After my bootload unlock and root, my softkeys don't work, help!
working fine here not sure what would have caused that
I just realized its an auto lighting issue, cover your light and proximity sensor and they come on. Voila!
I find something new/different every couple hours it seems like.
My soft keys don't light up either but I've been looking around and it appears in all the reviews I've seen, they don't lite up. Can someone confirm or deny this please?
byersbw said:
My soft keys don't light up either but I've been looking around and it appears in all the reviews I've seen, they don't lite up. Can someone confirm or deny this please?
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Mine do light up. It needs to be dark or you need to cover up the sensor.
turn off your lights or go in a dark room. They DO light up and if yours don't, you have an issue.
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Mine have been intermittent. Sometimes they light up and most of the time they don't. I love it when they work, it really helps. I keep missing the right spot for the back button unless I can see it. Mine would turn on when I rotated the phone to landscape and then go off again when rotated back to portrait. For the last hour they've been on all the time.
I just tried the light sensor theory and it's 100% right. I shined a bright flashlight at the ambient light sensor and the buttons turned off. Took the flashlight away and the buttons turned back on.
edit: crap, I spoke too soon. They turned off again and now won't turn on no matter what I do. They came on for a few seconds and then went off again. Now they're still off. I look forward to seeing them again soon, just wish I knew what makes them stay lit up.
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I feel stupid. After using the phone while in the darkness of my bedroom the soft key lights came on just fine. Problem solved. They don't turn on during the day. What a smart phone!
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byersbw said:
I feel stupid. After using the phone while in the darkness of my bedroom the soft key lights came on just fine. Problem solved. They don't turn on during the day. What a smart phone!
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My keys don't turn on unless I'm in a totally dark room, with no lights on anywhere. Frankly I think it's pretty stupid. I can't see the keys at all for about 90% of the time I'm using it. It would be nice to have a switch to just turn them on and leave them on. Maybe a widget but would probably require root.
This whole thread seems weird to me cause my keys don't shut off
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shook187 said:
This whole thread seems weird to me cause my keys don't shut off
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If this phone weren't so awesome in every other way the (un)lighted buttons would be a deal breaker for me. It's pissing me off although I know eventually I'll get used to where the keys are supposed to be. The few times when the keys light up makes me pissed off for all the times when they don't.
If your keys stay lit all the time there must be a setting somewhere to turn them on. ??
Maybe a poll would be appropriate - see if this is a big problem or if I have a defective phone.
Am I the only one who soft keys are always lit up?
By the way I like them to be lit up all the time.
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shook187 said:
Am I the only one who soft keys are always lit up?
By the way I like them to be lit up all the time.
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Do you mean even when the screen is off?
Mine worked.. then stopped.. took 3 factory resets to get them going. But now have to be in a really dark room for them to work..
Not pleased but this phone rocks. Hopefully HTC fixes this. Just chock it up as early adopter pains..
P.S glad I'm not the only one this bug is affecting..
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you can Restore to factory status,and try this again.:silly:
def. seems like the sensor to initialize the backlight for the buttons is very sensitive. Wish it would pop on in low light not complete darkness.
Bump. For anyone interested making their capacitive buttons turn on with the screen, regardless of lighting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44478387&postcount=4
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Bump. For anyone interested making their capacitive buttons turn on with the screen, regardless of lighting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44478387&postcount=4
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What Simba really meant to say:
For anyone rooted and interested in making their capacitive buttons turn on with the screen, regardless of lighting.
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What Simba really meant to say:
For anyone rooted and interested in making their capacitive buttons turn on with the screen, regardless of lighting.
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Ah. I assumed anyone here would be rooted. You can stay stock, and it's easy to do.
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EDIT: For anyone else interested, the developer of the app has just added official support for our devices. He has a thread in the international One forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2402153
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On most of the reviews that I have seen on youtube on the evo 3d the capacitive lights go off after about 3 seconds yet they remain on the whole time on mines when using the phone and can be quite annoying especially at night since those lights are so damm bright! does anyone here who has applied both updates on their evo confirm if the lights remain on after updating.
here is a review on the 3d and you can see the lights turn off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y85Rd5E6lV4&feature=related
Mine turn off but they are bright as HELL! Screen Filter is your best friend right now
did you apply both updates? and yes they are bright as hell which is why i want them to turn off on their own since i watch a lot of videos at night and the lights get really annoying. I tried screen filter but I don't want to use an app for something the phone should be doing on its own
I hear ya...We shouldn't have to run an app but for now, it's all we got. I haven't installed any updates, still on HBoot 1.3
I see, I wonder how many other people have the same problem. I will use the app for now but I will be going to the sprint store this week to see if other evos have the same problem.. if they don't I will be exchanging mine
I have 3 and they all do this.
annoying, they are bright lol
Really? wow! I know its a software issue since the app screen filter is able to turn them off. Whatever it is I hope htc fixes it quick I will be emailing them in a bit to see if they are aware of the issue.
