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[APP] AdjBrightness

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AdjBrightness adjusts screen brightness for *rooted* android device. It can set the brightness from 2 ~ 255 and lock it so that most of other applications cannot change it. Alternatively, if you don't want to lock the brightness, "auto restore" option can restore it after screen turned on.
It also can turn off the background light of buttons.
Saves the battery and eyes!
Anyway, IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY PROBLEM, REBOOT!
It can be downloaded from market or just download the attachment.
More information: http://blog.deskangel.com/?p=350.
Download the latest version from android market:
market://search?q=pname:com.deskangel.adjbrightness
fixed bugs for Android 1.6 system.

fantastxmw said:
*ROOT REQUIRED*
AdjBrightness adjusts screen brightness for *rooted* android device. It can set the brightness from 2 ~ 255 and lock it so that most of other applications cannot change it. Alternatively, if you don't want to lock the brightness, "auto restore" option can restore it after screen turned on.
It also can turn off the background light of buttons.
Saves the battery and eyes!
Anyway, IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY PROBLEM, REBOOT!
It can be downloaded from market or just download the attachment.
More information: http://blog.deskangel.com/?p=350.
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This would be really nice if you could add an auto feature that has more too it than the stock one to save more battery. Like winmo Lumos
Works very well with my Evo 4g running Damage3.2.3 neterty kernal 7.1a rooted
Maybe also a widget with custom or pre-defined settings for easy access?
I really wish you could make this like lumos MANY MANY users have asked for this already for the evo

What Lumos is? Where can I found it?

Most excellent ! finally i can stop those stupid backlighted buttons when i use my phone in the dark
But i found the brightness range is the same as what i have normally from the phone manual settings (Desire), i hoped it could go lower.

don't work on Galaxy S.
a question: can i make it darker then 0% (in the settings>) ?
sry for my english
GL

fantastxmw said:
What Lumos is? Where can I found it?
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Lumos is an auto dimmer for WINdOWS based smart phones it on this forum in the WINDOWS sections

redbull320 said:
don't work on Galaxy S.
a question: can i make it darker then 0% (in the settings>) ?
sry for my english
GL
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AdjBrightness set the absolute brightness value, not a percent.

redbull320 said:
don't work on Galaxy S.
a question: can i make it darker then 0% (in the settings>) ?
sry for my english
GL
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You are right. Galaxy's are not supported. It works perfectly on Hero.

This app is great. It turns the backlight completely off on the myTouch 3G which is just what I wanted. It would be great if you could add the ability to make shortcuts on the desktop to a particular setting.
So I could hit a shortcut/widget on the desktop to change the brightness to 10 (backlight off) and then one to turn it back to 20 (backlight on).
Thanks for the app!

I found out about AdjBrightness yesterday in a thread where it was discussed it's possible to lower the brightness more than the standard brightness settings in HTC Sendse. I'm running a rooted HTC Desire with Android 2.2 (Modaco) but I can't see that the brightness get any lower with AdjBrightness than with default settings in Sense. I have given AdjBrightness root access as well. Have I missunderstood what the application actually does, can't the brightness not go below the lowest value you can set in the settings in HTC Sense? Cheers!

bear78 said:
can't the brightness not go below the lowest value you can set in the settings in HTC Sense? Cheers!
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You can disable "Automatic brightness" in system settings and try again. I use HTC Sense too and it works.

updated to v1.2.7.3, support to turn off amber light. fixed fc issue sometimes after turn on screen.

Awesome. I've always wanted to go lower brightness than what Android's minimum was. This will be great for reading at night.

good app!!! thanks!!!

