I normally don't have capacitive button phones (or disbale the backlights on Samsungs) and this is my first DROID phone.. but I do notice that the capactive buttons backlight will auto turn off outdoors or in areas with a lot of light.
Has anyone found a way to manually disable the capactive button backlight without root? Is it even possible without root? I'd like to turn them off, becomes a bit of a distraction when watching videos or reading in the dark. Hopefully Motorola will put in an option in the near future.
Also, is anyone else kind of disappointed that Motorola did not implement the new graphic button layout design that Android 5.0 Lollipop will use? I understand it might be confusing to some newcomers or people in general, but I wish it was done personally. They were plenty aware of 5.0's layout. Just a weird oversight.
The Lux app allows you to turn them off.
I accomplished it by using Screen Filter and auto-launching it on startup with AutoStart.
I'm coming from the same background, a Galaxy S3 with the capacitive backlights turned off (CM11) and an S5 right after that briefly (they have that feature built into the OS).
So far literally the only complaint I've had is the backlight on my recent app-switcher is super uneven, likely an air-bubble in the glue. It bothered me having it on because it was uneven and this was my solution (which I prefer to having the lights enabled, even if it was an even distribution).
Related
I used to do things when the display is off with my old PDA phone but I found that my new Diamond tried to change my way of life, it will disable all key function when the screen is off except the keys of vol and up and down key. Does anyone know how to enable all key press when the screen is off? Many thanks
So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
Start/Settings/System tab/Key lock (or something like that).
There you can enable keys.
[email protected] said:
So what exactly would you do with your device when the screen is turned off for which you'd like the hardware buttons to work? I would imagine the only thing would be to control the volume slider etc which is already active. It kinda defeats the purpose of turning the screen off then don't you think?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I used to use my ASUS PDA phone as a book reader in the way that I read a book with my ears using text-to-speech software while I am walking or riding. surely when I don't need to read the screen, the screen can be turned off to save power. In addition, I used the hardware keys to go backward or forward one sentence to control the reading speed. The point is this diamond seems to be unable to response key function with the screen staying off. Letting user to customize the device is the reason I choose WM over other devices like iphone, but HTC seems to break this way.
I have been noticing that my auto brightness doesn't work like it did when I first got my phone a few months ago.
Back then it seemed like it changed brightness after a few seconds when it should.
Nowadays it doesn't seem to do that anymore.
Now if I hold my phone close to a bright light, hit the power button and unlock the phone, the screen is very bright, as it should. When I hold my phone in a dark place, it doesn't adjust the brightness. It keeps being very bright.
BUT, if I hold my phone in a dark place and hit the power button and unlock the phone, it's dark, but when I move my phone to a brighter location it does make the screen brighter.
I first thought this had to do with CM, but now on stock froyo it does the same thing.
Is this normal, and am I just mistaken? And should the phone adjust the brightness when I hold my thumb on the sensor thats just right under the power button on the front of the phone (I expect the screen to be less bright)? Because it doesn't do that.
Thanks in advance.
No it's not normal, mine reacts to changes in ambient light in a second or 2 (FRF50), just like yours used to.
When I cover the light sensor with my thumb, the screen dims right down.
Thanks for your reply.
Is there anything I can do to check why this doesn't happen on my phone?
Can I perform a check on the status of my sensor, on it's behavior?
And are there any known reasons why this could happen?
Thanks in advance.
This exact issue is happening with me ever since I updated to 2.2. It worked perfectly before but now I notice that once the screen adjusts to maximum brightness in a well lit area, it never dims....don't know what the problem is. But I hope there is a solution.
Good to hear I'm not the only one with problem, that gives me hope this might be a software issue rather than a non-working sensor.
Rusty! said:
No it's not normal, mine reacts to changes in ambient light in a second or 2 (FRF50), just like yours used to.
When I cover the light sensor with my thumb, the screen dims right down.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually I may have to take this back, in retrospect, the dimming actually could have been the screen timing out.
When covering the sensor with my thumb and not having the screen set to 15secs, it doesn't dim until I lock/unlock the screen.
Reading on another forum this is by design rather than a flaw, as people complained the screen would fade in and out in certain light conditions... now it can't.
Ah, okay. Good to hear.
