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Do either or these exist?

A shortcut or widget that could connect to a specific bluetooth device when pressed
A rom/kernel/program that allows you to lower the brightness beyond what is normally considered" low" on the captivate....this thing is a nightmare at night
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I looked for something like that once before, and came up empty handed.
I haven't specifically tried this yet with the program Tasker, but I believe it would be capable of creating what you're after. I'll give it a shot a little later, and let you know if it works. (Tasker isn't free, I'd hate to have you pay for it if I'm not sure about it working.)

whitesox311 said:
A shortcut or widget that could connect to a specific bluetooth device when pressed
A rom/kernel/program that allows you to lower the brightness beyond what is normally considered" low" on the captivate....this thing is a nightmare at night
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quick settings lowers the brightness lower then what is possible through the OS.
Market -> search for "quick settings" - it has nice shortcut in the notification bar, but you can turn off the icon so it is only visible when you pull the shade down.

alphadog00 said:
quick settings lowers the brightness lower then what is possible through the OS.
Market -> search for "quick settings" - it has nice shortcut in the notification bar, but you can turn off the icon so it is only visible when you pull the shade down.
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Or set it as the default function of a long press on the search capacitive button on the bottom. That's what I did, and it works great!

Camera screen brightness

Seems like all the suddenly when I take pics the screen is really dark???
I looked in settings and did not find anything.
It is stock g2x...
Thanks
G2x power

turn off auto brightness, thats what I remember I did to fix it.

I hate that auto brightness!!!
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how to turn the auto brightness off?

perldev said:
how to turn the auto brightness off?
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Select Menu, select Settings, select Display, select Brightness, then uncheck auto brightness.

How do I stop the VZW S3 from dimming every time I click through to a browser window?

I'm not sure if it's just my phone or if everyone's does this. Say, I get an email and I click through the email link to a website, regardless if I choose native browser or Firefox, the screen dims when showing the browser. Anyone have any clue how to stop this? It's very maddening when the browser dims and immediately goes back to full brightness when I go back one stop to the mail application.
i have it set on full brightness, this ONLY happens when I open the browser.

Do you have power saving on? If so there is a setting there called background color. If this is checked that's your problem. Settings > power saving > background color (uncheck it)
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sage3 said:
Do you have power saving on? If so there is a setting there called background color. If this is checked that's your problem. Settings > power saving > background color (uncheck it)
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Thank you for a quick reply. I went to the settings > power saving > background color, I don't have power savings turned on, but the options were all checked any way. I turned it on, and unchecked all the options and the power savings section turned off again because I imagine I disabled all the options.
Tested it by clicking a link to a website and choosing default browser, and it still dimmed the screen halfway it seemed. The screen does NOT dim if I select to use Firefox however.
Unfortunately, that didn't work. Any other suggestions would be most appreciated.

In the browser go to menu -> brightness and colors -> uncheck automatic brightness. The browser has its own power saving settings so you have to choose this option from within the browser. This aggravated the heck out of me until I found it too.
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ADC_112358132134 said:
In the browser go to menu -> brightness and colors -> uncheck automatic brightness. The browser has its own power saving settings so you have to choose this option from within the browser. This aggravated the heck out of me until I found it too.
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That was it. How come the browser has it's own power and brightness settings? Very weird. Almost a hidden setting if you ask me.
Thank you again.

Didn't realize the default browser has that either but I use chrome!
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Guess that explains why I wasn't seeing this behavior, since I use Opera - it autowraps text when zooming, unlike the stock one on the GS3 (loss of highly useful function, anyone?).
- ooofest

To auto wrap in stock browser just go to settings -> advanced -> and check auto-fit pages... not hard

ooofest said:
Guess that explains why I wasn't seeing this behavior, since I use Opera - it autowraps text when zooming, unlike the stock one on the GS3 (loss of highly useful function, anyone?).
- ooofest
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The stock browser word wraps just fine for me.

Display dims when web browsing?

My display is set all the way up and soon as I open up the browser it dims all the way down? How can I change this? I'm stock rooted also
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Menu>brightness and color and uncheck auto brightness.
Note: menu button in browser.
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drnoob said:
My display is set all the way up and soon as I open up the browser it dims all the way down? How can I change this? I'm stock rooted also
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Aldo check if your phone is in battery saver mode. I had that problem last week until i noticed my settings lol
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narsciso said:
Aldo check if your phone is in battery saver mode. I had that problem last week until i noticed my settings lol
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Definitely is a power saver thing. I've noticed that it does some goofy things in that mode.

There are two auto brightness toggles, 1 in main settings and 1 in browser settings. If it only dims in the browser its the one in the browser itself. While in browser hit the menu key scroll down to the setting I said above and uncheck auto brightness and other settings in that menu.
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The battery saver mode auto adjust pages outside of your main screens, so anything that is web will auto dim. You can go in and adjust you web page brightness by going to a web page, click you menu, scroll down to brightness and colors. In battery saving mode it will move your screen brightness to either level 1,2, or 3. You want it default and automatic brightness selected so that you do not see a difference from your phone screens to a web page.

Display in grayscale

Hey,
just noticed that my display is in grayscale. After rebooting the Bootanimation switches to grayscale too during boot up. Tried to press revert colours from quick tiles and it says that the Display calibration wont work after booting up the phone immediately. After 30 min. up this message is still the same.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
GM1913 with latest updates and Magisk + TWRP

Are you on a custom kernel? Possibly have greyscale enabled in kernel manager app if so.

No i got no custom Kernel. It just went grey. 10 minutes before all worked fine.
Display Calibration, reading mode and nightmode is greyed out in settings and i cant use them.

toobad12 said:
No i got no custom Kernel. It just went grey. 10 minutes before all worked fine.
Display Calibration, reading mode and nightmode is greyed out in settings and i cant use them.
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Have you checked accessibility in settings to see if you have color correction or color inversion checked?
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andyslapz said:
Have you checked accessibility in settings to see if you have color correction or color inversion checked?
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Checked it. The settings are unavailable too. Couldnt change anything but it says that its set to off

Reading mode?

flabbjaxaren said:
Reading mode?
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"Display Calibration, reading mode and nightmode is greyed out in settings and i cant use them."

Check developer options --> simulate color space if you set it accidently to monochrom
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tbv2005 said:
Check developer options --> simulate color space if you set it accidently to monochrom
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Couldn't check it. Made an factory reset and everything works now.

This is Wind Down, a feature in the Digital Wellbeing section of Settings. It grays the screen at night, but you can turn it off or adjust the times in Settings.