Lower brightness possible? - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good day everyone,
When using my device in low light surroundings, i tend
to experience the brightness as too high, is there any
way of lowering the minimum brightness?
I'm running the note2core std kernel, stock debloated
dlk7 rom (rooted )
I have tried the following with ROM Toolbox pro;
Go to build.prop editor
Found the value "ro.lcd_min_brightness"
Standard value was 20, lowering this number did
nothing for me, i tried 15, 12, 5 and 0..
I have also tried lowering this value whike using
another kernel like stock, redpill and N.E.A.K.
And also not working on stock ROM..
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot
Shoved from my Note 2 straight up XDA's ***

You can download an app to darken the screen. There are numerous different ones so try them out and see which you you prefer. Personally I user Screen Filter https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
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Ok thanks i will have a look!
However i would like to know if i can do this manually,
without more programs clogging up my phone..
Thanks in advance

cpm said:
You can download an app to darken the screen. There are numerous different ones so try them out and see which you you prefer. Personally I user Screen Filter https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
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Screen Filter is good, but it doesn't really lower the brightness. It applies a filter which makes the display darker. Any screenshot you take will be darker. But other than that, it's perfect for low light situations

I like this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsInB0LmJiYXJhby5uaWdodG1vZGUiXQ..

My vote is for Screen Filter. I have used rt every night and every morning for the last 2 years. Never any problems.

Let's change my question;
Is it hardwarewise possible to lower
the minimum brightness? If so, please share

I wondered this too and I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mod/tweak to allow you to get the brightness as low as possible without the use of apps. I've tried everything from editing build.prop to decompiling framework-res.apk, but nothing to seems to really work.
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The Dutchman said:
Let's change my question;
Is it hardwarewise possible to lower
the minimum brightness? If so, please share
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I think it has more to do with the software than hardware.

xFrozen said:
Screen Filter is good, but it doesn't really lower the brightness. It applies a filter which makes the display darker. Any screenshot you take will be darker. But other than that, it's perfect for low light situations
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But on an OLED display, that's the same as lowering the brightness (although what you said about screenshots still stands)
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master5hake said:
I wondered this too and I'm surprised that there hasn't been a mod/tweak to allow you to get the brightness as low as possible without the use of apps.
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This is likely done on purpose. Imagine the frustration of going outdoors and your screen was set so dim that your phone is useless until you can see enough to raise the brightness.
People would be angry.
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I needed an app for this and bought this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
Very useful app.

+1 for lux, works on hardware level to lower brightness and not by just adding a darkening filter.
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rendler said:
+1 for lux, works on hardware level to lower brightness and not by just adding a darkening filter.
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Nope, lux definitely works by adding a filter in sub-zero mode. Not that this matters except when taking screenshots because as I said before, on an OLED screen this is essentially the same thing. But thanks for the recommendation, lux is a very nice app.
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You could try edit the build. prop and set the minimum brightness level to something like 10. By default its 20. Quickest way I use is the build. prop Editor in rom toolbox.
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bushako said:
You could try edit the build. prop and set the minimum brightness level to something like 10. By default its 20. Quickest way I use is the build. prop Editor in rom toolbox.
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I've tried that.. did not work for me unfortunately!
I will have a look at lux, thank you

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[APP] Simple Barometer for Galaxy Nexus

