Auto Brightness : Possible fix?

[greycounciller]

Now this is weird.

I too had the screen brightness issue after the Portico update and had to revert to the "Low" manual setting for my sanity from a up, down, dim or bright situation it gave.
Well in a separate post, a poster mentioned a problem he had with downloading a Spanish keyboard.
Well, to help a brother out, I tried to replicate his problem by downloading the said keyboard to my EE 920 via T-mobile on 3g.
It prompted the usual "Prep...to download... then gave a warning( can't remember what)and said the phone would restart, blah, blah after the installation which would take between 5 - 10 mins.
Went ahead with anyway and it downloaded the keyboard for about 9 mb and installed. Sure enough, it restarted but this time, it did a similar thing to when Portico was updating and looked a bit more serious shifting media etc.... Any how, when the phone restarted, the new keyboard was installed and the brightness issue has now GONE.
Don't know why or what went on but I now have auto screen brightness as it was before.

Don't know if anyone else wants to try it and see if it happens to them?

 

[Curtieson]

Were you ever getting the issue where your phone, when booting up from a shut down, would go into SUPER BRIGHT mode? Wonder if that is gone too?

Can you uninstall keyboards later?

 

[greycounciller]

Were you ever getting the issue were your phone, we booting up from a shut down, would go into SUPER BRIGHT mode? Wonder if that is gone too?

Can you uninstall keyboards later?

That's the one!! I dare not uninstall the keyboard just yet!
I had previously added the US keyboard to see how keyboard switching works and then uninstalled. I'll give it a few more hours.

Edit : Uninstalled keyboard, Auto brightness still working correcrtly!!

 

[realwarder]

Changing a voice region (e.g. US to UK) also does this 'reinstall' on the phone. It's basically the same process that happens when you upgrade the firmware, but without anything changing as it reimports all the settings again.

 

[greycounciller]

I tried the region change from UK to US before and it didn't alter the change as this did.
Anyway, I'd appreciate someone else trying it and see what happens.

 

[congusano]

I hope it does work, but I have found that I could go a full day without seeing the issue. It seems to be most noticeable in a dimly lit room, where I could hold the phone out and just watch the screen cycle through different dim levels...


i'll check back in a day or two and see if it does in fact work.

 

[deepblue82]

Wow, it's hard to believe, but I just tried this suggestion and added another keyboard and.....it just works!!!

The flashing display annoyed me after the protico update, it was just fine before. Interesting thing is now, that portico changed a way in battery management (or with other words, the battery should last longer). Before I've recharged my phone yesterday evening, it was running for over 4 (!) days without a recharge! At the time I've plugged in the charger cable it says that I still have 6 hours remaining (9%, battery saver was on). So I hope that this behavior we're having isn't the better battery management (dim display to save battery). Will keep an eye on it over the next days.

Big thanks for this great tip!!!

 

[JonesCK1]

Which Spanish keyboard did you try? Mexico, 15 MB download or Spain, 22 MB download? Just in case it matters

 

[deepblue82]

I think you could pick any keyboard... I've tried it with Slovakia (was the smallest I found in a quick search, ~ 4mb)

 

[UnfixedPyle]

I just installed the Spanish (Mexico) keyboard to try this out. It came out of the "update" a little brighter than I expected. I turned auto brightness off and it went to high even though low was selected. I cycled to medium and back to low. Put it back on auto brightness, just a matter of time now to see if it did anything for the auto brightness issues.

 

[greycounciller]

Which Spanish keyboard did you try? Mexico, 15 MB download or Spain, 22 MB download? Just in case it matters

I used the Spanish keyboard. Still working fine.

 

[congusano]

Nope. didn't work for me. There is a light in my sons play room that always made my screen spaz out when I had it set to auto brightness (post portico) and after adding the spanish (spanish) keyboard, it still did the same thing for me in the same light.

 

[Chris Harris1]

Worked for me -- thanks!!

 

[Kmaki]

This seems to have worked for me too! Thanks!

 

[clbarker10]

Never heard of that. I keep my auto brightness off because its a HUGE battery sucker. I leave my brightness on above average.