been trying out this rom the past few days even though using sense roms is against my religion (i'll confess later and everything will be fine).
anyway, whenever i take it off of automatic brightness... like say, at night, i turn the brightness all the way down... once the screen goes off and i turn it back on, it's bright as hell again.
oddly, the brightness setting will still show that it's all the way down(even though it's bright as hell), so then i have to slide it up & then back down again.
and then it does the same thing all over again!
am i the only one experiencing this issue? is there a fix for it?
have you given up your booty to jesus?
voxigenboy said:
been trying out this rom the past few days even though using sense roms is against my religion (i'll confess later and everything will be fine).
anyway, whenever i take it off of automatic brightness... like say, at night, i turn the brightness all the way down... once the screen goes off and i turn it back on, it's bright as hell again.
oddly, the brightness setting will still show that it's all the way down(even though it's bright as hell), so then i have to slide it up & then back down again.
and then it does the same thing all over again!
am i the only one experiencing this issue? is there a fix for it?
have you given up your booty to jesus?
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...nope. Ain't given up my booty to Jesus yet.
Never had that problem, but I haven't messed with screen brightness manually on beta8. Last time was Beta7 and it worked just fine. It does seem REAL slow on the brightness level uptake though. Like when you use the camera and it ramps up brightness all the way... it takes it about 30 seconds or so to readjust it.
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Anyone experiencing random screen brightness?
Every once on a while when I turn the screen on I notice the screen is brighter (kind of washed out looking). If I put the screen to sleep and then turn it back on it goes back to normal. Don't know if it's a defect or what. Just wondering if anyone else had noticed something similar. (Smart Actions are not on so I don't think it's that)
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I've had my Razr for about 16 days now. So far, this has happened once. I always use the phone with ambient light sensor off, and brightness set to lowest setting, but one night when I turned I the screen it looked like it was on the highest brightness setting, and the screen had weird colors. The reds had turned to purples, if I remember correctly. I turned the screen off then on, and that seemed to fix the washed out colors, but not the excessive brightness. At some point later that night, the brightness fixed itself without intervention.
yeah I get that too, been getting it probably once a day for the last week or so. I have mine on auto brightness and I can get it sitting in the same chair in the same light conditions a couple of minutes apart from no issue.
Switch on from lockscreen and the brightness is through the roof, hit power button to suspend and its fine when I go to open.
Yesterday I had it the other way, was really dark at first
In a completely dark room, auto-brightness will sometimes randomly bump up the brightness level of the screen to, say, 25% (way too bright). In a dimly lit room, it generally stays pinned to minimum unless i move it up manually before turning auto-brightness on (way too dark).
Changes take a long time and are inconsistent. Anyone else experience this?
Never been a fan of auto-brightness. It depends on the light sensor in the device, but I turn this off on most android devices as it just ends up soaking up power anyway.
JazzMac251 said:
In a completely dark room, auto-brightness will sometimes randomly bump up the brightness level of the screen to, say, 25% (way too bright). In a dimly lit room, it generally stays pinned to minimum unless i move it up manually before turning auto-brightness on (way too dark).
Changes take a long time and are inconsistent. Anyone else experience this?
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I have noticed that as well. Specifically the in a almost completely dark room its not set at minimum brightness, and when in a dimly lit room it will be at minimum brightness.
Oddly enough when in the completely dark room if I turn off auto brightness then put it back on it will usually go down to minimum brightness. This lasts for awhile then it seems to bump back up.
mine does this also..
I do recall nearly every reviewer of the Prime saying that the auto-brightness was pretty wonky.
But with that being said, auto brightness seems rather unnecessary on pretty much any Android device. Even Froyo had native brightness widgets.
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
Never been a fan of auto-brightness. It depends on the light sensor in the device, but I turn this off on most android devices as it just ends up soaking up power anyway.
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Ditto here, you will find auto turned off on all my devices. Never seems to work for me correctly.
Same here on my 64gb model on .33 version. Also posted here ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21024017#post21024017
Can heavily be noticed in mobilephonetalk forums while scrolling the page with auto bright turned off. Even on max or min brightness....