Hi all,
I just wanted to present you a very simple application,
that shows the barometric pressure in the environment.
It simply reads out the sensor value and also calculates
the approximate altitude based on standart atmospheric
pressure at sea level of 1013.25 hPa and at a standart
temperature of 288.15 K.
Why I made this application, if it was so simple?
There was no such application, that shows the barometric
pressure in a nice way, so there we go:
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
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Any suggestions for improvement are welcome =)
Very cool, thanks. Only suggestion would maybe to have a graph so we can keep an eye on the trend.
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Looks nice in the screenshot but the gauge doesn't display for me. Just the numbers.
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cmac86 said:
Looks nice in the screenshot but the gauge doesn't display for me. Just the numbers.
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Same here - Image is not displaying...
Works great for me, very nice app thx!
Works great. My only suggestion is, can you down a little the scale of the barometer?. I mean I'm in Bogota, Colombia (2600 m over the sea level) so my barometer is always down before 960 hPa
I like the screenshot but as already said I only get the numbers on bigxies build 4.0.3 and Franco's 12
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Awesome app lol
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allen2oo3 said:
Very cool, thanks. Only suggestion would maybe to have a graph so we can keep an eye on the trend.
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Working fine on mine.
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Working fine on mine.
gpu
folks finding it dont work try switching forced gpu rendering off and then restart the app
seems to be a common fault of bar preasure apps - i tried this out on the app i use on my xoom and that too requres gpu rendering to be switched off.
just a thought
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terminal 7 said:
folks finding it dont work try switching forced gpu rendering off and then restart the app
seems to be a common fault of bar preasure apps - i tried this out on the app i use on my xoom and that too requres gpu rendering to be switched off.
just a thought
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That fixes it for me.
Yeh. My rendering is that way by default.
Thank you for this App.
I also have one suggestion. Could you add a relative height? I mean that it is possible to set the current height as a reference and make the difference visible. Then it would be possible to meassure the approximately height in a big building or an elevator.
I've already done this in my own app and it works great. Unfortunately I couldn't find time to improve my app, it's very simple and not so nice as yours .
SophîaPêtríllo said:
Thank you for this App.
I also have one suggestion. Could you add a relative height? I mean that it is possible to set the current height as a reference and make the difference visible. Then it would be possible to meassure the approximately height in a big building or an elevator.
I've already done this in my own app and it works great. Unfortunately I couldn't find time to improve my app, it's very simple and not so nice as yours .
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I doubt the barometer is precise enough to measure the height of a buiding
Thanks, good app.
Improvment : possibility to compute the QNH (sea level pressure) by adding known altitude (inserting altitude in meters, feet or hPa).
Change the graphic to show stormy/fair weather icons for people like me who don't know what a barometer does or how to read one, relatively. Make it fun!
Great app. I love simple apps!
drtrmiller said:
Change the graphic to show stormy/fair weather icons for people like me who don't know what a barometer does or how to read one, relatively. Make it fun!
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Barometric pressure alone does not reliably predict the weather.
SophîaPêtríllo said:
Thank you for this App.
I also have one suggestion. Could you add a relative height? I mean that it is possible to set the current height as a reference and make the difference visible. Then it would be possible to meassure the approximately height in a big building or an elevator.
I've already done this in my own app and it works great. Unfortunately I couldn't find time to improve my app, it's very simple and not so nice as yours .
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Could you provide me the formula to calculate the relative height? Would make it much easier for me ^^
Works great. My only suggestion is, can you down a little the scale of the barometer?. I mean I'm in Bogota, Colombia (2600 m over the sea level) so my barometer is always down before 960 hPa
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Will add this feature aswell.
Change the graphic to show stormy/fair weather icons for people like me who don't know what a barometer does or how to read one, relatively. Make it fun!
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Will add it, but that won't be accurate for people, who are not living in west european latitudinal lines.
EDIT: There you go =)

stock auto brightness too low

Hello Guys,
I'm wondering what may be the reason for having too low auto brightness in SGN2. When I switch to manual there is no problem but the automatic mode is too dark in my test. Any ideas to fix that?
It actually manages automatically according to the surrounding light so it can vary its brightness
Yup, mine on auto and it keeps on changing the brightness accordingly.
Dear try iy while in a good light source and it will change according... with less light it goes to dark
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As far as I know you can trim the auto brightness under settings so that the screen gets brighter or less bright under the same surrounding brightness condition
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I used to like auto brightness...by recently I have grown to set my phone at FULL brightness...love it!
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Its too dark even if you leave Auto checked and slide the brightness slider all the way up?
americasteam said:
Its too dark even if you leave Auto checked and slide the brightness slider all the way up?
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+1 !
this is smart because even with automatic brightness you can set it minimum and max.
Guys, just a small tip, there's a setting in the power saving settings which says something like arrange the light and color of the screen by analyzing in accordance with external light etc. That setting is enabled by default, disable it and compare the results. I have done the same and now have a much better display.
Regards
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just set the slider to maximum at auto brightness
I'm happy with the auto light levels with the exception of the browser. It's dark. As soon as I enter it the screen darkens and when I leave it (or open something else, like the bookmarks for example) for a fraction of a second it brightens up before it switches to the next app/screen.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Wooba99 said:
I'm happy with the auto light levels with the exception of the browser. It's dark. As soon as I enter it the screen darkens and when I leave it (or open something else, like the bookmarks for example) for a fraction of a second it brightens up before it switches to the next app/screen.
Anyone else experiencing this?
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The stock browser on the S3 has a seperate brightness setting you have to change. I assume the Note 2 is the same.
gmkelly001 said:
The stock browser on the S3 has a seperate brightness setting you have to change. I assume the Note 2 is the same.
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Maybe I'm looking in the wrong area but I cannot see that in the browser settings unfortunately..
Wooba99 said:
Maybe I'm looking in the wrong area but I cannot see that in the browser settings unfortunately..
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On the S3, with the browser open you would hit the menu button and Brightness would be one of the options to select.
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If it's not there then I guess Samsung changed it on the Note 2.
gmkelly001 said:
On the S3, with the browser open you would hit the menu button and Brightness would be one of the options to select.
If it's not there then I guess Samsung changed it on the Note 2.
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A-ha.. thanks for the pic!
I've been on a galaxy nexus so I keep forgetting about the menu button and using the quick command tools option in stead. It's there and now my problem is fixed. Thanks..
Thanks nice tip
aegeuss said:
Guys, just a small tip, there's a setting in the power saving settings which says something like arrange the light and color of the screen by analyzing in accordance with external light etc. That setting is enabled by default, disable it and compare the results. I have done the same and now have a much better display.
Regards
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Thanks it is great tip ,
Carls Jr said:
Full brightness is the only way to go for a screen as glorious as this
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Correct fix is to turn off POWER SAVING MODE. Try that sir.

