noise coming from the phone right around the area of the ambient light sensor when in the middle of a call (and the screen is on).
Has anybody seen where in the code the ambient light sensor is handled? (is it in the kernel, or somewhere in the drivers?).
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Thanks for moving my post. I was pretty annoyed with myself for posting in the wrong section.
*edit* Now that the thread has been moved, This post could probably be deleted.
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Well, since nobody has moved this to the other forum yet and it's received a few views, Has anybody else noticed this before?
My personal experience had been full brightness ate battery fast and low brightness was a combination of hard to read and similar drain to auto. Then again my phone has never hissed at me except for godawful noises using skype wifi sometimes, and I have never messed with brightness under froyo.
My only observation with froyo roms is that "stock" eb01 was awful but superclean and AOSP were pretty good, particularly under EB+ kernels.
Also, I lose more battery than I would like to from signal loss overnight, but turning off 3G seems to help with that.
Swyped grumpily from my advertised as "can be upgraded to Android 2.2" device.
i noticed that the automatic brightness setting is absolutely terrible at choosing the correct brightness.
the froyo roms added the ability to hold down on the status bar and move left and right to adjust the brightness, so i just use this to adjust it on the fly when necessary.
this doesn't really answer your question, but i figured i'd add my 2 cents
lane32x said:
This might explain the problems on hacked roms where people are noticing a buzzing/hissing noise coming from the phone right around the area of the ambient light sensor when in the middle of a call (and the screen is on).
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The noise comes from having the key backlights on during a call.
If you are referring to the softkeys, there were some assumptions that this was the case, but I have tested this out and have heard the noise even when those lights were turned off.
Also, I ran my phone at about half brightness today all day. I've had it off the charger for 15 hours, made 3 hours worth of phone calls, and it's still at 41% battery life.
2 days ago when I just had my phone in the pocket, not doing anything and leaving the screen off (with auto brightness enabled) my battery was dropping significantly after only 6 hours and no phone calls or Internet usage.
I have ongoing problems with eyestrain. Back-lit screens seem to be the issue. Have you found the SGS2 better or worse in regard to eyestrain, if this is an issue for you. I would really like the SGS2, but I may go with the Sensation if its screen may be better for me. Is max brightness on the SGS2 bearable? Reducing brightness seems to increase flicker on LED screens.
Does the job very nicely,
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor&hl=en
Regards.
Is it possible to keep SGS2 brightness at max and then use this app on top to make it appear darker? Or is Screen Filter just a replacement for the SGS2 brightness control that allows further dimming than minimum, or does it work differently?
Thanks
I havent noticed flicker on the S2's screen on normal usage unless I open up specific test patterns for flickering like this site
http://www.techmind.org/lcd/
It of course is to dimming it over min brightness for easier night reading without any sort of strain, haven't used with Max brightness as even 25% is too bright for me for normal usage and then that app with Auto brightness for night readings/browsing
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ithehappy said:
It of course is to dimming it over min brightness for easier night reading without any sort of strain, haven't used with Max brightness as even 25% is too bright for me for normal usage and then that app with Auto brightness for night readings/browsing
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Oh. I thought maybe it worked differently since on the app description it talks about applying a "shade" over the screen.
It might work for me if it did not actually dim the LED, but "filtered" the information to be displayed so that it came out less bright. I don't know how exactly that would work, and I guess if this "software" dimming was available then manufacturers would already be using it.
I've decided to go with the HTC Sensation. I figure that the SGS2 will either be the worst or the best phone in regards to eye strain, and it's not worth the risk. Kind of bummed out since I had my heart set on the SGS2 but hey everyone keeps saying that they're both great phones.
Both phone are great but i dont seem to experience eye strain on sgs2 seems good to me...imho
Basically is there any way to disable the long strong vibration for the low battery indicator..for my old HTC when on silent, there is only a weak short low battery vibration, whereas it makes me jump and almost drop my s2. I have already used tasker to turn off the fully charged vibration, also I always leave my phone on vibrate.
Any help appreciated
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We had something like this on the Samsung Captivate since it did not have an LED. Well, I love HTC stuff, but the tiny notification light is not one of my favorite features. Seems like it would be a nice mod to have the capacitive lights blink for notifications.
I am also not a fan of the itty-bitty light/s we have. my t-bolt was the same, htc thing I guess.
I like your idea, but battery life occurs to me. with already minimal (kind of) battery life, an unnoticed notification blinking your capacitive lights might have a significant impact on battery life.
whaddya think?
I wish htc's were as bright as BlackBerry's. My storm and storm2 leds could be seen in full daylight from across my shop. Made it a bit easier.
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What I would've liked to have was more than three freaking colors for the notification light...
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I am also not a fan of the itty-bitty light/s we have. my t-bolt was the same, htc thing I guess.
I like your idea, but battery life occurs to me. with already minimal (kind of) battery life, an unnoticed notification blinking your capacitive lights might have a significant impact on battery life.
whaddya think?
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Yep, battery could be an issue...I would say app/mod would need granular settings and not connected to the built-in LED settings (so you could turn those off to avoid both blinking and further battery drain).
Somehow Nokia Lumias are managing to have an always on screen using plain ol LCD and not OLED tech... apparently the battery drain is minimal something like 1% a day.... the author reckons that it's something to do with the screen brightness being really reduced or something...
Is this possible to implement with the Truesmart because this would really be a killer feature!!!
http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/18191_Nokia_works_a_LCD_miracle-Glan.php
That is pretty damn cool
The nearest i could find was clock view, this allows you just to show the time with a mainly black screen and with the brightness turned right down...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kimscom.clockview
Im going to see how much of a drain it is, but the backlight is still on so prolly plenty; Thing is on a lumia the battery is gonna be pretty bad compared to a smartwatch so a days worth of battery is good for a phone but terrible for a watch..