I use the Auto setting as it seems to work very well except when out in direct sunlight. It will adjust up to 80-90% but not go all the way. If I am in direct sunlight and switch from Auto to High the screen definitely brightens a bit (and vice versa), does this happen to any one else?
While we are at it, a simple Toggle or Live tile to get to the brightness would be nice. Having to go through Settings etc. is a pain.
What setting do you have brightness set to when Auto is enabled? I believe that Auto also uses the Low/Medium/High settings to determine the range of what Auto will change to. So, there are really six different brightness settings: Low/Med/High with and without Auto.
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What setting do you have brightness set to when Auto is enabled? I believe that Auto also uses the Low/Medium/High settings to determine the range of what Auto will change to. So, there are really six different brightness settings: Low/Med/High with and without Auto.
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High. Try this please, set your phone on high brightness, go outside and then toggle the 'auto' switch on and off, you should see a difference. Thanks for the reply though!
I highly recommend you do not use auto brightness setting. It guzzles the battery. Use Low inside and Med outside to maximize your battery life. Use High outside if really needed.
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I highly recommend you do not use auto brightness setting. It guzzles the battery. Use Low inside and Med outside to maximize your battery life. Use High outside if really needed.
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Oh, do I understand that! High will devastate the battery in no time but.... When I'm outside I need to actually see the display so high it must be. Just wish Auto would actually set it to High instead of "sorta High"
I see exactly the same thing. It seems to be by design.
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I used to have it at 100% now doing 50%. does it really affect battery?
Adjusting the brightness in general does affect battery life. Although I'm not sure how much adjusting the %, while still using the "Auto" feature will work out. My thought on adjusting the % (while still using Auto) is not so much about battery life, but rather to have some more customization on how bright you like the screen. Many folks will criticize that Auto brightness algorithms are often insufficient and too bright or too dark for the given situations.
If battery life is your concern, I would suggest ditching "Auto" altogether. Reason being, being on Auto constantly polls the light sensor which in itself uses some battery
I haven't experimented with this phone, in particular. But on a previous device, I found anecdotally that turning off Auto and manually having it set to 40% brightness increased the battery life by around 30-40%. Of course, you mileage will vary, and it will depend on how you use your phone and other factors; as well as what brightness level you prefer.
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I used to have it at 100% now doing 50%. does it really affect battery?
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Adjusting the brightness in general does affect battery life. Although I'm not sure how much adjusting the %, while still using the "Auto" feature will work out. My thought on adjusting the % (while still using Auto) is not so much about battery life, but rather to have some more customization on how bright you like the screen. Many folks will criticize that Auto brightness algorithms are often insufficient and too bright or too dark for the given situations.
If battery life is your concern, I would suggest ditching "Auto" altogether. Reason being, being on Auto constantly polls the light sensor which in itself uses some battery
I haven't experimented with this phone, in particular. But on a previous device, I found anecdotally that turning off Auto and manually having it set to 40% brightness increased the battery life by around 30-40%. Of course, you mileage will vary, and it will depend on how you use your phone and other factors; as well as what brightness level you prefer.
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I've always manually adjusted autobrightness and generally leave it set at around 40% and adjusting when I need to, which typically isnt a great deal each day. Very rarely go anywhere near 100% brightness. It may be worth experiementing and monitoring your battery life for auto and manual over say a week to see the results.
I was under the impression that the slider position was irrelevant if Auto was selected. So setting the slider on Auto sets the upper limit the algorithm uses?
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I was under the impression that the slider position was irrelevant if Auto was selected. So setting the slider on Auto sets the upper limit the algorithm uses?
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Your second point seems to be the case, yes.
You will notice even if "Auto" is selected, moving the slider back and forth will make the screen dimmer/brighter for the given ambient lighting condition.
On older devices, your first point was true. Selecting one would override the other. If I remember properly, manually selecting a brightness level would deselect the "Auto" feature.
My understanding has always been that the slider sets the MAX brightness the screen will go up to when set to auto. So if you put it on 50% and go outside in bright sunlight the screen will only go up to 50% which may not be enough. I set mine on 100% and that way if I am in direct sun the screen will go as high as it can and still go down as low as is needed when in a dark room. I will also say that of all the phones I have ever owned this one has the best auto brightness implementation of them all as a stock feature.
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My understanding has always been that the slider sets the MAX brightness the screen will go up to when set to auto. So if you put it on 50% and go outside in bright sunlight the screen will only go up to 50% which may not be enough. I set mine on 100% and that way if I am in direct sun the screen will go as high as it can and still go down as low as is needed when in a dark room. I will also say that of all the phones I have ever owned this one has the best auto brightness implementation of them all as a stock feature.
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That's what I thought but it's the opposite! From HTC website: "With the*Automatic brightness*option selected, drag the slider to set the maximum brightness level.*This sets a LIMIT on how bright the screen will be when*Automatic brightness*is selected"
Source: http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465124.html
This means that it will only affect the lowest brightness level, not the highest, meaning you can have it a 0% and it will always go to maximum brightness when in direct sunlight. I've tested this and can confirm it's empirically true.
Hey all. Anyway to change the Auto-Brightness settings? Laying in bed at night or when I wake up and use my phone, it's way too bright! Always have to turn off auto and lower it. Figured there must be a way to change its controllable range?
