Anyone else know about this? Was wondering why my brightness was changing when holding the phone to my ear....
I was initially thinking it was a proximeter sensor, but nope. Its a slider built into the notification bar. Press and hold at the left of the bar and while keeping your finger held to the bar, move to the right. And ofcourse left to turn it down.
Not really crazy about this feature really. Wish I could disable it.
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chkchkboom said:
Anyone else know about this? Was wondering why my brightness was changing when holding the phone to my ear....
I was initially thinking it was a proximeter sensor, but nope. Its a slider built into the notification bar. Press and hold at the left of the bar and while keeping your finger held to the bar, move to the right. And ofcourse left to turn it down.
Not really crazy about this feature really. Wish I could disable it.
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You can disable it in cm7.
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Did anyone NOT know about it ??
slybarman said:
Did anyone NOT know about it ??
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Mine has never worked, so I wasn't really sure what the process was. Still doesn't, but this was more detailed than "swipe on the bar"
I love this feature...
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algorhythm said:
Mine has never worked, so I wasn't really sure what the process was. Still doesn't, but this was more detailed than "swipe on the bar"
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Doesn't work if you have auto brightness enabled.
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can save some battery by turning auto brightness off and use the slider to adjust the brightness.
I dig it too. It saves time & frustration when you're out in the sun, step into a building & are all blinded by the sunlight, to the point where you can't navigate through menus. Just hold the notification, sliiiide & bam.
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muyoso said:
Doesn't work if you have auto brightness enabled.
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that's the ticket!
Lol.....I had no idea about this....just one more thing that makes Android great. yea....I think imma go by my neighbor and see if her 4s can do this.....lol
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Qwallace70129 said:
Lol.....I had no idea about this....just one more thing that makes Android great. yea....I think imma go by my neighbor and see if her 4s can do this.....lol
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a TouchWiz thing? Or possibly Samsung? My wife has a lower-end Samsung (don't remember, but it's one of the Virgin Mobile ones), and it doesn't have this feature.
When you hold your phone close to your ear while in a phone call, the proximity sensor turns the screen off, so your ear touching the screen would not be changing the brightness. If auto brightness is enabled, it's really touchy and will change brightness rather quickly.
It works without sliding all you have to do is hold it on the left and it dims and if you hold it on the right it brightens
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Nice feature, didn't know about it. Thanks for the tip
knyque said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a TouchWiz thing? Or possibly Samsung? My wife has a lower-end Samsung (don't remember, but it's one of the Virgin Mobile ones), and it doesn't have this feature.
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I'm not sure about it.I'm running ACS ICS V5. Is she running gingerbread? It could be a 2.3 feature.
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Its Touchwiz...just like the pulldown toggles..
zanderman112 said:
Its Touchwiz...just like the pulldown toggles..
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+1. Auto-brightness is also a battery killer. Learn to embrace the slide feature.
How do you enable it in CM7? I thought this was touch wiz. I miss the feature when running the
AOSP ROMs.
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xopher.hunter said:
It works without sliding all you have to do is hold it on the left and it dims and if you hold it on the right it brightens
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If you hold it from the corners it only maxes the brightness or lowers the brightness to the lowest setting. When sliding you can control how bright you want your screen.
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johnbarry3434 said:
You can disable it in cm7.
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chuckdez said:
How do you enable it in CM7?
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This feature is not available in cm7
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Control your brightness when you slide your fingers across the top of it from left to right?
Mine does and I'm not sure if it did the first few days or even if it is supposed to....
Thanks
It only does it if auto brightness is off.
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Tpavey said:
It only does it if auto brightness is off.
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I was just gonna post I found that out too.. Thanks now I know my device isnt defective...
Holy crap, that's awesome! Finding out new cool **** with this phone everyday!
Cool. Nice find with that one. I just use the power settings widget to switch between the set brightness levels (keeping it on the lowest setting).
This was a thread in the Galaxy S forum and I tested it to make sure it worked on mine a few hours ago
Great find, thanks.
