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[IDEA] Custom auto brightness app

Hi there, back on Windows mobile there used to be an app where you could set the custom auto brightness levels for different environments e.g. you place the phone in a dark room and set how bright you'd like it and the same with outside on a sunny day. This way the user could define exactly how dark/bright the backlight would shine. I find the autobrightness currently ok, but would be great to customize it exactly how I like.
The app on Windows mobile was called Lumos. With it you can even select custom brightnesses per application, so have it displayin at a brighter level when using the Gallery looking at pics etc. Would be great if this could be ported or a similar app be developed here!
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cd993 said:
Hi there, back on Windows mobile there used to be an app where you could set the custom auto brightness levels for different environments e.g. you place the phone in a dark room and set how bright you'd like it and the same with outside on a sunny day. This way the user could define exactly how dark/bright the backlight would shine. I find the autobrightness currently ok, but would be great to customize it exactly how I like.
The app on Windows mobile was called Lumos. With it you can even select custom brightnesses per application, so have it displayin at a brighter level when using the Gallery looking at pics etc. Would be great if this could be ported or a similar app be developed here!
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Strange that nobody made such an app! I loved Lumos!

Sounds like a great idea, that would definitely be something i'd be interested in having......

Just asked in the original thread if they could ever port it to our device. Hopefully either they can or a clever Android dev could create something similar!
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I remember having that thing on my iPhone too! Was awesome!
Hope somebody makes that, someday! ;-)

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Here in the north it's kinda dark over half of the year so you never need the full brightness anyway

Any news ? sounds like a good idea

CM7 includes this feature.
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[Q] "Lighter" theme/Menu options

Hi!
I've been trying out different ROMS and most of them look pretty decent, but coming from a HTC MyTouch 4g, what I've missed the most is one theme/Rom that is actually NOT black/dark, but has "lighter"-background (ie., light greyish) menus and, particularly, light-background boxes for the menus that pop from the bottom when you press, well, the menu button (how do you call those boxes? I've had a lots of trouble trying to run a proper search).
Any pointers or recommendations on where to look for a theme like this would be much appreciated!
David

Deivid85 said:
Hi!
I've been trying out different ROMS and most of them look pretty decent, but coming from a HTC MyTouch 4g, what I've missed the most is one theme/Rom that is actually NOT black/dark, but has "lighter"-background (ie., light greyish) menus and, particularly, light-background boxes for the menus that pop from the bottom when you press, well, the menu button (how do you call those boxes? I've had a lots of trouble trying to run a proper search).
Any pointers or recommendations on where to look for a theme like this would be much appreciated!
David
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I'm working on a new theme called White Fire. It should be out in the next few days. All menus and popups are white. Check out the phoenix and Firefly Themes thread in the next few days.

Hey, sounds great! Looking forward to seeing it!
By the way, why is the overwhelming majority of (or all) themes black? White looks so much more modern

Deivid85 said:
Hey, sounds great! Looking forward to seeing it!
By the way, why is the overwhelming majority of (or all) themes black? White looks so much more modern
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I am also working on a white theme called PISS...polar bear in snow storm.
In all seriousness, I believe that most themes are black in nature to conserve battery life.
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Deivid85 said:
Hey, sounds great! Looking forward to seeing it!
By the way, why is the overwhelming majority of (or all) themes black? White looks so much more modern
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Actually, if you followed Android OS then you would know black is actually more modern. Go get a G1 and look at how the 1.5/1.6 theme is, and that came first.

Black/dark is better for battery life on a SAMOLED. It's why Gingerbread is dark/black for the Nexus S.

Day one with HTC one

Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.

I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Konfuzion said:
I didn't read your whole post but to get white text on black you are going to have to go with an inverted Rom, like d3rp or 42One I am sure there are others but those two come to mind.
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Thanks, I might hold off on rooting for a while.
The main thing I wanted to check was that I wasn't missing an obvious settings and that the screen was working properly, it's VERY flat and grey compared to my SII.
Overall it's doing a good job but the screen is going to have to take some getting used to.

SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Hi all,
I'm coming from and SGSII and I'm in the process of trying to setup my One how I like it. There's a few things troubling me though.
-The blacks of the screen don't seem especially black and it seems there's no way to adjust the contrast. The whole screen seems a bit flat/grey
This is the difference between AMOLED and LCD. The contrast on the One is pretty much the best available on a phone LCD, but it is still an LCD, and cannot match the black levels of AMOLED.
-The menus are black text on white, I much prefer the white on black of the SII
The menus on the SII are white on black because white is a very expensive color to display, battery-wise, on an AMOLED screen. Inverted roms, or themes, will fix this for you.
-The scroll 'brakes' too quickly as your finger comes off the screen, it's like sliding something on sandpaper as opposed to ice. There's no 'mega scroll' flick
Depends on the app you're using. If you're speaking about within Sense (settings, app drawer, etc) then yeah I guess, but I'm not sure why you would need the long scrolling in such short lists.
-I've had to download a task manager killer but I cannot end google+, gmail and googlemaps. I don't want them.
Uninstall/disable them via settings>apps or kill them with an app.
-The icons on my SII are a lot better
rofl
-I'd like the notification bar to be black
Theme
-On the SII I have gps switched off but weather apps still work, with the HTC gps has to be on.
-I'm going to have to root this phone to get adfree aren't?
You had to root your S2 to get that too.
I'm using nova launcher so a lot of things are similar but those things above are really bugging me. I've googled all of them and had no luck so let me know if I'm missing anything.
Thanks.
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Answered within quote.

