I've been looking since yesterday, and I finally found an app that lets you use your dual LEDs on the back of your Evo to use it as a flashlight[like many apps on the market for Droids and Nexus Ones]
They're are two apps that we know work for sure:
I personally recommend the first one because it includes brightness settings...
1) thorpe24 has found an App that allows you too adjust the brightness; it also includes a widget, but IMO its not very attractive.. but its functional!
thorpe24 said:
Led Desire Light lets you adjust brightness and has morse code it's what I use.
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2) The other one is LED Light [Includes Sense-like toggle Widget for quick on/off, but no brightness control]
Enjoy!
Thanks was looking for that earlier too many different choices in the market
Awesome! The widget is an instant toggle!
Thanks just what I was looking for.
WIN! *downloads* Oooooooh shiiiiiiiney
I was just looking for this earlier. Awesome find, thank you!
Awesome find! I was looking for something like this. Thanks!
Cool! I wonder why they didn't put this on it stock?
It also works or the video recorder so you can now record at night so long as you're within like 3 feet of what you're recording.
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does anybody know of one thats let you adjust the brightness. this one compared to the one i had on my nexus is very dim
Led desire light lets you adjust brightness and has morse code it's what I use.
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thanks thorpe thats exactly what i was looking for, the highest brightness is what i was looking for!
sweet!! thank you!
obnockshus1 said:
thanks thorpe thats exactly what i was looking for, the highest brightness is what i was looking for!
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No problem glad to help. Works great with camera wonder how bad it kills battery though.
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I like the adjustablility of LED Desire Light, but it's still not as bright as the "Flash" setting of FlashApp. The widget included with LED Light is super handy as well, so now I have three different flashlight apps installed. If only one of them could combine the features of all three...
big thanks to the OP and also Thorpe, both apps are great like the desire app better for the brightness incase I really need the extra light and the morse and SOS are cool
good find guys! i still have my HD2 laying around and those LEDs are firebright! still a good bit brighter than the evo's, but who cares! lol
Nice! Thanks!
i use switch pro...it has an led light too.
bedoig said:
I like the adjustablility of LED Desire Light, but it's still not as bright as the "Flash" setting of FlashApp. The widget included with LED Light is super handy as well, so now I have three different flashlight apps installed. If only one of them could combine the features of all three...
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This......
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I just discovered a very simple way to control your backlight on your captivate. Just slide your finger left or right on your top task bar
. left to reduce brightness and right to increase brightness.
Try it out.
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Awesome tip!
That explains why my screen would dim/brighten when I'd swype my that status bar for notifications. I had chalked it up to a glitch.
This does not work for me. Some of the things I have added? Beautiful Widgets?
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Awesome tip!
That explains why my screen would dim/brighten when I'd swype my that status bar for notifications. I had chalked it up to a glitch.
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Ha, yea same thing was happening to me, so I decided to do some investigating, ie swyping my my finger ask around the screen till I found it..heh
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Phredeee said:
This does not work for me. Some of the things I have added? Beautiful Widgets?
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Really its like the top edge of the task bar....I dont have any apps that I think would influence that but it does it for me too
Do you have auto brightness off or on? Mine us on and it is not working.
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madjsp said:
Do you have auto brightness off or on? Mine us on and it is not working.
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True, when auto brightness is enabled this neat little trick is disabled.
great tip! I love it!
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Wow, turned off auto brightness and works like a charm, you found a easter egg loool
cowballz69 said:
Wow, turned off auto brightness and works like a charm, you found a easter egg loool
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I think is is the best way to control the backlight!!!....now i can keep it only as bright as needed at all times!
Awesome find. Thanks!!!
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Is this phone awesome or what?
Thanks for the tip. VERY useful for saving battery.
jlluck said:
Is this phone awesome or what?
Thanks for the tip. VERY useful for saving battery.
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i have to agree, i was really a big big big big big HTC Loyalist, and after my fuze, had decided to never buy another phone unless it was made by HTC... but with AT&T's failure to pick up one of the high end HTC Android devices, i decided to give the Captivate a go... and i am SUPER Impressed!!
WOW fantastic find!!! 99% of the time I use auto brightness, but this is a fantastic tip for adjusting the brightness quickly when needed.
After months of whining... One last try.
When will someone finally make a legitimate Sense app to adjust autobrightness light levels?
The default autobrightness is too bright in the dark, too dim in sunlight. I want to be able to check that autobrightness box once, and forget about it, yet still have pleasant to the eye brightness in all conditions.
CM6 has had that feature for months. Can no one hack Sense autobrightness?
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After months of whining... One last try.
When will someone finally make a legitimate Sense app to adjust autobrightness light levels?
