looking for something like Q-Brite, that allows user presets, but that backs up its settings on its' own.
Lux Lite is OK, but requires too much care and feeding.
Any other suggestions?
This might help?
nope, different beast. but thanks.
I have used Velis Auto brightness on older phones with very good results!
Now was using LinageOS/CM/RR long on my G4 where the Automatic brightness control works better like on LG G4 stock rom.
Now i am back on stock based rom (imperium v13) and also using the app since today
With "TFT bright" profile it seems really good, but as said above, no long time experience with H815.
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Hi,
I'm running the Virtuous Unity 2.3.9.0 ROM on my Desire HD. So appreciate this question would be better placed in that ROM's own thread but the forum won't let me post there yet.
Please can someone tell me why when I use any app or widget (with exactly two exceptions) to lower (decrease) the brightness, the brightness dims slowly, taking a few seconds to be lowered to the requested value?
Those two exceptions are:
The built in Power Control widget (not HTC's brightness widget(s) which are affected by the issue); and
- The Quick Settings brightness slider.
The problem doesn't occur when increasing the brightness.
I want to use my preferred apps and widgets to be able to alter the brightness without having to wait. I don't like auto-brightness.
So unless I use those two exceptions, which aren't convenient for me, I have to wait a few seconds to see if the amount I've lowered the brightness to is okay or still too low or high. This is annoying. For example, this problem occurs using any other brightness widget, such as the HTC Sense one or third party ones; or using an app with user-adjustable brightness control built in, such as the e-reader Moon+ Reader.
I've worked out this happens whether I use the Sense launcher or my preferred launcher, Launcher Pro. I've tried reinstalling the ROM from a full system and cache wipe too but to no avail. The problem seems to occur whether auto-brightness is on or off.
Will be sure to thank any responses. And thanks in advance too!
I use an app called MySettings to control brightness. Works well on ARHD and LeeDrOiD although never tried Virtuous.
https://market.android.com/details?id=jqsoft.apps.mysettings
Thanks CitizenLee, but unfortunately it has the same issue. So it does appear to be either a bug or 'feature' with this version of the ROM. I wonder if anyone knows of a way to patch it somehow?
Hi folks,
Hope it's okay to bump this as the issue in my initial post is driving me nuts. Please can someone help?
The issue was solved by me by moving from the Virtuous Unity ROM to the Android Revolution HD 6 ROM.
However, I have the issue with my girlfriend's HTC Desire S. It seems that whatever customer ROM we flash (we've tried several) the issue remains. The fact the issue was resolved for my HTC Desire HD by switching ROMS suggests this is something to do with kernels, not phones or widgets.
I've Googled like you wouldn't believe, and can't believe we're the only people that find it annoying and unproductive that you get slow brightness reaction when using a brightness widget or in an app.
Any thoughts? I'm happy to pay a fiver (pounds!) to anyone who can solve this for her Desire S in a way that means she can continue to use a good customer ROM!
Regards
Bump away As long as they are 24 hours apart I have no problem with it.
I've never come across this before. I don't use Sense based ROMs so I'm probably not best suited to answer this, but....
Have you tried the app Tasker? I'm pretty sure that you can change the brightness and assign that to a widget. Not sure it that will still be "delayed" as such.
EDIT: Yes you can make a widget that instantly changes the brightness, there is a toggle under "Display Brightness" called "Immediate Effect" and with this on there isn't the 1-2 second delay. This is on CM7 so your use may vary on HTC Sense.
Also if you buy Tasker direct from the devs, not from the Market you get a 7 day trial. Give it a shot! -->http://tasker.dinglisch.net/
Ive read that the One X tends to run a lot brighter for the equivalent setting on phones like the SII.
Is it possible to tune the brightness level that the Auto setting provides, and the external light at which it "ups" the brightness - as in my opinion, HTC's setting, although wonderful, is overkill in many situations, and screen on time needs all the help it can get.
Cheers.
slvrarrow said:
Ive read that the One X tends to run a lot brighter for the equivalent setting on phones like the SII.
