The flash - Desire General

Anyone else having issues with the flash?
For instance it would happly flash on when you hit the thumb button to take the photo... But there doesnt seem to be a way to make the LED just turn on... So more oftern than not you end up with over exposed photos as there is no guide light from the LED.
Also Ive tryed using a flashlight app and that doesnt seem to turn on the LED at all...
Anyone else having simuler problems with the flash?

Im pretty sure the flash is only meant to... flash. I know what you meant though but im pretty sure there is no way to do this at the moment. And the flashlight apps are terrible, they just turn your screen brightness right up.

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EVO Button LEDS not working

I am OMJ's Rom on my EVO rooted with toasts method plus the radio update and the led's under the front buttons are not working. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there an app that controls them that was removed?
The lights will be off when the phone is plugged in and charging.
When exactly are the lights under the four soft buttons supposed to be on?
On my EVO (novatec 003, stock) I have noticed an inconstancy in when they light up. Sometimes they light up when I unlock my phone, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they turn on later, sometimes they don't turn on at all.
This doesn't seem normal to me. What are other's experience with this?
Thanks
they are controled with the light sensor and should be on in low light situations and off in bright lights. you can test this by covering the light sensor to the right of the HTC logo on top of the device.
Thank you @peepeesea that was it exactly. Which is more hi-tech that I gave them credit for.
Also as a side note, since I've been reading the xda forums I feel like a phone hypochondriac. Everythings broken!!

Capacitive button backlighting

My wife's evo is running stock rooted 1.47 with some basic battery saving tweaks.
I noticed today that her capacitive buttons aren't lighting up. Anyone else had this issue? Is there a setting somewhere that controls them?
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Seems like they sort of work. Sometimes they light up sometimes they don't. I'll try to figure out if there is a pattern to it.
DanBergundy said:
Seems like they sort of work. Sometimes they light up sometimes they don't. I'll try to figure out if there is a pattern to it.
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Yes, as even a cursory search would have told you, they are controlled by the light sensor.

Problem: Lights going on and off at bottom of EVO

Sup dudes, I have MikFroyo ROM installed (not sure if it's related to that) and my bottom buttons (home, menu, back, search) sometimes won't come on. Like even if I touch the screen or touch the buttons themselves they stay off. I've done a search around here and haven't found anyone with this specific issue - any ideas?
thanks
are you plugged in when this happens?
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
quocamole said:
are you plugged in when this happens?
Sent from my PC36100 using Tapatalk
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This happens whether plugged in or unplugged. I really think this is a program I've installed, a setting, or the ROM itself that is causing this issue.
I just installed stock mikfroyo and the same thing happens, no other programs installed.
I have also noticed this, only time it bothers me is checking my phone in the dark with it plugged in
Turns out this isn't a bug but these lights should react to how bright it is in the room. If it's dark they'll turn on, if it's well lit in the room they'll turn off. Testing with a light proves this.

[Q] camera led flashing when focusing?

I just noticed this now, but when i try to take pictures from the stock camera app, the led flashes when i touch focus it. ive tried different roms macnut,skyics... same thing happened. is this normal?
Try setting the flash to OFF. It's the pic of the lightning bolt.
Does it still do it. If it does then you have a problem.
If it is set to AUTO mode and it's doing this...just go outside in bright light and see if it still does it or not.
If it does it then...you have a sensor problem.
It doesnt happen when flash is off
when auto, i found that it lights when dark and not when its bright
so is this normal? when flash is ON, it flashes when focusing?
azn_indeed said:
It doesnt happen when flash is off
when auto, i found that it lights when dark and not when its bright
so is this normal? when flash is ON, it flashes when focusing?
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yes it is normal. You want to focus with the flash on because that is how your picture is going to be taken... with the flash on... Most phones can't focus with the flash off.. it's like focusing on a black screen, you'll get a red square
Thats what i thought, thanks guys!

Soft Touch Button Lights

So I can't seem to figure out why the Soft Touch Button are on, or mostly not on on the One X.
In a dark room they are not usually on, run some app or open something on the phone and they seem to activate.
Anyone else getting this??
They should activate/deactivate depending on the amount of surrounding light.
Tested it myself, with a flashlight on the phone the lights went of. When I removed the flashlight and back in the dark, the lights turned on.
Yes, I got the same result as Foggy79. I just want to know if I can turn if off manually?
Probably not (maybe with a custom ROM, but I doubt that)
I wanna know how to turn them off. When watching a video in the dark.... they stay on, when they should turn off when video is being played full screen.
n19htmare said:
I wanna know how to turn them off. When watching a video in the dark.... they stay on, when they should turn off when video is being played full screen.
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Use this Rom :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625816
With PKMN Tweaks integrated in this rom, you can control soft key led back light :
* Always on
* Always off
* Turn on when the dim light, turn off when strong light
ancola66 said:
Use this Rom :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1625816
With PKMN Tweaks integrated in this rom, you can control soft key led back light :
* Always on
* Always off
* Turn on when the dim light, turn off when strong light
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would rather not go flashing roms to get this.
And how would the tweak help? either it's always on, always off or the last option which would keep the lights on under dim conditions.
What they need to do is add a timeout. like on the Galaxy series phones. 2 seconds or 7 seconds. then it shuts off, when you touch the screen it turns on again.
It's just bad designing and/or programming.
Foggy79 said:
Tested it myself, with a flashlight on the phone the lights went of. When I removed the flashlight and back in the dark, the lights turned on.
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That'sa great idea, which I can't believe I didn't think of. I have been having the opposite problem: the soft key lights always stay on. However, when I held up the phone to a bright light, they turned off. So, they are working.
Still, it takes a really bright light to achieve this; I wish I could fine tune the behavior. I tried an app that stated it would control the keys but it did not work (and my phone is not rooted).
I also see in ancola66's post that the custom ROM allows automatic dimming only in "strong light," so apparently the behavior I am seeing is normal. I wish it would take less strong light to activate dimming/off as my lights never seem to go off, as I stated.
Thanks for these informative posts.
Reading in bed with Aldiko
It mostly annoys me when I'm reading in bed with Aldiko. Aldiko is a great reading app that lets you adjust the lights the phone emits to the lowest possible, so I can read in the dark without disturbing my wife.
However, on this phone I have the keys glaring in my eyes, way brighter than the letters of my book.
I wish I could switch them off somehow.
I thought the soft lights will only turn on when phone is in dark place? Correct me if I'm wrong.
kim9988 said:
I thought the soft lights will only turn on when phone is in dark place? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Exactly.. That sucks when lying in bed reading next to your beloved.. It should only light when touching the screen like the s3..I don't need those lights when I sit and read a book or something
Skickat från min HTC One X via Tapatalk 2
There are ways to disable them. Mostly(maybe a must) if you are ROOTED.
Apps that ppl said that were able to shut them off were screenfilter or how its called. Search through the forums here.
Or you can edit the framework-res file to disable them on sense roms. If Interested I will search it from here somewhere.
Or for CM check my signature (there are 2 lines, not the one about the UV...)
They annoy me too. I recently began watching some videos in bed (streaming from desktop) because I temporarily gave away my laptop. They are very bright in the dark, I wish there was an option to turn them off permanently (yes, I know it's possible with custom ROMs, but I'm still not ready to root yet).
Also, the display is still too bright for my taste - lowest brightness should be lower. Although it's pretty good compared to other screens. In my opinion, the lowest brightness is also very important, just as max. brightness.

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