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I have an HD2 with WP7 - XBmod, and it uses a lot off battery power during the night special if I enable Wifi, 3G, Data, bluetooth, GPS...
I know that if I disable all this before I go to sleep all is bether, but life have to be easy!
Is there a sitting or a program that can auto disable all power consuming hardware in a specified time periode. Fx from 23:00 to 07:00?
it might be better to ask in the WP7 HD2 section... but in general, gps isn't on unless an app summons it to be on (even if you leave the use location setting on), and wifi turns off if the phone is not charging and goes to stand by. so that really just leaves 3G and blue tooth that runs whilst your phone is in standby mode.
though there is no setting in particular to do what you want.
Hey guys,
I have two questions. Now that I've got everything running like mtc-keys, start up etc there are only two questions left.
1. If I'm turning on my light of the car the radio is dimming the brightness down. In the night not bad but I like to have my angel eyes turnes on by day, too.
So can this be disabled by software or hardware? There is an extra illumination cable on my unit, maybe if I connect this to power?
2. My steering wheel got a mode button. I would like to change the mapps in this "cyrcle". I dont nee the standard media player or radio. But I would like to have Spotify and PowerAMP there.
Also if im cycling threw the apps, I'm getting to a point where the boot logo shows up and the unit is stucked. Its everytime the same point, looks like an app cant be started. But I dont know which one it should be because all standard media apps are working (radio, dvd, media player, ...)
Thank you guys in advance.
I have the same problem when cycling through apps, I get boot logo looping. Hopefully someone has a fix
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Light dimming is done on an MCU level. To my knowledge there is no programmatic way to disable it.
There's a cable you can cut though.
On my unit I have the schematic at the top, and the cable is labelled "Illumination wire", which is orange.
Problem is - there's multiple orange wires.
To narrow down which orange it is, here's what you can do:
Get a voltmeter. Measure voltage coming from the car where one of the orange cables is supposed to go (Plus to orange, minus to ground).
When your headlights are off, it'll be 0V. When you turn on the headlights you'll get 12V. This is the cable to cut.
Thanks for your advice.
My unit got an extra cable, its orange and called illumination but it isnt even installed.
So I thought if I connect this one to a permanent 12V, the illumination should be constant?
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Wait, so the orange cable labelled as "illumination" doesn't go anywhere, but the stereo still dims when turning on headlights?
Do you have a canbus box? It's possible that the lights trigger from car goes to canbus box which then sends the signal to stereo via serial, and illumination cable is there as backup. This was my setup with SWC.
If that's the case, see if there's an orange cable going to canbus box and measure voltage on that. This may be the one you need to cut
As for the 12V
The cable triggers dimming.
So, when 12V is supplied, the screen dims (becomes darker)
If you connect the cable to 12V, the screen will be constantly dark, which, to my understanding, is the opposite of what you want.
In either case, check the canbus box first, see if that solves your issue.
If you want to retain the dimming when the lights are on, but not during the day, you could wire in a photocell relay such as this to your canbus illumination wire. Then just snake the photo sensor up near the windshield.
You could also tap into an existing one, if your car is so equipped, but that would mean modifying the stock vehicle wiring.
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Wait, so the orange cable labelled as "illumination" doesn't go anywhere, but the stereo still dims when turning on headlights?
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Yes, exactly.
kvantum said:
Do you have a canbus box? It's possible that the lights trigger from car goes to canbus box which then sends the signal to stereo via serial, and illumination cable is there as backup. This was my setup with SWC.
If that's the case, see if there's an orange cable going to canbus box and measure voltage on that. This may be the one you need to cut
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Yes, I have got a canbus box. I will look for this in some days. The unit isnt that fast to disassemble from my car.
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As for the 12V
The cable triggers dimming.
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Correct, it should be bright the whole time.
Funny thing, today when I was entering my car the illumination didnt work anymore. I tried yesterday to set the keylight trigger in the factory menu, but there was no change and so I canceled this step.
Now there is no more illumination. No matter if headlights are on or off ir anything else.
Will check this again later when I'm back at home.
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If you want to retain the dimming when the lights are on, but not during the day, you could wire in a photocell relay such as this to your canbus illumination wire. Then just snake the photo sensor up near the windshield.
You could also tap into an existing one, if your car is so equipped, but that would mean modifying the stock vehicle wiring.
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Nice idea, that could be a possibilty.
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At my device in Factory Settings if you activate "Keylight" Dimming stops. Even at night and day. You may use this with a work arround: Use "Keylight" to deactivate the function. Download PCV app and use dimming function there. It dims the display depending on the time instead of the light key. So in the evening it dims and in day its full illuminated.
I tried it with activating and deactivating the keylight, and nothing changed.
I managed to dim the illumination of the display by time, but if turning on the headlights its gonna be dimming the unit everytime.
It isnt dimmed by the software, its still on full brightness but not that bright.
However now the key illumination is completely off, and I dont know how to fix it.
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Tryden said:
I tried it with activating and deactivating the keylight, and nothing changed.
