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Auto-brightness-once it goes up it doesn't come down

On my nexus, my auto brightness is not working right. If I take my phone in bright light, the screen brightness goes up. However, if I move away to a dim place or cover the light sensor, it doesn't dim the screen. Its like its stuck on that higher setting till I turn the screen off and on. Of course we have the very low brightness issue also, but this is different. Can anyone try this on theirs' and see what happens?
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Same here. Minor inconvenience. Last phone did it also.
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I've never had a phone other than an iphone 2g that did this. Its very bad for battery life. I mean, you would be using your phone in bright light and then move away to a dim place and expect the screen to go down in brightness to save battery. But its but working here this way.
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if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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Im using a myTouch 4G and its always done that. My mothers MT4GS does the same thing. I think its just something that isnt accounted for
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@rbiter said:
if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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yes pach it

guys, especially the new Verizon owners, do you all notice the same thing on your phones?

Please can someone test this out? I need to see whether its a defect on just my phone or whether its normal behavior with the Nexus . Thanks.
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Its not just yours. Patch it or move on.
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All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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kangxi said:
All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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Great, but it shouldn't do that. It should auto adjust on the fly. I saw it functioning fine on the Note I had. After the patch, does this work normal now?
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OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?

wm2001wm2001 said:
OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?
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Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.

Or simply not use auto-brightness.

frankdeale said:
Or simply not use auto-brightness.
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You could do that, but the intent of this thread was to highlight an obvious flaw with ICS. Im sure thats how google wanted it, but why?
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Did anybody find the patch and does it work?? I searched the dev section and all I could find was patches to increase the light levels of the auto brightness, couldn't find the patch or a fix for the auto brightness not dimming. If someone could link it or point me in the right direction that would be awesome

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Nobody was ably to fix the issue of the screen not dimming???

Same here on 4.0.4, I find it very annoying. A friend of mine now uses AOKP MS5 on his device, which dims correctly (as I think of what "correct" is).

mike2518 said:
Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.
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Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)

evcz said:
Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)
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Im the OP of this post, turns out most of the custom roms have an option under display settings called decrease hysteresis that allows the screen to dim. I am completely satisfied now.
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LED notification....

Does the Gnex have an LED notification light? I have yet to see one.
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Sure does. Its below the display. RGB too.
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The notification light in Gnex is one of my favourite options in the phone. Some ROMs provide full customization of the notification light ( ex. Paranoid android) . I've set it to flash blue for missed calls , yellow for SMS, green for whatsapp and red for tango

It only lights up when the screen is off?
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Correct

twillet50 said:
Does the Gnex have an LED notification light? I have yet to see one.
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When I first got it I actually did not know that it had a LED notification light. I got a phone call and noticed the light and I was amazed and I immediately loved my phone more
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Mine only works with Light Flow. Stock or on a rom, no workie.

tgyberg said:
Mine only works with Light Flow. Stock or on a rom, no workie.
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The rom has to support it, and you have to manually set it up...

I installed light flow. That's how I found it. I'm running Affinity rom and have not seen it work before. Maybe the rom doesn't support it.
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AshtonTS said:
The rom has to support it, and you have to manually set it up...
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BAMF does support it and I set it all up long ago. Still no workie!

ac3theone said:
When I first got it I actually did not know that it had a LED notification light. I got a phone call and noticed the light and I was amazed and I immediately loved my phone more
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Same here...bi was like shut the front door... :::::
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Ep3n3wp said:
Same here...bi was like shut the front door... :::::
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Lmao nice
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Lightflow has been really flaky for me (misses many notification events). The built-in settings in CM10 works best. I don't recall it missing anything.

twillet50 said:
It only lights up when the screen is off?
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3rdstring said:
Correct
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Except for receiving a phone call . It lights when the screen is off or on. That's at least what my phone does with PA rom

I love how I makes it pulse when I charge my phone.
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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^

Yup, didn't know there was one also. I got the point of thinking... maybe the VZW version just doesn't have one :crying:
And then it happened...:victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:

Galaxy Nexus + LightFlow has been a great combination for me. The RGB LED notification is a must for me with any future phones.

is a full on Rom the only way to customize it? Only thing id really like to see, is for it to pulse a bit faster. The length in time it takes to pulse is too long imo. I could turn the phone on an look faster than it would take for me to stare at that point and see if there is a message.

use lightflow.
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Must have been something with the Affinity rom. I loaded CNA and it works as its supposed to, plus its customizable.
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Annoying Screen Timeout!

