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Help Brightness control widget that works for Hero?

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dvdqnoc

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Is there a brightness control widget that works for the Hero? I disabled the auto-brightness because it sucks. But ever brightness widget I see in the Market, a commenter below says it doesnt work on the Hero... and its an automatically back button click after that.

So just wondering if anyone has come across one that works for the Hero? Hopefully with good functionality, like slider bar or something?
 
Not yet. Something HTC enabled/tweaked allows apps to change their own brightness, but not the system brightness.

I'm really hoping this is something that gets fixed in updates, it's a PITA to have to browse through the settings menu to change it. I've actually gone back to auto-brightness because it was less annoying.

This is one of those things I've been meaning to dig around for in the system now that I'm rooted, so perhaps I or one of the other devs will find a fix of sorts. Hopefully one that doesn't require root, but that seems unlikely so far.
 
Is there a way to set a minimum level for auto brightness? I like how it gets really bright in sunlight but hates how it goes nearly black at night. Ideally I'd like to be able to set it so that it will drop to a quarter or half or something when dark but still go full bore when in sunlight.

dvdqnoc did you try Brightness Level? Did it work?
 
Hate to say I told you so, but you're not going to find a market app that does this properly.

The trouble is, the phone is not honoring the completely valid brightness change on a system-wide level. As soon as you exit the program that changed the brightness, the brightness is reset by one of HTC's modified system daemons.

For this to work, someone would have to write a Sprint Hero specific app, which isn't worth the time as a developer usually, and may not actually be possible depending on the underlying issue.

I haven't heard any rumor of this getting fixed in the 'bugfix' patch, but generally not everything in a patch is really advertised.
 
Hate to dig up an old thread but better that than start a new one, no? Any news or updates on this? A simple switch on my desktop that would send the screen to full brightness when I am outside would be awesome.

Can't believe something so simple is so elusive....
 
B&b brightness control works on the hero but it only lowers brightness to 9% but it pretty good. 0% for that app is probably like the screen turned off or black. But it has a slider to control the brightness. It's pretty good. Prob the best one for the hero
 
this has been resolved in 2.1 so I would just sit tight for now. I used a 2.1 rom and it does work...along with a bunch of other things that are a pain right now.
 
Just wanted to let folks know that I just released an app called Brightness Rocker which lets you adjust screen brightness from any app. You can just press the volume buttons and that will display a brightness control, no matter what app you're in. Brightness Rocker also includes a home-screen widget and notification bar icon for controlling brightness.

It comes in Lite (free) and Pro versions, both available on the Android Market. More info can be found at Brightness Rocker for Android - by Nikhil Bhatla.

Hopefully some people will find this useful. Works best in Android 2.2, and more slowly in Android 1.5-2.1.
 
Im rooted and I use adjbrightness (free) on marketplace. Lets you set a number of PRESETS for screen brightness and allows you to customize them and switch between them easily!
 
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