Night Driving Mode? -another crusade

BottledHate · Dec 5, 2009

kmfdmk said:
Glad to know I can do auto-dim w/ Locale!

i wish they would have conditions for car dock and media dock... that would make things much easier.... as it is now i have a night mode option i turn on and off as needed. with a dock condition.... [while in car dock... from 6pm-bleh.... ]--->[Dim dis b****]. done. set it and forget it! ha

Crude · Dec 5, 2009

Wakey said:
Oh I agree, it should be in there, just like the speedometer

I asked for this last week, lets see if I can find it!

http://www.productideas.appspot.com/#9/e=cf&t=compass+and+current+speed
there

rawness · Dec 5, 2009

BottledHate said:
i'll have to play with that option... wouldn't you still like to have an option for an inverted or darker color scheme on google maps like every other gps does?

Sure, options are great, I just wanna make sure we're talking about the same thing when people call the screen "blinding".

BottledHate · Dec 5, 2009

[off topic rant about locale re: Car Dock and Media Dock conditions]

it would be sooo simple and small i imagine to make a plugin to do that for locale... all it has to do is read two magnetic sensors and notify locale... sdk's are availible for both, but i don't have time to learn that right now. it is something i want to do tho! i have plenty of programming experience. next year.........

BottledHate · Dec 6, 2009

rawness said:
Sure, options are great, I just wanna make sure we're talking about the same thing when people call the screen "blinding".

for me i notice in that if i glance at the gps for a sec then back at the road my night vision is hindered for a short time. i also notice in my mirror how lit up my face is from the thing.

i probably could dim the screen more. i would also like to have a night driving mode/ color scheme/ ect. option availible.

rawness · Dec 6, 2009

^

Yes, I do understand that it is bothering you, I just wanna be sure that it is bothering you with auto-brightness (which is the built-in feature to dim the screen at night).

Also until you get a fix, you could try using "satellite view" (to me, that's generally less bright than the standard view)

BottledHate · Dec 6, 2009

rawness said:
^

Yes, I do understand that it is bothering you, I just wanna be sure that it is bothering you with auto-brightness (which is the built-in feature to dim the screen at night).

Also until you get a fix, you could try using "satellite view" (to me, that's generally less bright than the standard view)

yes.. it does bug me even with the screen at its dimmest.

i'd like to see something like this:

(Garmin)

night mode...

Day mode:

JRSly · Dec 6, 2009

rawness said:
^

Yes, I do understand that it is bothering you, I just wanna be sure that it is bothering you with auto-brightness (which is the built-in feature to dim the screen at night).

Also until you get a fix, you could try using "satellite view" (to me, that's generally less bright than the standard view)

White is white, no matter how bright the screen is. It's still going to be a severe contrast to the darker world outside the car and cause some potentially dangerous image retention on the retinas.

johnlgalt · Dec 6, 2009

rawness said:
^

Yes, I do understand that it is bothering you, I just wanna be sure that it is bothering you with auto-brightness (which is the built-in feature to dim the screen at night).

Also until you get a fix, you could try using "satellite view" (to me, that's generally less bright than the standard view)

That's what I do - but the basic BG is still white, as opposed to reversing colors. On the Infiniti M35 w/ Nav, for example, it senses daylight (for the head lamps) and also sends that to the NAV system - at night time / darkness, the 2 primary colors, white and black, are reversed, leaving hte others the same (roadways, colored signs, etc). This would be the perfect solution for the Nav built into the DROID.

I do use Satellite right now as a compensation - but it is still a light colored BG that is causing the issue here....even auto brightness cannot fix that.

BottledHate said:
yes.. it does bug me even with the screen at its dimmest.

i'd like to see something like this:

(Garmin)

night mode...

Day mode:

The Nav on the Infiniti does much the same (but it looks better haha!

) - that would work well in dark situations....

If they were to add the feature it could use the phone light sensor to easily achieve this effect....

JRSly said:
White is white, no matter how bright the screen is. It's still going to be a severe contrast to the darker world outside the car and cause some potentially dangerous image retention on the retinas.

Hence the reversal of he white and black pixels. Trust me, take a test drive of the Infiniti M with NAV at night (or close to night and cover up the light sensors). It makes a *huge* difference.

BottledHate · Dec 6, 2009

johnlgalt said:
The Nav on the Infiniti does much the same (but it looks better haha! ) - that would work well in dark situations....

i love the map look feel of google maps. the garmin images do look like poop! i just grabbed some random screens off image search for reference.

WOW!

i star'd this ISSUE on google code a few weeks ago but it really never caught a lot of attention(maybe 5 stars in a week). Since this thread has started (just over 24 hours) it has gone from 28 to 82 stars!!! the power of Android Forums!

