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Disobedient Brightness Levels [CM9]

I don't know if I'm barking up the right tree, but my CM9 auto-brightness is too bright. I've tried tweaking the light sensor levels, but, if I understand it right, they're not being honored. IN the screenshot you can see that my sensor is currently reading "100" and the screen's brightness is maxed to 255. But my levels say anything between 100 and 500 should set the brightness to 67. Am I not understanding what I'm doing, or is it just broken?
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I'm pretty sure there's always been something up with the auto-brightness on CM9. For me at least. I've mentioned it before but didn't get much of a reaction. What happens to me is that, if I'm sitting in a dark and set the screen brightness to auto, it'll immediately go down to fully dimmed. And then I go and start reading xda or whatever. Then my screen times out and shuts off, and when I wake it back up the brightness goes to fully maxed. And only by toggling auto-brightness off and back on will it go back to fully dimmed.
So that's my experience with auto-brightness. I've never manually tweaked the levels, but I would imagine it wouldn't even matter if I did.
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"Allow Light Decrease" is the Key
I finally stumbled upon some information in this thread: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/23464-toro-b32-lights-decrease-when-allow-light-decrease-is-unchecked/#entry641152
It seems that "Allow light decrease", which was unchecked for me, is quite important. I just assumed that the automatic backlight worked continuously both ways -- brighten when outside, dim when inside. But that's not the case. Without "Allow light decrease", it only ever brightens and then stays there. It will reconsider when you unlock your screen I think.
So I added a 5s window filter, enabled allow light decrease and *bam!* If I put it in bright light, the screen gradually brightens. It I go back in the dark, it soon dims. Exactly what I always wanted.
It now obeys the light levels!

Hmmm unfortunately that doesn't seem to be fixing it for me. If I quickly double press the power button to turn the screen off then back on, the brightness will go from being fully dim to fully bright, same as before, even with that checked. Real annoying haha.
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this was my solution http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828180
Edit: though I'm surprised you get anything at all, my cm9 light sensor page says -1, maybe its an issue with InstigatorX kernel, idk. But the app I linked in the other thread works for me.

[APP] Standby Touch Advanced

I have developed this app a while ago when I was owning a Nexus device. I find it even more useful on my Note3 since having small hands its not comfortable to get to the Power button to put the phone to sleep. You may find it useless but at least it saves the Power button or helps when using a case.
HERE IS HOW TO USE IT
1. When the app is installed, for the first time the Settings screen will be shown. Simply press the Enable Admin Permission button and then drag the Stand by Icon from App's drawer where you want to have it. Each time you press the icon, the phone will go to standby.
2. If you want to use the Sleep Mode, go to Settings and press on the Zzzzz mode button. You can select which options to be disabled (Sound to Silent, Data Off, Wifi Off), on which interval of hours and how long the options will be displayed. If you check any of the options, next time you press the Standby icon, for a short period of time you will see 2 icons:
- the Sleep icon (with the moon) on it, if you press it, it will disable the options you have selected
- the Wake icon (with the sun) on it, if you press it, it will enable the options you have selected.
The icons are only displayed for the amount of time set by you. If you don't press any of them, the phone will go to standby as normal.
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LE: There are no hidden permissions, no internet access, no ads, no user tracking... nothing. Is just a plain free app.

Badassss
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Sound useful, I'm gonna give it a try.
Thank you

Seems very usefull! There is no Bluetooth toggle is there? Cause I want to disable my gear when I am sleeping.. I do this by turning off bluetooth, and in the morning I turn it on again.. Any way you could add that?

Thank you guys for your words.
@Armazia: very good suggestion!. I have uploaded version 2.3 on Google Play which has Bluetooth toggle support So you can now easily switch Bluetooth off in the evening and back on in the morning. It should be available in a few hours.

Very nice

Thanks, new version 2.3 is live on Google Play.

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Thank you guys for your words.
@Armazia: very good suggestion!. I have uploaded version 2.3 on Google Play which has Bluetooth toggle support So you can now easily switch Bluetooth off in the evening and back on in the morning. It should be available in a few hours.
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Superb! Thanks for listening. I am definitely going to use this app!

You're welcome. I have been using it on all my devices without any problems.

[APP][3+] Sleep Timer (Music&Screen Off)

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Hello XDA!
My Name is Arthur and i recentaly released a powerfull sleep timer.
Sleep Timer (Music&Screen Off) is a sleep timer for your screen in general, and music in particular.
The app lets you set a timer and when the timer expires, it will sleep the device and turn off any music that is playing.
Putting the device to sleep means that perhaps you fell asleep using an app that keeps your device awake but if a timer is enabled, it will sleep your device and save precious battery.
It works just like a Sleep Timer on TV
Sleep Timer softly lowers the volume and then turns your music off. If you have watched a stream Sleep Timer can also turn your screen off.
Simple design and easy to use
Select how long you want the music or stream to play, press Start and Sleep Timer will appear in the notificationbar.
You can extend the length or cancel the timer directly from the notification message.
Google Play Link
I hope you like it!

