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[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] liamwalsh:
Hi I'm having trouble getting my phone to read the sd card. When I put it in it says safe to remove sd but apart from that the phone doesnt even register that the card is in? I have had the sd card in my laptop for a while but formatted it first. I have a friend and its the same for his android but the 2gb he got with his phone works fine. Is there some sort of file structure that has to be on the sd for the phone to pick it up? Really need help thanks.

CM7 BTW
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] JJEgan:
No special structure i would fully format the card as fat 32 not quick format .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] liamwalsh:
Ok thanks for the reply. Also read that formatting in recovery mode could work? That was for a diff phone though with the same problem
[Xperia Play General] NielDK:
This trick (should) disable autobrightness

adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system
echo "echo 0 > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/enable" >> /etc/hw_config.sh
echo "echo 254 > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness" >> /etc/hw_config.sh
echo "echo 254 > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/max_brightness" >> /etc/hw_config.sh
exit
exit
adb reboot

You may edit /etc/hw_config.sh using root explorer, or similar, remounting system as rw. If so, remember to set permissions on hw_config.sh 550!
[Xperia Play General] issam85:
Tnx mate will try this..
[Xperia Play General] m3dteam:
I confirm, it works perfectly^^

you will need to restart your phone though

by the way, I did it through root explorer, no need for adb
[Xperia Play General] axiomjunglist:
Worked for me as well, but the disabled max brightness was a little too low for me.

If you cover the sensor with your thumb at max brightness without the sensor disabled that is basically what you get with it disabled through this hack. Great work, it does exactly what it's supposed to do which is disable the auto-brightness, but wish I could get to true full brightness with it disabled though.
[Xperia Play General] Dousan:
Also did it through root explorer and it works for me to. No more flickering screen when not on full brightness ;)

Regards Dousan...
[Xperia Play General] m3dteam:
you sure, I got it at full brightness.

try the backlight wedgit and set it to max and see.

EDIT:

you can also go to (in root explorer):

/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness

and set it to 250 (max is 255)
[Xperia Play General] Dousan:
Lol tried the native SE backlight widget and the third step (full brightness) turns the screen off?

It's the 1x1 widget by the way. The powercontrol toggles through the three steps.

Regards Dousan...
[Xperia Play General] axiomjunglist:
Yeah I checked all those, brightness and max brightness are both set to 255 with the hack turned on. But I still get the dim effect with the hack on, even after using the widgets and brightness controls in system prefs. Turn it off and the screen gets much brighter on reboot. I'll have to mess around some more...
[Xperia Play General] jdz7t8:
Hey man could you give more detailed instructions for this please. I have no clue what that means. Could you break it down, tell me what software i need etc, and how to actually do this. I'm not a developer, just a Play owner.
[Xperia Play General] axiomjunglist:
You have to have root access before you can even try this, but if you do you can edit the hw_config.sh file in /etc, and an entry to disable the auto brightness function.
[Xperia Play General] emann56:
NVM seems like you removed the code.
[Xperia Play General] axiomjunglist:
Yeah I thought I had it figured out and working but the sensor was still active and changing the brightness, thought strangely not for a while. Ah well. Here it is if it helps anyone though...

# Disable auto brightness, enable max brightness

dev=/sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight

echo 0 > $dev/als/enable # default = 1

echo 254 > $dev/brightness # default = 255

echo 254 > $dev/max_brightness # default = 255
[Xperia Play General] Dousan:
I've tried with both root explorer and with adb shell commands and it seems to work for a time and then go back to normal again. After a reboot it's as never applied. Yesterday i did it with root explorer and went back into /sys/.../enable (after closing root ex and then open it again) and the number was still zero, but an hour later i checked again, cause it seemed to be dimming, and it had reverted back to 1? This morning i did it with adb shell and when i rebooted and checked /sys/.../enable it was still on 1.

Sorry but i'm a bit confused, shouldn't it be zero and not 1 after doing this mod?

