I flashed Baked Blackbean 7 last evening. Everything appears to be working fine, so thanks to the devs for a good AOSP 4.2 rom!
I do miss the brightness slider on the notification page though. I see an option under statusbar settings called "statusbar brightness slider". I've tried turning this on and off, but don't see any change. The description is "whether the statusbar brightness slider is on when you slide across the statusbar".
Does anyone know what this option does? It'd be nice if it was a quick screen brightness control.
from your home screen, press the status bar. slide left for dim, right for brighter.
it takes a few times to get used to it.
ddurandSGS3 said:
from your home screen, press the status bar. slide left for dim, right for brighter.
it takes a few times to get used to it.
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Ok, that's what I thought. The problem I was having is that I had auto brightness on.
Just like the slider in notifications in TW, you have to have auto brightness off for the slider to have any effect.
Thanks for the quick response!
np, glad you got it squared away.
Is there a version of a CM based ROM newer than Android 4.1.2 that has the same type of quick settings ribbon that CM 10.0.0 has? I prefer the older version of the quick settings ribbon, specifically, I really like being able to change the brightness between customizable brightness levels at the touch of a button. As opposed to pressing the button, then having to move the brightness bar.
To clarify:
In CM 10.0.0, you can have various toggle buttons (wifi, mobile data, brightness etc) show up on a quick settings ribbon in the notification drawer. Pressing these toggles them on off or between settings. For brightness you can have multiple toggles set for different levels of brightness (0-100%) and these are toggled between by just pressing the button.
In newer versions of CM the brightness toggle in the quick settings ribbon is changed so that if you press it the brightness slider shows up and you toggle it that way, this adds and extra step and is less convenient when in situations where the screen is too dark to see.
I’ve tried multiple versions of CM based ROMs, but all of them had the newer type of quick settings ribbon that I do not like. It is literally the only new feature that I don’t like. I want to update because I prefer the newer versions of the keyboard, clock, and various other settings.
Also slightly off topic: are newer versions ROMs better for battery life and/or performance? Or does is that generally not affected? Obviously if I am using more new features at once I will have less battery, but if I do the same old thing as before is it more efficient with my battery?
As far as I know you're stuck with the newer style brightness setting on the newer versions of the ROM. I haven't flashed a recent version of CM but I'm pretty sure it has the status bar brightness slider option where you slide your finger horizontally along the status bar to adjust the brightness. That's only one step total to adjust your brightness.
Battery performance has been improved on later versions of most ROMs.
Sent from my Evita
I love how the s6 gets extremely bright in direct sunlight with the auto brightness boost, but I wish there was a way to have this boost whenever I wanted. Any way to do this yet?
I may be missing something, but I don't know how it could automatically increase when you wanted, so you must mean manually doing it, so you'd just pull down your notification bar and manually adjust the brightness, right? You might use something like Trigger or Tasker to have a few quick buttons to hit for different brightness levels or something like that.
Pull down notification bar. Uncheck Auto at the end of brightness slider.
Brightness control by swiping in the left screen doesn't work. Please help!
mozillafi said:
Brightness control by swiping in the left screen doesn't work. Please help!
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Can give some more detsils..?
Does MX shows the change in displsy. But doesn't change the brightness actually...?
Or It doesn't show anything?
Hello,
It shows the changes in display, the percentage, but the brightness doesn't change.
I turn off the auto brightness in the notification bar, but it still doesn't work in mx player.
Thanks
mozillafi said:
Hello,
It shows the changes in display, the percentage, but the brightness doesn't change.
I turn off the auto brightness in the notification bar, but it still doesn't work in mx player.
Thanks
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Auto brightness is not an issue.
By default android use the brightness settings from top most app. When some other app runs invisibly on top android will follow the brightness values from that app.
It might be a floating widget/window or battery/brightness optimizer or anything else. Kindly disable them & check it again.
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Auto brightness is not an issue.
By default android use the brightness settings from top most app. When some other app runs invisibly on top android will follow the brightness values from that app.
It might be a floating widget/window or battery/brightness optimizer or anything else. Kindly disable them & check it again.
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That works, it was All in one Gestures with double click status bar turn on. Thanks
I wrote an App that lets you control your phone's brightness provided it's running Android 8.0+ and has a compatible fingerprint sensor.
I wrote it because I change my phone's brightness as often as I change it's volume, if not more, and I was upset I didn't have dedicated hardware for it. When Oreo launched and it added fingerprint gesture detection, I figured it was time
I own and test on the OG Google Pixel, and the app has been out for 2 weeks so I've been able to squash most bugs.
Feedback and suggestions are most welcome!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tunjid.fingergestures
Link doesn't work.
Dude... THANK YOU. Aside from ad-blocking and kernel tweaks, one of the main reasons I've always rooted was for the status bar brightness slider, and this is an even better implementation of it (I love hardware switches). The ads would never get in my way at all, but I went ad-free just out of appreciation.
