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[Q] Auto Brightness

Just wondering if the auto brightness on the HOX is worth using ?
I have found on other hand sets apart from the Iphone that it ends up using more battery.
So just a basic question do you use auto brightness and if not what sort of level do you have brightness set at ?

colobos said:
Just wondering if the auto brightness on the HOX is worth using ?
I have found on other hand sets apart from the Iphone that it ends up using more battery.
So just a basic question do you use auto brightness and if not what sort of level do you have brightness set at ?
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hmm, now that you mention it. Putting it on auto actually may draw more power since it always has to adjust itself depending on the light in the environment your located in. I used auto all the time and I get HORRIBLE battery life, cant even get through half a day so I put it on around 40% or so now. I put it between the C and the B in the Automatic Brightness text and I use medium font size. That should be around 40%. Going to report back later to see if it saves battery or not.

Well I have been using around 40% myself for a while now but was reading somewhere that auto brightness is better but I wasn't sure how accurate that information is.
Does the font size have anything to do with battery life ? I have it set to small at the moment.

Auto brightness only works if they do it right, which is to say that it properly sets brightness for a given situation. (100% outside, 0% in darkness, and properly scale between the two extremes)

Yes but on this device is it worth using will it save you more battery life then just say manually setting it at say 40%

For Auto Brightness i use the App "Display Brightness" from Market .
My German review and Download http://www.stadt-bad-soden-salmuenster.de/display-brightness-app/
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I'll have to take a look thank you
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Auto brightness actually saves battery. I lose battery even faster than usual when setting costum brightness even when it's way lower than 50%
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Really? I guess I'll do some testing do you notice a major difference? Cause setting the brightness myself I keep having to change it for when outside cause if to sunny can't see screen properly
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I recommend using auto brightness. It really does save juice unless you put the screen on really really low brightness I guess but that sucks because you can't see the screen
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Autobrightness bug

Hello little birdies.
I am having an issue with my auto-brightness and I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this.
Whenever my auto-brightness shines through the power of the sun (goes to 100%) it seems to get stuck at full brightness and my already not so good screen-on time takes a dip and I always notice this too late . I use the quick settings widget which is preinstalled and the A for auto-brightness is set but when I click it the screen immediately lowers the brightness, while the A for auto-brightness remains, and a vain in my forehead pops.
Furthermore after checking badass battery monitor it shows that my screen is often at 100% sun shadowing brightness. Today it was at full mutated power the whole time. Anyone got an idea as to what could cause this? Anyone?
PS. You might have noticed in the text above that I think the screen is really bright when at full power and that I can see the screen perfectly during a warm ball-soothing sunny day.

Yes, I have a bug with auto brightness too. It seems to deactivate itself. I have activated it a couple of times and everytime it deactivate itself at 100 % after some use.
I have an international HTC One X with the latest 1.29.401.11 update.

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I will soon factory reset my phone to check if it magically gets better.

I noticed this last night. My phone was blindingly bright and I didn't understand why it was set to 100%. I set it back to Auto and so far its still on Auto. i will have to keep an eye on this.
HTC really need to fire the monkeys they have working as coders. I guess if their software is not fixed up in next couple of weeks there might be a whole lot of people, me included, who will migrate to the SIII (given of course that it doesn't have a gazillion bugs as well).

I've been trying all day to recreate the problem but ist not doing it. I put my phone in the sun, I tried using the camera app, I used the video app with its 100% brightness setting, but the phone is still showing Auto brightness.
Any ideas on what triggers 100% brightness?

I have the same problem with mine. It's just randomly turns off auto brightness
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I don't know either what triggers it. It seems to deactivate at either 0 % or 100 %.
I don't have many apps installed, if I just do some web surfing and put it to sleep, when I wake it up the auto brightness is deactivated, in maybe 1 of 4 times. Irritating.

For whatever reason i haven't been getting the auto brightness bug for the past three days. Not sure how it resolved itself since I didn't get any software updates.

If you watch a video you can change the brightness and will stick and not go back to your original settings.
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treebill said:
If you watch a video you can change the brightness and will stick and not go back to your original settings.
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No, that's not the trigger. I investigated that on my phone and found no link.

I take that back. You are right! It seems the brightness setting in the movie play is the culprit. Although it doesn't always do it. One more thing for the chimps at HTC to fix.
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Yesterday the auto brightness bug kicked in right before my eyes. I was browsing the web in total darkness in bed, when suddenly I was blinded by 100% brightness. So it's not just the movie player brightness that causes this issue.
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Just got the autbrightness bug with the camera app. Everything seems to ****ing set it off now.. :banghead:
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Yeah. That's because the camera jacks up brightness for outdoor visibility. They need to have an option to disable that.
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Hotzigetty said:
Yeah. That's because the camera jacks up brightness for outdoor visibility. They need to have an option to disable that.
Sent From Mars
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I realize that, however it doesn't always do it. Also sometimes it will kick into 100% brightness without using the camera or movie player. It seems completely random to me.

mine is stuck at zero. started this morning and I did record a video actually.
auto just takes it.to zero.
but also, if i change it directly from the srttings menu, its not.effecting at all, just staying at the same previous custom level.
whrn using widget, just turns it to zero.
opened the video player, changed brightness level and its normal now. it was in the middle, the video brightness level
ok just edited this post and its malfunctioning again.. arrrgh!

Try an application that controls autobrightness, it should fix the problem. I would recommend Lux Dash.