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Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.

SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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babymatteo said:
You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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The HTC logo doesn't have a capacitive sensor, the "logo button" feature actually uses the first row of pixels immediately above the logo as a button.
Not trying to attack anyone here, just want to make sure that the information is explained a bit more.
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SGSII_LEDnotify said:
Thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. Much as I feared the about the screen. It's a shame, I do really like OLED. Those are the two big things now, the screen and lack of centre button. It's stupid because most apps now have a black bar at the bottom which takes up about 10% of the screen for the 'options' button. A button would be much better. If it had those two things it would be the perfect phone in my eyes.
Makes sense about the menus, I checked out the 42One rom and it looks pretty good. I spent yesterday getting everything set up so I'm going to wait to root and flash.
The scroll/flick behaviour is a bit different but some lists do have a 'mega-scroll' so that was me I guess, I'd still prefer it if it was a bit looser.
I found the only option was to disable certain apps, I guess I won't be able to get into removing stuff until I root the phone.
Maybe I should have said i don't like the stock icons, I still prefer the SII one but have since downloaded some icon packs so we're all good there.
On my journeys I saw someone had written a little program to guide you through rooting your phone so I'll have to find that again. I'd also like to backup my stock setup in case of warranty issues further down the line.
Thanks again.
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Yep, it's the tradeoff you made when you picked LCD.
If its any consolation, displaying white on your S2 actually caused the display consumption to go up drastically (sometimes double the power required) while on LCD the screen uses a much more consistent amount of power. The whites on your One -should- appear as truer whites, while yes, the black will be more washed out.

babymatteo said:
You can use the HTC Logo as menu button. But you'd need a custom kernel that supports that.
AMOLED displays are usually very over saturated compared to IPS LCD displays. But IPS will give you a more accurate color and truer whites and blacks.
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Useful to know, thanks!

Thanks for the input, being brand new to HTC I'm still learning what's available.
Ideally I like Nova so I'd like to keep that. I'd like the general menus to be white text on black BG, I can clean things out with Titanium and stop ads with adfree.
From what I can tell I'm going to need to root the phone and then install a rom.
Are there 'pre-optimized' roms? Are there any Roms which are basically stock except for the colour flip? Can I get 4.3 in there as well? That middle button would be great too. My SII came with swype, I miss that.
I've found instructions on rooting but a little unsure which rom to go for, konfuzion's suggestion of 42One looks ok but I don't know what's out there, supported and up to date.
If you have any more thoughts they're always welcome

I'm gonna need some help on this guys.
I'm in the UK on the EE network, can I download any rom or do I need a specific 'EE' one?
Do I need a rom if I just want superuser privileges and a reversed/inverted menu? (also be able to install titanium backup and adfree)
I think I can handle the rest of it.
Thanks.

Well you most likely have a gsm one so you wouldn't want to flash anything in the sprint one section. And seeing as your gsm i believe there are a few roms over there that are 4.3
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Help Xperia Z1s Status Bar Turns Grey in Settings/Dialer

No idea what has caused this... but when I enter settings it goes from Black (nova launcher) or transparent (stock xperia) to a dull gray.
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POMF2K said:
No idea what has caused this... but when I enter settings it goes from Black (nova launcher) or transparent (stock xperia) to a dull gray.
Thanks in advance.
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I should also not the the bar along the bottom with the back, home, and app switcher buttons turns the same color.

It has always been like this for me on stock.
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BreakShadow said:
It has always been like this for me on stock.
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Not a dark grey, but a lighter dull flat grey on top and bottom.
Does it change color when you enter settings from the stock launcher?

POMF2K said:
Not a dark grey, but a lighter dull flat grey on top and bottom.
Does it change color when you enter settings from the stock launcher?
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Has it been like this from the start and I just now noticed?

POMF2K said:
Has it been like this from the start and I just now noticed?
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This is really stressing me out. Whether I messed something up or it was like that all along... it looks horrible.
Is there a way to change android settings menus (as well as the notification bar/bottom button bar) to black and get rid of this horrible white/grey theme that doesn't involve an unlocked bootloader? I'm hoping to find an easy fix for this once root is available.

Same thing on my phone, if you use nova launcher to change the bar color it works except in sonys custom settings, which probably means the color of the bars there is handled different hence why nova launcher can't change it. Would probably need something like a custom rom/root or maybe 4.4 to do this.