Hi. New member to the forum.
I have a rooted Backflip (US AT&T) and previously installed adjBrightness. It worked fine the last time I used it before today. However, for whatever reason, today it throws force close errors.
As I recall, the only thing I did to my phone was delete some AT&T crapware (the radio and music apps).
Any ideas?
Thanks, mojohn

mojohn said:
Hi. New member to the forum.
I have a rooted Backflip (US AT&T) and previously installed adjBrightness. It worked fine the last time I used it before today. However, for whatever reason, today it throws force close errors.
As I recall, the only thing I did to my phone was delete some AT&T crapware (the radio and music apps).
Any ideas?
Thanks, mojohn
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Hi, could you tell me when the force close occurred? When starting the AdjBrightness application, or after clicked a button, or after turn on the screen?

Nice app. Just need some sort of homescreen widget & a new icon, it's hideous.

Fixed some bugs for 1.6 android system. If somebody cannot turn on screen, please keep the "Auto restore" ticked in settings.

fantastxmw said:
You are right. Galaxy's are not supported. It works perfectly on Hero.
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Hi, will you plan to support the galaxy s at some point, or is it just not possible to lower the brightness on this device?
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JeremyNT said:
Hi, will you plan to support the galaxy s at some point, or is it just not possible to lower the brightness on this device?
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I once made a version to support galaxy s, it can adjust the brightness, but people reported they could not turn on the screen afterwards.
Sorry, I am afraid it won't be fixed until I can access a galaxy s device.

[Q] Brainmasters MIUI 1.9.16 contact ringtones problem

Since 1.9.16 custom contact ringtones does not work anymore.
If a contact with a custom ringtone calls me the phone ring the default ringtone instead of the custom one.
Setting another contact ring tone does not make any difference.
Also tried Rings Extended with no luck.
I went back to 1.9.9 and the problem was not there.
Unfortunately i can not use 1.9.9 cause of the bluetooth problem it has.
Does anybody has similar problem with 1.9.16 ?

After flashing 2-3 other roms and no problem occurred (always restoring everything with titanium) i found the cause of the problem.
I had not realized that i had the problem when the screen was off, cause i have a 15 off timer and its always off and always i restore my settings from Titanium.
The problem was caused by screen-off profile of setcpu!
i tried to change frequencies or governors but no luck.
removing the screen-off profile completely everything runs as expected...
I cannot figure out why a profile 100-400MHz screen-off can cause this problem since other roms worked ok.

well, now with 1.9.23 there is no way i can make contact ringtones to work,
i made a full wipe and setup form scratch but contact ringtones does not work.
i cannot understand what i am doing wrong.
i put my ringtones at /sdcard/MIUI/ringtone.
select a global ringtone from there which works ok and then i select some contact ringtones from there but they get ignored!
whatever i try always the global ringtone rings ! ignoring the contact settings!
This happens only to brainmasters MIUI, formels and MIUI original works great!
also work at 1.9.9 brainmasters MIUI.

It didn't cross your mind to post this question in the specific rom thread??????????????????
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Rem3Dy said:
It didn't cross your mind to post this question in the specific rom thread??????????????????
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Oh it did, but unfortunately i don;t have permissions to do so.
I maust have at least 10 posts in order to be able to post there.
I don't want to spam only to post in the development forum.

pan1980 said:
I had not realized that i had the problem when the screen was off, cause i have a 15 off timer and its always off and always i restore my settings from Titanium.
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Unfortunately I cannot help you with your problem, but I do have a question for you. How are you setting your screen to 15 seconds? I am using brainmasters miui and can not set any lower than 30 seconds. I want to set 15 but cannot figure any way to do that.

sadly after too many efforts brainmaster miui 1.9.23 refuses to play contact ringtones even at stock install without any other program installed. (i didn;t install setcpu also).
Other miuis don't have this problem nor brainmasters 1.9.9.

flashed 1.10.7 to a brand new i9023.
its first rom after rooting.
same problem.

[Q] Change LED to blink until you read message

On the sensation is it possible to configure the LEDs to blink until you read the txt message for example. I think it is currently set to blink for about a minute. On the HD2 I was able to make registery changes to do this.
I am on a stock 1.50 rom with stock kernel.

I think faux has changed the led blink time, you'll have to look at his kernel. It requires a change in the kernel.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G

Show's kernel also does this.

