Hi to all
just noticed and found out that G2 only have one(RHS) LED working( or only on my G2)
now can someone let me know please on HERO both are working or the same
**LED's are near the speaker**
if hero got both working how can we get that working on G2
Regards
Gugi
the left one is the light sensor, not a led.
Thanx
now what this sensor does actually in Hero, i noticed only one thing (correct me if i m wrong) that in dark my copilot map screen changed to night mode
that's it any other usage please let me know
Regards
Gugi
it dims and turns off the screen when u answer a call as soon as you place your phone near your ears
deeren said:
it dims and turns off the screen when u answer a call as soon as you place your phone near your ears
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not true
deeren said:
it dims and turns off the screen when u answer a call as soon as you place your phone near your ears
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you are talking abour proximity sensor.
this sensor in hero dims screen in bright room and increases brightness in dark room for good visibility.
dying4004 said:
you are talking abour proximity sensor.
this sensor in hero dims screen in bright room and increases brightness in dark room for good visibility.
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For me, it is exactly vice versa.
It increases brightness in bright rooms and dims in dark rooms for good visibility
you can test this if you (accidently) put your fingers on the sensor or come near the hero (reading mails and stuff), it is always dimming itself^^
TobenderZephyr said:
For me, it is exactly vice versa.
It increases brightness in bright rooms and dims in dark rooms for good visibility
you can test this if you (accidently) put your fingers on the sensor or come near the hero (reading mails and stuff), it is always dimming itself^^
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yeah u r right. my bad. sorry.
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Do you like the light Sensor on Nexus?
I didn't like it.
It's a very good feature, but it works strange.
It is slow in dimming and took already not enough light to the display.
Nexusdisplay is dark dark dark...
Does anybody know, how to tweak this sensor?
Or am I the only one who dislike it very much?
I just set my brightness manually. Done deal.
Perfect.
In the Night I'll put my sunglasses on or at a sunny day I take my nexus blind...
Wherefor is the sensor if it don't work proper?
There must be some settings for...
I think the light sensor works great but it would be even better if we can customize it a little bit. Something like scale up the screen brightness for each level of external light.
Or something like auto lock when it is totally dark (you put it into your pocket?).....but that would cause trouble if you want to use your phone in the theater
I think the light sensor is terrible. I have tried everything but it still seems very finicky on when it will work properly. I regularly go from low light to sunny outdoors and having the feature would properly would be awesome, especially since it worked fine on my last 2 phones and they arent even close to being a superphone.
Trying to make it transition smoother is something I've been meaning to try. The settings for this are in the source tree at frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml (I override this in my passion vendor overlay). You can tweak the values and rebuild framework-res to try it out.
oh cyanogen, You Are GOD!
Where we can find it?
I've searched the whole framework.
ha he meant the source tree for framework provided by google. not in the framework-res inside of the zip of the rom you are using.
two things I noticed about it:
1 It dims and brightens too quick, it should take an average light level over a longer time period
2 Our fluorescent lights in the office at work seem to confuse it, so that could mean that the lens is too focussed and if you hit one of the lights it goes too bright, miss and it goes too dim as you move around and/or the wavelength of the lights confuse it - though this problem may be more bearable if #1 above is fixed.
I gave up using the sensor. I use the power strip. the 3 settings work great for me.
Ssantos6981 said:
I gave up using the sensor. I use the power strip. the 3 settings work great for me.
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Yea I mean why should it work? We only paid $530 for it ;/
spyz88 said:
Yea I mean why should it work? We only paid $530 for it ;/
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Yes, these words are soooo true! They're absolut true.
And: It's not HTCs first device with such a sensor. It's not the first android Handset with such an sensor.
I can't understand, why they did such a thing!
@spyz88: I'll pray your words every time if i see this dumb dimming and flickering.
I too have noticed this problem, and have such, turned it off. Disappointing, yeah.
I hope someone can come up with some good idea/settings, to fix this like google should be doing already :/....
Thanks people
spyz88 said:
Yea I mean why should it work? We only paid $530 for it ;/
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You can pay £30,000 for a car and things still don't work properly.
Nature of the beast I'm afraid.
OK, we can put our heads down in the sand or we can try to make us happier with it.
Does anybody tells google/htc that this is crap?
Probably we can make it on our own.
yeah it doesn't work very well. Maybe sensitivity needs to be lowered somehow
I hate to say this because I always talk crap about the iphone, but the iphone does have a better way to auto dim the screen with the sensor.
I thought I had a problem because from the get go I installed a screen protector that lays over the sensor, but now I see that other people have the same issue.
It is funny because I can have the phone in one place, but if I change the angle the screen will dim or brighten.
the worst thing is , it comes in the way of reading constantly on your phone , and after two to three cycles of dim/bright , you would eventually give up and disable it. disappointing .
but i think the problem is it samples ambient light with long interval , and then average it in a way that is always behind what it should be
This has bothered me as well and I've been looking for an easy way to fix it.
It seems that the light sensor (or its driver?) is to sensitive or inaccurate. The reported LUX value can fluctuate a lot in constant surrounding light. There is also the possibility that one waves a hand in front of the sensor which can produce undesired brightness changes etc.
