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Auto brightness too dark?

I used to use a galaxy s captivate and now I'm on the galaxy nexus.
One thing I really liked about touchwiz was how you can swipe across the status bar to change the brightness.
Now on my galaxy nexus I just put it to auto brightness. But I think its usually darker than how it should be.
Is this how it has been for android all the time? I never used auto brightness in the past so I'm not sure if I'm the problem or if its the device.

I agree. It's too dim for me to use.

I leave mine anywhere between 35 and 45 percent and its perfect. If I'm in direct sunlight I crank it up to 100%.
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I can use auto brightness fine, can even use minimum with no problems. However I set it to 50% so that I don't get some of the colour changes that amoled is prone to.
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mfdemicco said:
I agree. It's too dim for me to use.
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I second you

Do you guys know any mod that can change this? Or if there will be an update regarding this issue?
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bluemoon1221 said:
Do you guys know any mod that can change this? Or if there will be an update regarding this issue?
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Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410

afilopou said:
Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410
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Thanks a lot
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I'm worried about my auto brightness as it doesn't seem to work at all. Standing in a dark room and then turning lights on bright makes no difference. On 4.0.1.

We should ask for a change request to Google.
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afilopou said:
Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410
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Used that fix on Android Revolution HD Rom, worked perfectly.

Fix for washed out colors on Nexus 7-toggle for nvidia tegra 3 prism

Just came a crossed an app that disables the tegra 3 screen dimming function which causes the washed out colors. The app is nvidia tegra prism toggle...used it and noticed a big difference but MUST BE ROOTED TO USE THIS APP
MOD Edit: Links Removed.
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App can't be opened?

aLPaSLaN07 said:
App can't be opened?
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It can and does open but ask for rooting rights as soon as it starts

Worked great here. Thanks for the find!
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it's been sad many times,i think there's also a 3ad somewhere of prism toggle by nvidia.Anyways,if you don't want to buy the app,you can use the tricksterMOD app and by disabling smart-dimmer in the proper tab,you do the same thing (echo "0" > /sys/devices/tegradc.0/smartdimmer/enable)
EDIT ehi,but it's warez!!!!!!!!!!!PULL IT OFF!

thanx guys, trying this out,,steve

Play Store

im using trickster mod(as said above) for few weeks now. its free and easy to apply. works 100%.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigeyes0x0.trickstermod

Thanks, works great, I really see a difference.
4.1.2 Peter alfonso.

i do not notice a difference.. then again i never have had a problem wit the display.
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Lord_Xovon said:
i do not notice a difference.. then again i never have had a problem wit the display.
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I noticed that if I'm playing a youtube video, and I press the recents button, the icons look wash out/almost white. not anymore with this app.

Lord_Xovon said:
i do not notice a difference.. then again i never have had a problem wit the display.
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there is no problem with the display. its a power-saving feature which doesnt save any power from what i was able to find out.
problem is that it washes out your colors. its extremly visible when you watch video for 10-20min and then press HOME. it stays like this for good 30+sec. after that it goes back to normal. watching a lot of movies, its visible whether I have this turned ON/OFF.

Annoying Screen Timeout!