Just spotted this post from Faux. Exactly what I am looking for just need to find out how to do it now
Originally Posted by faux123
Ah crap.. forgot about that...
BTW, it's not clean to hack the LED driver... much cleaner to hack the ROM... ask your ROM devs to hack the LED timer since it is SET by the ROM and kernel only does the blinking part....
So as you can see, by hacking the blinking part, it is an Ugly hax.. Just have the ROM tell the kernel to blink for longer...

Does anybody know how to tweak the rom to get the leds blinking continiously?

Any ideas?

This might do the trick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1407403&highlight=phone+notifier

I currently use noLed. Our led is crap IMO lol...
https://market.android.com/details?...lt#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sZWQubm90aWZ5Il0.
Works fine for me. I set it where it shuts off in 5 mins though.
Here is BLN control
https://market.android.com/details?id=neldar.bln.control.free&feature=search_result
I tried it using the stock kernel and it was a no go. I think I'll play with kernels to see if any work for our phones. Anyone else have a go at this app yet?

Those arnt quite what I am looking for. Faux123 suggested that you should be able to edit a file in the rom its self to control the time of the leds. I think you can make it stay on by setting it to 0. I just cant remember what file to edit.
As far as I know the kernel only defines the colour of the led and the time between each flash, not the actual length of time it flashes for. It is the rom that defines that. I am continuing to look and see if I can find the file.

i think this is default from htc sense o.0
otherwise - with miui you can set however you want

GhostXSeries said:
Those arnt quite what I am looking for. Faux123 suggested that you should be able to edit a file in the rom its self to control the time of the leds. I think you can make it stay on by setting it to 0. I just cant remember what file to edit.
As far as I know the kernel only defines the colour of the led and the time between each flash, not the actual length of time it flashes for. It is the rom that defines that. I am continuing to look and see if I can find the file.
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Bricked kernel will keep your led flashing till you read your messages or emails.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

Auto backlight sucks?

Anyone else find the auto backlight adjustment crap (CM9 - but also every other rom)?
It either does nothing, or varies wildly even though light levels aren't changing.
Also anyone know how to send phone into quiet mode after midnight? sick of getting woken up at 2am every night by emails
Thanks!

defroster said:
Anyone else find the auto backlight adjustment crap (CM9 - but also every other rom)?
It either does nothing, or varies wildly even though light levels aren't changing.
Also anyone know how to send phone into quiet mode after midnight? sick of getting woken up at 2am every night by emails
Thanks!
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Auto backlight works fine on turkeyrom i had roms before where it didnt.
What you looking for is app called shush here is link. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.publicobject.shush&hl=en
Now i would not get mad if you hit thanks button.
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about anoyng mail notification - before u go to sleep go to setting and deactivate sync of google accounts - sweet dreams
About lightening u can just set the amount of light that u want on settings if you dont get used to cm9 auto blacklight
cheers

my only problem with the auto backlight is with the lower buttons, they dont turn off when i watch a video.

Election Day said:
Actually, it works fine if you set the levels properly. By default it's not too great, I must admit that too.
Using a ROM like CyanogenMod will enable you to completely customize it. If you take some time, you can get it to work perfectly.
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The settings are pretty baffling you must admit.

Disputed said:
my only problem with the auto backlight is with the lower buttons, they dont turn off when i watch a video.
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That sounds like bug in rom. Check your dispaly/display/touch key displey dration. you might have always on selected. Good luck
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Touch key brightness

Hey all, I'm trying to figure out how to get some brightness settings for the touch key brightness to stick. I've used LG 2x Notifications and O2x Touch Key Brightness, and they both work up until the point where i put the phone to sleep by tapping the power button. As soon as I wake it up, the brightness goes straight to zero unless i head back to the app and raise it up again. And if i uninstall the apps, the brightness on my keys stay off until i re-flash or reinstall the app again. Help!

