Way to adjust ambient mode brightness? - Moto 360

Anyone know of any way to adjust the dimming of ambient mode? I don't want it to be so dim. I am not concerned with battery life.

1.5 yrs later bump! I too have been looking for a way to do this. I can't seem to find a way to modify the ambient brightness. It looks like it's in the framework, any calls don't mention brightness.

SonumSaga said:
1.5 yrs later bump! I too have been looking for a way to do this. I can't seem to find a way to modify the ambient brightness. It looks like it's in the framework, any calls don't mention brightness.
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and 3yrs later,
I'm searching for it right now ?

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Controlling the automatic Backlight

Hi,
automatic backlight is still too bright for me in almost any environment. I want to control the brightness of the screen by setting other values.
Is there an app or a hack to do this?
Good question. Loved to know too!
Look under widgets and you will find one called
"Brightness"
I'll let you figure the rest out for yourself
topcaser said:
Hi,
automatic backlight is still too bright for me in almost any environment. I want to control the brightness of the screen by setting other values.
Is there an app or a hack to do this?
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Try to using
Brightenes Level App
I recommend "SwitchPro Widget", which is available from the Marketplace. It allows you to toggle the brightnees, even to levels lower than the automatic setting.
Hi, i dont want to change brightness manually, but want to change the default values which are used for automatic brightness. Is this possible?
Does no one knows??
Hmmm would be handy!
topcaser said:
Hi,
automatic backlight is still too bright for me in almost any environment. I want to control the brightness of the screen by setting other values.
Is there an app or a hack to do this?
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Perhaps you could put some tinted glass/plastic over the sensor, so the phone thinks it's darker than it actually is and doesn't make the screen as bright?
poldie said:
Perhaps you could put some tinted glass/plastic over the sensor, so the phone thinks it's darker than it actually is and doesn't make the screen as bright?
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good idea, but that's not the resolution, even in night it's very bright and for me even at manual 1% brightness it's a bit to bright for me...
would be awesome to have more possibilities to work with the amoled screen - by the way - for black it needs 0% energy so better to read white letters on black background
edit: me using "Quick Settings" to handle brightness etc.
Hi I am using dimmer lite download frm market place suits my usage
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topcaser said:
Hi,
automatic backlight is still too bright for me in almost any environment. I want to control the brightness of the screen by setting other values.
Is there an app or a hack to do this?
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settings/Sound & Display/Brightness
&
widgets/power control
I would like the automatic brightness to be just a bit more brighter when im outside. Would be great to be able to adjust it!!
If there was something like a -2 -1 0 +1 +2 way to adjust it!
Dont want manually keep setting the brightness all the time.
I just tried the app called Dimmer.
It is perfect.
Goes to a very low setting and then switches back to whatever you had before.
I have the same problem with my Desire that the Auto Brightness doesn't go all the way down and the HTC Denmark support basically just said meh. And said they would report it as a wish for future updates.
ZigmaDK said:
I just tried the app called Dimmer.
It is perfect.
Goes to a very low setting and then switches back to whatever you had before.
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This app is great! Thank you!
I have my phone on autobacklight, but I find that in dark settings its too bright!!
This app does what I want with a simple click! Shame however that there's no way to reduce the lowest brightness on auto setting built into the OS.

