I've noticed on my Nexus 7 that the screen will alter the brightness pretty frequently even when I'm sitting in the same place and the ambient light level around me hasn't changed. It will dim a little bit and then brighten a little bit several times while I'm just sitting there reading. It's most noticeable on a white background but it can be seen at other times too.
I'm pretty sure I'm not blocking the ambient light sensor with my hand unless there is a sensor on the bottom of the device. I've also confirmed that there isn't anything wrong with the screen by turning off auto-brightness and the screen no longer brightens or dims after that.
Anyone else think auto-brightness is too sensitive?
It could be anything. I'm sitting in a room right now where a window is about 3 feet behind me and about a foot to my left. If I rotate my device just a tiny bit it towards the window, it becomes enough to brighten my device. Then if I rotate it back to its normal position, the brightness goes back down. It's pretty sensitive.
Are you in a room with windows? Perhaps the sun is going behind a cloud or something and coming back out.
Yes there is a window but this was at night and I had a lamp on beside me. I was being very careful not to turn the N7. At this point I've just turned off auto brightness because its distracting.
I have a Galaxy S2 T989 that I have rooted and have been trying different roms. Yesterday I reflashed it back to T-mobile 4.1.2 and after I changed my battery and rebooted it got hung up. I did a hard restart and the screen display darkened a few shades. Now my display is not as bright as it used to be. Brightness is up as high as possible, auto brightness is off, and auto tone is off. What happened? What can I do?
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?
I've had my Z Fold now for about a month and I've been noticing an odd fluctuation in brightness. I've made sure that the auto brightness option as well as eye vision comfort are disabled. I still seem to get random drops in brightness even with those turned off. Is that something that just happens with this being a AMOLED display? For instance today I was on my messaging app. I was watching the brightness in real time drop and then go back up. Drop and then go back up. I've never noticed that with other phones. Any help or explanation would be appreciated.
I have noticed this too and thought it was me. It is not due to overheating because it happends in browsing, mails and just viewing the gallery. I have all screen related adjustment set to manual or locked.
Is anyone having issues with auto brightness, jumping up and down every few seconds? Im currently sat in a dimly lit room with the TV on and my screen keeps changing brightness levels every few seconds, if I pull down the notification area I can see the slider jumping about. I'm guessing the phone is reacting to the TV changing brightness levels as the picture changes but it seems way too sensitive.
Yeah known issue afaik. I'm hoping it gets resolved on an update
rosso22 said:
Is anyone having issues with auto brightness, jumping up and down every few seconds? Im currently sat in a dimly lit room with the TV on and my screen keeps changing brightness levels every few seconds, if I pull down the notification area I can see the slider jumping about. I'm guessing the phone is reacting to the TV changing brightness levels as the picture changes but it seems way too sensitive.
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One of the fixes in the November update was "Improvements for auto-brightness response in certain lighting conditions.".
I think auto brightness has always been an issue with Pixels. Its a feature I always turn off at this point
rosso22 said:
Is anyone having issues with auto brightness, jumping up and down every few seconds? Im currently sat in a dimly lit room with the TV on and my screen keeps changing brightness levels every few seconds, if I pull down the notification area I can see the slider jumping about. I'm guessing the phone is reacting to the TV changing brightness levels as the picture changes but it seems way too sensitive.
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Yeah it is up and down like a brides nighty when the light it low on mine, it isn't smooth like it was on my Pixel 5. It feels a bit like the sample rate needs a longer delay because just an increase in brightness on my TV can send my Pro brightness shooting up, the adaptive display needs to wait a few seconds before acting.
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Yeah it is up and down like a brides nighty when the light it low on mine, it isn't smooth like it was on my Pixel 5. It feels a bit like the sample rate needs a longer delay because just an increase in brightness on my TV can send my Pro brightness shooting up, the adaptive display needs to wait a few seconds before acting.
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Yeah my pixel 5 and 4a 5G never had this issue (same room and lighting conditions) its crap we have to pay to be beta testers nowadays, guess we will have to wait for another "fix" in next update.
crucialcolin said:
I think auto brightness has always been an issue with Pixels. Its a feature I always turn off at this point
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Should we really have to turn things off, considering the cost of this phone? Throw in a case and charger and your over £900 in for this phone, everything should work out of the box without having to turn off features.
It's horrible. When I sit at night in a dark room watching TV, it seems to react to the TV and jump all over the place. Never had this on a phone before. Why can't Google get auto brightness right? It's ridiculous.
Personally, I've always preferred Pixel's handling of auto-brightness to that of my recent Note 10+. I thought Samsung's auto-brightness didn't adapt very well (besides the dimmest not being as dim as the Pixel when using in the dark).