I Have A Question For Dev's to see if this could get implemented into the Rom's.
I have noticed that the hardware or softkeys (home,menu,back,search) the backlight is always on, and its very distracting and I imagine it consumes battery.
Is there any way for this to get shut off, like on the Evo 4G that when pressed they would turn on for a couple of seconds then shut off again..
I've noticed this only happening when in dark rooms or night. I think its a light sensor tweak that should be the culprit.
Yes there should be. I use a program called Screen Filter and it turns off the soft keys. If that program can than I am sure there is a way to mod your rom to do so as well. Try downloading it and playing around with it. Reverse engineer the .apk if you have to I guess lol.
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Is there a registry tweak or option anywhere in the phone to automatically turn off the screen while on a call. One of my friends complaining that her earrings and face always launch applications and she was on a 3 way call with someone and she didnt even know because of this lol
I would like to know also as sometimes I feel the screen heats up the phone also by being lit.
wtf... you must have a bizzaro phone...
cause my **** shuts off in 2 seconds once i'm in a call... as a matter of fact there is a sensor that auto switches off the screen when ur in a call and you hold the phone up to your ear... i believe based on the g-sensor and light sensor.
and its annoying as hell... your phone must be blessed to stay on...
just press the power button tho man.
Check out the program S2U2, that's what I'm using and it works nicely. The phone is supposed to auto turn black when it gets near your face, but I noticed that it's too damn slow (VZW version) and it usually hits something before it turns black....
Mines never once done this action.
Mine intermittently works too. Of course it always turns the screen off when I call voicemail so I have to turn it back on to punch in my passcode.
Also, when I tell it to bring up the keypad after dialing voicemail, it brings it up and then goes back to the other options screen and I have to tell it to bring up the keypad again. Honestly, how hard can it be to program this stuff to work right? There are a lot of things I like about this phone but this kind of performance makes this phone more of a toy than a usable business device. I also can't believe how slow this device is ie. start menu. /end rant.
As ghostboy said try s2u2. Under the options there is a blank screen on call (or something like that) That turns the screen off for you.
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wtf... you must have a bizzaro phone...
cause my **** shuts off in 2 seconds once i'm in a call... as a matter of fact there is a sensor that auto switches off the screen when ur in a call and you hold the phone up to your ear... i believe based on the g-sensor and light sensor.
and its annoying as hell... your phone must be blessed to stay on...
just press the power button tho man.
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Roger that. How do I get it to stay ON when in a call??
try this out!!
This one works for me.
Is there any program or other way do turn off the screen LEDs for example when docked at night? LEDs Hack from the market has an option for Hero with Froyo. Have tried that and it works except the row of LEDs with the home menu back and search buttons. I emailed the developer, but didnt know if anyone here had any solutions. I'm running KF v35 btw.
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Why don't you just turn the face of the phone down? That's what I do and the lights don't bother me anymore. The speaker for the alarm is on the back of the phone anyway.
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That's what I do now, but I was looking at replacing my clock on my bedside table with a dock that would hold the phone upright so I could see the time. I can keep the display on, but wanted the bright lights on the front off. With the program I mentioned, I can turn off all LEDs except the white ones behind the keys mentioned.
http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-Innodo...UTF8&coliid=I3NXBLD8N3TSV9&colid=R3NHEZ8B3HKA
Oh. I didn't quite understand what you were trying to do. I'll look into it and see what I can find.
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I was trying to use this app with some success. I tried all the different phones. One of the first times I tried it, the LEDs all went out and would not come back on. Did a reboot and dalvk wipe which restored the LEDs. The Hero version can stop all LEDs except the leds i mentioned. Thanks for the help.\
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-geekherd-softbuttonshack-wmjD.aspx
please post if you find a solution, i have the same desire...
Still haven't heard back from the developer. I will let you know if i can find something else online.
also found this program: http://www.andbot.com/apps/tools/simple-led-toggle/com.squakmt.SimpleLedToggle but it states it will not work on verizon droid phones. :-(
my workaround. I can use http://www.androlib.com/android.application.net-geekherd-softbuttonshack-wmjD.aspx to turn off the leds except the lights as mentioned above. under settings->cm->userinterface->auto backlight->use custom to "on" ->edit other levels set all of the buttons column to "0". This will turn off the front lights i was referring to whenever the brightness is set to auto. I use the powercontrol widget and set brightness to auto when I want to have the lights off and to low when I want the brightness down but front lights on. It would be awesome to have an app like a toggle to turn the leds off combining the leds hack and the cm setting. unfortunately, i can only write code in html and some flash and java and even those skills are getting rusty...lol.
edit: with the program listed above, phone set to sprint hero, top led, bottom led, and trackball leds selected the leds will all go out. however, the trackball will not blink with this setting. when option to turn leds on is selected, the leds come on as they should after a few minutes.
I say save your $25 and prop that mofo up, with a sock or something covering the bottom lights.
