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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] NukeSbane:
I don't have Handcent on the second phone (the one I'm currently using still), same issue as the first one though. The stock SMS app as of this moment doesn't really work, and so far GO SMS Pro has been barely tolerable but at least usable. I have thousands of text messages (I probably use up to 10k a month), and I don't particularly like the idea of having to delete old messages just to make my supposedly blazing fast phone work correctly. My old iPhone 4 had over 70k text messages on it before I sold it, and it didn't have anywhere near these issues after 2 years of use.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SmartphoneEnthusiast:
Lower your standards, it's an Android after all. Freedom at the cost of quality.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
I used to always use rom manager app to fix permissions, but lately I have just been doing it in TWRP without even bothering to install rom manager. Does it make a difference which one I use, or do they both do the exact same thing? Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] The_Blue_Waffle:
They are the same
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] T.J. Bender:
They both do about the same thing, as far as I can tell. If you're using TWRP for fixing permissions, you don't need ROM Manager on your phone at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cdshepherd:
To be honest....rom manager scares me:o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aycockonxion:
This. No reason to use ROM Manager. Even if you're not using TWRP, sk8's CWM touch can do the same thing and is better than the stock CWM.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mindmajick:
Me too bro. It's why I always remove it from my roms. Goo manager is SOO much better AND both sk8tr recovery and twrp work with it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mfdemicco:
Not the same

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I ran TWRP fix permissions (which finished instantly, and I can't tell if it fixed anything), then Rom Manager, which fixed a ton of permissions and took a long time to run. I wonder if TWRP fix permissions even works, or uses different criteria to decide if a file/folder needs its permissions fixed. Anyway, why did ROM manager find it necessary to fix so many permissions? I wonder if it was detrimental to my system.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] icenight89:
nope, nothing wrong with resurrecting if the question is still relevant, it just proves u searched and veterans like myself are more likely to help :D

TWRP fix permissions does work, and amazingly so. ROM manager just takes so much longer it actually seems like twrp is doing nothing, but there was a commit awhile back made to the code to change the way it does it to make the process more effective. ROM manager just sucks at it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mauix:
Thanks for the explanation. I just ran TWRP fix permissions and though it didn't work because it took only a couple of seconds and went and installed ROM manager. I guess it goes out again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hkk:
Does anyone know of a Sports tracking app that can display details on the lock screen, without having to actually put in the pincode and unlock the phone? My corporate email requires a PIN code, on the phone, so when running, everytime I want to check the stats, I have to unlock the phone first.

I tried Endomondo and Runtastic Pro, but neither one seems to have that option. I am wondering if having the device locked with PIN is the problem?
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
NOTICE: This app is deprecated as of 22.2.2024. It is no longer maintained. Support is given only in the form of help getting existing functionality working, not further development.

[APP][2.2+] Velis auto brightness 4.84

A pretty powerfully adjustable auto-brightness app for your android device.

Notice: project is alive again. Latest app version is in Play store, one week later in full release.

Deployments from android 2.1 up. Latest versions development supports Android 5.0 and up.

Any feedback highly appreciated.

Beta testers (via Play Store beta program): just apply for beta.

The app features a developer settings dialog which can be reached by long-pressing proximity reading on main screen.

Google play link for download. (and description)

Manual

Looking to help with translations? Go here, register an account (if not registered already) and then click either "Join language" on existing language or "Suggest another language" if your language of choice is not yet in the project. Wait a bit for me to approve you and you can start translating.

lease note that the translation app is still an early WiP, so drop me an email to jure (at) velis.si if something doesn't work right for you or if you have a suggestion.

This app is translated to the following languages:

* English - base language

* Chinese by Jinran Lin

* Czech by Holly Hell

* Dutch by Maardiweb

* French by Pims83

* Italian by siggey

* German by Chef Koch

* Hungarian by XT69

* Japanese by Magus & Masaki

* Lithuanian by cukierkas

* Norvegian by MrMastodon

* Persian by Alireza Afkar

* Polish by trur3

* Romanian by rapttorx

* Russian by Pavel Utochkin

* Slovak by kubics

* Spanish by UnderXP

* Vietnamese by Vu Hien

* Slovene

Thank you all for your help. :highfive: VAB wouldn't be what it is without you!

