LCD dying with age topic

Anyone else notice a dim screen on their device? It was super bright when I first got it over a year ago. But recently I've been finding myself not able to read anything in daylight, so I decided to order a new phone because an LCD costs as much as a brand new phone. Here are the results:




2 year old Att i257m on left, week old Sprint l520 on right.

Flashed stock ROM back onto Att one last night thinking maybe the ROM failed on me but its just simply dimmer, by a lot. Anyone know how to look up the files that show current brightness levels?

[Q] Battery dying pretty quickly while charging topic

I switched to CM12 about a week ago, and it's been fantastic. I use a lot fewer apps now as well since I cleaned up what I had installed/running when I made the switch. Now, however, my battery will drain really quickly when I have it charging and I'm doing anything else at the same time. For example, I currently have it plugged in to the wall and I've been watching some YouTube videos. In the past 15 minutes I've gone from 15% to 7% battery. Titanium Backup is running a batch backup in the background as well, but I experience this problem whether TiBu is running or not.

I'm using the power plug that came with the phone but the actual USB cord is from my Chromecast. (The cord shouldn't matter though, only the power adapter itself.)

Does anyone have any ideas? I do keep CM12 updated with the latest nightlies.

[Q] I think my TF700 is dying topic

I have been using this thing almost daily since I got it. It was rooted within a day of getting it and I've been running sbdags' ROMS on it exclusively. Many builds were lightning fast. Not so much lately. I am not getting the reported "buttery slickness" that others are getting. This has been on a few builds, so I'm posting here, as I dare not blame the ROM.

One of the biggest issues I see lately are how every app loads slow. Touches are slow in everything. Some touches take minutes to do the function requested. I know the touches are registering, as I have "show touches" on. Nav bar touches are the worst.

I thought about doing a full wipe, everything. Before I do that I want to backup everything, including the internal. When I connected it to my PC tonight, drivers took a minute to find and install, but the PC now sees the device. When I try to copy out the internal to my PC, it takes 30+ minutes to "calculate" the file size, then it only copies out one or two folders before a failure. Tried 3 different PCs, on more than 4 build+kernel configurations.

Is this thing on its last leg?