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[Q] Issues with DZ

Update on Issue #1: 2010.11.29
This issue appears to affect all unlocked Froyo devices on the Rogers network. It MAY affect all Froyo devices, regardless of network lock status, but we have been unable to confirm this (yet) on the only Froyo device locked to Rogers - The Acer Liquid e.
There are currently 4 threads (that I am aware of) scattered around XDA. As this problem affects multiple devices I will start posting updates in the General Discussion/Q&A thread, and will stop posting updates here. If you are looking for more information, please refer to:
Main Thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845152
Other Device Specific Threads:
N1: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849969
DZ: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848793
SGS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850784Wanted to see if this is isolated to my phone or if others have these issues.
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Phone is Rooted, S-Off, Paul Obriens Custom ROM with HTC Sense on Rogers Network.
1. Cannot get a location lock unless I use GPS, it will not give me a location in Maps at all unless I turn on GPS.
2. Display is set to Automatic Brightness but the screen stays the same no matter if i'm in direct sunlight or in a pitch black room
3. Have SMS Timestamp fix but am still getting messages which sometimes show hours behind or hours ahead

Bump
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For the GPS issue, you should post this up in the thread on Paul's ROM, to see if others have the problem. I presume your GPS worked fine on the stock ROM ?
Others have reported issues with the automatic brightness setting. I suspect it doesn't work at all, even on the stock ROM.

Also have issue with automatic brightness adjusting not working.

ayewhy said:
Also have issue with automatic brightness adjusting not working.
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I don't think I've seen anyone saying that it *does* work for them in the stock ROM. Anyone ?

steviewevie said:
For the GPS issue, you should post this up in the thread on Paul's ROM, to see if others have the problem. I presume your GPS worked fine on the stock ROM ?
Others have reported issues with the automatic brightness setting. I suspect it doesn't work at all, even on the stock ROM.
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Will do, hopefully it can get fixed. The GPS works fine, locks fast. It's when I don't have GPS enabled that it won't give a location using the wireless network now.
Wonder if making a single thread regarding auto brightness would be good. I've emailed HTC and they gave the typical "pull battery, factory reset" garbage. And after "exhausting" those "fixes" they simply say to call and RMA the device...ugh

It works on my DZ(stock ROM), but not flawless. It adjusts the brightness when I shine on the sensor with a flashlight, but it won't change back to 'normal' when I move the flashlight away. It changes back after going to sleep and unlocking. Also, it won't go below approx. 50%.
Edit: I checked it again and it does change back, it just takes a few seconds.
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andijvie42 said:
It works on my DZ(stock ROM), but not flawless. It adjusts the brightness when I shine on the sensor with a flashlight, but it won't change back to 'normal' when I move the flashlight away. It changes back after going to sleep and unlocking. Also, it won't go below approx. 50%.
Edit: I checked it again and it does change back, it just takes a few seconds.
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Can you take a video possibly of this, what are the details of your phone? Rooted? S-Off?
The screen will "dim" when the backlight times out but it never actively dims because of the sensor on my phone.

Stealth1985 said:
Can you take a video possibly of this, what are the details of your phone? Rooted? S-Off?
The screen will "dim" when the backlight times out but it never actively dims because of the sensor on my phone.
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My phone is completely stock. The dimming might be too little to be noticed, have you tried to shine a light directly in the light sensor, while being in a fairly dark room, so that you can observe the maximum change of brightness?
You could also download one of the sensor apps out there and see if the sensor works. Mine says light level 0 in a darker room, and max when i shine a light in the sensor.
I doubt the sensor is very useful though, as the brightness only goes from approx. 50 to 80%...(going from zero light to lightest) might be better if these values could be set.
About the video, the only camera I have right now is the DZ, so I'll see what I can do.
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andijvie42 said:
It works on my DZ(stock ROM), but not flawless. It adjusts the brightness when I shine on the sensor with a flashlight, but it won't change back to 'normal' when I move the flashlight away.
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That's interesting, thanks, I'll give that a try.
Sounds like the auto-brightness and the keyboard/cap buttons backlight (both of which use the light sensor) might both suffer from the same thing - i.e. very poor programming/implementation.

I have issues 1 and 2 (but not 3).
I would like to add that auto-brightness seemed to work fine when I (briefly) used CyanogenMod RC2, though I have no other Android devices to compare with.
I dumped the stock Sense ROM pretty quickly so this might have worked fine on the original ROM.

This definitely sucks, what ROM do you have that the location doesn't work too?
Pretty disappointed that I'm having these issues and HTC's response is send it in. I am not paying to re-unlock another phone because they can't make something that fully works.
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I have some bad news for you about point 1. It looks like a number of people on various unlocked android devices (N1, Desire, SGS i9000m) are experiencing the network location problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845152
There is w (crappy, but still functional) work around, but...
For most of us it started sometime around Nov 14th.
It has some pretty unhappy implications for those of us who prefer android and want a top-end phone.
Good luck.

