Any way to fix the cyanogens rom auto dimmer for the brightness of the screen? Mine goes from dark to bright, there is no in between
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I haven't noticed that, but I have noticed that it doesn't go as dark as when you set it manually. It's blinding at night.
yzdirtrider13 said:
I haven't noticed that, but I have noticed that it doesn't go as dark as when you set it manually. It's blinding at night.
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Im the exact opposite I went back to skyraider because cm6 rc3 was dark as hell at night or even in a lit room. I had to go outside to get the screen to turn up
I just set the screen on medium brightness, but I miss the auto adjustment like 2.1 had. This is the only thing that is giving me issues. I see that there are some settings in cyogenmod, any way to make up the amount of points of brightness so I don't get just dark/medium/bright?
Kipphh said:
Im the exact opposite I went back to skyraider because cm6 rc3 was dark as hell at night or even in a lit room. I had to go outside to get the screen to turn up
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I had the same problem initially. I think I've got it fixed, though. CM6 is WAY more configurable than anything else I've played with.
bradm23 said:
I just set the screen on medium brightness, but I miss the auto adjustment like 2.1 had. This is the only thing that is giving me issues. I see that there are some settings in cyogenmod, any way to make up the amount of points of brightness so I don't get just dark/medium/bright?
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Go into menu, settings, CyanogenMod settings, user interface, automatic backlight. from there, you can change the light level required to dim the screen. in the edit other levels menu, you can completely customize the levels and even add new thresholds if you want.
I just adjusted the dim level to 24 and changed the lowest light level to 35. No further problems.
Did the screen setting need a re boot? Mine didn't do anything
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Did the screen setting need a re boot? Mine didn't do anything
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Screen brightness changed immediately after clicking Save & Apply for me. I found that there's a big change in the light level going from 31 to 32 (32-35 are all the same, didn't go further) and setting it at 32 seems to work well for now. My guess is that there are ranges for any given value of brightness
I couldn't get the Buttons values to change except for turning them off when set to 0. Even a value of 1 sets the buttons to full brightness, which is disappointing as it bothers me how bright they are.
Anyway, thank you jtcarnes for the quick instructions and thanks CM for the feature.
I personally just use this program called bightness profiles and set it to about 30-40% inside and then 100% outside when needed, atually saves more power this way also.
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Hi Guys,
So I finally got the desire after being with an iPhone for the past 18 months. Lovely phone so far, even if it feels a little 'work in progress' in some depts.
Anyways!
Have any of you with the phone enabled auto brightness? Does it work? When I jump into the settings to enable it it seems to kick in (once i tick the auto brightness checkbox) but once I actually hit OK to save the changes the screen brightness shoots up again and then doesnt seem to react to ambient light.
weird.
I am running the t-mobile android (uk)
Yep, I have the same thing, glad it's not just me then!
I don't think I've seen it adjust by itself at all...
It works for me and I have seen it adjust.
im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost
cez10 said:
im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost
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That's the idea, auto brightness adjusts so that the screen looks the same brightness to your eye at any light level. When it's dark the brightness decreases and when it's light the brightness increases thus you see it as thee same due to the way your eye is already adjusted.
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im not sure really if it works because it always seems the same? i have changed it to 30% now which is just acceptable and we ll see if it gives any battery boost
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EroThraX said:
That's the idea, auto brightness adjusts so that the screen looks the same brightness to your eye at any light level. When it's dark the brightness decreases and when it's light the brightness increases thus you see it as thee same due to the way your eye is already adjusted.
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yeah Lol exactly, thats the whole point of auto screen adjustment. if you are indoors all (or most of) the time like me than keep it manual to 30-50%. otherwise leave it auto
Mine works a treat the only thing i do is when i go out the house i turn the brightness to manual and put it on full, as this is the only bad side to this phone the led does suffer in direct sun so full brightness is required.
I haven't seen any change in my screen brightness, whether in full sunlight or middle of the night in a dark room!
Is a bit annoying, would like to know if it can be fixed or we're waiting for the next firmware...
