Hi, I've noticed that the lower buttons are lit up automatically by the light sensor but sometimes I can't see the buttons because I'm in low light, but it is not low enough to lit up the buttons.. does it happen also to you? It's not a problem since you memorize the buttons' functions very soon, just a matter of curiosity
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Yep, I get this as well. What happens if you cover the light sensor?
I can't test it right now, but would hope the phone decides it's so dark that it needs to light the buttons up again.
preacher65 said:
Yep, I get this as well. What happens if you cover the light sensor?
I can't test it right now, but would hope the phone decides it's so dark that it needs to light the buttons up again.
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If you cover it with your hands, the buttons are lit up
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Same Issue
Yes I have the same problem you almost have to be in a blacked out room before the buttons light up, there is not control over this which is madness as different people will have different needs in low light. I spoke to HTC support and they were about as helpful and a chocolate fire guard
I noticed the same. I hope they sort this out with a future firmware, i'm sure they can calibrate the sensor somewhat better
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This is a dumb question but it seems to me the track pad should have a light. Just wondering I'd it is supposed to but I have a bad phone.Does the dinc have an lcd for the track pad?
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The track pad doesn't have a light. The notification light is next to the ear piece if that's what you were looking for.
Cole119 said:
The track pad doesn't have a light. The notification light is next to the ear piece if that's what you were looking for.
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Not sure what you mean. Just thought the track bitten should habr a lcd
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I understood what he meant...there isn't a light there...your notification light is at the top of the phone.
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my trackpad lights up black? No one else has this function?
But seriously, umm, there's no led or "lcd" in our trackpad. The optical trackpad was the replacement for the trackball (which on several devices..nexus one, g1, hero light up).
Ha ha. Maybe mine lights up black also. If so the problem is that the light is stuck on
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Ha ha. Maybe mine lights up black also. If so the problem is that the light is stuck on
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Seriously??
The trackpad uses light to devtect movement so obviously there couldn't be a light in it. Think of it as a eye
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I wear a lantern helmet to look at my track pad.
It uses an infrared light, can't see it to the human eye.
The droid incredible does have a light. Thats Why Its called An optical trackpad. Their is a small infrared light in the center of the track pad that reads your finger movements. Kind of like the red light you see on the bottom of some modern computer mouses. If you are in a dark room and start using the track ball; you tilt the phone at an angle you can see a red light inside. You can also see it as you are unlocking the locksceen.
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The droid incredible does have a light. Thats Why Its called An optical trackpad. Their is a small infrared light in the center of the track pad that reads your finger movements. Kind of like the red light you see on the bottom of some modern computer mouses. If you are in a dark room and start using the track ball; you tilt the phone at an angle you can see a red light inside. You can also see it as you are unlocking the locksceen.
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The glass dome that makes the center of the optical pad is a very very dark red tint, the same that remote controls have covering their infrared leds.
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The glass dome that makes the center of the optical pad is a very very dark red tint, the same that remote controls have covering their infrared leds.
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I know Its dark red. I said that their was an optical light inside. That is what tracks the movement. You cant see it when the phone is off. If you are in a dark room and look at the track pad while unlocking the phone, you can see it. You can also see it right after you use it, then it dims when not in use.
Concentrate harder
Infrared light is not visible to the human eye so maybe ur seeing a leak of light from the screen
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Infrared light is not visible to the human eye so maybe ur seeing a leak of light from the screen
That's a possiblility. But I'm still most posative that I see a light stemming from a small optical diode slightly below the trackpad.
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What actually tracks the movement is a bad quality video camera and not the infrared light itself... The video lens reads the imperfection of you're skin and that's what makes it work if you took something really smooth against it you wouldn't see any reaction.... But yes there is infrared light because video lenses can see infrared light.
If I rub my eyes real heard for a minute I can see my track pad light and my wifi signals.
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If I rub my eyes real heard for a minute I can see my track pad light and my wifi signals.
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Omg can u see ghosts too?? Lmao
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luvit said:
If I rub my eyes real heard for a minute I can see my track pad light and my wifi signals.
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WAOW ME TWO!
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For what it's worth, the infrared emitters in both the trackpad and proximity sensor are not perfect and do bleed into the visible red part of the spectrum. It's not beyond belief that somebody might be seeing this.
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Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!
I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.
Canesfan said:
I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.
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Yah that is what I have done myself.. but even if you could drop the brightness by say 75% would be nice.
I noticed it was too low on regular galaxy s2 (i9100) , so probably samsung increased it on this one,
and now its too bright.
but i like this one bright.
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Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!
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I would love to have my back light dimmed down to like 25% or maybe 50% as I do a lot of reading at night before i sleep and I turn the screen brightness down to zero.
It's pretty good in a dark room in bed, but the buttons is freaking annoying and too bright.
And having the button light off isn't very useful since I press the back button all the time and always miss.
And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?
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And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?
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The HTC Amaze only turns on the LED's if it's dark enough, I wish the Galaxy S2 would also do this as it would save a bit of battery.
The Screen Filter app lowers the screen's brightness and can also turn off the button light. I can't post a link yet due to my newbie status, but search for it on the Market.
Patience for cm. since cm has a very customizable brightness control including buttons brightness.
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I would love this as well.
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BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??
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bump so I dont have to make a new thread:
BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??
