Right now, media volume and ringtone volumes have 15 and 8 levels, respectively. Is there a way to make the lowest level quieter? Or to change the number of levels inbetween the current levels? Like 1%, 2%, all the way to 100% ect. I am mostly interested in the lower end. Upper end will probably distort if you go higher.
If you can't do it without root, is there a way to do it with root?
Thanks!
bump, does anyone have a solution for this? Even with root access?
I'm looking for the same. I do remember having it customizable on rooted Galaxy Note 2, so probably rooting will help.
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I'm looking for the same. I do remember having it customizable on rooted Galaxy Note 2, so probably rooting will help.
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Never rooted before, but if this is true then thats a good reason! Hopefully someone can give some instructions.
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Hi I am new to android and am considering switching from my iphone 3gs to a nexus one (or possible samsung captivate) It would be great if yall could answer these questions and any other helpful information you have on the phone!
1. How are the touch sensitive buttons on the bottom of the phone? Do yall ever have any trouble activating them or anything?
2. How is the battery life on this phone? I use my phone for texting ALOT, probably 5000 messages a month. Will i still be able to get a good days use out of the phone? That's all i really need because i charge it at night anyway. Also does rooting the phone and installing different ROMs or kernels improve battery life, or any other improvements over stock android? If so, which ones would you recommend for this.
3. I've read about screen burn in and some touch screen issues, have yall experienced any of these first hand?
I would be very appreciative if you could answer these questions for me
1. How are the touch sensitive buttons on the bottom of the phone? Do yall ever have any trouble activating them or anything?
I don't but my wife does. However, she tends to mash the screen with the side of her thumb because she is a blackberry user and has long nails. As an iphone user I'd think you'd be fine. You'll LOVE Swype.
2. How is the battery life on this phone? I use my phone for texting ALOT, probably 5000 messages a month. Will i still be able to get a good days use out of the phone? That's all i really need because i charge it at night anyway. Also does rooting the phone and installing different ROMs or kernels improve battery life, or any other improvements over stock android? If so, which ones would you recommend for this.
My N1 lasts all day easily, unless I'm doing something crazy like wireless tethering without a charger. That said I have a 2nd battery on a home charger because I hate (or badly forget about) leaving my phone plugged in EVER. Mostly I swap the battery in the morning on my way out. Froyo boots up fast!
3. I've read about screen burn in and some touch screen issues, have yall experienced any of these first hand?
I would be very appreciative if you could answer these questions for me.
Have not noticed any burn in issues yet. The contrast on the N1 AMOLED is a gorgeous thing to behold. It has a nicer image than my LED backlit Samsung TV, which is no chump.
However, the phone's screen struggles terribly in direct sunlight.
1. Touch buttons have been improved and are more responsive after the Froyo update.
2. Can be be good, can be bad. Should last you the day, but with heavy texting i wouldn't know. If you unlock and root it you can experiment with different roms and kernels to improve it. When i got my phone with stock 2.1 -update1 the battery was average. But then i unlocked it and flashe Cyanogen ROM and the battery got way better. So it is up to you. Unlocking and rooting voids warranty, but HTC have been kind to fix/replace phone as long as you re-flash stock to it.
3. Has happened to some. Mostly i think is due to the white status-bar that with long use on highest brightness. It can happen because it is fixed on one place allowing the white and bright burn gradually into the screen. Like the old Tv's (pre-plasma) you know. Leave it on overnight with a still image actually burns the image on the screen when turning it off. Old news really . Again, rooting it will allow you to install a black status bar thus eliminate the threat of a screen burn.
Most phones like these struggles in sunlight. But when beefing brightness to MAX it actually is "OK" to use it in the sun.
i have the slight burn in. its very faint and you would not even notice it AT ALL its that minor. but the problem is google made the status bar all white, and it never moves from that position of the screen no matter what you are doing with the phone. so because its amoled screen, those pixels wore out slightly quicker.
there is an easy way to avoid this problem, change to an all black color status bar. problem solved however you need to root in order to do this. good news is that now you can root without unlocking the bootloader, so HTC can never tell the phone was rooted, in case you were worried about voiding the warranty.