XDA:DevDB Information

Velis Auto Brightness, App for the Android General

Contributors

velis74

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 4.84

Stable Release Date: 2023-01-02

Current Beta Version: 5.00

Beta Release Date: 2023-01-05

Created 2013-11-12

Last Updated 2022-12-23
[Android Apps and Games] kantjer:
Looks very interesting and flexible, I was looking for for an alternative to the standard auto brightness feature.

Just installed it and will give it a spin. I will report back when I have some hands on experience.

Also very interested to see what the effect will be on battery life.

EDIT: First impression is great, the light level adapts very fast to changing conditions, and very easy to customise.

This looks like a great app.
[Android Apps and Games] bitstra:
@velis74,

WOW!

I'm very, very impressed. Never had so precise auto brightness behavior.

on my Galaxy S (1) GT i9000; CM10 jellybean (HellyBean 27092012)

Thank you for that GREAT tool.

regards

bitstra
[Android Apps and Games] donjamal:
Not working on Xperia S, can't read the brightness of the environment, also it says there's no light sensor in the device :(

Sent from the outer space, delivered by an android
[Android Apps and Games] jgcaap:
Nice
[Android Apps and Games] DontPushButtons:
Testing on an HTC Rezound, so far so good, detects light sensor and proximity just fine.

I'll let you know if I find any problems.

Thanks for the app!
[Android Apps and Games] Manitax:
Nice app. Just need a tasker Plugin.

Sent from my SGS2
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
If i read tech specs correctly, xperia s doesn't have a brightness sensor. Considering other specs of this phone, i find this odd. However, the program will detect a brightness sensor if there is one implemented...
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Thanks for the encouraging thoughs everyone.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Tasker and locale are on my to do list.
[Android Apps and Games] Freedomalfa:
thanks for this really usefull
[Android Apps and Games] grzesiek1945:
Thx, works great on my galaxy s2 :)

Wysyłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] Christiancs1969:
Testing so far. Very nice:D

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2

---------- Post added at 09:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 PM ----------

Testing so far so good:D

RR 308 dori
[Android Apps and Games] II_DiE_4:
Works on GS2 and so far its Amazing. Good job.

Its like screen filter on steroids :)

Edit: But it also have the problem that the Install button cant be pressed, like with screenfilter, when the app is on.

Just putting this here maybe some1 would face the same problem and go nuts.
[Android Apps and Games] shadowch31:
HTC One S working great!

One small issue is it force closes if I go past the 1000 mark but othwise great and extremely responsive.
[Android Apps and Games] kroz:
perfect sensor response!!!

never experienced this before on my phone, light reaction is very fast, keep it up...
[Android Apps and Games] THE RED BLUR:
Hi thanks for this app as it is a good idea but Once activated I could not install any apps from sd card. Even after De activating it would not let me install app. So I had to freeze the app completely with titanium then I could install apps.

Hopefully u can fix this bug. :)

PHONE : SGSII

Sent via: Tapatalk 2

Main ROM: RR ics 2.7(mod service jar) ONLINE

2nd Rom RR JB 3.0.8

KERNEL : Dorimanx 5.83 Beta A

MODEM : LPS

ROOT APP : SuperSu
[Android Apps and Games] dorimanx:
I see the same problem.

SG2 cant push the INSTALL when installing any app!

But all is great, i like it the way it's works and show us the status.
[Android Apps and Games] mulletcutter:
It's a lot faster then stock auto bright. Very nice
[Android Apps and Games] Computoncio:
Same here, after install the app i click on install but nothing happens, cancel works :p

Otherwise great app mate excellent response on changing brightness.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
I am debugging this one right now. I just needed the night :)

Edit: fixed. Will be included into tonight's patch
[Android Apps and Games] xanthrax:
Works as it should! :thumbup:
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Just uploaded to market:

1.10.34 (5.10.2012)

Sometimes in low light conditions brightness would drop to minimum without any apparent reason

Fix a situation when (un)plugging power won't immediately adjust brightness.