Where's the sensor ? With the Hero, placing a finger over the top part of the phone tricked the sensor but it doesn't seem to on the Desire. Interestingly though, there must be something there, the way the screen flashes up when you remove the phone from your ear
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Hi Guys,
I am running the t-mobile android (uk)
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Works fine here
It seems that on my Desire the only time the automatic brightness actually tests the light is when I unlock my screen.
I can actually see the brightness change then, but if I switch lights on/off while it's already unlocked it doesn't automaticly adapt to the light.
I only checked it through the Android SDK using Dalvik Debug Monitor and the phone certainly did continuously check and correct screen brightness according to it. Visually, it was too difficult to discern what was happening and when due to my own visual limitations when the amount of light changed.
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Screen Brightness: I have set the screen brightness to medium and and timeout to 60 seconds. I have started to notice that it will change the settings on its own. I will notice the screen is dim then look at the brightness setting and it will be set to minimum. Another thing that is driving me crazy is that it will dim the screen if you don't touch it regardless of the screen time out.
I have also noticed that sometimes when typing the screen does not follow were the words are going.
Other than these two minor pet peeves I absolutely love this phone. If it had a vag it may replace my wife.
The screen dimming is probably done by u. If u run your hand back and forth at the bottom of the notification bar it will change your brightness. Auto brightness has to be off. Its a cool feature that the original epic had.
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u might want to disable the "power saving mode"... i had the same issue as u, but it seems to be fine since i disabled power saving mode
That's the thing I have my settings to auto brightness off
Edit: I will try turning the power saving mode off
Did not know that about the notification bar dimming the screen that's a cool feature.
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The screen dimming is probably done by u. If u run your hand back and forth at the bottom of the notification bar it will change your brightness. Auto brightness has to be off. Its a cool feature that the original epic had.
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Thanks I bet the notification bar might be it. That is awesome, I can't believe I didn't know that yet.
IF your in the internet browser that came with the phone and you turn up your brightness all the way and then you notice while your look at page all of a sudden your brightness will go back down to like 10% I found out the culprit.
the browser has a BROWSER BRIGHTNESS option in the menu. you can turn auto on or theres another slider there and it appears factory setting is all the way left or lowest.
this was pissing me off today while I was waking in the sun, I thought I had my brightness on all the way but with in 5 seconds while look here on XDA, the brightness kept going back down on its own and I do not have auto on. the thing I was doing to get it back up bright again was to do the notification swipe to the right and that would only temporary fix it.
Has anyone noticed that their auto brightness is kind of broken after upgrading to JB? For example, if I'm in a really bright area and go into dark, the screen does not dim itself, however this can be fixed by going into settings and un-checking and checking the auto brightness box.
Obviously this is pretty annoying... Is there a fix for this?
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Has anyone noticed that their auto brightness is kind of broken after upgrading to JB? For example, if I'm in a really bright area and go into dark, the screen does not dim itself, however this can be fixed by going into settings and un-checking and checking the auto brightness box.
Obviously this is pretty annoying... Is there a fix for this?
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I've noticed the same. It stays bright a lot of the time in dark places. I haven't noticed it staying dim in sunlight though.
To me, the way it was before seemed broken. It would constantly change its brightness level. This was effected by the light reflected off clothing, etc
I love it now
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To me, the way it was before seemed broken. It would constantly change its brightness level. This was effected by the light reflected off clothing, etc
I love it now
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You seem to have very good taste in clothing....
MatAuc12 said:
You seem to have very good taste in clothing....
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He he good one
But I Dont find any issue with it either. In fact, if you dig in, you'll find the process consumes 30% lesser battery than before ie. Screen + sensor timing and refresh for both...
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CoronaDelux said:
Has anyone noticed that their auto brightness is kind of broken after upgrading to JB? For example, if I'm in a really bright area and go into dark, the screen does not dim itself, however this can be fixed by going into settings and un-checking and checking the auto brightness box.
Obviously this is pretty annoying... Is there a fix for this?
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I'm actually pretty sure this is the default behaviour for ICS as well its only 3rd party roms that added in the ability to auto dim as well as auto bright the stock way is it only goes dimmer if the screen turns off and back on other wise it stays at the maximum brightness
Sometimes if I'm using the widget to move from full to auto brightness and tap very fast, it'll sit at full brightness. If I toggle slower its fine. Definitely some bug there.
