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Light sensor

Hi,
According the the literature the light sensor adjusts the backlight according the the ambient light available.
Is it just me but this doesn't seem to be working and yes 'Auto adjust backlight' is checked.
Regards.

I can actively see this working all the time, if you happen to hold your hand over a bit of the screen you'll notice it slightly fade. I'ts not a major difference but it's def there.

Fru T Bunn said:
Hi,
According the the literature the light sensor adjusts the backlight according the the ambient light available.
Is it just me but this doesn't seem to be working and yes 'Auto adjust backlight' is checked.
Regards.
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On my TD2 it is working, but the change in backlight are not so obvious, you have to pay attention to see it: the change is not instantaneous, it is gradual (over a 0.5s time maybe), and it does not change much (not as much as the powersaving no-activity backlight level, which is much lower).
The best way I have found to check if it work is to be in a moderately lit room, and cover/nucover the light sensor with your finger. You should be able to notice the small change in backlight level as you cover/uncover the sensor....
BTW, anyone knows if it is possible to tune the backlight level/ ambiant light function? I would like to keep the auto-adjust, but lower the backlight level when it is completely dark to the minimal setting (or even lower), similar to the powersaving level I was talking about above.
This very low level is not nice for watching movies or pictures (it skew the color rendering because white is not white anymore, it is yellowish grey), but I find it ideal for ebook reading in the dark (it saes the battery, it is not tiring for the eye, and it is not bothering for the sleeping beauty sharing my bed when I read late ;-) )

G-Light
gkai said:
On my TD2 it is working, but the change in backlight are not so obvious, you have to pay attention to see it: the change is not instantaneous, it is gradual (over a 0.5s time maybe), and it does not change much (not as much as the powersaving no-activity backlight level, which is much lower).
The best way I have found to check if it work is to be in a moderately lit room, and cover/nucover the light sensor with your finger. You should be able to notice the small change in backlight level as you cover/uncover the sensor....
BTW, anyone knows if it is possible to tune the backlight level/ ambiant light function? I would like to keep the auto-adjust, but lower the backlight level when it is completely dark to the minimal setting (or even lower), similar to the powersaving level I was talking about above.
This very low level is not nice for watching movies or pictures (it skew the color rendering because white is not white anymore, it is yellowish grey), but I find it ideal for ebook reading in the dark (it saes the battery, it is not tiring for the eye, and it is not bothering for the sleeping beauty sharing my bed when I read late ;-) )
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try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440665

When I move around (indoor/outdoor), the screen brightness is very consistant (and colors are brilliant too), I persume the light sensor worked
but TD2 did not respond to my random playing of the sensor.. the finger trick did not work for me, but i don't care

kidleaders said:
When I move around (indoor/outdoor), the screen brightness is very consistant (and colors are brilliant too), I persume the light sensor worked
but TD2 did not respond to my random playing of the sensor.. the finger trick did not work for me, but i don't care
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Maybe a stupid question...but maybe you mistake the LED for the light sensor.
The indicator led is on the left of the speaker grid, the light sensor on the right...if you have ticked automatic in the backlight intensity (parameter/more/alimentatation section, backlight subsection), you should definitely see a change if you are under bright light and cover/uncover the light sensor just right of the speaker grid.
BTW, thanks fort the g-light application, it is working nicely!
Could even save battery, although maybe this is mitigated by having one more background process running for polling the light sensor data...

Screen issue normal

Have the s6 have the screen on basic setting. For some reason it still adapts to sunlight making it brighter automatically. When in low light it goes away. Just wondering if it's normal.