How can you root without unlocking the bootloader? And how do you change the color of the notification bar? Is there a simple themeing application like there is on jailbroken iphones?
Look in Developers section for the non-unlocking rooting thread.
(personally - I don't live in US so warranty means nothing to me, my phone was rooted after ~2 hours I took to check intact parts functionality).
Look up "Metamorph" in Apps section.
Another question, my girlfriend recently got the mytouch 3g. It works pretty decent and everything, but it is quite noticeably choppy. I would assume the nexus one is very smooth due to the 1ghz processor?
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How can you root without unlocking the bootloader?
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Pretty easily: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710842
Does anyone else have this issue? Every time you lock/unlock the brightness auto adjusts again (and it adjusts pretty low)
So even if I manually set it to 100% and lock/unlock it will be down to 25% again. Doesn't seem like it's learning at all
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Does anyone else have this issue? Every time you lock/unlock the brightness auto adjusts again (and it adjusts pretty low)
So even if I manually set it to 100% and lock/unlock it will be down to 25% again. Doesn't seem like it's learning at all
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Seems like it takes a lot of time to learn. I don't use it anyway I prefer having control on it
carloandreaguilar said:
Does anyone else have this issue? Every time you lock/unlock the brightness auto adjusts again (and it adjusts pretty low)
So even if I manually set it to 100% and lock/unlock it will be down to 25% again. Doesn't seem like it's learning at all
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Seems like a bug honestly, because it goes TOO LOW. I tried to lock the device several times to see if the "learning" of the slider improves, but it still goes back to the same spot... I'm gonna keep it deactivated until they fix it.
Android Pie has AI in basically everything and it learns for you, just keep adjusting the brightness manually and in a few days it'll know how you like your brightness and adjust it for you.
I care about to go low! And now I can't go below 19% with Adaptive ON, it's to high for a dark room.
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Seems like a bug honestly, because it goes TOO LOW. I tried to lock the device several times to see if the "learning" of the slider improves, but it still goes back to the same spot... I'm gonna keep it deactivated until they fix it.
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Actually I've been reading similar things about this on the pixel so it might just be the way it is. Might take long for it to learn. I read someone say it's always fun when he first unlocks it
And I found this link of people claiming it is like this the first few days until you train it better
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe...daptive_brightness_work_for/#thing_t1_e3yv49m
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And I found this link of people claiming it is like this the first few days until you train it better
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe...daptive_brightness_work_for/#thing_t1_e3yv49m
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Yeah it could be the new implementation of the AI, I'm gonna use it for a few days to see if it gets better
This has started happening to me since yesterday. I've been using Pie for a month now (December update). What I've noticed is that it goes down to about 25% every time I cover the brightness sensor with my finger (usually when watching YT) and it stays there no matter what. It's pretty annoying having to always adjust it like that. Using "Sensors Monitor" app I see that the sensor is working correctly so it's a software "feature".
Any suggestions on how to mitigate it besides using "Velis Auto Brightness" app?
How do we know its 'AI'? Has it 'adapted' for anyone till now? That brings us tk the question, what was wrong with Auto Brightness in Oreo? Just because there's piece of code that's new, doesn't mean its versatile.
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How do we know its 'AI'? Has it 'adapted' for anyone till now? That brings us tk the question, what was wrong with Auto Brightness in Oreo? Just because there's piece of code that's new, doesn't mean its versatile.
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Three words.
Mar ket ing
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Three words.
Mar ket ing
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Yeah, and some of us would be fixing what was intentionally broke. Interesting, what would Android be without the community working as the underdog?
Oh, and AI (its Computational Intelligence) is the new cheaper, efficient corporate slave working to enslave the many.