Is it possible to tune the brightness level that the Auto setting provides, and the external light at which it "ups" the brightness - as in my opinion, HTC's setting, although wonderful, is overkill in many situations, and screen on time needs all the help it can get.
Cheers.
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if things aren't changed in ICS, you can decompile the /system/framework/framework-res.apk and then edit some xml's in it. Compile it again with the modified xml's and at last adb push it into the system partition. and this procedure requires a unlocked system partition.
if you don't want to unlock / don't know how to edit the stuff, the most feasible way is to put a brightness widget on homescreen and change it manually.
slvrarrow said:
Ive read that the One X tends to run a lot brighter for the equivalent setting on phones like the SII.
Is it possible to tune the brightness level that the Auto setting provides, and the external light at which it "ups" the brightness - as in my opinion, HTC's setting, although wonderful, is overkill in many situations, and screen on time needs all the help it can get.
Cheers.
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leedroid, insertcoin and a few of the other roms here have the option to lower the brightness in their tweak settings. If you search for it, j4n87 also created a flashable xml mod that lowers the brightness as well.
Cheers, I saw one on XDA for what I thought was the One S but it must be what youve just mentioned above I think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJhJSAq3ig&feature=related#t=11m03s
That shows what I'm on about.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJhJSAq3ig&feature=related#t=11m03s
That shows what I'm on about.
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Yes, we're on the same page although I don't understand italian . The mods I'm referring to all alter the baseline brightness as opposed to just the regular screen brightness based on ambient levels.
I'm running CM9 which allows you to edit baselines for screen and softkeys, but the roms and mods I referred you to do the same thing with less granular control. j4n87's mod is pretty dim but worked well for me until I switched to CM9. You could always crack open his zip and change the levels yourself before flashing.
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595559
Yeh haha I don't speak Italian either just stumbled upon that on featured videos! Erm I knew CM9 had it working, can you point me in the direction of the best build? I need HDMI out but can live without Hotspot (which I believe is the only problem causer?). What's CM9 battery overall before these screen modifications?
I've tried about 6-7 of the roms here, they're all pretty much the same with varying levels of tweaks. I'm pretty sure that HDMI is working on the majority of them.
I love the hardware on this phone but not fond of Sense at all. Looking forward to more AOSP/AOKP based roms. The only available CM9 rom still has some bugs that need to be addressed (Phone, GPS, Camera - all working but with flaws) Battery life is excellent though I'm getting 4.5-5+ hours of screen on with heavy to moderate use using Faux123's kernel.
Is that the CM9 over at Modaco? Or is there an active one here?
That's great screen on time by the way.
Ideally I want one based on CM9 but with the sense Camera, that's all I can see thats worth keeping. Sense just isn't worth the performance hit IMO. It looks pretty cheap, especially with all the colourful busy icons...
Yes I'm using the build from modaco, jdroid is apparently working on a AOSP version and is beta testing. He said that they may release something this week.
How are you finding Screen on times for video playback/streaming by any chance?
Also, have you tried to see if the force dual core app helps?
Ill know myself tomorrow, the phone arrives...!
For anyone concerned with Auto-Brightness and trying to save battery, I highly suggest Lux Dash.
Basically you tell it what brightness to give it under every lightning circumstance. It takes into affect time of day etc. The more you Link it and tell it what brightness to give it the more accurate it becomes to your exact liking. I've noticed a decent battery gain over the stock Option. As you can set it to only change after Wake, lock, Constantly, etc..
Here is an article about it to better get everyone to understand: http://lifehacker.com/lux-automatica...gets-934245674
I know many don't care about Auto-Brightness much, but neither did I until i tried this program.
Free lite Version
Paid Version
Not compatible with HTC one 4.2.2?
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
Hey guys! Got a G3 D855 here, rooted with IOroot and bumped (TWRP installed), Build number: KVT49L / Software version: V10h
Thinking to flash a custom ROM, but I'm so used to Xposed Framework (G3 TweakBox mainly), that I don't know if I'm ready yet to go to a Custom ROM Lollipop... I was thinking either to stay in stable Custom ROM Kitkat, like CM11 and having the Xposed and every feature that I'm used to, or move to a ASOP lollipop ROM or CM12.
