Reduce brightness of capacitive buttons - AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL

Do you guys also think brightness level of the three capacitive button below the screen is too high? That causes the light leaks that is referred to here. especially at night, they look kind of annoying to my eyes. Is there a way to come up with a MOD to lower their brightness? Or it has to be changed at kernel level?
If so maybe we can post this to htcdev forums and ask HTC to do something about this.

I'd like to be able to turn them off completely. Annoying when watching videos at night. If solves the light leaks even better.
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Adjbrightness . On Google Play, need root.

will this improve batter life a little?

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Adjbrightness . On Google Play, need root.
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Awesome man. Turned mine off permanently.
Tip. Some reviews complain about the app having too many permissions. If you uninstall after making the changes, the settings maintain. We'll see if they remain after a reboot.
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Berserk87 said:
will this improve batter life a little?
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Probably not in any huge way unless you use the phone a lot in dark places.
For me, I prefer them off. Watching videos at night is much better and I no longer have the light bleed at the bottom corners
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Artood2s said:
Awesome man. Turned mine off permanently.
Tip. Some reviews complain about the app having too many permissions. If you uninstall after making the changes, the settings maintain. We'll see if they remain after a reboot.
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How do you turn it off permanently, mine does return after locking the screen.

In the options menu there is an option to force the button backkight off.
Btw- if you uninstall the app, the lights will return after a reboot. Have not tested with the app installed plus reboot.
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Thanks man, did that but it return backs to normal after reboot. But anyway I am happy that the light leak is gone.
BTW, thanks the op for bringing this thread
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tarick09 said:
Thanks man, did that but it return backs to normal after reboot. But anyway I am happy that the light leak is gone.
BTW, thanks the op for bringing this thread
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If we can find the file that this app modifies, maybe we can make it more permanent. Unless that file reverts to stock after a reboot as well.
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That would be possible. I really hope a dev looks into this, want to get rid of the annoying light leak forever
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Buttons illuminating?

When using the Desire S should the Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons be hilighted? Is there a setting to turn it on if there is one as my eyes are bad and I quite often hit the wrong button by mistake.
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Nexus04 said:
When using the Desire S should the Home, Menu, Back and Search buttons be hilighted? Is there a setting to turn it on if there is one as my eyes are bad and I quite often hit the wrong button by mistake.
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Depends on what ROM you're using. Not possible to tweak it if you're on a Stock ROM.
If you're on a custom ROM, then all ROMs with the RCMix tweaks have a feature to keep the button backlight on all the time.
Just go to Rcmix tweaks>Display Options>Backlight settings>Set to "Always On" and you're done.
Hope that solves your problem.
Hi just to update it seems it`s not possible to highlight the soft keys(that is the Home, Menu, Back and Search keys) They are automatic, triggered by the ambient light sensor and from my point of view this is very annoying.
As I am running the stock rom at the moment I am looking at the market to see if there are any apps that will solve this. If anyone knows of any that can do this can you let me know?
Thanks
Nexus04 said:
Hi just to update it seems it`s not possible to highlight the soft keys(that is the Home, Menu, Back and Search keys) They are automatic, triggered by the ambient light sensor and from my point of view this is very annoying.
As I am running the stock rom at the moment I am looking at the market to see if there are any apps that will solve this. If anyone knows of any that can do this can you let me know?
Thanks
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Like I said... Not possible on stock ROM. In my knowledge... There is no app in the market that can let you do that... Least of all, without root.
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Another update, just found an App called Screen Filter it`s primary function is to control screen brightness but is has an option to Enable soft-key backlight. Just the job for me
Nexus04 said:
Another update, just found an App called Screen Filter it`s primary function is to control screen brightness but is has an option to Enable soft-key backlight. Just the job for me
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Does it work?
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Does it work?
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Nope, fraid it doesn't
Sorry for not posting earlier but al89nut is right it does not work. Looks like I will have to down grade my H Boot and root the phone and install another rom
Cheers
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Sorry for not posting earlier but al89nut is right it does not work. Looks like I will have to down grade my H Boot and root the phone and install another rom
Cheers
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Lol... told you so!!!
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stick a tiny black "electricity tape" over the sensor...that`s what i did and now i have them permanently on....the sensor is located a little above and to the left of the name HTC at the top...you can test exactly where it is using your fingertip
Ha why didn't I think of that.Sometimes the best solutions are the easiest ones
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It's an ugly answer though
hardly notice it.....black on black
maybe you want to read/try this....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1297314

Backlight buttons

Just curious if everyone else's buttons backlight all three are either lit up or not. On mine, the back and home are while the recent one is sometimes. My guess is that it's a defect. It's just weird that it'll light up with the others occasionally so I know the light works. I really hate to have to swap this thing out cause everything else works great.
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I've been trying to figure this out, actually.
All three of mine are either on or off - but it seems like while the phone is plugged in (not being touched) with the screen on... the buttons are lit up all the time.
Only this morning they were off while the screen was on and the battery was charging. Very weird.
You know, I just noticed mine are off. Going to investigate.
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Just realized they turn off when in a bright environment and turn back on when dark. I guess.I learned something today. lol
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But it's all three correct? Not just the first two? My recent button hardly ever comes on..only occasionally.
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kravguy said:
But it's all three correct? Not just the first two? My recent button hardly ever comes on..only occasionally.
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Yeah, it's all 3. All 3 are either on or off. Yours is broken. I wouldn't really mind if all of mine just stayed off. lol
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I could care less if they ever came on Hopefully an update will make it so we can turn them off/on or dim after a certain idle time.
equlizer said:
I could care less if they ever came on Hopefully an update will make it so we can turn them off/on or dim after a certain idle time.
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+1
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equlizer said:
I could care less if they ever came on Hopefully an update will make it so we can turn them off/on or dim after a certain idle time.
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It comes in handy at night. Other than that, they shouldn't come on. And damn, I didn't want to take mine back. I at least can get mine set back up pretty quickly.
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Vibrate feedback

