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iPod touch ipod touch useless/possible light ??? any thoughts
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that is the light sensor that is supposed to control the brightness of your screen when you have it on auto ....
me and my friend have found this useless dot that looks like a light like on the iPod shuffles . but we haven't found anything about it .
that is a dirty ipt
I've noticed the ambient light sensor doesnt really work. I go into different lighting conditions and it doesnt do anything. Then after a minute, the screen suddenly dims. Very strange behaviour. Also , when i'm in the dark, one would expect the screen do go darker, however, it goes brighter?!?
Mine works fine, it's when you switch from the "Slide to Unlock" screen to the menu that things look different.
I thought there was something wrong with my touch... and I still think that there is.
Logically... when it's dark shouldn't the light get brighter? And when it's light, the it goes darker?
The iPod Touch seems to do the opposite? Is there a reason for that?
Logically... when it's dark shouldn't the light get brighter? And when it's light, the it goes darker?
The iPod Touch seems to do the opposite? Is there a reason for that?
I thought there was something wrong with my touch... and I still think that there is.
Logically... when it's dark shouldn't the light get brighter? And when it's light, the it goes darker?
The iPod Touch seems to do the opposite? Is there a reason for that?
Think of it this way: when you're in the sun, in order to see the backlit screen, it needs to be brighter in comparison to your surroundings. And if you walk from outside into a dark room, the screen dims because a)It's uncomfortable to look at a full-brightness screen in a pitch black room (try it sometime by turning auto brightness off, and the brightness all the way up) and b)To dim the screen saves on battery life. And you can afford to dim the screen in the dark since it needs less backlight to be just as visible to you.
I'll admit it does sound counterintuitive at first, but when you see it work, the brightness relative to the surroundings stays pretty constant.
Hope this helped.
I thought it was a hidden camera employed by apple to see what I'm doing with my iPod Touch at night
I've noticed that but would it not be more effective if it sensed its environment in real time like the Macbook Pro?
It's just a guess and MHO, but I suspect it's because its environment is much more changeable than a MacBook Pro. Since it's moved around while in use, it probably ended up being more annoying, than useful. Just a theory, anyway.
wait...
when i saw people saying that you could see the sensor i was worried that apple had ripped me off
but people are saying that this is the case on only some????
also i'm not sure mine is working at all: i notice absolutely no difference no matter what and i didn't even know it existed untill i saw stuff about it online
when i saw people saying that you could see the sensor i was worried that apple had ripped me off
but people are saying that this is the case on only some????
also i'm not sure mine is working at all: i notice absolutely no difference no matter what and i didn't even know it existed untill i saw stuff about it online
I saw that a long time ago, and just figured it was the light sensor. I noticed, though, that for that entire trip, I couldn't not notice it up there But yeah.
But yeah.
when i saw people saying that you could see the sensor i was worried that apple had ripped me off
but people are saying that this is the case on only some????
also i'm not sure mine is working at all: i notice absolutely no difference no matter what and i didn't even know it existed untill i saw stuff about it online
You can't see it just by looking at the iPod, you have to have it in a position where there's a lot of light being reflected off the screen. Also the sensor is closer to the center of the top of the screen on the 2nd gen iPod touch (it's been moved considerably to the right in comparison to the pic in this thread).
You will have it, the parts used in the manufacturing of the iPod means that the black part of the screen has a hole drilled into it for the sensor.
I remember a couple months back when some people were posting saying they'd found a camera that was built into the touch, and they were totally owned when people told them it was just the light sensor.
Why would Apple include a camera but not a camera app, and why wouldn't they advertise it at all?
if your in the dark the light sensor should make the LCD brighter not darker it does not make sense for it to make it darker so that you cannot see what you are doing.
personally I turn the auto brightness off as I find it to be crap, I was in a well lit room but the auto dim decided to turn the brightness down so much so that I could barely see what I was doing