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hi guys,
just got my Dopod 838 pro(TyTN)...and I love it. however I notice the screen brightness is not as bright as my o2 atom. even with the brightness turned all the way up in the settings. however I noticed that when I press the camera button the screen brightness increases for a second (to the same as my atom). but the when I close the camera the screen dims back again. seeing this lets me know that the screen does have the capabilities to be turned brighter then is allowed through the settings. does anyone know a reg hack or a trick so that I can turn the screen brightness up? does everyone else notice that the screen brightness goes up when the camera button is pressed? or is this a hardware issue? thanks for the help guys!
I've not tried it on Hermes, but VJLumos II takes advantage of the extra brightness that occurs when the camera is enabled, to make a super brite screen. This works on the Magician, and can be enabled on the Universal but not disabled until soft reset (I've not been motivated to finish writing the Universal's version.)
If the Hermes exhibits this same characteristic, VJLumos II might work on it. Give it a go and let me know.
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Hi Vijay555 yeah i was actually on your site and ive heard alot about VJLumos II. But I thought it was only compatible with the Magician. Do you think there is any risk of it Hard resteting my 838pro(Hermes)? Anything else i should know before installing it? Does it work 100% correct on the magician? Please let me know!
Thanks!
Works 100% on the Magician, and the active part works on the Universal.
Basically it mimicks the camera and causes it to be activated, causing the extra brightness.
I can't guarantee 100%, but say 99% that it can't hardreset your device (without having the device in front of me I can't say...)
It'll either work or not work, it shouldn't interact with anything else.
I'd be interested to get a Hermes rom dump at some point to see what it's like. It's a great piece of hardware, I'm wondering how to get one now I've jumped ship to the Mio!
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yeah the hermes is great. Ok well i guess i will be the guinea pig and test it out on my device...haha i hope nothing happens. Ill install it in a few hours and let you know what happens. If i need to remove it will it just uninstall?
By the way is the a reg hack that can do this also?
There's no registry setting I know of that will do this, but there might well be; however, as I said, VJLumos does this by interacting with the hardware in an unexpected way, so it's unlikely to be replicated in the registry.
I think you can run VJLumos in stand alond mode, without installing (which will cause it to be enabled every time you switch on). Just run it in stand alone mode to test it out.
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Hi all,
I'll also try with Wizard,should I or not?
Any effect on battery life. I mean is it more than max of hardware brightness
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There's no registry setting I know of that will do this, but there might well be; however, as I said, VJLumos does this by interacting with the hardware in an unexpected way, so it's unlikely to be replicated in the registry.
I think you can run VJLumos in stand alond mode, without installing (which will cause it to be enabled every time you switch on). Just run it in stand alone mode to test it out.
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Hi Vijay, what do you mean run it in stand alone mode?
fordcan: I'm sure that it doesn't work on the Wizard, if it did then I would have written VJCandela for it as well. Not right now, and not until I get a wizard in my hands (all you new Hermes guys, if you find yourself with a spare Wizard, I can give it a good home!)
phame: if you just double click on the VJLumosII icon, it'll enable superbrite once. If you click on the -install icon it will try to enable it every run.
Like I said, it's not written fully for WM5 yet, because I never used my Universal as my main phone, and frankly the screen was bright enough. The magician benefited from it, but hopefully any HTC phone that exhibits the curious camera loading/screen brighter thing might benefit from it.
However, for now, as I said, it's not fully debugged for WM5. But test it, and if it works, I'll try to make some time to fix it. The problem is that it will only work the first time, not every time you run it. Hopefully easily fixable.. But it won't do any damage.
I presume it will drain the battery faster, since screen is brighter, but if you use it in bursts or recharge daily, it shouldn't be an issue. I never used my Magician without it, and it was fine after 1 year.
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fordcan: I'm sure that it doesn't work on the Wizard, if it did then I would have written VJCandela for it as well. Not right now, and not until I get a wizard in my hands (all you new Hermes guys, if you find yourself with a spare Wizard, I can give it a good home!)
