VZ Navigator Screen Dim after ICS update

Since the update to Android 4.0.4, the VZ Navigator application my Droid Razr Maxx is almost unusable during the day. Entering the application immediately dims the display so low that it is almost unreadable. Exiting the application immediately returns the screen back to normal.
I have disabled 'night' mode on VZ Navigator, uninstalled and reinstalled the VZ Navigator application (currently at 8.0).
Has anyone else seen this behavior?

I have the same problem after I accidentally installed ICS this afternoon. Also affected Navigator unless kept touching the screen at timeout. Called tech support--no help. Read threads then TRIED THIS TEMPORARY SOLUTION:1
1. Go to Preferences->Display->NIGHT MODE->ON.
2. Set Night Mode Brightness to 100 (slide right).
May have to take phone display off automatic and manually set brightness.
I also set screen timeout to 10 minutes for Navigator (Google) to prevent dimming until solve that one too
A few other points. VZNavigator, which was working perfectly on my Droid Razr Maxx prior to ICS, provides your speed and posted speed limits on screen. Has a better display in some ways (3D is pretty real) and has found better routes at times. My wife has a Droid Razr and now also agrees VZN has some advantages. Neither is perfect, glad to have both so when one is not working or gives bad route can switch to the other. And it's $5/ month and worth it.
When she upgraded to ICS, it caused battery drain almost visibly dropping. Full charge gone in less than an hour.
I also found some apps are SLOWER in loading on my Maxx and ICS changed my settings on email and other apps. I personally do not like the newer visuals/graphics--harder to see, some controls easier in previous version, widgets had to be reloaded after power down trying to solve dark screen problem.
Lots of things they could have fixed instead of an "a la Microsoft" let's give 'em lots of "new" features and looks (even if they don't like it). After all, we're Microsoft (substitute Verizon)--we're big, we don't have to care.
I loved the tech response (translated) "we'll get to it".

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