Damn Rogers seems to have screwed things up.
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Yeah. Maybe.
It seems to be an interaction between Rogers and unlocked android phones. We don't know whether it is all unlocked android phones, though, or even if it is specific models (i.e. would an unlocked Rogers Captivate have the same problem), or a specific OS (i.e. we don't know yet if the problem happens on eclair - while not directly useful to the DZ owners, it would at least help to pinpoint the problem and might help to get Google to step-up).
There are just too many unknowns, and how do you speak with someone with sufficient knowledge to speak intelligently? Rogers tech support hasn't been much help, and Google and Rogers seem to want to bounce the problem between each other.

Auto-brightness: Using My sensors free market app, checked the light sensor. All the sensors but the light gives live info. Looks like it doesnt work at all, like not switched on.
Uk htc z, stock rom.
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tbalden said:
Auto-brightness: Using My sensors free market app, checked the light sensor. All the sensors but the light gives live info. Looks like it doesnt work at all, like not switched on.
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Could be that the app doesn't work with the DZ light sensor properly though ? I know my light sensor does something, because the keyboard/cap keys backlight turns on and off kind of randomly depending on light levels (and if you block the sensor then the lights come on).

Thats true. It happens here too. But still might be related...
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Ok.with very bright flash light around it gives data with the my sensors app. Then its the levels its moving light level between,as mentioned in this thread before.
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tbalden said:
Ok.with very bright flash light around it gives data with the my sensors app. Then its the levels its moving light level between,as mentioned in this thread before.
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Cool, kinda sounds like it works, just very very badly.

[Q] Auto Brightness Problem

Just flashed CM10 Alpha 3 2.6 Kernel version and I have come across the apparently well known auto brightness problem.
Is there a fix for this yet? Is this fault present in the 3.0 kernel version?
Thanks.

Brianrh said:
Just flashed CM10 Alpha 3 2.6 Kernel version and I have come across the apparently well known auto brightness problem.
Is there a fix for this yet? Is this fault present in the 3.0 kernel version?
Thanks.
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What's the problem? Our phone doesn't support auto brightness though.

cycloneblast said:
What's the problem? Our phone doesn't support auto brightness though.
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Ah that's why it doesn't work. I managed to get the brightness toggle to show an 'A' all the time and assumed that auto brightness was stuck on. I then searched the forum and found threads about this happening with other devices and took it that this was a common problem with CM10.
Thanks for the help.

Brianrh said:
Ah that's why it doesn't work. I managed to get the brightness toggle to show an 'A' all the time and assumed that auto brightness was stuck on. I then searched the forum and found threads about this happening with other devices and took it that this was a common problem with CM10.
Thanks for the help.
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No problem

Our wonder doesn't support auto brightness that's is why you got stuck on it.
to fix it you need enable the brightness control under/above the toggles and un-tick the auto brightness.
next time remove that option so that you won't get stuck
Press The Thanks Button If I Helped

I had the autobrightness problem too. *somehow* it became activated, and I couldn't find a way to DEactivate it. I tried every single "settings" option I could think of, and nothing worked.
I asked a similar question to you (on this forum) and eventually I got an answer that said if I installed an app that controlled brightness then I could disable auto....it was suggested that I try "widgetsoid" or "battery doctor".....both (as it turns out) do what I wanted.
Why was I so bothered about autobrightness?
With it enabled I couldn't swipe left or right across the top of the screen to manually adjust brightness, with auto disabled I could.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

Sad that our phone doesn't have a light sensor, auto brightness would be so helpful...
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keithross39 said:
I had the autobrightness problem too. *somehow* it became activated, and I couldn't find a way to DEactivate it. I tried every single "settings" option I could think of, and nothing worked.
I asked a similar question to you (on this forum) and eventually I got an answer that said if I installed an app that controlled brightness then I could disable auto....it was suggested that I try "widgetsoid" or "battery doctor".....both (as it turns out) do what I wanted.
Why was I so bothered about autobrightness?
With it enabled I couldn't swipe left or right across the top of the screen to manually adjust brightness, with auto disabled I could.....
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......
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Cheers Keith his was exactly my problem and Battery Doctor fixed it for me.
Thanks.

Brianrh said:
Cheers Keith his was exactly my problem and Battery Doctor fixed it for me.
Thanks.
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Glad I could help fella...
Sent from my CM10 powered Wonder with Tapatalk 2......it's all good......