Regards Dousan...

e: just did it again with adb shell the exact same way as before (copy paste both time, no errors) and now it seems to work again and /sys/.../enable is zero when checking with root explorer ;)

e2: then not, a few min. after it started dimming again and the zero in /sys/../enable had reverted back to a 1? I'm lost and will give this a rest...
[Xperia Play General] NielDK:
When using root explorer, make sure permissions are retained as 550 (r-xr-x--)
[Xperia Play General] Dousan:
Cheers mate, didn't know I had to change permissions to. Mine is rw-r--r-- in /sys/.../als. Just did the change in root ex again, changed permissions as you stated rebooted and checked the file. It said zero, then went out and back and there the 1 was again, even the permissions had changed back to rw-r--r--. Odd stuff?

Regards Dousan...

e: did the procedure again in root ex and rebooted and it changed back, so it wont stick when doing it with root ex. Would I just do a chmod 550 when doing it with adb shell before 'exit'?
[Xperia Play General] axiomjunglist:
I have the same problem, changing owners and permissions never seems to stick via root ex. Is there something buried in the system that reverts those properties back to default, gotta wonder...

Installing the ADB tools to try that next.

Edit: I've been monkeying around for hours trying different variables, changing permissions, etc. I just can't get the 'enable' file to stay at 0. It will stay at 0 for a while after initially setting it, but after a while something changes it back to 1. Oddly enough, with that code in the hw_config.sh it just happens more slowly than the default auto brightness mode if you don't modify anything further. The default auto-brightness changes rapidly on the fly which is really jarring when you're in a situation like being under a bright light and inadvertently covering the sensor with your shadow, for example. Conversely it does take a little longer to adjust the screen back to full brightness from working in a darker area, hence the annoyance of not seeing true brightness right away.
[Xperia Play General] jdz7t8:
well i still have no clue how to do this, but it doesn't sound like it works anyhow, so I'm not too distressed. If anyone does get a fix for the auto-brightness, keeping the brightness on max, and permanent, please let me know, thanks.
[Xperia Play General] replicant101:
Any updates? Could really do with the screen being brighter :/
[Xperia Play General] turilo:
What am I changing in the hw_config file via root explorer.?
[Xperia Play General] dropper22:
Is the auto brightness really that bad? I haven't bought the phone yet, but wouldn't covering the camera at the front make it move to the screen's brightest setting automatically?
[Xperia Play General] Mozza2k11:
To each to their own i suppose. I havent really been to bothered by it. It works well @ dimming / undimming the screen in my opinion. And in the sunlight it trys its best to make the screen visable.

Obviously its not perfect but im guessing/hoping it will be improved upon. Also i think? the customs roms will let the autobrightness be turned on/off when its a stable release and finnished working the bugs out.
[Xperia Play General] liaoip:
like he said, to each his own. I don't find it that bad at all. I'm actually able to read the screen fine in daylight. When I first got the phone I was having problems, but then I noticed that the brightness wasn't set to max. Messed around with it and found out that it was way to bright at max for indoor use. Nowadays I leave the brightness on 25% for indoor use and up it to 50/75% for outdoor. Don't really need 100% unless it's in direct sunlight. That's my 2cents.
[Xperia Play General] dsswoosh:
The auto brightness does an excellent job of increasing battery life. It is very advanced imo.

It's a great feature and excellently implemented and the screen is easy to use at all times.

There are times though, for example when i am playing around with the phone in bed and watching a youtube video or whatever, when i have it on charge at the same time, that i would like to be able to turn auto brightness off and simply leave it on max at all times.

It's not annoying, and the screen is still very decent, but having the option to turn it off would of been nice.
[Xperia Play General] MechaBouncer:
Agreed. The auto-dimming is annoying, but I don't want to kill my battery life by disabling it. I tried enabling the option from the development settings to keep the screen on while charging, but this didn't seem to help. It also still dims the screen once it times out. I wish I could just force it to stay on full brightness while plugged in.
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
Opposite
[Xperia Play General] quazimojo:
Now that so much progress is being made in other areas of the phone can a Dev maybe take another crack at disabling this ?.

