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[Vibrant General] gsvnet:
I tried setting my Vibrant to the lowest possible brightness level (with auto brightness disabled, of course). It still seems very bright to me compared to the lowest level on every other phone I've used. I realize this phone has a nice screen, etc. but is there no way to make it dimmer in situations where you just don't need that bright of a display and want to save battery?

Edit: I want to clarify, I love the screen's brightness, I'm just mainly asking for battery saving purposes.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
I was running a black bg for a while. It would seem to be your best option for both issues. It was said in another thread that black uses the least amount of battery.

Vibe the XDApp
[Vibrant General] STi489:
You can get tinted screen protector....The bright vibrant screen is the best thing on this phone.
[Vibrant General] gsvnet:
Interesting idea, i'll try it.

Yeah, that's not my complaint. No doubt this screen is awesome

What I mean is that I'd actually like to increase battery life further by going even dimmer, if possible.
[Vibrant General] Homestar1217:
Then a black background is a good idea, black pixels literally use no battery on an AMOLED screen because the pixels aren't on when they're black, so it's a true black. That's the wonderful thing about these screens, and why the contrast ratio is so ridiculously high. Also why the Kindle app has the color reversal option, making the background black and the text white, and a lot of the UI uses black in places I've seen stock android white or gray. I read a couple chapters of Sherlock Holmes the other day and my battery went down 2%. Awesome screen.
[Vibrant General] toooitwo:
Also the web browser has a separate brightness setting.
[Vibrant General] fit333:
**slow reader..jk

maybe one of the genius phone gods could post a mod for a supper dim night mode. hint/nudge :burning eyes:
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
I would have to agree even on low the brightness of the screen is very high. I didn't realize this until today my friend wouldn't believe me I had brightness on low (his Droid's screen looked like crap compared to mine :D).

Thanks for the tip on the black background... I really do need to find out ways to improve battery life on this thing.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
I made a similar thread a while ago. For me it's too bright in low light situations. I'd love to see a way to lower the lowest setting.
[Vibrant General] sman789:
+1, i'd like to see to an option to go even dimmer.
[Vibrant General] Dougefresh91:
Same here. The browser is downright blinding in low-light.
[Vibrant General] silverwolf0:
Hey I'm not the only one who thinks the phone should have much lower brightness settings. I think I've seen it dim lower than the lowest brightness, but only on auto mode and only for a short time. Or maybe not. But I'm sure it can go lower because it would be weird if it couldn't. I also much rather have dimmer colors than a black vacuous screen for battery savings.
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
It does go lower. Put the brightness on manual and set it to lowest possible then wait for it to timeout and go to sleep. 5 secs before it goes to sleep the screen goes dimmer. On the G1 the lowest setting was this pre-sleep brightness. On the Vibrant we can't get that level as an option. Fingers crossed a non-samsung rom like CM6 will fix this.
[Vibrant General] gsvnet:
Good observation. Indeed hopefully its fixed in a custom ROM or even by samsung themselves (though i'm not holding my breath on that one).
[Vibrant General] sternebrau:
Alarm Clock Plus

The "dim mode" in Alarm Clock Plus is really dim. It would be nice to have a setting that would allow me to drop the brightness down that much.
[Vibrant General] scrizz:
yeah, because even on low MY EYES, They BURRRN!

lol

seriously
[Vibrant General] j0hnZ:
+1 for supporting this thread!
[Vibrant General] MacGuy2006:
+1 for lower brightness option.
[Vibrant General] Munk0:
+1 from me too. This thing lights that whole dang room when my wife is trying to sleep.
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
Sorry it took so long to reply to this thread. I had to go find my sunglasses.... Seriously though, I read in bed at night and yeah its way too bright.
[Vibrant General] dbacchus:
Well, for me the ability to lower brightness is #1 priority (after gps fix, of course). Really hope somebody will figure it out. If only the 5 sec dimming was possible to exploit somehow..
[Vibrant General] dbacchus:
Update: found a free app on the market ("Dimmer night mode")

It reduces the lowest brightness from 30 to 10 (of samsung units)! SO Much better now!
[Vibrant General] Demiurgic:
I use the brightness control widget by bread and butter it goes down to 9%.
[Vibrant General] Paxtez:
Nice find I'm sure this will make using the phone in middle of the night less painful.