I have a bizarre question. I have a screen burn on my hole screen except notification bar area. I have try to burn it asswell with a picture only white on that certain area. But i can't be able to. I have trying more than 10 hrs. I believe samsung has lover the max brightness because of that burn in problem(i have read it and a lot of other people experienced the same problem). Is there a way to change max brightness so ı can be able to burn the unburned parts of my screen aswell?
I have a rooted phone and use dr.ketan rom(pie).
Thank you and sorry for my bad english.
Some of the roms have outdoor mode, which works for 15 minutes but its a lot more powerful than the stock 100%, not sure which rom tho, im on deluxerom and dont have it
But I did have it on dr ketan or exykings rom not sure
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Some of the roms have outdoor mode, which works for 15 minutes but its a lot more powerful than the stock 100%, not sure which rom tho, im on deluxerom and dont have it
But I did have it on dr ketan or exykings rom not sure
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Thank you for the reply. I have been able to find a app called "High Brightness Mode" which i believe do the thing you said. I'm try to burn my screen with it now. If it can do it then i will post it here.
But i belive that extra is still at a safe level. If there is a way less safer, more harmfull for the screen i would be appreciated. Maybe some number changes with some root explorer etc.
Not sure but, that way you are risking the panel, if you really want to try getting rid of the burn in, just display the burned in content with negative colours and leave it on the max brightness for a few hours (every day)
Greetings,
Just received a used device and noticed my unit won't physically lower in brightness at around 25 percent. What I mean is that at around the 25 percent mark, I am unable to perceive it getting any lower when set at a lower percentage. I've also noticed that when I have the brightness at a high percentage and then quickly lower it to the minimum, that the display will at first be quite dim then will suddenly raise itself to a slightly brighter minimum. I do not have auto brightness on, nor any filter apps active while testing. Just wondering if this issue is isolated to my device. Thank you for reading my concern. If anything is unclear, I could try taking a video of the issues. Anyone else with these issues? I've searched the web to no avail.
i just bought a used device as well and mine has the same issues. the backlight seems to flicker on the second screen at low brightness and below about half the second screen is noticably dimmer. its unfortunate that they didn't put a lot of effort into the screen software or quality considering its the main gimmick of this phone, but it is made by ZTE after all. the price you probably paid for one of these things is a lot more representative of the quality than the original MSRP. But its still a fun gimmick even with all the flaws.
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i just bought a used device as well and mine has the same issues. the backlight seems to flicker on the second screen at low brightness and below about half the second screen is noticably dimmer. its unfortunate that they didn't put a lot of effort into the screen software or quality considering its the main gimmick of this phone, but it is made by ZTE after all. the price you probably paid for one of these things is a lot more representative of the quality than the original MSRP. But its still a fun gimmick even with all the flaws.
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Thanks for your thoughts and input. Yeah this is quite unfortunate on how the phone turned out. I also see the flicker on the second display. But as you mentioned, the device is indeed quite fun. I'm actually thoroughly enjoying the device especially with books and comics reading in the extended mode. I tend to do some late night reading, so that was the reason why I brought up the display issue as I had wanted to get the display as dim as possible before applying a filter. Hopefully one day we'll get root to check out if we can lower the display minimum brightness level along with other lower level system modifications.
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Thanks for your thoughts and input. Yeah this is quite unfortunate on how the phone turned out. I also see the flicker on the second display. But as you mentioned, the device is indeed quite fun. I'm actually thoroughly enjoying the device especially with books and comics reading in the extended mode. I tend to do some late night reading, so that was the reason why I brought up the display issue as I had wanted to get the display as dim as possible before applying a filter. Hopefully one day we'll get root to check out if we can lower the display minimum brightness level along with other lower level system modifications.