Mine aren't turning off either. However I have a buggy 3D as it is, so I'm not surprised.
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Mine aren't turning off either. However I have a buggy 3D as it is, so I'm not surprised.
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Same here. I'm starting to think that they're all buggy...
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Same here. I'm starting to think that they're all buggy...
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Must be HTC screwed something up as the review units all seem to be working fine I am waiting on a response from them I will update on what they have to say.
Did the og evo lights turn off?
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Did the og evo lights turn off?
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yea they did.. if you click on the link on the first post you can see the lights on the 3D go off after about 1-3 secs.
Just got an email from HTC and according to them the capacitive lights are affected by ambient light so the less light there is makes them stay on the whole time :/
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They're fine too me. Not bright at all.
I noticed that my search button is always on. The others turn off in bright light but the search button dims and is barely on.
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I noticed that my search button is always on. The others turn off in bright light but the search button dims and is barely on.
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Might be light leakage from the actual led screen backlight
Yea my search button is the same as well so it must be from the backlight. Hopefully HTC lowers the light timeout in an update soon I'm kinda blind already and those lasers hitting my eyes aren't helping much lol
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just wondering if anyone elses phone has different brightness levels for the capacitive buttons. back is much brighter than all the rest.
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just wondering if anyone elses phone has different brightness levels for the capacitive buttons. back is much brighter than all the rest.
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Mine look pretty similar in brightness.
The question that I have about the buttons is there a way to change their brightness or turn the backlight off? I when the phone is in the dock and in night mode the screen dims but the buttons are still at full brightness which defeats the purpose of dimming the screen backlight.
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The question that I have about the buttons is there a way to change their brightness or turn the backlight off? I when the phone is in the dock and in night mode the screen dims but the buttons are still at full brightness which defeats the purpose of dimming the screen backlight.
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Yup, just download "led's hack" from the market and after opening app it'll ask what phone you have, choose "Droid X" and you'll be able to disable the bottom led's and top too if wanted. Don't forget to hit thanks
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Looking into this
I'm a Sprint Product Ambassador supporting the launch of the Motorola Photon. I wasn't able to find any settings that would control the backlight for the capacitive buttons natively on the Photon. I know on some of our other Android devices you can match button backlight to screen timeout, etc but I am not seeing anything similar for Photon. I am researching thid further but did a little testing for you today with my own HDMI dock and while it's no real fix, I did see that after leaving it on the dock for a couple of minutes in night mode, the capacitive button backlight did go off after a couple of minutes.
I guess I didn't leave it on long enough to see them go off. I'm trying the app for now and so far it's doing what I need. If the lights go out like you said there must be a timer value somewhere that I'm going to see if I can find.
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Mine seem the same, although of course apparent brightness is different because the buttons are different sizes.
I exchanged the phone and this is my third photon and its rock solid.
P.S. I was having issues with lag and removed "watchdog" and that may have been my problem. it was the free app on amazon a while back and I got it. does anyone else use that program?
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I just got an Xperia Active Billabong Edition today. My problem is that the lower right screen is bleeding. It's not the screen itself. It's actually the blacklight of the capacitive "menu" button. When I set the screen timeout to 2 mins and the capacitive buttons shut off before the screen does, there's no light bleed. Anyone else with this problem?
Yea i got the same issue. I have persuaded myself not to look on the bottom right corner
I think its a manufacturer error...
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Yea i got the same issue. I have persuaded myself not to look on the bottom right corner
I think its a manufacturer error...
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Thank god. I feel better now that I'm not the only one. Which active do you have?
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i have same thing......does not bother me at all.......
Same error here.
Newly aquired Xperia Active with bleeding light in lower right corner, and it really annoys me.
That an the fact that the phone sometimes, without reason, goes into a vibrating spasm which usually do not last longer than a minute.
And sometimes the phone looses connection with the SIM-card, and I have to turn the phone off, and the on again to be able to connect to my carrier.
So it's a common problem? I think it's a manufacturing defect.
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Anyone else experiencing this? My seller said his last unit also has this light leak.
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I see the same thing. I just decided not to care
Me too on st15i
I also have the vibra-spasms
I didnt have them on CM7 tho. I think its Kernel related more than anything,
Same for me - don´t think about .............
BTW - it´s a famous fone and really water resitent - i tried this out yesterday.
That's just terrible quality control! It's alarming.
Strange thing is people aren't bothered by the inferior quality of their products.