-- Vibrant / Rooted / One-Click Lag Fix --
[Vibrant General] Munk0:
Nice find on both. But, is this really the dimmest it can get?
[Vibrant General] MilkPudding:
It has a Super AMOLED screen - it's meant to be much brighter and clearer compared to TFT screens.
[Vibrant General] chadti99:
Both mentioned apps are great but the stock browser has its own brightness setting and negates both, anyway around this?
[Vibrant General] vuvsion:
lol ... X2, I try hiding it under the white sheet and it made the entire bed sheet glow like a movie screen.

I'm desperate for this fix ;-)
[Vibrant General] floepie:
I don't find the Vibrant to be all that bright at all, at least on its maximum setting. I compared two Vibrants (one was a replacement from T-Mobile) with a 2-generation old iphone 3G. Using a DSLR with RGB histogram and holding things constant such as lens distance from screen and locking in exposure settings, not only was I able to confirm the green-blue push on the Vibrant resulting in very cool color temps and whites appearing greenish-blue, the Vibrant couldn't keep up with the brightness of the iphone. The Vibrants had their brightness maxed and their power saver mode disabled.
[Vibrant General] Unrenowned:
Awesome! I'm lovin' it!
[Vibrant General] gsvnet:
The thing is, you should compare them at their lowest brightness respectively. The vibrant doesn't go to a low brightness level by default whereas some other phones can
[Vibrant General] Demiurgic:
I found a better app than brightness control it's call battery booster and it allows for the brightness to be set at 0%-huzzah! The night mode in the better alarm app is still quite a bit lower tho.
[Vibrant General] princearic:
It amazes me that no one has really jumped in and clarified the screen brightness issue. I'm hoping a dev or something that knows a little more about the phone's capabilities to explain why the phones "0%" is nothing of the sort. It still lights up my whole room at 0. The closest I've gotten was via application override through alarm app. There are multiple apps that control the screen brightness, but none to override the global display properties on the phone to actually dim the little sucker. Hopefully we can get someone in on this to shed some light on the subject.
[Vibrant General] Dougefresh91:
I would love this issue addressed, but in the mean time has anyone found a brightness app that actually works in the stock browser? I've tried a number of them and they work until you open the browser, at which point it overrides it and becomes blinding again.

The best and only solution I've come up with so far is to use the Dolphin browser in low light. There's a brightness plugin that you can add and it does indeed get a little bit dimmer. Not much, but its something. Any ideas or suggestions, please share them.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
um, turn down the brightness in stock browser settings? or do you want it to go even lower?
[Vibrant General] scrizz:
There's a setting in the stock browser for brightness

Menu>brightness

;)
[Vibrant General] Dougefresh91:
I'm aware of the browser brightness setting, however it's still way too bright for me. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Really the screen is only too bright in a dark room. The white from web pages is seriously too much too look at. I'm thinking a tinted screen protector isn't the answer either, because then I'll have issues seeing it in the sunlight. I think.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
Someone needs to develop a color inversion app for stuff like this. I agree that light colored pages can be too much on a dark room
[Vibrant General] JeremyNT:
Disclaimer: I'm new to android, so this is mostly guesswork.

I talked to the creator of adjbrightness, who explained to me what his app did to set the brightness level on devices. He doesn't support the Galaxy S with that app, but knowing the technique he uses I could test it on my Vibrant.

What I observed is that even with root access I couldn't lower the brightness beyond a certain level. The kernel reported the brightness to be what I set it to, but on a scale of 0-255, nothing below 25 seemed to reduce the actual backlight brightness further.

