As the title states.
I do believe that my Vibrant's screen was brighter than my S2. Is there any way to use software to tune the brightness above 100%?
Reason I ask, I was able to use galaxy Tuner on the Vibrant to tweak a whole lot of different settings aboveand beyond what was specified from default settings.
Any feedback/help would be appreciated.
Thanks
a4 moda said:
As the title states.
I do believe that my Vibrant's screen was brighter than my S2. Is there any way to use software to tune the brightness above 100%?
Reason I ask, I was able to use galaxy Tuner on the Vibrant to tweak a whole lot of different settings aboveand beyond what was specified from default settings.
Any feedback/help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Turn auto brightness off and adjust the brightness yourself in settings.
If you want the full brightness also make sure you have the "auto adjust screen power" option unchecked in the display menu I thought that an older iPhone had a brighter screen too til I unchecked that along with turning off auto brightness
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just a bit of caution
the SAMOLED+ screens are super bright, it can blind you
make sure to not turn it to the max unless you are outdoor under a bright sun
basically don't need to go full strength in a dark room, or poorly lid room
AllGamer said:
just a bit of caution
the SAMOLED+ screens are super bright, it can blind you
make sure to not turn it to the max unless you are outdoor under a bright sun
basically don't need to go full strength in a dark room, or poorly lid room
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I second that after I saw how bright this phone can go I made sure to recheck that power option n have kept the brightness at about 40-50% which is more than enough IMO
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AllGamer said:
just a bit of caution
the SAMOLED+ screens are super bright, it can blind you
make sure to not turn it to the max unless you are outdoor under a bright sun
basically don't need to go full strength in a dark room, or poorly lid room
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Exactly true. I always set the brightness to something like 5% of the full bar and it's bright enough. The screen is VERY bright...
Maybe i'm blind, I love bright! ! My vibrant is brighter. That shouldn't be the case. Any way to increase brightness above and beyond factory 100%? Thanks
T989 Galaxy S2! !
well you can flash Juggernaut ROM, it's very well fine tuned for brightness
Yup, got jugg v2. I'll keep looking. Thanks.
T989 Galaxy S2! !
OP must be blind. Lol
There's no reason to need this screen any brighter.
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Is there a way to reduce the brightness below 0%? The screen is super bright on my S2 even at 0% . Is there an app to go below 0%? Else I will go blind pretty soon.
Use screen filter u can get it in the market for free
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riteshbafna said:
Is there a way to reduce the brightness below 0%? The screen is super bright on my S2 even at 0% . Is there an app to go below 0%? Else I will go blind pretty soon.
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ROFL !!!!!!!
sleepy13909 said:
Use screen filter u can get it in the market for free
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Thanks a lot! Its a very nice app.
sleepy13909 said:
Use screen filter u can get it in the market for free
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i really dont understand why i would need this app ,personally my screen brightness never leaves 100 and if i could make it 125% i would ,you can adjust browser brightness in the browser settings and all you have to do is swipe across the top of your phone to lower the brightness ,dont understand how this app is useful. ipersonally think the screen could have been a little brighter .in complete darkness its gorgeous but in natural light during the day i find myself wanting it brighter .
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Screen is fine, move along.
That's pretty much the deal with this thread
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Actually, I have the same issue. At 100% mine isn't so bright and driving in my car during the day it's quite dim yet set at 100%. so I back the OP in this issue and hope someone finds something. And those of you who insist he/she is trolling or not taking (stupid) hints, go play somewhere else. We've got a legitimate issue here and welcome anyone who can positively contribute to this thread. I'll post back if I ever find something. I remember using some app back on one of my old windows phones that did what we're looking to find so there should be something out there.
My Vibrant was brighter too...Also had a cooler tint to it. The audio on my vibrant was alot louder too.
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hmmm, so the vibrant is brighter... than the galaxy? Would you say it's more... vibrant?
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juntjoo said:
hmmm, so the vibrant is brighter... than the galaxy? Would you say it's more... vibrant?
