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Has anyone noticed that the HTC Sensation's screen continues to change it's brightness automatically (in a bad way) continuously? I will set it on auto brightness and if I open the camera or go outside and it's really bright, it will change from auto to full brightness and won't dim unless I alter the settings again.. Bug? It's annoying.. Is there a fix? If not we need to notify HTC for a required update.
This really should have been posted in the "General" section instead of here, maybe a mod can move it...
I have noticed this as well. What's a little more annoying is when it dims down it doesn't do it gradually like my HD2 did (and many other HTC devices). Instead it goes from bright to dim very abruptly and tends to jump back and forth often.
I actually haven't noticed this at all. Got my Sensation yesterday. I will keep my eye out for it now, but maybe it's a bug...
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TJBunch1228 said:
I actually haven't noticed this at all. Got my Sensation yesterday. I will keep my eye out for it now, but maybe it's a bug...
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Does yours gradually get dim when the screen is about to turn off or does it adjust abruptly?
I agree, I was playing a movie on Netflix app and it looked great. Then whammo screen went dim and it looked to dark
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Does yours gradually get dim when the screen is about to turn off or does it adjust abruptly?
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Just checked, it abruptly dimmed, then turned off. Is that not normal?
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Just checked, it abruptly dimmed, then turned off. Is that not normal?
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Not that I'm aware of, my HD2 gradually gets dim which is nice. The last device I owned that did it this way was my HTC Blackstone (HD).
Pretty sure its a feature of the auto brightness. It adjusts to its surroundings. I uncheck mine and set the brightness level to where I want it so it doesn't do that.
Mine sometimes abruptly changes too. My MT4G was a LOT smoother with screen brightness changing. Yes it is annoying when it happens.
Mine dims as smooth as my girlfriends butt. But when i installed juicedefender it jumped instead. Had to activate screen dimming in troubleshooting for it to go smooth again. Also it doesn't go as low without juicedefender
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i have a strange issue
when i go to any home , my screen is like this:
and when i tuch on button , then see it correct like this:
this issue show up on any home screen and not on program menu and other
Mine does that too did it with a couple android widgets so i replaced it with HTC widgets been fine ever sence ... I'm guessing its because of the resolution of low res widgets ..
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evo9mrjr said:
Mine does that too did it with a couple android widgets so i replaced it with HTC widgets been fine ever sence ... I'm guessing its because of the resolution of low res widgets ..
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first , excuse me for bad english
thanks evo9mrjr
i guess too , but i want to be sure
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i remove widget and then add it , now issue went . i dont know it appearing later again
kia1349 said:
first , excuse me for bad english
thanks evo9mrjr
i guess too , but i want to be sure
EDIT:
i remove widget and then add it , now issue went . i dont know it appearing later again
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So when you removed then replaced the widget with the same one it went away?
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kia1349 said:
i have a strange issue
when i go to any home , my screen is like this:
and when i tuch on button , then see it correct like this:
this issue show up on any home screen and not on program menu and other
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there's a thread in the general forum discussing this. it has to do with the widget not knowing what to do on qHD. search for the thread there since I'm too lazy right now to find it & give you the link directly
Isnt Auto Brightness supposed to do just that? Automatically change the brightness? The thing is in a lot of custom roms it never works properly but that's how it should work. It uses the light sensor..In lower lights it will automatically dim, the lower the light, the lower the brightness will be. in brighter lights it increases the brightness so you can see the screen. So if you're inside and it's dim and step outside into the direct sunlight of course it will become brighter and it will seem like a drastic change because you just made a drastic light change. If you had made the change from being inside to outside and the light gradually got lighter the screen would still get brighter just not as quick
EDIT: opps nevermind. I misread the OP. I didnt see the part where he said the brightness wouldnt return. lol reading too many threads at once.. lol
avemn1 said:
Has anyone noticed that the HTC Sensation's screen continues to change it's brightness automatically (in a bad way) continuously? I will set it on auto brightness and if I open the camera or go outside and it's really bright, it will change from auto to full brightness and won't dim unless I alter the settings again.. Bug? It's annoying.. Is there a fix? If not we need to notify HTC for a required update.
