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Possible app idea, proximty sensor.

I've been wondering, would it be possible to make an app that kicks in when you're on a call, that uses the light sensor as a proximity sensor.
The basic idea is, you put the phone to your ear, it blocks light and the screen locks, take it away from your ear, it detects more light, and unlocks the screen so you can enter numbers etc.
I was also thinking instead of being set at specific light levels (less than 50 for off, over 50 for on etc) it could work on a factor of relative brightness, so if it gets 5 times brighter it knows to unlock the screen.
Does this sound possible?

I don't think this can work. What happens during the night?

very old idea
phone must have bio sensor near speaker which touch to ear, so only hardware solving
using light sensor will work only with light, at dark place\time it doesnt work
another way is to make sensitive top of sensor display for touching but other part of display must be blocked
deadend

Tha X1 speaker is right next to the earpice, it's almost part of it, that's why gave me the idea.+As for dark places, that's why I suggested it measures a differennce in brightness, rather than specific values. Obviously at a certain point, it won't detect any change, I guess then the programdetect darkness up until the point of answering the call, and disable itself.
Or maybe there's a way to use the backlight to create a lightsource but have the touch part off...
Brightness would increase as the phone approached the ear, then drop off as it got there, then similar when you take it away.

Actually, based on the intention, I think it would be sufficient if the phone app is active, the screen is on and locked if phone app is inactive. Touching cheeks, etc are all not real problems in my opinion.

xperia tweak
xperiatweak will fix this issue.

Auto Brightness working for you?

Hi Guys,
So I finally got the desire after being with an iPhone for the past 18 months. Lovely phone so far, even if it feels a little 'work in progress' in some depts.
Anyways!
Have any of you with the phone enabled auto brightness? Does it work? When I jump into the settings to enable it it seems to kick in (once i tick the auto brightness checkbox) but once I actually hit OK to save the changes the screen brightness shoots up again and then doesnt seem to react to ambient light.
weird.
I am running the t-mobile android (uk)

Yep, I have the same thing, glad it's not just me then!
I don't think I've seen it adjust by itself at all...

It works for me and I have seen it adjust.

im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost

cez10 said:
im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost
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That's the idea, auto brightness adjusts so that the screen looks the same brightness to your eye at any light level. When it's dark the brightness decreases and when it's light the brightness increases thus you see it as thee same due to the way your eye is already adjusted.

cez10 said:
im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost
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EroThraX said:
That's the idea, auto brightness adjusts so that the screen looks the same brightness to your eye at any light level. When it's dark the brightness decreases and when it's light the brightness increases thus you see it as thee same due to the way your eye is already adjusted.
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yeah Lol exactly, thats the whole point of auto screen adjustment. if you are indoors all (or most of) the time like me than keep it manual to 30-50%. otherwise leave it auto

Mine works a treat the only thing i do is when i go out the house i turn the brightness to manual and put it on full, as this is the only bad side to this phone the led does suffer in direct sun so full brightness is required.

I haven't seen any change in my screen brightness, whether in full sunlight or middle of the night in a dark room!
Is a bit annoying, would like to know if it can be fixed or we're waiting for the next firmware...

Where's the sensor ? With the Hero, placing a finger over the top part of the phone tricked the sensor but it doesn't seem to on the Desire. Interestingly though, there must be something there, the way the screen flashes up when you remove the phone from your ear

warpkid said:
Hi Guys,
I am running the t-mobile android (uk)
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Works fine here

It seems that on my Desire the only time the automatic brightness actually tests the light is when I unlock my screen.
I can actually see the brightness change then, but if I switch lights on/off while it's already unlocked it doesn't automaticly adapt to the light.

I only checked it through the Android SDK using Dalvik Debug Monitor and the phone certainly did continuously check and correct screen brightness according to it. Visually, it was too difficult to discern what was happening and when due to my own visual limitations when the amount of light changed.
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[Q] there is any Auto brightness controller ??!

Hey guys how are u all
Ihave a question can i rise the brightness up with auto brightness working
Becouse if i but mark on auto brightness icant rise up the brightness
Like ios do coz on low brightness there is avertical bending isue on my screen
And iwant to ask if there is any rom that solve the vertical bending problem thank you very much

Get an LCD screen device.
Banding == solved.

adrynalyne said:
Get an LCD screen device.
Banding == solved.
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That not asolution ilove my gnexus and im not thinking for replace it

Thats your only solution to banding.

Yes there is a solution just rise up the brightness and the vertical bending will dissapear but if you did you cant apply the auto brightness mode and thats the problem

Bigxie's rom let's you set the autobrightness level: it's the only one I've tried so I can't comment on whether there's other roms that do the same thing.

You can use an auto brightness app and set custom brightness levels, like mine.

Ive tried that app, free version on ics 4.0.3 and had several reboots\crashes.
One is when using pattern to unlock:
- Screen is set to turn off after 30 sec, when the screen dims before shutting off and i swipe the pattern it crashes reboots.
Also in normal operation when the screen dims at shutoff point and i do something to wake it it can crash\reboot.
I have had mainly two brightness settings, 40.0 and 130 lux (0.5mA)
40.0 was set at 21% and 130 at 33%.
When commuting on bus\train the light conditions change frequently and also that can cause the reboot\crash.

adjustment sensitivity cm11

adjustment sensitivity (in cm11 under display setting ) controls the screen sensitivity for touch or the sensitivity of sensor for automatic brightness?

It is the setting for automatic brightness.

the notification bar, drops alone when I put in ear . It have something to do with this?

damianma said:
the notification bar, drops alone when I put in ear . It have something to do with this?
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No, is a known bug of cm11

gedhe said:
It is the setting for automatic brightness.
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Are you completely sure of that?
As i've written in the cm11 development thread i've got some problems with screen.
Some times react as having water drops on screen.
I don't know if it is a coincidence but after setting sensitivity to very low in these 2 days this problem happened only 2 times...

I´m really sure that it is the setting for auto-brightness. And i have never heard about such a setting in CM to change the sensibility of the touch screen. But i had those issues of "ghost fingers" too and a thorougly cleaned screen did the job - some soap, clean dry firmly.
Do you have a screen protector on the display? Maybe remove it if yes.
And it might also be a hardware related problem...

gedhe said:
I´m really sure that it is the setting for auto-brightness. And i have never heard about such a setting in CM to change the sensibility of the touch screen. But i had those issues of "ghost fingers" too and a thorougly cleaned screen did the job - some soap, clean dry firmly.
Do you have a screen protector on the display? Maybe remove it if yes.
And it might also be a hardware related problem...
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No i haven't any protector on screen

Broken touchscreen - change brightness?

Hello all,
My baby son managed to damage the flat cable going to touchscreen and ambient light sensor (don't ask how, watch was on my hand) and now touchscreen and light sensor are not working.
Brightness is on low setting and I can't change it.
Is there any way to change the brightness via phone?
I would like to set it to higher level to be able to see anything during the day, until I get a new screen.
I've tried "Watch Display Brightness" app but it's not working. I think that issue is that brightness is not set to manual mode and that's why this app gives no results.
Thanks!