My wife and I both have month old gs3's. Both are stock, have brightness set to auto, and power saving mode on. However, hers is much brighter than mine.
She has a white phone and I have a blue one. Am I missing another setting that could be different on our phones?
Have you tried manually going through each of the brightness settings to see if they are different when not set on auto?
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Yup. They're the same. It's only with auto.
In my experience auto brightness has never really worked properly for me on any Android I've had.. I personally always have my screen as low as possible, it's pretty bright even like that.
I have heard that its not uncommon for inconsistencies in screen brightness on some phones. May be a quality control issue
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If the brightness of the phones are working manually then i would just chalk it up to minor inconsistencies in the photo cell's on each device, which is to be expected.
Check if "auto adjust screen tone" is checked in Settings -> Display.
EDIT: If it's only with auto, maybe the brightness sensor is a little wack. You could try the Lux brightness app in the play store, as you can manually set the outdoor brightness/screen brightness ratios.
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My wife and I both have month old gs3's. Both are stock, have brightness set to auto, and power saving mode on. However, hers is much brighter than mine.
She has a white phone and I have a blue one. Am I missing another setting that could be different on our phones?
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Sorry for bumping this but I have the exact same issue. Mine is blue, my wife's is white. Her phone is way brighter set to auto than mine. It's the same if auto is turned off, her phone is way brighter.
Google searches don't reveal any suggestions...
So this is definitely not a blue vs. white phone issue. In my office, four other people have Galaxy S3s. Three are blue like mine and one is white. I compared all of their phones to mine and mine is way dimmer and a slightly different color temperature than theirs are. I did a factory reset on my phone and it made no difference. The phone is only 12 days old so I am going to take it back up to Best Buy today and see if they can swap it out.
**Update**
Best Buy swapped the phone for me and the issue is resolved for me. In fact, the new phone is a little brighter than some of the phones I had compared to before.
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I just got my Galaxy nexus (an hour ago), and I'm getting around using it pretty well except for one thing which is annoying me big time.
The screen seems to dim or change its color balance when viewing certain things. Whites are usually dimmed at most times, but when I view other things, the dimness goes away and whites become very radiant.
It seems like the phone is adjusting automatically to things on the screen for the sake of energy saving. How do i disable this!?
Yes, I have my Brightness on manual and set to full. That is not the issue.
okay wow this is getting annoying... Two more issues:
1-The thing won't transfer files while im using windows 7 "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected". When using OSX Lion, it isn't even detected.
2-There is chinese text here and there no matter what I do for language settings.
This is my first android phone ever, and I'm not liking the experience so far...
Look, I've tried searching for these two issues, and I did not find any threads with them resolved. Maybe I'm computer illiterate. Maybe I have a very low IQ, but can you just help me resolve these issues IF you know how to resolve them without just going into my thread and be like "Oh look, another noob", and proceed with leaving?
PS: I AM A NOOB.
Protip 1. Read up on amoled technology a little. And then read some of the issues some phones like galaxy s2 had. Your dimming is normal. It sounds like you're just more sensitive to it.
Protip 2. Download the appropriate drivers. In device manager, you want it to say android adb interface when you're phone is plugged in.
Protip 3. Take a chill pill. It is okay to be a noob. It happens. Your attitude comes off as annoying or you're freaking out over nothing. Solving problems take time and we are not sorry xda can solve them instantly for you. Patience, amigo.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
You might try turning of Auto Brightness and set it somewhere you feel comfortable... I just decided when I got this phone that I'd make myself get used to the adjustments and it's worked out well.
IMHO the adjustments going from white to black are less noticeable on 4.0.3
As far as the dimming, you have Auto Brightness on. Go to settings, screen and set the brightness to something else.
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Is_907 said:
You might try turning of Auto Brightness and set it somewhere you feel comfortable... I just decided when I got this phone that I'd make myself get used to the adjustments and it's worked out well.
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As far as the dimming, you have Auto Brightness on. Go to settings, screen and set the brightness to something else.
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I take it you missed the part where the op said his brightness is set on manual?
samsung drivers
for the drivers use this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20311264
PDAnet installs the drivers for you nice and easy, then you can remove from your phone and pc and the drivers will stay behind.
at this time there is no way to disable the screen dimming function. samsung's other phones have this feature as well, with an option to disable it in settings. its a power saving feature. for whatever reason google did not give any option to turn this on or off. so for now we have to wait if maybe a ROM can disable it.