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I have three stock HTC Sensation 4G's in the family.
Initially, I thought my wife was messing with the settings which is why the Auto settings for 'display brightness' was constantly getting unchecked. I asked her about it and noticed that the same thing is happening on all three phones.
So looks like this is a bug on HTC's side. I am already peeved that it's 3+ months and there's no sign of 2.3.4 with Google Talk video yet.
Anyone have their display setting reset to max brightness after taking a picture or exit out of the camera app?
Sometimes when I take a picture with flash the phone will shutoff. When I turn it back on the brightness is at 100%.
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knobgoo said:
Sometimes when I take a picture with flash the phone will shutoff. When I turn it back on the brightness is at 100%.
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I don't seem to have this issue, but i don't take than many pics with the flash on cuz it blinds the people
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Anyone have their display setting reset to max brightness after taking a picture or exit out of the camera app?
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Yes, actually. I recently noticed my brightness setting back to max often, and now I see it's exactly what you say
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When i go into the camera the brightness goes to full automatically and then when i exit it goes back to my previous setting
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Sometimes when I take a picture with flash the phone will shutoff. When I turn it back on the brightness is at 100%.
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I think you got bigger issues than just brightness.
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Anyone have their display setting reset to max brightness after taking a picture or exit out of the camera app?
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yep, same problem here. I set a Tasker profile to turn auto brightness back on when exiting the camera app to fix it.
pakraider said:
yep, same problem here. I set a Tasker profile to turn auto brightness back on when exiting the camera app to fix it.
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Where in settings do I find the tasker profile?
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Where in settings do I find the tasker profile?
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Tasker is an app in the market
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I just wanted to add that it also happens when the phone comes out of a low power state. So if you have your low power profile click in at say 25%, then charge your phone above that, your brightness will be back to 100%.
I am also using tasker to set the brightness to auto-adjust every 2 minutes. Tasker is $6.95 in the market (but very useful for other things too).
Have had this happen a few times. Never knew the cause, just remember being blinded in the dark, lol
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I have this same issue. Driving me crazy! Thanks for suggesting it might be the camera app. I think this is true. I'm going to try to remember if I ever open the camera to go into settings and reset Auto Brightness. Very annoying, but I do seem to think its related to the camera app.
When i go into the camera the brightness goes to full automatically and then when i exit it goes back to my previous setting
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Same here. But if i use the auto brightness i have the issue that the brightness is still at 100% when leaving the cameraapp. Not funny i a dark room or outside at night
The ICS update messed sth up with the video playback, when watching a video from either youtube app or gallery the screen brightness drops down if u turn the device in landscape mode (notice that i have ensured tht auto brightness is OFF)
Anybody elese?
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No issues on any of the custom roms I've tried.
hm.. srange issue. I didn't noticed any of this while watching videos..
Happened to me today while whatching a video with MX Player. But nothing in Youtube app.
Also another backlight bug: I have my backlight set at 2/3. After I exit camera it doesb't go back to 2/3, it stays at 100%. If I try to set it back from the Sense widget it just acts weird. A lock/unlock does the trick.
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the whole ICS thing is weird, Go Launcher went nuts and keeps freezing, Android Widgets PRO doesnt work, battery is dry in no time, cant catch any radio station anymore, mobile podcast doesnt work, contract groups duplicated, this ICS is acting hilarious ... at least by me
Yeah, tried stock ICS in unrooted ROM. The backlight will suddenly brighten up on me.
Stock Sense based ROMs have a few bugs with autobrigtness. This bug has existed since this device ran gingerbread.
Did you check whether you cover the light sensor with your hand while in landscape watching videos?
Edit: you said you do not have autobrightness...sorry :banghead:
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Azothyran said:
Stock Sense based ROMs have a few bugs with autobrigtness. This bug has existed since this device ran gingerbread.
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For me it hasn't.
