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Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

vijayrao1988_ — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:13:54 GMT

I upgraded to ICS recently within a couple of days of it being availble for my SI number.

I have realized lately that the display on my phone does not adapt to the ambient ligt conditions. I tried playing with the settings for the display brightness and it seems that the ambient light sensor is not causing any changes to the display backlight.

Can anyone else confirm if this issue is occuring on their hand-sets too? Should I try a reinstall of ICS or repairing the software through PC Companion?

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

Johan — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:21:44 GMT

At which level is the brightness set to?

Check if the phone still behaves like this after reinstall via SUS.

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/

Let me know.

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

vijayrao1988_ — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:28:19 GMT

Irrespective of what level I keep the brightness at the problem exists.

As soon as I enable the use of the sensor, the brightness adjusts immediately according to the ambient light condition. But then, it remains static thereafter. I mean, only the initial setting is acquired everytime the sensor is enabled, after that the sensor fails to have effect on the brightness.

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

JohnSt — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:47:49 GMT

Auto brightness does not work on the Go. It didn't work in Gingerbread and it doesn't work in ICS. It has never worked.

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

Johan — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:02:47 GMT

Ok. I will have to make some investigation and forward this for testing. If this can be replicated hopefully we will see a fix in the near future.

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

asplundj — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:29:18 GMT

It have never worked for me either. Regardless of firmware version

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

vijayrao1988_ — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:06:15 GMT

It did work on my handset earlier and it worked pretty well.

I am not sure if I should do a repair on the phone again. I mean, how many times am I supposed to keep repairing the phone!

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

Airbolt — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:02:13 GMT

I have the same problem in GB and ICS. If I check auto adjust bright item, the screen bright will be darkest level.

And I enter engineer mode for test Ambient Light Sensor. The vaule is alwayse 1 or 2.

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

tbb1mb — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:38:40 GMT

I used to own a Xperia U & now I got the Go, the ambient light sensor didn't work on both

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

mk4y — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:22:49 GMT

same here... SONY FIX THIS!

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

cinchona — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:33:51 GMT

same for me...neither in GB or ICS now...the sensor works fine (checked in service tests) changing value according to the light, but then doesn't change the brightness of the screen...as vijayrao1988` said: "As soon as I enable the use of the sensor, the brightness adjusts immediately according to the ambient light condition. But then, it remains static thereafter. I mean, only the initial setting is acquired everytime the sensor is enabled, after that the sensor fails to have effect on the brightness"

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

vijayrao1988_ — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:38:50 GMT

@Johan, what is the status of this issue? Has this been dropped or is your team still running investigations on the same - 2 months is long enough a time!

Re: Ambient Light Sensor does not work with ICS

xperiago_karuna — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:58:40 GMT

same with me here ......i am sure Sony will not have answer for this ...