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[Q] Button Brightness

Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!

I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.

Canesfan said:
I just turn them off completely. That way I dont get caught at work like I did on my vibrant.
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Yah that is what I have done myself.. but even if you could drop the brightness by say 75% would be nice.

I noticed it was too low on regular galaxy s2 (i9100) , so probably samsung increased it on this one,
and now its too bright.
but i like this one bright.

firebane said:
Curious if anyone has found a way to adjust the brightness of the touch buttons?
I like how they light up and I like how its only for like 1.5 seconds... but the brightness is crazy if your in a dark room!
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I would love to have my back light dimmed down to like 25% or maybe 50% as I do a lot of reading at night before i sleep and I turn the screen brightness down to zero.
It's pretty good in a dark room in bed, but the buttons is freaking annoying and too bright.
And having the button light off isn't very useful since I press the back button all the time and always miss.
And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?

unfaix said:
And during the day, 100% brightness on the button serves no purpose since you can still see the button with out any light on.
I would love it if any developers could take a look into this request?
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The HTC Amaze only turns on the LED's if it's dark enough, I wish the Galaxy S2 would also do this as it would save a bit of battery.

The Screen Filter app lowers the screen's brightness and can also turn off the button light. I can't post a link yet due to my newbie status, but search for it on the Market.

Patience for cm. since cm has a very customizable brightness control including buttons brightness.
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I would love this as well.

bump so I dont have to make a new thread:
BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??

96shox said:
bump so I dont have to make a new thread:
BUT today in a tmobile store I noticed the Black t989 had at least double the brightness of the touch buttons compared to my White t989...Anyone else notice this??
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Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast

Unless I'm mistaken our phones cannot adjust the brightness of those buttons regardless of ROMs (cm or otherwise). I'm pretty sure we only have one led board that only controls on or off (hence why you can only have all them on or all of them off, not just light individual ones). Cm might have those settings but it's because cm is made for many different phones and some phones might have the ability to adjust the brightness but not ours.

xcrazydx said:
Its probably just because the black background is more of a contrast
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DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989

96shox said:
DEFINITELY not the reason why. It was significantly brighter on the black t989
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Ok, Roger that
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Screen brightness

I've been researching this phone before buying it. I've read that its screen doesn't get as bright as other phones' screens. In a TMO store this week, I compared my Vibrant (at its usual daytime brightness, around 40%) side-by-side with the GSIII -- with the GSIII's brightness at max, auto-brightness turned off, "auto adjust screen tone" turned off, and browser brightness at max -- and the GSIII's browser was indeed not as bright as what I'm used to on the Vibrant, even at those maxed-out levels. (I'm most interested in the browser, since that's what I look at the most.)
To those who own this phone -- have you found that the screen does not seem to get bright enough for your taste, in actual use? Thanks.

Its bright enough for me..the international version has a mod that makes the screen brighter & more crisp plus better colors.. hopefully we the same treatment soon.
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Yes Sg3 is half as bright as vibrant at maximum setting. Initially it bothered me but once i completely switched to the new phone and no more compare them side by side i am happy. SG3 by itself is okay and very usable, so stop comparing them and you will be fine.
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I was concerned about this as well but after a couple weeks with the s3 its not that big of a deal. The brightness of the screen was never an issue when it came to using it.

pavvy said:
I've been researching this phone before buying it. I've read that its screen doesn't get as bright as other phones' screens. In a TMO store this week, I compared my Vibrant (at its usual daytime brightness, around 40%) side-by-side with the GSIII -- with the GSIII's brightness at max, auto-brightness turned off, "auto adjust screen tone" turned off, and browser brightness at max -- and the GSIII's browser was indeed not as bright as what I'm used to on the Vibrant, even at those maxed-out levels. (I'm most interested in the browser, since that's what I look at the most.)
To those who own this phone -- have you found that the screen does not seem to get bright enough for your taste, in actual use? Thanks.
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Make sure you have all power saving options off, and auto adjust screen tone off (menu>system settings>display)

Washed Out Screen Color?

I'm writing to see if anyone here might have the same issue I'm having with my Note 4.
When it's bright outside, sometimes, the screen not only amps up the brightness, but for some reason all the colors on the screen appear really washed out. Facebook's logo is now neon blue, Evernote is like a pale lime, etc. All the colors are horribly ugly. If I open an app, or the drawer, the screen goes back to normal color, still bright though.
This ONLY happens (thus far) when I've turned the phone on while being in direct sunlight.
If I manually turn my brightness level ALL the way up, the colors still appear fine, I can't make the screen wash the colors out like that manually (not with brightness levels or adaptive display modes).
This also doesn't happen every time I wake the phone up while in direct sunlight, but about 50% of the time.
So, anyone else have this problem? Is it normal, or should I try to get a replacement? Course, since I can't replicate it on demand that will be a PITA.
Thanks

Happens to me as well. I even went to far as to disable the "dynamic screen adjustment" or whatever it is, and it still happens. Just like you said, only in direct sunlight.