I managed to dim the illumination of the display by time, but if turning on the headlights its gonna be dimming the unit everytime.
It isnt dimmed by the software, its still on full brightness but not that bright.
However now the key illumination is completely off, and I dont know how to fix it.
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Day Brightness 250
Night Brightness 150
Yes, it should shortly dim, but the software restores the old value some seconds after. Thats happen to my unit. Disable keylight to get keylights illuminated back again.
Where to set these values?
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Where to set these values?
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Inside PCV App. 2nd Option from the bottom (Edit).
I have malaysk rom which has an option in setting to change brightness between dark, light and auto. Auto is the default setting which dims the screen when the car lights are on but changing it to light keeps the screen bright at all times. I like to keep it at "light" to be able to see the screen during the day when I have my lights on. The downside is that the screen seems to bright at night.
Hi,
I have recently bought an RK3188 Unit (KLD6) and am happily running Malayks ROM on it. However, when I switch on the lights of the car, the unit lowers the brightness of the screen. As I have to use lights during day in some parts of Europe, I would like to manage the brightness of the screen by an app. If it is a bright day and I have to drive with lights switched on, I can barely read the screen anymore. So is there any way to prevent this behavior? I know that I could just remove the lights wire, but I would like to have the LEDs to be switched on or off with the lights.
In case of Mtcd devices such option is in Factory Settings (password to enter it is 126). You can check it in case of your unit. I had the same problem - in my country it is mandatory to use head lights 24h per day so I lost screen visibility during the day.
Thanks for your answer. However, I wasn't able to find any option to turn off the brightness control. Do you remember how it was labeled/called? I found the option to turn on the LEDs permanently and also brightness control for reverse driving, but no option for the brightness with lights switched on.
Thanks in advance.
I found the solution, which obviously was too obvious to be found beforehand by myseld. :/ The normal system settings menu provides a tab 'Display', in which the brightness can be set as 'auto', 'light', and 'Dark', whereas 'Auto' means that the brightness depends on the status of the car lights, 'Light' means bright and 'Dark' means lower brightness.
Hi everybody, I recently updated my Eonon Androud HU to 5.1.1 using the first 5.1.1 custom ROM listed here. The DSA Prerooted ROM. Thus far it's been functional and fits my needs over the Malaysk ROM. However this ROM has some sort issue with it automatically dimming the screen to low, even though it's been set to 100%. When sliding the brightness slider to 100, the screen will still dim on its own, regardless of the adjustment still being set at 100%. I have gone through all the settings and found nothing that can help me. The display submenu only displays the option "Brightness". Which is just the standard slider to adjust the brightness. There is no option for Auto, Low, Bright, etc.
I've downloaded some apps to control the brightness to see if that would help, but something on this ROM is overriding any brightness apps from working. I even tried installing an xposedMTC module as it had an automatic dimming option, hoping to deactivate it completely but no luck. The way my car works is my headlights have an automatic DRL. When I turn my DRL's off, the headunit seems to activate it's full brightness, until I turn the automatic light control back on which turns on my DRL's, then the screen goes dim again. It's as if the headunit is going by the whole "Oh your headlights are on, it must be dark outside. Let me adjust the brightness to low for you".
Any help would be appreciated. I hope it's a simple fix. Thank you!
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Hi everybody, I recently updated my Eonon Androud HU to 5.1.1 using the first 5.1.1 custom ROM listed here. The DSA Prerooted ROM. Thus far it's been functional and fits my needs over the Malaysk ROM. However this ROM has some sort issue with it automatically dimming the screen to low, even though it's been set to 100%. When sliding the brightness slider to 100, the screen will still dim on its own, regardless of the adjustment still being set at 100%. I have gone through all the settings and found nothing that can help me. The display submenu only displays the option "Brightness". Which is just the standard slider to adjust the brightness. There is no option for Auto, Low, Bright, etc.
I've downloaded some apps to control the brightness to see if that would help, but something on this ROM is overriding any brightness apps from working. I even tried installing an xposedMTC module as it had an automatic dimming option, hoping to deactivate it completely but no luck. The way my car works is my headlights have an automatic DRL. When I turn my DRL's off, the headunit seems to activate it's full brightness, until I turn the automatic light control back on which turns on my DRL's, then the screen goes dim again. It's as if the headunit is going by the whole "Oh your headlights are on, it must be dark outside. Let me adjust the brightness to low for you".
Any help would be appreciated. I hope it's a simple fix. Thank you!
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That's one of the main differences between Malaysk and DSA. DSA told me look out the window and figure it's night time. Secondly he told me to go to max at least two or even three times in a row. It will then STAY 100% bright till you reboot.
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That's one of the main differences between Malaysk and DSA. DSA told me look out the window and figure it's night time. Secondly he told me to go to max at least two or even three times in a row. It will then STAY 100% bright till you reboot.
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Whoa, thanks for the quick reply and useful information. Is there absolutely no way to bypass having to do that method? As that would be a chore doing it multiple times after exiting and entering my car multiple times a day. Maybe a simple build.prop edit possibly? Just naming ideas.