Fix for service activation switch which didn't properly turn off system auto brightness.

Fixed class that required Android 2.3 - back to 2.1 support

Translation support (will do a page on blog about that tomorrow) - for now I just send strings.xml to any interested

Supported language: slovenian

Also you can find the full change log here. Don't know why Google limits changelog to 500 chars only :p

Front post TO DO updated.
[Android Apps and Games] jackattack:
It appears to still be happening after the update.
[Android Apps and Games] vk2r:
Not compatible with Xperia Neo V :/

Enviado desde mi MT11 usando Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
Thread finally unlocked!

Version 1.10.32 caused a battery drain.

5.6% vs 1.x% (in previous version) after half day of normal usage.

Hvnt tested the latest yet.
[Android Apps and Games] Christiancs1969:
View attachment 1379748

Just can't work it out must be wrong reading I think 2% battery overnight good. 54 velis. With screen off. Help;)

s2 RR 309 dori
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Seems we're back to battery debugging. This so shouldn't happen, the service still kills sensors when screen is off. Maybe I should experiment with killing the entire service?

Though it seems it was just 2% of entire battery in 8 hours. That's not much, but why would VAB be the highest user? In principle if there are no sensors, there's no code running --> no battery drain.

Me --> lucky SOB --> wife could'nt sleep so played games: I have 8 hrs on battery, 2 of which was screen on and the app isn't registered in gsam battery monitor. That doesnt explain SGS2 readings though.

Anyone else still having this issue? My wife was really angry yesterday so I had no time to test :(

OH, BTW: This issue happens because of service restart (if you or android OS kills the app). The issue was that without any light sample in deque, the service couldn't calculate anything, so returned 0. I have fixed that by setting the first sample to 1. Naturally, if the service is restarted during daylight I assume plenty of sensor readings will come in to fix the "wrong" reading, while at night that just results in your lowest brightness setting which should also be OK since it would be that even with sensr reading. Am I making any sense here at all?
[Android Apps and Games] Christiancs1969:
All works great apart from wrong batt reading:D

s2 RR 309 dori
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
But actually the battery is running faster than usual :(
[Android Apps and Games] kantjer:
Did you try to uninstall and reinstall the app. Solved it for me.

I also had those 50%+ readings, but after the reinstall the app is still reported by GSam battery monitor but with a much more acceptable percentage (1.1% ATM)
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
There will always be some batery usage for screen on. Responsiveness is quite expensive. Maybe I should also add an interval parameter to only react to sensor readings every 5 seconds, for example.

As for usage during screen off there shouldn't be any. The only scenario where I see usage would be that systm keeps restarting the service for whatever reason, but the service only checks for screen on every 5 seconds. So in the mean time you have a possible activity that would take some battery.

Could you please record a logcat for your phone during night? A nice utility that does that is catlog. Unfortunately I can't make it record filtered logs, but for seeing how many times the service was started, it should do just nicely. If you don't want to, you don't need to send the log, just please count occurrences of "Service is started" for process "com.velis.auto.brightness" (set the filter for com.velis.auto.brightness, then count the service start occurrences).
[Android Apps and Games] Christiancs1969:
Shall be done tonight :D

s2 RR 309 dori
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
App homepage is now updated with a link to strings.xml. Though the app isn't finished yet, not much should change now, so any translations would be welcome. Likewise for Google play text as well.
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
It shows 5.6% vs 1.x% in gsam app sucker.

And not only the number goes up the battery drops faster with regular operation.

I few that comparing with last version the app is responding way too frequent, although I hv set the service only respond at 10% of light change.
[Android Apps and Games] :
I think the five second cusion would work well personally as someone walking behind you can trigger a flash change which can be a little hard on the eyes. Just feels at the moment a little oversensitive.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
I have not been changing the actual algorithm. Just fixed the bugs mentioned in the changelog. You didn't play with smoothing time?

