Hi All.
I have wondered why the software that controls the backlight, with the light sensor, doesn’t adjust the backlight to the lowest setting, when the phone is in total darkness.
I use my phone in complete darkness almost every night, but I think the backlight is way to bright. I know I can adjust it manual, but why not automatic?
Do any of you bright heads, know a reg value to change or another solution, so I can "allow" the backlight to go to the lowest setting, automatically?
I find this anoying also. Any help would be great.
Anyone? I have looked in the registry but cant find anything... :-/
as far as i know there is no software\tweak that can change backlite to min
Same here. In my case, I'd like the backlight to be a bit brighter in brighter conditions, especially when in the car on a sunny day and I'm using iGo. Manually, I can set the backlight higher. I had a sony ericsson phone with a similar light sensor, but you could adjust its maximum threshold and the general brightness. Surely there's a software solution here somewhere!
I searched a little and quickly found some things:
1. The Diamond seems to have an in-built process to adjust brightness according to light sensor. Don't know if it works, though.
2. The registry keys are found at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\BackLight\". You can modify brightness there, and it will affect the control panel BUT not change your current brightness. There is an Event you must trigger to update brightness. In many devices, this is the BacklightChangeEvent, in some others, this is SDKBacklightChangeEvent, and some others something different. Depends on the device and the manufacturer.
I wrote an app to change the registry value and trigger both SDKBacklightChangeEvent and BacklightChangeEvent. I can see on the control panel the value has changed, but the visible Brightness won't change. Seems HTC decided to make their own DLL to manage that, instead of standard windows mobile events.
So, I searched a bit further and I found that into "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn" there is a key called "Frontlight" which is apparently defining a value which points to Backlight.dll. This must be HTC's implementation of the Backlight manager. I was like "yay this will be my first windows mobile dll reverse engineering" BUT, I didn't find this file anywhere on the device, unfortunately.
If anyone could find it on the Diamond, please pass me the info !
Scotchy49 said:
I searched a little and quickly found some things:
1. The Diamond seems to have an in-built process to adjust brightness according to light sensor. Don't know if it works, though.
2. The registry keys are found at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\BackLight\". You can modify brightness there, and it will affect the control panel BUT not change your current brightness. There is an Event you must trigger to update brightness. In many devices, this is the BacklightChangeEvent, in some others, this is SDKBacklightChangeEvent, and some others something different. Depends on the device and the manufacturer.
I wrote an app to change the registry value and trigger both SDKBacklightChangeEvent and BacklightChangeEvent. I can see on the control panel the value has changed, but the visible Brightness won't change. Seems HTC decided to make their own DLL to manage that, instead of standard windows mobile events.
So, I searched a bit further and I found that into "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn" there is a key called "Frontlight" which is apparently defining a value which points to Backlight.dll. This must be HTC's implementation of the Backlight manager. I was like "yay this will be my first windows mobile dll reverse engineering" BUT, I didn't find this file anywhere on the device, unfortunately.
If anyone could find it on the Diamond, please pass me the info !
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Thank you. Its a lot of attention you have given this topic. For that I thank you. - Just too bad you cant find that dll. :-/ Hope some other helps.
backlight.dll found in Windows folder
axelpix said:
backlight.dll found in Windows folder
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Thanks, for reference, there are the functions:
Code:
BKL_Close
BKL_Deinit
BKL_Init
BKL_IOControl
BKL_Open
BKL_PowerDown
BKL_PowerUp
BKL_Read
BKL_Seek
BKL_Write
inside the Backlight.dll
This has to be a lot easier.
I found some reg settings in HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight, one of them called "AutoBklOffset". Actually this is exactly what we're searching for here: When I enter a value >0 here, the backlight instantly goes brighter, and the automatic backlight setting is still active and works.
so, what we have to do is figure out how to enter a negative value here.
Ideas?
Hmm, I don't think we can get anything only with the registry, but we don't lose anything to try, do we ?
I'll check again the registry.