For OSX you need to download Android file transfer for it to be seen.
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Thank you everyone ...Sorry for the attitude earlier.
It seems like I got one of the GNexus phones which have a really good screen (The colors are just mind blowing), its only the dimming thing which is getting in the way. Also, I've tried to update to 4.0.3 and checked out the developer's section of the GNexus forum, but the steps are kind of overwhelming and I'm having my final exams at university right now, so I'll have to wait for a week to just sit back and read everything slowly and correctly.
One more thing, is there a download link to the official 4.0.3 mod ? It seems like everyone here prefers modded images one way or another.
lol. the dimming you are referring to is probably from current draw or a trait inherent to amoled. some people have mentioned they notice "dimming" like on white background browser and you pop up your keyboard. the white will get dimmer or yellower, or black more grayish. this is what you're talking about?
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lol. the dimming you are referring to is probably from current draw or a trait inherent to amoled. some people have mentioned they notice "dimming" like on white background browser and you pop up your keyboard. the white will get dimmer or yellower, or black more grayish. this is what you're talking about?
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Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
Firstly, welcome to Android. Once you get used to it you'll love it. I gave the same problem Windows 7 sometimes usually large video files and need to say that the adb drivers are not required to transfer files to the phone - I don't have them installed and I can still transfer data.
I have to say this is my first amoled device and I haven't noticed any dimming unless I have auto brightness on of course which I understand you don't.
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Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
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ah yes. you're correct. i had it backwards.
I have the same issue with transferring large amounts of data using Windows 7. Looking for a fix too.
Investing the time to learn how to setup the SDK and using ADB will be well worth it.
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Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
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Out of the three results I found searching for this topic, I'm glad I checked this thread.
The exact thing I was wondering was:
Is there any way to disable the screen from getting brighter when my keyboard comes up on the screen?
From reading your response, it seems that the screen getting brighter is a result of the design of the screen, suggesting that there is no way to stop it from happening. The only thing I've been able to do to make the screen remain at the brightness I set it is to change the theme of my keyboard to a brighter or lighter color based theme.
I'm using Swiftkey with the Neon keyboard, it looks great and I love it!
I had a Samsung Vibrant previously to the Galaxy Nexus, and there indeed was a "Power Saving Option" in the settings and if I remember correctly that stopped the screen from getting brighter with the keyboard on screen. Has any fix / ability to change this on a stock Galaxy Nexus running JB been found? It's just barely annoying enough for me to notice it, plus I'm a stickler for more battery life and I can feel my battery dying the brighter the screen gets. ( I know this last part may be a mental thing, but still. Haha. )
So I've noticed that when I hold my GS3 next to my sisters hers looks brighter than mine, hers isn't rooted it's running stock TW. I'm not sure if it really is a brightness thing or if her colors are just more vibrant, I can't really tell. Also the bottom of my screen is oddly brighter when viewing blacks than the rest of the screen. Anyone know what this is or if it's fixable? I read somewhere that morfic's kernels make the colors more accurate or something like that but I'm not sure if it's true.
Info:
Rom: Frosty JB v3.0
Kernel: Stock
Modem: LI7
Gotta replace it.... My old one was yellowish. Now my new one makes a popping sound when playing music, you can't win them all.... My first one had a broken power button
Samsung quality control is ****
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Are you using automatic or manual brightness when comparing? Auto brightness on a lot of JB roms are somewhat broken.
Manual for both, I flashed higher brightness levels that Wanam made and that sort of fixed the brightness thing. When comparing on lowest brightness hers is still noticeably brighter but on max it's about even. Mine actually looks a little brighter but the whites on her screen are more accurate or "crisp" so it appears that they are about even when mine is most likely brighter. This didn't fix the black screen issue unfortunately, I think it's also important to note that she has a white GS3 and I have a blue one, I looked on the internet and in some comparison videos where they do a side by side of both with a blank white screen the white S3 is noticeably brighter so that may be why.
