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Hi there,
I own a galaxy s gt i9000. running eclair 2.1 (rooted + voodoo lag fix & color fix).
I keep my brightness level to 100% (its looks amazing after the colorfix thanks to voodoo...)
I have come across a strange thing i.e. while pressing the notification bar and just when it is about to drop down, then just swype the finger to left, the screen brightness level reduces and when swyping to right it increases (but cannot go upto 100%).
Please tell me that only i am facing this or it is a inbuilt feature or it is a bug(or a positive bug rather to access the brightness settings from the home screen).
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Built in Feature
Built-in feature - has been discussed in a few other threads.
With auto brightness disabled, you can use the pull down bar to adjust the brightness on the fly by sliding left/right along it.
It's even in the user manual that comes with the phone.
Ok guys thanks a lot...
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I need some help with options in this phone. First off all I found it annoying that the bottom 4 touch button light turns off in like 5 seconds. I know it saves battery but I want to have the option to keep on longer. I'm pretty sure there isn't a built in option, but is it possible for anyone here to mod this? (I think you can do it because there is a mod to turn them always off).
Next I feel that the lowest screen brightness is still pretty high. Is there anyway that I can reduce it? Possibly through an app? I'm rooted and everything so no problem there. Thanks
Many would like the option to change the time out on the buttons. Unfortunately no fix yet.
As for the brightness, many of the widgets to adjust brightness from the market will allow lower settings
I use extended controls..I don't think it was free but is highly customizable
I find that the auto-brightness on our phone doesn't reduce to the minimum possible! Is there a setting I'm not seeing?
I always use the widget to control it because it can take it much lower than the auto brightness does.
...so are there any fixes, or would we need a custom kernel to be able do that?
Auto brightness is just very inefficient. I've been using manual brightness on this and my previous phone for a long time. You could use an app such as Screen Filter which reduces the brightness, but it seems to make the colours look a bit washed out to me.
With regards to a custom ROM or kernel, I have no idea whether this would help, but I've never seen changes to the auto brightness function on any previous custom ROM I've ever used.
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Sightr said:
I find that the auto-brightness on our phone doesn't reduce to the minimum possible! Is there a setting I'm not seeing?
I always use the widget to control it because it can take it much lower than the auto brightness does.
...so are there any fixes, or would we need a custom kernel to be able do that?
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From what i know, You would need a custom Kernel.. try getting ' My Settings ' From market ... gives as much control as possible to ur stock ROM for screen brightness as possible along with a host of other useful toggles.
Be sure to add a SHORTCUT onto ur home screenm for easy access
it has improved my battery life quite a bit !
I don't understand how they could screw up such a simple thing!
I'm running froyo... does gingerbread fix the auto brightness?
Does anyone kno of an app that can lower the lowest brightness level? I tried screen filter but i dnt like the tint it uses n it kinda distorts the quality of images and videos shown. I tried googling stll no luck. The lowest brightness level is still brite at nite.....
Have you tried turning off the Auto brightness feature and then manually reducing the brightness in the display options?
If you turn off Auto Brightness in your Display Settings, you can run your finger left or right along the top slide-down menu bar (the one that displays time, battery, signal, etc) to decrease or increase the screen brightness.
Srry i meant lowering the brightness lower than the lowest level limit. The screen is still to brite for me at the lowest level at nite.
App: screen filter
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Use this software from Android Market,
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel&feature=search_result
Android Os will report you zero brightness when you change it in settings, but still it has 8% brightness enabled, so the above software will help you to pulling it back to original 0%
Even better than that, I remember supercurio (iirc, or was it hardcore?) hacked the SGS kernel to enable to an even lower brightness setting ages ago. However I haven't seen this hack integrated into any kernels for ages (unless I'm missing something and it's already there)
Hardcore's Speedmod K13E kernel for 2.2.1 has a super low brightness level
Try the dimmer app, it is better than screen filter, not as grainy.
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redstripe said:
Try the dimmer app, it is better than screen filter, not as grainy.
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Hi whos the developer thers a bunch of these apps in the market thats called dimmer
Its the one with the light bulb, it was included in one of darky's previous roms.
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The lowest brightness level is still brite at nite.....
any oficial rom with lowest minimal brightness?
thanks
I'm sorry to bring this up again...
I'm testing out the last build teamhacksung's CM9 and it came with a bunch of options to optimize the brightness.
Although I've been experimenting on this options for quite a while, the brightness is very irregular. At one moment is very dark and for no reason the brightness comes back up while I'm in total darkness.
Do you have any idea of what's causing this?
I get this as well. Also, the screen will auto-dim after a short time of inactivity. How to control this?
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Also, I have a friend with the same software as me, everything the same and his Galaxy S gets much darker than mine. Even when we have them side by side.
Try Semaphore's kernel on THS ICS. It has its own auto brightness that works well and has a Dark setting.
That said, I still use screen filter on top of that in darkness.
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Try Semaphore's kernel on THS ICS. It has its own auto brightness that works well and has a Dark setting.
That said, I still use screen filter on top of that in darkness.
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Semaphore's kernel disables the BLN for me.
What I did was...
In the definitions put the dim level to 6. And then I added a button in the notification bar for brightness and I gave it the automatic and dim options.
That way when I'm inside doors I put it to dim and when I'm outside I change it to automatic.
jmjviana said:
Semaphore's kernel disables the BLN for me.
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Semaphore & BLN working fine together for me...
cdmackay said:
Semaphore & BLN working fine together for me...
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In the same ROM as mine? Can you tell me where are the configurations for the BLN after installing the Semaphore kernel?
Hey guys, as you all know, there usually is no way, of how to control led brightness and duration in a stock ROM, except for Zeus ROM. Now I just found a way, of how it probably could be controlled, but I dont know, how to set it correctly... Just open the hidden menu (3845#*970#), then go to device test, scroll all the way down, to LED current control and there you can set different things, but I dont know, how to set it correctly... can anyone explain the settings maybe or even build an easy to use app, which would allow all of the stock users, to control the LED brightness and maybe even the brightness of the LEDs.
And I also discovered, that with some random settings i chose, my softkeys all are illuminated blue, which I like very much, maybe also a feature, that is settable somehow... Would be really cool, if we could use this somehow. There also are some paths, that show, which file is being used, but it doesnt tell me anything, so maybe someone here can take benefit of it I hope so
I would love yo have them all blue
hmm, I don't get the point. when you control screen brightness, it's leds brightness logically... I mean, it's global. decreasing brightness decreases luminosity of leds light. backlight is about zones or areas.
My point is, I first of all want full control over the Softkeys. I want to be able to set color, duration or permantent light and also the brightness of the softkeys. I for example would like to have them blue at full brightness and permanently illuminated, since I hate it if they go out completely and I miss the right button... I know, it's not that much of a deal, but dont you think as well, that it would be cool, to be able to control it? It's not about the screen brightness, but only about the softkeys. Get what I mean and want?
okay I see. there is the notification app already which control a part of softkeys. maybe you could understand how to control them if you're able to decompile the app to see the source code ?