My auto brightness does not adjust the screen brightness with respect to the ambient light. The option is enabled and always keeps the screen on high brightness. Moving the slider bar while auto brightness enabled does not lower/higher the brightness.
With auto brightness disabled, the slider bar can lower/higher the brightness.
Things Tried:
1) Factory reset through settings->backup and reset-> factory data reset
2) Factory reset through press and hold volume down + power button. Then selecting factory reset option
3) Clearing cache: power down -> press and hold volume up+power button + home key. Then selecting Wipe cache partition.
4) Went to Samsung tech support at Best Buy to have the phone's firmware re-flashed. This was recommended when I was transferred to Samsung Tech Support at Verizon help.
Hardware Tests:
1) Used the CPU Z app to check the senors. When covering and uncovering the sensor, the values rise and fall accordingly.
2) Used Sensor Sense to double check values.
Firmware Tried:
G925VVRU4CPC2 (very first 6.0.1)
G925VVRU4CPK2 (second to latest)
G925VVRS4CPL3 (lastest)
Workaround:
Using the Lux app to automatically control the brightness...
I'd greatly appreciate if anyone has some solutions or insight to this issue. Thank you!
Did you manage to solve this problem?
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Is it possible to listen to music on the XDA with the screen off? ie just like when your talking on the phone and the screen is off but the speaker is still active.
If I turn the phone off with the power button the music stops, also the auto power off after time X doesn't kick in when Win Media Player is running.
Having the screen on all the time (even with the back light off) really drains the battery.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're using Windows Media Player, goto Tools, Settings, and then Buttons. You'll be able to map Screen Toggle to a key which will turn the screen on/off with the press of a button.
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Hi!
Yes, you can do it too with other players like GSPlayer and Mort Player.
These players come with preset timer to off your screen to save battery power and at the same time allows you to listen to music.
resco audio thingy will do the same job, as will betaplayer.
be sure to enable the feature through options.
Also im sure there are many more programs that will do this for you.
(even just a backlight plug-in?)
w0rd.
Pocket Music Player 3 has this feature also. It's one of the better players I've found thus far.
screensaver
phm power toys has a app that will turn off the display
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/PowerToys/
Heres another little freeware app that I have been using for a while - gives an option on the Today screen to turn off display, and pressing one of the units buttons turns it back on.
Also gives on screen bar graph of the battery capacity (the main function of the program i think) plus main memory and expansion memory capacity/usage, plus a soft reset, ability to turn off auto power off and a few other things i cantremember.....
There has been a lot of notes from people who have installed and cant uninstall (although why you would want to is beyond me..) but if you go into settings/today/items/ select power check then options, there is all the configuration settings plus instructions on how to uninstall.
Cheers, Dave.
EDIT.... Might help if i pasted in the link huh... http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/powercheck.shtml
EDIT2... Worth mentioning that the default button to fire back up the screen is Button 1, which on the XDA2 is the top right button (calendar). Don't do what I did and try each of the buttons - couldnt work out what button 5 was so I selected it as the option to turn back on the unit - guess what - there is no button 5 on the XDA2.... soft reset wouldn't bring it back up, had to hard reset in the end... Please learn from my mistakes!!!
Hello,
I am having an issue with my soft keys backlight. When I switch to manual brightness the soft key backlight goes to full brightness no matter what setting I use for the brightness level. Does the soft key backlight have multiple settings or is it just on or off? Is there a way to turn that backlight off?
Thank you!
It is just on and off. It may be able to be changed once we have root, but I do not know
I need my independence from SENSE. Project s-off will succeed
How do you set the screen brightness in power save mode? I can find the setting for normal usage, but it seems like there is no setting for power save mode and that it is just some predetermined percentage.
any help would be appreciated :good:
Correct. That's why I disable that part of Power Saver, that way I maintain control of the brightness - aside from that, it never impacted battery life anyway. Power Saver works great without having that option checked.
When I pick the phone or move it the screen turns on. It is annoying. Is there a way to only turn on screen by pressing power button? Please help.
Go to settings->smart convenience->gesture & motion and turn off Raise to Turn On Screen
I have already done that. But the screen still wakes up without any notification or pressing power button.
+1
Mine too
Disabling Auto Screen-On
Go to Fingerprint Settings under "Fingerprint, Face & Passwords" Section and Turn Off " Display the Fingerprint Icon when Screen is Off" option.
Faced the same issue, switching that off in Settings doesn't help!
I have never used any modifications of software. Only used stock firmware.
My coffee was spilled a little on device. Cleaned it immediately.
Then I got a freeze after boot up. I could see the home screen, but touch screen not responding, "Menu" and "Return" lights continuously lit and not responding. The removal of battery or long press of ON/OFF button was the only method to turn off. But the battery % shown on screen was correct each time. If I called the device, it was offline.
I connected the phone to my computer and it was recognized by windows. I did not transfer any files to phone by odin, but I have Odin application.
I used 3 button combinations to wipe cache, then boot up, but no change.
Then I used 3 button combinations again to return to factory settings and wiping everything. Now I get a solid screen where I need to select language but the menu and return lights a on continuously, and the touch screen does not respond.
So far, I can see that my three hardware buttons, on/off, volume, home buttons are working. Phone also was returned to factory defaults. But the problems continue to be the same. They are: no touch screen reaction, continuously lit menu and return buttons, home (OK) switch not working after boot up.
I have started to think that there might be a hardware problem. I have downloaded the service manual, can solder things, even have a microscope if needed.
Can somebody guide me to check where is the problem please?