Automatic Brightness stopped working

[kenji91]

I'm running Eclipse 1.5.2 and my stock auto brightness stopped working. I re-flashed the ROM without wiping and it worked for a day but stopped working again. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[ws6formula350]

Do you have Lux installed?

 

[kenji91]

Do you have Lux installed?

I have used Lux and Custom Auto Brightness but neither are installed right now.

 

[ws6formula350]

I'm guessing it's enabled...Lux and Android fought, which is the reason I asked. You try wiping data yet? Maybe something got left behind...

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[kenji91]

I'm guessing it's enabled...Lux and Android fought, which is the reason I asked. You try wiping data yet? Maybe something got left behind...

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Well it only recently started acting weird. I haven't had either of them installed for months.

 

[ws6formula350]

I'm fresh out of bright ideas, in that case, lol.

Good luck, hopefully somebody else has more insight than me!

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[kenji91]

I'm fresh out of bright ideas, in that case, lol.

Good luck, hopefully somebody else has more insight than me!

haha thanks anyway! i actually just tried wiping everything and flashing a fresh version of 1.5.2 and the auto brightness still didnt work. hmm...

 

[kenji91]

I found this interesting but... my light sensor seems to be broken. Not sure if it's hardware or software, but I installed Lux to see what the reading would say and it says 20,000 (max) no matter how dark the room I'm in.

Has anyone heard of this?

 

[myfishbear]

I found this interesting but... my light sensor seems to be broken. Not sure if it's hardware or software, but I installed Lux to see what the reading would say and it says 20,000 (max) no matter how dark the room I'm in.

Has anyone heard of this?

is uninstall safestrap. boot into your unsafe system. restore with rsd and reroot and install ss again than the rom.... ive seen some weird viruses floating around. one person had their ir sensor freak out and the phone played metal music then his data conection failed. its that or else your ribbon cable might be frayed this is the part . it seems to be a common defect. personally id just replace the whole upper its like 72 bucks http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Motorola-Droid-4-XT894-LCD-Digi-p/motxt894lda1.htm.

 

[kenji91]

is uninstall safestrap. boot into your unsafe system. restore with rsd and reroot and install ss again than the rom.... ive seen some weird viruses floating around. one person had their ir sensor freak out and the phone played metal music then his data conection failed. its that or else your ribbon cable might be frayed this is the part . it seems to be a common defect. personally id just replace the whole upper its like 72 bucks OEM Motorola Droid 4, XT894 LCD Screen & Digi.

Hmm, very interesting.

Well, I uninstalled safestrap and tried RSD'ing but it had been so long that I was using stock GB files (6.13.219). RSD failed at step 6 repeatedly (flashing cdt.bin), and I didn't feel like downloading the full ICS leak. I wiped using recovery and it booted ICS 4.0.4, which is what is considered the default on my phone now.

I tested auto brightness with the stock rom and it didn't work, so I can confidently say that Eclipse is not to blame. :biggrin:

Before I order the part you mentioned, would you suggest I try RSD'ing with the stock leak files? Can I try to RSD with a deodexed version?

 

[myfishbear]

here is what u need
1.sbf file http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/VRZ_XT894_6.7.2-180_DR4-16_M2-37_1FF.xml.zip
2. rsd http://omniimpact.com/android/roms/myfishbear/tools/RSDLite5.6.rar
3. motodrivers http://omniimpact.com/android/roms/myfishbear/tools/MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe

 

[kenji91]

here is what u need
1.sbf file http://sbf.droid-developers.org/cdma_maserati/VRZ_XT894_6.7.2-180_DR4-16_M2-37_1FF.xml.zip
2. rsd http://omniimpact.com/android/roms/myfishbear/tools/RSDLite5.6.rar
3. motodrivers http://omniimpact.com/android/roms/myfishbear/tools/MotoHelper_2.1.40_Driver_5.5.0.exe

I SBF'd with these files and even stock, auto brightness doesn't work. Must be a hardware issue.

 

[kenji91]

Do you think I could bring it to Verizon and get it covered under warranty?

I can just uninstall safestrap and boot to stock ICS. Thoughts?

 

[kenji91]

For the record, I uninstalled Safestrap, factory wiped in stock recovery, and took my phone to a VZW store. They looked at it and said, "your screen is shot, but you're under warranty so just call this number and have them send you a warranty replacement."

So I did. No troubles. They sent it overnight via FedEx.