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Hey all. Anyway to change the Auto-Brightness settings? Laying in bed at night or when I wake up and use my phone, it's way too bright! Always have to turn off auto and lower it. Figured there must be a way to change its controllable range?
Dave
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Give Lux Auto Brightness a try, you can adjust the "auto" brightness to whatever levels you'd like which allows the screen to auto-dim a lot lower. I believe there is a Lite version as well.
Like he said use lux. You Will Want The Paid Version
Arcolog2 said:
Hey all. Anyway to change the Auto-Brightness settings? Laying in bed at night or when I wake up and use my phone, it's way too bright! Always have to turn off auto and lower it. Figured there must be a way to change its controllable range?
Dave
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Did you try turning on "Power Saving" and then check the box for screen output under "restrict performance"? That's what I use and my screen is very dim in auto mode.
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You might want to try the Twilight app...it is based on a study about how certain colors impact your sleep cycles so in night mode it changes the background color to help you fall asleep when you are done. Its pretty interesting stuff.
Thanks guys i will check out Lux and Twilight later on today!
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?
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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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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.
hey guys,
im having trouble with adaptive brightness since some time and i am pretty sure sth has changed there.
my screen is just to dark for the most time.
some time ago i could just increase the brightness value and the adaptive brightness would work with that (higher) value, like an anchor value.
now, by doing that, i just change the overall brightness and it will jump back after some time.
is this the same for you guys? it gets obviously when being in a dark room and ramping up the brightness (with adaptive brightness enabled) to 100 percent. now when i disable adaptive brightness, exactly nothing changes in terms of brightness, however former times, there would be still an increase in brightness since 100 percent with adaptive brightness does not equal 100 percent on manual brightness (at least in a dark place). now it does.
is this the same for you? was this an update or sth?
latest stock pie, with caesium kernel.
Something in kernel settings?
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Something in kernel settings?
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nothing set in settings.
also just tried another one, kikasura or how it is callled. same thing.
just that we are on the same page here: you still can increase the anchor value in brightness settings. or will it, too, just increase your overall brightness for a short time and as soon as lights change or you lock the screen it will be back to previous values?
I stop using auto brightness because some times he is crazy.
I prefer manual mod, like this I have the hand on it and i consum lot less battery (It's my feeling)
Adaptive Brightness is still working fine for me. The way I like to "calibrate" it is when in pitch dark, I set it all the way down to 0. From there it'll always go maximum when in sunlight and indoors it's somewhere in between and does fine. If that's not enough, try resetting adaptive brightness:
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It is happening the same to me on very low light scenarios, auto brightness will go to the lower value, setting the screen without almost no bright, besides I put it manually higher. Maybe this happened after a update I dont know.
FedericoUY said:
It is happening the same to me on very low light scenarios, auto brightness will go to the lower value, setting the screen without almost no bright, besides I put it manually higher. Maybe this happened after a update I dont know.
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/26/18516417/how-to-adjust-android-pie-adaptive-brightness-feature
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Hello!
I bought a Base S22 a few weeks ago and so far, I'm loving this device. But one thing that bothers me is the adaptive brightness implementation from Samsung, because its not really "adaptive". Even on some cloudy days, the brightness gets maximized and I can not change it to a lower level, because I always get the "maximized for best viewing in bright light" notification. In all other scenarios the adaptive brightness algorithm works perfectly.
Is there a way to disable this kind of behavior?
My current solution for sunny days is a Bixby routine to quickly disable adaptive brightness when I'm longer outside to save some battery.
Use manual brightness control. Adaptive brightness never worked right... no surprise it still doesn't.
You can manually lower the brightness even in adaptive mode, and hopefully it will adapt to you too.
Another options are:
- Battery Saving mode has optional "10% lower brightness "
– Battery Guardian module of Good Lock (with dependencies!) may be configured to lower brightness when phone's temperature is high
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You can manually lower the brightness even in adaptive mode, and hopefully it will adapt to you too.
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That never works right either... The only draw back to full manual is finding the slider in bright light to jack it up. Auto is easier to temporarily use then. That said using the device in direct sunlight should be limited to seconds not minutes. Avoid whenever possible.
50% or less is best for battery and AMOLED conservation.
Using manual brightness control saves battery, display and your retinas
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You can manually lower the brightness even in adaptive mode, and hopefully it will adapt to you too.
Another options are:
- Battery Saving mode has optional "10% lower brightness "
– Battery Guardian module of Good Lock (with dependencies!) may be configured to lower brightness when phone's temperature is high
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The problem is that the phone puts the brightness to the maximum and locks it there in bright light. Even when I use battery saving to lower the brightness by about 10%, it doesn't let me change the brightness to a lower level.
I don't know if this is just a thing on Samsung phones, because I heard that they use the adaptive brightness algorithm with KI from Google.
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The problem is that the phone puts the brightness to the maximum and locks it there in bright light. Even when I use battery saving to lower the brightness by about 10%, it doesn't let me change the brightness to a lower level.
I don't know if this is just a thing on Samsung phones, because I heard that they use the adaptive brightness algorithm with KI from Google.
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Which is why I use full manual control almost always. Invariably auto is many time too bright and has a tendency to "jump" around. Lol, human vision in much more adaptable and its nearly seamless.
The brightest stars burn the quickest... my plan is to have a display that's perfect for the life of my heavily used devices which likely will be in excess of 4+ years. Batteries are easy and cheap to replace, the displays aren't. Samsung's plan is to sell you a new phone every year.