Oh wow, thanks for this. I didn't realize the screen curtain would vanish
when VO was turned off. That's less clicking and tapping for me when I show
my phone to sighted people.
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Lisa Belville
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From: "Victor Gouveia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: a battery saver, but effective?
While I agree with most of these battery saving tips, I should point out
something the guides don't take into account.
Audio-brightness should be switched to off, not on.
Common sense dictates that while it would save battery life on the
brightness, that savings would be eaten up by the power the light sensor is
using up in order to operate. Granted, I don't know exactly how much power
that particular sensor uses up, as it would have to function constantly in
order to be able to deduce what setting the brightness needs to be at in
order to operate at a comfortable level in any particular instance, whatever
it is, you wouldn't gain in battery savings as you would setting
auto-brightness to off.
In any case, if your vision doesn't require brightness, as in you're a
totally blind person, keep the screen curtain on, and regardless of what the
brightness is set at, be it 0% or 100%, the screen curtain shuts down any
foreground and background colours, making the screen essentially blank, and,
as I said in my previous post, I have confirmed this with my brother who is
sighted.
The great thing is that the screen curtain doesn't have to be turned off
manually when you need sighted assistance with the phone, as turning off
Voiceover automatically shuts off the screen curtain, then re-enables it
when you turn Voiceover back on. Talk about efficiency. Smiles.
Victor Gouveia
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