I have been having an issue when I close the camera on my DNA. When I close the camera the video sometimes flakes out like there is a problem with the screen. I always keep auto brightness off and I leave the brightness the whole way down. It only seems to do this when the brightness is the entire way down. When opening the camera the screen gets very bright and the problem seems to happen when the screen is rapidly getting darker when the camera closes. Like I said, I can only produce the problem when the brightness is the whole way down. Once I lock the screen and unlock it, the phone goes back to normal. I have taken multiple screenshots when the problem happens too, and they always turn out normal almost making me think its a problem with the screen.
I am rooted and running the stock deodexed ROM and I have been able to produce the same problem on UKB ROM and also Genome, however I cant seem to reproduce it on the stock odexed rom. So because of this I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the same problem? I can't really get the phone replaced when I can't produce the problem on the stock ROM.
Here is a youtube video I uploaded of the issue to show exactly what's goin on.
http://youtu.be/QAm_nTDuXa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyaoJ7tlrC8&list=UUQeWRDHdCiwUvXMksB2vr2w&index=11
same issue, different way of getting it (or same actually, i always got it going into the gallery)
whats your screen animation set to under dev options? whenever i was set to 0.5x, this would ALWAYS happen. 1.0 and above, NEVEr. now i have animations OFF, and it has never happened since.
moral of the story: don't use window transition animation at 0.5x or else this glitch occurs. it was the first thing i reported to HTC in my thread but yeah, no animations and i'm fine...and 1x animations and it's fine too
btw, my brightness was at 40% when it happened. doesn't matter what % it was for m.e
Yeah my transition animations are also set to .5 so I'll have to try it turned off. Is your phone rooted or is it running stock ROM? One of my friends has a rooted DNA and he can't produce the problem with his phone so I thought it was only mine. You are the first person I've seen have the same issue but I was hoping it was a more widespread bug and not just my phone.
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stock No root. I guarantee its the transition animations at less than 1. have him set it to that and do what I did in the video... that's how I was able to quickly reproduce it.
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stock No root. I guarantee its the transition animations at less than 1. have him set it to that and do what I did in the video... that's how I was able to quickly reproduce it.
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OK well my wife's DNA is stock unrooted and i set her transition animations to .5 and brightness all the way down and I cannot get her phone to do it in portrait or landscape. Mine has the problem constantly. I just wonder if the problem only happens on certain phones.
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OK well my wife's DNA is stock unrooted and i set her transition animations to .5 and brightness all the way down and I cannot get her phone to do it in portrait or landscape. Mine has the problem constantly. I just wonder if the problem only happens on certain phones.
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turn her brightness up. do it at 50% or so. that's when mine did it.
DUDE way to jinx me! wtf. hahaha i turned animations on to 1.0x for the first time in like 3 weeks, and after taking a pic, my screen faded out again!
ugh. anyway, it's back to off, so lets see if it does it..
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DUDE way to jinx me! wtf. hahaha i turned animations on to 1.0x for the first time in like 3 weeks, and after taking a pic, my screen faded out again!
ugh. anyway, it's back to off, so lets see if it does it..
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Haha sorry man!
BTW, I have tried everything with my wifes phone and I cannot get hers to do it. I do know one thing with mine was I use nova launcher and I had the slide transition enabled. I turned it to stock JB animations and haven't been able to get mine to do it since then. Even on .5 transition speed and brightness the whole way down. I'm just happy I don't have faulty hardware.
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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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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?
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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.
Is it just me, or is there some problems with the auto brightness feature on this phone? From time to time the screen suddenly get a lot darker, even without the lightning in the room changing at all.
My phone is Telenor(Norway) branded, with the firmware: PDA:XWKF3| PHONE:XXKE7| CSC:TENKF1
Did some searching on the issue, and found some articles saying this should have been fixed in a firmware update, checked with Kies and i got the latest firmware, so either this wasn't really fixed, or is there something weird with my phone? Or something else maybe?
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Is it just me, or is there some problems with the auto brightness feature on this phone? From time to time the screen suddenly get a lot darker, even without the lightning in the room changing at all.
My phone is Telenor(Norway) branded, with the firmware: PDA:XWKF3| PHONE:XXKE7| CSC:TENKF1
Did some searching on the issue, and found some articles saying this should have been fixed in a firmware update, checked with Kies and i got the latest firmware, so either this wasn't really fixed, or is there something weird with my phone? Or something else maybe?