It sucks. Plain & Simple
I do wonder why they have such a hard time making Auto Brightness / Sensors that work correctly. Or at least consistantly. I used to play with it, setting the brightness level, then going to auto on several HTC devices, and while it was a LOT better than the Primes setup, it wasn't consistent which always caused me to give up on it. Seems a waste to even put the sensor in there when no one seems to be able to control it properly.
Maybe it IS an Android thing, for I remember no such issue with Windows Mobile devices. Hmm. Hold out any hope of ICS? Perhaps it will address it, but for now, I am still skeptical that ICS is the Holy Grail everyone claims it to be. It would have to address a LOT to be anywhere near that perfect. Who knows. Maybe it IS that good, in which case, My Prime is really gonna shine!
I don't like it on my HTC Sensation either. Too much dimmed when outside and in bright rooms.
Does anyone have a device with ICS that can confirm if auto brightness still acts the same? Every Android device I have had has the same issue. I have just learned to deal with it although I do not like it.
keitht said:
Does anyone have a device with ICS that can confirm if auto brightness still acts the same? Every Android device I have had has the same issue. I have just learned to deal with it although I do not like it.
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Yep HTC sensation is the same..
I find it very good on my Sensation, suits me well. But in the Prime its well too low.
Sent throught the wormhole from my CoinInserted Sensation OG.
it's ok. not perfect
I also never use auto backlight, but on the TFP it seems ok.
It's not perfect but it almost always reacts pretty fast to changes in light.
When I'm in a dark room it always goes to the lowest setting.
Sometimes it seems to 'forget' to work and then I need to turn the auto setting off and then back on again and that seems to remind it to go back to work.
Hello,
theres a bug in automatic brightness: if you turn it on and hold it against the sun the brightness will go to maximum but it won't get back (darker).
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Hello,
theres a bug in automatic brightness: if you turn it on and hold it against the sun the brightness will go to maximum but it won't get back (darker).
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I can't help myself, 3 thanks virgins in 2 days!!!! Owned!!!! last time I held something up to the sun it melted. Its kinda hot!!!!........
Ok in all seriousness I have not had this issue....did you try rebooting your prime? I have noticed some hicups from time to time, like touch tones stop working....but if I reboot it will work again. I am sure its just the newness of ICS, these things will get ironed out in time.
I leave it off anyways. Its a known automatic brightness is a battery drainer. You'll get better battery life with it off.
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I can't help myself, 3 thanks virgins in 2 days!!!! Owned!!!! last time I held something up to the sun it melted. Its kinda hot!!!!........
Ok in all seriousness I have not had this issue....did you try rebooting your prime? I have noticed some hicups from time to time, like touch tones stop working....but if I reboot it will work again. I am sure its just the newness of ICS, these things will get ironed out in time.
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I wish you took my thanks virginity LOL but yeah i've not come across this issue but who holds their tablet up at the sun... lol
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Hello,
theres a bug in automatic brightness: if you turn it on and hold it against the sun the brightness will go to maximum but it won't get back (darker).
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I think this is more of a feature than a bug, although I keep mine at one certain level anyway.
It's to give you a more seamless experience, as soon as the screen goes off and back on it adjusts. It's so when you're reading an article and move from one area to another, you don't get a surprise mid-sentence. I always hated reading things off my phone with auto brightness on, couldn't just focus on the words had to keep tripping up on a constantly changing screen.
With sun i meant that you can hold it against a bright light
Sry for my bad english...
I've actually noticed some differences in the sensitivity of the light sensor on various units. Some do seem to get "stuck," where others maintain an accurate measurement of ambient light. This seems to be correlated to newer units (e.g., C1 units).
The one I'm using right now does switch lighting both more quickly and, it would seem, more accurately. The ones I had previously would get stuck either on high or low brightness (with very little adjustment in between), and I needed to toggle the auto brightness button to get them to adjust to new conditions.
I found auto brightness on the device to be an annoying burden if anything. I just keep it pretty low all the time. Better that way anyways.
Same problem here - The brightness goes up under bright light, and won't readjust until the next screen off/on or reboot.
Does anyone have a Prime that adjusts back down without turning the screen off?
I swear it's intentional and not a bug, although they should offer you the option of controlling its parameters. Just have to wait for the unlocker and some custom ROMage.
But seriously, I think it's to keep a continuity in your current session, so that if you're gaming or working (the two things this tablet's for) you're not plagued by an ever-changing screen that distracts you...