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Manual for both, I flashed higher brightness levels that Wanam made and that sort of fixed the brightness thing. When comparing on lowest brightness hers is still noticeably brighter but on max it's about even. Mine actually looks a little brighter but the whites on her screen are more accurate or "crisp" so it appears that they are about even when mine is most likely brighter. This didn't fix the black screen issue unfortunately, I think it's also important to note that she has a white GS3 and I have a blue one, I looked on the internet and in some comparison videos where they do a side by side of both with a blank white screen the white S3 is noticeably brighter so that may be why.
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Not saying that there isn't a problem but it could all be an illusion. With a white phone the color probably makes the screen look whiter or "brighter" as compared to a darker colored border on ur blue phone
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That's what I thought at first but I all my friends and others said hers looked brighter as well and it's pretty noticeable with low brightness that hers is brighter.
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That's what I thought at first but I all my friends and others said hers looked brighter as well and it's pretty noticeable with low brightness that hers is brighter.
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Might as well contact Samsung and ask for a replacement for a faulty screen
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Are you using any sort of screen protector, could affect screen. Just a thought
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Two things to consider.
Toghle the display setting for Auto Adjust Screen Tone.
Also, unless you are both on the same rom you wont be doing apples to apples. DJ' Frosty roms include the Bravia Engine i believe. This alone could cause the differences you are seeing. Odin back to stock, same build as the other phone. Make sure the settings are all identical. (Not just display, but all settings. Dev options, battery saver, etc)
If youre still having different results then you may have hardware issues.
One very Important question to ask yourself....would you even notice that your display might be sub par if you didnt have the side by side comparison?
Consider that before thinking about sending it in. Often you will get a refurb in return which can have much more annoying issues.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Two things to consider.
Toghle the display setting for Auto Adjust Screen Tone.
Also, unless you are both on the same rom you wont be doing apples to apples. DJ' Frosty roms include the Bravia Engine i believe. This alone could cause the differences you are seeing. Odin back to stock, same build as the other phone. Make sure the settings are all identical. (Not just display, but all settings. Dev options, battery saver, etc)
If youre still having different results then you may have hardware issues.
One very Important question to ask yourself....would you even notice that your display might be sub par if you didnt have the side by side comparison?
Consider that before thinking about sending it in. Often you will get a refurb in return which can have much more annoying issues.
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Yeah, I didn't really plan on sending it in, it's not that big a problem with higher brightness levels by Wanam so it's not really worth it. I was just wondering if something caused it or if it was a defect but as you said above the bravia engine could cause it so I'm okay with it, I'd rather have my rooted, less bright, boss of a phone running frosty JB v3.0 than stock TW with a slightly brighter screen. :laugh:
I've never really understood why ppl make mods for higher brightness or sound can't that hurt ur hardware I mean isn't there a reason why the max volume or brightness is set at that level
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otariq said:
I've never really understood why ppl make mods for higher brightness or sound can't that hurt ur hardware I mean isn't there a reason why the max volume or brightness is set at that level
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Often the levels are set with battery savings in mind. Also i doubt any manufacturer will set ranges to include true maximum as it could shorten device life and some components may have different tollerances from one batch to the next.
Yes setting levels too high can cause damage if you are not careful. People still make mods for this stuff for the same reason they mod every other part of android, to get more out of their device! Just about everything you see here on xda comes with some level of risk.
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I had this problem when I was using the power-saving feature.
Even after disabling powersaving my screen was all dark and messed up just like yours.
To fix it I had to enable powersaving, then go to power saving options and uncheck all four of the powersaving methods, then finally disable powersaving.
Only after that did my auto-brightness start functioning correctly again.
Tellymon said:
I had this problem when I was using the power-saving feature.
Even after disabling powersaving my screen was all dark and messed up just like yours.
To fix it I had to enable powersaving, then go to power saving options and uncheck all four of the powersaving methods, then finally disable powersaving.
Only after that did my auto-brightness start functioning correctly again.
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Thanks! I'm not sure why it didn't effect her screen since she also has power saving on but after doing this my screens back to normal now.
Does anyone have the brightness mod? I went to the original link and unable to download it. Thanks in advance.