So I'm watching a video (expanded to full screen) on the stock browser at night in a dark room when the screen times out.
I can't find any way of switching the screen timeout off, and have to resort to setting the time to maximum and having to reopen the screen and restart the video every 10 minutes.
There has to be a solution to this annoying problem? Please?
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Is smart stay enabled or is it just not working on the dark room ? If smart stay is not working then you can just pull out the s pen from it's holder or hover with the s pen instead of closing the video.
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Do not watch video too much..beware of burn screen issue
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CreepyDroid said:
Is smart stay enabled or is it just not working on the dark room ?
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Smart stay doesn't work in a dark room.
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naimmkassim said:
Do not watch video too much..beware of burn screen issue
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Huh? I'm watching a film full screen. That's going to burn my screen?
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Tuffcheez said:
Huh? I'm watching a film full screen. That's going to burn my screen?
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I think he's just being a troll....
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Im not troll..but i heard many issue of burn screen come from Amoled display..do some search, u will find the tread which discuss about burn screen..
Here one of them from note 2 thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967803
U can found more from note 1 thread..
Not saying watch video can confirm the screen burn issue..just saying maybe it can cause life span of screen burn become short..but definately amoled screen can not avoid it..
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naimmkassim said:
Im not troll..but i heard many issue of burn screen come from Amoled display..do some search, u will find the tread which discuss about burn screen..
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Fair enough, but there is "no issue."
Why have this phone if you don't use it? Besides, full screen is probably one way to AVOID burn in.
What are you even talking about?
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DanDroidian said:
Fair enough, but there is "no issue."
Why have this phone if you don't use it? Besides, full screen is probably one way to AVOID burn in.
What are you even talking about?
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Is it? Full screen really can avoid screen burn?? Good then..thanks for this info ..from all the thread i read, no one mention about this..hope its true :thumbup:
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naimmkassim said:
Is it? Full screen really can avoid screen burn?? Good then..thanks for this info ..from all the thread i read, no one mention about this..hope its true :thumbup:
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Yes, this avoids the screen burn. Screen burn only happens because some of the led's are used more than others which is why some degrade faster which results in varying color contrasts. Using full screen almost all the time however, uses all of the led's, thus all of them will degrade at a slightly similar rate and the change of color contrast would not be as noticeable to the common eye.
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If you mean stock internet browser it will time out don't know why I streamed hell in a cell last week had the same issue doesn't happen on any other phone I know of just this one...I had to stretch the screen so it looked full screen and it stayed on strange I know
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I'm having the same problem not sure why there would be this problem considering no phone for the last 4 years have had this problem. Terrible overt sight by Google/Samsung. Really interested if some one finds the solution to this.

Use Profile Scheduler from the play store it lets you set up a profile with a setting for screen time out never option. Thats the only reason I use it. I listen to alot of music in my truck and it keeps the musoc player from going to sleep.

Screen time out issue is only when watching flash enabled videos in browser.
Reason : Flash is not supported in Jellybean officially,
So just using flashplayer.apk will not rewrite screen timeout settings in system files.
And, smart stay doesn't work in dark room with lights off.
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gotshoaib said:
Screen time out issue is only when watching flash enabled videos in browser.
Reason : Flash is not supported in Jellybean officially,
So just using flashplayer.apk will not rewrite screen timeout settings in system files.
And, smart stay doesn't work in dark room with lights off.
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what do you recommend?

rocketpaul said:
what do you recommend?
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Download "Screen on" from playstore.
Check the application ie Internet for stock browser and then check enable.

[Q] Decrease the lowest brightness of Note 2?

Hi, I'm a newbie here, I just wondering is there a way to decrease the lowest brightness limit?
It's quite uncomfortable to use the phone in a completely dark room, even though I've set the lowest brightness.
Thank You

Play store, screen filter or Filter your screen.
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Though keep in mind that screen filters degrade the quality of colors and makes you unable to install apps while they're active.