I think auto brightness is much better in 4.1.1. Before it was far too dim, now it seems just right in all conditions.
I'm using the app "Lux Auto Brightness" and it couldn't be doing a better job.
Definitely check it out if you're unhappy like I was with the stock auto-brightness
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that has been the default behaviour from ages for stock goole rom:
the autobrightness only can increase...it doesn't decrease, unless u lock and ulock the phone or check and uncheck autobrightness
that the intended behaviour google want..the brightness get increased, but not decrease..
So you're saying that the auto feature in 4.0.4 was broken then?
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So you're saying that the auto feature in 4.0.4 was broken then?
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i said that the intented behaviour..yes also on 4.0.4.. maybe google have a valid reason for doing that
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So you're saying that the auto feature in 4.0.4 was broken then?
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Yes, it delayed the lock screen and when I set my phone down under a bright lamp and it woke up hours later in pure darkness, it might soft reset.
happens to me as well on stock 4.1.1. if I'm in a dark room and put the phone under a lamp or something, the brightness goes up instantly, but it never comes down until I lock/unlock the screen again.
in fact most of the time I think the thing is too bright (but that may be because I come from a nexus one always on the lowest setting since the autobrightness there didnt really work well).
it's a minor annoyance definitely
Same Problem with Note2!
Hi guys,
found this thread during my search for this brightness issue. My Galaxy Note 2 has the same strange behavior. But I figured out something: when I lay down the device to a table or bring it to 0 degrees in my hand, automatic brightness it's decreasing perfectly! Can you confirm this behaviour at your nexus? I guess it's a kind of strange Samsung " feature", maybe?
Thanks, Michael
Ahoy, I was also researching my auto brightness issues when I found this thread. I can confirm the behavior from the previous post on my SGS2 on Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
If the phone is in vertical position and I do the lamp test, it will stay on maximum brightness no matter what, but in horizontal position dimming works perfectly.
Regards,
zytrel.
Just curious if anyone else is having this issue.
I have the box checked, but I found myself manually adjusting, thinking it just wasn't very sensitive. I turned on auto brightness, moved the slider all the way to dim, went out to the sunlight, and it had no effect. Unchecked, and rechecked the box, restated the phone, did the opposite in a dark room... No effect.
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davidusr said:
Just curious if anyone else is having this issue.
I have the box checked, but I found myself manually adjusting, thinking it just wasn't very sensitive. I turned on auto brightness, moved the slider all the way to dim, went out to the sunlight, and it had no effect. Unchecked, and rechecked the box, restated the phone, did the opposite in a dark room... No effect.
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I believe the slider sets the maximum brightness. So when you go out in the sunlight the spot where you placed it is the brightest it will get.
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I believe the slider sets the maximum brightness. So when you go out in the sunlight the spot where you placed it is the brightest it will get.
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I thought that also... But when I had the slider at full bright, with auto turned on, in a pitch black room, it should have dimmed, correct?
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Looks like my phone might be doing the same thing... I'm wondering if I should swap my phone out before it's too late to exchange it for an S4.
+1 in the same boat
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I thought that also... But when I had the slider at full bright, with auto turned on, in a pitch black room, it should have dimmed, correct?
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Yeah, you're right. Do you have a screen protector on that might be interfering with the ambient light sensor, by any chance?
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Yeah, you're right. Do you have a screen protector on that might be interfering with the ambient light sensor, by any chance?
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Butt naked! No case, nothing... I see I'm not alone though.
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Butt naked! No case, nothing... I see I'm not alone though.
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Same here must be a bug. But I don't use that function so no biggie for me.
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nthknd said:
Same here must be a bug. But I don't use that function so no biggie for me.
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Seems to work with a third party app so I think its software related
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I don't think it's a bug. The auto brightness on some LG phones doesn't work like the rest of Android phones. On some LG phones, you set the brightness to a certain level and the auto brightness will work around that particular level.
Say you have it at 75% brightness and auto brightness on, the level will go up to maybe about 85% while outdoors and maybe to about 65% in a dim room. Set it at 35% brightness with auto brightness on, the level goes up to 45% in a bright area and 25% in a dark area. That's how my old iPhone 4 used to work.