There is... Mtc manager has settings in it for brightness settings due to time. You can turn it off there. This didn't work for me so I went another route with changing some file. Its all detailed in the thread as to how.
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There is... Mtc manager has settings in it for brightness settings due to time. You can turn it off there. This didn't work for me so I went another route with changing some file. Its all detailed in the thread as to how.
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You could disable brightness control entirely or just alter the brightness levels.
It's in file /system/etc/install-recovery.sh - at its end, comment out all 14 lines after comment line reading "#Brightness control (last, always)", in order to disable the algorithm.
OR, change line reading "nb=5 ### Night Brightness ###" to a different value for the night brightness (nb), eventually equal to day brightness (db, on next line).
Use a root explorer, or edit a copy of file on PC (with notepad+ if on Windows) and copy it back - with a root explorer or manually, if you can. File mode: 0755, owner & group: root:root.
If script /system/etc/install-recovery.sh gets "damaged", you must reinstall the firmware, but with NO wipe all, so fairly quickly and no loss of settings and apps.
Editing of script could also be done with @devilsoft app (with a name I can't recall).
brian117 said:
Hi everybody, I recently updated my Eonon Androud HU to 5.1.1 using the first 5.1.1 custom ROM listed here. The DSA Prerooted ROM. Thus far it's been functional and fits my needs over the Malaysk ROM. However this ROM has some sort issue with it automatically dimming the screen to low, even though it's been set to 100%. When sliding the brightness slider to 100, the screen will still dim on its own, regardless of the adjustment still being set at 100%. I have gone through all the settings and found nothing that can help me. The display submenu only displays the option "Brightness". Which is just the standard slider to adjust the brightness. There is no option for Auto, Low, Bright, etc.
I've downloaded some apps to control the brightness to see if that would help, but something on this ROM is overriding any brightness apps from working. I even tried installing an xposedMTC module as it had an automatic dimming option, hoping to deactivate it completely but no luck. The way my car works is my headlights have an automatic DRL. When I turn my DRL's off, the headunit seems to activate it's full brightness, until I turn the automatic light control back on which turns on my DRL's, then the screen goes dim again. It's as if the headunit is going by the whole "Oh your headlights are on, it must be dark outside. Let me adjust the brightness to low for you".
Any help would be appreciated. I hope it's a simple fix. Thank you!
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Hi @brian117 !
In fact, there is a simple fix I found lately.
You need to enter factory settings first.
Go to SETTINGS -> Factory settings -> enter code: m123456
When you're there, go to last page, and tick the "Key light" option.
Now press "Apply" and "Exit". Confirm reboot.
It worked with me - now the screen has full brightness regardless of the car lights on or off (in Poland we need to have the lights on whole day, as well). Now you can use a software dimming, like MTC to auto dimm the screen according to actual day time. I did this. Works like a charm! (I set dimming after sunset to 75% brightness)
My screen is too bright even when I turn the brightness slider to the minimum. It's especially distracting at night. I've downloaded a night vision app, but the screen is still too bright overall. Any recommendations or solutions?
Thank you.
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MCTE_GS_V2.78_3 (Jan 15 2018 09:59:38)
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bobodaclownster said:
My screen is too bright even when I turn the brightness slider to the minimum. It's especially distracting at night. I've downloaded a night vision app, but the screen is still too bright overall. Any recommendations or solutions?
Thank you.
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What did the reseller suggest?
I use the app twilight from the app store. It provides an overly to dim the screen by time of day, works great for me on Px5 HA MCTD
Configured power button in factory settings "short press = screen off".
I prefer Lux Lite, even the free version is nice and auto starts with the head unit and is in the taskbar drop down. You can either press "+" and "-" buttons to brighten/darken the display or use a slider. The paid version has auto dawn/dusk features as needed along with other features. You can go down to a black screen with the app. I love it for night driving.
Tasker cannot control screen brightness as well...
Is there any MCU intent signals can be used in Tasker to control screen brightness? I want to set reduce screen brightness during particular time period of day (18.00 to 6.00)
Reached out to the seller, they only knew of the slide in the software. Using lux app. Does the job.
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Anyone has idea on the MCU intent signals? I tried sending 'com.microntek.light' with keyCode as extra parameter(eg. keyCode:50) using tasker send intent.. but it does not change the screen brightness at all.
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Configured power button in factory settings "short press = screen off".
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does that let music continue playing? where exactly in factory settings pls?
I need to turn screen off, to test if it is causing static noise.
I've moved to the dimly app. Have it run at startup and from sleep. Does what I need it to do.
Sorry for revive but I have the same issue.
Screen is way too bright at night.
Unit is an Xtrons TB700L PX5 @ Android 10, will check MTCD/E tomorrow.
All I want is a darker screen on a schedule, seems that this is too hard in 2020.
I have tried about 30 apps in Play Store but none works the way I want.
Some dims the screen on time if the unit is on, or if the unit turns on for the first time in the specified time interval.
But 99.9999% of the time if the unit is woken in the interval, nothing happens.
Seems that when the unit goes to sleep when ignition turns off, apps die.