10% sensitivity is huge. It should hardly switch at all...

The results you're talking about are suspect. Can you please try clear app data, readjust the setting to your liking and report back if it helps?
[Android Apps and Games] lou2s:
I did set the smoothing time to 500ms.

I set it to 10% coz I think it is over sensitive, I hope hope it is mostly dim except more brightness under the sun.

Even after setting the threshold to 7-10% cause frequent change of brightness even indoor. And I always clear data b4 reinstalling app...

Probably my phone like the last version better...
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Do you guys have any comment on learning curve? The app doesn't have any tutorial, but does it need one or is it simple enough that it can do without it?

@lou2s: can you attach your graph screenshot?
[Android Apps and Games] jackattack:
It may need a quick pop up on first install to go over the basics of setting the graph. Also, maybe I'm doing it wrong, but what is the exact way to set a preset?

Sometimes when I press the preset I want, the graph doesn't change and there's no real feedback that I even set the preset. Maybe a quick toast saying what preset is selected or highlight the current preset?
[Android Apps and Games] ideepak693:
It is really working
[Android Apps and Games] toshiuser:
Will Velis Auto Brightness be affected by Google's new limitations for Accessibility Services? Will it be discontinued on Play Store?
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
TBH I'm not really reading the bulletins. However, AFAIK Oreo is the last Android where this app will be able to run at all: I hear that Android 9 will ban background services altogether. It has been an increasingly difficult ride with every Android version and I guess Google outright banning apps like this will finally close the matter. There was a time when I was thinking of trying to integrate VAB with custom ROMs, but it's really not THAT popular :p
[Android Apps and Games] ST Dog:
Ban background services?

That's one if the prime features of an OS, particularly multitasking OSes like Unix/Linux.

I swear Google is trying to kill Android.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Are you serious? This would be great. Most if not all ROM implementations of auto brightness suck.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Look, this is second-hand info, so I'm not even sure it's valid. It's just how I understood somebody telling me about it. It was in reference to IM / telephony apps though, so there may be something else planned for system / utility apps like VAB. Don't know, but so far Google has only been taking permissions / functionality away (in this particular mini-subset that constantly-running services are) without providing alternatives, so I'm not expecting much - if the piece of info is valid in the first place, that is.

Maybe, but they are using Google's own implementation or some minor tweak thereof. Besides, I don't think I have much chance to persuade Lineage team to accept my pull request; not even thinking of approaching them, let alone CM guys :p So feel free to get one of them to contact me and I'll be glad to provide the code / try to integrate the project. Would be a (much) better option than slipping into oblivion even for a learning project that VAB is.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Maybe you could release the source code on github. So custom ROM developers can integrate it in their ROM. (I am not a software developer)
[Android Apps and Games] ST Dog:
I'm sure they will keep it for system/their own stuff.

But still important for a lot of other stuff.

Just another example of Google taking away functionality.
[Android Apps and Games] ruslaniti:
Hello. Make non-integer brightness numbers and increase the sensitivity of the light sensor

eg:

Pt: 0.0000 1.010

Pt: 0.0020 1.020

Pt: 0.5000 1.500

Pt: 1.0000 2.100
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
I have no influence over sensitivity of light sensor. I also doubt very much anything would be gained by increasing resolution of brightness numbers. I have yet to see a device that can actually provide 256 levels of screen brightness.
[Android Apps and Games] ruslaniti:
The brightness of non-integer numbers will add?