What you guys think? Anyone very used to Xposed, moved to Lollipop? Which features are you missing the most?
Or you think, I should do the step towards lollipop and can get the features I was getting from Tweakbox from apps with root acess in the playstore?
Thanks!
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What you guys think? Anyone very used to Xposed, moved to Lollipop? Which features are you missing the most?
Or you think, I should do the step towards lollipop and can get the features I was getting from Tweakbox from apps with root acess in the playstore?
Thanks!
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Just like you, I was sceptical about switching to Lollipop since I'd lose Xposed. However, after flashing Lollipop I have not regretted it at all; I fell in love with it right away.
The only thing I'm actually missing is G3 Tweaksbox, but I can manage without it for now
Regarding module alternatives, have a look at this outstanding article:
Alternatives to popular Xposed modules | Prepare for Android Lollipop / ART
Great help Megaritis! Will flash Lollipop today! Any custom ROM recommendation?
The real problem is autonomy, hard to reach 4h screen on
TheSkyline35 said:
The real problem is autonomy, hard to reach 4h screen on
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What do you mean? The battery life is bad on Lollipop compared to KitKat or on Lollipop custom ROM?
Battery is good on both.
Try Lollipop. If you dont like it you can always go back.
DelBoy said:
Battery is good on both.
Try Lollipop. If you dont like it you can always go back.
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Trying to decide now either CM 12 or an ASOP ROM, I heard that are some things that ASOP's just can't fix, like receiving MMS while connected to wi-fi... I head something like this and I wonder which else common problems, have the ASOP's have.. Any1 knows?
Thanks!
I installed Lollipop as soon as I got the OTA. 2 days later I am very displeased. I expected some inconvenience but it is a lot worse than I expected.
1st - The autonomy is really affected. I can't give any number because my kitkat + SETCPU profiles were tweaked a lot and provided me a big autonomy, way higher than stock kitkat.
2nd- The atrocious new sound profiles that got me late at work and that many people are complaining about. Do not disturb is nothing like the quiet mode we all loved.
I'll try and draw a tree showing how it works
so you got 3 sounds profiles you can cycle through from the notification quickaccess.
--Sound
--Vibrate Only
--Do Not Disturb (which is supposed to replace the quiet mode but failing hard)
In DnD :
//Calls and Notifications
----All
----Priority Only (see below)
----None
//Piority ("Allow certain features to interrupt when Priority Only. Alarms always have priority) That makes you think you just have to set DnD as Priority only and remove everything from priority so only the alarms would ring out.......
That sounds lovely except every single time you get out of DnD it resets the Calls And Notifications setting to all and when you'll reenable DnD it will go to None and shuts down everything.
So, in order to have the same behavior as the quiet mode in kitkat you have to do the following :
Notification bar > Settings > Sound > Do Not Disturb > Calls and Notifications > Priority Only.
This EVERY SINGLE night as you'll remove DnD every morning of course.
Not to mention that the alarm will ring but not wake screen so you got unlock your lockscreen and then turn off your alarm.
I think I should whine though, this mess preventing me from sleeping I have no use for alarms anymore, like Lollipop devs I guess.
It is a mess at the moment so don't bother, the issues exceeds by far the benefits.
The best thing to do would be : Do a nandroid back up of your existing KK ROM then flash AOSP>CM12 and see which one you like. Everybody have their own priorities and you be the judge of your own likes/dislikes. I have tried both AOSP and CM 12 but returned to stable KK V10N. I have a small kid and I have to have a nice camera app and I was not convinced with the AOSP/CM 12 camera apps. Stock Camera app has to do with the OEM framework and can't be replicated in AOSP/CM 12 ROMs. Secondly (it may sound shallow), I could not stand the big navigation bar. You can use tweaks to make it smaller but the navigation bar buttons does not change in proportionate to the size of navigation bar. SImply put, they look ugly. I personally did not find any speed d or battery life difference. Giving up Xposed and aforementioned features were not worth the trade off for ME. Again, this is what I experienced, your experience may be totally different than mine and that's all right
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@iKoyy, may be this update will help:
http://www.talkandroid.com/230286-android-5-1-to-roll-out-in-february-2015/
My phone should arrive tomorrow and while the Cloud feature seems interesting, I am not sure I will find it very useful. On top of that I know that since Razer bought the Nextbit brand/company it is unknown just how long cloud support will be supported.