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22VIN said:
For me it hasn't.
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So when you open your camera the brightness doesn't crank up and stick for a while?
Azothyran said:
So when you open your camera the brightness doesn't crank up and stick for a while?
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This is a feature, not a bug. It becomes a bug if/when it turn automatic brightness to full brightness and you have to re-set it on automatic in settings like it often happened on GB. Didn't notice this on ICS (ROM in my signature) 'til now.
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So when you open your camera the brightness doesn't crank up and stick for a while?
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When I was using GB, brightness turned to 100% when I opened camera and went back to my setting when I closed it.
Same thing in ICS except it goes back to my setting only when I lock/unlock the phone.
But the brightness turning to 100% when I pen the camera isn't a bug. It's supposed to do this. Not going back to my setting is a bug.
22VIN said:
When I was using GB, brightness turned to 100% when I opened camera and went back to my setting when I closed it.
Same thing in ICS except it goes back to my setting only when I lock/unlock the phone.
But the brightness turning to 100% when I pen the camera isn't a bug. It's supposed to do this. Not going back to my setting is a bug.
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On both gingerbread and ICS builds it would not revert back to the previous brightness level for me. I was experiencing a bug. I KNOW it is supposed to crank up the brightness on certain applications. NOT reverting the brightness back is what was happening.
I'm experiencing exactly the same thing as the first poster. After the update, video playback will lose brightness and colour contrast and then magically "pop" back when I try to reset the brightness (even though it still shows as maximum, i.e. dropping brightness from an indicated 100% to 99% will cause it to become brighter!). I emailed MoboPlayer to ask them whether it was something wrong with their ICS implementation before realizing that it was happening on every player.
It's really annoying! (Maybe it's time to CyanogenMod it ...)
Stace.
I have experienced this with ALL ICS ROMS. Sometimes is happens, and sometimes it doesn't. Only bug I have in ARHD.
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Im having the same problem as the original poster. Happens with 720p videos.
HTC says every sensation has this issue and its normal.Unfortunately i cant post. Here is a link to two videos. goo.gl/ nHNG4 (no space). One is of my sensation playing tricks on me and the other is the video i played. Can someone confirm that they have the same issue playing this video? Note that you have to set brightness at maximun. I tried other players and SD cards and still the same issue. I have ICS 4.0.3.
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Im having the same problem as the original poster. Happens with 720p videos.
HTC says every sensation has this issue and its normal.Unfortunately i cant post. Here is a link to two videos. goo.gl/ nHNG4 (no space). One is of my sensation playing tricks on me and the other is the video i played. Can someone confirm that they have the same issue playing this video? Note that you have to set brightness at maximun. I tried other players and SD cards and still the same issue. I have ICS 4.0.3.
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Can somebody help me? Does the backlight dim a lot when each time you put it on landscape?
Xxul said:
The ICS update messed sth up with the video playback, when watching a video from either youtube app or gallery the screen brightness drops down if u turn the device in landscape mode (notice that i have ensured tht auto brightness is OFF)
Anybody elese?
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Exactly the same on youtube and every videos i watch !!
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shahkam said:
Exactly the same on youtube and every videos i watch !!
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Friend, i dont have this problem on youtube. Only in certain youtube videos the brightness will barely change which is hardly a problem. When you play the video i included in the file do you have the same issues as me? Do you have 4.0.3 too?
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Friend, i dont have this problem on youtube. Only in certain youtube videos the brightness will barely change which is hardly a problem. When you play the video i included in the file do you have the same issues as me? Do you have 4.0.3 too?
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Yes it does for me on every video and im on 4.0.3
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I have some kind of a brightness problem. When I set the brighness to 100% it seems that it just goes up to ~70% and no more. I am sure it should be brighter, now i can't see anything in daylight. When I change it to 0% I can barely see anything even in a dark room.
Even 4ext recovery and boot animation is very dark. I am running bruce's cmx.
Can anyone help?
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did you uncheck from settings the auto brightness?