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Thanks for catching that, fixed!
How to check is my fingerprint compatible?
Device is OnePlus 3T.
mihata said:
How to check is my fingerprint compatible?
Device is OnePlus 3T.
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For your device to be compatible, you have to be running Android Oreo and your OEM would need to support fingerprint gestures on a firmware level. I don't believe the One Plus 3T Oreo beta supports it at the moment.
The app is super cool; I love the option to adjust brightness via the fingerprint reader! One major complaint keeps me from using it though, which is that it always disables adaptive brightness when making an adjustment. This is extremely jarring when it's dark and I just want to dim the screen a bit, but bringing it down from 40% (adaptive) to 20-30% (absolute) actually makes the screen brighter. I hope for the next version you consider having the option to leave adaptive brightness on while making adjustments. Thanks!
teiglin said:
The app is super cool; I love the option to adjust brightness via the fingerprint reader! One major complaint keeps me from using it though, which is that it always disables adaptive brightness when making an adjustment. This is extremely jarring when it's dark and I just want to dim the screen a bit, but bringing it down from 40% (adaptive) to 20-30% (absolute) actually makes the screen brighter. I hope for the next version you consider having the option to leave adaptive brightness on while making adjustments. Thanks!
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Hi! I experimented with this previously, but since adaptive brightness is managed by the system, leaving it on when you adjust brightness will cause the brightness to be reset immediately by the adaptive brightness service. The compromise I added was allowing adaptive brightness to be restored as soon as the screen is turned off and on again.
@youtube10 thanks for this
when Oxygen OS will be on Oreo, do you think your tweak will works on OnePlus 5 ?
i change too, very often the brightness on my device...
sunnyraid said:
@youtube10 thanks for this
when Oxygen OS will be on Oreo, do you think your tweak will works on OnePlus 5 ?
i change too, very often the brightness on my device...
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Hi! I'm not sure. I'm going to set up a way for beta testing so people with phones not supported can check and verify if the app is compatible with their device. I should be getting around to that in the coming days. I'm just not sure if it should be through the Play Store or XDA. I don't think the Play Store allows for beta testing on specific devices.
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Hi! I'm not sure. I'm going to set up a way for beta testing so people with phones not supported can check and verify if the app is compatible with their device. I should be getting around to that in the coming days. I'm just not sure if it should be through the Play Store or XDA. I don't think the Play Store allows for beta testing on specific devices.
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thanks! don't hesitate to send beta apks, i can test them on my OP5 :good:
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Hi! I experimented with this previously, but since adaptive brightness is managed by the system, leaving it on when you adjust brightness will cause the brightness to be reset immediately by the adaptive brightness service. The compromise I added was allowing adaptive brightness to be restored as soon as the screen is turned off and on again.
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Thanks for the reply. As another user mentioned, I'd be using your app primarily to replace the status bar quick finger slide feature from most custom ROMs, and those are generally able to work alongside auto brightness, which is why I assumed it would be possible. Personally I find this too frustrating to work around, but I appreciate that you considered this.
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Thanks for the reply. As another user mentioned, I'd be using your app primarily to replace the status bar quick finger slide feature from most custom ROMs, and those are generally able to work alongside auto brightness, which is why I assumed it would be possible. Personally I find this too frustrating to work around, but I appreciate that you considered this.
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Out of curiosity, on those ROMs, how long did it take for adaptive brightness to restore the brightness to what it was before you adjusted it?
I don't think adaptive brightness and system brightness are 2 different values. It's possible you didn't give permissions to read or write to settings so that when you try reducing the brightness with adaptive brightness on, I can't read the current value of your brightness so I default to the highest. This would explain the "jump" in brightness you see while adjusting.
If you don't mind, try giving it another go and checking that you give both accessibility permissions, and permissions to write to settings. After that, with adaptive brightness on, try changing the brightness again and please let me now if the jump still occurs. Also, left and right swipes my default toggle minimum and maximum brightness respectively, so there might've been an accidental recognition of either gesture.
Absolutely love the app! Thank you so much.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't this app support previous Android versions? Asking for my own knowledge and would definitely love to use it on my spare devices running MM and Nougat.
I could see that certain fingerprint gesture apps like this do support the previous versions. Any specific difference?
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Absolutely love the app! Thank you so much.
Out of curiosity, why doesn't this app support previous Android versions? Asking for my own knowledge and would definitely love to use it on my spare devices running MM and Nougat.
I could see that certain fingerprint gesture apps like this do support the previous versions. Any specific difference?
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It's because the gesture API was introduced in Android Oreo
youtube10 said:
It's because the gesture API was introduced in Android Oreo
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Thanks for responding! Totally loved it! Did a research yesterday and found out the same
youtube10 said:
I wrote an App that lets you control your phone's brightness provided it's running Android 8.0+ and has a compatible fingerprint sensor.
