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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone new how to lower the brightness level to below that of stock, up to the level of night mode if I needed.
I like to do a bit of browsing before I sleep, and the brightness levels even on the lowest hurt my eyes! If anyone knows how to do this I would very much appreciate it. Thanks!
UPDATE: Issue helped, and possibly resolved with the help of my mate Rich @ Geek you Up. Check out his app in my thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644649
Dude I'm with you,but I don't think is even possible,and if someone find a way,I would like to increased more for the sunlight.
jongie123 said:
Dude I'm with you,but I don't think is even possible,and if someone find a way,I would like to increased more for the sunlight.
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Ive been looking at the Auto-Brightness thread and it seems Cyan already knows how to tweek the brightness values, but I dont even know what a github is let alone the deving needed to acheive this.
cyanogen said:
Anyway, the Desire has 10 auto-brightness levels, and the N1 has only 5. These are just an array of lux/brightness values. I put them into my vendor overlay and rebuilt, and I have to say it's much nicer. I'm going to include it in the next CM.
http://github.com/cyanogen/android_...mmit/9dca8ad9cfdbe74eae6961ee805dd8c9523a43c4
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Cyan if you can help, I would appreciate it!! But understand if the modding is far more important
Like how the brightness dims before the screen auto turns off, or how it is dim when you tap the sleep button in the clock application - these would be good. As for that stock widget that controls the wifi,blutooth,gps,sync and brightness, i never touch it because it messes with autobrightness, but if it could be changed to temporarily go really dim thatd be perfect
jamesyb0i said:
Like how the brightness dims before the screen auto turns off, or how it is dim when you tap the sleep button in the clock application - these would be good. As for that stock widget that controls the wifi,blutooth,gps,sync and brightness, i never touch it because it messes with autobrightness, but if it could be changed to temporarily go really dim thatd be perfect
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Either my friend! The clock application goes even dimmer than I want, so somewhere in between would be great. But I'm sure that could be customized, I just dont know where to start looking..
I'd be really interested in this too - I like reading in bed before going to sleep, but the wife doesn't like the light being on. I have to angle my nexus slightly away as it is too bright, even at the lowest setting, to have it directly facing me while in a dark room.
Hey guys - just wanted to create a little poll to see who leaves there screen on auto-brightness, full, or manually controlled but somewhere in the middle.
I use auto, but I use tasker and screen filter to turn the brightness automatically at night.
Auto-Brightness unless I read in a dark room where I manually set it to the minimum (auto usually puts it there anyways). The other exception is when battery is low, I put it at 0% or whatever minimum allows me to see something.
I'll submit a vote when I can indicate minimal brightness. More than bright enough for me unless I'm outdoors.
i usually leave it on min. brightness and turn it up when needed (e.g. outdoors)
i like SGS to be set on auto, it works better than on the SNS
on the SNS i need to set it to manual
I use auto mostly and manual ( 0% brigness ) when watching movies in my room )
I'm at minimum most of the time (voted 'at the middle' as it is the closest).
Please fix the poll!
Auto-brightness most of the time...
Kops said:
Hey guys - just wanted to create a little poll to see who leaves there screen on auto-brightness, full, or manually controlled but somewhere in the middle.
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i cannot vote as i leave mine on minimum brightness to conserve battery
Almost always at minimum, and often auto when outside.
Minimum being too bright I also sometimes use Screen Filter.
There should be an option to use auto, but choose relative brightness (an offset). Using Screen Filter almost does that, but it is too unstable.
Even beter would be to be able to tweak a response curve : screen brightness in function of ambient light (I want it dimmer inside, but still full brightness outside with sunshine)
I think Samsung does not allow screen to be too dim also because it then shows too much imperfections in amoled...(ex. plain white is not uniform at all)
Using Screen Filter to dim a lot brings bad looking screen. But I guess a great part of it is due to number of colors too low, so you loose too much by filtering. Maybe Gingerbread will improve in this matter (doesn't it manage more color shades?)
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I use auto most of the time, except for image viewing and video.
I use JustPictures as my image viewer and set it to automatically turn brightness to full when looking at an image.
For videos I use mVideoPlayer which has a manual brightness override which I usually leave at about 50%.
I also use the Speedmod kernel which allows the brightness to go even lower than normal if you use manual brightness. I use this low setting when using my phone in the dark.
Just picked up an ME572c and I'm very impressed for the price. However I have noticed the screen brightness levels keep fluctuating as if the light sensor is constantly detecting different light levels.
Has anyone else experienced this?
madgibbon said:
Just picked up an ME572c and I'm very impressed for the price. However I have noticed the screen brightness levels keep fluctuating as if the light sensor is constantly detecting different light levels.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Hi,
i notice this too, but that can be related to the power saving mode. Plz turn it off and check the settings in detail. Maybe that helps.