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The SGS2 is just as vibrant if you unlock the Auto Brightness
heres a trick i found. turn off auto brightness. then, just barely pull down notification bar and slide right to brighten and left to dim.... this works on MOST galaxy devices... not all
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for fun i took my cousins iphone 2g and compared the brightness of the both while on google.com and while my gs2 had crisper colors and looked better while looking at it from different angles but when looked straight down on both devices the old iphone 2g was much brighter than mine.. both devices were at 100% brightness was wondering if this was something that might be wrong with my phone which i hope not because I've had no other issues with it like lines or bad pixels and I've read that this phone should be like a lighthouse at 100% brightness so i really wouldnt want to exchange it and end up getting 1 with everything else bad.... sighhhhh smh
Well buy a iphone than ;-)
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Well buy a iphone than ;-)
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thanks for being a smart ass but just to say ive been using an iphone since day 1 and had to switch when i saw this beast but this was my first n only real question about spec type or maybe mine being faulty so far about it n i get your idiotic response............
Google has a lot of white. Is the "adjust screen power " option on under display? That will dim the screen automatically under full brightness
if you disable auto dim, then the brightness can be adjusted to the same level as iphone
you don't want to see this phone at max power, it can literally Burn your eyes
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thank you for the real responses i had the auto dim disabled ( if you mean the auto bright not sure if you do) but didnt have the adjust screen power unchecked and now that made a huge difference way brighter WOW!!.. thanks thinking i will be leaving the screen power checked.....lol
Lol yeah at full brightness this thing Is insanely bright
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Lol yeah at full brightness this thing Is insanely bright
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yea it is! feeling kinda sry that im such a noob and doubted that bright light at the end of the road...lol
My buddy who also has a SGSII I have to tell him to turn the brightness down at night in the car going somewhere cause it's literally blinding.
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yea it is! feeling kinda sry that im such a noob and doubted that bright light at the end of the road...lol
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haha no worries man we're all just trying to get to know our phones better Glad you're more satisfied with it now!
I always have the brightness cranked when i'm at work because I go outside for smoke breaks and I like bring able to read my phone.
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There's also a browser brightness in the menu after you open up the browser
Glad you got it sorted out, but I still think the iPhones' screens are nicer. If only they came out with a 4.5 inch iPhone with Cyanogen Mod .
My gs2 is so bright I need sunglasses to look at it.
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Glad you got it sorted out, but I still think the iPhones' screens are nicer. If only they came out with a 4.5 inch iPhone with Cyanogen Mod .
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the iphone screen might look nicer because you can fit it in the cup of your hand while you squint and pinch to enlarge each web page so you can read.. my only dilemma was thinking a 2g was brighter because i didnt get to test it with my 4 before i sold it but after seeing the full brightness of this I'm waaaayyyyyyyy over it...lol
Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!
I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.
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I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.
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Yah that is what I have done myself.. but even if you could drop the brightness by say 75% would be nice.
I noticed it was too low on regular galaxy s2 (i9100) , so probably samsung increased it on this one,
and now its too bright.
but i like this one bright.
firebane said:
Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!
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I would love to have my back light dimmed down to like 25% or maybe 50% as I do a lot of reading at night before i sleep and I turn the screen brightness down to zero.
It's pretty good in a dark room in bed, but the buttons is freaking annoying and too bright.
And having the button light off isn't very useful since I press the back button all the time and always miss.
And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?
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And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?
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The HTC Amaze only turns on the LED's if it's dark enough, I wish the Galaxy S2 would also do this as it would save a bit of battery.
The Screen Filter app lowers the screen's brightness and can also turn off the button light. I can't post a link yet due to my newbie status, but search for it on the Market.
Patience for cm. since cm has a very customizable brightness control including buttons brightness.
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I would love this as well.
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BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??
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BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??
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Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast
Unless I'm mistaken our phones cannot adjust the brightness of those buttons regardless of ROMs (cm or otherwise). I'm pretty sure we only have one led board that only controls on or off (hence why you can only have all them on or all of them off, not just light individual ones). Cm might have those settings but it's because cm is made for many different phones and some phones might have the ability to adjust the brightness but not ours.
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Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast
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DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989
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DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989
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Ok, Roger that
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The display hurts my eyes when I woke up in the middle of the night, even at the lowest brightness.
I found an app called Screen Filter that lowers the brightness even further. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ch_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5oYXhvciJd
Does anyone know if this is safe to use? Will it harm the AMOLED display at all?
It's funny, the lowest brightness is too bright for me when I need it, and the highest brightness is too dim for me when I need it.
I use Screen Filter on my original Galaxy S, and it works great.
I've never had an issue with it.
Been using screen filter on my Galaxy Nexus for months, great app. Now using on my Beautiful GS3.
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screen filter is excellent for AMOLED screens.
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El Nivek said:
It's funny, the lowest brightness is too bright for me when I need it, and the highest brightness is too dim for me when I need it.