So is it recommended to put a custom ROM on it, I assume esp on XDA it is highly advised just due to the nature of the community, but what custom ROM is regarded as the best? I am sure if is up to personal opinion but generally speaking? Also, what features are hindered besides the cloud backup by using the recommended custom ROM?
Lastly, just assuming I stick with Stock OS for now, what tips and tricks does everyone have for me? Thanks in advance!
Saix_XIII said:
My phone should arrive tomorrow and while the Cloud feature seems interesting, I am not sure I will find it very useful. On top of that I know that since Razer bought the Nextbit brand/company it is unknown just how long cloud support will be supported.
So is it recommended to put a custom ROM on it, I assume esp on XDA it is highly advised just due to the nature of the community, but what custom ROM is regarded as the best? I am sure if is up to personal opinion but generally speaking? Also, what features are hindered besides the cloud backup by using the recommended custom ROM?
Lastly, just assuming I stick with Stock OS for now, what tips and tricks does everyone have for me? Thanks in advance!
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Omni is considerably recommended by pretty much everyone, but you should check out some new roms like AICP, which was just released. The only thing that doesn't work is the cloud as you mentioned. Unlock your bootloader before setting anything up when you first get it so you can flash roms and stock images as well with fastboot.
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Omni is considerably recommended by pretty much everyone, but you should check out some new roms like AICP, which was just released. The only thing that doesn't work is the cloud as you mentioned. Unlock your bootloader before setting anything up when you first get it so you can flash roms and stock images as well with fastboot.
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I like versions of Android that are light and speedy, stable, and very few of no bugs. Don't need a ton of bells and whistles. Is there a rom that allows the fingerprint scanner, NFC, and even the Android pay to work( I think I read it isn't possible for Android pay to work with custom roms? Which custom ROM is best suited for that?
While I have flashed custom roms on a few devices over the years I am no expert. Are there "idiot proof" guides out there to make sure I don't brick my new phone?
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I like versions of Android that are light and speedy, stable, and very few of no bugs. Don't need a ton of bells and whistles. Is there a rom that allows the fingerprint scanner, NFC, and even the Android pay to work( I think I read it isn't possible for Android pay to work with custom roms? Which custom ROM is best suited for that?
While I have flashed custom roms on a few devices over the years I am no expert. Are there "idiot proof" guides out there to make sure I don't brick my new phone?
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NFC and Fingerprint work on pretty much every ROM, I can't say the same about Android pay though. If you really need everything to work and be stable, I'd stay on stock.
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NFC and Fingerprint work on pretty much every ROM, I can't say the same about Android pay though. If you really need everything to work and be stable, I'd stay on stock.
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So far on stock I am liking it. I can see what people say about it getting warm, but it cools off fast. Also battery seems decent but I play some games and watch youtube on my phone so I am used to not amazing battery life. The one thing I can't seem to get used to is how bright the notification panel is. Is there a way in the settings to change this? I looked but I can't find anything, I tried some apps that do it, but they change the aesthetics way too much outside of changing the color. I tried developer options, System UI Tuner, and even an app that enables night mode but the notification area is still bright white.
Not sure if there is a way to do it but figured I'd ask.
Saix_XIII said:
So far on stock I am liking it. I can see what people say about it getting warm, but it cools off fast. Also battery seems decent but I play some games and watch youtube on my phone so I am used to not amazing battery life. The one thing I can't seem to get used to is how bright the notification panel is. Is there a way in the settings to change this? I looked but I can't find anything, I tried some apps that do it, but they change the aesthetics way too much outside of changing the color. I tried developer options, System UI Tuner, and even an app that enables night mode but the notification area is still bright white.
Not sure if there is a way to do it but figured I'd ask.
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There isn't such a way to change the notification tint yet. Maybe it will be in an upcoming version.