It's too make the screen more viewable in direct sunlight.

washing out the colors is normal in order for the phone to be bright enough to see in direct sunlight. I, for one, love that they did this because i can see the screen perfectly in bright sunlight.

nyydynasty said:
washing out the colors is normal in order for the phone to be bright enough to see in direct sunlight. I, for one, love that they did this because i can see the screen perfectly in bright sunlight.
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I'm with you on this one, I think it's an awesome function. Heck when I found out it did I was showing everyone lol I have noticed that it's only sunlight cuz I tried using my note 3 flash light to do the same thing but to no avail.
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Yes if you have your note 4 set to auto brightness, in direct sunlight the phones backlight will push the brightness all the way up to 750nits of brightness. It will wash out the colors, but it makes the screen very visible in direct sunlight. I personally love the feature, no need to cover your hand over your phone to see a text message or something else anymore. If you don't like, like myself, I manual adjust brightness myself. Half brightness is plenty bright for any other time of the day.

This happened to me yesterday and I thought my phone was going bad. It was a wtf moment for sure. Glad to know it's a feature and not an issue with the screen. I turned the screen off then on and it went away (might have been walking indoors).

I had this happen in the day time while I was in the car multiple times, so I just turned off the automatic brightness, solved my issue.

This is the first phone that has ever been bright enough for me to read books with in the noon day sun. So I'm loving this feature bigtime. I think the automatic feature could use some fine tuning because indoors it dims the brightness too much for me but otherwise... loving it.

Freaked me out the first time it did that to me outside, but quickly realized it was on purpose to make it more viewable since it was so bright outside. Love that feature tho

nyydynasty said:
washing out the colors is normal in order for the phone to be bright enough to see in direct sunlight. I, for one, love that they did this because i can see the screen perfectly in bright sunlight.
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I love that they did this. 1st phone I've had that I can easily see the screen in direct bright sunlight. Good job Samsung.

I was shocked when I first saw it this morning... then did a google which led me here... thank God it aint faulty...

I was shocked when I first saw it this morning... then did a google which led me here... thank God it aint faulty...

I think I have this issue but idk. Dark pictures on my screen show horrible and like blocky when there's blacks. The Samsung boot screen has a yellowish greenish tint to it. My colors look washed but it isn't horrible just the dark colors and blacks get to me

NexusS4gFreak said:
I think I have this issue but idk. Dark pictures on my screen show horrible and like blocky when there's blacks. The Samsung boot screen has a yellowish greenish tint to it. My colors look washed but it isn't horrible just the dark colors and blacks get to me
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For example this is how my blacks show

screen brightness

So I'm not sure if this is a beta issue or my Device or maybe it's how the pixel is idk (went straight to the beta after getting it) but at minimum brightness is literally can't see anything on my screen at all and before I can see things properly the slider needs to be at least near half way before anything is readible. Is this normal or a beta/device issue?
Don't have much problems keeping max brightness on if I need too but kinda sucks I can't see **** even in a dark room at minimum.

Pitch black room with brightness set to lowest, I can see things just fine with the exception of the black crushing. What were you trying to view exactly? Pics, text, video?
Roxas598 said:
So I'm not sure if this is a beta issue or my Device or maybe it's how the pixel is idk (went straight to the beta after getting it) but at minimum brightness is literally can't see anything on my screen at all and before I can see things properly the slider needs to be at least near half way before anything is readible. Is this normal or a beta/device issue?
Don't have much problems keeping max brightness on if I need too but kinda sucks I can't see **** even in a dark room at minimum.
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Roxas598 said:
So I'm not sure if this is a beta issue or my Device or maybe it's how the pixel is idk (went straight to the beta after getting it) but at minimum brightness is literally can't see anything on my screen at all and before I can see things properly the slider needs to be at least near half way before anything is readible. Is this normal or a beta/device issue?
Don't have much problems keeping max brightness on if I need too but kinda sucks I can't see **** even in a dark room at minimum.
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https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...c-brightness-slider-introduced-android-p-dp3/

