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Using stock 4.0.1 here, and have always had the brightness set to auto. But it never seems to do anything? If I am in a light or dark room it is always dark, often darker than the lowest brightness setting.
I am just worried that the sensor might not be working, if the phone needs to be sent back it needs to be done soon. Anyone else with this issue? I know the sensor that turns off the phone screen when in call works, but the auto brightness might use a different one.
Fatila said:
Using stock 4.0.1 here, and have always had the brightness set to auto. But it never seems to do anything? If I am in a light or dark room it is always dark, often darker than the lowest brightness setting.
I am just worried that the sensor might not be working, if the phone needs to be sent back it needs to be done soon. Anyone else with this issue? I know the sensor that turns off the phone screen when in call works, but the auto brightness might use a different one.
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Auto brightness is just simply low on this device. There are some hacks in the dev section to increase it...but they don't work on my ROM.
I just started using juicedefender to adjust the auto birghtness
So auto brightness itself is broken and sensor is pry OK? I wonder if there are any apps to test it.
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So auto brightness itself is broken and sensor is pry OK? I wonder if there are any apps to test it.
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Simply put a bright light to it and watch the screen brighten up. The sensor is fine.. auto brightness simply is a little too conservative, probably because more people would moan about battery life than screen brightness.
My auto brightness works just fine. Sometimes I have to the screen off then on for it to adjust. Other than that, the levels are fine. I'm on 4.0.3.
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Does anyone know why when I turn off auto brightness, my screen gets so much brighter? Even if I have brightness set as low as it can go, it still seems alot brighter than it should be. Which must kill the battery.
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If you'd like to compare battery life between the two theres apps for it
But as its been said, better for the battery to have the light a little brighter than constantly be changing.
If you're rooted, Rootdim (search the Market, I can't post links yet) allows you to power down the backlight below the lowest option in Display Settings. It's nice for using the phone in the dark or with a bedside lamp and should minimise battery use if you've got auto-brightness turned off as well.
The only worry is the reviewer on the Market who said its lock option kept the backlight on (at a dim setting) after shutting the screen off on his Droid Bionic but I can't say I've noticed that on my Play.
Thanks, that Rootdim is what I needed.
I tried setting it to MAX, who in the hell needs it that high?! I didn't even know it could go that high, make it a white screen and you've got a flashlight!
Has anyone noticed stock auto brightness is equal to the LOW setting? The only thing it does, whether it's a dark room or bright room is flip the brightness to LOW.
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Has anyone noticed stock auto brightness is equal to low?
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no, i think auto brightness is too bright for me in most of the time? did your case block the sensor?
vista1984 said:
no, i think auto brightness is too bright for me in most of the time? did your case block the sensor?
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I don't have a case yet.
I agree that auto-brightness is too low. I manually set the brightness.
I agree the auto brightness is pretty low. However I like it, and it saves battery.
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The auto brightness is to high for me too. In low light conditions if I turn off the auto setting I can force the screen lower.
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I notice when the screen dims especially on auto dim that the screen flickers or strobes like the tail lights on cadillacs, I cant read any thing easily. The best way to see it is to quickly scan from the top of the screen to the bottom or vise versa in a dimly lit room, you will see a stepped image.
That's why I haven't used stock auto-brightness since my last HTC phone. I've used third party apps to control my brightness, since I had the original Note. Lux is my favorite. So much control over the brightness settings. You can control the lowest brightness setting the phone will hit in addition to numerous other variables. Works really well for me.
Mine works flawlessly. It usually is set at the lowest setting until needed to be boosted.
This gorgeous screen still suffers from being too damn bright in the dark! Needs a filter on it so your retinas don't burn in the dark.
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I had to use lux auto brightness to lower mine it was very bright. You might want to use it to increase yours if it's low .
In a 100% dark area (movie theater, etc.), when I flick my wrist to turn on the watch, it turned on with full brightness on. It stay there indefinitely... sometimes it'll go away by itself, other time I have to do something, like swiping cards before the screen will go dim.
In a semi (50% dark), the screen will not turn on to its full brightness, but at... dim. WTH?!
Stick watch face?
I've noticed this as well (when driving at night). Since it turns on all the time (I steer with the same hand I wear my watch on), I've noticed lots of strange behavior. Sometimes it turns on very bright, and then goes back to sleep. Sometimes it turns on bright and then dims to the minimal brightness that it should be. Sometimes it turns on with the appropriate, minimum brightness. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. I'm running a stock watch face, and have very few apps installed.