Now, the default brightness app seems to go down to 30, so using a 3rd party app such as "Brightness Toggle" will allow you to go a *little* lower. But I suspect based on what I've seen (and my rudimentary knowledge of how Android works) that there is a limitation in the driver and/or hardware that prevents one from dimming the display much beyond that.
[Vibrant General] SamsungVibrant:
I'd like two options, an option to go even dimmer, and an option to go even brighter.

some customers with blue tints have darker screens, it would be nice for 1 notch down, and 1 notch up.
[Vibrant General] Dougefresh91:
I use the Brightness Level app, and it does indeed take the level down to zero--which is still bright--but as soon as you open the browser it will jump back up to 26%. The browser overrides it for some reason.

This seems like such an odd issue, to have a phone that's too bright.
[Vibrant General] DKYang:
You know you can change the brightness setting in the browser settings right?
[Vibrant General] princearic:
I'm glad there are some people taking this a step further. I know it has something to do with the kernel most likely. I just think if you turn the brightness down to 0, it should be just that. Not 20% of every other's phone's brightness setting. If I knew much about the guts of android, I would definitely get my hands dirty.

I'm doing what I can to learn, but I have to rely on tips from the pros. It would be nice to know where the limitation is on our phones and If maybe there is a work-around.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahmezis45:
ive been running the energy rom for like two months now everything has been fine. today my phone hangs a little bit so i restart it and it wont boot all they way up!!! what do i do to fix this please help!!!its stuck at the screen right after the screen of the color sparklers.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jigners:
use the proven process of elimination, have you installed something recently?

a Manila Mod, or tweak? I hope you have a backup of everything essential

on your device, as it may that you need to HR:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bimme:
maybe its only a dead sd card..

take out sdcard, sim card and battery for a few minutes and reinsert only the battery and try to boot up...

if this doesnt work, you'll need an hard reset..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jahmezis45:
so i kept resttiing until it booted up. then i saw these posts and decided to restart the phone and it doesnt work again. so i reset again an pressed the talk button then it went to the launching sense screen. me being a gambler i reset it again and it stalled again until i hit the talk button. now i reset it a couple of more times and its back to loading normal on its own. im only stating everything i did just in case someone else might come across this problem at some time. thanks for you guys quick response and help :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpaxton:
Try a full reinstall using the flashaholic app that does a full OS ROM format, also backup any files on the SD card and reformat that too and see what happens.

I should add that the full "task 29" format thing probably wont work well unless you have HSPL installed (otherwise you have to first install a stock ROM, then SSPL install your custom ROM; kind of defeats the point of the full format!)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
4/21

One of the problems with flashing these batteries is that when you apply a theme via the Theme Chooser app, it replaces the battery at the levels contained in the theme causing your battery indicator to appear to have multiple personality disorder.:p I have edited the 2 stock themes, Androidian and Cyanbread, so that you can apply either yet still retain my battery mod. The theme will still apply like normal, it just won't touch the battery. I've made 3 separate downloads so you can choose to replace either of the built in themes or both.

Flash in recovery

Androidian-no_battery.zip

Cyanbread-no_battery.zip

Androidian&Cyanbread-no_battery.zip

4/18 CM7-STABLE

SmoothC is a gradient style of the original C. SmoothGreenGradient is the same as SmoothC execept that it starts at green instead of blue for the progression and does NOT contain any blue. SmoothF is not a matte finish like the original F, but it does follow the same color progression. It IS NOT a gradient style so color change is abrupt. 100-50% is green, 30-49% yellow, 15-29% orange, 14 and below is red. All have my most detailed charging animation I've ever made, which is *very* smooth. I made these 100% from scratch (no templates) and I

know

they are the smoothest circles you will find (in this resolution anyway).

As always, have a recent nandroid and flash in recovery:

CM7-N1_final-SmoothC.zip

CM7-N1_final-SmoothGreenGradient.zip

CM7-N1_final-SmoothF.zip
​

GENERAL INFO

-These are flash update only.

-If your rom has a toggle for battery percentage, turn it OFF. The images have percentages built in and there's a separate image for each percent.