The default autobrightness is too bright in the dark, too dim in sunlight. I want to be able to check that autobrightness box once, and forget about it, yet still have pleasant to the eye brightness in all conditions.
CM6 has had that feature for months. Can no one hack Sense autobrightness?
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Simple fix learn to code and port it
from my phone duh
Bumping.
Any news?
I heard myn was working on something like that.
Is that true? Any success?
CheesyNutz said:
Simple fix learn to code and port it
from my phone duh
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+1
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CheesyNutz said:
Simple fix learn to code and port it
from my phone duh
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Not everyone has the time or resources to learn everything. In fact, this community is here to help people who don't have that knowledge
I believe calkulin's evio rom has this in it
nabbed said:
After months of whining... One last try.
When will someone finally make a legitimate Sense app to adjust autobrightness light levels?
The default autobrightness is too bright in the dark, too dim in sunlight. I want to be able to check that autobrightness box once, and forget about it, yet still have pleasant to the eye brightness in all conditions.
CM6 has had that feature for months. Can no one hack Sense autobrightness?
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I use widgetsoid2.x to do this along with many other things. Free app from the market.
devnulldroid said:
I use widgetsoid2.x to do this along with many other things. Free app from the market.
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Widgetsoid is a great app, buy not what he the OP wants. I would love this though, so a +1 from me too!
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I was looking at my battery stats, after 12.5 hours my display has used 58% of my battery. Is this abnormally high for this phone?
I am using automatic brightness.
If this is not normal how can this be helped/fixed?
Thanks
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asb123 said:
I was looking at my battery stats, after 12.5 hours my display has used 58% of my battery. Is this abnormally high for this phone?
I am using automatic brightness.
If this is not normal how can this be helped/fixed?
Thanks
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use a pure black wallpaper, turn off auto brightness, and set it at a lower brightness manually.
Also an app called "screen filter" works great. I have 2 widgets with these settings with the app
1) 48.6% (indoors, just to darken it a bit)
2) 25.5% (at night, dark rooms)
Of course mess with it and find what works best for you
NYYFan325 said:
Also an app called "screen filter" works great. I have 2 widgets with these settings with the app
1) 48.6% (indoors, just to darken it a bit)
2) 25.5% (at night, dark rooms)
Of course mess with it and find what works best for you
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the widgets themselves use up more battery.
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Really don't agree w/ you there. All they do is turn the app on/off at the selected setting. If the app isn't running they aren't doing any damage.
Screen filter seems good but it gets too dark at 48 for me, ill try a bit higher. As for the black wallpaper. That looks pretty bad IMO. Is it really worth it?
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Screen filter seems good but it gets too dark at 48 for me, ill try a bit higher. As for the black wallpaper. That looks pretty bad IMO. Is it really worth it?
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It doesn't have to be completely black. Basically dark colors helps out. Try and stay away from whites as much as possible
I am using the original honeycomb background, pretty dark but with neon blue.
Im going to try 52% filter with auto brightness. Should be good.
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Good stuff... just gotta mess and see whats best. Glad you like it though
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the widgets themselves use up more battery.
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any widget uses more battery than creating an app shortcut. Theres nothing to disagree on.
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NYYFan325 said:
It doesn't have to be completely black. Basically dark colors helps out. Try and stay away from whites as much as possible
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What about screen color options I currently have it on standard will vivid be better or something in custom?
I am using Undead's ICS splashed 3.0 which comes with Nexus Torch installed. The "bright" setting is incredibly bright, but doesn't stay on steadily. I have tried a good number of flashlight apps from Market (including the HTC 3 setting clone - or is it the original?) but all seem about as bright as regular setting in Nexus Torch. It seems that they all use the video light setting as opposed to the camera flash.
Has anyone found anything, if not as bright as Nexus Torch on "bright", at least brighter then the rest?
Try teslaLED I think its called, I used it on other devices idk if it works with our phone, states its the brightest flashlight app for android..
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I did try it (I have it on my phone right now) and it doesn't seem brighter then the others (I also tried Brightest Flashlight, AOI Flashlight, Maxflash, Tiny, HTC clone and others) and I think it is because they use the video light. I think I even came across that point somewhere that they actually run your camera/video. The nexus one (N1 torch) is way brighter, but doesn't stay on steadily. If you run the video light while taking a video you'll see it's no where near as bright as the flash for a picture.
I also wonder how the standard HTC app has 3 different settings, and no other app does.
Lastly, I find the color of the LEDs interesting, they're not as bright white as on my HD2, does anyone have any info on them?