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Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast
Unless I'm mistaken our phones cannot adjust the brightness of those buttons regardless of ROMs (cm or otherwise). I'm pretty sure we only have one led board that only controls on or off (hence why you can only have all them on or all of them off, not just light individual ones). Cm might have those settings but it's because cm is made for many different phones and some phones might have the ability to adjust the brightness but not ours.
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Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast
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DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989
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DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989
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Ok, Roger that
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okay.. i looked through the manual when I got the phone and. it says theirs an led to the left of the speakers.. and I'm like no? lol its obviously to the right.. well I called someone on accident tonight and was looking at my phone and a little light lit up to the left of the speaker..anyone know what it's for? lol i is it only calls or what..
seems pretty useless =/ ide rather have a multi colored LED like the evo or evryother phone instead of two red leds lol
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I believe those are the camera & light sensors.
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Yeah dude those are totally you FFC (front facing camera) and the proximity sensor
Woah wtf CONFIRMED. Seriously just checked and although its very dim, there IS a light on the left corner of the speaker. Its a dark red. I called bull until I tested it. Here's how to see it:
Make a call in the darkest area possible ( the light is very dim) and look directly over the S in SAMSUNG. Interesting!
Edit: ok not an led you're right its the proximity sensor glowing red. If you cover it with your finger, the screen shuts off during a call
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Woah wtf CONFIRMED. Seriously just checked and although its very dim, there IS a light on the left corner of the speaker. Its a dark red. I called bull until I tested it. Here's how to see it:
Make a call in the darkest area possible ( the light is very dim) and look directly over the S in SAMSUNG. Interesting!
Edit: ok not an led you're right its the proximity sensor glowing red. If you cover it with your finger, the screen shuts off during a call
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the sensors right next to it if look at it in a very well lite environment like outside on a sunny day. the light that glows red is to the right of the sensor
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The one that you can see is actually the proximity. The other is the ambient light sensor for the auto brightness. Get over it.
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The one that you can see is actually the proximity. The other is the ambient light sensor for the auto brightness. Get over it.
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lol jeez, okay, thanks. lol
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The one that you can see is actually the proximity. The other is the ambient light sensor for the auto brightness. Get over it.
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Actually that's not totally correct. The hole directly to the right of the front-facing camera is a photodiode. When a call is in progress it acts as the proximity sensor, and all other times it is the ambient light sensor. To the right of that is an infrared LED - these cast a dim red glow that you can barely see in dim conditions, but if you were to look at it through the lens of a camcorder or digital camera (which are sensitive to infrared light), you will see that it lights up brightly - indicating a large amount of infrared. Skin is very reflective when it comes to infrared. When the infrared light coming out of the LED bounces off your skin and back to the photodiode, the system knows that the phone is against your head and turns the screen off.
Yeah somewhere in the back of my head i knew they likely worked in tandem. Obviously the proximity sensor needs a reciever to pickup the reflected wavelengths. Good info.
Are the back and home buttons supposed to light up like they do on the Incredible 4?
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Are the back and home buttons supposed to light up like they do on the Incredible 4?
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they light up on mine
I take it back. They lit up for the first time today when I went outside for my night run. They weren't lighting up inside in very low light conditions.
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I take it back. They lit up for the first time today when I went outside for my night run. They weren't lighting up inside in very low light conditions.
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Sane here. It may be due to how bright the screen is... I notice when I turn brightness down they turn on. Its a really bright vivid screen.
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I have a Silver/White HTC 10 & noticed that the light for the back button is brighter than the recent button. They both turn on & dim when there is less ambient light, but the back button is always brighter. A friend's grey/black model has the buttons with the same intensity. Can someone with a white front HTC 10 confirm of the lights of back/recent buttons are the same or not? Preferably post a photo?
Attached are pictures of mine. In reality the difference is more, but it is not really that apparent in the picture.
I have the same issue
Hi!
May I ask how did you fix this issue? I have the same one.
Not fixed, just have to live with it. Apparently not many believe it is an issue.
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Not fixed, just have to live with it. Apparently not many believe it is an issue.
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Thank you for you response!
I made my piece with it too and I set the 'always on' option off.
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I have a Silver/White HTC 10 & noticed that the light for the back button is brighter than the recent button. They both turn on & dim when there is less ambient light, but the back button is always brighter. A friend's grey/black model has the buttons with the same intensity. Can someone with a white front HTC 10 confirm of the lights of back/recent buttons are the same or not? Preferably post a photo?
Attached are pictures of mine. In reality the difference is more, but it is not really that apparent in the picture.
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I think I saw similar thread here a month ago. As I mentioned on that thread - it is normal and my current HTC 10 and other 2 phones have the same.
Actually, it is not normal as I have seen more phones with same brightness on both buttons than phones with different brightness. The problem is HTC not acknowledging it as an issue.
I'm not sure which color variants have a white face on it, but my US unlocked glacier silver variant has the same brightness intensity for the back and recent buttons.
I would definitely say this is not normal and is a quality control issue on HTC's part... Sorry I'm no help here, if it bothered me enough (and I am OCD about things like that) I'd keep contacting HTC over and over until I got someone who would get it fixed.
This is the first I've heard of but mine look the same (although I am now slightly paranoid they aren't). Looks to be a QC issue but I'm not sure what HTC would claim it is.