[Q] Auto brightness working poorly

Anyone else finding autobrightness for the LCD to be essentially useless?
I can be in my room with the lights off at night, and it never seems to turn itself down.

cryolithic said:
Anyone else finding autobrightness for the LCD to be essentially useless?
I can be in my room with the lights off at night, and it never seems to turn itself down.
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Yup had that issue with lg firmware. I'm on CM mod nod now, works much better.
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cryolithic said:
Anyone else finding autobrightness for the LCD to be essentially useless?
I can be in my room with the lights off at night, and it never seems to turn itself down.
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I just rooted my phone. Used Android Commander, and changed the thermald.conf file. Here's a guide.
Works awesome.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2034973&highlight=brightness

[Q] Light sensor/auto brightness

Hi, does anybody have issues with light sensor/auto brightness on Nexus 4?
Sometimes mine stops working and brightness does not change with light variations.
Rebooting solves the problem.
I am running PA 4.5 beta 2 with stock kernel, but it happened sometimes also on stock rom.
Thanks!

bcorbisiero said:
Hi, does anybody have issues with light sensor/auto brightness on Nexus 4?
Sometimes mine stops working and brightness does not change with light variations.
Rebooting solves the problem.
I am running PA 4.5 beta 2 with stock kernel, but it happened sometimes also on stock rom.
Thanks!
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Shouldn't be a problem with PA, I'm running it with no problems.
Maybe you have dirt over your sensor or maybe a thick screen guard over it?

prasanth21 said:
Shouldn't be a problem with PA, I'm running it with no problems.
Maybe you have dirt over your sensor or maybe a thick screen guard over it?
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Thank you, but I have no screen film and no dirt on the sensor.
It works again restarting the phone, it seems to stop working after an undefined period of time.

bcorbisiero said:
Thank you, but I have no screen film and no dirt on the sensor.
It works again restarting the phone, it seems to stop working after an undefined period of time.
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Try searching google for the lux auto brightness apk. Install this and let it take control of your auto brightness. See how it is. Make sure you download the full version.

Auto brightness

It's not stable and not reliable? Am I only one facing the issue?
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Veerab said:
It's not stable and not reliable? Am I only one facing the issue?
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Mine is exactly the same.

Please explain your issue further. I am on global stable 11.0.6.0 and experiencing no issues with the auto brightness.

Yeah please tell us more because me neither I don't have any issue and it works like it should, adjusting brightness of the screen automatically on global eu 11.0.2.0.
I even have set some scripts with MacroDroid to turn it off on low light environments like home to save battery and eye strain and an other script to turn Auto brightness on when ambient light is above 75 lux. Works like a charm.
Regards.

spikesmonster said:
Mine is exactly the same.
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Me too

JuanM2020 said:
Please explain your issue further. I am on global stable 11.0.6.0 and experiencing no issues with the auto brightness.
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Simple, it won't work as intended..it's fluxtuates under same lighting conditions..
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Veerab said:
Simple, it won't work as intended..it's fluxtuates under same lighting conditions..
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Okay... Well you can be in the exact same lighting and the brightness will lower if you move or cover the sensor in any way. E.g. phone is facing away from the light then brightness will lower as it detects "less" light.

same here -
auto brightness is just fixed brightness

Same here... Autobrightness sucks in this device... I use manual brightness

I test light sensor in the hidden menu and it always show 0 lux.

My light sensor works fine as i have said in the other thread, The light sensor test is working and adjusts as i cover the sensor.

Veerab said:
It's not stable and not reliable? Am I only one facing the issue?
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doesn't work for me too, since the last two updates (android 10) 11.0.4 and 11.0.5 (QGGMIXM) when I go to test menu the DAC is always 0.000000 luxes and sometimes it changes but slowly

I confirm my sensor on EEA Global phone using stock Rom V11.0.2.0.(A9).PGGEUXM is working perfectly fine as it should.
Are all the people having issues on one of the A10 Rom or maybe some special phone regional flavor? In that case could be a driver issue for sensor on A10.
Hope this helps.

Somebody should make a poll so we can see how widespread this problem is.

Light sensor Doesnt work any more for me too.
Dac : 0 lux
Must restart device to work again.
Miui 11.0.3.0 global
Android 10
Edit : works again with last Xiaomi updates screen recorder or cleaner.

Same problem here , works fine for some days and then DAC shows 0 lux with the brightness dropped low. It can be fixed only with a reboot.

Hello
Yes, the sensor goes to zero even after updating to mi12.
I feel like it does after adjusting the brightness manually.
can you confirm ?

Same here. Is there a way to fix light sensor permanently? DAC value shows 0. Can be fixed temporarily after a reboot but then fails again.

light sensor sometimes gets stuck, restart phone to get it working gain.

TOTALY disable sunlight mode. this fixed mine problem. If u cantt disable sunlight mode, disable autobrightnes first, disable sunlight mode and reenable autobrightnes. Finaly works for me!!!