Update 1.1.0 is here!
Reworked UI (new animations and functions) based on userfeedback
Support for more musicplayer

Could you please add apk in OP. That would be great. Strike that not really interested, too many permissions for a sleep timer.
From the screenshots app looks awfully similar to Simple sleep timer, [ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595326 ]
I mean even your app icon has a similar shadow effect. And, your notification message is an exact replica.
Also, your app is 2.2Mb while Simple sleep timer is only 144K.
So, it is not clear how your app is better.

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Could you please add apk in OP. That would be great. Strike that not really interested, too many permissions for a sleep timer.
From the screenshots app looks awfully similar to Simple sleep timer, [ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595326 ]
I mean even your app icon has a similar shadow effect. And, your notification message is an exact replica.
Also, your app is 2.2Mb while Simple sleep timer is only 144K.
So, it is not clear how your app is better.
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Please read the description in the google play store. I explained all permissions and why they are necessary.
Like i can't turn your WiFi off if i dont have the permission to do it.
Yes, the timer may look similar because we bouth use a circle seekbar and there are even more apps with circle seekbars and also with shadows in the icon but we are all still very different in our functions. If you just need a "turn off music" and nothing more sleep timer then you should use the Simple Sleep Timer but if you want to turn off your screen and also need more functions then you need someting like this.
You are right, the filesize is too big. I missed to remove some graphics, will correct that in the next update.

[APP][3.0+]Scheduled-Restart: Restart Your Device At A Preset Time [Root-Required]

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Scheduled-Restart​ "Automatically Restart Your Device At A Preset Time” ​
Scheduled-Restart Is an Ad-Free app that is very Beautiful, Smooth ,Simplistic, Well Designed and Easy To Use.
It Has a Beautiful Materialistic User Interface that presents a wonderful experience. The application is very small and lightweight and has no Services running in the background.
You can use this application to restart your device lets say at 4:00am everyday which can help your device perform much better during the course of the day. Never worry about manually restarting your device. Just set a time and let the app do the rest.​
Free On Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Seraphiel.Smith.AutoRestart
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Useful
Interesting and sort of useful little app.. Seems to be working fine on my Rooted Xperia Nicki.

Would it be possible to add separate scheduled shut down and power on times? Example: A user can set the phone to shut down at 11pm then power on again at 6am. I know some Lenovo phones have that useful functionality built in. :fingers-crossed:

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Would it be possible to add separate scheduled shut down and power on times? Example: A user can set the phone to shut down at 11pm then power on again at 6am. I know some Lenovo phones have that useful functionality built in. :fingers-crossed:
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Hey i will take a look into this i am unaware of anyway to power back on the device at a set time. I shall do some research and see if it can be done..

New UI
New UI looks cool. Just some problems with reading text here and there but thats okay.

Would be amazing if you can make the phone turn on if an alarm is missed.
so i set my alarm for 6am i turn my phone of, phone powers back on to alert of the alarm
Hope u understand what i mean
Thanks loads!!

juDGEY2k10 said:
Would be amazing if you can make the phone turn on if an alarm is missed.
so i set my alarm for 6am i turn my phone of, phone powers back on to alert of the alarm
Hope u understand what i mean
Thanks loads!!
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Hey man another user suggested this to me as well. will have to take a look into it to see if it can be done

Lolipop Silent Mode Options?

The other day I flashed the 04.04.15 nightly of CM12, everything works great to be honest. However I then realised by design silent mode in Android 5.0 has changed.
What I want to do is have silent mode work as it did in Android 4.4, that been when the phone is on silent mode alarms still work, and any notifications will still activate the notification light.
The closest I can get to this is putting the phone on vibrate mode, which is not ideal as the phone is very loud when vibrating on a desk.
Do any hacks exist to stop the phone vibrating, or to replicate the 4.4 behaviour? Anything I’ve found appears to just make it easier to activate the “new silent mode”.

The only thing you can do is put the phone into priority mode like this:
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And then go into Settings/Sounds & Notifications/Interruptions and switch off interruptions for calls and notifications.
By doing this your phone will be silent but you'll still have audible alarms and a functioning notification led.
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Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately doing that you will not get notifications for email, whatsapp and so on unless you allow them in priority mode. If you allow notifications for an app in priority mode then you are back to the same problem, you are either forced to hear a notification sound or have the phone vibrate.
I even went as far as creating a new profile with the ring tone / notification volume set to nothing, however that simply makes the phone vibrate... Google really don't want phones to have a proper silent mode, such an annoying decision... it seems such a basic feature to remove.
I did however find this Xposed Module: True Silent Mode for Lollipop
Features:
Adds the silent mode of Android 4.x back (no sound, no vibration)
Keeps notification LEDs intact
Keeps alarms working (in contrast to the new "None" mode)
That worked perfectly for me, my phone is now silent, I get coloured LED notifications and my alarms work :good:
Hopefully Xposed and this module will keep working in future versions of Android!