[Mod] Increase Max Brightness

WARNING:
Using this mod may decrease battery life, decrease screen life and/or quality, cause overheating, cause your phone to blow up or cause other damage to your phone. Use at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage this mod causes to your phone.
This Mod will increase the max brightness of your phone by about 10%.
Note:
Auto Brightness must be turned off for this to work.
Root is required for this Mod.
Instructions:
Download and run app attached to this post.
Or. ..
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/panel/auto_brightness
If you reboot or enable auto brightness you have to run it again.
The best way to tell if it worked would be to run it when your screen is already at full brightness. You'll see it go a bit brighter.
Tested on T-Mobile Note II, but this may work in many Samsung Galaxy phones.
Seems to have worked, but comparing brightness on one device by eyes is tough. It certainly didn't break anything though!
Is there a way to lower minimum brightness? Cause even at the lowest brightness,its bright as hell
hatcyl said:
Hey, I posted this over at the TMobile forum, let me know if it works on this model!
This Mod will increase the max brightness of your phone by about 10%.
Note:
Auto Brightness must be turned off for this to work.
Root is required for this Mod.
Instructions:
Download and run app attached to this post.
Or. ..
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/panel/auto_brightness
If you reboot or enable auto brightness you have to run it again.
The best way to tell if it worked would be to run it when your screen is already at full brightness. You'll see it go a bit brighter.
Tested on T-Mobile Note II, but this may work in many Samsung Galaxy phones.
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thx
It for sure works, thank you!
I think they will move this to themes and apps tho, just a heads up.
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Holy crap. It worked. It worked well. And it worked immeately. No reboots or anything. I love it.
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tested on note 2.1 rom and works just fine thanks
Avatar said:
Is there a way to lower minimum brightness? Cause even at the lowest brightness,its bright as hell
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screen filter or root dim work. they place a transparent black overlay on top of the screen and dims everything. works best with oled/amoled screens as the overlay actually lowers the light output where if you were using a traditional led backlight it'll still have the same brightness but the hue of everything would be reduced.
madsquabbles said:
screen filter or root dim work. they place a transparent black overlay on top of the screen and dims everything. works best with oled/amoled screens as the overlay actually lowers the light output where if you were using a traditional led backlight it'll still have the same brightness but the hue of everything would be reduced.
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I also find Galactic Night to be useful. I often use red mode if driving so I don't have a mini spot light in my car.
Thanks
hatcyl said:
WARNING:
Using this mod may decrease battery life, decrease screen life and/or quality, cause overheating, cause your phone to blow up or cause other damage to your phone. Use at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage this mod causes to your phone.
This Mod will increase the max brightness of your phone by about 10%.
Note:
Auto Brightness must be turned off for this to work.
Root is required for this Mod.
Instructions:
Download and run app attached to this post.
Or. ..
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/panel/auto_brightness
If you reboot or enable auto brightness you have to run it again.
The best way to tell if it worked would be to run it when your screen is already at full brightness. You'll see it go a bit brighter.
Tested on T-Mobile Note II, but this may work in many Samsung Galaxy phones.
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thanks
Avatar said:
Is there a way to lower minimum brightness? Cause even at the lowest brightness,its bright as hell
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Look for an app called "screen dim"
It lets you take your brightness and contrast down to ZERO.
Caution: can be really hard to see if you do that. I know, I've spent 10 min in a dark closet trying to open the app again after accidentally backing out of the app with the screen all the way down... pm me if you can't find it and I'll get you a copy.
Anybody who grabbed this... did it work for you?
RedheadTarn said:
Anybody who grabbed this... did it work for you?
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Yes
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RedheadTarn said:
Anybody who grabbed this... did it work for you?
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Yes however there is a small battery drain that I've noticed.... anybody else notice this??
b0Ne83 said:
Yes however there is a small battery drain that I've noticed.... anybody else notice this??
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No more than to be expected from making your screen kick out more light than it should.
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schale01 said:
I also find Galactic Night to be useful. I often use red mode if driving so I don't have a mini spot light in my car.
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+1 for Galactic. I used this on my old GS2 and loved using the red filter for reading at night. It was less bothersome for my wife and it made me fall asleep easier because it doesn't have any blue wavelengths, which I think I read that it can cause difficulty in sleeping.
Haven't rooted my GN2 yet but glad to hear it works on it.
Thanks a lot! Works great with 4.1.2
i'm sure i'm alone, but i'm haven't seen much demand for INcreasing screen brightness as opposed to DEcreasing brightness. what kind of uses does this mod have?
ridleyj329 said:
i'm sure i'm alone, but i'm haven't seen much demand for INcreasing screen brightness as opposed to DEcreasing brightness. what kind of uses does this mod have?
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iPhone5 is twice as bright as this phone. Nuff said.
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but I have a Note 2 not an iPhone 5. Personally i think the screen is plenty bright enough. Not trying to troll or nothing, just want to understand better, but i like i said i personally dont see many requests for a brighter screen. how would one benefit from having a screen brighter than the brightest stock setting?