Ok. Actually AutoBklOffset is linked to "Auto backlight adjust". This means that if auto backlight adjust isn't ativated, AutoBklOffset won't do anything.
Ok, all this search was fun. But I told myself: what if I just go ahead and try if the already built-in app works ?
And yea, it already works. Meaning if you put the device in front of the sun, it will go bright, and dim if you're in a dark place.
So I guess this is a configuration specific issue and don't need a new app. I'm out of tha place !
P.S.: It would have been actually quite stupid to include a Light sensor but not using it.
Scotchy49 said:
Ok, all this search was fun. But I told myself: what if I just go ahead and try if the already built-in app works ?
And yea, it already works. Meaning if you put the device in front of the sun, it will go bright, and dim if you're in a dark place.
So I guess this is a configuration specific issue and don't need a new app. I'm out of tha place !
P.S.: It would have been actually quite stupid to include a Light sensor but not using it.
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my works fine
u can test it on bright light...u will see the change when u cover uper part oh the phone....it will dimm and u will se almost nothing...
microlomaniac said:
This has to be a lot easier.
I found some reg settings in HKCU\ControlPanel\BackLight, one of them called "AutoBklOffset". Actually this is exactly what we're searching for here: When I enter a value >0 here, the backlight instantly goes brighter, and the automatic backlight setting is still active and works.
so, what we have to do is figure out how to enter a negative value here.
Ideas?
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This tweak still dosnt make the phone use the whole scale. From dimmest to brightest. :-/
Scotchy49 said:
Ok, all this search was fun. But I told myself: what if I just go ahead and try if the already built-in app works ?
And yea, it already works. Meaning if you put the device in front of the sun, it will go bright, and dim if you're in a dark place.
So I guess this is a configuration specific issue and don't need a new app. I'm out of tha place !
P.S.: It would have been actually quite stupid to include a Light sensor but not using it.
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You misunderstand the issue.
With the backlight set to auto try using your phone in a completely dark room - the light sensor will detect this and the phone dims. Okay, now remove the auto setting and you will find that you can make the phone even dimmer than this using the slider. The lowest auto setting is equivalent to level 3 on the manual scale - what the guys here want to do is make this equal to level 1, or lower (or in the case of one poster make the maximum auto setting equal to the maximum manual setting, or perhaps even higher if possible).
The issue is therefore not whether or not the light sensor works (it does), or whether the phone can automatically dim/brighten the display in response to the ambient light level (it can), but whether it is possible to make the full scale range in automatic mode equal to that which the device offers in manual mode.
Mathew
Spot on!
Hi friends.
I have the problem using TomTom at car. When Diamond receive direct sun light it increases backlight until 70%, but not 100%; when I drive at night Diamond decreases backlight until 30%.
I would like adjust some values to 100% and 10% but I have no idea about registry or dlls.
aidrabmol said:
When Diamond receive direct sun light it increases backlight until 70%, but not 100%; when I drive at night Diamond decreases backlight until 30%.
I would like adjust some values to 100% and 10% but I have no idea about registry or dlls.
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Nice summary
This exactly was the original topic of this thread.
Scotchy49 said:
Ok, all this search was fun. But I told myself: what if I just go ahead and try if the already built-in app works ?
And yea, it already works. Meaning if you put the device in front of the sun, it will go bright, and dim if you're in a dark place.
So I guess this is a configuration specific issue and don't need a new app. I'm out of tha place !
P.S.: It would have been actually quite stupid to include a Light sensor but not using it.
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Did you come any further with the app?
I too would like to see a solution for the narrow range of light sensor adjustment. The screen stays too bright when ambient is dark.
In my Sprint CDMA Diamond, I see these registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\BackLight
LSensorReduceBKLDelay
LSensorAvegQuene
I wonder what they do. There must be some way to change the range of adjustment or the bias of the light sensor.
First off, I apologize to anyone who looks at this thread thinking that I am posting another screen brightness program. On the contrary I am LOOKING for a program that will allow us to control the brightness level of the phone in small increments.