Further inside the developer options there is another option to configure the auto brightness.
You can change the behaviour from dynamic to immediately or slow mode and active an onscreen lux, gain and brightness value display.
Btw i am not satisfied with the auto control, as for my taste the brightness is still too low in a less lighted room. Sensor is reporting 0 lux already with a brightness of 14 which would be ok for a really dark room & night but not at daytime.
What is your experience?
I tried playing with power saving mode and the auto brightness controls in developer options. While I could reduce the fluctuations, I could eliminate them completely. Unfortunately I found it too distracting and returned the device earlier today. It's a shame as everything else was quite impressive for the money.
I also found the fluctuations annoying, my solution was to turn the auto-brightness off. Honestly I dislike auto-brightness on any device, it was also one of the first things I turned off on my laptop.
I am using Lux app now and raised minimum brightness at 0 lux. Thats ok for me now.
tycoo said:
Hi,
i notice this too, but that can be related to the power saving mode. Plz turn it off and check the settings in detail. Maybe that helps.
Further inside the developer options there is another option to configure the auto brightness.
You can change the behaviour from dynamic to immediately or slow mode and active an onscreen lux, gain and brightness value display.
Btw i am not satisfied with the auto control, as for my taste the brightness is still too low in a less lighted room. Sensor is reporting 0 lux already with a brightness of 14 which would be ok for a really dark room & night but not at daytime.
What is your experience?
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Just bumping this to confirm this works and so that others can see. I used Developer options as well (before I found this post) and noticed the instant setting works best.
One more setting to also double check... Make sure that in developer options under auto brightness that you disable allow change gain...
Even with everything disabled it appears as if something still is changing the display. I particularly see it with something like a reddit browser when I'm viewing pictures. You click the pic, it loads and displays and then 1-2 seconds later the display adjusts based upon what is being displayed. Depending upon the picture it can be pretty annoying. I may have to root and start poking around to find out what is causing this.
with the lollipop update this issue is fixed for me.
Is lollipop really solve the problem?
muiriddin said:
with the lollipop update this issue is fixed for me.
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Hello!
Im on lollipop, but the problem you had, still occur at me.
Did you noticed this problem, since you on lollipop?
I have the same problem. When i read, or browsing, the brightness changes in 2-3 steps.
I haven't used Lollipop at all yet, just picked up the N6 yesterday. Autobrightness is gone, now they want you to slide around the bar to however you want it with adaptive brightness? now how does this work? lets say I set it to full brightness and enable adaptive, itll use anywhere from 0-100%? is the bar just to cap it somewhere so it doesn't exceed? if so what do you have yours set to? Whats a good way to do this all and avoid image burn, ha. which I Heard is kinda a big deal
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I haven't used Lollipop at all yet, just picked up the N6 yesterday. Autobrightness is gone, now they want you to slide around the bar to however you want it with adaptive brightness? now how does this work? lets say I set it to full brightness and enable adaptive, itll use anywhere from 0-100%? is the bar just to cap it somewhere so it doesn't exceed? if so what do you have yours set to? Whats a good way to do this all and avoid image burn, ha. which I Heard is kinda a big deal
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That's exactly how adaptive brightness works. I have my slider set around 25-30%. I change it if I need more outdoors.
imablackhat said:
I haven't used Lollipop at all yet, just picked up the N6 yesterday. Autobrightness is gone, now they want you to slide around the bar to however you want it with adaptive brightness? now how does this work? lets say I set it to full brightness and enable adaptive, itll use anywhere from 0-100%? is the bar just to cap it somewhere so it doesn't exceed? if so what do you have yours set to? Whats a good way to do this all and avoid image burn, ha. which I Heard is kinda a big deal
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This is how I understand it and how I believe it works.
With adaptive brightness OFF, you have your brightness slider in the pulldown that goes from ~5% to 100%. This slider set value will remain until you manually change it. Easy enough.
With adaptive brightness ON, you have that same slider in the pulldown that goes from 0% to 100%. Your brightness will change automagically dependent upon ambient light. Look at it as "minimum automated brightness level"
Some tips. Your screen can get darker with adaptive ON and slider all the way down than with adaptive OFF and slider all the way down. Unless in very bright ambient light, your screen can get brighter with adaptive OFF and slider all the way up. Hence, in full sunlight, the peak brightness of the screen is the same with adaptive either ON or OFF and slider all the way up.
I admit its confusing and it frustrated me at first, but I think its excellent and works much better than auto brightness on any other phone or older android OS I've ever used.
As far as burn in (or the more often occurring image retention), well its an amoled, it's susceptible. Just be smart about it and don't display the same static image/s for hours on end.
jbdan said:
Look at it as "minimum automated brightness level"
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I used to think that but after testing, it seems more complicated than that.. It also looks like to may apply a "range" using the slider, but its more complicated than that too.