Yes, of course i did, tried changing the levels and everything. What is stange to me is that even the revovery is dim.
rzr86 said:
did you uncheck from settings the auto brightness?
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n3xas said:
What is stange to me is that even the revovery is dim.
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If it fades in and out over time, it sounds like a dying LCD to me. If it's steady but dim, I dunno.
Steady but dim. It seems no one knows anything about this. I tried rebooting, wiping, changing settings but no good.
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I found a solution! I previously tried taking the battery out many times but no luck. Now I tried taking the SIM card out, when I replaced it - bingo! screen is back to normal. I have no idea how they are connected.
n3xas said:
I found a solution! I previously tried taking the battery out many times but no luck. Now I tried taking the SIM card out, when I replaced it - bingo! screen is back to normal. I have no idea how they are connected.
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sim and brightness? what the hell?
nevermind.good for you that found the solution:good:
rzr86 said:
sim and brightness? what the hell?
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My thoughts exactly. But I am sure it was no coincidence. I tried everything else in the past week, but only this worked.
the best way is to set it to auto!!!
Hey guys, just wondering. Is anyone else our there who has upgraded to JB and started to have his lock screen rotate all the time even when the auto rotation is off? It seems to be happening to mine and is causing quite a lag on unlocking.. -.-. It didn't have this problem when I was on ICS.
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Hey guys, just wondering. Is anyone else our there who has upgraded to JB and started to have his lock screen rotate all the time even when the auto rotation is off? It seems to be happening to mine and is causing quite a lag on unlocking.. -.-. It didn't have this problem when I was on ICS.
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Same issue I have it here, my version is JB from UK
Yup, mine too. 4.1.1 from Portugal. It's really annoying...
I was gonna open a thread about this issue. it wasn't like that in 4.0.4
My 4.1.2 does this every now and then
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I'm on official uk 4.1.1 and I don't have the issue
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same issue here.
i am using a JB 4.1.2 from Germany
The European firmwares have this is issue, the Asian ones don't have this.
Sv: Screen rotating on lock screen?
calum96 said:
I'm on official uk 4.1.1 and I don't have the issue
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I'm on official OEM 4.1.2 rooted with clockwork mod and I noticed the same thing today. At first I thought I had turned screen rotation on but when I checked it was off. Only seems to affect the lock screen though.
from day one, I have had this since August, my 8013 has always done this, and I mean every time I pick it up in the morning, it is in portrait and it takes 1-2 seconds to reorientate itself and respond to an unlock swipe. behaves exactly the same on JB as it did on ICS. it's the only hiccup this baby has at all, and does not bother me in any way. just quirky. gives it personality
I had this problem also on my nexus 7, with 4.2.1, and now on my Note with 4.1.1/german version. It only appears on youtube, not on mainly screen, or in movie player, but it's annoying!
Anyone Found a solution?
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from day one, I have had this since August, my 8013 has always done this, and I mean every time I pick it up in the morning, it is in portrait and it takes 1-2 seconds to reorientate itself and respond to an unlock swipe. behaves exactly the same on JB as it did on ICS. it's the only hiccup this baby has at all, and does not bother me in any way. just quirky. gives it personality
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If you turn the device to standby when it is in portrait then it restarts in portrait. If you switch to standby in landscape then it restarts in landscape. No matter what the actual tablet orientation is.
I found it only happens when I have certain apps running in the background. YouTube is one that causes it.
Run YouTube, lock the tablet without closing the app and the screen will rotate once you awaken it.
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Anyone Found a solution?
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Not really a solution but I just disable the lock screen all in all. The lag was making me angry specially when I do have to take a quick note and bam, you get stuck in the lock screen. Now it just opens to the home screen or whatever it was on before.
screen rotation at lock screen
GT-8010, 4.1.2, rooted, changed cwm, official Belgium rom (JZ054K.N8010XXUCMA8)
Always use the note in landscape, screen rotation is off, every time I take it up, it switches between portrait and landscape depending on the angle.
If there is a fix I am interested.
I have no idea where to start for a solution.
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