screen not dimming but fully off - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello XDA,
I have issue with my android screen dimming system..
I have a rooted Android 4.2.2 Stock rom.
Yesterday, I installed Xposed Framework, to customise my android.
All seems to work totally fine but now I am having a problem with my Screen Dimming system..
When I read something on phone or the screen remains on for few seconds. The Screen don't get dim but gets totally off. but if I touches the screen again. It get lit up again.
Please help.

abhinavp649 said:
Hello XDA,
I have issue with my android screen dimming system..
I have a rooted Android 4.2.2 Stock rom.
Yesterday, I installed Xposed Framework, to customise my android.
All seems to work totally fine but now I am having a problem with my Screen Dimming system..
When I read something on phone or the screen remains on for few seconds. The Screen don't get dim but gets totally off. but if I touches the screen again. It get lit up again.
Please help.
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Which modules do you install

GravityBox

Paget96 said:
Which modules do you install
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GravityBox 2.7.6

abhinavp649 said:
GravityBox 2.7.6
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disable CRT screen OFF animation and Autobrihtness levels adjustment if you activate it

Paget96 said:
disable CRT screen OFF animation and Autobrihtness levels adjustment if you activate it
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Thanks Paget96, it worked..
I just disabled brightness settings in gravity box..
Nd it worked..
Thanks again...

abhinavp649 said:
Thanks Paget96, it worked..
I just disabled brightness settings in gravity box..
Nd it worked..
Thanks again...
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[Q] HELP!My screen keeps flickering!

Hi,
I have the SE Xperia LWW and my screen keeps flickering all the time.It becomes dim and bright freaquently,it does not happen when i cover the sensors.And where can i disable auto brightness?PLEASE HELP!
*Not Rooted
*New
are you in GingerBread or ICS..??
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Im on GingerBread.
intruderj said:
Im on GingerBread.
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go to settings > display > and set your brightness display manually and turn off autobrightness
Neuferkar said:
go to settings > display > and set your brightness display manually and turn off autobrightness
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There is no such option on Xperia phones.
Without root, you cannot turn off the autobrightness. That is, only with root you can turn it off.
The screen flickering means light sensor is changing the screen brightness.
Someguyfromhell said:
There is no such option on Xperia phones.
Without root, you cannot turn off the autobrightness. That is, only with root you can turn it off.
The screen flickering means light sensor is changing the screen brightness.
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i have rooted my phone after one week from purchasing so...:silly:
intruderj said:
Im on GingerBread.
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In what version of firmware..??
I think you have to upgrade it, if you are in FW .58 or .42. If you are in .62 may you have to re-flash it.
Neuferkar said:
i have rooted my phone after one week from purchasing so...:silly:
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Sure, but even with a rooted phone there's no option to disable autobrightness.
You have to install "Disable Auto Brightness Xperia".
Or you can edit /etc/hw_config.sh to disable the light sensor.