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apparently a few weeks ago someone released TWRP for this device. its not quite a root but it still gives you root access to change the build.prop and some low level system settings. TWRP is the sign that there is some kind of development happening but i wouldn't hedge your bets on anybody fixing the screen issues even with some kind of kernel modification
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apparently a few weeks ago someone released TWRP for this device. its not quite a root but it still gives you root access to change the build.prop and some low level system settings. TWRP is the sign that there is some kind of development happening but i wouldn't hedge your bets on anybody fixing the screen issues even with some kind of kernel modification
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That is definitely a most welcome update. I'm curious on what build your device is on since you mentioned having similar issues to mine. I am on b30 myself and will be flashing to b37 when I get a chance to see if there are any differences.
I heard that the maximum brightness on the pixel 4 XL is over 600 nits. The only way to my knowledge to achieve this is by going into high brightness mode settings. Is there a way to enable d settings without rooting the device? Has anybody been able to figure out whether the setting is accessible without root? Or if Google intends on adjusting the display brightness algorithms in a future update? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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I heard that the maximum brightness on the pixel 4 XL is over 600 nits. The only way to my knowledge to achieve this is by going into high brightness mode settings. Is there a way to enable d settings without rooting the device? Has anybody been able to figure out whether the setting is accessible without root? Or if Google intends on adjusting the display brightness algorithms in a future update? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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Unfortunately, there is no current way to enable HBM without root
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/pixel-4-secret-high-brightness-mode-heres-activate-3952952
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Unfortunately, there is no current way to enable HBM without root
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/pixel-4-secret-high-brightness-mode-heres-activate-3952952
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Damn at this point 'm really tempted to pay someone who lives in Canada to root my device for me lol.
Everywhere in Canada only sells unlocked devices now so I know my new pixel is unlocked. But in order to get the most benefits of this device it seems like I'll need to root it which sucks.
The only thing holding me back on rooting the device apart from my lack of knowledge is that everyone who has routed their device has had several issues with flashing and bootloop crap. And they won't get any of the it's updates anymore. Otherwise if rooted I could maximize the potential of this device with the display brightness mod and the camera mod. I'm particularly keen on trying to get the camera mod to work with gcam px.
Hopefully Google figures out a solution and is able to apply higher brightness levels in a future update. Thanks for the response I appreciate it.
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Damn at this point 'm really tempted to pay someone who lives in Canada to root my device for me lol.
Everywhere in Canada only sells unlocked devices now so I know my new pixel is unlocked. But in order to get the most benefits of this device it seems like I'll need to root it which sucks.
The only thing holding me back on rooting the device apart from my lack of knowledge is that everyone who has routed their device has had several issues with flashing and bootloop crap. And they won't get any of the it's updates anymore. Otherwise if rooted I could maximize the potential of this device with the display brightness mod and the camera mod. I'm particularly keen on trying to get the camera mod to work with gcam px.
Hopefully Google figures out a solution and is able to apply higher brightness levels in a future update. Thanks for the response I appreciate it.
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Well, I don't really think that rooting the P4XL is very difficult at all. There are several threads on the topic in these forums. As far as updating every month, that takes little more than a pc, sdk platform-tools, a factory image, or, side loading an OTA, and a little time to learn the procedure. I've been updating that way for several years without issues, or getting root again. Just all depends on what your willing to do to make your device what you want it to be
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Well, I don't really think that rooting the P4XL is very difficult at all. There are several threads on the topic in these forums. As far as updating every month, that takes little more than a pc, sdk platform-tools, a factory image, or, side loading an OTA, and a little time to learn the procedure. I've been updating that way for several years without issues, or getting root again. Just all depends on what your willing to do to make your device what you want it to be
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fair enough thank you for sharing. I appreciate understanding that others don't have much issue with this throughout their experience. Unfortunately I guess I'm on the complete other side of the spectrum because I have no experience with routing whatsoever and I would like to get my device rooted to get the maximum benefits but I use a Mac and I don't know if the procedure is compatible with Macs.
And it's times like these where I wish I was a bit more knowledgeable I've seen all the threads but every thread that I've seen also has a plethora of users who have got any boot loops or had some other issue and it seemed like there was more complaints about the problems rather than actual success and those threads which is also off-putting. Otherwise I was naive enough to think rooting a simple.