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Exactly my experience too. I love AMOLED's, but would it kill them to work on incorporating some Pixel Q technology. And really how hard can it be to just widen the range of brightness to capture the movie theater low if a stupid free app can do it?
There should be a huge range and we should be able to select the lowest and highest. Then let auto-bright take care of the rest. Or maybe even should have the ability to calibrate the auto-bright since a 20yr old's eye sees about double the amount of light of a 60yr old's eye...
Lux works much, MUCH better in my opinion
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
Try it, you will be sold! lol, im actually gonna go post about it, EVERYONE should know about it lol, after you set up 5-6 different ''levels'' and (imo) set it to adjust on screen open, its amazing
All it does is put a transparent black filter over the display. Not going to harm it. I had this app for my iPhone.
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Lux works much, MUCH better in my opinion
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
Try it, you will be sold! lol, im actually gonna go post about it, EVERYONE should know about it lol, after you set up 5-6 different ''levels'' and (imo) set it to adjust on screen open, its amazing
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Thanks for sharing that. There are some apps that totally change the user experience. This seems like it will be one of them based on initial use. Too bad Samsung didn't calibrate this better out of the box.
can filter apps these make whites BRIGHTER and whiter? Whites are dim and yellow/pinkish next to LCDs. Very dim and dirty looking say on Google News or email.
ive been using this for a while as well. great for when in a movie lol! really handy
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All it does is put a transparent black filter over the display. Not going to harm it. I had this app for my iPhone.
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Exactly. Nothing to worry about. It won't harm your screen at all.
I've been using Screen Filter for a while now... but I may give that Lux a try. It looks pretty cool.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I find the Galaxy S III's screen to be terribly dim in sunlight. Poking around the internet, I found that Samsung manually cut down the maximum display power, nearly halving it from the S II.
The Galaxy S III uses a 1280-by-720, PenTile AMOLED screen, which is higher resolution, but dimmer than the Galaxy S I and Galaxy S II screens, Soneira said. The culprit seems to be power management: in trying to get decent battery life with a huge 4.8-inch display, Samsung had to turn the brightness down.
Power consumption figures bear that out. Samsung cut maximum display power from 2.1 watts on the Galaxy S II to 1.3 watts on the Galaxy S III, dropping maximum brightness from 289 candelas per square meter to 224. The lower power usage, however, lets the S III get solid battery life even with the larger screen: running time with the display on increased from 4.4 hours on the Galaxy S II to 5.6 hours on the S III.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407001,00.asp
http://www.displaymate.com/OLED_Galaxy_S123_ShootOut_1.htm
My question is if it's possible to manually increase the display power, since in my understanding it's being artificially lowered? Like similar to under-clocking or something? Sorry, I'm not really that tech knowledgeable.
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I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I find the Galaxy S III's screen to be terribly dim in sunlight. Poking around the internet, I found that Samsung manually cut down the maximum display power, nearly halving it from the S II.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2407001,00.asp
http://www.displaymate.com/OLED_Galaxy_S123_ShootOut_1.htm
My question is if it's possible to manually increase the display power, since in my understanding it's being artificially lowered? Like similar to under-clocking or something? Sorry, I'm not really that tech knowledgeable.
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I wish but I believe it's a hardware issue, so I don't think you can do it
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bump. has anyone ever figured this out?
Could not agree more... I would love this kind of tweak!
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Just my 0.02, but this is possible
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Just my 0.02, but this is possible
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great. so what's next? who knows how to make something like this happen?
so anyone have any thoughts on how to move forward with this?
How about making it even darker. That would be a great mod too
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How about making it even darker. That would be a great mod too
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That would be amazing.. Potentially saving battery.
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How about making it even darker. That would be a great mod too
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Lux or ScreenFilter (they just make a dark overlay on your screen basically)
The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.
..id rather be able to adjust the colors and sharpness like my samsung tv... increase color depth... sharpen edges...add contrast..... hell how about 120hz screen? lol
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..id rather be able to adjust the colors and sharpness like my samsung tv... increase color depth... sharpen edges...add contrast..... hell how about 120hz screen? lol
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I just want to be able to see what's on the screen when outdoors
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Lux or ScreenFilter (they just make a dark overlay on your screen basically)
The Thanks button is just to avoid "THANKS" posts in threads. Don't defeat the purpose of why it was introduced.
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Screenfilter works amazing.
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I just saw somewhere a mod to flash to make the screen darker...
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I just saw somewhere a mod to flash to make the screen darker...