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I notice this, but its always because I'm holding my phone in landscape do my fingers cover up the lightsensor...
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I notice this, but its always because I'm holding my phone in landscape do my fingers cover up the lightsensor...
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Yeah that happens alot with me. No worries just watch your fingers, boy
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Yep your hand is over the sensor. I run with it disabled since it doesn't work well at all, and it's so easy to manually adjust brightness by swiping the notification bar.
Gotten a clearer view on what the problem is now, the auto brightness it self seems to work, but it's a bit slow and very direct. If am in a light environment and it gets dark, it doesn't start lowering brightness right away, but it takes 3-5 seconds and boom brightness goes very low. That's why i thought it was something wrong with it.
In my opinion they need to smooth the auto brightness out, and let it react faster, would make it a lot better.
I've had my Evo for 1.5 weeks now and last Thursday I started having an odd flickering issue with the screen. On any light colors, ie pictures, lighter app backgrounds...you can see the colors flickering as if the refresh rate isn't quick enough. It's not the whole screen, only the area of color that the screen doesn't like. It started with only on max brightness, but now I can notice it on 50% brightness. I'm assuming this isn't normal and I should exchange my phone? Thanks.
Completely stock rom unrooted.
Sounds like bad backlight, replace.
I have noticed this as well. Especially going to the Play Store. The odd part is that it doesn't show up within games, at least for me.
If you turn off auto backlight does it happen? I think I see what appears to be flicker but it is the backlight adjusting. Happens when I first turn the screen on as the weather comes in. Also, it happens when I go back and forth from my messaging app to the homescreen. It is like the backlight is adjusting the brightness slightly. If I turn off auto brightness I get nothing.
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If you turn off auto backlight does it happen? I think I see what appears to be flicker but it is the backlight adjusting. Happens when I first turn the screen on as the weather comes in. Also, it happens when I go back and forth from my messaging app to the homescreen. It is like the backlight is adjusting the brightness slightly. If I turn off auto brightness I get nothing.
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Mine is not set on auto. It does it when I manually set it to around 60 percent or higher. It's not obnoxious but it is obvious on lighter colors. Light grays, some whites, light blues. Otherwise my phone is perfect and I hesitate to take it back in case a replacement brings a worse problem. I just wonder if it is something that would get worse. It has stayed the same so far.
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FYI to OP and anyone else who may see the flicker. After doing a little reading it looks like the One X was plagued with this as well. HTC released an OTA that seems to have fixed the issue. You can follow a lot of the progress regarding it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597448
Looks like it was the exact same thing that I have noticed on my device. To save you some reading, you can skip to the last 10 pages or so and see that the update they sent out fixed most peoples issues. Hopefully they will have one pushed for us at some point.
Thanks for the link. so now I don't know if I hold onto my phone and hope for an update, or go and exchange for a new one.
I want to root my phone, but not until this screen flicker is taken care of!
I ONLY have this issue in the stock messaging app. Never any other time! It's so odd. But I'm not worried because of the fact that it's isolated to an app.
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finally i know I'm not crazy!! This has been happening to me too. Hope an OTA will resolve.
I'd say maybe message HTC support and let them know so that if they aren't aware already they will be.
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I'd say maybe message HTC support and let them know so that if they aren't aware already they will be.
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I went ahead and contacted support, I'll let you know what they say if they get back to me before I leave for vacation tomorrow. I suggest anyone else having an issue do the same.
i get a weird flicker too, but its like the app closes real fast and opens back up at lightning speed.
it doesnt look hardware related, just software.
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finally i know I'm not crazy!! This has been happening to me too. Hope an OTA will resolve.
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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Sry.. more than just messaging
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There's a setting in the developers options for flickering the screen, check there?
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There's a setting in the developers options for flickering the screen, check there?
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That is a whole different kind of flickering, I think that option is to help induce seizures Thank you though!
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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I'm having this issue too. I've only seen it maybe a half dozen times and it's always been while typing a text message if I remember correctly. Mine is just like a brief millisecond blur.
so am I one of the VERY few having this issue? It looks like it's ALL OVER the One X forums, but no one is saying anything here. Most of the replies in this thread don't sound like my issue either, but the majority of the OneX complaints sound exactly like my issue. It's isolated to lighter colors, especially grays. It gets worse as my brightness is turned up. For example, if I look at a picture, only the blues may flicker, while the rest of the picture is solid.
Anyone?