[H] Problems with brightness

Hi all! I'm having some brightness issues on my Razr i and any help would be great!
I'm on stock 4.1.2 and was using Power Toggles brightness slider to change the brightness, but suddenly, with no changes on the phone, the brigthness level would change only after turning screen off/on. But the problem is not related to the app I think, because even auto brightness isn't working properly... I mean, when it has to get brighter, it works, but when it has to dim, again only if I turn off/on the screen.
Does anyone know what could be causing it?
Thanks in advance!
Sorry for the bad english.
luizlee86 said:
Hi all! I'm having some brightness issues on my Razr i and any help would be great!
I'm on stock 4.1.2 and was using Power Toggles brightness slider to change the brightness, but suddenly, with no changes on the phone, the brigthness level would change only after turning screen off/on. But the problem is not related to the app I think, because even auto brightness isn't working properly... I mean, when it has to get brighter, it works, but when it has to dim, again only if I turn off/on the screen.
Does anyone know what could be causing it?
Thanks in advance!
Sorry for the bad english.
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Although you don't think the app is causing the brightness problem's I would recommend uninstalling it for troubleshooting purposes and seeing if after you have uninstalled the app and rebooted the phone if after some time the problem persists. This way we can rule out if the app is or isn't causing the problem.
shimp208 said:
Although you don't think the app is causing the brightness problem's I would recommend uninstalling it for troubleshooting purposes and seeing if after you have uninstalled the app and rebooted the phone if after some time the problem persists. This way we can rule out if the app is or isn't causing the problem.
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Thanks for the reply. I did uninstall it and the problem remains... I installed volume slider (which has a brightness slider too) and the same happens: non "real time" brightness changing and the auto brightness still doesn't work properly... =/
luizlee86 said:
Thanks for the reply. I did uninstall it and the problem remains... I installed volume slider (which has a brightness slider too) and the same happens: non "real time" brightness changing and the auto brightness still doesn't work properly... =/
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That is odd, I would recommend booting into recovery and performing a factory reset and then see if that fixes your problem.
shimp208 said:
That is odd, I would recommend booting into recovery and performing a factory reset and then see if that fixes your problem.
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This is what I was afraid of... =/
I will just wait a little longer to see if anybody faced this issue before. I'm pretty sure a factory reset will do (since it started to act like this all of a sudden) but I want to find the cause so it won't happen again or, if it happens, I won't need to do a factory reset...
It's weird... what could make this issue appear? =/
luizlee86 said:
This is what I was afraid of... =/
I will just wait a little longer to see if anybody faced this issue before. I'm pretty sure a factory reset will do (since it started to act like this all of a sudden) but I want to find the cause so it won't happen again or, if it happens, I won't need to do a factory reset...
It's weird... what could make this issue appear? =/
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One possible way of figuring out what is causing this issue to happen is to generate a logcat when you are adjusting the brightness settings and see if the log reports any background processes that are causing errors with the brightness control.
shimp208 said:
One possible way of figuring out what is causing this issue to happen is to generate a logcat when you are adjusting the brightness settings and see if the log reports any background processes that are causing errors with the brightness control.
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Thanks for helping me!
I never generated a logcat before. So I installed CatLog from Store and generated a logcat doing the following:
1) Set brightness to auto
2) Put the phone under a lamp
3) Turned of all the lights: the brightness didn't change
4) Turned off and on the screen: when the screen turned on, the brightness was already on a lower level
The logcat is pretty messed... it shouldn't be like that right? =/
Is this helpful?
luizlee86 said:
Thanks for helping me!
I never generated a logcat before. So I installed CatLog from Store and generated a logcat doing the following:
1) Set brightness to auto
2) Put the phone under a lamp
3) Turned of all the lights: the brightness didn't change
4) Turned off and on the screen: when the screen turned on, the brightness was already on a lower level
The logcat is pretty messed... it shouldn't be like that right? =/
Is this helpful?
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From looking at the logcat there is a lot of errors and warning messages with loading certain library files and Android runtime services that relate to power and screen brightness sensing. Another peculiar thing I noticed was that NFC seemed to be generating a couple error messages as well. Overall you were definitely right about it not being a normal log in this situation, I also like your testing methodology :good:.
shimp208 said:
From looking at the logcat there is a lot of errors and warning messages with loading certain library files and Android runtime services that relate to power and screen brightness sensing. Another peculiar thing I noticed was that NFC seemed to be generating a couple error messages as well. Overall you were definitely right about it not being a normal log in this situation, I also like your testing methodology :good:.
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NFC is disabled... =/
Well, so any suggestion? Or just a factory reset would do?
luizlee86 said:
NFC is disabled... =/
Well, so any suggestion? Or just a factory reset would do?
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Unfortunately a factory reset would probably be the best thing to do.
shimp208 said:
Unfortunately a factory reset would probably be the best thing to do.
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Just wiped data through CWM and the autobrightness still doesn't work properly...when it has to get brighter, it gets, but when it has to dim, it doesn't...
luizlee86 said:
Just wiped data through CWM and the autobrightness still doesn't work properly...when it has to get brighter, it gets, but when it has to dim, it doesn't...
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You could also try re-flashing the stock ROM to see if that fixes it, another suggestion that could possibly work is running a fix permissions utlity.
Reflashed stock rom and reinstalled all my apps. Everything was fine. Went to bed and woke up, the same problem with power toggles reappeared...
EDIT: found what was causing it! It is the latest version of Floating Notifications (when show on lockscreen is enabled)!
Thanks a lot shimp!
luizlee86 said:
Reflashed stock rom and reinstalled all my apps. Everything was fine. Went to bed and woke up, the same problem with power toggles reappeared...
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That's wicked bizarre that even after all those things the problem still persists. You could try bringing it in to Verizon to see if they can do anything otherwise a hardware issue may have arisen.
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When Screen Turns Off