So I'm watching a video (expanded to full screen) on the stock browser at night in a dark room when the screen times out.
I can't find any way of switching the screen timeout off, and have to resort to setting the time to maximum and having to reopen the screen and restart the video every 10 minutes.
There has to be a solution to this annoying problem? Please?
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Is smart stay enabled or is it just not working on the dark room ? If smart stay is not working then you can just pull out the s pen from it's holder or hover with the s pen instead of closing the video.
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Do not watch video too much..beware of burn screen issue
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CreepyDroid said:
Is smart stay enabled or is it just not working on the dark room ?
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Smart stay doesn't work in a dark room.
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naimmkassim said:
Do not watch video too much..beware of burn screen issue
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Huh? I'm watching a film full screen. That's going to burn my screen?
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Tuffcheez said:
Huh? I'm watching a film full screen. That's going to burn my screen?
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I think he's just being a troll....
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Im not troll..but i heard many issue of burn screen come from Amoled display..do some search, u will find the tread which discuss about burn screen..
Here one of them from note 2 thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967803
U can found more from note 1 thread..
Not saying watch video can confirm the screen burn issue..just saying maybe it can cause life span of screen burn become short..but definately amoled screen can not avoid it..
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naimmkassim said:
Im not troll..but i heard many issue of burn screen come from Amoled display..do some search, u will find the tread which discuss about burn screen..
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Fair enough, but there is "no issue."
Why have this phone if you don't use it? Besides, full screen is probably one way to AVOID burn in.
What are you even talking about?
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DanDroidian said:
Fair enough, but there is "no issue."
Why have this phone if you don't use it? Besides, full screen is probably one way to AVOID burn in.
What are you even talking about?
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Is it? Full screen really can avoid screen burn?? Good then..thanks for this info ..from all the thread i read, no one mention about this..hope its true :thumbup:
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naimmkassim said:
Is it? Full screen really can avoid screen burn?? Good then..thanks for this info ..from all the thread i read, no one mention about this..hope its true :thumbup:
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Yes, this avoids the screen burn. Screen burn only happens because some of the led's are used more than others which is why some degrade faster which results in varying color contrasts. Using full screen almost all the time however, uses all of the led's, thus all of them will degrade at a slightly similar rate and the change of color contrast would not be as noticeable to the common eye.
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If you mean stock internet browser it will time out don't know why I streamed hell in a cell last week had the same issue doesn't happen on any other phone I know of just this one...I had to stretch the screen so it looked full screen and it stayed on strange I know
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I'm having the same problem not sure why there would be this problem considering no phone for the last 4 years have had this problem. Terrible overt sight by Google/Samsung. Really interested if some one finds the solution to this.

Use Profile Scheduler from the play store it lets you set up a profile with a setting for screen time out never option. Thats the only reason I use it. I listen to alot of music in my truck and it keeps the musoc player from going to sleep.

Screen time out issue is only when watching flash enabled videos in browser.
Reason : Flash is not supported in Jellybean officially,
So just using flashplayer.apk will not rewrite screen timeout settings in system files.
And, smart stay doesn't work in dark room with lights off.
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gotshoaib said:
Screen time out issue is only when watching flash enabled videos in browser.
Reason : Flash is not supported in Jellybean officially,
So just using flashplayer.apk will not rewrite screen timeout settings in system files.
And, smart stay doesn't work in dark room with lights off.
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what do you recommend?

rocketpaul said:
what do you recommend?
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Download "Screen on" from playstore.
Check the application ie Internet for stock browser and then check enable.

Lux Auto Brightness

Has anyone tried this app for Nexus 4 (or at all)? I like the auto brightness feature, but the stock feature always makes the screen a bit dimmer than I like. Or another app that you prefer to do auto brightness?

Just go change the min value of autobrightness and will work just fine if you find it too dim.
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persheshhater said:
Just go change the min value of autobrightness and will work just fine if you find it too dim.
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You can change the min auto brightness with stock "APP"?
Where?

laba86 said:
You can change the min auto brightness with stock "APP"?
Where?
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If you find it please let me know as well i'm also using lux for the same reason but if i could ditch it that would be great.

With root explorer you go to edit the build.prop values. You gotta be rooted.
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persheshhater said:
With root explorer you go to edit the build.prop values. You gotta be rooted.
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Could you be a bit more specific im in my build.prop on cm nightly but i see nothing close to brightness or anything other than the density.

persheshhater said:
With root explorer you go to edit the build.prop values. You gotta be rooted.
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Yes, some more details would be kind.

laba86 said:
Yes, some more details would be kind.
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It highly doubt it. Auto brightness levels are on kernel level.

just edit your build prop and add this line..
Auto Brightness = A bit higher please

Lownita said:
It highly doubt it. Auto brightness levels are on kernel level.
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Auto brightness is ROM level
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What?
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Hey dude, if you want to try a copy of Lux, PM me and I'll sort you out.
Regards,
Vito

Cyb3rGlitch said:
Hey dude, if you want to try a copy of Lux, PM me and I'll sort you out.
Regards,
Vito
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Can you advise good stock settings? Just setting lux up, it tears though my battery. It doesnt seem to have any built in presets. Any way you can add a few to have a little base to start with?