I really dont like this feature 99% of the time because in dim rooms the phone just gets to dark for my tastes which i know has been mentioned plenty of times :).

Just figured maybe someone will give it a shot and fix what i consider a design flaw. Having the option is great but having it forced on you is wrong.
[Xperia Play General] secretfile:
So here it is what i found out, if you go to /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/value and open it you will see some number from 1-255 this is basically brightness if you move your senser to some briht light it will get close to 255 and screen will be brighter if you move it in dark it will drop near 3 so can we somehow lock this file or modify script that is changing this file...?
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
You're absolutely right, the user should be a choice;-)
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
Stepping stone to your request;-) I hope we can do that as soon as possible, and 'great and the display brighter when we feel like it, and' a shame :-(

The EXPERIA PLAY I like more and more ' .
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
Any news:confused:
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
Any news boys?
[Xperia Play General] typikal82:
I'll keep my dollar, thanks though
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
Downloaded, works to work, but ....... brightness of the display as' remains low :-(

How do I set the brightness' to the max?
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
That's cool.

I have a few free apps in the market, if I can actually make some money from people who think my stuff is useful then I might be able to devote more time in creating more useful things.
[Xperia Play General] thatsupnow:
Holy cow was buddies post above really needed to be repeated in 3 different threads? Ya we get it you have an app that disables auto bright, why the big push?
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
Because he is selling it.. Why you're so affected?
[Xperia Play General] thatsupnow:
I'm not affected at all I think its just dumb seeing the same **** repeated over and over and over but that just seems to be xda's style but whatever no biggie
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
There are about 100 threads complaining about the auto dim problem. I chose 3 and answered the question the thread was specifically created for.

I did not create my own thread, I did not post this in random threads that had nothing to do with the auto brightness issue.

I think that is fair. Now, anyone who runs into these threads that ask "how to disable auto brightness" will have an answer.

And besides, I want everyone to buy my app :)
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
I think that's part of his marketing strategy..:D

Anyway hatcyl, good job, not that super bright though.. But atleast I can use now the full potential of its brightness w/o environment condition..:D
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
Me too, no way I'm paying for a simple mod that Sony Ericsson or someone else will add shortly anyway.
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
yep he should put the version under free but have donation option which i think is more fitting for the auto brightness app.
[Xperia Play General] Cat_On_Droid:
You can make a donated version that improves the brightness even further so you could See the screen even better
[Xperia Play General] alucard_maac:
I used your app but i dosent put the autobrightness back on :confused: it does the job to disable it but when i press it again it just dims the screen but the autobrightness is still disabled.
[Xperia Play General] OTOGY2002:
I see this magnificent full application (and remember that one of its kind);) and it works perfectly, congratulations to renew hatcyl,you're rock:D:D
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
You're right, it's not "super" bright. I may have misused the term. The app only stops the light sensor from dimming the screen, it doesn't make it any brighter.

Sorry guys, this app will not be made free. I won't get into the whole paid vs free debate here but if someone else wants to start a thread to discuss that I'll be happy to post my opinion / reasons there.
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
Uhm, I am sorry to hear that. We can try to figure it out.

1. What's your device?

2. Are you sure it doesn't work? Can you try it in a bright place and then try covering the light sensor (top of the screen)

3. What happens when you restart your phone?
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
Thank You. I'm not done yet. There are a few great things I want to do with this phone, I just wish I had more time.
[Xperia Play General] squall12:
does the disable auto brightness help during outside that have sun light which really hard to see for the play phone?
[Xperia Play General] awoken:
Does the method in the OP still work with firmware 368 ?

not planning on paying for such a thing.
[Xperia Play General] thatsupnow:
Yes pretty sure I just did it and it seems brighter and doesn't do any dimming at all
[Xperia Play General] Dyelon:
THANKS dude!