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Well, the program is free, but my dock was about $25 and broke after the first day. Lets hear it for poorly made parts. I contacted the seller through amazon. We shall see what happens.
FYI - if you have a notification light that won't stop flashing when the screen is off and you have no notifications showing, take the Motorola World Clock widget off your homescreen (if you have put it there). Sprint ended up replacing my phone because of this and when the new phone started doing the same thing I began killing everything until it stopped and found the culprit. No number of wipes, hard resets or sbf flashes would cure this for me. Perhaps it only acts up in conjunction with another app or widget I have, but it did this with no apps installed and something to try if you have this problem.
Or just download the LEDs hack from the market (free) and turn all leds off. Could save you battery. I always keep all leds off during the day especially the soft keys as they are bright as ****! If you download LEDs hack choose your phone as the "Droid x".
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Or just download the LEDs hack from the market (free) and turn all leds off. Could save you battery. I always keep all leds off during the day especially the soft keys as they are bright as ****! If you download LEDs hack choose your phone as the "Droid x".
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Good to know. Light Flow works pretty well also. I was using that as a fix but don't like having to hack around a fault that shouldn't exist to begin with.
Ok, so I've found the section in 'Display' and switched Smart Stay on, but it doesn't seem to do anything. The small eye icon never appears on the notification bar, and the function doesn't work. I've noticed that with auto-brightness the screen is pretty much always really dim, and I noticed that smart stay won't work when the room is dim - does the phone think the light's too low and never switches the function on?
Hmm, off to try...
It does state when you activate it that it wont work in low light
Yeah, so perhaps it's the auto-brightness that's at fault? Been in daylight today and with the lights on at home - screen's been dim 90% of the time...
Right i too thought smart stay wasnt working. I too never saw the eye.
BUT... Having played with it some more heres how it works well in my eyes anyway
The eye icon only appears when the light is at the end of its duration setting.
For example i set mine to 15 seconds beacuse i wasnt sure it was working.
So every 15 seconds if your looking at your phone the eye will flicker on.
If its set at a minute you rarely see it as 60 seconds is a pretty long time to look at the screen with out pressing ought.
I hope this makes sense. Just set light time out to 15 secs to see what i mean.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1683979
I thought it wasnt working properly since every now and again id spot this icon flashing up and going just as fast as it came on, but i figure, its a battery saving method, so it wouldnt permanetly be tracking your eyes with the camera like the xbox kinect for instance, it comes on for a split second, if it recognises eyes are open and looking it stays on if not it turns off... i tested this, changed screen dim to 15 seconds for test purposes, staired at it whilst on web browser and every 10 seconds the icon flashed up and screen stayed on, closed my eyes counted to 10 and the screen was off
I have Speed Rom 5.1 on my Amaze. When I am finished with a call, the screen stays black. I try to hit the power button, but nothing happens. I have to remove my battery in order to reboot. Can someone shed some light on why this happening? I am thinking that it may have something to do with my CPU Tuner settings, but I am not sure.
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I have Speed Rom 5.1 on my Amaze. When I am finished with a call, the screen stays black. I try to hit the power button, but nothing happens. I have to remove my battery in order to reboot. Can someone shed some light on why this happening? I am thinking that it may have something to do with my CPU Tuner settings, but I am not sure.
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Probably that or a bad flash, just reflash, see if it solves the issue.
Most likely it's something simple, like an issue with your proximity sensor. I know there was an app that could calibrate that but I forgot what the app was.
Stock Rom - Black screen while phoning
There is a similar problem on my wife's phone with a stock rom (not rooted Amaze from T-Mobile). When making or accepting a call, the screen will instantly go off even without leaning the phone against anything and won't turn on unless the power button is pressed. Sometimes the screen would turn on by itself after a while after the other phone was hanged.
I've downloaded AndroSensor app: the proximity value does't change even when touching the area near the earpiece. It keeps showing ( 0.5mA ) 3.5 in.
I've found a thread which is there since april 2012 and describes quite a similar problem.
okay.. i just the original post date for this thread.. please don't bring back threads that are 6 month's old which issues might have been solved already since no ones been posting in it for 6 months...
(anyways) this is what i was gonna say
on my current s3 when my phone is placed to my ear it cuts off the display.. and if you pass your hand anywhere near the sensor's to the top near the camera it cuts off the display.. maybe there's a feature like that enabled on the stock rom also.. or you could possible check with the system settings to see "screen" on/off settings in display or power saving mode.. or something...
Thanks for the answer. I didn't notice that the thread was that old. I think I will keep up a newer one. But the current issue isn't likely to have been solved.
The problem doesn't seem to be triggered by wrong sensor measures (because the screen will go off even after disabling the sensor) nor does it depend on the rom version (same thing on the CM10).
Resolved:
It will sound stupid but I have found a simple solution:
I have just wiped the screen in the upper left corner where the proximity sensor is located and it started behaving normally. Though I don't use any protection tape on the screen it seem to have become less sensitive because of mud or sweat.