Cyb3rGlitch said:
Hey dude, if you want to try a copy of Lux, PM me and I'll sort you out.
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Vito
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I think the best solution would be like apple's auto brightness. You turn auto brightness on but can still change the brightness and set the "average" brightness higher or lower.
Because I am looking for a auto brightness which is simply a bit brighter in general as the stock auto brightness

zimphishmonger said:
Can you advise good stock settings? Just setting lux up, it tears though my battery. It doesnt seem to have any built in presets. Any way you can add a few to have a little base to start with?
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Presets make no sense. I'd have to have different ones for different phones, so it'd be a pain to maintain. Just link a couple of brightness values and Lux interpolates the rest.
The battery usage of Lux shouldn't be high at all. I know some Samsung ROMs claim Lux uses a lot of battery, but it's wrong (I think it assumes the light sensor uses more power than it really does). On my Nexus 4 I use 'on wake' mode, which should use next to no battery.
laba86 said:
I think the best solution would be like apple's auto brightness. You turn auto brightness on but can still change the brightness and set the "average" brightness higher or lower.
Because I am looking for a auto brightness which is simply a bit brighter in general as the stock auto brightness
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I don't have control over the stock auto brightness which makes a feature like this hard. Linking values in Lux should work fine, especially in ascending mode which favours brighter backlight levels.

Anyone got any decent sample settings for this?
I'm using 0 as -20%

0/-30%, 1/10% and 10000/100% has been working good for me.

I've been tempted to try Lux again but find the free version doesn't really demo the apps potential very well. I'm always skeptical before purchasing apps as the refund window is way too short to test the app in full.
I basically want auto brightness to work how I feel it should, with the brightness not being high when it really shouldn't be very high. Stock auto brightness ALWAYS sets the brightness too high IMO, I'd love the ability to have auto brightness work at the levels I want it to have.

I tried it and put it away... Because when you go below zero your nav bar has still same brightness and won't dim :/
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Sv: Lux Auto Brightness
@ spr33
If you read the description of the app in play store, the developer says that you are welcome to try the app for more than 15min. Then if you are not happy with it send him an email and ask for refund.
Tapatalked.

Darker screen?

Is there anyway to make the screen even darker? Even on the lowest setting the S3s screen is super bright. I was wondering if there is a mod or something that makes the lowest setting even dimmer. Like in the browser when your on power saving mode, the screen gets significantly darker.
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Lux lite. In the play store.
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Yeah, lux or screen filter
Both have the issue that you cannot sideload apps while they are enabled

Thanks!!!!
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Also one more, I dont remember exactly where i saw it, but I think there was a build.prop mod that allowed you to change the threshold and make the brightness slider go to even lower values...dont remember what it was called though :\

CNexus said:
Also one more, I dont remember exactly where i saw it, but I think there was a build.prop mod that allowed you to change the threshold and make the brightness slider go to even lower values...dont remember what it was called though :\
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I looked in the file but found nothing relating to brightness
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No, theres an edit that you can make that lowers the threshold
It was either there or in some other file that you had to add it

CNexus said:
No, theres an edit that you can make that lowers the threshold
It was either there or in some other file that you had to add it
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Could be ro.sf.screen density... that might not be it though,I have no idea

Nah that's the density of the pixels.
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Meant lcd_density... again, might now be it... probably isn't... gonna dig around the build.prop for it though

I'm racking my brains trying to remember, there is an edit that you can place somewhere to lower the threshold though, I'm sure of it

CNexus said:
I'm racking my brains trying to remember, there is an edit that you can place somewhere to lower the threshold though, I'm sure of it
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I'm sure its there somewhere. Or maybe we have to add the line?
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Yeah, its a line you need to add, not modifying an existing one
Gimme a bit and I'll find it haha