My issue is a little different but similar. It worked fine for me on every basic gingerbread rom, but when I switched to a cm7 based rom the lights change with the brightness of the screen. I turned off all the light notifications but it did not help.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

What rom?
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA

redmonke255 said:
What rom?
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On SinghUI but it doesn't have built-in LED notifications, if that's what you're getting at.

If the setting from one of those apps doesn't stick, then it's most likely being set by your ROM or Kernel. Have you tried checking if you get the same issue with other ROMs?
@jcbofkc That's a built-in setting that can't really be changed unless you get a custom ROM or Kernel cooked up to remove the link between the brightnesses.

xBIGREDDx said:
If the setting from one of those apps doesn't stick, then it's most likely being set by your ROM or Kernel. Have you tried checking if you get the same issue with other ROMs?
@jcbofkc That's a built-in setting that can't really be changed unless you get a custom ROM or Kernel cooked up to remove the link between the brightnesses.
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90% sure the ROM doesn't have built in notifications. I'm noticing now that very rarely the settings do stick. Perhaps there is a way to force the app to stay in memory?

rrroach said:
90% sure the ROM doesn't have built in notifications. I'm noticing now that very rarely the settings do stick. Perhaps there is a way to force the app to stay in memory?
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That wouldn't work. All that those apps do is write a number from 0-20 to the text file:
/sys/devices/platform/star_touch_led/wled
in your root file system.
When you read the file, it shows you the current output to the LEDs (from 0uA to 2000uA).
When you write to the file, it interacts with the Kernel and sets the brightness.
The Touch Key Lights type apps, all they do is when you move the slider they write a value to that file, and that's it. The only reason it wouldn't stick is if your ROM or Kernel is changing the value in the background. For example it will set it to 0 when you turn the screen off, and then it should set it back to wherever it was before when you turn the screen on again.
The closest you could get is to take the source for LG Touch LED Notifications and modify it to set the brightness every few seconds or something, but that probably wouldn't be too good for your battery life.
Based on your symptoms it appears that either your ROM or your phone doesn't really handle the modifying of the brightness very well. It looks like SinghUI does use a kernel from CM7, so I don't think your kernel is the problem. I'd suggest flashing the most recent CM7.2 RC, and seeing if you have the same problem there. CyanogenMod will change your LED brightness based on your screen brightness though.
EDIT: Ignore all that for a moment, try this first. It is a post from January 21st in the SinghUI thread, so it might not work now, but go ahead and try it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21652744&postcount=293
Also I'd suggest posting in the SinghUI thread as everyone there is using your ROM, so they might be able to help better.

xBIGREDDx said:
That wouldn't work. All that those apps do is write a number from 0-20 to the text file:
/sys/devices/platform/star_touch_led/wled
in your root file system.
When you read the file, it shows you the current output to the LEDs (from 0uA to 2000uA).
When you write to the file, it interacts with the Kernel and sets the brightness.
The Touch Key Lights type apps, all they do is when you move the slider they write a value to that file, and that's it. The only reason it wouldn't stick is if your ROM or Kernel is changing the value in the background. For example it will set it to 0 when you turn the screen off, and then it should set it back to wherever it was before when you turn the screen on again.
The closest you could get is to take the source for LG Touch LED Notifications and modify it to set the brightness every few seconds or something, but that probably wouldn't be too good for your battery life.
Based on your symptoms it appears that either your ROM or your phone doesn't really handle the modifying of the brightness very well. It looks like SinghUI does use a kernel from CM7, so I don't think your kernel is the problem. I'd suggest flashing the most recent CM7.2 RC, and seeing if you have the same problem there. CyanogenMod will change your LED brightness based on your screen brightness though.
EDIT: Ignore all that for a moment, try this first. It is a post from January 21st in the SinghUI thread, so it might not work now, but go ahead and try it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21652744&postcount=293
Also I'd suggest posting in the SinghUI thread as everyone there is using your ROM, so they might be able to help better.
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Thanks for the link. It turns out that the ROM does have led notifications. However, disabling them didn't help the problem. :/ the g2x has just been an awful experience for me! :/