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Hi folks,

Don't know if you have ever run into this, but I bumped into it last night. I was dimming the brightness setting as night fell, and I inadvertenetly set the brightness level to 0. This caused my tablet to go into standby. When I woke it up, it immediately went back into standby. The only remedy was to force a complete shutdown of the tablet. When I restart and then launch iFly, it defaults the brightness so everything is ok again. The tablet was fine at 10% brightness. On my phone, the display stops getting dimmer below 30%, but there were no standby problems. Maybe this is just a quirky behavior of my tablet vs IFly, but maybe iFly could limit the minimum brightness setting to 10%, unless 0% is actually useful in some applications? Just a thought.

Thanks,

Jim (Motorola XYboard 8.2)

Hi Shane,

Here are a few details to help clarify:

I am running iFly on a Motorola XYboard 8.2 Android tablet, and my second device is a Motorola Droid Ultra.

I tested the tablet's manual brightness setting tonight and it smoothly goes from bright to dim with no problems.

I did additional testing just now, and the problem is actually a bit more insidious than I thought. If I touch map mode, brightness, and brighten screen, I can then set the brightness to anything from 100% to 10% without a problem. If I then touch Darken Screen when at 10%, the tablet enters the endless standby cycle I described initially. This is regardless of the Day/Night mode setting. What I just discovered, is that if I don't first touch Brighten Screen the first time brightness is adjusted, and I instead go directly to Darken Screen, the tablet enters the endless standby cycle even if the screen is bright. That suggests that simply imposing a minimum brightness setting within iFly will not completely resolve the behavior.

Knowing that this characteristic exists will allow me to deal with it while flying, but I just wanted you to know about it. If you'd like, I can post/send you a video demonstrating the problem.

Thanks again,

Jim

Hi Shane,

I have replicated the problem for two videos. Unable to do a send bug report because this problem causes the tablet to enter standby until a full reboot, at which time the problem is gone. I may have to post the videos someplace but I will send you the link where Brian can find them.

Thanks,

Jim

Update - Link sent to the support email address. Wait about 15 minutes before downloading, because one file is still uploading. There should be two videos.