I am getting use to touch wiz. I don't know why people don't like tw. It has some good feature s.
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Wow, that's seriously awesome. Now I have no need for the automatic brightness, which always seems to keep the screen darker than I'd like.
This is pure awesomeness now that I know about this! I had just added the Power Control Widget so I could turn brightness up/down whenever I needed to. This is much, much easier and what I wanted since I can control everything else from the notifications already and faster.
My screen has randomly brightened or dimmed and I didn't know why. This explains a lot.
Pneumatic said:
My screen has randomly brightened or dimmed and I didn't know why. This explains a lot.
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Same here. All of a sudden it would be to the lowest brightness level then it'd be the highest and I'd be so confused on why it kept changing.
@sl8125: People didn't like TouchWiz because the previous version of TouchWiz was awful.
Couldn't finds this on a search, so just in case people didn't know, here it is.
Place your thumb on the notification bar, and instead of pulling it down, slide left to make the brightness go down and right to go up.
I found this accidentally. This may be old news to some of you, but I thought it was pretty cool little feature.
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Aight. Cool. This is something new for me. And i like the brightness trick . The screenshot maker is terrible. Volume up and power and home button at the same time. Making screenshots with volume widget in screen. Aarrrg better take a app to do this
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Mc S.H.O. said:
Aight. Cool. This is something new for me. And i like the brightness trick . The screenshot maker is terrible. Volume up and power and home button at the same time. Making screenshots with volume widget in screen. Aarrrg better take a app to do this
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you don't have to press vol up, power and home button is enough.
MrBadgerMilk said:
Couldn't finds this on a search, so just in case people didn't know, here it is.
Place your thumb on the notification bar, and instead of pulling it down, slide left to make the brightness go down and right to go up.
I found this accidentally. This may be old news to some of you, but I thought it was pretty cool little feature.
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Oh well, that's a cool find. You have to disable the Auto brightness though
MrBadgerMilk said:
Couldn't finds this on a search, so just in case people didn't know, here it is.
Place your thumb on the notification bar, and instead of pulling it down, slide left to make the brightness go down and right to go up.
I found this accidentally. This may be old news to some of you, but I thought it was pretty cool little feature.
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I also found it accidentally. Pretty cool feature for those who change brightness more frequently.
That's been there ever since the galaxy s 1
helikido said:
That's been there ever since the galaxy s 1
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And already posted in a few threads...
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I know A LOT of people know this.. you can slide your finger accross the notification bar to set the screen brightness when auto brightness is turned off.
Well something I found out today.. you don't slide at all.. you can.. but you just got to pick a spot on the notification bar and long press. So you want it at 50%, long press in the middle.
This is a lot better too... more sensitive.
Maniac
I didn't know either of these features so thanks for this post
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Wow magic!!! Lol
You magnificent bastard! The slide was usually hit or miss for me but this works every time.
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Actually I think its touch hold and slide
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Yeah thats how it works u touch and hold it on the left and slide if ur on low l. And on high touch and hold on the right and slide.
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Works for me on PWGB beta 3. This is why I like Android so much, the hidden little tricks and short cuts.
just the old trick. I find this tip potential more than 2 months ago on youtube
Skrazz said:
You magnificent bastard! The slide was usually hit or miss for me but this works every time.
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Hahaha lol.... your welcome.
wow! I noticed it before, but i didn't know that it can change depending on where you press. Good to know
aznkid8706 said:
wow! I noticed it before, but i didn't know that it can change depending on where you press. Good to know
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I knew both!
Maybe someone who knows a bit more or notices something I did not can help... I was looking in literally every folder for the file that controls the soft keys. This is a script I wrote up that *should* disable them but they turn off and come back on when you tap them.