Like I said, it's not written fully for WM5 yet, because I never used my Universal as my main phone, and frankly the screen was bright enough. The magician benefited from it, but hopefully any HTC phone that exhibits the curious camera loading/screen brighter thing might benefit from it.
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thanx for the reply,
I a bit confused; you are telling "doesn't work on Wizard" and at the same time "any HTC phone that exhibits the curious camera loading/screen brighter thing might benefit from it " Wizard got this..
curiosity kill the cat :wink: Better try and see issue :idea:
fordcan:
Sorry, it might benefit from the technique, not necessarily this version.
Like VJCandela, I have to have a Wizard in my hands to experiment with the camera driver. It'll be easy to write once I've got the device in my hands, but I can't test it.
It shouldn't do any harm, since it'll probably just not be able to find the correct camera driver on the Wizard. But give it a go and tell me if it does anything.
I never knew that the Wizard has this screen brightening effect
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Absolutely not working.. tells; "Can't load Superbrite Libraries!"
Anyway "Trying times are no time to quit trying"
Ok i downloaded the cab file, copied it to my memory card and executed the file. And it worked perfectly instantly the screen brightness went up. And it didnt seem to be causing any type of slow down or problems.
When i click the camera button i just get an error message which sais "the camera app is already in use". But luckliy no soft reset.
However i couldnt find how to turn it off. It doesnt show up in the list of "running programs"
so far the way i launched it was by just clicking in the icon. Can you please tell me how to do the "-install" thing you were talking about?
and how do i shut it off if i want to use th camera? At the moment i can only do a soft reset for it to turn off.
Thanks!
You should have a bunch of shorcuts installed in yor startmenu.
Launching VJLumosII with parameters -off will disable it, clicking -install will install it so it's run every time it's switched on.
However, I've not tested the -install option on WM5 so let me know if it works appopriately. I'll get around to reweriting it eventually.
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i tried clicking the short cut to shut it off. But i get an error message saying something about the application being corrupt. So to diable it i still have to soft reset. Im scared to install the app in fears that the remove shortcut may not work
Also ive noticed the battery drains about 30% faster with the app running.
any ideas?
As I've said, it only half works on anything other then the Magician. I'll fix it sometime as a priority - I just got a Hermes, and have to say that the screen is a bit "meh", not as bright as a Mio 701 or Magician. Washed out colours and poorer viewing angle. Superbrite is necessary, not optional
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I've just switched from a Prophet to Magician. Couldn't stand the slowness of WM5, especially with some big database software I use. The only thing I miss is the Prophet's screen brightness (OK, battery life was great too) so I was really pleased to find vjlumosII. The only downside I've run into is that it adds about 3 seconds to the power up time when I press the power button on my Jam. I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere. Is this a normal effect of the software?
Do you see the slowness on the Magician or the Prophet?
On my Magician I never noticed it.
I just wrote a new kinda app yesterday for low level hacking, and will see if I can apply this to VJLumos. Hopefully some new ish updates coming soon - however, I am using my time well I hope. I'm writing a new website, hence the slow progress on programming.
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For the Hermes, see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279365
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vjay
Vijay,
I've only used vjlumosII on the Magician. The Prophet is the first PDA/phone with a screen that was as bright as I'd want, so I never tried vjlumosII on it.
The delay on my JAM (the 128MB RAM version) is not subtle. It takes a full 3 sec for the phone to come on after you press the power button. The same thing happens if you push any other button to turn on the phone. There doesn't seem to be any delay in the phone coming on if it is awakened by recieving an incoming call. When I turn off vjlumosII the power up delay disappears.
Also the screen brightness initially doesn't come on at maximum. It takes another 2 seconds to boost up.
Thanks.
vijay555 said:
Do you see the slowness on the Magician or the Prophet?
On my Magician I never noticed it.
I just wrote a new kinda app yesterday for low level hacking, and will see if I can apply this to VJLumos. Hopefully some new ish updates coming soon - however, I am using my time well I hope. I'm writing a new website, hence the slow progress on programming.