I'm happy to give you a dollar for putting in the effort!
[Xperia Play General] GetPatriotized:
This app should be free imo.
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
Just tested your app and why does it reset itself after rebooting your device? totally pointless if it doesn't remember to turn the auto brightness off!
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
Wow, 1 star rating without even emailing me first. Harsh.

Well, I just updated the app. It will now remember the setting on a reboot. Hopefully you can reconsider that 1 star rating.
[Xperia Play General] alucard_maac:
A restart fixed it, or maybe i didnt noticed in the first time since the sensor does the job adjusting the brightness but very slowly maybe thats why i didnt notice the first time, but watching carefully i realize the sensor does works hehe

Thanks!
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
Yes, it does still work. I included it in zerorom.
[Xperia Play General] brochador:
Updated the app already, although I don't need that settings to be remembered after reboot/restart.. I did'nt find it hard to tap again the star icon on my app drawer..:D given you 5 stars..
[Xperia Play General] FK1983:
I'll update my review to 5 star now you updated it! it got you to update it super quick though didn't it! :p

P.S Updated to 5 star
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
New Thread

Thanks guys.

I've decided to create an official thread for the app. If you guys have any questions, comments, bugs, or requests please post them here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=17489688#post17489688
[Xperia Play General] hatcyl:
Thanks for the rating.

And yes, you made me stop being lazy and fix that issue. (It was bugging me to)
[Xperia Play General] orangesunshine:
hi,just wanted to say that this app really works well,bought it yesterday,i couldn`t believe my eyes when i saw the difference in the brightness when auto brightness is disabled..it`s like 30% brighter than before,no more flickering

really great,i love this app! i wonder why they left out the option to turn off this horrible auto brightness feature in the stock firmware..
[Xperia Play General] Totesz:
The setting in the initial post totally works. I opened up a terminal, switched to root user, remounted the fs in rw mode, and used vi (with hackers keyboard) to edit the hw_config.sh file. The enable setting was already there with 1, so i changed it to 0. Echoing it to the lcd device works instantly, as expected. :)
[Xperia Play General] Balur:
Tempted to buy this app, just to give hatcyl some money due to the LOLs this thread provided me with... but I really don't care about auto brightness :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sanjayurloe:
I need hindi fonr to aee hindi words in my browser if any budy have any selection pliz tell me thanks
[EVO 4G General] mrjaydee82:
Is there a way to get the 7 bar signal on CM7?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm0is3sx:
ok so i got a text message from tmobile yesterday morning saying i have been throttled because of the amount used... ive been throttled before and have had speeds of about 56kbps but this time my speeds have not been slowed down. has anybody else had this happen to them? im running cm7 and i did recently change the radio a few weeks ago to fix the gps issue my current speeds are

2.98mb download

1.54mb upload

those are the speeds i usually get here in this area and i have used 5.51 GB of data
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm0is3sx:
I guess nobody huh
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] popimp315:
Curious as to what radio you are using and are you always on 3g/4g? We don't get it here so I just wait until I go to work where they have it out there
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsteven77x:
Even if they do, just switch to edge only networks. Not to be rude but this (exactly what your talking about) has been gone over a lot. There are people, you just gotta search and find it.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xm0is3sx:
12.50.60.24U _26.08.04.16_M that's the baseband for it I don't really remember what thread I got it from and I always have it for 3g only even though its been more than 24 hours since I got the throttled message my speeds are still fast :)
[Wildfire General] fabio98:
hi

2 days ago i did a hardreset on my wildfire(froyo) because it was slow as hell

after that i openend the market. and got the old market?? how do i update it?

i can't instal the apps i had

any solution?
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
It'll probably auto update itself after some time. As for your apps, why cannot you install them? More details would help. The 'type' of market you see shouldn't affect install ability.
[Wildfire General] fabio98:
if i want to instal a app it says [not found The requested item was not found]

before the hardreset i could instal the app without any problems

thats al i know
[Wildfire General] Gurdjieff:
Now faster?
[Wildfire General] fabio98:
solved! did hardreset agian after a min i got market updated
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nm131:
Can I have the galaxy s II browser on my captivate?why? listen

I was on Froyo before and after I saw the galaxy s II review on the webbrowser

I wanted the feature that pinch out and then the browser go to tab viewing page

so i went to gingerbread and hope that I'll get this feature but I can't do that.