My idea:
PowerManagerService.java (frameworks/base/services/java/com/android/server) listens for light sensor changes with a SensorEventListener. Either directly or after (config_lightSensorWarmupTime) a method called lightSensorChangedLocked is called with the sensor value as parameter. This method sets the brightness.
Here we can add some low pass filtering to the sensor value before calling lightSensorChangedLocked. Maybe a simple average of the last 5 values or so will suffice? Maybe take time into consideration as well. Say average 5 or all values received in the last 20 seconds or so. There sure are room for improvements of my suggestions.
My message is that the issue is perfectly fixable and PowerManagerService.java is the file to fix it in.
Not sure how to explain this but will try. On the front of the Photon at the top just above the "motorola" word there is a center speaker. On the right of the speaker is the led cirlce. But on the left of the "motorola" word there are two other openings.
Does anyone know what these are for? I am almost possitive that I saw one of them flash a red quickly but I don't know why or remember what I was doing in order to duplicate it.
I am just curious. On a side note...download "light flow" and you can control your led lights to alert you in different colors for different notifications.
Thanks..
I believe you are talking about the light sensor and the proximity sensor. The one that detects how bright to keep the LCD and the one that detects whether to black the screen when you're in a call...
anoroc44 said:
Not sure how to explain this but will try. On the front of the Photon at the top just above the "motorola" word there is a center speaker. On the right of the speaker is the led cirlce. But on the left of the "motorola" word there are two other openings.
Does anyone know what these are for? I am almost possitive that I saw one of them flash a red quickly but I don't know why or remember what I was doing in order to duplicate it.
I am just curious. On a side note...download "light flow" and you can control your led lights to alert you in different colors for different notifications.
Thanks..
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One is a light sensor, and the other is a proximity sensor (tells the phone your cheek is close so it turns the screen off when you're on a phone call)
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21productionz said:
One is a light sensor, and the other is a proximity sensor (tells the phone your cheek is close so it turns the screen off when you're on a phone call)
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Ok, now that makes perfict sense to me. This is my first android phone ever so I have been trying to figure out all the ends and out of this thing.
I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
anoroc44 said:
Ok, now that makes perfict sense to me. This is my first android phone ever so I have been trying to figure out all the ends and out of this thing.
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You picked a good device for your first android phone. Have fun =D
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I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
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I can confirm that at certain times of the day the light sensor shows a faint red light.
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That's the proximity sensor, light sensors don't emit light. When it detects a reflection, it knows something is close to the phone such as a face or pocket.
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That's the proximity sensor, light sensors don't emit light. When it detects a reflection, it knows something is close to the phone such as a face or pocket.
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Right, and normally it only comes on (i.e. you can see the faint red light) when you're in a call.
Ok, so I have my brightness all the way up, and I am still having trouble seeing my screen, and yes, it's bright out, but I don't have it in the direct sun light. I know that my iPhone had no problem with screen being brighter outside. I have the auto brightness disabled. Now, when I bought the phone they put a glass protector on it which is clear, and I also have it in the Otter Box case as well. Could this reduce the brightness? Lastly, if the phone is what it is, then is there an app that will make the display brighter? Thank you so much.
AM
use brighter backgrounds, they will eat up battery a little bit quicker but the brighter colors will actually make the screen brighter. using a black background will cause the screen to produce less overall brightness.
Wow, never gave that a thought. Thank you so much, I appreciate the information. I am off to find a brighter background.
AM
am2354 said:
Wow, never gave that a thought. Thank you so much, I appreciate the information. I am off to find a brighter background.
AM
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If I remember correctly, the screen can get brighter with the auto brightness turned on. Can't remember where I read that, but the thinking was that super bright mode may damage the screen if it's on that way all the time.
Don't forget, Iphone has LCD, we have Amoled, which one of the drawbacks is, it sucks in the sun.
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Ok, so I have my brightness all the way up, and I am still having trouble seeing my screen, and yes, it's bright out, but I don't have it in the direct sun light. I know that my iPhone had no problem with screen being brighter outside. I have the auto brightness disabled. Now, when I bought the phone they put a glass protector on it which is clear, and I also have it in the Otter Box case as well. Could this reduce the brightness? Lastly, if the phone is what it is, then is there an app that will make the display brighter? Thank you so much.
AM
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Try Lux.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite&hl=en
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Try Lux.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite&hl=en
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i second Lux
I will give Lux a try thanks.
on top of the auto brigntenss through android, i believe that samsung has a lowe level brightness auto adjustment that changes depending on the image on the screen eg darker when the image is bright and vise versa
waderedsox said:
on top of the auto brigntenss through android, i believe that samsung has a lowe level brightness auto adjustment that changes depending on the image on the screen eg darker when the image is bright and vise versa
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It is called CABC (Content Adaptive Backlight Control).
http://www.ecnmag.com/articles/2010/04/content-adaptive-lcd-backlight-control
I am not sure how Lux behaves with this feature though.