Before the Fuze I had the HTC Touch which on the homescreen had the option of pressing the brightness shortcut and it would jump the brightness up a notch and then reset down to the lowest value once it got to the highest. Anyone that had this phone or a similar HTC phone that ran..... HTC Home knows what I am talking about.
While using the fuze I have always wondered why I couldn't find anything like this for newer phones. Searching for the longest times on a number of different forums left me with nothing. The automatic screen brightness control of the touch pro is less then desirable. There's times when my phones plugged in but I'm reading news in bed and I want to be able to have the brightness set to low without having to go through the settings and bugger around with it all.
That said, does anyone know of something that will do this? Or is it possible for one of the awesome program developers here to create something like this?
Here's a screen shot just for referance. By pressing the lightbulb it would change the screen brightness of the phone.
Here's the app you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485141
BTW, when you post an app request add "[REQ]" in topic...
you Might also want to try Lumos: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450318&highlight=lumos
this automatically adjusts your backlight depending on your light meter. It has a very quick and easy setup wizard and works wonders on your battery as well!
warri said:
you Might also want to try Lumos: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450318&highlight=lumos
this automatically adjusts your backlight depending on your light meter. It has a very quick and easy setup wizard and works wonders on your battery as well!
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I have that installed.. does a good job but I'd still like the option of just being able to manually change it as well. Thanks!
the_ozyrys said:
Here's the app you're looking for:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485141
BTW, when you post an app request add "[REQ]" in topic...
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Thanks for the link and I've changed the subject title. I can't believe I didnt put that in there... That's a Newb mistake
edit Mylight. my lord I remember seeing this post AGES ago when all it was was a graphic "idea" and didnt actually do anything. Glad it got off the ground!
hello developers
im just trying to have transparent dialer skins on my phone...i have created the transparent buttons but its not showing up when placed...i have also tried to change the value of transparency in reg... all the places where there is phone option and the transparency value...maybe a combination of 15 to 25 values but nothing works...i have only seen this in android and windroid but coudint find any thing for wm...is it posible to have the dialer transparent...or im doing some thing wrong...or im in a wrong place...i guess dialer skins too comes under theams..this is what i get...does any one have a solution
thx anyway
anyone out there
is there any one out there to help me figure out it
i see what you are trying to do.....i dont think much help i can give~
but i think the only way u can manage to do is by doing the fake transparency effect..~
use the image that looks like transparent button for that background
n btw, pretty nice dialer...what is that dialer..?
looks like winmo stock dialer but got video call...O.O
yes i have the cab but
yes i have that fake dialer cab but dont want a fake one...i think it is possible but need some time...because while checking for how to enable by reg i found two more things...one is advance audio control from which u can enable 3D and bass tribles and extra bass on ur phone which is quite good compared to default settings for me.... i got a good sony inear walkman headphones which provide nice bass efect...by enabling the 3d effect i get a good efect now....other one is open/close animation which works for any thing from bootscreen to shutdown but its quite not like a 3d efect which animates like the screen is acqualy closing and opening in a zoom manner...thx for ur reply
Let us know of those extra sound settings and ways to enable them.
audiocontrols
use any regedit go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER >controlpanel >audioadvcontrl
here u may find 3d,agcenable,bass,hpvol,receivervol,reclevel,supperbass,toneenable,treble...
3d,bass,supperbass,treble r set to 0 value by default....which ever u like to enable change the value to 1..softreset...i found that the audio is some what better for me..i dont know what is ur taste so dont blame me if it dosent work for u.......if u want to take a look at the open /close animation go to youtube type my channel name (mhkhan92)u will find a video named with open/close animation...if u want to enable it i have given the instructions in the description....
Hi
I have been enjoying my Note for a while but I am trying to find out what exactly the following settings do or mean, or what they do and when best to use them.
1. Easy question. The camera edit shortcuts. These don't remain if the camera app if closed using task manager. Is this correct? Is there a way around this?