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Does anyone have a Prime that adjusts back down without turning the screen off?
I swear it's intentional and not a bug, although they should offer you the option of controlling its parameters. Just have to wait for the unlocker and some custom ROMage.
But seriously, I think it's to keep a continuity in your current session, so that if you're gaming or working (the two things this tablet's for) you're not plagued by an ever-changing screen that distracts you...
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I can see how the concept of continuity can be good. But in my case for example, switching the bedroom light on - followed by a certain increase of brightness on ATP - then switch the bedroom light off to go to bed - the persistent brightness (tested for >15mins) can be a little straining on the eyes. Although readjusting the brightness is as simple as 'clicking' the 'auto' icon on/off again so that the brightness comes down to appropriate level (it only takes 2seconds to do it) - I think this is defeating the purpose of having the auto-brightness setting in the first place.
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I can see how the concept of continuity can be good. But in my case for example, switching the bedroom light on - followed by a certain increase of brightness on ATP - then switch the bedroom light off to go to bed - the persistent brightness (tested for >15mins) can be a little straining on the eyes. Although readjusting the brightness is as simple as 'clicking' the 'auto' icon on/off again so that the brightness comes down to appropriate level (it only takes 2seconds to do it) - I think this is defeating the purpose of having the auto-brightness setting in the first place.
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Oh I whole-heartedly agree. Going from my living room anywhere else in the house causes blindness with auto brightness on. And it acts completely opposite on this device than all others I've touched that use the feature. And like you say, if it's "automatic brightness" then why would it not be totally automated?
I'm just saying there's definite reasoning and programming behind it, it's not just some bug per se.
Therefore, don't expect ASUS to do anything about it, it'll all be up to our wonderful dev's here; they'll say it's properly functioning even though it's bass ackwards from everything else in existence.
Has anyone else had airplane.mode just turn on by itself during calls? its beeN happening often and also happened on my first EVO LTE that I exchanged...ill be on a call and all of a sudden it will hang up..ill look at the screen and airplane mode is activating..its drivin me nuts and is happening a lot..like everyday
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Has anyone else had airplane.mode just turn on by itself during calls? its beeN happening often and also happened on my first EVO LTE that I exchanged...ill be on a call and all of a sudden it will hang up..ill look at the screen and airplane mode is activating..its drivin me nuts and is happening a lot..like everyday
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Still doing it months later wtf
You don't have an app installed called more bars do you? That app automatically enters airplane mode during low signal to conserve battery.
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ishh happen to me the other day.. i just turned my screen on and i watched it happen.. i was running mean rom forget what version.. i watched my radio's turn off and airplane mode turn on.. it hasnt happend again
U must have a something wrong with it or something. I have never had this happen
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So I'm having this problem as well, on my new HTC One... it goes into airplane mode nearly every call I have... I'll probably have to go back to my iPhone if I can't resolve the issue. As stupid as it sounds, I'm fairly confident it's my ear touching the screen that's "navigating" into settings and turning airplane mode on... if I'm 100% concentrating on not touching the phone's screen at all, I don't have the problem. But if I'm talking normally, it never fails, the call drops, I look at the phone, and I'm sitting on the settings page with airplane mode on. I honestly don't know how this doesn't happen to everyone... I *THINK* my ears are normal!? Anyone come up with a solution??
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So I'm having this problem as well, on my new HTC One... it goes into airplane mode nearly every call I have... I'll probably have to go back to my iPhone if I can't resolve the issue. As stupid as it sounds, I'm fairly confident it's my ear touching the screen that's "navigating" into settings and turning airplane mode on... if I'm 100% concentrating on not touching the phone's screen at all, I don't have the problem. But if I'm talking normally, it never fails, the call drops, I look at the phone, and I'm sitting on the settings page with airplane mode on. I honestly don't know how this doesn't happen to everyone... I *THINK* my ears are normal!? Anyone come up with a solution??
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Is your proximity sensor working fine? Is it covered with a screen protector?
Check this out:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tigermonster.proxfinder
Good luck!
Sent from my Evo 4G LTE
jocarog said:
Is your proximity sensor working fine? Is it covered with a screen protector?
Check this out: (link removed)
Good luck!