So this isn't really a big deal but when my screen turns off it turns off like a tv where as when it turns on it just pops up like normal. Is this just how it is with ROMs or is there a way to change it back. I noticed this was happening too with my LG Esteem.
deathrow1992 said:
So this isn't really a big deal but when my screen turns off it turns off like a tv where as when it turns on it just pops up like normal. Is this just how it is with ROMs or is there a way to change it back. I noticed this was happening too with my LG Esteem.
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Depending on the ROM you should be able to disable CRT animation in display settings or general rom settings.
walther1337 said:
Depending on the ROM you should be able to disable CRT animation in display settings or general rom settings.
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Yeah I'm on Sense 5 and I don't see the option.
deathrow1992 said:
Yeah I'm on Sense 5 and I don't see the option.
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Odd. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has created a mod to remove the CRT animation. Check the mod threads and see. You can always try requesting the mod, or even ask in the rom thread for a toggle.

CM12 is out

I downloaded CM12 this morning using the updater. Auto update worked but lots of upgrade issues. Must update Framework but then things got better. Chrome is broken so I'm using stock browser. Recovery is awful. Make a backup before doing it but it sure is a start!
Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using XDA Free mobile app
mknewman said:
I downloaded CM12 this morning using the updater. Auto update worked but lots of upgrade issues. Must update Framework but then things got better. Chrome is broken so I'm using stock browser. Recovery is awful. Make a backup before doing it but it sure is a start!
Sent from my Xperia Z Ultra using XDA Free mobile app
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how did you install gapps? the recovery wont let me install them
I was able to. I had to copy it to internal sdcard though.
If you have FC crashes try uninstalling and reinstalling the apps. That helped me with several like News and Weather and Newsstand and Drive.
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mknewman said:
I was able to. I had to copy it to internal sdcard though.
If you have FC crashes try uninstalling and reinstalling the apps. That helped me with several like News and Weather and Newsstand and Drive.
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thanks. i thoght i edit my post, i found another gapps zip and put it on the internal storage and it installed ok.
most stuff works. swiftkey do not..
* Audio trough Bluetooth = broken
Rolle90 said:
thanks. i thoght i edit my post, i found another gapps zip and put it on the internal storage and it installed ok.
most stuff works. swiftkey do not..
* Audio trough Bluetooth = broken
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Pretty decent nightly, had issue with backlight setting that messed up screen brightness after screen lock. Had to reflash, there was no way back. I would suggest people avoid playing with backlight setting for the meantime.
Flashed nano GAPPS from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/par...apps-official-to-date-pa-google-apps-t2943900
Rolle90 said:
* Audio trough Bluetooth = broken
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Confirmed.
How often do you guys think cm will puch updates for this rom?
Rolle90 said:
How often do you guys think cm will puch updates for this rom?
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Daily?
Just toght that the cm11 build did not get daily updates...
My Bluetooth is working fine, both to my Pebble watch and car.
I'm not sure what's up with backlight on this build. You have two options that seem to be the same on the DISPLAY settings, one says "Adaptive Brightness, Optimize brightness level for available light" and the other says "Adaptive Backlight, Dynamically adjust the brightness of the display's backlight to maximize battery life while maintaining usability".
The first one seems to adjust properly, and the slider bar does seem to set the upper limit for this level.
The 2nd one is a bit more problematic, I'm not really sure it works or how it functions in conjunction with the other one.
Anyone figure this out yet?
BTW I tried the full version of Lux with both of them turned off and it didn't end up well, the screen became so dark I ended up having to reboot and remove it.
Marc
restarted my phone two times and got BT audo, spotify works fine, but if i start Valiant Hearts the audio get realy static and laggy
EDIT:
New build just Launched!
Could you post some Screenshots? I'd like to see how application box and the main screen look like
Thanks!
Anyone tried from clean flash?
Has anyone tried flashing the nightly after doing a complete wipe? Seems like many of the problems mentioned may be avoided by a clean install.
If someone has done a clean install, can you let us know if there are any bugs remaining?
Thanks
mknewman said:
My Bluetooth is working fine, both to my Pebble watch and car.
I'm not sure what's up with backlight on this build. You have two options that seem to be the same on the DISPLAY settings, one says "Adaptive Brightness, Optimize brightness level for available light" and the other says "Adaptive Backlight, Dynamically adjust the brightness of the display's backlight to maximize battery life while maintaining usability".
The first one seems to adjust properly, and the slider bar does seem to set the upper limit for this level.
The 2nd one is a bit more problematic, I'm not really sure it works or how it functions in conjunction with the other one.
Anyone figure this out yet?
BTW I tried the full version of Lux with both of them turned off and it didn't end up well, the screen became so dark I ended up having to reboot and remove it.
Marc
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The second is how the display reacts to the brightness of the displayed image on screen
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lkirkw said:
Has anyone tried flashing the nightly after doing a complete wipe? Seems like many of the problems mentioned may be avoided by a clean install.
If someone has done a clean install, can you let us know if there are any bugs remaining?
Thanks
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I did a clean install. Not many problems here, BT audio stop working from time to time, (reboot fix the problem for a while)
Hey, do any of you guys have a flashable CWM recovery? I'd like to try to use it instead of CM's recovery.
alphaandomega said:
Hey, do any of you guys have a flashable CWM recovery? I'd like to try to use it instead of CM's recovery.
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I've tried all sorts to put a different recovery on. Have ended up with no usable recovery on the phone. Only option is to put up with CM for now.
lkirkw said:
Has anyone tried flashing the nightly after doing a complete wipe? Seems like many of the problems mentioned may be avoided by a clean install.
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Mine was a clean install, Bluetooth is the only problem for me.
mknewman said:
My Bluetooth is working fine, both to my Pebble watch and car.
I'm not sure what's up with backlight on this build. You have two options that seem to be the same on the DISPLAY settings, one says "Adaptive Brightness, Optimize brightness level for available light" and the other says "Adaptive Backlight, Dynamically adjust the brightness of the display's backlight to maximize battery life while maintaining usability".
The first one seems to adjust properly, and the slider bar does seem to set the upper limit for this level.
The 2nd one is a bit more problematic, I'm not really sure it works or how it functions in conjunction with the other one.
Anyone figure this out yet?
BTW I tried the full version of Lux with both of them turned off and it didn't end up well, the screen became so dark I ended up having to reboot and remove it.
Marc
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I didn't bother with Lux, just playing with those two settings made my screen super dark, had to reflash.
alphaandomega said:
Hey, do any of you guys have a flashable CWM recovery? I'd like to try to use it instead of CM's recovery.
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My understanding of the Z Ultra is that the kernel and recovery are both on the boot partition and are not actually separate. If you install TWRP or Philz you will wipe the CM12 kernel out and you won't boot, just be able to get into recovery. Those recoveries are built for stock/stock based installs where you can replace the kernel.
We will just have to wait for a good CM12 Recovery or boot to CM11 and use its recovery to backup /data and then reinstall CM12 before you boot up. I think I've seen that refered to hot booting recovery.
Please feel free to correct me if you are a dev and know more about this than me.
Marc
zs29a said:
I didn't bother with Lux, just playing with those two settings made my screen super dark, had to reflash.
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Had the same issue. Just leave the second one (adaptive backlight) enabled and the dark screen should stop. You can adjust the first one at will

Yellow Screen

It seems that my Redmi note 3 Pro gets Yellow screen every time I flash CM14 based roms. Any solution?
Try turning off live display from settings
jayaram95 said:
Try turning off live display from settings
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I have turned off. The screen still keeps more yellow than miui stock.
RedofTears said:
I have turned off. The screen still keeps more yellow than miui stock.
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Oh..then you can try installing kernel adiutor and increase the blue colour intensity from the screen settings.
jayaram95 said:
Oh..then you can try installing kernel adiutor and increase the blue colour intensity from the screen settings.
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Ok, I will give it a try.

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