-Always have a recent nandroid backup available should you have an issue. That goes for anything, not just my mods :)

If you like the work, or I've been able to help you with other stuff, don't forget the thanks button at the bottom, or there's that other thanks button on the left under my name;):p

Thanks again everybody for the kind words, and extra thanks to those who've tossed me a drink :) [/INDENT]

THE FILES BELOW ARE STILL CURRENT FOR ENOMTHER'S LAST RELEASE
​

Enomther's TheOfficial

--all of the versions are themed for manup by default except as noted

**NEW CHARGING ANIMATION**--

This was a pretty big project. I've almost doubled the amount of animation frames, the charge motion is incredibly smooth now. Also, I've rewritten the animation instructions to show an image with the % on it as part of the animation. It will change for every 2% you battery gains in charge. Check it out!

===>2.14 Manup Gold w/new charge<===

**12/16**New Gingerbread keyboard

-orange has been replaced with blue

2.14-gb_kb-PendoBlue

2.14 SuperCircle-Verde.zip-new whiter numbers

2.14 SuperCircle-Gold.zip

2.14 SuperCircle-B-white numbers.zip

2.14 SuperCircle-C+.zip

2.14 SuperCircle-I.zip

NON-THEMED VERSIONS

2.14-stock-SuperCircle-verde.zip-new whiter numbers

2.14-stock-SuperCircleB-white_numbers.zip

2.14-stock-SuperCircleB-black_numbers.zip

2.14-stock-SuperCircleD-black_numbers.zip

2.14-stock-SuperCircle-I.zip
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] leyvatron:
Good job Pendo! These are awesome. Keep up the awesome battery designs.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] iVisionX01:
Gives me boot loop on Cyanogen 6 RC2 but still looks great.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
Thanks!

Now that I've done it several times, I've about got the conversion down pat I think. So if there's anybody that has their status bar themed the way they want, but want to add this, get at me and I will try to get it out.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
Cool, thanks. I've not tried anything from CM since I first rooted and that was RC1. I just totally love the enom build and haven't wanted to leave it.

A little later, I will flash CM and see what I can find out.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Cpt.Curry:
I previously flashed a super circle. Mod from enoms site and it came with these cool status bar icons similar to the one on the desire forum version A. If I flash your version C will it get rid of these icons.... thanks. Great job pendo........
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
Yes, it will get rid of them. Whenever you flash one of these mods, it will completely replace your current status bar. The only way I know of that would keep what you have is a morph, but that doesn't seem to be compatible yet. I think it could be possible, though if metamorph were changed to recognize the resources and new id's in my framework-res.

So short story is, if you have your bar just the way you want, you'll have to send me your framework-res and I can rebuild it with which ever version you want. Then I can make sure all custom icons that you want get in there.

The Manup version above has every themed icon included with the prethemed rom.....so to the end user, it looks like the only thing I changed is the battery, but in reality it's a whole new framework-res..
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bighulk666:
Can this be flashed onto the stock N1 rom?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Cpt.Curry:
thanks a lot pendo...for now I'll just stick with the super circle mod I have even though I love yours....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] big nu:
I would love to see this carbon status bar behind the MANUP themed version.. if possible here it is http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=751440
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
I just updated the op with a stock version. It has the same B version style of battery but with black numbers instead.

I didn't test it but I think it shouldn't have any problems

:link removed:

EDIT: this version is not ready yet
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
....looking into this next....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
You've been CARBONIZED..lol

The above link, please give props to those who did the design work...all I did is a simple cut and paste into the new framework build. Plus since the dev had it in a morph, it was super easy to just apply their changes.

I'm gonna talk to the guys who know more about metamorph...this kind of mod would really shine in an app like that.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Cpt.Curry:
+1 for the carbon style status bar
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] bighulk666:
Nexus won't boot. Gets stuck on the load screen. Any suggestions?

Used Amon_RA to flash the zip.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
see above post...I suppose I should have chosen a different color to distinguish the link....

I've also added this to the op...:cool::cool:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
hmm...I did decide I better test it after I said that, and it's fine here.

Lemme look at it again..might've rushed through it too quick. I'll look into it right now.