Thanks again, Rusty.
froyo seems to fix the autobrightness for me, at least now i can see the screen brightness is changing according to lighting condition, previously i don't notice it (using cyan ROM prior to froyo).
So I have spent the last 3 hours scouring the site and web looking for a theme that works like the Blackmod Enhanced theme for fascinate. Have not found a single thing to mod the backlight timer so maybe can't be done yet. Anyone tried that theme on the captivate?
I am rooted and tried cog 2.bv6 but it killed my wi-fi at home which was a deal breaker for me. This time trying to just tweak the stock eclair and really would love to have the 15 second extended backlight for the soft keys, the enhanced power button with reboot, recovery etc options, a battery percentage indicator (and full flash support, I realize that is more than just theme based and gets into full blown ROM's but doesn't hurt to throw it in, getting by with Skyfire browser for now)
Anyone know of a theme or very very very stable ROM that will give me these features? Backlight is the biggie as it's the only thing I can't stand on the phone.
Rob
:edited typos
I flashed Assonance 4.3, disbled the lagfix, flashed SetiroN's 1200MHz 1.4.5 Kernal, followed by the gingerbread theme (I only got the theme to flash by renaming it to update.zip and flashing in recovery manually) and it is running very stable and has backlight notifications.
AFAIK there is nothing that currently extends the backlight to stay lit longer. I'm hoping someone figures this out soon because I'd like the keys to stay lit for as long as the screen is on. The only thing available is backlight notifications which are lit up when you have a new text, email, or missed call.
I would love to have them on while the screen is visible (Except for video watching) as well. I wonder why manufacturers don't use a technology similar to the screen like the nook for the buttons? It would just be backwards... have it be all dark with a bit of the lighter color showing through. It would be easy enough to see and not take hardly any battery power right?
So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
Was talking to someone about this in another thread and there was a misunderstanding. The point to extending the backlight for the soft keys, for me anyway, would be to keep them active thus eliminating the need to touch the screen to enable the back or home button (or pressing the button several times to get it to wake up). Just in case someone had the wrong impression of the goal here.
Guardian_Bob said:
So this looks to be possible right now; however, it would be exceedingly difficult to do this in a sane way. For example, how do you know when to turn the lights off? Should they just be kept on until the phone falls asleep? I'd have to dig into AOSP a lot more, but I'm thinking this isn't a cut and dry easy to implement feature by any means.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think just giving the option of the length of time someone wants them to stay on kind of solves this. I would love them to stay on for 15 seconds or so instead of the 3 seconds it is at now.
Ya I seriously would like this implemented. DEVS someone please try to do this. I would gladly be willing to donate for it.
So I wasn't clear before. I'll try again.
There are technical issues with detecting when the user has stopped touching the screen. It isn't as simple as raising a timeout value, you'd have to create an application that was constantly monitoring all gestures, using a good bit of processing power and battery.
This appears to be controlled by hardware for the most part.
How about as a start the application can at least extend the time to 15 sec after any one of the bottom 4 buttons are pressed.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
I would be happy just having the lights lit. The key activity for the 2-3 seconds is fine.
I am getting old i guess and need to see where the keys are
On Di11igafs 2.5 they stay on at least 10 seconds so there must be a way..
Sent from my Super Captivate S......XDA - style!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875013
Happy new year.
I have been getting a black screen, now and then with ota 5.1, unlocked but not rooted, US Cellular. Has anyone experienced this? If so, what is your experience? Found any fixes (other that workarounds)??
Symptom: black screen, lower and upper bars appear and seem to be functional.
The best workaround seems to be to twist start the camera, then hit the on/off button to put to sleep and then wake it up. The reason for the on/off trick is because the back/home/recent buttons on the bottom don't function. Oddly, after the workaround, going back into camera, those buttons work.
To me, is seems to be an app issue, which one, I don't know. Maybe something putting it to sleep, or something with the screen lock/phone lock 'features'. A bugger to track down.
I have found ways to dim and turn off the capacitive buttons using screen filters and Gravity Box, but I can't seem to find a way to time them out. It would be great to watch videos and use the daydream feature without the buttons being lit up the whole time (and not having to go out of the way to turn them off.) Does anyone have any ideas?