As someone offered up 'muting' the watch while driving in another thread as a possible solution, it doesn't help me. Whether or not the watch is muted, it still wakes up all the time, and varying brightness levels.
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Stick watch face?
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Emm...you mean stock watch face? If yes, I am using the classic one.
Auto brightness works well for me with ambient mode ON, I think I remember it being buggy with ambient mode OFF, what is yours set to?
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Auto brightness works well for me with ambient mode ON, I think I remember it being buggy with ambient mode OFF, what is yours set to?
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I have ambient mode OFF to save battery. Will turning it on fix the issue? I use Sleep as Android for sleep tracking and turn Ambient off and it lights up here and there at night.
Cut it out guys. ..or this thread will be locked
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Cut it out guys. ..or this thread will be locked
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^^This...well probably not locked
I did a little thread cleaning to remove the off topic arguments about using a device (phone or watch) in a movie theatre. There were a lot of people who quoted these posts, and unfortunately I had to remove these posts as well...sorry for that.
Here is the thing, this thread is about the buggy behavior of the watch waking up at full brightness. It doesn't matter if it is in a theatre, whilst driving the car, or you just woke up in the middle of the night and want to check the time. More that one person has reported the issue and there has been a proposed fix...please keep the thread focused on finding the root causes, fixes, work arounds, etc. No matter what, please knock off the name calling, that will only get you into trouble!
Thanks!:good:
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I have ambient mode OFF to save battery. Will turning it on fix the issue? I use Sleep as Android for sleep tracking and turn Ambient off and it lights up here and there at night.
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Try turning ambient mode ON during the day,
I just tested and with it off the screen does occasionally come on at full brightness even in the dark. With ambient on it only comes on bright the first time, quickly dims, and stays dim until taken into daylight :good:
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Try turning ambient mode ON during the day,
I just tested and with it off the screen does occasionally come on at full brightness even in the dark. With ambient on it only comes on bright the first time, quickly dims, and stays dim until taken into daylight :good:
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Interesting. So with ambient ON, it still turn on at full brightness but momentarily. I'll test this and will report back.
Well, I'm having the opposite problem following the last update.
it frequently (at work right now, for example) comes up EXTREMELY dim, I'd guess maybe 5x dimmer than brightness setting '1'.
I'm setting it to '1' as a workaround for now.
- Frank
Wait for the next 5.0 update. .there's options like theater mode. ..and other brightness modes coming to wear
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Smart Brightness for Moto 360
Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
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Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
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Instant buy. Thanks allot, that makes in combination with the 5.0 update, Watchmaker and Bubble Cloud Launcher my watch perfect.
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Try the application "smart brightness for moto 360" from the Google play. With this application you can set a minimum brightness and better view in low light environments.
With the minimum set to 20% and auto brightness on you will get better battery life and better experience in dark situation.
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Sadly, the auto brightness doesn't seem to work...yeah, just realized that after using it for a week.
Smart Brightness for Moto 360
TheGoD said:
Sadly, the auto brightness doesn't seem to work...yeah, just realized that after using it for a week.
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The application really works. If you want see how works, do the followings steps:
1. open Smart Brightness App
2. Turn on the application
3. Set the minimum brightness to 20%
4. Turn on the auto brightness.
5. Go to a dark room and wait until Moto360 to turn off the screen.
6. Touch the screen to wakeup the screen. (This is necessary because the Smart Brightness application start when the screen is on and stop when the screen is off).
You will see a clear image after this steps. Now go to the smart brightness app and turn it off (Using the on/off switch located at the top of the screen). Repeat the steps 5 and 6. Now the screen will look dark, because it is the factory auto brightness.
I recommend to use the 7 days trial. After 7 days after using it you will notice the difference.
I'm using this app over a month and works fine. Please let me know any other concern about the application.
For me its not the low light the problem as this works, is outside doens't go bright enough in direct sunlight
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no problems
i have always used it, never experienced any problems
Moto 360 on the second generation does not work
Fabio
I have auto dimness unchecked, and whenever the brightness is set to over 55%, after unlocking the phone it always auto dims byitself.