Anyone's vibrate feedback almost unnoticeable? Swapped my device because of connection issues (and update to 1.85 OOPS) and the vibrate feedback on this new one sucks. Pressing the home/back/multi task keys disappoints me every time. I know it's early in the dev phase but does anyone know a mod that can fix this? (Longer vibrate for feedback)
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No mods yet as far as I know. I know go sms let's you change the vibrate frequency, length and pattern. Other then that, might be SOL. I never thought mine was very strong to begin with. I have since turned it off to save battery. It takes a bit to get used to, but it's worth it. I think lol.
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Id love to turn it down or off entirely...
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gtkansan said:
Id love to turn it down or off entirely...
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Go to sound settings and uncheck haptic feedback for UI interactions.
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HTC One S camera

Just curious if anyone else is having thos problem. When I take a picture close up to something an click the screen for focus it gets really clear then goes back to blurry. I was wondering why my pics that were distant were blurry that's why I took a close up of my hand and it did that.
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Just curious if anyone else is having thos problem. When I take a picture close up to something an click the screen for focus it gets really clear then goes back to blurry. I was wondering why my pics that were distant were blurry that's why I took a close up of my hand and it did that.
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it happen to me when i try to focus really near objects.
Happens to me as well.
Use the "Close up" mode.
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Use the "Close up" mode.
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Still blurry for me
Did you happen to update to the latest OTA? I did and I started noticing that. Before the OTA, not so much.
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Did you happen to update to the latest OTA? I did and I started noticing that. Before the OTA, not so much.
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I've not updated my phone via OTA. I'm running a custom rom and it's still blurry to me. Just like the OP described: ''It'll be clear for a second and than become blurry''
don't go too near. back-off bit by bit till you can get focus.
So far, One S has got best camera among Android phones. Even though they said it's same camera module as One X, I compared two of my friends' One X and find out that my One S works better in low-light condition.
Well when take a HTC Amaze lol and take pics as close as you want. I noticed the horrible camera bugs after ota I wish I would have never updated.
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I've not updated my phone via OTA. I'm running a custom rom and it's still blurry to me. Just like the OP described: ''It'll be clear for a second and than become blurry''
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Well that makes me not want to do a custom Rom then. Im still stock with no root. I miss how clear my camera use to be
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Well that makes me not want to do a custom Rom then. Im still stock with no root. I miss how clear my camera use to be
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It is only up close. The picture quality is brilliant otherwise.
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villainhalf said:
It is only up close. The picture quality is brilliant otherwise.
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Just incase someone else is having a focus problem turn your video recording down from 1080 to qhd I did it randomly and it now focuses close up
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tongueman87 said:
Just incase someone else is having a focus problem turn your video recording down from 1080 to qhd I did it randomly and it now focuses close up
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Didn't work for me. I hear some noise after it unfocuses.
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Didn't work for me. I hear some noise after it unfocuses.
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I have to hold the phone steady to get a focus out of it
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I have to hold the phone steady to get a focus out of it
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Doesn't seem to make a difference for me =/ Hopefully a future ROM will fix this up.
I have this problem...but only in low light contitions.
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omg i was just taking some close ups and mine was doing the same, its frustrating because you see the picture crystal clear and then it overshoots and blurs
BackDaws said:
omg i was just taking some close ups and mine was doing the same, its frustrating because you see the picture crystal clear and then it overshoots and blurs
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I have this problem too.
But sometimes i managed to get it to work but i'm not sure how i did it.
You might want to try putting the aspect ratio to 4:3, focus on something near, it still will not focus.
Then change back to 16:9, then try to focus on something near again, then it'll work.
Im not too sure if it'll work for everyone, but it works for me somehow.
tadaha said:
I have this problem too.
But sometimes i managed to get it to work but i'm not sure how i did it.
You might want to try putting the aspect ratio to 4:3, focus on something near, it still will not focus.
Then change back to 16:9, then try to focus on something near again, then it'll work.
Im not too sure if it'll work for everyone, but it works for me somehow.
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It drives me nuts, I wish there was a option to turn off auto focus to see if when we touch the screen to focus does it focus better
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People said that in the latest ota 4.0.4 this problem is gone.
I can't confirm but if you want to try.
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Opening the Camera changes my brightness, is this normal?

I haven't experienced this in my past Android devices so it's kind of odd.
area5x1 said:
I haven't experienced this in my past Android devices so it's kind of odd.
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Pretty sure it's a Sense thing - I imagine the idea is to make sure the viewfinder is as bright as possible.
I haven't noticed it in AOKP, and I've kinda missed it.
But it goes back to original settings shortly after closing it
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Completely normal..
Yeah thats normal :good:
Its normal. I hate it though
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