V
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hello everyone,
i've seen throughout the forum, many users having the same problem as mine, it being the screen of the VOX going black, but the phone still working on the background, receiving calls etc.
i've seen that after the first timeout, the screen when its in a less brighter screen, it shows the phone perfectly
as no solution for this problem has been found yet
i wanted to know, if it is possible to someone to figure out if you can make the VOX work only with the less brighter screen, instead of the normal one.
maybe change something on the reg. i dont know
can someone please help me? or i can lose my phone for good because of this problem
cheers, and many thanks in advance
please, can someone help?
Yep. I have figured it out, but it's really booty how I have it working. I am binding a key press to kill and restart Tornado PowerControl with a dim/toggle argument. Attached are the 2 small scripts, I am sure it can be done cleaner than this however I didn't feel like it, heh. Simply remove .txt off the attached files, place them on your device and once you have TPC installed to main memory and MortScript, it will toggle your display when you run kill.mscr.
EDIT: Attached load.exe as per request.
Hallo guys,
After playing around one week without any troubles I realized now that the g-sensor doesn´t work any more. The only thing I did today was to install schap’s advanced config and the remote tracker-software and after some time I recognized that my phone gets little bit warm. I wanted to deny a call by turning the phone around but nothing happens. I tried the g-senor application to calibrate, but also here the bubbles don´t move. Also the hard-reset doesn´t help anything.
Any ideas or suggestions for me, I hope I don´t have to return the phone to repair. And another question: Is the phone after a hard-reset really in the point of origin ??
thanks
juwenio
hi mate,
probably in the schaps advanced config, you have disabled the mute function, try to search through for that function in the schaps advanced config and see what it's on now
Also if advanced config doesnt remedy it do a hard reset, most likely a software thing rather than a broken accelerometer.
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Also if advanced config doesnt remedy it do a hard reset, most likely a software thing rather than a broken accelerometer.
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thanks guys for your help, but i have already restored all settings from advanced config, removed the program and netcf 3.5. and also did 2 hardresets..the problem is still alive
Thats bad luck man.
I'd put it back to the original settings and get it repaired that should be covered in the warranty...
Im guessing its most definatly a manufacurer defect since its pretty difficult to kill an accelerometer, the device would be dead elsewhere before the G sensor if it is something like a drop or an impact.
hallo friends,
wanted to tell you, that my problem has gone... some hours after my last post i tried the g-sensor once and once more and although i didn´t change anything with the phone suddenly g-sensor reacts again... it´s really curious but in the fact till now it doesn´t came back
so, thanks for your help and have a good day
juwenio
My Raphael is having the same trouble. I noticed the G-sensor not working when I tried to play Teeter. Calibration doesn't work And also other software using the G-sensor is not functioning. In Teeter the ball gets stuck in one corner and won't move. In calibration (under settings) the green indicators move and the text Calibrating" appears. After calibration the green indicator move to the uppermost and rightmost corner of the vertical resp. horizontal indicator. Running ROMeos 1.22 Dutch version with 1.02.25.19 radio.
Already tried a hard reset. Didn't do the trick. Any ideas?
I have had a similar problem wherein the G-Sensor was not working. I tried restoring the registry back to the state prior to the G-Sensor got busted but nothing seemed to work. I logged the problem with HTC Customer support. In addition to other regular things they asked me the S/N of my device. To check out the S/N of the device I had to remove the battery. It was out for a few minutes and when I put it back I thought of re-running the G-Sensor and surprisingly enough it has been working since then .
I don't know how long it would continue to work but i tried running the G-Sensor for 5-7 times and it worked. I hope it works with you as well.
Just to let you know, I even tried hard-rest twice in the past but it didn't work.
Thanx for the reply.
I'll try this and post the results here.
Not working
Tried everything.
had my hopes set on software. Seems to be a hardware problem
Going to restore ROM to original and hand it in for repair.
G-sensor fixed
Finally I returned the Touch pro with stock ROM for repair (just before warranty expired)
Pick up service at the office, and within one week the phone was send back, repaired.
Kudo's for HTC service.
Hi,
If I use the hardware keyboard (ie the one you slide out) in TomTom 7 it adds a weird character at the end of each letter, so for example if I write:
"New York"¨
It will appear on screen as:
"Nåeåwå Yåoåråkå"
Anyone have that problem and know how I can solve it?