Jobiza said:
Play store, screen filter or Filter your screen.
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Thanks, will try them soon

MohJee said:
Though keep in mind that screen filters degrade the quality of colors and makes you unable to install apps while they're active.
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Oh I see. Is there another way to prevent these?
Or is there any MOD? So I do not need to use screen filters...
I saw this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2008197
Just wondering is there any MOD for decrease the lowest brightness
Thank You :laugh:

I use "screen filter" every night and ever morning.I have been for over two years now. Under that time I must have updated an app a few times!

There is an app called Night Mode on play store. Its pretty good and its free. Do give it a try..
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you can decrease it in build prop if youre rooted

Can you point out the changes on the build prop file ?
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pakalrtb said:
Can you point out the changes on the build prop file ?
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ro.lcd_min_brightness
20 is default

I recomend the Screen Filter app
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MohJee said:
Though keep in mind that screen filters degrade the quality of colors and makes you unable to install apps while they're active.
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Just bought Lux from store few days ago and have no experience like this. Only if use night mode the colors look funny to me, but the backlight control is awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux

It works! Feel the brightness decreased, although not really big difference.
However, thanks man! Love it!
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haldi15 said:
you can decrease it in build prop if youre rooted
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I used this solution. Forgotten to mention...
Thanks!
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what changes do we make in build.prop?

zidane said:
what changes do we make in build.prop?
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its on the first page..

Paul013 said:
There is an app called Night Mode on play store. Its pretty good and its free. Do give it a try..
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Thanks. Night mode works nicely.
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haldi15 said:
ro.lcd_min_brightness
20 is default
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That's what I was about to recommend, i changed my min brightness to 2, i couldn't notice much difference tho lol (I think my eyes are tired )
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
That's what I was about to recommend, i changed my min brightness to 2, i couldn't notice much difference tho lol (I think my eyes are tired )
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yeah you're right, the brightness does not change even though there is extra room for decreasing the brightness on the slider.

Try Elixir 2
I use Elixir to make a filter toggle, I have this toggle within a widget in my homescreen and other one in the statusbar widget (both with the same filter configuration) and it works perfect for me because Elixir allows to add many toggles in the same widget.

Screen backlight levels

Anyone know which ROM(s) will let you modify the backlight levels for the screen? Trying to help battery consumption by the display. For example, on my inc2 these could be found in display setyings > edit backlight levels
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jtsrtr13 said:
Anyone know which ROM(s) will let you modify the backlight levels for the screen? Trying to help battery consumption by the display. For example, on my inc2 these could be found in display setyings > edit backlight levels
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Cyanogen Mod 10.1 does this now. When you adjust brightness via the settings menu, you can click edit and adjust the autobrightness levels.

Is CM10.1 the only one? Or can I expect all ROMs with a CM base to do this as well?
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jtsrtr13 said:
Is CM10.1 the only one? Or can I expect all ROMs with a CM base to do this as well?
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Aokp has this as well
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jtsrtr13 said:
Anyone know which ROM(s) will let you modify the backlight levels for the screen? Trying to help battery consumption by the display. For example, on my inc2 these could be found in display setyings > edit backlight levels
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I can confirm this does not have an effect on battery life. Seems like even though the display backlight can be lowered, it does not change how much power is consumed to keep the screen on. Go ahead and experiment yourself.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
I can confirm this does not have an effect on battery life. Seems like even though the display backlight can be lowered, it does not change how much power is consumed to keep the screen on. Go ahead and experiment yourself.
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If this is true it seems to me that manufacturers should try and address this issue of power consumption by displays. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a nice screen as much as the next user, but I'd rather sacrifice a slightly downgraded display for better power management by the device itself.
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jtsrtr13 said:
If this is true it seems to me that manufacturers should try and address this issue of power consumption by displays. Don't get me wrong I enjoy a nice screen as much as the next user, but I'd rather sacrifice a slightly downgraded display for better power management by the device itself.
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I think manufacturers should go back to 4 inch displays. They are much easier to use one handed and smaller screens are so battery friendly. My old Atrix 4G would give me 8 hours screen time on Wi-Fi.
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u can try screen filter.

Use Lux and set it up according to your preferences!. Simple, clean and available for all ROMs!!
Cheers!!

jtsrtr13 said:
Anyone know which ROM(s) will let you modify the backlight levels for the screen? Trying to help battery consumption by the display. For example, on my inc2 these could be found in display setyings > edit backlight levels
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The latest carbon ROM has the cm feature mentioned above just used it lol
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