Is there any way to make set display's brightness level lower than slider in settings allows?
Why?
1) SGS's display got so much brightness and contrast that in low (or zero) light conditions it is simply too bright! It hurts eyes.
2) It might severely improve battery life.
Any gurus around? ^^
echo # > /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/backlight/s5p_bl/brightness
brightness to 0
If i remember, real mini is 8, max 255, i use Brightness level from Curvefish ( Market ), it seems to be the lowest i can get, an it's a 1X1 widget, not that horrible.
Dimmer Night mode , Market too, is another way to go.
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Thanks, working as intended
The best solution would be to allow 'auto' setting to go that low.
tristecire said:
If i remember, real mini is 8, max 255, i use Brightness level from Curvefish ( Market ), it seems to be the lowest i can get, an it's a 1X1 widget, not that horrible.
Dimmer Night mode , Market too, is another way to go.
Twice are free.
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Yup even quick settings (free) from market allows to go uptil 18.
i use Dimmer. brightness is 10.
I use extended controls and it has multiple options to control brightness or switch between user and auto brightness settings. Not sure it goes lower than stock but i tested it today and i can get 7 hours of almost nonstop use out of a full battery. Thats a mix between navigation internet and calls. Thats good enouh for me.
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fua said:
i use Dimmer. brightness is 10.
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From 1 to 17 theres no difference in brightness. 0 is screen off, 18 is lowest brightness,.... and so on up to 255.
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There any way to reduce the brightness below it's minimum limit?
For me on lowest it's still more than bright enough, and it's the main battery eater for me.
Thanks!
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel
When i put it to the lowest using the system settings this widget tell me its at 8%. It lets me hit 0%
Also might try dazzle from the android market. Has a 4% option. Just put dazzle in search bar. Its a widget.
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Also, the newer ROMs(JH3, etc) can make the screen damn near unreadable at the lowest brightness.
just a small observation that I want to share, when you have brightness setup at minimum level do not enable power saving mode, as it will automatically increase the brightness in some light condition.
What can I do to reduce minimal value of the brightness my SGS screen?
waybe exist some patch or fix?
Settings>Display .... :|
I'm also interested in this - minimum brightness is simply too bright in complete darkness.
Voodoo is the only solution.
http://project-voodoo.org/
Toss3 said:
Voodoo is the only solution.
http://project-voodoo.org/
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I wish too sometimes brithness display use under 5%, to complet dark.
Must be something more, some codes, or some comand in root mode
Any help?
Regards
Profiles app in market can get it down to 7%
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Screen filter is working pretty well, and you can reduce brightness to complete dark if you want (except the status bar). One annoying bug is that toast messages are not shown, only after disabling it ...
I am not sure if it has an effect onthe battery usage, but i guess yes if i am right about how amoledworks ...
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Tip: brightness level (from CurveFish) via Android market goes to 0% , although not completely dark but works fine.
Brightness level does indeed allow you to select 0% but when I do that, the brightness setting in the application Extended Controls" will go from 2% to 4%
so "Extended Controls" allows you to select 2% as a minimum but this would actually be -2% in "Brightness level".
I could also not see any noticable difference between these two.
Does screen filter actually reduce the brightness or does it rather change the LUT?
It looks like it's just changing the color values to a 'more black' level than reducing the actual light-output.
Has anyone else noticed their D3 on stock ROM min brightness is 11%? I noticed since getting my D3 that it has always been pretty bright, even at min brightness level. And using the brightness toggle from Beautiful Widgets, I saw that the two options were 11% and 100%. Is this just the widget, or is the stock ROM set up to keep brightness at this minimum level?
I use my phone in the dark a lot and it kills my eyes to look at it for too long, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get the brightness down any lower without switching to a custom ROM. I am rooted, of course.
Thanks for any ideas/solutions.
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Brightness Widget Backlight, in the market should work. It's has configurable steps that can go down to 1%. I'm using it on CM7 and can get it lower than the lowest brightness setting.
You can lower it with Quick Settings, but a reboot changes it back. The lower brightness appears to be used when the display dims from inactivity. If you are already on the lowest factory brightness setting it can still dim some more. Thats the only purpose I see of it.
I use Brightness Level from the market and it allows you to go lower than stock does. I believe that it keeps settings after reboot as well.
Sweet, awesome replies.
Lookup screen filter, and should be on the market if I remember correctly.
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I just installed and tried Brightness Level and it doesn't allow brightness levels to go below the lowest stock level. I see no purpose to that widget since the Power Widget for android allows brightness level adjustment.
I'd love something that allows for true adjustment from 1% to 100% on the stock ROM.
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I use Brightness Level from the market and it allows you to go lower than stock does. I believe that it keeps settings after reboot as well.