adjusting auto-brightness level

do you guys know how to or what apps can change the auto adjust level? and please dont say just manually change it, i like to use the auto feature, its there so i can be lazy.
Settings > display > brightness
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You can go to settings> display> brightness and set it to auto brightness, or you can get the app "Quick Settings" it has a bunch of toggles
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I think the OP wants something similar to what's in Cyanogen roms. I think he wants to adjust how bright or dim it gets on certain light conditions. I think I saw an app called Luminous or something. Now I'm drawing a blank.
Sistum Id said:
I think the OP wants something similar to what's in Cyanogen roms. I think he wants to adjust how bright or dim it gets on certain light conditions. I think I saw an app called Luminous or something. Now I'm drawing a blank.
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I'm looking for something like this also.
I'm just sayin!
Sistum Id said:
I think the OP wants something similar to what's in Cyanogen roms. I think he wants to adjust how bright or dim it gets on certain light conditions. I think I saw an app called Luminous or something. Now I'm drawing a blank.
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yea...thanks
http://android.modaco.com/topic/341706-custom-autobrightness-values-cm7/
Maybe if you found the file that holds the values, you could pull and push the file till you find what you like?
EDIT:
Try this, maybe this will work. I think this is what I saw once.
Lux Auto Brightness
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
I think I might give it a try later on.
Juice defender has an option to set the brightness all the way from -80% to +150%. So autobrightness would have a larger (or smaller, if you prefer) range.
Sistum Id said:
http://android.modaco.com/topic/341706-custom-autobrightness-values-cm7/
Maybe if you found the file that holds the values, you could pull and push the file till you find what you like?
EDIT:
Try this, maybe this will work. I think this is what I saw once.
Lux Auto Brightness
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
I think I might give it a try later on.
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Have it. Recommend it. Slick app from a great responsive developer.
just use the notification bar
Hey guys
I found out that if you tap the notification bar on the top and slide your finger left or right, you can adjust brightness as you like. I think that is the easiest and quickest tip I found on this forum. not sure where I found it.. hope that helps..
^^ only works if the brightness toggle is off.. Awesome feature on sammys..
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Galaxy S2 on TapaTalk
There is an app i am using that allows you to adjust the levels that the auto brightness use.
Called: LogGraph
it gives you a graph divided by roughly 12 steps of the brightness sensor so 0-12.
you can set the brightness level at each step the default (which i am using) is roughly:
Sensor% - Brightness level%
0-0
10-5
20-10
30-15
40-20
50-25
60-30
70-40
80-60
90-80
100-100
PMG 705 said:
^^ only works if the brightness toggle is off.. Awesome feature on sammys..
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Galaxy S2 on TapaTalk
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Thanks I was wondering why it didn't work.
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Reviving a slightly older thread here for some feedback.
Lux is a great and well designed app; I've been having issues with it - it doesn't seem to sample from the sensor (light or camera) when it wakes up, even though that is how I set it. I sent an e-mail to the developer, so hoping he can help me out. I also found it hard to understand the "levels" both in basic mode, and the lux/luma in advanced mode. I came from Cyanogenmod (on an Evo 4g) so I understand how the sensor works, but for some reason, whether it be the GS2 or Lux, the sensor does not seem to pick up a lot of variation in ambient light. I can cover up the sensor with my finger and the value that is getting doesn't seem to go below 2.
So I'm still struggling to get the auto-brightness (with an app or with the factory algorithm) to work properly compared to what I was able to get on my Evo 4g w/ Cyanogenmod (which was perfect by the way - once I have it all set up, absolutely perfect auto-brightness).
Actually I edited the framework-res.apk file and that did the trick. I tried lux before but it still didn't work like the default auto brightness.
I'm just sayin!
princeasi said:
Actually I edited the framework-res.apk file and that did the trick. I tried lux before but it still didn't work like the default auto brightness.
I'm just sayin!
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I'm guessing this is something that can't be edited live or on the fly? It's got to be signed and flashed?
If that works, cool, but I'm totally hoping for an edit I can make live to system files from Root Explorer for instance.
davidemartindale said:
I'm guessing this is something that can't be edited live or on the fly? It's got to be signed and flashed?
If that works, cool, but I'm totally hoping for an edit I can make live to system files from Root Explorer for instance.
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Yes, currently this is the only way to achieve this. Supercurio mentioned in one of his post earlier that he was working on an app that would allow us to make these type of adjustments.
I'm just sayin!
princeasi said:
Actually I edited the framework-res.apk file and that did the trick. I tried lux before but it still didn't work like the default auto brightness.
I'm just sayin!
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I believe you that Lux doesn't work like the factory auto-adjust...no matter what an app. developer does, you can't replicate the responsiveness of what would be in the framework.
Could you explain further the edits you did and what it corrected? I am a software developer and I can figure out the basics, just was looking for an idea of what you edited in there and the specifics to get me going.
Thanks in advance!
onyx00 said:
I believe you that Lux doesn't work like the factory auto-adjust...no matter what an app. developer does, you can't replicate the responsiveness of what would be in the framework.
Could you explain further the edits you did and what it corrected? I am a software developer and I can figure out the basics, just was looking for an idea of what you edited in there and the specifics to get me going.
Thanks in advance!
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I basically followed what they did here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235212 to decompile the apk. I made adjustments to the value that represents the brightness under the lowest lighting conditions. I slightly increased the brightness under that value to help mask the blobs under low lit conditions. Hope this helps.
I'm just sayin!
princeasi said:
I basically followed what they did here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235212 to decompile the apk. I made adjustments to the value that represents the brightness under the lowest lighting conditions. I slightly increased the brightness under that value to help mask the blobs under low lit conditions. Hope this helps.
I'm just sayin!
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Yeah, saw that last night and just finished. Will probably need to dial in the values a bit to find what is optimal for me.
I'll post a Framework for others to use once I get mine all set. This is definitely the way to go for adjusting autobrightness.