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Hi everyone. I recently got a second Galaxy S4 as a work phone, and my company uses Verizon as their carrier. I have noticed quite a few differences between the phones that are ROM related (mine is T-Mobile obviously), but the ones that get me the most are the screen on the Verizon S4 is significantly brighter for any given setting and the notification LED is brighter on the Verizon S4. So, if they're in auto brightness mode, the Verizon screen is brighter by a noticeable amount in any given lighting situation. If they're not in auto brightness with the slider set to the same position, the Verizon phone is still brighter. I have to move the slider up quite a bit more (a full slider "knob" width at least on my T-Mobile S4) to get them to be relatively equal brightness.
The other thing I noticed is the notification LED at the top is MUCH brighter on the Verizon S4. Mine is easily half as bright for any given color. So, are these features ROM controlled as well? Meaning, could it simply be the ROM is written so that the screen isn't as bright for any given slider position and the LED brightness is reduced by the ROM? I never even noticed this "issue" until I had another one side by side, so that's why I wonder if it was intended to be this way. Everything works, it's just not as bright. I really like the brighter notification LED though...
The other option of course is that my phone has some kind of hardware difference or possibly a defect of some kind. I don't know anyone else who has an S4 to compare it to, so I'm not sure. I tried stopping in at a couple mobile phone stores, but they didn't have working demos. I might try a T-Mobile store this weekend since they are normally closed after I get off work.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has noticed similar things. Thanks in advance!
Bump? Function of the kernel possibly?
Pictures, please.
Is there any way to force the notification LED on for the Verizon phone? The test menus don't work. I'd like to set them side by side and get a picture of each color, plus pictures of the screens where it's most noticeable.
Also, all I have to take pictures with is my Sensation 4G, so I don't know how well they will turn out, but I can try once I figure out the notification LED for the Verizon phone. I have seen how to enable them, but it requires root. Since it's a work phone, this isn't an option.
Just installed P and now previous brightness level of 63 it's so dim? I have to have it almost on 90% brightness now, why have they messed with this, it was fine as it was
Ady1976 said:
Just installed P and now previous brightness level of 63 it's so dim? I have to have it almost on 90% brightness now, why have they messed with this, it was fine as it was
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Same for me. WTF Google?
The actual brightness is the same, they just changed how the slider works. The first half moved it fast, last half moved it slower. Now the slider is more uniform.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...c-brightness-slider-introduced-android-p-dp3/
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It's definitely not smooth across the entire range, all my brightness is almost all the last 10% and actually a pain to set properly, it's worse for me.
That's more accurate because in bright indoor lighting or outside it's going to be towards the end of the scale. Dim indoor lighting I'm currently at 43%. And in pitch black it goes to 0%. I pretty much never touch my slider anymore after a couple adjustments. Don't get caught up on the percentages. I would be willing to bet that with Oreo at 40% and Pie at 90% the lumens output of the screen was the same.
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It's definitely not smooth across the entire range, all my brightness is almost all the last 10% and actually a pain to set properly, it's worse for me.
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That's more accurate because in bright indoor lighting or outside it's going to be towards the end of the scale. Dim indoor lighting I'm currently at 43%. And in pitch black it goes to 0%. I pretty much never touch my slider anymore after a couple adjustments. Don't get caught up on the percentages. I would be willing to bet that with Oreo at 40% and Pie at 90% the lumens output of the screen was the same.
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Yeah I don't touch mine once it is setup generally but it's definitely not even throughout the scale, only gets really bright from like 85% onwards, just seems odd the real brightness is so high up, makes for fine tuning a bit difficult.
The screen has been rated a minimum of 1.78 nits and a maximum of 496 so if it truly is linear now, 50% is something like only 247 which isn't that bright at all.
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Yeah I don't touch mine once it is setup generally but it's definitely not even throughout the scale, only gets really bright from like 85% onwards, just seems odd the real brightness is so high up, makes for fine tuning a bit difficult.
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So much for AI on adaptive brightness, it's rubbish, and why do Google try to fix things that aren't broken, who needs AI for adjusting a backlight? Seems nothing more than just being able to market the phone as having AI! Never had an issue on Oreo, had it set at 25% with adaptive brightness and it was always the correct brightness wherever I was, which shouldn't be difficult given it's got a sensor to read the light levels.