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Screen filter rocks - been using it since I got my D3 back in November.
Hi
The "Adapt to lighting conditions" is checked, but it doesn't really adapt. I have to manually change the slider to adjust brightness.
Looks like a bug. Not sure if there are any other settings to make.
Is this a known issue? Any workarounds?
Thanks.
Farhad.
The slider sets the maximum brightness of the screen, not the minimum. Hence, in order for the auto adjust to work, set it to the max and tick the check-box.
sxtester said:
The slider sets the maximum brightness of the screen, not the minimum. Hence, in order for the auto adjust to work, set it to the max and tick the check-box.
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Source?
sxtester said:
The slider sets the maximum brightness of the screen, not the minimum. Hence, in order for the auto adjust to work, set it to the max and tick the check-box.
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seems to work more like a brightness scale kind of thing. not only sets max, but minimum as well.
it'll always adjust when the box is ticked, but the slider determines how bright or dark biased it is.
It's a sliding window of brightness ranges, which should be good news to anyone who's felt that autobrightness on other phones swings too far in either direction. Now you can customize to your own taste.
Personally the sweet spot for me with good compromise between use in low light indoors, daylight and office lights is about 25% - the slider button just above the second "g" in "lighting conditions"
Remember though that changing White Balance settings will darken the display, and you'll need to boost brightness to get decent contrast again.
Use Lux Lite from the playstore. It lets you individually "link" a specific brightness level to a specific lighting condition, which the app then remembers and automates.
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Source?
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That's how it work[s|ed] on my Xperia U, Xperia M, Xperia SP and now on Xperia Z3C.
Not proof enough?
It works, but doesn't work well. When I wake up at night the brightness level goes lower but not nearly low enough. I have to manually reduce the brightness to the lowest level. When the day starts, I have to manually increase the brightness. Not ideal, not a deal breaker either. Hopefully Sony addresses in the next update.
garment69 said:
It works, but doesn't work well. When I wake up at night the brightness level goes lower but not nearly low enough. I have to manually reduce the brightness to the lowest level. When the day starts, I have to manually increase the brightness. Not ideal, not a deal breaker either. Hopefully Sony addresses in the next update.
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Totally agree, Im using lux to improve the brightess auto adjust....
Hi,
Not sure where the correct place is for this, so thought that I'd put it here.
I am looking for an app that controls brightness. I like the brightness of my phones to be dialed down to around 40%. I find it most comfortable for my eyes. Yet when it is bright out, I need to make the screen brighter. This means that I need to go in and manually adjust the brightness. I don't like to have the phone set to automatically adjust the brightness.
I'd like to find an app that allows adjusting brightness by icon. I don't want one that has one icon that toggles through a bunch of preset brightness levels. Instead, I want an app that can have different icons for different brightness levels. That way, if I wanted to toggle the brightness to 60%, I could tap an icon that does that. Then I could have an icon set for 30% to set it back.
Anyone know of an app that does this?
usmaak said:
Hi,
Not sure where the correct place is for this, so thought that I'd put it here.
I am looking for an app that controls brightness. I like the brightness of my phones to be dialed down to around 40%. I find it most comfortable for my eyes. Yet when it is bright out, I need to make the screen brighter. This means that I need to go in and manually adjust the brightness. I don't like to have the phone set to automatically adjust the brightness.
I'd like to find an app that allows adjusting brightness by icon. I don't want one that has one icon that toggles through a bunch of preset brightness levels. Instead, I want an app that can have different icons for different brightness levels. That way, if I wanted to toggle the brightness to 60%, I could tap an icon that does that. Then I could have an icon set for 30% to set it back.
Anyone know of an app that does this?
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Lux, if properly configured, could do that for you.
I think I understand what you're going for. I use Power Toggles (Dev: Painless Apps), and one of the toggles on the widget is for brightness and I have it set to 3 settings when I touch it; 20%, 40% and 100%. It's not possible to set each new brightness widget for individual brightness presets, unfortunately, but I don't see how it would be difficult to just make some predetermined settings for your brightness.
By now you should have a pretty firm idea on what level of brightness you prefer throughout your day so maybe you can use this app and have 2, 3 or more presets. It's really simple to use, I have it set to 3 settings and touching the widget to get to the brightness I want at that moment is super quick and not difficult at all.
You can see in the screenshot I use the widget at the top on my home page. Brightness is among the other toggles I use on a regular basis. Much quicker to turn on and off things, IMO. It's right there on my home screen so I don't have to pull my notification window down. I hope this helps.
I just use Auto Brightness setting. I set the brightness slider at 40% and the phone will auto-adjust the screen to keep it at a relative 40 indoors and outdoors.
I think this is what you're looking for:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.moreshortcuts