Yeah but that affected the upper range of brightness. That shouldn't have any affect on setting the brightness to 0%.
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https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...c-brightness-slider-introduced-android-p-dp3/
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EeZeEpEe said:
Pitch black room with brightness set to lowest, I can see things just fine with the exception of the black crushing. What were you trying to view exactly? Pics, text, video?
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Mainly text it's hard to read when brightness us all the way down in a dark room is really hard.
Also in the daylight even a little bit down and it's near impossible to see outside seriously my razer phone screen is more visible

Is it white text on a black background or black text on a white? I know with white text on a black background it can be difficult especially if scrolling because the black smears into the white.
The Razer phone is a really dim screen and max brightness on the Pixel 2 XL isn't super high but definitely brighter. You have Adaptive brightness on or off? As with most phones, screen actually gets brighter while auto/Adaptive is on and set to 100% than off and set to 100%.
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Mainly text it's hard to read when brightness us all the way down in a dark room is really hard.
Also in the daylight even a little bit down and it's near impossible to see outside seriously my razer phone screen is more visible
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Outdoor visibility (max brightness)

Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy S10+'s display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

it's pretty dim, to be honest, i wish we had screen brightness like some of the older motorola phones did when android motorola was still for the cool kids instead of the soccer moms.

Best device ive used in direct sunlight. I work outdoors in the Texas heat and I have no problems seeing the screen.
10/10 for the display, its gorgeous.

Agreed, the brightness when in direct sunlight has much improved over the S9+. It's very usable on a bright sunny day

The display blows the note 9 outdoor usability - Florida sun.
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I have S10+ and can't see anything while in my car or outside. The comments above saying it's so great make me think eventhough we have the same phones, that they are talking about a different phone. I think it's awful and now regretting my decision to get this phone because this drives me completely insane. Rating 2.

No problems her in crazy sunlight. Phone does get warm because of the max brightness and direct sunlight but still very clear to read.

Its excellent
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It works really well under sunlight and yeah the phone does heat up a bit but it's ok I can see and read well my screen

On max brightness it's bright. Inside it blinds the crap out of me. Outside I can see it pretty well.

Put it on adaptive brightness. I guess there's a limit to how bright we can manually set it versus how bright it gets automatically.. I played around with these settings myself and it does get brighter when you turn on adaptive brightness. Try it! I'm sure you'll like it better! Because I was thinking three same thing you said, house the hell are these people thinking it's great in the sunlight?! Way better with adaptive enabled!

Lou™Airgod said:
Put it on adaptive brightness. I guess there's a limit to how bright we can manually set it versus how bright it gets automatically.. I played around with these settings myself and it does get brighter when you turn on adaptive brightness. Try it! I'm sure you'll like it better! Because I was thinking three same thing you said, house the hell are these people thinking it's great in the sunlight?! Way better with adaptive enabled!
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You are CORRECT. This has been from the very start. Only adaptive brightness will give you the max potential of the brightness of s10+'s screen.

For s10+, high brightness mode is entered when sensor reads 40,000lux, and its exited when sensor reads below 8000lux (it used to be 5000lux but it must have been changed at some point). When sun hits the screen, screen is very visible and good. When you are outside but sun isnt on the screen, you can turn your phone towards sun to activate HBM, but it may exit once you turn it back to yourself.(quite annoying as manual max is very limiting at 300nits).
There is a HDR bug, only works on android 10, you can trick the phone to stay at HDR brightness(brightness is still adjustable all the way from 1.6nits to 700), so you can manually adjust it to max brightness(700nits) whenever you want. This is the reason im staying at android 10 lol. Had to downgrade from android 11. If bootloader version turns to 10(currently 9) you wont be able to downgrade(maybe with root you can, i dont know) so its good to consider doing it

Ive always auto brightness turned on,
after installing the UI3.1 , under a bright light, it doesn't go so bright...but under sun light, or in dqy light, its just brighter and its get sooo much better...,
It's like sensors understand where u r

rezadentevil said:
Ive always auto brightness turned on,
after installing the UI3.1 , under a bright light, it doesn't go so bright...but under sun light, or in dqy light, its just brighter and its get sooo much better...,
It's like sensors understand where u r
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I was on 3.1 for 2 3 months and it enters at 40.000lux just like 3.0, i doubt they increased the thereshold cuz its already too high.

theblitz707 said:
I was on 3.1 for 2 3 months and it enters at 40.000lux just like 3.0, i doubt they increased the thereshold cuz its already too high.
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Yeah that puts a lot of wear on the display fast.
Avoid using in direct sunlight or at least limit it to seconds.

blackhawk said:
Yeah that puts a lot of wear on the display fast.
Avoid using in direct sunlight or at least limit it to seconds.
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İm actually staying on android 10 to use a hdr bug that lets me use max brightness whenever i want. Its not a suicide mission like everyone imagines