Lux Auto Brigtness for SGS 3 Mini

If anyone want to have auto brightness, install Lux Auto Brigthess and then use this setting for luma sensor:
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Maybe thoose values can be better, experiment if you have better values and post here Im using this app for 3 weak for now and it works so nice. Battery time is still great.
Here is how to do this:
-download it from google
-go to Lux settings
-click on Sample Collection
-click on Light reading modes
-select Camera instead of Light sensor
-select Front camera (it's obvious that its better than rear camera for this purpose)
-Now, from main screen of settings, click on Modify Linked Samples
from top, click on Luma (this app uses Lux for sensor readings and Luma for camera readings)
-then you can see app reads ambient light value from camera and displays at top.
Now the app should do its job, but you may want to check other settings to match your preferences.
Robi959 said:
If anyone want to have auto brightness, install Lux Auto Brigthess and then use this setting for luma sensor:
Maybe thoose values can be better, experiment if you have better values and post here Im using this app for 3 weak for now and it works so nice. Battery time is still great.
Here is how to do this:
-go to Lux settings
-click on Sample Collection
-click on Light reading modes
-select Camera instead of Light sensor
-select Front camera (it's obvious that its better than rear camera for this purpose)
-Now, from main screen of settings, click on Modify Linked Samples
from top, click on Luma (this app uses Lux for sensor readings and Luma for camera readings)
-then you can see app reads ambient light value from camera and displays at top.
Now the app should do its job, but you may want to check other settings to match your preferences.
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Would work great for those who wants auto brightness until someones make a kernel with auto brightness enabled
Yes it's great for replacement
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it's nice. It's shame that Samsung give i9070 auto light sensor and i8190 doesnt have ...NICE work
Robi959 said:
If anyone want to have auto brightness, install Lux Auto Brigthess and then use this setting for luma sensor:
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Sounds great but Google Play says my device is not compatible (duh) and therefor doesn't allow me to download it. Any advice?
sosznik said:
it's nice. It's shame that Samsung give i9070 auto light sensor and i8190 doesnt have ...NICE work
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I8190 does have light sensor but its not enabled in the kernel
I9070 pulled yesterday and from what I saw in the front panel has three holes for sensors and mini has 2 ... and in fact after dismantling the phone could see three sensors. Mini has not disassembled yet . I wonder what would have had to upload the kernel of I9070 to i8190 : P
ghockx said:
Sounds great but Google Play says my device is not compatible (duh) and therefor doesn't allow me to download it. Any advice?
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Okay, I managed to get it installed on my device. I used Market Helper which you can download here. Just run it and select HTC One X+ (the others won't work). Open the link to Google Dashboard and your done! Open the Play Store app and search for Lux.
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Unfortunately the Free version doesn't support the use of the front camera as light sensor. So make sure you get the Full version, which will set you back € 2,33.
Just download it from google
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I found something that might be usefull, it's about our phone's lightsensor. It is listed in these specs
http://androidfragmentation.com/database/v/dr/624012/oem/samsung/dm/GT-I8190/carrier/Unknown
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Hm, at the end of that Document is written GPS supported -> NO. If I think about this, I think it's not usefull ...
ghockx said:
Sounds great but Google Play says my device is not compatible (duh) and therefor doesn't allow me to download it. Any advice?
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It is finally compatible with S3 mini. Just bought it yesterday, works great!
It works so good that you will forget you dont have native light sensor
Thx man. Looks awesome. Will try when i reach home.
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It work on cm 10.2 ? and how about battery drain
1Speede1 said:
It work on cm 10.2 ? and how about battery drain
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yes it works on cm10.2 and there is NO battery drain (i use it for months and on many ROMs)
I have a issue on the 1st value i can only put 4% min. Does not allowed me to set to 1%
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Works great. I use it on Maclaws 10.2. I can see no battery drain.
I also haven't noticed any battery drain. Also you can set sub-zero values during nighttime, which is great if you want to check something and be blinded by brightness.
I would like to say thanks for pointing out this fantastic app which is working very well for me so far!
This is how I have configured the app which works great:
LUMA BRIGHTNESS
1 -20%
100 15%
200 50%
255 100%
This is very conservative brightness setting however it is very readible in every situation and is nice and dark at night and hopefully should be very energy efficient!
All the other default settings work fine, I think it is best to leave permament notification on as changing the brightness with the slider with the setting off causes lux to stop working.
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marmelada said:
I also haven't noticed any battery drain. Also you can set sub-zero values during nighttime, which is great if you want to check something and be blinded by brightness.
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I have noticed this too and it doesnt drain battery because in the lux lite version it only sets auto brightness when unlocking the screen, after that the app does not use the camera anymore so it only costs tiny bit of battery for 2 seconds or so.
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marmelada said:
I also haven't noticed any battery drain. Also you can set sub-zero values during nighttime, which is great if you want to check something and be blinded by brightness.
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_nEoN_ said:
I have a issue on the 1st value i can only put 4% min. Does not allowed me to set to 1%
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In the (advanced) settings there should be an option minimum brightness threshold or something similar which allows you to change the minimum value.