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I don't think it's a bug. The auto brightness on some LG phones doesn't work like the rest of Android phones. On some LG phones, you set the brightness to a certain level and the auto brightness will work around that particular level.
Say you have it at 75% brightness and auto brightness on, the level will go up to maybe about 85% while outdoors and maybe to about 65% in a dim room. Set it at 35% brightness with auto brightness on, the level goes up to 45% in a bright area and 25% in a dark area. That's how my old iPhone 4 used to work.
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The way you described the functionality is what I have witnessed mine doing. I had to play around with it for a few days before I figured out what it was doing. No matter which level of brightness I set, auto brightness will adjust up and down from there based on ambient lighting. I do like having this option since it basically lets you further tweak the auto brightness to a comfortable level. On my other phones, a lot of the times the auto brightness was either to bright or too dark compared to what I would have preferred.
I thought there was something wrong with the auto brightness on mine as well. I have it on 70% auto bright set and it never seems to change. I have a screen protector but it has cutouts around the camera and other sensors and ear piece so I knew it wasn't that and I also tested it prior to putting the screen protector on.
Seems odd that LG would go a different route on what auto brightness is compared to the rest of the Android OEM's. sort of defeats the purpose but perhaps that is why we have to keep the setting so high to begin with.
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I thought there was something wrong with the auto brightness on mine as well. I have it on 70% auto bright set and it never seems to change. I have a screen protector but it has cutouts around the camera and other sensors and ear piece so I knew it wasn't that and I also tested it prior to putting the screen protector on.
Seems odd that LG would go a different route on what auto brightness is compared to the rest of the Android OEM's. sort of defeats the purpose but perhaps that is why we have to keep the setting so high to begin with.
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I got mine to work. Its kinda strange. I was playing around and I shot a video as I played the video back I hit the menus button and there is a setting for auto dimming so I check it and my phone dimmed so then I checked to see if my main auto brightness would work so I went into settings and checked auto bright there too and the screen dimmed. Havent been outside yet but before this the setting did nothing see if you guys can get it to work on yours.
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I got mine to work. Its kinda strange. I was playing around and I shot a video as I played the video back I hit the menus button and there is a setting for auto dimming so I check it and my phone dimmed so then I checked to see if my main auto brightness would work so I went into settings and checked auto bright there too and the screen dimmed. Havent been outside yet but before this the setting did nothing see if you guys can get it to work on yours.
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mine too, the 'auto brightness' seem doesn't work properly, just got dimmed, but not working as well as other phones's auto brightness did
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I don't think it's a bug. The auto brightness on some LG phones doesn't work like the rest of Android phones. On some LG phones, you set the brightness to a certain level and the auto brightness will work around that particular level.
Say you have it at 75% brightness and auto brightness on, the level will go up to maybe about 85% while outdoors and maybe to about 65% in a dim room. Set it at 35% brightness with auto brightness on, the level goes up to 45% in a bright area and 25% in a dark area. That's how my old iPhone 4 used to work.
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Yes, autobrightness on LG works this way since ICS was rolled out for LG Nitro. At 100% even with autobrightness screen will not dim, and at 0% level with or w/o autobrightness screen will not light up.
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Seems odd that LG would go a different route on what auto brightness is compared to the rest of the Android OEM's. sort of defeats the purpose but perhaps that is why we have to keep the setting so high to begin with.
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No, it's right way because brightness sensor works different than human eye and like was said here other phones usually set brightness too dim or too bright using that sensor.
I also think the work Auto Brightness is on the phone E980 strange ... I do not see any change in brightness depending on the ambient light ... Not like all the other android phones
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Yes, autobrightness on LG works this way since ICS was rolled out for LG Nitro. At 100% even with autobrightness screen will not dim, and at 0% level with or w/o autobrightness screen will not light up.
No, it's right way because brightness sensor works different than human eye and like was said here other phones usually set brightness too dim or too bright using that sensor.
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If that is the case, why is there no effect of ambient light on the screen??? The brightness remains the same whatever be the light condition.
I thought my phone had the same issue as everyone else but noticed this weekend when I stepped into a very bright area my screen automatically adjusted the brightness to a higher setting.