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I've been checking for light bleeding on a couple of active's but I can't see any. Do you guys have any picture of your light bleeding's? I'm interested too see it myself.
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I've been checking for light bleeding on a couple of active's but I can't see any. Do you guys have any picture of your light bleeding's? I'm interested too see it myself.
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It's quite hard to capture it on photo but it's on the lower right. It's caused by the capacitive buttons light leaking on the LCD.
It's very visible at night specially on a black screen or just when you unlock unlock phone using the power button from sleep.
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It's quite hard to capture it on photo but it's on the lower right. It's caused by the capacitive buttons light leaking on the LCD.
It's very visible at night specially on a black screen or just when you unlock unlock phone using the power button from sleep.
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I saw that you made a thread about this on my "home" forum as well.
http://talk.sonyericsson.com/thread/25624#
It's updated.
Hey,
have you ever tried to use the app "Screen Filter"?
The app should allow you to turn off the backlight of the softkeys!
Can anyone check if its working with the Xperia Active?
Let me know please... i dont have the phone, but maybe soon i have...
Same Here, i think what happend on my active
Please can anyone check if the "Screen Filter" app works on the xperia active?
There you can choose "disable softkey backlight". With this option the effect dont appear anymore...
please advice
Screen filter and unselect "Enable soft key backlight" works well. Soft key backlight is disabled, also when unlocking the phone.
The disadvantage being that in a dark room, you'll now have to "know" where each of the three soft buttons is (which probably isn't a problem if it's your phone and you're used to using it).
Thanks a lot! Happy to hear that...
Is there a possibility to autostart Screen Filter or have you to start the app manually after a reboot?
Thanks a lot again
Never mind as soon as I posted here they started working again.
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Never mind as soon as I posted here they started working again.
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Any idea what you did to get them to start working again? Mine won't light up at all with the exception they will "glow faintly" in a totally dark room.
Do you have power saver on? If so I think it affects them
No, it's off. I've now heard they don't light at all unless it is very dark. Very different from my HTC One X where the buttons are lit even in daylight.
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I hope a future update allows these buttons to light up in less than pitch black conditions because I do have a difficult time seeing them when at my desk.
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Any idea what you did to get them to start working again? Mine won't light up at all with the exception they will "glow faintly" in a totally dark room.
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Mine stopped working for about 20 minutes one day and I just rebooted which worked for me
I think that the buttons are semi auto bright bc I've noticed at times when it's brighter they are dimmer and only fully lit when there's no lights
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I also have an HTC One X and One X + and the buttons glow very bright. On the One, they will glow in a nearly dark room, but are still very faint and nothing like other models. I guess it was a design flaw that somehow made it to production. They say the new update fixes the touch problem with the buttons, but nothing about the illumination. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if HTC can and will fix the issue.
I'd be satisfied if there was a toggle to just turn the button lights on or off. There's an app for this in the play store called Soft Buttons Light but it doesn't work on the One.
Is anyone else having issues with the capacitive touch buttons not lighting up? I am not in power saver mode and my buttons only light up every once in awhile. Seemingly random.
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Is anyone else having issues with the capacitive touch buttons not lighting up? I am not in power saver mode and my buttons only light up every once in awhile. Seemingly random.
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Mine lights up when the LCD turns on and also on low light environment. This seems to be the normal behavior from what I read.
That's what I assumed usual behavior would be, and mine sometimes acts just like that. But most of the time they don't turn on at all. I'll be rooting and flashing soon and hopefully that'll fix it
Does anyone have any ideas in the meantime or maybe I'm missing a setting?
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They are supposed to light up? Wow, I don't think I've had that happen at all. Is there a way to keep them on? I was thinking to myself it was annoying not being able to see them clearly.
slopra said:
Is anyone else having issues with the capacitive touch buttons not lighting up? I am not in power saver mode and my buttons only light up every once in awhile. Seemingly random.
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This is a bug and has been fixed in newer software in the Main HTC One forum. T-Mo just needs to update the software.
From what I've seen on my device, mine only light up in "low light". Discovered it by tilting the phone towards a direct light, the buttons dimmed, then tilted away and they came back on. I just assumed that was normal behavior. Picked mine up on the 24th and no software update yet
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From what I've seen on my device, mine only light up in "low light". Discovered it by tilting the phone towards a direct light, the buttons dimmed, then tilted away and they came back on. I just assumed that was normal behavior. Picked mine up on the 24th and no software update yet
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Hmm you're totally right. I just covered my light sensor with my hand and they are constantly on. I wish there was a way to turn that feature off and just have them on all the time or at least change the sensitivity cause sometimes I can't see the buttons still. Well at least I have a reason now. Thanks.
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