Sent from my Evo 4G LTE
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Thanks... I installed the sensor app... seems to be working ok... it's showing "all or nothing" (9cm or 0cm) and seems to indicate the duration I hold the phone to my head. If I move my head around (not necessarily away from the phone) it indicates that the sensor thought I wasn't in proximity the full time... so perhaps there are brief moments the OS thinks I've pulled the phone away from my head. Maybe that algorithm needs tweaking (e.g. maybe wait 1-2 seconds of nothing in proximity before turning on screen?).
I don't have a screen protector.
markzaa said:
Thanks... I installed the sensor app... seems to be working ok... it's showing "all or nothing" (9cm or 0cm) and seems to indicate the duration I hold the phone to my head. If I move my head around (not necessarily away from the phone) it indicates that the sensor thought I wasn't in proximity the full time... so perhaps there are brief moments the OS thinks I've pulled the phone away from my head. Maybe that algorithm needs tweaking (e.g. maybe wait 1-2 seconds of nothing in proximity before turning on screen?).
I don't have a screen protector.
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found this on the htc one forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259526
I didn't read it, but it looks like you are not the only one having issues with the proximity sensor...
So I know this doesn't help much but wanted to add I'm having this issue as well. Not every call but maybe every couple of days or so. Does seem to happen when I'm using the phone, not an ear piece, and I'm moving around a lot. So might be something with the proximity sensor, though there is not quick button I could be hitting with my face to turn airplane mode on even if the screen was on. I have also noticed a lot of strange network issues where my single bounces between 4g, 3g and hsdpa often, which I've never had a phone do this much before. I can actually sit there and watch flip back and forth. So I'm really thinking the HCT One has some manufacture issues that are not being addressed. I'm about ready to send this thing in.
And it is..... auto brightness!
Not sure why, but after going to 4.4.2 my battery life sucks. Nothing helps. I have greenify, AppOps, disable service, and my phone sleeps like a baby. I then turned auto brightness off and my phone battery is back to normal. I can actually go a full day without having to run for a charger now. My screen on time went from 3 hours to 4 hours. My Android OS and And Kernel(OS) went down a lot too.
To fix the issue with brightness, I downloaded Lux AutoBrightness. But only use the "Adjust On Wake" option. It will only adjust brightness once, when you turn the screen on, rather than constantly accessing the ambient light sensor.
Note that I have a GPE HTC One. Folks on Sense may have varying results.
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And it is..... auto brightness!
Not sure why, but after going to 4.4.2 my battery life sucks. Nothing helps. I have greenify, AppOps, disable service, and my phone sleeps like a baby. I then turned auto brightness off and my phone battery is back to normal. I can actually go a full day without having to run for a charger now. My screen on time went from 3 hours to 4 hours. My Android OS and And Kernel(OS) went down a lot too.
To fix the issue with brightness, I downloaded Lux AutoBrightness. But only use the "Adjust On Wake" option. It will only adjust brightness once, when you turn the screen on, rather than constantly accessing the ambient light sensor.
Note that I have a GPE HTC One. Folks on Sense may have varying results.
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I feel the same way and it is pissing me off. It sucks so bad that I got another phone. I'll give this a try and report back in a few days.
thanks
citionecent said:
I feel the same way and it is pissing me off. It sucks so bad that I got another phone. I'll give this a try and report back in a few days.
thanks
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any updates on sense 6.6
ditto
I made the mistake of actually checking and accepting the update from AT&T recently, and hate it. Absolutely hate it. I want my scrolling gallery on the lock screen back, and the battery life is absolutely horrid, burns it up at least twice as fast. Just posting here to affirm to anyone looking - DO NOT UPDATE.
Now to find a way to step back down, or change the rom entirely...
No such thing
abs0lut3z33r0 said:
any updates on sense 6.6
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Folks who have taken the ota have reported this,I would run latest ruu and see if that fixes it.
ghent96 said:
I made the mistake of actually checking and accepting the update from AT&T recently, and hate it. Absolutely hate it. I want my scrolling gallery on the lock screen back, and the battery life is absolutely horrid, burns it up at least twice as fast. Just posting here to affirm to anyone looking - DO NOT UPDATE.
Now to find a way to step back down, or change the rom entirely...
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