#!/system/bin/sh
chown root /sys/devices/virtual/sec/t_key/brightness
chmod 0777 /sys/devices/virtual/sec/t_key/brightness
echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/sec/t_key/brightness
chmod 0555 /sys/devices/virtual/sec/t_key/brightness
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have you checked into the rom control toggle that disables the softkeys? even though it doesn't work on every theme/framework it seems, it might get you in the right direction?
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have you checked into the rom control toggle that disables the softkeys? even though it doesn't work on every theme/framework it seems, it might get you in the right direction?
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ROM control in AOKP? That adds the on screen buttons.
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Hahaha well your a recognized developer go ask an Elite Recognized Developer
You can't ask us scrubs here .
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Big Goron said:
Hahaha well your a recognized developer go ask an Elite Recognized Developer
You can't ask us scrubs here .
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I *could* just disable them in the kernel but still, it is not a good option if people want to toggle them on any rom.
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I set tasker to run this command for literally everything lol
Constantly run when keyboard is not out
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I like this thread
I think that short of disabling them in the kernel there isn't a way, I tried looking through other places in hopes to figure it out but to no avail either.
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I am ALL for the kernel disabling the soft keys and if need be, the keyboard backlight. After two years of fondling this phone, I know her every curve.
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Marcus, if you can just disable them completely, this would be the first and ONLY option for the 80% of us who want those battery draining LED's gone for good.
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Do they really have that significant of an impact on battery life?
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Do they really have that significant of an impact on battery life?
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no but they are really bright at night time.
Well, for battery life freaks like myself, I'm sure I would notice a gain if there were no lights activated.
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The moment always had kernels that came in LEDon and LEDoff versions, however the moment had a white background on its cap. buttons. I would love thhis for the epic as well
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BUMP
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I hate these bright soft keys with a passion. If there was a way to completely disable them by tweaking the kernel I would be all for it.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't stay on so long or pop on with the slider. Please marcus....slay these annoying lights.
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FYI, with CM9, the Screen Filter app disables the soft keys. They'll turn back on if you touch them, but you can start and use an e-reader indefinitely without doing that. The app also works as a widget, so if you touch the soft keys accidentally, a quick double tap of the widget will turn them back off.
Alexdi said:
FYI, with CM9, the Screen Filter app disables the soft keys. They'll turn back on if you touch them, but you can start and use an e-reader indefinitely without doing that. The app also works as a widget, so if you touch the soft keys accidentally, a quick double tap of the widget will turn them back off.
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You can also make tasker run the echo 0 part of the script I wrote every time you hold the search button or open the launcher/book app.
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From a linux based standpoint there is only one legitimate option. That is to run your script and then wear gloves which hamper the output of static electricity from your fingertips, so that you can surgically apply DUCT(or your preferred brand/type) TAPE over said lights without them turning on, in which case your script works, and peoples woes go away.
Trololol.
i agree
I agree on disabling them in the kernel for good i personally think this phone looks sexier with the lights off (no pun intended =P)
I'm not sure if this is a repost but I have found buy swiping your finger up or down on the either sides of the screen, you can zoom in and out in the internet.
Pretty good feature. :good:
lexi250 said:
I'm not sure if this is a repost but I have found buy swiping your finger up or down on the either sides of the screen, you can zoom in and out in the internet.
Pretty good feature. :good:
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Thx for hint my friend but it is a very well known feature in android since early stages
It is the most annoying feature, how do I turn it off?
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tw15tr said:
It is the most annoying feature, how do I turn it off?
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+1000000000
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lexi250 said:
I'm not sure if this is a repost but I have found buy swiping your finger up or down on the either sides of the screen, you can zoom in and out in the internet.
Pretty good feature. :good:
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I have also discovered a useful feature: long-pressing that button on the right-hand side of the phone will power on/off your Note.
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chasmodo said:
I have also discovered a useful feature: long-pressing that button on the right-hand side of the phone will power on/off your Note.
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Lol!
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best feature i think
one handed browsing is possible with it.
tw15tr said:
It is the most annoying feature, how do I turn it off?
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Totally agree.... gets on my nerves!
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