Is it possible to leave the accelerometer on when the screen is off? I tried looking for it within the settings but haven't found anything. If not, is there an app that would let me do this?
Stock rom, rooted if that helps.
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Is there a way to turn off sensors? I noticed in logcat that even though I have brightness set to stay at one level the sensor still acts like it is on. Also the accelorometer starts and stops at will.
If you goto menu->settings->display->brightness you can choose to turn off auto-brightness. I don't know if you've done this already or not. Can't help with the accelerometer.
Yes that's how I have it set. It still shows on logcat that it's reading the light and adjusting the brightness or so it thinks it is but my setting overide it.
So basically I just rooted my phone and flashed to cyanogen mod 6.1 and I'm loving it. Thanks xda for the rooting and flashing process. I decided to go into overclocking my mytouch slide and everything seems to work perfect except for the fact when I turn off my screen and turn it back on the screen is at the dimmest setting it can get. I reset the brightness back to how I want it and then turn off the screen again and turn it on, and it reverts back to the dimmest setting. I booted up without having setcpu running and the screen settings stay the same after I turn the screen on and off. has anyone found or seen this before?? And if so, is there a solution to this problem??
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I've never heard of setCPU causing that problem. You may want to trouble shoot a bit more before pinning it on that. We need to knock some things off the list of possible culprits too.
What is the brightness set to, automatic?
Custom oc kernel (dumfuq's) or what's integrated into CM?
What are your clock settings in setCPU?
What governor are you using in setCPU?
Do you have profiles set, if so, what are they?
Have you messed with the light sensor or done any custom brightness tweaks (CM settings)?
You need to answer some of those first so we can narrow it down, you may have something set up wrong. There is also the issue of the phone not coming to full brightness when you try to catch it on the screen time out (screen is off - but not locked). That's fixed by locking it and unlocking.
Proximity sensor red faint light always on now , randomly turned on not sure why....
I have no motion things enabled
I tried turning off proximity sensor for phone
Ive rebooted several times
Ive turned off auto brightness
Im running the stock s3 rom rooted.
Anyone have any ideas how i can fix this?
Hmm.. My quick research of this makes me think you have a rogue app, a sticky setting or a defective sensor.
Let's be sure we're looking at the right thing. Your faint red light is just to the left of the front camera lens, correct? If so, then it's a definite indication that you're proximity sensor is on and constantly taking a reading.
Is it always on, from power on to power off? Or does it turn on once the phone has booted up? Does it stay on long after the screen shuts off during idle?
This sensor is used by motion features and talking functions. Triple check that you don't have 'smart stay' turned on, or one of the other super cool gs3 features enabled. I'd consider turning them all on manually, rebooting and then turning them all off followed by another reboot.
Lastly, take a look at your apps. Any kind of app that involves motion or talking (Voxer, Skype, certain games etc) can activate the proximity sensor and keep it on. A lot of those apps start on boot and never go away. Close them one at a time, or consider uninstalling suspect apps temporarily.
As a hardware test you can install Elixer2 from the play store (for free). Its sensors section allows you to turn the proximity sensor on and off, as well as test the near and far readings. If all else has failed, it might be nice to know that at the very least, your sensor can be turned off.
Report back with results from everything and we'll go from there.
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Well i was using Viber, when i turned it off manually, the red sensor light went off. So it must be ab application that is keeping that sensor on all the time. Smart stay does not need proximity sensor and enabling or disabling it causes no change to sensors. Hope this will help ya
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Thank you so much for the awesome response. I didn't find any other similar responses on the Internet other then " oh that's just the ir sensor don't worry about it". I too have viber and I believe that was the app causing the issue because of the way it integrates itself with the phone, can't be certain because so many apps updated as of late but it is gone now thankfully.
I get this when I`m in a dark room. The sensor will turn on. The only way to correct it is to restart the phone.
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I don't know if this works 100% of the time, but it HAS worked for me. Go to your Viber application, menu, and then EXIT the app. Viber seems to be the culprit, so if you find exiting the app manually every time bothersome, you might be better off uninstalling the thing. Click the Thanks button if it helps =p
In pocket detection on?
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Disable Proximity Sensor
I´m trying to disable my proximity sensor in GS3. I tried with Hardware Disabler and doesn´t work, and the Elixir2 can´t disable the sensors.
Does anyone know another app to disable the proximity sensor?
Garouto said:
I´m trying to disable my proximity sensor in GS3. I tried with Hardware Disabler and doesn´t work, and the Elixir2 can´t disable the sensors.
Does anyone know another app to disable the proximity sensor?
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Hi!
My Desire Eye's home screen has been rotating whenever I slightly tilt it since this morning and no, the Auto Rotation mode is not enabled. I did a soft reset but still the screen keeps rotating, and I can't find any solutions for it anywhere.
Usually, when Auto Rotate is ON it rotates almost every apps' screens but never the home screen or menu screen. When I woke up today somehow the Car mode was turned ON, but I exited it without doing anything else. I wonder if it caused something to change in my phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this? You'd save a life. :crying:
suevietts said:
Hi!
My Desire Eye's home screen has been rotating whenever I slightly tilt it since this morning and no, the Auto Rotation mode is not enabled. I did a soft reset but still the screen keeps rotating, and I can't find any solutions for it anywhere.
Usually, when Auto Rotate is ON it rotates almost every apps' screens but never the home screen or menu screen. When I woke up today somehow the Car mode was turned ON, but I exited it without doing anything else. I wonder if it caused something to change in my phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this? You'd save a life. :crying:
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Wierd. Are you sure you dont hace any xposed setting or insertcoin control enabled?
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Wierd. Are you sure you dont hace any xposed setting or insertcoin control enabled?
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Yes, I'm sure.
So I have a very annoying issue and wondering if anyone else does. I have auto rotate on. If I am on a phone call and hang up it screws p the auto rotate feature and everything is sideways. Only way to fix is turn auto rotate off/on again.
Anyone else have this issue? I did update to the November OTA and still is there. About to factory reset unless someone else found a trick to fix it.
iceman4357 said:
So I have a very annoying issue and wondering if anyone else does. I have auto rotate on. If I am on a phone call and hang up it screws p the auto rotate feature and everything is sideways. Only way to fix is turn auto rotate off/on again.
Anyone else have this issue? I did update to the November OTA and still is there. About to factory reset unless someone else found a trick to fix it.
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i have an auto rotate issue where if i use the phone in landscape mode for too long (1-2 minutes), the screen "snap" back to portrait and back to landscape. watching videos in landscape is annoying. recording in landscape will cause the video to stop recording when the snap occurs.
i use a third party app called "set orientation" to force it to landscape when i need to, and that solved my issue.
try this app and see if it works for you (it's free)
I have this issue on both on my pixel 2 xls
That's strange, I actually had an issue where I couldn't turn auto rotate off. Well, I could turn it off, but locking and unlocking the phone would turn it back on. Every single time. Until I installed the November OTA. Seems all better now.
My auto rotate shuts off by itself, have to switch back on frequently
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My auto rotate shuts off by itself, have to switch back on frequently
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I know this thread is a few months old but I have this exact problem on my Pixel 2 XL as well