Now since Pie, last night I turned my phone on in the dark and was blinded by a bright display (Oreo it would have been at it's lowest level in the dark), so turned the brightness down, turned it again later and the same thing, way too bright, and again this morning in a fairly dark room the same thing, far too bright, so I turn it down again. How long will it take to learn? The old method it was tamed immediately, now I'm constantly fiddling with the brightness, how is that progress!
Is there an option to go back to the old method?
Wish I hadn't bothered upgrading, just another year with an Android update with changes for changes sake.
Regards
Phil
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Seems nothing more than just being able to market the phone as having AI!
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Totally agree on this. Adaptive battery and adaptive battery are almost non-sense. Only something cool to brand the item.
And Pixel Visual Core is just something super-expensive to make Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter cameras use HDR+. I'd rather pay something less and not having this feature that is probably expensive (or modifies the perception of the Pixel 2 as super-new and mega futuristic). Also, I've got the feeling they won't use it for Pixel 3 or 4.
Moto X1 was the last to use more CPUs to optimize the phone, before Qualcomm introduced more chips.
Hi
For any one having this issue please report this from your device at Settings > System > About Phone, the more people that flag it the more likely it will get fixed.
For me, I hate these updates that break simple basic functionality and overall add nothing extra to what we had with Oreo. Google really need to test these things properly and stop trying to fix things that simply are not broken!
Regards
Phil
PhilipL said:
Hi
For any one having this issue please report this from your device at Settings > System > About Phone, the more people that flag it the more likely it will get fixed.
For me, I hate these updates that break simple basic functionality and overall add nothing extra to what we had with Oreo. Google really need to test these things properly and stop trying to fix things that simply are not broken!
Regards
Phil
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Already reported, i shouldn't have to have my phone on 90% to be the same as what it was on 63%
Hi Guys! i just bought an S9, and its very new, made in march, came with Pie.
I find the maximum manual brightness setting to be way weak and dull for my taste.
Average lit room in the daytime, chrome browsing, evernote editing etc.
When the background is white.
I tried out an s8+ and an LG V30 in the last few weeks, had those on my hand, and they had way stronger brightness and starker whites on normal mode. I had to lower them to ~80% to be comfortable.
This completely baffles me as all the reviews stated that s9 has higher NIT than the above phones.
Grateful for advice. shoud i try another factory rom, downgrade to oreo, or up to the newest pie?
Or is this a hardver limitation and cannot be changed?
thx for any info! :highfive: :good:
ps: i googled but everyone is talking about the AI auto brightness mode, tried that, that doesnt change the available maximum, only in direct sunlight.
kbuss said:
Hi Guys! i just bought an S9, and its very new, made in march, came with Pie.
I find the maximum manual brightness setting to be way weak and dull for my taste.
Average lit room in the daytime, chrome browsing, evernote editing etc.
When the background is white.
I tried out an s8+ and an LG V30 in the last few weeks, had those on my hand, and they had way stronger brightness and starker whites on normal mode. I had to lower them to ~80% to be comfortable.
This completely baffles me as all the reviews stated that s9 has higher NIT than the above phones.
Grateful for advice. shoud i try another factory rom, downgrade to oreo, or up to the newest pie?
Or is this a hardver limitation and cannot be changed?
thx for any info! :highfive: :good:
ps: i googled but everyone is talking about the AI auto brightness mode, tried that, that doesnt change the available maximum, only in direct sunlight.
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My S9's screen is very bright in almost every situation. Even in sunlight, I can see everything clearly in auto brightness. Indoors I just keep it below 50% and it's still plenty bright. Try reporting this issue or go to a samsung service centre to fix it or replace your phone....
Wait, do you use any kind of power saving? Because in power saving mode there's an option to reduce the brightness 10%, make sure it's off.
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My S9's screen is very bright in almost every situation. Even in sunlight, I can see everything clearly in auto brightness. Indoors I just keep it below 50% and it's still plenty bright. Try reporting this issue or go to a samsung service centre to fix it or replace your phone....
Wait, do you use any kind of power saving? Because in power saving mode there's an option to reduce the brightness 10%, make sure it's off.
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no and like i said its on manual, maxed out.
guys i just looked into a measured review of the screen brightness.
can it be that when the whole screen is white, its actually less bright than the s8?
340 vs 403 nit?
(the titles are not in english thats why i blurred them )