Can some dev make this please please please I think a lot of people want this

ps. if you guys don't understand what I'm saying because I'm bad at English , watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXWqkOexiU&feature=player_embedded

@12.20minute
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nm131:
Anyone?

or do I need to post in the general /developmet forum?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrhaley30705:
I think you are talking about Touchwiz (TW) 4. It is included in some Gingerbread roms. From most reviews I've heard, it is very laggy, to the point of freezing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nm131:
I'm not talking about the tw4 launcher I'm talking about the new browser feature on the galaxy s II and on the new htc phone
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] henk600:
The reason i ask this is because i have a brick in 1 cable from the screen of my diamond.

When i align the screen it starts over and over again .

Yesterday i flashed it after some work(welcome.not file on the telephone)to an original rom,after that i hardspl''ed the phone to 1.40 olinex.

This al worked fine with the welcome.not file besides i had to edit the calibration values myself in the registry.

Now i tried 2 roms,''sheen nld''and another one which i forgot,and aztor.

but every time when i flashed them the align screen comes up when i start the phone after flashing and i cant skip it.

I also tried to place the ''welcome.not''empty file on the phone(on roots,phone and memory card)but after a soft reset it also deletes the welcome.not file.

So i am looking for an rom that has an sort of auto align in the rom after flashing,

cause i cant use the align setup ad cant skip it also.

Edit:

Flashed it back to an original 6.1 htc rom from the htc site.

Now the trick with the welcome.not file works again to skip the align screen.

Could it be that this welcome.not trick works only on wm6.1 and not on wm6.5?

Henk600
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] henk600:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=506533

This one did the job.

It skipped the align setup so i could install it.

Solved
[XPERIA X8 General] deani77:
Just read about this at sony ericsson blog.

Anybody have idea what is that thing... Is it useful for our X8?
[XPERIA X8 General] mati96PL:
We can't use it because we don't have acess to unlock bootloader from SE (SE are idiots). We could do it if we bypass/crack bootloader what is in progress.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VandorTsab:
Hi everyone,

I've rooted my Wildfire and now it has 0.80.0007 bootloader with cyanogen 7.0.0 ROM. I'd like to flash my kernel but it says:

$./fastboot flash boot boot.img

sending 'boot' (2816 KB)... OKAY

writing 'boot'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

I've also tried to flash zimage:

$./fastboot flash zimage zImage

sending 'zimage' (2414 KB)... OKAY

writing 'zimage'... FAILED (remote: not allowed)

I've read that this can be beacuse I have a locked bootloader but others on the forum have successfully flashed it. Do I have to upgrade HBOOT to 1.01.0001?

Please help

VandorTsab
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3xeno:
Don't even think of upgrading to HBoot 1.01. This is unrootable and you will lose even the basic ability to install Custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod.

What you are trying to do requires S-OFF. Most probably, your device is still S-ON. S-OFF can be achieved using an XTC Clip (Which, incidentally works on HBoot 1.01), which is why there are others who can do it. AlphaRev 2.0, when it will be released, will also allow S-OFF on Wildfires with HBoot 0.80 which is already pre rooted.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VandorTsab:
Thank You for your answer.

The boot loader says it is S-OFF.

What else could it be?

When I start the command that I've written above, a green progressbar appears on the upper right corner on my wildfire and than it dissappears. Then ubuntu says the errors I've mentiond above.

VandorTsab
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3xeno:
There are a couple of solutions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731657

Since I personally use an S-ON phone, not very familiar with these commands.