hey all I just picked up the sensation and got a dock for it. The issue I am having is at night I use the dock mode dim the screen but the backlights for the 4 captive buttons do not turn off and it is way to bright when sleeping. Does anyone know of a way to turn off the backlight or a program that can disable it. Seems kinda dumb of htc to include a dock mode for night time and neglect to turn the bright backlight off.
I use screen filter to shut off the capacitive button's lights while I read
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor
Do you have the auto brightness turned on? that could be the problem.
xnifex said:
I use screen filter to shut off the capacitive button's lights while I read
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor
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Worked perfectly. Thanks.
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I've seen people trying to disable the bottom button backlight, but nothing about enabling it. I just got my Charge today in the mail. Powered up, no button backlight. Connected USB, no button backlight. Under what conditions are those buttons supposed to light up?
Try putting your finger over the proximity sensor. My light only turns on when it's dark.
paul25rs said:
Try putting your finger over the proximity sensor. My light only turns on when it's dark.
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Good call. That's certainly annoying - I turned off the auto brightness and it still does that. No me likey.
pissinguoff247 said:
Good call. That's certainly annoying - I turned off the auto brightness and it still does that. No me likey.
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Why don't you like about that? it's great for saving battery
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Ok I got 2 Tmobile sensations 1 for me & for my girl & fisrt thing I did on mine was charge & flash never liked stock ROMs. On the stock sensations lights dont turn on when navigating on the phone looking at apps and so on.. So are the lights off on the bottom buttons by defaulf or its a bad phone? (buttons work everything works they just dont turn on)
I just grabbed the stock one here at work and the lights do NOT light up when navigating through the phone. Very odd haha never knew that.
Lights are tied to the light sensor
The button backlights are tied to the ambient light sensor and will only come on if the sensor thinks it's dark enough to need them.
JMUT said:
The button backlights are tied to the ambient light sensor and will only come on if the sensor thinks it's dark enough to need them.
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jdep1 said:
Ok I got 2 Tmobile sensations 1 for me & for my girl & fisrt thing I did on mine was charge & flash never liked stock ROMs. On the stock sensations lights dont turn on when navigating on the phone looking at apps and so on.. So are the lights off on the bottom buttons by defaulf or its a bad phone? (buttons work everything works they just dont turn on)
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see if the lights turn on when your in the room even if its not very dark. If it doesn't, then you may have a defective unit.
There are two leds on the front of my inspire i obviously know what the one that is under the speaker mesh is for (lights up during notifications) But what is the one to the right for? Iv never seen it light up and i searched and couldnt find any thing about it.
Im basically just wondering, Thanks for any help in advance.
It is a proximitiy sensor, turns the screen off while your in a call. So while its up against your ear, you dont press buttons with your face.
Not 100% on this but Im guessing its used for the automatic screen brightness.
Oh ok, I honestly didnt even think of that lol. It just looks so much like an LED to me atleast lol.
Thanks for the quick answer.
slipmagt said:
It is a proximitiy sensor, turns the screen off while your in a call. So while its up against your ear, you dont press buttons with your face.
Not 100% on this but Im guessing its used for the automatic screen brightness.
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Yes, it also controls auto brightness.
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I noticed when my phone gets to about 20% battery left my hard key backlights turn off and on every 5 to 10 seconds. Is this normal?
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I noticed when my phone gets to about 20% battery left my hard key backlights turn off and on every 5 to 10 seconds. Is this normal?
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They turn on and off according to the same sensor that controls auto brightness, maybe it is the ambient light.
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Not really sure how to answer your question, however, I usually turn off my hard button backlights toggling Screen Filter on and off. There is a setting in there to not turn off the backlights if you'd like. Using the widget as well as the shortcut allows me to have different brightness levels, and the ability to choose whether I want to backlights on or off (I prefer off.)
They do seem to turn on after a while somehow.
Soft keys work but do not light up. Iam on stock TMobile ICS
Did you try to reset the device? Its worth a try to see if it might help fix this problem.
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redx64 said:
Soft keys work but do not light up. Iam on stock TMobile ICS
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Hmm.. Were there any recent software changes to the device?
Get Z-device test on your phone and test the light sensor on the phone by holding it near a bright lamp or sunlight and then covering it with your finger.
The light sensor is located at behind the black strip towards the top of the screen to the left of the HTC logo.
kgs1992 said:
Hmm.. Were there any recent software changes to the device?
Get Z-device test on your phone and test the light sensor on the phone by holding it near a bright lamp or sunlight and then covering it with your finger.
The light sensor is located at behind the black strip towards the top of the screen to the left of the HTC logo.
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Im having the same problem. Since i rooted the device the backlights do not work but the soft keys themselves do. The light sensor appears to be working. It was at 100% under a strong light and when i covered it with my finger it dropped to 2%
Had the same problem, go to brightness settings change it to automatic, the lights go on, then back to manual and leave a bit below the maximum, the lights stay on and now works.
I found a software solution for this problem
Hello. My soft keys (T-mob Sensation 4G, stock ROM, ICS) would not light under *any* circumstances and I have tried everything suggested here and elsewhere after scouring the Internet and finally happened upon a thread that mentioned this guy's utility.
Now happily soft-keying in the dark and the app has endured several battery-pulls and restarts without a hitch.
HTH someone else. Cheers.