Log into google and STAR up this issue:

Issue 4787 - android - Navigation - night mode - Project Hosting on Google Code

While you are there be sure to check out any other things that may need attention....

johnlgalt · Dec 6, 2009

Infiniti M Navi images: infiniti navigation images - Google Images

I added my star to the issue as well - only 6 comments though....

The other two you posted about had well over 100 comments each....

BottledHate · Dec 6, 2009

johnlgalt said:
Infiniti M Navi images: infiniti navigation images - Google Images

I added my star to the issue as well - only 6 comments though....

The other two you posted about had well over 100 comments each....

it's said that you don't want to comment there unless you have relevant information to add to the issue... the regulars there say it dilutes the issue.

i made the mistake when i first found the page with a bunch of "me tooo" style posts and i've deleted them since.

johnlgalt · Dec 6, 2009

Makes sense. BugZilla over at Mozilla needs cleaning up like this all the damn time too....

BottledHate · Dec 6, 2009

Hey everyone... as long as I'm bringing up 'ISSUES'. I should also point out the Google Product Ideas page. It has several 'ideas' started regarding night mode.

I still feel this is much more an ISSUE than a product idea, but please check out both!

Issue 4787 - android - Navigation - night mode - Project Hosting on Google Code

Google Product Ideas - Search 'night mode'

johnlgalt · Dec 6, 2009

Thanks man - voted for them all.

JRSly · Dec 6, 2009

johnlgalt said:
Hence the reversal of he white and black pixels. Trust me, take a test drive of the Infiniti M with NAV at night (or close to night and cover up the light sensors). It makes a *huge* difference.

Yeah, I have a GPS unit with Night Mode. I was just explaining why it's not a simple matter of adjusting the brightness of the Droid screen.

BottledHate · Dec 8, 2009

28 to 144 stars in 3 days!!!!! Android Forums users kick ass!

a big THANK YOU from me and anyone else who would like to see features like this!!!!!!!!!

edit: fat finger... 124... now 127 tho

kmfdmk · Dec 9, 2009

BottledHate said:
28 to 144 stars in 3 days!!!!! Android Forums users kick ass!

a big THANK YOU from me and anyone else who would like to see features like this!!!!!!!!!

If it makes you feel better I used every GMAIL account I had access to, to *Star* it for ya

(well for me too, I want this as well)

BottledHate · Dec 9, 2009

kmfdmk said:
If it makes you feel better I used every GMAIL account I had access to, to *Star* it for ya (well for me too, I want this as well)

sweet! i appreciate the effort, i have a couple accounts myself

... it is definitely for all of us!

FrayAdjacent · Dec 9, 2009

kmfdmk said:
i don't give two shits if it's in beta or not. How many years was gmail in "beta" google has many many tools/utilities that are in beta. Fwiw if verizon wasn't confident in google's beta capabilities they should have included a different nav system (though i love it).

Moving on, this is something that has always bugged me about gps manufacturers.

Sunrise and sunset timetables are a known dataset. Why is it so difficult for manfacturers to do on the very least a timer with a start/stop that:
A) dims the screen to its dimmest setting, which on my tomtom wasn't dim enough for me
b) toggles a map view that's night vision friendly w/ muted colors.

On the high end it wouldn't take that much work to have the phone use its location to lookup sunrise/sunset, and switch to a night view based on so much time past sunset, and switch to daylight view so many minutes prior to sunrise. Hell even a crude lookup table stating "between x & y longitude" then switch on/off @ this time.

I was really disappointed in my tomtom for not having an auto-switch to night-view based on a timer. Glad to know i can do auto-dim w/ locale!

this.

brettlewis · Dec 9, 2009

just have your phone screen dim at night. or autoset your brightness. not to hard.

JRSly · Dec 9, 2009

brettlewis said:
just have your phone screen dim at night. or autoset your brightness. not to hard.

.

JRSly said:
White is white, no matter how bright the screen is. It's still going to be a severe contrast to the darker world outside the car and cause some potentially dangerous image retention on the retinas.

kmfdmk · Dec 9, 2009

JRSly said:
White is white, no matter how bright the screen is. It's still going to be a severe contrast to the darker world outside the car and cause some potentially dangerous image retention on the retinas.

I'm glad someone understands the issue. If dim white light was the easiest on the human eye then the military would simply use low power white illumination; instead they use red. There's a reason for that and it's backed up by extensive research.

Simply lowering the brightness isn't a solution.

BiGMERF · Dec 9, 2009

brettlewis said:
just have your phone screen dim at night. or autoset your brightness. not to hard.

are you serious? thaqt cannot really be your solution

Gunner · Dec 9, 2009

I submitted an idea to add 'industry standard' features to Google Maps Navigation:
- Night Mode
- ETA
- Speedometer
- Free Roam Mode.

Please vote here!
Google Product Ideas

Night Driving Mode? -another crusade

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