Check out this picture. My HTC M8 is on the left. New S6 on right. Both turned up to full brightness. My M8 screen looks so much more vivid and colorful. Anybody else seen this issue?
Have you checked your gs6's display settings? I'm curious if this is a hardware issue on your device or if it's just one of the other profiles - make sure it's set to "adaptive".
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Check out this picture. My HTC M8 is on the left. New S6 on right. Both turned up to full brightness. My M8 screen looks so much more vivid and colorful. Anybody else seen this issue?
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check to make sure auto brightness did not turn off. For some reason many people, including myself, have seen the auto brightness become automatically unchecked and brightness lowered.
I too came from the M8. I have yet to decide which screen I like more. I love AMOLED blacks and colors, but the screen seems so dim (especially if you've been looking at any other screen) and the whites seem yellow.
Full brightness on recent Samsung flagships is achieved on auto brightness in full sunlight, not in the dark. If you did this outdoors at noon you'd have a different result.
Make sure auto brightness is off and adaptive display is on
I took this picture inside. Auto brightness was off. Adaptive on. No power saving mode on. I can't stand auto brightness on phones. I usually keep my screens around 85-90%. Both S6s are going back and I'm going with the M9 or Nexus 6. Way too many issues with these phones.
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I too came from the M8. I have yet to decide which screen I like more. I love AMOLED blacks and colors, but the screen seems so dim (especially if you've been looking at any other screen) and the whites seem yellow.
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You must have a bad unit or power saving mode going crazy or something. I have the M8 and M9 and the edge screen is night and day brighter. Like not even in the same league brighter and more vibrant. It makes the M9 look dull and lifeless.
Yeah mine is a bad unit too. It's going back tomorrow. I've played with the power saving and all display modes. No go.
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I took this picture inside. Auto brightness was off. Adaptive on. No power saving mode on. I can't stand auto brightness on phones. I usually keep my screens around 85-90%. Both S6s are going back and I'm going with the M9 or Nexus 6. Way too many issues with these phones.
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I have the M9 in my hand right now. Camera is awful and it does have heating issues. Always warm. I do like sense 7 over touchwiz but I can't handle the crappy camera. Look at the photo comparison here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/photos-comparisons-s6-vs-t3076641
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Yeah mine is a bad unit too. It's going back tomorrow. I've played with the power saving and all display modes. No go.
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Let me know if it's any different with the new unit. If so, I may have to send mine back too.
So I grabbed a flashlight and turned on auto bright. I put the flashlight over the sensor and the screen got extremely bright. Way more than having the manual setting at it's highest level. Maybe they'll update the software so we can turn the screen up to where we want it.
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So I grabbed a flashlight and turned on auto bright. I put the flashlight over the sensor and the screen got extremely bright. Way more than having the manual setting at it's highest level. Maybe they'll update the software so we can turn the screen up to where we want it.
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I can't use Samsung's "auto" mode for brightness. Always too dim for me. I have been using Lux Auto Brightness (paid version although there is a free version you can try) for a long time and I find it does a much better job than any "auto" mode from manufacturers. I think they make it as dim as possible to help with battery stats. But it is pointless if my battery lasts twice as long and I can't see the screen LOL
Thanks. I'll try that.
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Yep, just look at this image:
I really hope there's a hack that gets max brightness without auto brightness. I stay in a dark environment so it always keeps it on the lowest brightness, waaaaay too low, especially compared to my computer. I want the max brightness (I know, I know, bad for eyes, whatever), I mean, that's what the slider should do...
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Yep, just look at this image:
I really hope there's a hack that gets max brightness without auto brightness. I stay in a dark environment so it always keeps it on the lowest brightness, waaaaay too low, especially compared to my computer. I want the max brightness (I know, I know, bad for eyes, whatever), I mean, that's what the slider should do...
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try lux auto brightness. You can set your values to what you want in each environment and time of day. Love it for fine tuning how my auto brightness works. The only issue with the edge is the screen does not blur when you swipe out your contacts from the edge. Hopefully they will fix that soon.
Every post bashes the low brightness outdoor, but what I want to ask the users of this phone is if the minimum brightness is bothersome in dark environments like at night with lights off. Because I plan to do some light reading like that.
The GSMarena review mentions that lowest brightness is blinding 14.9nits. Is it really that bad?
Please let me know, I'm thinking of buying this phone.
rayulove69 said:
Every post bashes the low brightness outdoor, but what I want to ask the users of this phone is if the minimum brightness is bothersome in dark environments like at night with lights off. Because I plan to do some light reading like that.
The GSMarena review mentions that lowest brightness is blinding 14.9nits. Is it really that bad?
Please let me know, I'm thinking of buying this phone.
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Without night light it is very bright with with the blue light filter on with minimum brightness it isn't all that bad
It burns my eyes when room is complete dark. No chance using it in dark room.
peterf81 said:
It burns my eyes when room is complete dark. No chance using it in dark room.
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What if I have white text in a predominantly black background?
rayulove69 said:
What if I have white text in a predominantly black background?
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By text you mean reading ? This phone display is definitely not suited for reading, the text is blurry/fuzzy.