Eg:

Pt: 0.0000 1.100

Pt: 0.3000 1.300

Pt: 0.5000 1.500

Pt: 1.0000 2.500
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Without looking at the code, I don't think they would even parse. I'm storing integers so even if they would, it would make no difference.
[Android Apps and Games] gorman42:
On 8.1 on my Nexus 6P the sensor readings often get stuck. It simply doesn't register changes in light. I used it with 6.0 and 8.0 with no problem in the past (jumped over 7.0).
[Android Apps and Games] Pkt_Lnt:
Velis Auto Brightness is working perfect on my Pixel 2 XL with Oreo 8.1 December security. Using Tasker in three different profiles with four VAB brightness profiles defined. When I first set it up with Tasker it did not work until I did a device reboot. Now smooooooth as butta. :D
[Android Apps and Games] gorman42:
Is there logging , to see whether there are errors somewhere?
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Hi guys,

How does this app work on Oreo? I have a HTC U11+ and it seems to act as an overlay over the screen rather than an actual auto brightness app which worked great on Nougat. The reason I ask because in general usage it works fine but when I double tap to wake the screen goes really bright and not adjust brightness, same with quick toggles but it does not happen on stock auto brightness.
[Android Apps and Games] Pkt_Lnt:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ two posts above yours ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[Android Apps and Games] wilpang:
Must be the U11 plus then, tried a restart and nothing has changed which is disappointing as I do like the app.

I've uninstalled and tried YAAB which seems to work better in Oreo for the U11 plus for some reason.
[Android Apps and Games] Pkt_Lnt:
Most phone manufacturers make changes to the UI that changes how apps work unless they are designed for that UI, Samsung is the best example of that. I'm not familiar with the U11+ though my understanding is that HTC is one of those that alters the UI significantly, or did in years past.

You might ask in your device forum about makes sure all native brightness controls are off if you are not well versed in doing that. It is likely Velis74 will have some idea as well and will see this at some point after the holiday season quiets down some. Good luck, happy holidays.
[Android Apps and Games] rogxd:
I'd like a dark notification, alternative to the default white notification.

Inviato dal mio SM-G900F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Android Apps and Games] warface9991:
When I press the "screen touch- steady screen" it is 0. Does it mean it is disabled? Cuz i want it disabled. And steady screen update brightness is 3 which i didn't adjust it. Is it default? Hoe can I disable it?
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
The comment under screen touch says that brightness will be updated normally - as opposed to being fixed for your set number of seconds. Since you're asking: yes, that means it's off. I guess I need to work on my English more :angel: The triple-tap setting naturally has no effect when steady screen is off.
[Android Apps and Games] warface9991:
Thanks for input
[Android Apps and Games] warface9991:
I want my phone real low values even lower than s-curve. Which settings should I do? Or are there any settings that is lower than the s-curve?
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Not sure what you mean here. Try manual adjustment? The red bars with handles on app main screen?
[Android Apps and Games] warface9991:
I mean can you add another option that's called extremely dim brightness? It would be very nice to have it for noobs like me
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
[MENTION=2424510]velis74[/MENTION] could you consider to add custom QuickSettings toggles for fast switching profiles. One QS toggle which switches thru all user profiles or multiple QS toggles for each user profile.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
Please elaborate on what you mean by QuickSettings toggles. If you mean the pull down from status bar, I'm afraid those tiles are not available to "normal" developers.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
There's a Quick Settings API introduced in Android 7.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/service/quicksettings/package-summary.html
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
I think there's a bug with interactive notification. If you change the brightness with interactive notification slider the brightness is set only for the current lux reading. If the lux reading changes the brightness setting returns to the profile curve and does not stick to the temporarily brightness curve set by the notification slider.

I attached some screenshots. First with the profile brightness curve and changing lux readings. Second with a new temporarily brightness curve set with the notification slider and than changing lux readings.
[Android Apps and Games] velis74:
WOW, didn't know VAB knew how to operate on imaginary brightness curves :)

Seriously though, I'll take a look. There should only be one brightness curve. I have no idea how VAB manages to operate on the original curve when it's obvious that it's aware of the modified one. Technically there's only one storage for current brightness curve...

It IS true though that I can't do much about it right now as I'm implementing MM permissions & fixing VAB for Oreo right now. The code is a bit of a mess and will remain so for a few more days.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Take your time. Let me know if i can assist you.