Edit:

I did grab the wrong base version of framework-res on this. My fault....the version I removed would only work on custom rom. check your pm
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] big nu:
Great efforts, but I got "installation aborted" :verification failed.

Seems to be a signing issue.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
OK...sorry guys. I'm still learning stuff and mess up. I tested it by adb push on my phone before I posted...I must've kept the same signature from the manup version. You can either adb push the framework-res file or wait until I can get a new zip. Right now I've just wiped and went back to FRF-91 stock to trouble shoot that version.

:o:o:o:o
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] big nu:
NP bro, I can wait for the zip. No rush! Thanx again.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] androidjedi:
i cant seem to flash the super c plus for cm6. the previous one for rc3 worked great but i seem to get verification and signature failure for the current one
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] watercool:
Same here, verification failed
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fegato:
hey, thanks but do the CM6-Manup-SuperCircleB-WhiteNumbers works also for a non themed cm6?

also if morphed before with this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=766561 ?

(thankyou for a readable and stylish battery icon)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] enlothien:
Thanx Pendo loving the Cm version awesome.... And nice refine charging animation much smoother compared to before.

And yes the women here in Malaysia is fantastic....
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] watercool:
Installed with rom manager now. Perfect, thx
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Robdyx:
Thank you so much for your work

Runnin awesome on CM6
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] androidjedi:
installed from rom manager-strange it did not flash using RA .anyway thanks for the icon excellent work
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] fegato:
ok i can answer myself

yes, worked flashing your manup circle b and then morphing.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
Hey, thanks everybody. I'm still a little groggy, I was up too late chasing down my keychain problems (still).

I've got quite a bit of studying to do today, but there's some stuff I want to work on here...don't know if it will make it out today we'll see.

Honestly I did not test any of the CM6 versions from last night. But I've been using ClockworkMod/Rom manager for recovery duties, and the only time I've had a problem (lately anyway) is if I spaces in the file name, Rom Manager won't flash it as an update and I have to flash in recovery. I'm using one of the auto-sign update.zip scripts from here to sign these zips. I'll look into the amon_ra issue as I know it's still a very popular recovery, and many are using it for enom's because it doesn't have the error for flashing the HTC camera kernel. (I just toggle verification in CockworkMod for that kernel)

ALL of my battery mods that were made after 8/20 will allow you to morph over them, unlike previous versions which metamorph ignored....the exception being eVil's desire port, I don't know if it will or not.

Thanks again everybody.....now back to sleep :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sl8125:
It didn't work for me either. However is there way way I can get a super c plus with black numbers. I have a grey notification bar using cm6 with elegant steel theme.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] yojlik:
I'd like to request this also. Actually, I'll take either B or C with black numbers for CM6 if possible.

Thanks for your work, I really like this mod.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] pendo:
CM6-SuperCircleB-BlackNumers----forgot to post that earlier. I'll update the op here in a few as well.

Still haven't had a chance to look at the amon_ra issue....the physics I'm behind on is not sinking in as well as I'd like.

But I need to take a break before I throw the textbook down the shredder, so I'm getting back on the computer for a little bit. I've been asked about changing the grey numbers before so I guess I'll work on that next. The graphics on the numbers themselves will make it take a little bit I think because the 'magic' type selectors don't grab everything nice and quick like for me to change it. But I think there ideally needs to be a white and black version for the C battery.

Also guys, the SuperCircleC-plus Black/White that I did for the minimal theme is pretty cool...it's what I'm running right now (trying the desire port for a little while). It might be another contender with your elegant stele theme. It's a very clean look that's not flashy. It's a 98% direct copy from eVil's espresso themed desire port. I did my usual customizations to it (N1 low battery warning) as well as changed the charging animation just a bit. I'll try to put together a .gif so you can see what it looks like.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sl8125:
Nice work. But I tried to flash the cm6 version c on the elegant steel theme. I guess it wasn't meant for thhat. It changed the whole notification bar. I guess I will wait for it then. But it works great though.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kngtoledo:
C version batteries for Nextheme for cm6 stable please