Is this normal? no other phone does this. Can this be bypassed somehow? It's jarring when you unlock and see a bright vibrant screen and all of a sudden it dims like 10% or so after 5 seconds.
Phone auto dims when it starts to heat up regardless of your settings.
Otherwise it shouldn't as long as it's not set to auto brightness.
nadram said:
Phone auto dims when it starts to heat up regardless of your settings.
Otherwise it shouldn't as long as it's not set to auto brightness.
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Ok, but when the phone hasn't been used in 30 minutes, and not "hot" at all, this still happens. This also happened with the G3 as well.
Is there a way to turn this off? This post has over 100 views, can everyone please comment if their screen does the same thing? Are there any solutions?
What carrier/model do you have?
I just tried this on mine, Verizon, 611A software.
With Auto Brightness disabled, set to 40%, I powered off, turned it on, then unlocked. The brightness did not change. Then set it to 100% brightness (Auto still disabled), and did the same thing. Again, the brightness did not change.
I have, however, seen the screen brightness reduced when I'm using Auto Brightness. If I turned it off in a bright area, then unlock it in a dim area, the screen will be bright for a moment, then will turn itself down, presumably based on evaluating the current ambient brightness.
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What carrier/model do you have?
I just tried this on mine, Verizon, 611A software.
With Auto Brightness disabled, set to 40%, I powered off, turned it on, then unlocked. The brightness did not change. Then set it to 100% brightness (Auto still disabled), and did the same thing. Again, the brightness did not change.
I have, however, seen the screen brightness reduced when I'm using Auto Brightness. If I turned it off in a bright area, then unlock it in a dim area, the screen will be bright for a moment, then will turn itself down, presumably based on evaluating the current ambient brightness.
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auto brightness is always off. It's the AT&T non rooted stock version. I just tuned brightness to 70%, powered off, powered on, and after unlocking and opening chrome it auto dimmed within 5 seconds.
Does it do it if you don't open Chrome?
I've seen apps make their own brightness adjustments (like a camera app that maxes out the screen brightness when it starts up). I want to say that Chrome (on my last phone) is one of them. Alternately, turn it on, unlock, wait 15 seconds, THEN start Chrome. If it still happens right after Chrome loads, then it's a Chrome phenomenon, not a just-turned-on phenomenon., and at least you can isolate what to chase down.
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Does it do it if you don't open Chrome?
I've seen apps make their own brightness adjustments (like a camera app that maxes out the screen brightness when it starts up). I want to say that Chrome (on my last phone) is one of them. Alternately, turn it on, unlock, wait 15 seconds, THEN start Chrome. If it still happens right after Chrome loads, then it's a Chrome phenomenon, not a just-turned-on phenomenon., and at least you can isolate what to chase down.
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Yes it dims even if I don't use chrome. No matter whats on the screen it dims a little after 5 seconds.
TheNamelessMan said:
I have auto dimness unchecked, and whenever the brightness is set to over 55%, after unlocking the phone it always auto dims byitself.
Is this normal? no other phone does this. Can this be bypassed somehow? It's jarring when you unlock and see a bright vibrant screen and all of a sudden it dims like 10% or so after 5 seconds.
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Download LUX (couple of bucks) set it to manual, 100% brightness on all LUX setting areas and it will bypass LG's lame attempt to hide the fact that they can't make a phone that doesn't suffer severe battery drain and overheating.
Your problem is called High Tempurate Thermal Mitigation (throttling). I depise it but with LUX, I tell the phone what is acceptable to me, not the other way around.
If I wanted to be dictated to like a submissive I'd just get an iphone.
I don't doubt that excess temps can cause the phone to adjust its behavior. But that quickly after turning the screen on? That seems really fast for something to go over-temperature, and for a sensor to also detect it that quickly. You may be 100% right, it's just not something I'd expect to happen that quickly.
This is a serious suggestion, despite how it may sound What if you put the phone in the fridge for 15 minutes or so, then do the same test? Does the screen still dim after 5 seconds? Depending on the humidity level, the phone could start to condense after coming out of a cold environment, so use your best judgement.
For a "safer" test, hold it in front of an air conditioner for a few minutes, with the screen off. Then, still at the A/C, turn the screen on, and see if it immediately dims.
If it suddenly runs for a while before dimming, then I'd agree it's likely temperature-related. If it still behaves the same way, then perhaps it's a different cause.
