I've seen a few references to making the "backlight" (brightness) lower than standard but I haven't found what can do this yet.. I don't need/care about a widget, I want to use it programatically in Tasker to say set the brightness to minimal or maximal in a sane fashion... Changing it in Tasker seems to have Android induced limitations.
Also, perhaps separately, would be nice to have a program which you can adjust the auto brightness sensitivity and have more control over it.
Thanks for any suggestions!
There is an app in CM6 that does this, it's really good, you set screen brightness for different light conditions. It can be set lower than standard brightness and you can have as many different brightness levels as you want.
I haven't been able to find this to use with any other ROMS, but would really love for it to be included in Enoms Rom.
The description of this app on the CM6 changelog is
Configurable brightness sensor - Jonas Larsson
crajoh said:
There is an app in CM6 that does this, it's really good, you set screen brightness for different light conditions. It can be set lower than standard brightness and you can have as many different brightness levels as you want.
I haven't been able to find this to use with any other ROMS, but would really love for it to be included in Enoms Rom.
The description of this app on the CM6 changelog is
Configurable brightness sensor - Jonas Larsson
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Aha, yeah now that I searched for his name I see a few other requests for this outside of CM6... Maybe someday.
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Despite doing this manually in the settings, occasionally the brightness goes up due to unknowns. Is there a way to keep the brightness always low?
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are u sure u dont have the "automatically adjust" setting activated?
vinodis said:
Despite doing this manually in the settings, occasionally the brightness goes up due to unknowns. Is there a way to keep the brightness always low?
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If you swipe along the notification bar at the top you can increase or decrease the screen brightness.
"it's a feature not a bug"
i hated it myself till i read somewhere that (only if you deactivate auto-brightness) you can increase/decrease the brightness by swiping left/right on your notification panel! it happens often by mistake when you pull it down ... thats your problem
in the new froyo rom's this is no longer the case so now i use auto-mode and wait will this "feature" is no more
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jodue said:
"it's a feature not a bug"
i hated it myself till i read somewhere that (only if you deactivate auto-brightness) you can increase/decrease the brightness by swiping left/right on your notification panel! it happens often by mistake when you pull it down ... thats your problem
in the new froyo rom's this is no longer the case so now i use auto-mode and wait will this "feature" is no more
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I never noticed this actually.. Also ensure though in the browser you have set brightness manually there
have the same problem, but i find the auto brigthness setting saves my battery more rather than accidentally turning it maximum brightness
I tried the "Dimmer" and "Brightness!" apps from the market. But none of them 'Keep' the brightness at the minimum always.
I've noticed 3 places where the brightness can be set - 1st being the web browser, 2nd the actual settings option, and 3rd the video player. Currently, I disabled the auto brightness control and I've set all 3 places to 1 step above minimum. Seems to work for me.
Also, I have a widget on the home screen to set/monitor the brightness level, it's called 'Brightness Widget by Stark Technology Inc.'.
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I tried the "Dimmer" and "Brightness!" apps from the market. But none of them 'Keep' the brightness at the minimum always.
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its a bug in ddjf3 try a different rom. maybe jg5 or jm2.
I find that the auto-brightness on our phone doesn't reduce to the minimum possible! Is there a setting I'm not seeing?
I always use the widget to control it because it can take it much lower than the auto brightness does.
...so are there any fixes, or would we need a custom kernel to be able do that?
Auto brightness is just very inefficient. I've been using manual brightness on this and my previous phone for a long time. You could use an app such as Screen Filter which reduces the brightness, but it seems to make the colours look a bit washed out to me.
With regards to a custom ROM or kernel, I have no idea whether this would help, but I've never seen changes to the auto brightness function on any previous custom ROM I've ever used.
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Sightr said:
I find that the auto-brightness on our phone doesn't reduce to the minimum possible! Is there a setting I'm not seeing?
I always use the widget to control it because it can take it much lower than the auto brightness does.
...so are there any fixes, or would we need a custom kernel to be able do that?
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From what i know, You would need a custom Kernel.. try getting ' My Settings ' From market ... gives as much control as possible to ur stock ROM for screen brightness as possible along with a host of other useful toggles.
Be sure to add a SHORTCUT onto ur home screenm for easy access
it has improved my battery life quite a bit !
I don't understand how they could screw up such a simple thing!
I'm running froyo... does gingerbread fix the auto brightness?
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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?
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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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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?
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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
Little background: somewhere in kernel code or some other core module of the operation system manufacturers or ROM creators set minimum brightness value for the device. This value was in some of my other devices called min_brightness. I remember faintly that I was able to set the value by running some script in Init.d. Unfortunately I did it several years ago for my other device and cannot remember the details.
The minimum brightness in Colt OS is 31 and seems to be similar other roms, which I tried.
Another option to set the value is Xposed module called Minimum Brightness. Unfortunately it has zero effect on my device. forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-minimum-brightness-t2993161/amp/
Another option is to use app called Brightness Tweak, which does its job somewhat but the result is not exactly desirable. The problem is that it makes the brightness curve not smooth and setting semi-bright values is impossible. It is however able to set the value to 1. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-brightness-tweak-t3339579
By the way, I find screen filter apps in adequate because they reduce contrast and add complexity to setting the brightness. Setting minimum brightness affects swipe status bar and brightness sliders as well as auto brightness functionalities. In addition MX Player.
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Little background: somewhere in kernel code or some other core module of the operation system manufacturers or ROM creators set minimum brightness value for the device. This value was in some of my other devices called min_brightness. I remember faintly that I was able to set the value by running some script in Init.d. Unfortunately I did it several years ago for my other device and cannot remember the details.
The minimum brightness in Colt OS is 31 and seems to be similar other roms, which I tried.
Another option to set the value is Xposed module called Minimum Brightness. Unfortunately it has zero effect on my device. forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-minimum-brightness-t2993161/amp/
Another option is to use app called Brightness Tweak, which does its job somewhat but the result is not exactly desirable. The problem is that it makes the brightness curve not smooth and setting semi-bright values is impossible. It is however able to set the value to 1. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-brightness-tweak-t3339579
By the way, I find screen filter apps in adequate because they reduce contrast and add complexity to setting the brightness. Setting minimum brightness affects swipe status bar and brightness sliders as well as auto brightness functionalities. In addition MX Player.
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Try to use "ScreenDim" app
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the app, but in my opinion the brightness adjustment method is very convenient. The is no slider in notification or sliding status bar. Also the min brightness is not adjusted globally so other brightness adjustment method are unaffected.
Hi, @wwwwe did you actually solve the problem?
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Hi, @wwwwe did you actually solve the problem?
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No I did not.
wwwwe said:
No I did not.
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Have you tried light control app?
No + the phone is broken already. It wont keep charge anymore.