So it is the widget, powertoggle.
Once I fix the issue by changing video brightness, it works fone, till I toggle the widget to use auto-brightness.
Several comments on PlayStore also confirms this with several phones.
Just don't use auto brightness from powertoggle. It is actually doffetent.from what OP describes, but.people may come up to this thread while searching, so I think it willbe useful to post here.

hxhx
i meet this problem

Auto brightness issue
I too had the same issue, i tried to resolve the problem with htc but unfortunately they said that it is a software but and we need to wait for an update....
ynischa said:
Hello little birdies.
I am having an issue with my auto-brightness and I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this.
Whenever my auto-brightness shines through the power of the sun (goes to 100%) it seems to get stuck at full brightness and my already not so good screen-on time takes a dip and I always notice this too late . I use the quick settings widget which is preinstalled and the A for auto-brightness is set but when I click it the screen immediately lowers the brightness, while the A for auto-brightness remains, and a vain in my forehead pops.
Furthermore after checking badass battery monitor it shows that my screen is often at 100% sun shadowing brightness. Today it was at full mutated power the whole time. Anyone got an idea as to what could cause this? Anyone?
PS. You might have noticed in the text above that I think the screen is really bright when at full power and that I can see the screen perfectly during a warm ball-soothing sunny day.
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[Q] Does anyone know how to turn off the LED light?

I think the LED light drains my battery too much when the screen is off
any way to turn it off ?

Are you on ICS or JB? I thought on ICS there was a direct setting but can't remember what option under System Settings. Maybe "More Settings"?
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?

I think "lightflow" from the playstore gives you the option to turn it off

Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.

jasvncnt1 said:
Think it depends on what ROM. What do you have enabling the LED when screen is off? From what I have read around here it really doesnt drain battery.
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having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol

I am running CM10 (stable) on Jelly Bean
anyone know how ?

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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Didn't realize people let the LED blink for hours. Relax dude
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MobileNick said:
If you're on JB, can you do it through Settings -> Blocking Mode?
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Should work. This way, you can disable all LED indicator all the time or for a selected period of time -- i.e. during the night.
More LED options are available in Settings -> Display -> LED Indicator, you can select which type(s) of LED indicator you want to activate or not (charging, low battery, notifications, and voice recording). It may then be interesting to configure these settings in conjuction with the blocking mode.
But that's on stock ROM. It might be different in CM10.

Funkadelick said:
having a light on for hours doesn't drain the battery ?
what the heck are you talking about lol
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The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.

themadproducer said:
The S3's flashing led has negligible battery drain. (my experience)
I am using Light Manager app on a Stock ICS rom in normal mode blinking rapidly and have done the A/B tests to confirm that it is the least of your worries. I am a battery saving nut and have lots of experience with this.
But I would say, that some LED control apps have been known to cause heavy battery drain both to wakelocks and/or just the way they handle the switching.
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Hi, you may be able to help me.
BBS indicates 100% awake while screen off. 90% of the times is the Kernel locks "leds wakelock"
What is it and how can I fix it?
Many thanks
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[Q] Ace II battery drain after CM 10.2

Hello all,
I'm quite new to posting on this forum, but I have read it all through...
Recently I decided to flash my i8160, as my guarantee ended. I flashed JB first and then CyanogenMod 10.2 (this one in particular cm-10.2-20140227-UNOFFICIAL-codina.zip). The ROM is great, but something is bad with battery life.
I did a clean flash (tried it two times) and now googled the f* of my problem, as the battery drain is so strange.Or is it?
Of course I always disable wi-fi, auto sync, data, etc. and I am a low user.. screen is on low brightness. Also calibrated my battery with 3 full charge cycles.
I used almost all battery stats apps, wakelock detectors, etc. and I cant find the problem.
The problem is that the phone in stand-by is using about 3-4%/h or even more. And I find it very strange when people in this forum says they get about 1%/h.
I attach a bunch of screenshots, where you can see my stats. I did a trick and enabled airplane-mode through night (you can see a straight line in graphic). So is it my phone-radio draining all the stand-by power? (you can see that I have good or best reception almost all time).
Please help I don't want to get back to GB, any thoughts about this?

Set pegasusq/sioplus
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disable touchsounds maybe fix the Audiut 2 wakelog

teddytsen said:
Set pegasusq/sioplus
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Ok, did that. Does the governor causes all the problem? I used abyssplug/sioplus
matthias1976 said:
disable touchsounds maybe fix the Audiut 2 wakelog
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No touchsounds set from beggining.

these audio_out 2 i got under GB
after disabling all touch and keyboard sounds and so on it was quiet !!
under cm11 TC i got bigger audio_mix wakelog.
disabled touchsounds and keyboard sound wakelog quiet now.

matthias1976 said:
these audio_out 2 i got under GB
after disabling all touch and keyboard sounds and so on it was quiet !!
under cm11 TC i got bigger audio_mix wakelog.
disabled touchsounds and keyboard sound wakelog quiet now.
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As i said earlier, this is not the issue for me, as I dont use touch sounds...

Don't you have Sweep2Wake switched on? It's strange, my battery drain is two times smaller with abyssplug. Also try to disable background WiFi scan (WiFi settings -> advanced).

rockeetman said:
Don't you have Sweep2Wake switched on? It's strange, my battery drain is two times smaller with abyssplug. Also try to disable background WiFi scan (WiFi settings -> advanced).
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thanks for your thoughts, but none of this is turned on.

Adaptive Brightness

Is it me or Adaptive Brightness doesn't seem to be working really well? I could have my phone under full light and then i'll go into total darkness and the display will stay at maximum brightness.

Got a screen protector on? Maybe it's blocking the sensor, mine seems to be working

Eagle1337 said:
Got a screen protector on? Maybe it's blocking the sensor, mine seems to be working
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I do not have one on.

I haven't experienced this.

Yes auto brightness is flaky . Needs a patch . For all I know , it could be the auto start manager interfering ... not sure
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Yeah not working at all. Serious glitch on Zenfone 5z