The closest thing I can think of is it increases the sensitivity or effectiveness of the adaptive brightness.
Have a look at our tests here, maybe you can do some testing and develop our initial findings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/thread-t1889453/post60222532
I'd love to set it to an exact percentage cuz I'm ocd that's why I hate the slider. How do I really know it's at 25%
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imablackhat said:
I'd love to set it to an exact percentage cuz I'm ocd that's why I hate the slider. How do I really know it's at 25%
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Yeah but once you know 25% is 63.75 on the brightness scale and brightness can only register full numbers, you're day is blown anyway.
rootSU said:
I used to think that but after testing, it seems more complicated than that.. It also looks like to may apply a "range" using the slider, but its more complicated than that too.
The closest thing I can think of is it increases the sensitivity or effectiveness of the adaptive brightness.
Have a look at our tests here, maybe you can do some testing and develop our initial findings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/thread-t1889453/post60222532
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I think you nailed it better than I did in my explanation with your statement "increases the sensitivity or effectiveness of the adaptive brightness".
My explanation was as simple as I could write it. I especially like the word "range". Thanks for the link I'll check it out :thumbup:
So is it true if its set half way if the sun hits it that it can use 100%. What do you guys have it set to? I liked the auto brightness ?
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imablackhat said:
So is it true if its set half way if the sun hits it that it can use 100%. What do you guys have it set to? I liked the auto brightness ?
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Yes if the sun, or even very bright ambient light hits the sensor, the display will go to 100% full brightness with adaptive ON. At least it does with mine (to my aging eyes). I leave mine at about 50% adaptive ON. I like it too
imablackhat said:
So is it true if its set half way if the sun hits it that it can use 100%. What do you guys have it set to? I liked the auto brightness ?
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I use manual.brightness.
For everyone testing display settings have a look at 'Pixel battery saver' in the play store.
The app switches patterns of pixels off and saves energy.
Note.
Because this kind of apps are switching pixels off, it is possible that ticking buttons will not work.
But there is an option to turn it off, and several levels of settings.
I am experiencing automatic dimming of my screen when set to maximum. The big thing is Adaptative Brightness is Off. I also set Power Mode to High Performance to make sure power management would not dim. I even bought an app that supposedly cranck up brightness beyond system limits (did not work)
I first noticed this when taking pictures of my garden in bright daylight, the screen was dim and even going over the orange marker on the dial I still struggled to view the screen (sun was almost 90 degree angle).
However when I placed my hand over the screen I could see well but then I noticed a sensible dim. At first I thought it was some king of optical trick, so I tried to repeat the experiment in different conditions to the point that I would simply crank up brightness and have a strong light over my phone then I used a black sheet of paper just above sensors. If I take the sheet off the brightness ramp up a bit, if I put the sheet over the screen dims. And again no auto Adaptative Brightness is turned on neither Power Mode in save.
I guess this wasn't supposed to happen, if I want to ramp up brightness as much as I want I should be allowed and the system should not interfere with my preference? I don't need to justify my use to anyone but as a courtesy to those that are inclined to help me, here it is: I work a lot with gardening and construction all day, including strong daylight, and I need to take a lot of pictures for my work.
What can I do to squeeze this bit more brightness from my Note 9?
Thanks a lot.
felcas said:
I am experiencing automatic dimming of my screen when set to maximum. The big thing is Adaptative Brightness is Off. I also set Power Mode to High Performance to make sure power management would not dim. I even bought an app that supposedly cranck up brightness beyond system limits (did not work)
I first noticed this when taking pictures of my garden in bright daylight, the screen was dim and even going over the orange marker on the dial I still struggled to view the screen (sun was almost 90 degree angle).
However when I placed my hand over the screen I could see well but then I noticed a sensible dim. At first I thought it was some king of optical trick, so I tried to repeat the experiment in different conditions to the point that I would simply crank up brightness and have a strong light over my phone then I used a black sheet of paper just above sensors. If I take the sheet off the brightness ramp up a bit, if I put the sheet over the screen dims. And again no auto Adaptative Brightness is turned on neither Power Mode in save.
I guess this wasn't supposed to happen, if I want to ramp up brightness as much as I want I should be allowed and the system should not interfere with my preference? I don't need to justify my use to anyone but as a courtesy to those that are inclined to help me, here it is: I work a lot with gardening and construction all day, including strong daylight, and I need to take a lot of pictures for my work.
What can I do to squeeze this bit more brightness from my Note 9?
Thanks a lot.
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Try the the twilight blue app filter. It works wonders with the bulb features on your phone
jd14771 said:
Do you have a screen protector? Could something be obstructing the sensor on top?
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no screen protection at all