I've been using tesla led for years. Stable. The widget is good and it has an ics theme button which looks nice
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I don't use it much but when I do, n1 torch works fine.
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infernodemon2005 said:
I don't use it much but when I do, n1 torch works fine.
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It doesn't blink at all on the "bright" setting?
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It doesn't blink at all on the "bright" setting?
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Saw what you were saying about blinking bright... There is a warning saying that it might blink because bright is still imperfect. I haven't needed bright so that never bothered me.
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There is a very good reason why the super bright feature won't stay lit up steadily on the ICS Rom using Nexus Torch light.... Hint, it's way too bright and long term exposure will burn out our LED lights. Sooooo leave bright enough alone or fry your phone....the choice it's yours my friend
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dmarco said:
There is a very good reason why the super bright feature won't stay lit up steadily on the ICS Rom using Nexus Torch light.... Hint, it's way too bright and long term exposure will burn out our LED lights. Sooooo leave bright enough alone or fry your phone....the choice it's yours my friend
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From my experience the led being set on bright has never given me trouble on other devices. As far as I know from my various dozen or so Android phones the brightest by far has been the G2. I've kept that thing running on bright for a minimum of an hour without it giving me trouble while I had to drop the tank in my truck to change the fuel pump on the side of the road......
Frying leds is almost as fun as burning up a dry clutch hehe.
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dmarco said:
There is a very good reason why the super bright feature won't stay lit up steadily on the ICS Rom using Nexus Torch light.... Hint, it's way too bright and long term exposure will burn out our LED lights. Sooooo leave bright enough alone or fry your phone....the choice it's yours my friend
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I'm pretty sure our led light has 50 - 100 thousand hours, basically 5 to 10 years of use
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ymmp said:
It doesn't blink at all on the "bright" setting?
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He might be one of the few....mine blinks like a freakin' strobe lol. On the other hand I'm one of the few that run my phone oc'd at 1782mhz all day long and have NEVER had a random reboot so I still feel more special
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He might be one of the few....mine blinks like a freakin' strobe lol. On the other hand I'm one of the few that run my phone oc'd at 1782mhz all day long and have NEVER had a random reboot so I still feel more special
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I also run mine on 1782mhz using antutu cpu app. I tried using set cpu with the same Rom and can only max at 586mhz...... Don't understand why that its though.lol
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I am using Undead's ICS splashed 3.0 which comes with Nexus Torch installed. The "bright" setting is incredibly bright, but doesn't stay on steadily. I have tried a good number of flashlight apps from Market (including the HTC 3 setting clone - or is it the original?) but all seem about as bright as regular setting in Nexus Torch. It seems that they all use the video light setting as opposed to the camera flash.
Has anyone found anything, if not as bright as Nexus Torch on "bright", at least brighter then the rest?
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i have not encountered this problem. i will look into this...
Bumping thread.
Wondering if anyone has a flashlight able to keep the bright setting of the N1Torch on steady?
Been several posts in Q&A, and in general about best methods for adjusting brightness. Personally I like the slider in the notification tray, but the app Q Bright is by far the best app I've used for this purpose. Full slider, 4 customizable presets, full app customizations, fast acting, oh yeah, it's free.
Thought I'd share.
It's actually Qbright one word
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I like screen filter. It's free as well. It can make the screen go dimmer than with the notification slider. Q bright is pretty cool too. Wish I had a search key to long press to bring it up though haha
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I've been using Lux for awhile now and it's been working great.
I also use lux, but everytime i reboot i have to open the dash to get it to work. I have the notification icon active, which always says for some reason 50% after boot until I click it. Lux works with tasker and i like that for profiling.
<quick hijack>I've been on the hunt for a widget I can pop in my homescreen that will jump between preset brightness levels. I generally keep my phone around 5% or so but when I'm outside I can't see that. I can pull down the notifications and adjust the slider but a button on my homescreen is much easier.
This one works pretty well but the icon doesn't center properly and my ocd brain can't take it. Plus sometimes it will just jump between 30%-100%...No idea why.
Sorry for derailing the thread
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Saw that too, I couldn't deal with the off center widget either. I mean seriously, wtf? Who wants that on their screen?
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the best app I have ever used for adjusting screen brightness and saving your battery would be LUX. It is in the Market for free but the paid options are far worth it.
Auto brightness from google store... i like that app... useful and great
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Lux is wonderful
I've been using Brightness Level by Curvefish for over 2 years. The widget is perfect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel
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I've been using Lux for awhile now and it's been working great.
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I agree. This is what I've been using for.months and love it! It allows you to set custom presets based on the current luxury, which you can use the default reader or even use the camera to detect. I use default, and set customs by long pressing the link button on the luxury widget.
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