Adjust ambient display brightness?

Is there a way to brighten the ambient display, such as the clock and notifications that appear? I can barely see it in the sun. I had no problem seeing my moto z play in the sun.
sruel3216 said:
Is there a way to brighten the ambient display, such as the clock and notifications that appear? I can barely see it in the sun. I had no problem seeing my moto z play in the sun.
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If you go into settings / display there is a brightness slider that you can use to manually set the screen at a brighter level. I'm not sure if that recalibrates the base Android uses in its ambient settings or not. If you just are used to a brighter screen and find that the ambient setting continues to make the screen dimmer than you like after using the slider you can just turn the ambient display feature off entirely. I personally like the feature but a lot of people don't and just turn it off.
There are also apps in the Play Store that allow you to manually adjust the screen brightness without going into the settings menu, if you want to have easier control over it.
jhs39 said:
If you go into settings / display there is a brightness slider that you can use to manually set the screen at a brighter level. I'm not sure if that recalibrates the base Android uses in its ambient settings or not. If you just are used to a brighter screen and find that the ambient setting continues to make the screen dimmer than you like after using the slider you can just turn the ambient display feature off entirely. I personally like the feature but a lot of people don't and just turn it off.
There are also apps in the Play Store that allow you to manually adjust the screen brightness without going into the settings menu, if you want to have easier control over it.
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hmm ok. i like the auto brightness. just want to adjust the whites that light up when you receive notification
sruel3216 said:
hmm ok. i like the auto brightness. just want to adjust the whites that light up when you receive notification
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I misunderstood your post then. Sorry.
sruel3216 said:
Is there a way to brighten the ambient display, such as the clock and notifications that appear? I can barely see it in the sun. I had no problem seeing my moto z play in the sun.
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I know that the AOKP ROM allows alot of modifications to the ambient display brightness settings. Other ROMs may do the same but I know and use the settings on AOKP. It's a very good ROM! Native settings don't have the options.
AOKP and Pixel Dust are the two roms I know of that have this option.
You don't need a ROM to kick in higher brightness on auto brightness.
Just root and install ElementalX kernel or one based on it.
Then install this widget and once toggled, it will give you way more max brightness on auto brightness.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.hbmwidget
I noticed that my wife's phone has significantly brighter ambient display. They have identical settings as far as I can tell. So I'm not sure but I would love to find out the answer cause I want mine brighter too
Go to advanced display settings and toggle off the option to wake the screen with new notifications, then turn off the lift to view gesture. Your ambient display should brighten significantly.

