I've read a little about the s3 mini not having an ambient light sensor. Is that the case with the T599 also? Would be nice to have auto brightness but not sure of it is a hardware limitation.
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I also have s3 mini and it is shocking that no ambient sensor amd auto brightness. Very lame desicion by samsung. What are they thinking include everything and even nfc but no light sensor...
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i donno why they dont built it into this phone. many dont need it but if you had one you will miss it.
PS: im just posting to get 10 posts to post in dev-are...its a really annoying limitation!
Simpy buy this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
it works perfectly on my S3 mini and also on my tablet (also withou light sensor).
Zulda said:
Simpy buy this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
it works perfectly on my S3 mini and also on my tablet (also withou light sensor).
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Thanks for the suggestion. Works great on my t599
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camaro322hp said:
I've read a little about the s3 mini not having an ambient light sensor. Is that the case with the T599 also? Would be nice to have auto brightness but not sure of it is a hardware limitation.
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Something about this subject.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277228
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Hi, I just wanted to ask you guys, it seems that my i8190 does not have a light sensor, also, i cannot set the brightness to "automatically" in screen settings.
So, does Samsung Galaxy S III mini have a light sensor?
Thank you in advance.
No, it only has a proximity sensor and the VGA camera next to the speaker grill.
It also doesn't have a notification LED, which seems to be a "premium feature" nowadays... X(
you can get it from custom rom like cyanogenmod
genericmann said:
Hi, I just wanted to ask you guys, it seems that my i8190 does not have a light sensor, also, i cannot set the brightness to "automatically" in screen settings.
So, does Samsung Galaxy S III mini have a light sensor?
Thank you in advance.
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sholimar said:
No, it only has a proximity sensor and the VGA camera next to the speaker grill.
It also doesn't have a notification LED, which seems to be a "premium feature" nowadays... X(
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It does have a light sensor but scumbag samsung dint include a driver in the kernel
ibnev said:
you can get it from custom rom like cyanogenmod
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There is no auto brightness nor led in CM10.1 for our device
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There is no auto brightness nor led in CM10.1 for our device
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Well, if there is a light sensor, i can imagine that a custom ROM can access it somehow and make auto brightness possible.
BUT, there is no LED, so that is something we can never expect to be in any custom ROM, or am I wrong ?
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Well, if there is a light sensor, i can imagine that a custom ROM can access it somehow and make auto brightness possible.
BUT, there is no LED, so that is something we can never expect to be in any custom ROM, or am I wrong ?
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No there is no led, if i remembered correctly, Maclaw said it wasnt possible to implement it but im not sure
As far as i know, there is a light sensor, but Samsung didnt make a hole in front panel for it.
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If that's true, it's the dumbest thing. I've ever heard. :what:
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BlondieMenace said:
If that's true, it's the dumbest thing. I've ever heard. :what:
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Here, i found that topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277228
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my friend has the S3 and to be honest the light sensor is just junk
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my friend has the S3 and to be honest the light sensor is just junk
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Its not the sensor's fault, its the default settings samsung had set for different light levels, you can modify it though
I'm a little disappointed. I bought touday I8190N and I can't set auto brightness. The sensor exists but doesnt't work. Is it used only for useless option for following my eyes function? Is possible to use it as ambient light sensor as usual?
Use Lux it will use the front camera, no auto brightness apparently.
More info here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2042899
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Google Play says it isn't compatible with my I8190...
On Google Play it claims that app is incompatible with I8190N
Ignore that, it says that because our phone's don't have ambiant light sensor. I've installed it and works for me it uses the front camera too sense light.
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Ignore that, it says that because our phone's don't have ambiant light sensor. I've installed it and works for me it uses the front camera too sense light.
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How can I ignore it, as Google Play should be spoofed for downloading it, or even paying for full version? I don't have root yet on my I8190N,
and GP is preventing me from download this app. Maybe author shoud enable downloading for NFC version of S3 mini?
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Use Lux it will use the front camera, no auto brightness apparently.
More info here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2042899
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What values did you set for lux settings ?
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I haven't changed any settings, but if you go to modify samples, then Luma there are 2 yellow bars with 1 & 255. You tap the bars to edit them if you like.
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i8190 doesn't have light sensor, and the standby function uses front camera (and it works really bad imho). So there's no way to do it
Using lux for auto brightness and no problems like on sensor. Just little edited values in LUMA
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Hi guys!
I tried 3 apps that can use your phone's gallery, browser, lockscreen and call accept like in s4 but none of these work.
Is there a problem my proximity sensor?
Or its another weak point at 4x?
What you get with these apps (air call accept and air swiper)? Are they work for you?
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I Wonder the same thing today trying airu swipe
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I tried both apps and both of them are not working for me unfortunately. Proximity sensor is working because when i answer a call and put the phone next to my ear the screen go black. So that means that proximity is only activated when you are talking wizh someone.
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I tried both apps and both of them are not working for me unfortunately. Proximity sensor is working because when i answer a call and put the phone next to my ear the screen go black. So that means that proximity is only activated when you are talking wizh someone.
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And are there any way to turn on proximity sensor?
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There isn't a problem with turning on, it's the lack of the sensor, it only supports two distance modes - sensor is covered ,sensor is free so you have to put your hand nearly touching the screen, so wave Is a big problem, it's not being detected most of the times, only by really slowly moving the finger across, I tried other apps with the prox control, and that's the result.
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As the title suggests, can you totally kill the LED notification light? I mean stop it working for good.
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As the title suggests, can you totally kill the LED notification light? I mean stop it working for good.
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Why would you even do something drastic like that? :what:
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I could disable it on my x10 mini pro by night for example. But it was cm feature. Possibly linked to kernel also (cm was disabling module controlling led. If I remember well).
It is useful for example by night. When the led try to make you remember "hello, I am charged, I will put this green light in your face for you to know it"
Xperia z led power is still correct, x10 was my morning sun.
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Why would you even do something drastic like that? :what:
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Simple... I don't like it
I can't stand the stupid thing being lit at night like 'hey your fully charged, now I'm going to dazzle you till you wake up'. I don't like the fact it doesn't show colours properly since the last update and more than anything else, it looks ugly as hell when it's lit. I initially liked it S my BlackBerry had one, but the BB had the far superior light control and brightness, the colour was more defined too.
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Ride it like you downhill it.
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Really liked this option on some of my other galaxy phones. Dont know why samsung does not just put a notification light on all there phones its annoying.
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droidboy29 said:
Really liked this option on some of my other galaxy phones. Dont know why samsung does not just put a notification light on all there phones its annoying.
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none that i know of
samsung design their phones based on market research so they probably found the number of people that cared about BLN control was not that high
/edit: oops i thought you mean s3 mini
cm11 novafusion for example has backlight notification enabled by default