My notification light is demonstrating strange behavior. When the screen is on, the light is fine. After the screen has been off for a few minutes, the notification light dims out to about half its normal brightness. If I turn the screen on, the brightness is restored.
I've looked through the settings and don't see anything to control this. Is anyone else having this problem? It's pretty minor, but it makes it harder to notice in day/light.
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I discovered some interesting behavior by the LED notification light on our phone since the JB update. This isn't a bug since I can confirm it is repeatable and seems to have a purpose.
Okay so while your phone is on the charger you know how the LED light comes on if the screen is off? Hold the phone in your hand and make sure the screen is on. Turn the screen off with your power button and notice the brightly lit LED light (red or green, depending on your charge state). Now, turn the screen back on and set the phone down on a flat surface. Turn the screen off again now and notice the LED is much dimmer.
Another thing to try is to turn off the screen while the phone is in your hand to get the bright LED and then set it down. The LED will set itself to a dimmer state after some time goes by. Cool, huh? Seems to be designed that way to more efficiently sip the juice while charging.
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EDIT: poit correctly determined the reason behind the intensity of the LED light is directly related to the ambient light in the phone's immediate environment. Kudos to poit!
Cool.
satur9ine said:
I discovered some interesting behavior by the LED notification light on our phone since the JB update. This isn't a bug since I can confirm it is repeatable and seems to have a purpose.
Okay so while your phone is on the charger you know how the LED light comes on if the screen is off? Hold the phone in your hand and make sure the screen is on. Turn the screen off with your power button and notice the brightly lit LED light (red or green, depending on your charge state). Now, turn the screen back on and set the phone down on a flat surface. Turn the screen off again now and notice the LED is much dimmer.
Another thing to try is to turn off the screen while the phone is in your hand to get the bright LED and then set it down. The LED will set itself to a dimmer state after some time goes by. Cool, huh? Seems to be designed that way to more efficiently sip the juice while charging.
Class dismissed!
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The LED brightness seems keyed to the ambient light sensor. It's it's in a dim environment (or you have the sensor blocked) when you turn off the screen, the LED will be dim. If it's in a bright environment when you turn off the screen the LED will be bright.
Mine didn't change at all stayed dim. Got me thinking though, could it be adjusting for how bright it is?
It sure does if I go to a bright room my indicator is bright. Dim room and a dim indicator. While charging if you set the phone down if and while bright it will go dim.
poit said:
The LED brightness seems keyed to the ambient light sensor. It's it's in a dim environment (or you have the sensor blocked) when you turn off the screen, the LED will be dim. If it's in a bright environment when you turn off the screen the LED will be bright.
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I believe you are correct. I thought it had something to do with gyroscope sensor(hence why it was dim on a flat surface). But I just tried it somewhere with more light and your assessment is correct. Bright environment equals bright LED. Dim environment equals dim LED. Still cool!
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P.S. - this is best tested in a dim room with a lamp you can shut on or off. Lamp on = bright LED, etc. The LED will go back and forth while you play with the lighting.
satur9ine said:
I believe you are correct. I thought it had something to do with gyroscope sensor(hence why it was dim on a flat surface). But I just tried it somewhere with more light and your assessment is correct. Bright environment equals bright LED. Dim environment equals dim LED. Still cool!
:good:
P.S. - this is best tested in a dim room with a lamp you can shut on or off. Lamp on = bright LED, etc. The LED will go back and forth while you play with the lighting.
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Or you could just cover the light sensor like I just did and then remove your hand.
Does anyone notice that the LED light, when flashing with a new notification becomes a little dimmer after a while? It's only on the same notification. If I check my msg, and another one comes in, for the first few minutes it's pretty bright but then again it gets dimmer with time.
Anyone else notice that?
most of the time when the phone wakes up and the screen stays dim and grey, as if there is a semitransparent picture in front of the screen. I can see the clock and I can unlock it, but everything is dimmed.
If I turn of the screen one or two times, it usually wakes op again without this grey dim sheet and I can use the phone in full brightness.
I turned off auto brightness, but this did not solve the problem. The brightness slider also turns upp the brightness, but it is still about half as dim as it should be.
can anyone help me in finding out why this is happening?
Does anyone know why my screen sometimes becomes less bright? I've turned off auto brightness and put it on max brightness and I can see my screen sometimes becoming very bright and then after a while it becomes darker again. Is there some hidden option I've missed?
my phone display automatically lightens (i have auto brightness turned off) when there is a strong light source and colors turn ugly, do you know a way to turn this setting off?
matrix_05 said:
my phone display automatically lightens (i have auto brightness turned off) when there is a strong light source and colors turn ugly, do you know a way to turn this setting off?
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It happens also to me, looks like a screen extra-adaptation, not correlated with auto brightness. I noticed it gets triggered by Telegram, surely also by something else.
In previous OTAs sometimes the screen remained ugly and bright, since sometimes does not happen more.
No idea if there's a setting for it.