increase lowest brightness

I'm searching for an app or something to increase my lowest brightness because pixel 2xl screen is kinda sh*tty in very low brightness. All the apps that I can find offer only the opposite by applying a filter.
Anyone knows anything that can be done?
arvylas said:
I'm searching for an app or something to increase my lowest brightness because pixel 2xl screen is kinda sh*tty in very low brightness. All the apps that I can find offer only the opposite by applying a filter.
Anyone knows anything that can be done?
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Are you stock or rooted??. If rooted, you can set minimum brightness levels with a custom kernel and the EXKM app :good:
I'm not sure I understand your question.
When set at it's lowest setting, the display brightness is not bright enough?
Why not move the slider to a little brighter of a setting?
Badger50 said:
Are you stock or rooted??. If rooted, you can set minimum brightness levels with a custom kernel and the EXKM app :good:
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Stock rom with flash rooted. I don't see anything that could help in exkm.
Az Biker said:
I'm not sure I understand your question.
When set at it's lowest setting, the display brightness is not bright enough?
Why not move the slider to a little brighter of a setting?
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That's what I do until now. I was curious though if I can automate it and not mess with the slider all the time. I keep it at the middle with auto brightness but in the dark the brightness gets too low and the black crush and ghosting is unbearable.
arvylas said:
That's what I do until now. I was curious though if I can automate it and not mess with the slider all the time. I keep it at the middle with auto brightness but in the dark the brightness gets too low and the black crush and ghosting is unbearable.
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You mean like this at the bottom of the pic?
For those not rooted...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite
I bought full version awhile ago, not sure what restrictions if any there are in free version.
arvylas said:
That's what I do until now. I was curious though if I can automate it and not mess with the slider all the time. I keep it at the middle with auto brightness but in the dark the brightness gets too low and the black crush and ghosting is unbearable.
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Oh. So you want to set the perfect brightness as the lowest settings so you just have to swipe all the way left instead of finding the sweet spot with the slider?
Still crazy, but now I get it
Badger50 said:
You mean like this at the bottom of the pic?
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I think the right expression is blind as a bat. Thanks mate. @azbiker something like that. I just couldn't find an optimal setting for both day and night.
arvylas said:
That's what I do until now. I was curious though if I can automate it and not mess with the slider all the time. I keep it at the middle with auto brightness but in the dark the brightness gets too low and the black crush and ghosting is unbearable.
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Auto brightness at 50% still gets you crushed blacks? Can't test that now cause I'm on DP2 but I'm pretty sure when I had that same setting, it was too bright for me actually.
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Try this to automate completely! :good: Integrates with Tasker and a tasker plugin named Twilight to change based on home or not, sun rise or sun down, travel speed (brighter walking / dimmer in a vehicle). Incrediable app, I've used it for 4-5 years on many devices. Does not require root but works well if you are rooted.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910521
EeZeEpEe said:
Auto brightness at 50% still gets you crushed blacks? Can't test that now cause I'm on DP2 but I'm pretty sure when I had that same setting, it was too bright for me actually.
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I set it around 40-45 and in a dark room is really bad. Well reading is ok at that brightness but everything else is a nightmare.

Screen brightness messed up in P beta 2(dp3)?

I upgraded my phone from 8.1 to 9.0 yesterday and noticed that my brightness slider is now much higher up to 100% than it used to be. I have to make it go much higher to get bthe same brightness. Going to my old brightness setting makes the screen really dim. Is this a bug?
BoboBrazil said:
I upgraded my phone from 8.1 to 9.0 yesterday and noticed that my brightness slider is now much higher up to 100% than it used to be. I have to make it go much higher to get bthe same brightness. Going to my old brightness setting makes the screen really dim. Is this a bug?
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Nope. New linear scale on the brightness slider...
jaytv said:
Nope. New linear scale on the brightness slider...
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What does this mean though? Because now it's really dark until you get to over half of the bar then it shoots up quickly. Doesn't make much sense to me. I'm not using auto brightness btw.
BoboBrazil said:
What does this mean though? Because now it's really dark until you get to over half of the bar then it shoots up quickly. Doesn't make much sense to me. I'm not using auto brightness btw.
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Something to do with the non-linear (logarithmic) scale being closer to real world physics or something like that, not exactly sure why it should matter, but Google and others have decided so. It just means that the "graph" of the scale is not a straight line but a curve.
Brightness was fine before the June update. After the June update I have to set it to 83% brightness to get what I was getting at 50% brightness. It's a bug. I flashed back to 8.1 for now.

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