2. Shooting mode. How does Share Shot work? What does the Beauty mode do?
3. Scene mode. Can someone explain how each of these settings affect the photo?
4. Exposure value - really stuck here. What does this do?
5. White balance? How does the settings affect the photos again
6. Metering. I have tried to understand this, but still not certain. Again what do the settings here actually do to the photo.
7. Outdoor visibility. Is that purely to make it easier to view Note screen outdoors?
8. Auto contrast. Is this better to leave on or off. And what is it doing.
9. GPS tag. Is there a way to keep setting always on? Keeps reverting to off.
Edit shortcut is to choose to preference for setting position only.
Most of your question regarding setting, just I say it will enhance N adjust of photo quality
N best application to understand this is here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS50aGVvdGluby5waG90b2dyYXBoeSJd
GPS keep on always, first set it on from setting, it will ask to switch on GPS, select it. Now close ca,era application with back button
Now if you open camera appl you will see GPS tag option On.
Thanks for reply.
After I have selected new shortcuts, I quit camera app using task manager and the next time I launch the camera app, my shortcuts have gone. Is that normal behaviour?
I think at least first time exit application with back button after changing setting, then try. Task manager is not routine way to close, it kills application, n thats y it may not saves changes.
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white balance is the setting which makes that if you shoot something white, that it will also be white on the picture, and not yellowish, or blueish
Thanks guys for tips.
Exposure value is for use when get 'blown' highlights or shadows - meaning loss of detail in light or dark areas. If you have loss of detail in light areas, select a minus exposure value. If you lose detail in shadow areas, use plus exposure value. Scene modes are just preset values for different situations. Beauty mode smooths skin and reduces some blemishes.
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Forgot to say: auto contrast can be left on.
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dr.ketan said:
I think at least first time exit application with back button after changing setting, then try. Task manager is not routine way to close, it kills application, n thats y it may not saves changes.
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The camera shortcuts have saved. Thanks for great tip.
I got annoyed that the eye-comfort mode could only be scheduled on fixed times and I had to constantly change them during spring and autumn.
So I made this simple flow for the Automate app - it is probably something like Tasker but it is free for a task with a few blocks - ideal for cheapskates like me.
I used this flow by Sándor Illés to calculate sunset and sunrise times.
The flow
It gets current location, calculates the times and then sets them up as schedule times (eye_comfort_starttime and eye_comfort_endtime system variables).
Then it waits for 1:00 (am) and starts over again.
I just tested it for 3 days and it runs ok on my View 10 with EMUI 9.1. No idea whether it works on older and newer versions or not. //edit: Works okay after EMUI 10 update too.
How to?
Basically, you install Automate, go to the settings and enable resuming flows after system startup.
Extract and install this flow, start it and it should daily update the schedule times.
You obviously also have to have eye-comfort schedule enabled.
On a related note: Stronger eye-comfort filter
I always felt that the blue light filter using eye-comfort is quite weak. During my search for correct variables to modify, I discovered that the highest value for filter you can select using the slider in the eye-comfort settings is 20, but you can dial the filter up to 50 and it gets slightly stronger then!
It is user_set_warm system variable.
Funnily enough, there are also eye_comfort_lesswarm and eye_comfort_morewarm variables which change the range of the slider in the settings.
You can set the eye_comfort_morewarm to 50 and then the slider in the settings will let you set the filter stronger. Higher values than 50 turn the filter off though.
The system variables can be modified using the "system settings set" block in the Automate or simply using SetEdit app. They can probably be changed using ADB too, but I didn't try that. Sadly these settings reset after reboot.
No root required for any of that.
Great stuff! Looking for the same feature on my Huawei phone but unfortunately, the file that you have attached has been removed. Could you upload it again? Thanks
Samuel Grande said:
Great stuff! Looking for the same feature on my Huawei phone but unfortunately, the file that you have attached has been removed. Could you upload it again? Thanks
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What, they just deleted all the user uploaded stuff when changing the boards? Now that's a shame.
Anyway, I reuploaded the file.