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now works correctly in this firmware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2419802
Mine has worked from day one and better than my GnoteII I upgraded from... As others have said, it's configured around the amount of brightness you originally set it to.
where is the light sensor of the OGPro located...?
If you're as annoyed as I am by the fact that the minimal auto-brightness level is set even in fairly bright rooms and you would like to adjust it, then I have a simple tool for you. Just start it, enter your desired adjustment level (0-255) and click OK. My app will set the brightness immediately, and also every time the screen turns on (this is required because the adjustment does not seem to stick for very long).
You can download the latest version along with the source code here: My GitHub
Works great. Any effect on battery that you can speak of?
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It shouldn't have any effect on battery life. It shows 0% used on my phone in the last 48h.
Hey... Thanks for your app. It's definitely working. I'm not 100% sure what it does though... Does it set the lowest possible autobrightness level, and then the automatic adjustment takes over from there? Can you explain a bit more?
saccentekennedy said:
Hey... Thanks for your app. It's definitely working. I'm not 100% sure what it does though... Does it set the lowest possible autobrightness level, and then the automatic adjustment takes over from there? Can you explain a bit more?
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Let's say the auto brightness sets a brightness level "x" normally. If you adjust the auto brightness in my tool then the brightness will be set to "x + whatever you put in my tool" instead.
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Let's say the auto brightness sets a brightness level "x" normally. If you adjust the auto brightness in my tool then the brightness will be set to "x + whatever you put in my tool" instead.
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Thanks for that explanation.
So, then something funny is going on. At the moment, it's full sunshine out and using your app is making the screen dimmer. I've set the app to '50', and when I turn the phone on, the screen dims and I have to toggle autobrightness off and on again to reset it to full brightness. I'm not sure whether I'm using it wrong, or it's a bug?
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saccentekennedy said:
Thanks for that explanation.
So, then something funny is going on. At the moment, it's full sunshine out and using your app is making the screen dimmer. I've set the app to '50', and when I turn the phone on, the screen dims and I have to toggle autobrightness off and on again to reset it to full brightness. I'm not sure whether I'm using it wrong, or it's a bug?
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Edit... Further observations:
When conditions would mean full brightness on autobrightness, it feels like the screen is SUBTRACTING the amount I put into the app. Does that make sense?
Not sure what's causing it for you, it's working fine on my phone. Sometimes it gets bugged and it goes from full brightness to zero again, but that's because the setting does not seem to stick for very long, I just have to lock and unlock the phone and it works fine. It shouldn't be subtracting from the brightness though.
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Not sure what's causing it for you, it's working fine on my phone. Sometimes it gets bugged and it goes from full brightness to zero again, but that's because the setting does not seem to stick for very long, I just have to lock and unlock the phone and it works fine. It shouldn't be subtracting from the brightness though.
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I'll try a very high number to make it really obvious if it's working or not
I've posted an update. I noticed the brightness adjustment resets very often so I've added a functionality to set the adjustment every 2 seconds while the screen is on. It shouldn't have any effect on the battery as it barely uses any CPU (less than 20 second in the course of a whole day).
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I've posted an update. I noticed the brightness adjustment resets very often so I've added a functionality to set the adjustment every 2 seconds while the screen is on. It shouldn't have any effect on the battery as it barely uses any CPU (less than 20 second in the course of a whole day).
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Or user can disable optimization battery for your app ?
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Works fine except when you want the maximum brightness, for me it won't let me use max brightness unless there's much light and it activates itself
In the changelog for 4.5.11 is says they improved autobrightness. Has any of you noticed this? Do you still need this mod, or do you just need the update...?
In the 4.5.11 seems works a lot better than before, but still far froms iOS perfection, anyway give it a try!
Tried it on OOS5. It stops working afther I change the brightness manually. Brighness goes to 0 afther unlock.
Good Solution
Thanks for providing this minimal app, I just discovered it & it works great. Better than Lux Lite shall I say (my previous solution)
Does this work with Android in general or is it just for the OnePlus?
I have the same problem with a user in a previous post.
It does work as the minimum brightness according to the value I set, but also limits the maximum brightness.
For some reason I never get it.
Only if I set 255 in the app.