This is stock and normal. You're like the third person I've seen complaining about this today? I don't understand why it's a problem.

Uh yeah.. It's supposed to do that.

xasbo said:
This is stock and normal. You're like the third person I've seen complaining about this today? I don't understand why it's a problem.
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Honestly it's not a problem aside from the fact that it's unsightly. I was afraid messed something up.
So even without nova it would still turn grey?

POMF2K said:
Honestly it's not a problem aside from the fact that it's unsightly. I was afraid messed something up.
So even without nova it would still turn grey?
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Yep, this is controlled by the Dialer and Settings APKs - you won't be able to change it without modifying those APKs or a custom ROM/app which supports forcing status bar colors. I'm not too involved in that stuff, though, so that's about as much of a jumping off point as I can give you.
To be honest, I didn't even notice it until people started getting excited about. Different folks...

xasbo said:
Yep, this is controlled by the Dialer and Settings APKs - you won't be able to change it without modifying those APKs or a custom ROM/app which supports forcing status bar colors. I'm not too involved in that stuff, though, so that's about as much of a jumping off point as I can give you.
To be honest, I didn't even notice it until people started getting excited about. Different folks...
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Maybe i was so excited about everything else that i didn't notice that. I wonder if it was intentional to signify importance or caution or if it was simply overlooked.

POMF2K said:
Maybe i was so excited about everything else that i didn't notice that. I wonder if it was intentional to signify importance or caution or if it was simply overlooked.
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I think it's simply a case of the status bar/button panel (whatever it's called) blending the default black color with the white-ish background of the app. I assume it's just the application of translucency and alpha blending. Change the bgcolor of those apps, probably goes away. Maybe there are some other white-background apps to prove that theory.

Messaging does it too, fyi
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nb31b said:
Messaging does it too, fyi
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Good catch. I replaced stock Messaging with 8sms to fix group threading. 8sms doesn't have the gray bars, even with the light theme, but stock Messaging definitely does.

Controlling Notification LED

Nothing recent to research for our N3 so I wanted to hear from the peeps that are controlling their Notification LED using apps such as "Light Flow", etc.
I downloaded Light Flow Lite and do not want to buy their paid version until I listened to the opinion of my peers who own the same device.
Anyone out there using apps to control their LED, and which apps do you like/hate?

Wow, do you guys know how many colors our LEDs are capable of making?
Android is famous for its adjustability, and yet no one wants to take control of their notification LED?
Makes no sense to me, I don't get it.

XiphoneUzer said:
Wow, do you guys know how many colors our LEDs are capable of making?
Android is famous for its adjustability, and yet no one wants to take control of their notification LED?
Makes no sense to me, I don't get it.
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Try posting in the "theme's and apps" section for more responses. Dont double post though! Click the caution triangle at the top right of your original post and ask to move this for you.

440bro said:
Try posting in the "theme's and apps" section for more responses. .
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You mean "more" than zero - lol
That certainly makes sense to me bro, but in the past, similar threads were move back here because I was "asking a question".
Regardless, over 100 views and no one else has any motivation to control color of notifications, why not?
So far, just with the 1st free app I have tried, it's light years better than just the plain blue for everything..
sms flashes green
e-mail flashes cyan
missed call orange
calander reminder purple
low battery red
incoming call blue
So if we move this thread, will I get 200 views not interested, (instead of only 100 - lol)

I could care less about my led color because I have a galaxy gear. But if I didn't, I'd be checkin out some led apps!
I posted in here recommending to move your thread because I did see you had views and no comments. I couldn't leave ya hanging. Maybe wait a few days and let your post marinate here. Then ask to move it so it can get a couple hundred more views without comments in that section too! Lol

The only thing I would care about is being able to set different colors for different contacts.
On my GPro I had red for my (ex) girl, yellow for my mom, green for my closest friend, etc.

raduque said:
The only thing I would care about is being able to set different colors for different contacts.
On my GPro I had red for my (ex) girl, yellow for my mom, green for my closest friend, etc.
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You can do that.
Thanks bro for the replies

XiphoneUzer said:
Wow, do you guys know how many colors our LEDs are capable of making?
Android is famous for its adjustability, and yet no one wants to take control of their notification LED?
Makes no sense to me, I don't get it.
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Try this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
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Who would of thought an led app needed sooooo many permissions!

lildoggs said:
Try this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite
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I did, and said so in my first post.
XiphoneUzer said:
I downloaded Light Flow Lite and do not want to buy their paid version until I listened to the opinion of my peers who own the same device
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I'm liking is, but was hoping to get feed back from peeps who have tried other apps, or the paid version.
Have you tried any of these, and what do you think of them.
(also, thanks for the reply and for taking the time to supply the link).

Sorry I read you post last week and didn't remember you had written that you have tried lightflow. ?
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I use light manager and has got a bunch of settings and you can add apps and set colors for app notifications.
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