Tonight I noticed that the flash during picture taking is noticeably brighter than the LED during autofocus/preview and any flashlight apps. If you don't believe me try it in a dark room, preferably your parents basement. Has anyone found a way to use flash brightness mode as a regular flashlight? I feel like I've tried every app out there and they are all the same brightness as Torch, and the Torch high brightness mode does NOTHING. I searched the forums as best as I could and my drunk ass can't find anything. It really bothers me!!!
If the camera app in Cyanogenmod can use some super turbo ultra high brightness mode during picture taking isn't it possible in any other app? I had a similar situation with my HTC Inspire HD but Torch came through and let me use both LED's at once.
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Hi People,
I had a problem, I wanted to read a book and browse web sites on my N1 at night, whilst girlfriend was trying to sleep. The Nexus One even on its dimmest setting is quite bright at night and annoys said gf, so I was looking for a way to get the screen dimmer than stock levels, similar to the night mode functionality.
Turns out the job was far more technical than I first thought, and beyond my capabilities. PM'd Cyan, but as you might expect he seems too busy with other projects to help, no surprise there!
The help came from my Android Fandroid mate Richard over at Geekyouup!
He has kindly created an application that will reduce the brightness of my beloved Nexus one to level 10 (the default minimum is 30) from what ever brightness level you are currently on. Click the icon again, and it will restore your brightness to previous levels.
Unfortunatley, due to Android fail safes, he was unable to get the level below 10, (yet) but its a step better than stock minimum for me.
I have attached the apk for your night time pleasure here.
ALL the work was done by my man Rich Hyndman (@geekyouup)
You can also get the version here:
http://geekyouup.com/dimmer.apk
P.S I love the slightly off balanced light bulb icon Rich!!
very useful
thanks!
Just tried it, works great. I've cursed under my breath about wishing I could lower the brightness.. what a wonderful idea.
Hi thanks for sharing. However it does not work when auto brightness is enabled. Is it possible to suggest to the author to support it as well?
On: Toggle off auto brightness and dim.
Off: Toggle on auto brightness.
Wysie - could do, I'm here. I know about the issue when Auto-brightness is enabled, working on it right now....
ok, version 1.0.2 is attached, now supports Automatic Brightness toggling as per Wysie's suggestion. If Automatic Brightness is on it disables and sets screen dim, second press re-enables Automatic Brightness.
Also available in Android Market and at the web link in dipeshb's post (as a 'Juniour Member' I can't post links)
Downloaded from the market and it works great. Thanks mate.
I am having this issue using the camera app on my Sense 3.0 ROM for the Evo.
I've noticed this on all Gingerbread based ROMs.
The camera app does this thing where it increases the brightness upon clicking on the app, and reduces it after exiting.
This is problematic for me, because I am a college student who uses my phone to take pictures of presentations in class. It is distracting for other students, especially in a dimly lit PowerPoint setting, to see a bright phone lifted up so that I can take a picture.
There are already enough idiots out there with their Macs on full brightness, I don't want to be part of that problem.
Same thing happens to my Desire : screen goes full bright when in Camera.
I have tried digging in the camera settings to see if there is a way to turn it off, but I cannot seem to do so.
Do you know of any way to turn that off.
I'm sure this is helpful when you are outdoors and suddenly need to grab a picture, but it isn't in my case.
anishannayya said:
I have tried digging in the camera settings to see if there is a way to turn it off, but I cannot seem to do so.
Do you know of any way to turn that off.
I'm sure this is helpful when you are outdoors and suddenly need to grab a picture, but it isn't in my case.
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It's not an issue it's built in to Gingerbread, just like the TV off animation...Google probably figured you'll need max brightness to use the cam, to help with viewing the screen. There's nothing you can do, if you change the brightness in settings, it doesn't change the cam setting.
But you can turn off animations if you want to.
anishannayya said:
But you can turn off animations if you want to.
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Yeah, but the camera thing can't be toggled, perhaps you can ask a dev to take a look into the source code, there should be information on how to change the brightness there.
LOL, I don't have enough posts to post in a dev thread.
CM7 is a great ROM but for me, Sense roms have more advantages on the evo. One of the advantages of CM7 is the ability to completely customize the auto brightness function. When I ran CM7 nightlies I spent about an hour dimming the lights to program it perfectly. When you're in a dark room you don't want to pull your phone out of your pocket and blind everyone around you. When you're out in the sun, you want to be able to actually see the screen. Unfortunately, it seems like the sense auto brightness does a horrible job of getting the phone really dim in the dark and doesn't react quick enough in the sun. There are so many widgets out there for people to quickly adjust their screen brightness because the auto isn't good enough. This is ridiculous! The evo 4G is capable of having the perfect auto-brightness. We shouldn't have to be stumbling to click on a widget to self adjust the brightness.