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I'm not understanding the darker thing?
loopytee said:
I'm not understanding the darker thing?
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Well, at night the screen looks really bright, even at its lowest setting. With an app such as "screen filter" you can use your phone in bed or whatever both without hurting your eyes and (potentially?) saving your battery.
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I'm not understanding the darker thing?
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Well, I drive for a living. Mostly @ night. It's illegal for me to pick up and use my phone while driving.....However I drive with my dome light on so if my screen is even darker the Man can't see me!
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Well, I drive for a living. Mostly @ night. It's illegal for me to pick up and use my phone while driving.....However I drive with my dome light on so if my screen is even darker the Man can't see me!
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ok now I get it, let's figure out how to expand the screen parameters. to make it brighter and dimmer
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Dimmer.
The one problem I've had with the Note 1 is the retina burning brightness, even on the lowest settings. Especially at night, in dark rooms.
Is the Note 2 similar?
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gaddy888 said:
The one problem I've had with the Note 1 is the retina burning brightness, even on the lowest settings. Especially at night, in dark rooms.
Is the Note 2 similar?
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This doesn't answer your question, but the free app Screen Filter allows you to lower the brightness below minimum. I use it on my Galaxy S3 when reading at night. Like you, I find the minimum brightness on Samsung screens too bright at times. Just thought I'd mention it.
Brighter screen is better isn't it? I mean you can always turn the brightness down...on the other hand, if the screen is not bright enough...you can't really do anything about it can you? !
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It is bright but not overwhelming if you mean that. I like the fact that it makes it easier to see in the sunlight.
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Brighter screen is better isn't it? I mean you can always turn the brightness down...on the other hand, if the screen is not bright enough...you can't really do anything about it can you? !
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That's just the thing. On the Note, you couldn't dial it down too far. In a dark room, it was bright such that without apps like screen filter I couldn't look at the phone. On screen filter is alright, except the display then looks overly blue.
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henrybravo said:
This doesn't answer your question, but the free app Screen Filter allows you to lower the brightness below minimum. I use it on my Galaxy S3 when reading at night. Like you, I find the minimum brightness on Samsung screens too bright at times. Just thought I'd mention it.
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Thank you
Basically, the screen's lowest setting isn't low enough. I find myself using screenfilter a lot at night in a room with no lights.
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my display way too bright, when lowering the brightness to the minimum, its still relatively bright enough. some note 2 displays I've seen had a different brightness than mine even though both levels were same for both phones. its an amoled thing.
Are u worry about screen burning issue? my note 1 got it after 6 month usage..note 2 I'm not sure, hav to wait another 3 month to see the effect, since i just got it 3 month ago...
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You can always try different screen modes in settings -> display
I dont think that those screens are too bright, but rather becausr theyre too big. Even on the lowest setting, there is so much light generated by such a big screen that this might be it. Screen filter app may help.
Note 2 minimum brightness is definitely dimmer than Note 1, since I came from Note 1. So it is not bright at minimum setting IMO.
I use this program to give me fine-grained control of screen brightness at night.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
it's very well thought out in the way it works and puts an entry into the notification bar.
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This doesn't answer your question, but the free app Screen Filter allows you to lower the brightness below minimum. I use it on my Galaxy S3 when reading at night. Like you, I find the minimum brightness on Samsung screens too bright at times. Just thought I'd mention it.
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Used that app, works great, so thanks for the suggestion man. Especially at night, I am pretty sure it is saving me some juice. What I am wondering is, is there an app which does the complete opposite of this? As in, one which allows you to increase the brightness more than the maximum level for n7100? Tried searching for one on the playstore but didn't find one
The thing is, I am in India, and when it's sunny here, its really, really sunny. Not complaining, but it makes reading your messages all that difficult while out.
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If your phone is rooted, then download and install rom toolbox and open the build.prop editor. Change the minimum brightness level to whatever you desire. By default it's set to 20percent.
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If your phone is rooted, then download and install rom toolbox and open the build.prop editor. Change the minimum brightness level to whatever you desire. By default it's set to 20percent.
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Not going with the Rom toolbox... It kind of messed up a script I was running last time I used it. Had to reflash stock and what not. Any other options, something which is only concerned with the screen?
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You could just manually edit the build.prop with a text editor and change the ro.lcd_min_brightness=20 line to something lower. More info on build.prop editing here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2056364.
I'm a fan of Screen Filter, the standard minimum brightness is still quite bright in a dark room