Brightness and screen tone are two separate settings independent of one another

SASQUATCH said:
Have the s6 have the screen on basic setting. For some reason it still adapts to sunlight making it brighter automatically. When in low light it goes away. Just wondering if it's normal.
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Yes, that is so you can see it in sunlight. I actually love this feature. AMOLED panels are notoriously bad in full sun so this really helps out.

laureanop said:
Brightness and screen tone are two separate settings independent of one another
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I have tone on basic and auto brightness off. It still happens.

new op3t user queries

Is there a way I can capture only a part of screen instead of screen shot the whole screen then cropping later ?
Anyway dialpad vibration can be disabled ?
Anyway home button / finger print sensor vibration can be disabled ?
Is OIS on stills really that bad ? Or is it just me ? (Coming from LG G4)
Voice volume and mic input terribly low while on loud speaker mode during a voice call. Is that supposed to be like that ?
Back of the phone heating up when playing graphics intensive games .. I thought Snapdragon 820+ had it solved. Am I wrong ? Did Qualcomm fail.to address over heating issue ?

Answers to a few of your questions below in red font (don't have answers for the remaining questions):
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Anyway dialpad vibration can be disabled ? You should not have dial pad vibration if you have toggled off "Vibrate on tap" in Settings>Sound.
Anyway home button / finger print sensor vibration can be disabled ? Similar to above answer, if you deselect "Vibrate on tap" in Settings>Sound, the vibrate when tapping Home will go away. I don't think you can turn if off (at least on stock device - might be a mod for it) for the fingerprint sensor alone (when screen is off - if that is what you mean) as the vibration is the only feedback you have that the fingerprint was read/failed. You could be tapping the sensor over and over, making it fail and lock the phone, before you ever knew it.
Back of the phone heating up when playing graphics intensive games .. I thought Snapdragon 820+ had it solved. Am I wrong ? Did Qualcomm fail.to address over heating issue ? It's not clear what you are talking about is an "issue". There is a difference between heat and overheating. CPUs and GPUs make heat when they are working hard, it's just physics. You can't magically make the heat go away. You can only mitigate it by making the chipsets more efficient (incremental improvements, not huge ones).
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salimbaba said:
Is there a way I can capture only a part of screen instead of screen shot the whole screen then cropping later ?
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If Marshmallow: Use an external app for this. If Nougat: you should be able to take such screenshot natively. At least LineageOS allows to take partial screenshot by holding "screenshot" button in power menu, IIRC.
salimbaba said:
Anyway home button / finger print sensor vibration can be disabled ?
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You'll most likely need Xposed and GravityBox to disable this (Marshmallow). I wouldn't recommend it, if you're not into rooting and that kind of stuff, especially if you hadn't done it before.
salimbaba said:
Is OIS on stills really that bad ? Or is it just me ?
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I'm not sure, what do you mean by saying "bad". Please elaborate.
salimbaba said:
Anyway dialpad vibration can be disabled ?
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As @redpoint73 already answered, vibration goes away by toggling that option off.
salimbaba said:
Back of the phone heating up when playing graphics intensive games
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Nothing abnormal. The more energy phone consumes, the warmer it gets.
salimbaba said:
Voice volume and mic input terribly low while on loud speaker mode during a voice call.
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You can manually modify the file responsible for audio routing, but as stated above, don't mess with it, if you don't know much about rooting.

Ambient light sensor

Hello guys, i checked in the service menu the value of this sensor.
the weird part is that this sensor has just 2 values: 0 and 6645.
when you cover it up it.s 0, when it;s free is 6645.
This is really weird as the value should increase/decrease gradually when you move your finger over it.
There were reported problems of lower battery time using ambient light on. So, can you please check if your sensor is showing normal values? (more than 2)
Thank you!

also i tried 2 ambient light sensor apps that work well on another phone and they say they can't detect the sensor...

I have tested it on mine and the values change with varying levels of light.

screen brightness issue & screen quality

HI Guys,
I have heard that there is a bug in Android pie update which reduced the brightness of the screen and also reduced the headphone volume output. Are these issues fixed? Also in general how is the screen quality of this phone? Is it bright enough?
Please let me know as I am thinking about buying this phone as it's on sale in India.

No takers?

adriansiv said:
No takers?
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If you want to leave Auto Brightness enabled and it defaults to too dark, I have used Velis Velis Auto Brightness with great success. Get it on Play Store or on XDA : https://forum.xda-developers.com/sho....php?t=1910521