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so am I one of the VERY few having this issue? It looks like it's ALL OVER the One X forums, but no one is saying anything here. Most of the replies in this thread don't sound like my issue either, but the majority of the OneX complaints sound exactly like my issue. It's isolated to lighter colors, especially grays. It gets worse as my brightness is turned up. For example, if I look at a picture, only the blues may flicker, while the rest of the picture is solid.
Anyone?
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I am having what you are having. I did get a reply back from HTC. It was a generic reply and one of the things they suggested was to do a battery pull. This was an email I sent to the EVO 4G LTE specific thread. I just sort of laughed it off. Mine hasn't become any worse and everything else on my device is perfect, even the color balance settled in, so I just decided to hang on to it and maybe they will fix it in an update like they did with the One X.
great to see a new thread picking up more attention than the one i started. i noticed this on my first evo and replaced it twice! all three had/have the screen flicker. i strongly believe its software related like others have mentioned, so dont give up on it yet
**SOLVED** i'm hoping!
it doesn't always happen but I noticed sometimes my screen glitches out after I take a picture and goto view it in gallery. it gets some weird lines through it, and hitting home does nothing. must turn screen off then on for it to return to norm. seems weird... i have force 2d rendering checked in dev options.. going to turn that off now and see if it still does it. but it's a weird little glitch. has anyone else seen this before?
ok I turned off 2d rendering and it still does it. It's as if the screen just fades out into black, and that's that... it's every time you take a pic and then hit the gallery icon to see the last pic.. image sense bug maybe?
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i'm so glad that i think i figured this out.
i had my screen animations set to 0.5x instead of the stock 1.0, which nobody else probably did, that's why even HTC couldn't replicate this problem when i told them. here's a video of what happens when this does it. i'm pretty sure it has to do with screen animations...i hope, anyway.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5wwa5557ap1esi/MVI_6579.AVI
I've never had this happen to me before
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it's very weird. it seems as if when you hit the gallery icon, the screen just fades out. now, it's not a screen problem, as it won't happen in any other app, so i don't believe it's hardware. i believe it's just a small little glitch. i've since reset my phone for the first time since friday, so maybe that would fix it, who knows. haven't noticed it yet.
anyone get this yet?? it happens if you quickly tap the gallery icon after taking a pic to review it. the screen fades out and you have to turn screen off then on to work again. touching the screen in this period does things.. like i did the drop down motion when my screen went black, and hit where settings would be. then I shut screen off, turned on, unlocked and bam, i was in settings.
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I have tried to replicate this, but cannot.
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damn. i really hope I don't have a bad phone. It doesn't happen always, and it's just a minor annoyance. it seems to me like a software bug switching between the camera and the gallery really quick. i'll make a video ASAP to show ya guys
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i'm so glad that i think i figured this out.
i had my screen animations set to 0.5x instead of the stock 1.0, which nobody else probably did, that's why even HTC couldn't replicate this problem when i told them. here's a video of what happens when this does it. i'm pretty sure it has to do with screen animations...i hope, anyway.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5wwa5557ap1esi/MVI_6579.AVI
Whenever I'm reading something on my phone, if I don't touch the screen for 5 seconds the brightness decreases to unreadable level regardless of the original brightness setting.
Can this annoying "feature" be turned if, and if so, how?
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Whenever I'm reading something on my phone, if I don't touch the screen for 5 seconds the brightness decreases to unreadable level regardless of the original brightness setting.
Can this annoying "feature" be turned if, and if so, how?
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Increase your display timeout. The screen dims just before powering off (5 seconds, I think After playing with it a bit, I think the time for dimming is based on a percentage of time until the screen powers off, as the time between dimming and screen off seemed longer when I raised the timeout value. I have not actually timed it). If you increase your display timeout, it seems to put off the dimming as well. This setting can be found under "Basic Settings" on the "Display" tab of the built in system "Settings" app.
Alternatively, an app like Screebl may work for this, though I haven't tested it.
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I have my screen timeout set to 30 seconds and it dims after just 5 sec.
Is it not odd though that the phone itself doesn't have a setting to defeat this?
Why stop at 30 seconds? I set mine at 15 minutes. If you don't want it dim on itself, turn off the auto brightness.
Screebl works great! Have used it since my original droid incredible and it has always worked great! One of the first apps I install on a new phone!
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I've been using the app gravity screen because I like the feature of it turning the screen on when I take it out my pocket.
Or LG can put the face detection back in the software!
