Brightness Question... Is my Omnia broke??

[Phantom27]

I love EVERYTHING about my Omnia... except one thing. It is not very bright. In the sun I can't read ANYTHING on the screen. In the shade I can hardly make out anything at all. The default dialer is easier to read than most things but it still isn't great.

It is easy to read indoors and at night but in a well lit room or outside it is very hard to read.

So...

I went into the backlight settings and I noticed that I have it set to 'auto' like I want it. I put it on manual and slid the bar from max to min and I couldn't see any difference between min or max.

OK, so I remember looking at the reg entry for the screen sensitivity tweak but I don't think I changed anything. I can't imagine anything else I have installed that could cause the problem.

So... is my Omnia broken?? Does anyone else have this problem? Is my brightness 'stuck'???

I'm considering a hard reset but I don't want to do that if it is just the way the Omnia is.