Are there any apps or hack to further reduce the minimum brightness? I have it set to 1 but I know it goes dimmer. Just before the screen timeouts it goes into some kind of ultra minimum brightness. I work at night and drive at night and I don't need the bright screen coming on during every left turn. I can now put it into theatre mode, which I do, but then I lose vibrations for notifications too.
You can with mini launcher if you swipe twice there is a brightness slider. Problem is there is a massive jump in brightness, its too low for me.
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Can you confirm better battery life after this?
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Been playing with my new phone and love it but man is the auto brightness a piece of crap. It sets the backlight so low you get weird banding on solid colors and off whites. Just turn brightness to 30% or so and boom its a whole different screen, colors pop and I don't notice any banding. Whites are great too.
They need to fix this fast since it comes with auto brightness on and its going to give people a bad impression.
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That's the first thing I did.
auto-brightness is always a little too aggressive for my liking..
It was a problem with the Nexus S as well. Drove me nuts.
Seems AOSP roms are very aggressive with dimming.
mobilehavoc said:
Been playing with my new phone and love it but man is the auto brightness a piece of crap. It sets the backlight so low you get weird banding on solid colors and off whites. Just turn brightness to 30% or so and boom its a whole different screen, colors pop and I don't notice any banding. Whites are great too.
They need to fix this fast since it comes with auto brightness on and its going to give people a bad impression.
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known issue. Manufacturers tend to be really aggressive with this so you can get better battery life (yea I know.. pointless right?)
Just wait for custom ROMs. Or go download paulobrien's tweak for the automatic brightness settings. (of course, as others have said, you can just turn it off)
auto brightness has always sucked on Android, iOS has a customizable auto brightness that adjust to the level you put it on initially, where as on Android there's no option to adjust the default brightness when auto brightness is enabled.
rashad1 said:
auto brightness has always sucked on Android, iOS has a customizable auto brightness that adjust to the level you put it on initially, where as on Android there's no option to adjust the default brightness when auto brightness is enabled.
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Not just iOS, even my 3 year old Nokia allows you to adjust the level of auto brightness. Wish this is native to Android. I found my Nexus One too dim on auto brightness too.
Edit (deleted): redundant post about paulobriens fix
The auto-brightness doesn't just seem too low to me but also buggy. Most of the time it's really dim, but occasionally it will suddenly shoot up to a decent level
Has anyone tried this app? https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nnevod.loggraph&feature=search_result
I find it too bright.. the display is perfectly usable on minimum brightness in a normally lit room bit it keeps winding the brightness up, draining the battery. It seems stuck on about 50%.
My Nexus S did the same thing.. Drove me nuts. I had to switch it off and force it to minimum half the time.
Hopefully the ability to tweak the levels in detail will be ported over from CM7 later. For now, you can use PaulOBrien's kernel where he adjusted it.
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I find it too bright.. the display is perfectly usable on minimum brightness in a normally lit room bit it keeps winding the brightness up, draining the battery. It seems stuck on about 50%.
My Nexus S did the same thing.. Drove me nuts. I had to switch it off and force it to minimum half the time.
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Same here, with my Nexus S, too bright.
This is one of the first things I do when flashing a rom on my incredible. They usually have to ramp down the brightness very quickly, probably for battery life. Cm has the tool hopefully it will be loaded soon.
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It would be nice if google added an option to set the max and min brightness used during auto. You could just raise floor a little.
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Problem I've realized is on SAMOLED devices the screen is an absolute battery killer so there's no wonder they are aggressively keeping it dim. I bet if you ran this phone at 100% brightness just sitting idle it'd last like 10 mins
Has anyone noticed stock auto brightness is equal to the LOW setting? The only thing it does, whether it's a dark room or bright room is flip the brightness to LOW.
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Has anyone noticed stock auto brightness is equal to low?
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no, i think auto brightness is too bright for me in most of the time? did your case block the sensor?
vista1984 said:
no, i think auto brightness is too bright for me in most of the time? did your case block the sensor?
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I don't have a case yet.
I agree that auto-brightness is too low. I manually set the brightness.
I agree the auto brightness is pretty low. However I like it, and it saves battery.
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The auto brightness is to high for me too. In low light conditions if I turn off the auto setting I can force the screen lower.
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I notice when the screen dims especially on auto dim that the screen flickers or strobes like the tail lights on cadillacs, I cant read any thing easily. The best way to see it is to quickly scan from the top of the screen to the bottom or vise versa in a dimly lit room, you will see a stepped image.
That's why I haven't used stock auto-brightness since my last HTC phone. I've used third party apps to control my brightness, since I had the original Note. Lux is my favorite. So much control over the brightness settings. You can control the lowest brightness setting the phone will hit in addition to numerous other variables. Works really well for me.
Mine works flawlessly. It usually is set at the lowest setting until needed to be boosted.
This gorgeous screen still suffers from being too damn bright in the dark! Needs a filter on it so your retinas don't burn in the dark.
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I had to use lux auto brightness to lower mine it was very bright. You might want to use it to increase yours if it's low .
Who here chooses automatic brightness vs the controlled brightness....and does the auto effect the battery a lot?
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I just switched from controlled to auto, and I love it. Battery goes up a ton!!
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It's personal preference, I always use manual brightness control with my phone for several reasons:
- automatic brightness does not always adjust to the correct brightness, especially when moving from outdoor to indoor.
- it's not that hard to adjust the brightness myself. The ROM I am using has a brightness slider in the notification drawer which is very convenient.
- I usually keep my brightness down and only need to turn up the brightness when there is a harsh light reflecting on my phone screen (such as the sun).
- lastly, not using automatic brightness will definitely help with battery life (but only if you keep the screen brightness down and depending how often you keep the screen on)
Using automatic brightness is useful, but for my usage I prefer to save that little bit of battery life if possible.
OK thanks for the feedback
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When I'm home, I set the brigthness to low, but when I'm out, say for example in school, i put it on auto
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I use Lux Autobrightness, you can set custom brightness levels for each environment. Much better than the default autobrightness for android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux.free
Anyone else notice that after turning the screen on it dims a little after a few seconds. I don't have auto brightness on.
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It could be the thermal control kicking in.
To see if it is, when it does reduce the brightness, try to up it again with the slide control, if it's the thermal throttling, it'll say it won't because of the phone's temperature.
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It could be the thermal control kicking in.
To see if it is, when it does reduce the brightness, try to up it again with the slide control, if it's the thermal throttling, it'll say it won't because of the phone's temperature.
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Most probably is because the CPU will be used a lot when starting.
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Anyone else notice that after turning the screen on it dims a little after a few seconds. I don't have auto brightness on.
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What do you have your "Screen timeout" set to under Settings > Display? Mine usually dims a few seconds before turning off the screen. If you have a short timeout then it would dim very quickly.
I have screen off set at 1minute...tried raising brightness after dimming and it let me go to 100%...it is super annoying!
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So I was using my S6 today and noticed the screen was toggling between full bright (auto dim off) and a much brighter mode when in direct shot of the sun. Surprisingly, I could still read it! It looked great.
What is this called and is there a way to control it being on or off all the time? I'd like it on driving.
I don't think u can control that
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The first time that happened with my Note 4 I thought I broke it. But it's automatic. No setting for it.
Is there an app that I can automate to essentially override the light sensor data? That'd be a dirty way of controlling this.