Is it just me or is the auto brightness always way too low?

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No its like that for me too. In most devices I'm perfectly content with auto brightness. Strangely tough, about 20% is good most of the time.
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smac7 said:
No its like that for me too. In most devices I'm perfectly content with auto brightness. Strangely tough, about 20% is good most of the time.
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Same here. It lightens up when I get near a light, but if I'm further away, I usually turn it off and keep it at a comfortable level.
this has been mentioned a few times already and I find I'm opposite of you guys. It's too dang bright! you can install lux or velis to control auto brightness to your liking. you can even make some tasker tasks to force certain profiles based on various sscenarios like if your conn2cted to a certain ssid switch to a less aggressive setting or whatever. I think both require the paid versios for the tasker plugins. ive paid for both and like lux better since sub zero settings are easier and it "sleeps" quicker if I want it off.
It's always too dim for me. One of the first things I turn off and just control it manually.
before the mk1 update there was an extra slider in the notifications section that you could use to modify the auto a bit. Sadly that's gone now.
rajackar said:
before the mk1 update there was an extra slider in the notifications section that you could use to modify the auto a bit. Sadly that's gone now.
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It's not gone, turn it on in settings.
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Same here, extremely dim, turned off since day one.
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Dont know if it helps, but if you put it to Auto, then the slider will give you the option from -5 to +5, to make the auto a bit brighter or darker.
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Dont know if it helps, but if you put it to Auto, then the slider will give you the option from -5 to +5, to make the auto a bit brighter or darker.
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You're saying that's a stock feature? I don't see that on my tablet, but Xposed seems to add it on my phone.
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Dont know if it helps, but if you put it to Auto, then the slider will give you the option from -5 to +5, to make the auto a bit brighter or darker.
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Strangely the +5 / -5 option is gone since I installed the mk1 update
Yes, same here. It's always a little too dim for me and the screens shuts down too fast when it's on the lock screen. Sometimes it cuts out before it can auto rotate.
Way too dim, what the hell is wrong with the Samsung development guys who thought it was a great idea
that even in a dark room its too dim.
Just use Lux. It solves everyone's brightness problem no matter what the preference is for bright / dark.
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Just use Lux. It solves everyone's brightness problem no matter what the preference is for bright / dark.
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This helps a lot, thanks.
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When scrolling through a web page with a bright background (xda for example), does anyone notice a shift in brightness. Sorta like a flicker.
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Just use Lux. It solves everyone's brightness problem no matter what the preference is for bright / dark.
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It seems that Lux in dynamic adjustment mode will adjust to upward changes in brightness, but won't adjust downwards when the ambient gets darker? Anyone else having this problem?
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both lux and velis work fine on all my devices - auto up and down.

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