[HTC Sensation] mariosaraylian:
johnson8cyl: First off thank for the input, I appreciate it.

Just so we are both on the same page, what I've been crying about is the lack of the capacitive backlights for the touchpad under the LCD screen, no ambient light sensor, and no proximity sensor.

Regarding the touchpad back lights:

In my OCD tinkering I've done so far, I can definitely tell you that the capacitive touchpad lights work just fine and that is NOT a hardware problem in that in Recovery, they work fine. Initially what happened was that there was a copy of

Leedroid Tweaks Ver. 4.2 on the phone and the only way to get the lights to turn on at all was to go into Leedroid Tweaks and set the feature they have there in the last menu. You can keep them on full intensity or dim them, but you cannot have them automatically turn off. In fact, I left the phone on last night on my night stand and the lights were on for a good 12 hours and the phone was too hot to touch, not to mention a battery drainer. I updated to the version of Leedroid Tweaks to 4.2 and the ANY functionality of the lights was GONE. When I install 4.0 or 4.1 back on, I can get the lights to come back on. A dude from another thread suggested installing this App called Keyboard Backlight: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....kblight&hl=en

This works OK but it is a band-aid on top of the real problem. I have to go into Leedroid Tweaks and turn the lights on, then AFTER that the Keyboard Backlight Controller APP takes over and dims the lights on/off according to the LCD screen. Both are taking Superuser permissions at each point of turning on/off.

Long story short as far as my backlights, it is DEFINITELY NOT a hardware problem, so I am going to see what I can do to tinker and fix that through software, but I am really starting to think it is this ROM itself (Energy).

As far as my Prox. Sensor and Ambient Backlight (I am going to spew some hardware jargon here and I hope you understand what I mean): Many people have told me over and over it is a hardware problem, but it is NOT in this case because if I downgrade to the stock FW and re-install any version of GB, everything works fine. As of right now if I open any type of App. that will give me readings of the sensors (such as AndroidTester, Phone Tester etc.) All of the sensors will output data/values except for the Prox. and Ambien Light sensors which show "Waiting for Event" or "Waiting For Value Update". Additionally, if the hardware was indeed damaged, then I would not be able to get any sort of manufacturing info or model type/chipset info for either one because one of the Apps. I use polls the chipset itself for the data.

The only power saver feature I have is the one that comes built into ICS in which I can use a Widget/Toggle to turn "Save Power" on/off (no apps like Juice Defender etc.) I DO have two task killers, one that was installed with the Energy ROM (it doens't have a specific name) and also ES Task Manager.

Your Kernel theory could be totally correct for all I know, but I would need to do some research and see what I can do about that along with some help from you guys. The odd thing is that I haven't come across anyone using this ROM (Energy) that has had to play with Kernels to get any type of hardware functionality to work.

All I can really do is use the process of ellimination in order to isolate the problems just like I did with the capacitive backlights in which Leedroid Tweaks was the culprit.

I am going to do a complete wipe and fresh install of everything for the hell of it one more time, if it doesn't work, then I am going to have to ditch this ROM and see if another one will solve the problem.

I LOVE this ROM so far, but I want my hardware fully functional!

I'm not getting much support from the Dev. of the Energy ROM and the Leedroid Tweaks guys won't even give me the time of day, so I am just scrounging for info from anyone I can get it from.

I appreciate your brain power!