I get it it tomtom 6 too, some peeps on here have had issues with it representing the same charater no matter what button is pressed in several different programs
yep, I get the same in TT7.
I get the same problem with TT7.... would be keen know if anyone has a fix.
yeah, I have that as well... very strange indeed...
Maybe someone comes with an answer...ya never know...
I use Tommy 7 btw...
+1 same here, pain in the ass so i just use the onscreen
I had this problem at one point but I don't now. I've been trying to think how i got rid of it.
I definatly installed the following patch http://www.tomtom.com/support/index.php?Language=1&FID=9852 other than that I played with the keyboard settings in tomtom and WM 6. Not much to go on, I hope it helps.
This seems to be a problem with the key assignment of the hardware keyboard, it behaves strange also in other applications. I solved it using the reg hack from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=425646
Unfortunately, problems with auto-screen rotation appeared on my device.
i have the same problem, i found that KforTouchPro (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=425646&page=4) can be use to fix the problem
Just wondering if anyone has encoutered a problem with the screen turning itself off. It is not a settings issue but the screen randomly turns itself off in the middle of being used so i am guessing it mght be something to do with the light sensor perhaps?
Well if anyone else has the same problem or can offer some sort of explanation i would be very interested to hear about it.
Thanks in advance
i think this might be related to autolock. if you have that enabled, disable the screen dimming and let it turn off after say 2 minutes. then you should be ok.
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Just wondering if anyone has encoutered a problem with the screen turning itself off. It is not a settings issue but the screen randomly turns itself off in the middle of being used so i am guessing it mght be something to do with the light sensor perhaps?
Well if anyone else has the same problem or can offer some sort of explanation i would be very interested to hear about it.
Thanks in advance
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I've had a similar issue recently - suddenly the screen started to switch off after 30 seconds without use, no matter what settings I configured in the energy system settings. No explanation, probably a bug in the 6.1 stock ROM. (I'm on another ROM now...)
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... suddenly the screen started to switch off after 30 seconds without use ....
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Ditto.
Own ROM 6.1 (nothing special - really just Google maps and teeter removed)
Apps:
4 Column Start Menu.cab
FdcSoft TaskMgr 3.1.cab
GoogleMaps.CAB
GpsCycleComputer_3.114.CAB
htcAddicts cleanRAM v1.6.cab
MobileTweet.CAB
NETCFv35.cab
NetworkPlugin_1_0_30468_1.CAB
PocketShield.CAB
rar.ppc_arm.cab
SoftReset_Suspend.CAB
same here. tried some reg tweaks but none disabled poweroff after 30 seconds
it happens to me every time after i use igo8,
so my solution is to go to the MANILA power setting (not the default windows setting) and turn DIM off.
cannot find manila power settings. where are they?
cornstar said:
cannot find manila power settings. where are they?
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i have Tom's 6.5 rom so when i goto regular settings it takes me to manila style setting & not the default one.
I have that problem to ?
I have a 6.1 windows, what can I do to deal with this problem ?
Thankx
in power settings enable & disable dim it will fix this but only till next time... i do it after every time i use igo8.
this is especially annoying when using the topaz as hard disk or navigating via tomtom. hope they will bring out a fix soon.
Think my problem was slightly similar as I was using the original shipped ROM. Well phone is with HTC now in for screen repair so hopefully the problem will be solved.
I'm guessing it was probably down to an install of some 3rd party application. anyway will repost after i get my td2 back tomorrow
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Think my problem was slightly similar as I was using the original shipped ROM. Well phone is with HTC now in for screen repair so hopefully the problem will be solved.
I'm guessing it was probably down to an install of some 3rd party application. anyway will repost after i get my td2 back tomorrow
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Hi, Got my phone back recently with this from HTC.
Problem Description: 1. Touch Panel Function abnormality
Repair Description: 1. Diagnosis
2. Replace SUB ASSY, Bezel w/touch window pre-Assy
3. Function Test
All working ok so far!