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papalion said:
Whenever I'm reading something on my phone, if I don't touch the screen for 5 seconds the brightness decreases to unreadable level regardless of the original brightness setting.
Can this annoying "feature" be turned if, and if so, how?
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My phone's backlight would over-adjust way too much even with auto-brightness off.
I downloaded Lux off the playstore at the advice of a member in the Q&A thread. Haven't had a problem since
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Why stop at 30 seconds? I set mine at 15 minutes. If you don't want it dim on itself, turn off the auto brightness.
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I'm not using auto brightness.
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I'm not using autodim.
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What you're asking for is the smart screen feature that defects when you're looking at it. LG had it on the G3 and I don't remember for sure but i think it was on the G2. I don't know about the G4. For some reason they took it away from the V10. I'm a little upset about that. Hopefully they realize the mistake and bring it back.
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Whenever I'm reading something on my phone, if I don't touch the screen for 5 seconds the brightness decreases to unreadable level regardless of the original brightness setting.
Can this annoying "feature" be turned if, and if so, how?
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I know this thread is old af but unlike everyone else that has posted I completely understand what you mean. I just restored from a android backup...everything is great, except now my screen dims after 5 sec then turns off after another 5 sec. It doesn't matter what you have the screen duration set to, or if auto brightness is enabled or not. You can set screen on for 20 min...it dims after 5 then shuts off. Period. Theres no app or setting that will override that. Dunno why mine just started this nonsense but I feel your pain. Hopefully a wipe and clean flash fixes my issue
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I know this thread is old af but unlike everyone else that has posted I completely understand what you mean. I just restored from a android backup...everything is great, except now my screen dims after 5 sec then turns off after another 5 sec. It doesn't matter what you have the screen duration set to, or if auto brightness is enabled or not. You can set screen on for 20 min...it dims after 5 then shuts off. Period. Theres no app or setting that will override that. Dunno why mine just started this nonsense but I feel your pain. Hopefully a wipe and clean flash fixes my issue
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Is it not because your battery level was too low (under 15 %) and a battery economy setting was used ? Just check your power settings in android settings...
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Is it not because your battery level was too low (under 15 %) and a battery economy setting was used ? Just check your power settings in android settings...
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nope, I have 5 batteries for this thing lol even at 100% it was dimming the screen after 5 seconds. I think initially it was something going wanky with my TWRP backups. I noticed all of a sudden backups I've used multiple times I couldn't use because my screen lock pattern would say incorrect. I've used the same screen pattern since froyo 2.2 on the very first Galaxy S. its not like I forgot it lol so my work around for that was just wipe data and start over. well when I did that my screen would keep shutting off quickly like the op issue. so then I just did a clean install of the 7.0 zips and I kept having the same screen issue. finally after like 5 or 6 total wipes and clean flashes the screen timeout is finally back to normal. just gonna chalk it up to some funky bug issue. I've noticed twrp doesn't do the best job wiping on this device. even after wiping data, cache, davlik etc and clean flashing the 7.0 rom all the tweaks & scripts I altered are still there. so who knows, there isn't enough active users or devs, or even interest in this phone where I'll ever find a solution i assume, but it's working good now so it is what it is. I just know my issue was the exact same 100% as the OP addressed and everyone was acting like he was overlooking some small detail or option. altho I'm not a developer or anything close, I'm far from noob status and just figured I'd let him know that I've experienced the same issue and it was in no way a setting that he missed lol
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Interesting description, thanks. Now that you mention this, I also had leftovers after TWRP partition formating on this device.
Indeed, development is minimal, thanks to LG locked bootloaders on the V models... It's a pity, as those are the devices that were interesting for me.
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Interesting description, thanks. Now that you mention this, I also had leftovers after TWRP partition formating on this device.
Indeed, development is minimal, thanks to LG locked bootloaders on the V models... It's a pity, as those are the devices that were interesting for me.
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well even with the unlocked bootloader in the T-Mobile variant development is close to flat lining lol but yeah I've had issues with pretty much every version of TWRP leaving artifacts after wiping. It never seemed to be an issue back in the cwm days. too many unofficial builds I guess. but even with this phones issues my two main uses for a phone is a digital audio player for my flac audio files and a camera for my eBay store, both of which this phone is excellent at and the large SD support and extra batteries are a plus. But even now that I got the screen dimming and lock screen issues taken care of with this last flash now I have random force closing of apps that I never had before. it's not bad enough for me to re flash and risk the other issues I just resolved tho. if it persists I might just drop the $200 on a used v20
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