A few words of caution... A horror story

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Names have been changed to protect the innocent

Enter Power Control widget... Added Brightness to the widget on the Angel recovery Rom.


While on a call Booger is playing around on the phone and hits the Brightness widget to see the three settings it has....

Screen goes black (literally!), Booger thinks nothing of it and finishes the call he is on.

Booger not able to get brightness back. The nightmare begins....

Wipe and Reset nothing....

Mr. Odin didn't help with Stock... not even An Angel could fix this... no light in sight!

Booger decides to try and be crafty and Throws Mr Galaxy i9000 on there to fix the issue or maybe Mr. Galaxy s "pit" would solve the issue by erasing the Fascinating memory... Works, but it shows yellow and red when it tries to do the wipe...

Booger turns to Mr. Vibrant and his 'pit' or recovery....

We now have the story of the Homicide of Mr. Fascinate! Lucifer (The white and red VZ) decides to grant Booger with a New Fascinating Body.

Moral of this poorly written story? Don't use anything to mess with Brightness except stock Widget or Tool! And never ever turn of usb debugging!

Yikes, sorry to hear about that. I was luckily able to recover from an extended fight after flashing the i9000 kernel.. It was a nightmare, but I got it back.

Originally Posted by jatilq

Names have been changed to protect the innocent

Enter Power Control widget... Added Brightness to the widget on the Angel recovery Rom.


While on a call Booger is playing around on the phone and hits the Brightness widget to see the three settings it has....

Screen goes black (literally!), Booger thinks nothing of it and finishes the call he is on.

Booger not able to get brightness back. The nightmare begins....

Wipe and Reset nothing....

Mr. Odin didn't help with Stock... not even An Angel could fix this... no light in sight!

Booger decides to try and be crafty and Throws Mr Galaxy i9000 on there to fix the issue or maybe Mr. Galaxy s "pit" would solve the issue by erasing the Fascinating memory... Works, but it shows yellow and red when it tries to do the wipe...

Booger turns to Mr. Vibrant and his 'pit' or recovery....

We now have the story of the Homicide of Mr. Fascinate! Lucifer (The white and red VZ) decides to grant Booger with a New Fascinating Body.

Moral of this poorly written story? Don't use anything to mess with Brightness except stock Widget or Tool! And never ever turn of usb debugging!

dude i just lived this horror story with the app Power Manager from the market...turned my screen completely black reboot to recovery and wipe data-nothing, restore system through odin, nothing. going to the store tomorrow for a replacement- i am livid.

listen to these warnings, dont f*** with the brightness

I will never turn usb debugging off. If you have it on you can fix it! I posted something about creating screen-cast. By doing that you can see everything you do on the phone on the pc. Let me know if you have it turned on. Don't get creative and flash anything else!

I'm glad some of you got this goofy cryptic story. I have my reasons for not making it 100% clear. I wanted to give a warning, but without being to obvious about certain things. I have a certain connection with "The Devil"

The root options never worked with my DX, but maybe Droid Explorer, Android Commander or the like would work as well.

I had the same problem I got a new one a few days ago

Sent from my Fascinate

Is the threat of this total darkness issue (via brightness widgets) something that is unique to rooted Fascinates only?

...or is this a potential problem with stock 2.1 ROM Fascinates as well?

Originally Posted by darukhan

Is the threat of this total darkness issue (via brightness widgets) something that is unique to rooted Fascinates only?

...or is this a potential problem with stock 2.1 ROM Fascinates as well?

not sure, i was rooted however i didnt have power manager with super user permissions so i presume it could happen un-rooted as well

Originally Posted by darukhan

Is the threat of this total darkness issue (via brightness widgets) something that is unique to rooted Fascinates only?

...or is this a potential problem with stock 2.1 ROM Fascinates as well?

I did it to an unrooted phone. Don't mess with brightness widgets.

Brightness = serious business

Originally Posted by jatilq

I will never turn usb debugging off. If you have it on you can fix it! I posted something about creating screen-cast. By doing that you can see everything you do on the phone on the pc. Let me know if you have it turned on. Don't get creative and flash anything else!

If you have the time, a link or instructions would be nice. This black screen problem keeps happening to people.