I think I found a bug in the 3GS.

[OrlandoTragic]

So... the screen dimmed after a certain amount of time, and when I went to use the phone again, it didn't "re-brighten"...

I had to go into the settings and adjust the brightness slider, at which point it lit up again fine.

I don't know if this is 3.0 in general, or if this is 3GS specific.
I tried searching here for this, but I couldn't find any similar threads.

 

[AbjectEvolution]

I noticed that yesterday with my 3G on 3.0, so maybe it's a 3.0 issue.

 

[OrlandoTragic]

I noticed that yesterday with my 3G on 3.0, so maybe it's a 3.0 issue.

Ahh ok.
I figured it had to be 3.0 in general, I should have worded my topic title correctly..

 

[cinder]

Happens a lot to me, especially when I'm playing a game just after waking it up from sleep.
It eventually corrects itself and every time I'm like "ooohh, now i can SEE things"

I think the light sensor isnt all that smart in some situations.

 

[tivoboy]

same

This is happening to me too.

Is the auto brightess setting OFF?

I have mine off, and just now when I go to pick it up after a few minutes, the brightness is down, but I have to do into settings to tap on the brightness sliders to get ANY brightness to come back.

this is wrong,

 

[maflynn]

My 3G does that, and sometimes it brightens much more then it was previously even if the lighting level had not changed.

 

[Blackforge]

I saw it using 2.X on my 3G as well. All I had to do before was lock the screen and then unlock it and it seemed to always fix it.

 

[joefro]

I think you can disable it by turning Auto-Brightness off. Not sure though.

 

[tardis56]

I can get sound for incoming calls but on the ipod, when playing a track or video there is no sound and the sound bar has gone!
In settings under ipod there doesn't seem to be anything wrong - so what has been disabled - any help appreciated.

 

[bobsentell]

I noticed it did that too, but only when I had something covering the sensor. Make sure that's not the case.

 

[auburnfan24]

i had the issue this morning in and out of office and it took a sec to change over....i think its a 3.0 bug.

 

[joefro]

I can get sound for incoming calls but on the ipod, when playing a track or video there is no sound and the sound bar has gone!
In settings under ipod there doesn't seem to be anything wrong - so what has been disabled - any help appreciated.

You might have the ringer volume up and the regular speaker volume down. Try using the volume buttons in the iPod app.