I've searched all over the interwebs and nothing like this exists for non-CM7 Android devices. Someone please either port the CM7 auto brightness customization settings or create an app!!! Something similar to the old school Lumens app from Windows Mobile. You would be a hero to many.
Also, I would love to do this but I have zero programming skills.
I created an app that does this exactly (it's in beta at the moment):
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vito.lux
How well it performs depends on how good the light sensor on your device is. The app does have data filtering to try and get better readings from bad sensors, though.
Matteo1219 said:
CM7 is a great ROM but for me, Sense roms have more advantages on the evo. One of the advantages of CM7 is the ability to completely customize the auto brightness function. When I ran CM7 nightlies I spent about an hour dimming the lights to program it perfectly. When you're in a dark room you don't want to pull your phone out of your pocket and blind everyone around you. When you're out in the sun, you want to be able to actually see the screen. Unfortunately, it seems like the sense auto brightness does a horrible job of getting the phone really dim in the dark and doesn't react quick enough in the sun. There are so many widgets out there for people to quickly adjust their screen brightness because the auto isn't good enough. This is ridiculous! The evo 4G is capable of having the perfect auto-brightness. We shouldn't have to be stumbling to click on a widget to self adjust the brightness.
I've searched all over the interwebs and nothing like this exists for non-CM7 Android devices. Someone please either port the CM7 auto brightness customization settings or create an app!!! Something similar to the old school Lumens app from Windows Mobile. You would be a hero to many.
Also, I would love to do this but I have zero programming skills.
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Just installed CM7.1.0 and haven't yet found all the settings but stumbled upon some good ones already. A brightness one would be great because I would LOVE for my phone to go brighter in direct sunlight and dimmer in controlled areas and in the dark. I want to tweak mine as you described. Is this in the Cyanogenmod settings within the Menu->Settings menu or is it somewhere else?
OstrichSak said:
Just installed CM7.1.0 and haven't yet found all the settings but stumbled upon some good ones already. A brightness one would be great because I would LOVE for my phone to go brighter in direct sunlight and dimmer in controlled areas and in the dark. I want to tweak mine as you described. Is this in the Cyanogenmod settings within the Menu->Settings menu or is it somewhere else?
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If I remember correctly, it is something like... Menu-> Settings-> Cyanogenmod Settings-> Display
It's in there somewhere!
Matteo1219 said:
If I remember correctly, it is something like... Menu-> Settings-> Cyanogenmod Settings-> Display
It's in there somewhere!
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Yeah, and look for auto, and 'other' there is awesome control in there. You can even control how bright your capacitive buttons light up, and what level of light they respond to.
Really nice feature.
To the poster who is working on this, I'll def be having a look. Thanks.
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coming from htc legend and xperia mini, the led notification lights was an important feature, now i really miss it in the note, and using noled app is not the same as having actual led lights.
so i was thinking if there is a possibility to use the menu and back buttons lights as notification light ? i found that they are separate from the screen light .. so can this be done by an app or a custom rom or it can't be done ?
This idea has already been implemented for many Samsung devices. Just find a custom kernel with "BLN" Support (BackLightNotification) and then download the app (info HERE) and away you go.
Hope that helps mate
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coming from htc legend and xperia mini, the led notification lights was an important feature, now i really miss it in the note, and using noled app is not the same as having actual led lights.
so i was thinking if there is a possibility to use the menu and back buttons lights as notification light ? i found that they are separate from the screen light .. so can this be done by an app or a custom rom or it can't be done ?
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check bLED
after i posted this i found out about bLED and bln kernel (i didn't know what bln means) thanks for your help
There is also noLED. Not one i use but you might aswell know all the options
I've read that they all hurt battery life
i tried noLED but i didn't like it
i know that bln might drain the battery faster but it's important for me, and maybe with further development some of the current problems might be fixed
NoLed is good, doesn't require root and only uses about 3% battery when enabled (and nothing if you switch it off). You can also customize the settings for additional power saving and I managed to get it down to 1% by setting the notification to flash on and off.
My only issue with NoLed is that from time to time it gives me the sleep of death. Disable it And my issues go away - haven't had time to test whether or not SoD is down to the power saving settings.
Hi guys,
I'm looking for a way to spoof android sensor's values, especially the light sensor's readings.
I'm trying to do that in order to trick samsungs to enable their ultra bright screen mode by setting the brightness reading high enough.
Any input on how to do that is helpful.
Thanks.
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