Either way, Lux sounds like a nice addition to these phones, from everything I've read. I've just been too cheap to try it yet But the rather coarse auto-brightness from LG has me curious.
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Ok, but when the phone hasn't been used in 30 minutes, and not "hot" at all, this still happens. This also happened with the G3 as well.
Is there a way to turn this off? This post has over 100 views, can everyone please comment if their screen does the same thing? Are there any solutions?
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Have you tried the cool-down suggestions (fridge, A/C,) ?
Try installing ThermoCF to monitor the battery temperature. I find that when used for GPS (mounted on windshield) the screen will dim with direct sunlight. The temperature is in excess of 120 °F when this happens.
I just left the G4 screen on 50% brightness for about 5 minutes and the temperature remained 98 °F (this is on a wireless charger, next to a warm laptop fan exhaust). I switched to 100% brightness and the battery temperature increased to 100 °F over the next five minutes but no dimming has occurred. After a few more minutes the temperature dropped to 99 °F with the screen remaining at 100% brightness.
Different from your problem but: I turned on the developer options and set the screen to "always-on when charging" and have noticed that the screen dims after some amount of time (I haven't timed, maybe 15 minutes or so). I ended up here because I was looking for a way to change that time and may download the LUX app to do it.
Nice to know I am not the only one having this problem. I use my phone to play Ingress and sucks the battery dry faster than anything. The screen kept going dim as I was charging.
I also have this same issue on my G5. I've tried the Lux, free version, and it still dimmed on its own. I wonder if the paid version will help out my situation?
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I like the auto-dim, and my phone seems to accept manual "guidance" as to how I prefer the auto-dim to work.
What I mean is that I can manually bump up the brightness slider (while auto-dim is checked/enabled), and the phone will auto-dim using the brighter setting. Or, I can bump the brightness slider down, and auto-dim will remember that and adjust the brightness.
So it's like you can control the baseline setting for auto-dim by using the brightness slider with auto-dim enabled, and then the phone will auto adjust from that baseline. I play ingress and during the day I bump up the slider, but during the night play I'll decrease the slider and still enjoy auto dim both ways, and preserve the most battery that way.
Aint looked to see if g4 has got it. I know g3 you go into hidden menu. And turn the thermal mitigations on and it stopped the throttle down. Lg has an insanley low throttle down temp.
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Aint looked to see if g4 has got it. I know g3 you go into hidden menu. And turn the thermal mitigations on and it stopped the throttle down. Lg has an insanley low throttle down temp.
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Under what setting is it on the G3 so I can check the G5?
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Under what setting is it on the G3 so I can check the G5?
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On the g3 and g4 its under main hiden menu. I use shortcutmaster to get to them all. But the g4 the options not there. Im not sure i dont know anything about the g5. Im not interested in it at all. I am selling my g4. So i can get another g3.
Now i know theres an app 3ctoolbox. And in cpu settings you can modify the unclock temps i dont know if it does the screen.
So, the hidden menu in Marshmallow, here it is folks. Where would I be able to find the option to turn off screen dim do to thermal mitigation? Anyone have any ideas?
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Mine also started to auto dim with auto brightness off. I have the H812 from Bell . I'm sure that on mine it's the proximity light sensor that is faulty or in the software. Because when i turn on the phone while blocking completely the proximity sensor it doesn't dim anymore. (knock knock doesn't work while sensor is blocked) but problem comes back if i wake up the phone without blocking the sensor. I have tried it many times and it's the same thing over and over.
Calibration in the hidden menu doesn't fix it, Lux and many other brightness apps iv'e tried don't fix the problem lol
I also use lux with cf.lumen
Lux will manage the auto brightness as per your preferences because i found the stock LG screen was about 15% lower than id like in all environments.
Cf.lumen actually changes the colour of the display rather than applying a dumb screen filter on top for night viewing.
The only thing Lux does for me is dim the screen twice since the phone already dims by itself 3-4 seconds after the screen is turned on. I can guaranty it's not an overheating problem, even after 30 minutes in the fridge it does it. I'm tempted to have the proximity sensor changed but will most likely wait for LG to release 6.0.1 to see if it will fix it.
Nougat 7.0 is days away and still no 6.0.1 MM for the G4. Pardon my language but LG really sucks . This is my first and last LG phone