I wrote it because I change my phone's brightness as often as I change it's volume, if not more, and I was upset I didn't have dedicated hardware for it. When Oreo launched and it added fingerprint gesture detection, I figured it was time
I own and test on the OG Google Pixel, and the app has been out for 2 weeks so I've been able to squash most bugs.
Feedback and suggestions are most welcome!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tunjid.fingergestures
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Excellent work, my friend! This works great on my Pixel 2.
You've been featured!
https://www.androidunfiltered.com/d...htness-with-fingerprint-gestures-android-8-0/
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Out of curiosity, on those ROMs, how long did it take for adaptive brightness to restore the brightness to what it was before you adjusted it?
I don't think adaptive brightness and system brightness are 2 different values. It's possible you didn't give permissions to read or write to settings so that when you try reducing the brightness with adaptive brightness on, I can't read the current value of your brightness so I default to the highest. This would explain the "jump" in brightness you see while adjusting.
If you don't mind, try giving it another go and checking that you give both accessibility permissions, and permissions to write to settings. After that, with adaptive brightness on, try changing the brightness again and please let me now if the jump still occurs. Also, left and right swipes my default toggle minimum and maximum brightness respectively, so there might've been an accidental recognition of either gesture.
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I didn't view it as a bug in the app, just a side effect of disabling adaptive brightness. For example, the screen gets roughly to its dimmest with the brightness slider at around 20% and adaptive brightness on, so then if you slide that down to 10% but with adaptive brightness off, the screen will actually be brighter (the "jump" I described before). The issue is definitely not a result of a mis-swipe, as I can see the displayed percentage changing as expected.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "adaptive brightness to restore the brightness to what it was before you adjusted it"--my experience of sliding my finger along the status bar on my old phone to change brightness was the same as sliding the brightness slider in the quick settings, which can be done whether adaptive brightness is on or off. The adaptive brightness algorithm doesn't adjust the slider.
edit: I think I understand now; you're saying that the adaptive brightness algorithm actually changes the value displayed by the brightness slider. My Pixel 2 (as well as my previous phone, the HTC 10) both do not work this way, though I know some of the phones I have used in the past do. The Pixel's adaptive brightness adjusts the actual brightness based both on the ambient light and the slider, rather than adjusting the slider to what it considers an appropriate value.
teiglin said:
I didn't view it as a bug in the app, just a side effect of disabling adaptive brightness. For example, the screen gets roughly to its dimmest with the brightness slider at around 20% and adaptive brightness on, so then if you slide that down to 10% but with adaptive brightness off, the screen will actually be brighter (the "jump" I described before). The issue is definitely not a result of a mis-swipe, as I can see the displayed percentage changing as expected.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "adaptive brightness to restore the brightness to what it was before you adjusted it"--my experience of sliding my finger along the status bar on my old phone to change brightness was the same as sliding the brightness slider in the quick settings, which can be done whether adaptive brightness is on or off. The adaptive brightness algorithm doesn't adjust the slider.
edit: I think I understand now; you're saying that the adaptive brightness algorithm actually changes the value displayed by the brightness slider. My Pixel 2 (as well as my previous phone, the HTC 10) both do not work this way, though I know some of the phones I have used in the past do. The Pixel's adaptive brightness adjusts the actual brightness based both on the ambient light and the slider, rather than adjusting the slider to what it considers an appropriate value.
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You're right. They do seem like 2 different values. Especially that the lowest brightness setting with adaptive brightness turned on is lower than the lowest setting without adaptive brightness. I'll try getting it and the gestures to work together again.
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I didn't view it as a bug in the app, just a side effect of disabling adaptive brightness. For example, the screen gets roughly to its dimmest with the brightness slider at around 20% and adaptive brightness on, so then if you slide that down to 10% but with adaptive brightness off, the screen will actually be brighter (the "jump" I described before). The issue is definitely not a result of a mis-swipe, as I can see the displayed percentage changing as expected.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "adaptive brightness to restore the brightness to what it was before you adjusted it"--my experience of sliding my finger along the status bar on my old phone to change brightness was the same as sliding the brightness slider in the quick settings, which can be done whether adaptive brightness is on or off. The adaptive brightness algorithm doesn't adjust the slider.
edit: I think I understand now; you're saying that the adaptive brightness algorithm actually changes the value displayed by the brightness slider. My Pixel 2 (as well as my previous phone, the HTC 10) both do not work this way, though I know some of the phones I have used in the past do. The Pixel's adaptive brightness adjusts the actual brightness based both on the ambient light and the slider, rather than adjusting the slider to what it considers an appropriate value.
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You're absolutely right. They are 2 different brightness values: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29349153/change-adaptive-brightness-level-programatically
It seems the Adaptive Brightness one is hidden and not supposed to be a public api, so I am hesitant to try to change it's value. However I can try to read it's value so that it would prevent the brightness jump if adaptive brightness is on and you're trying to adjust the brightness manually. Adjusting it manually will still cause adaptive brightness to be turned off however. It can be turned back on when the screen goes off and on and you checked the option.