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Button lights no longer working

The lights that usually appear between the buttons on my Arc S no longer work and I can't remember when they stopped! I wonder if a mod I've installed is to blame but I don't want to wipe my phone and start from scratch if possible so am looking for some help...
I am running 4.0.2.A.0.42.
Here is what I have installed:
V6 SuperCharger
I thought this might be the culprit so I used Script Manager to stop running the script at boot, rebooted and it made no difference.
Reboot option in power menu
I am using the one from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094730
Status bar widget mod
I am using the Ultra theme from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295254
That's about it.
However, one thing is odd - I seem to have an 'Automatic brightness' setting in Display options and I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when I first got the phone!
Any help is welcome.
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Found it - the reboot mod was to blame.

was there any other impact other than "they just didnt light up" ?

Nope - just no lights. Seems that a few of the reboot mods available in the apps forum have the same bug.

How did you get the option to turn off/on automatic brightness? I dont have that on my phone and have same firmware as yours.

soldiers33 said:
How did you get the option to turn off/on automatic brightness? I dont have that on my phone and have same firmware as yours.
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It appeared when I installed the reboot mod - but it doesn't do anything so you're not missing out! I guess the reboot mod files must of originally come from an SE device that had working automatic brightness.

oh thats too bad

[Q] Strange problem

The three touch sensitive key lights turn off when the phone is locked but stay on at all other times. I think it happened when I installed ether esfile explorer or mxplayer. I've restarted the phone numerous times and tried clearing the cache and uninstalled reinstalled the programs.
Has anyone else come across this? Do I have to do a factory reset? I've only just got my phone working how I wanted it

Try using the phone in the daylight. Only comes on when not light for me.
Es file explorer is also installed on mine.
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As far as I know my touch sensitive keys have always stayed lit when the phone is awake. I was running the phone completely stock for around a week before I unlocked the bootloader, rooted and then flash a custom rom and kernel.
I cant say I ever noticed a difference in the behaviour of the softkeys lighting.

DAMIT!! Just did a factory reset and it was still there. then I turned the light on and now the keys have turned off. What a fool! Still annoying having them on when trying to watch a film in the dark.
Ah well can't hurt since I did my first 100% to 0% tonight. Got around 2.50mins on screen time with loads of downloading and playing on games. Hopefully it'll improve a little next charge.
Still feel stupid though!

Oh my.
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In fairness I do think there is an issue with MXplayer as who want those bright lights distracting you when your watching a film. But yeah..

Screen Flicker (induced by certain colors?)

I've just switched on my Nexus 7 2013 and noticed the screen flickering. I'm quite sensitive to flickering screens (my wife can't actually see it) but it's definitely there and it wasn't before. I've read a little about screen flickering (low brightness, possibly wifi related) but I'm not sure my symptoms are the same, which is odd. In fact the main reproduction suggested (< 30% brightness and opening Google Maps) is fine for me.
To reproduce my issue I need to have 2 main things:
1) The brightness needs to be quite high
2) Certain colors need to be present on screen​
I've done the following to try and fix the issue but none of them seemed to make any difference:
1) Disabling WiFi
2) Reboot
3) Plug in the charger (I normally use wireless charging so it hadn't been grounded for a while)
4) Try rebooting with the charger plugged in
5) Factory reset
6) Taking off the Back​
I should add that I'm using stock Android (without root) 6.0.1
So some of the things I've noticed that flicker quite badly:
1) The grey keyboard overlay sitting over a white background (e.g. When chrome's open but you've not yet visited a page).
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2) Some colours (e.g. in the picture of green images, the top right green flickers quite a bit, regardless of where it is on screen. If I rotate to landscape the flickering moves).
3) Some greys on websites (e.g. in the TestCafe link only the grey bar flickers)
​
Has anyone else come across this, or know of any other posts addressing this sort of issue?

Need help....Washed out colors

I had downgraded back to KitKat and had it setup exactly like I wanted it and had been using it for a few weeks. All of a sudden my screen would become washed out. Kind of like it was stuck in reading mode or something like that. Sometimes it will correct itself on it's own or if I enable then disable grayscale mode. If that doesn't work, then I have to reboot. After being locked for a few minutes though, it gets washed out again. I decided to go back to Lollipop to see if that fixed it but it's still happening.
What could be causing it have washed out colors?

Can you screenshot what you're talking about? And why would you want to be on KitKat?

Do you have the adaptive display enable?, is the rgb sensor blocked?
John.

I was going to try and get a screenshot but it hasn't done it again. Anyway, I just traded it for a gaming laptop today so doesn't really matter much anymore. Thanks for the replies though!

So, I got my tablet back and I have some screenshots of the issue available. Hopefully you'll be able to see what I talking about.
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I believe it's hardware related. I was holding it at the bottom right corner when it got the green tint. Grabbing the bottom right and top left corners and bending slightly on the back of it causes the green tint. Bending on the front reverses the green tint. Loose connection, a short, or failing screen altogether?
EDIT: I looked at those screenshots while my screen is normal and I can't see the green tint, so this is really weird!

Back & esp. the Recent Apps button, not as bright as advertised. Should I worry?

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I discovered something on my phone. The Back & most esp. the recent App Button is not as bright as I thought, and compared with the pictures I have seen on the internet. Should I worry about this? So far it doesn't affect their main function, just the brightness is what I am concerned right now.

Good question. My wife's (top) aren't as bright as mine (bottom). Screen brightness doesn't affect them; I wonder if anything does.

I think buttons light intensity is somehow related to screen bright. If you have your phone configured to adjust bright according to level of light please put your phone near a lamp and you'll see that buttons will be brighter after some seconds.

My buttons are super bright and both equal in luminescence. They do change with ambient brightness, I keep the display on auto perhaps they get locked in the current state when switching over to manual brightness.

Ah! I figured something out: are you using GravityBox?
I was able to change the intensity of my navbar buttons reliably:
10 Enable "Always on" in Android settings--buttons are dim
20 Enable "Always on" in GravityBox--buttons are bright
30 Set to "Default" in GravityBox--no change
40 Set to "Auto off" in Android Settings--buttons off
50 GOTO 10

Button brightness changes with ambient lighting and if direct light is shone directly on it or not.

Ah! Yes they do...takes a few seconds to change but it does.
Toggling the GravityBox setting just resets the last state.