I've not had a SONY smartphone before, auto brightness seems a bit odd to me, perhaps someone can explain it to me.
On my prior phones (moto) If I set the auto brightness control to on, and I then move the brightness slider it will turn off the auto setting (obviously because its no longer auto) but on the Sony, I can adjust the brightness setting WITH the auto setting in place, that doesn't make sense, can someone explain to me how Sony does it, or if it's a bug.
Yes, it's appears to work differently, seems that the slider sets the baseline brightness and then auto-brightness adjusts brightness within some range. I really like Sony's implementation.
I guess it's a new feature called "adaptive brightness" now.
IPhone has used this method for a long time. I always had great results with iPhone auto brightness so hopeful Sony will be similarly good !
OK I've read on this 'adaptive brightness' I still don't know how it's used though, do you set it to max so it's max autobright, or min so its lowest auto? To be honest I'd prefer the old fashioned auto brightness, if I have to still use a slider to tune it, it's not really auto, then there's things like Tasker with automated autobrightness as a setting, what will that pick? Seems like a backward step, unless I'm just not getting it, perhaps someone who's clued up on this can explain how to work it.
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OK I've read on this 'adaptive brightness' I still don't know how it's used though, do you set it to max so it's max autobright, or min so its lowest auto? To be honest I'd prefer the old fashioned auto brightness, if I have to still use a slider to tune it, it's not really auto, then there's things like Tasker with automated autobrightness as a setting, what will that pick? Seems like a backward step, unless I'm just not getting it, perhaps someone who's clued up on this can explain how to work it.
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Think of it as a sliding window - it will still adjust up/down automatically, but you get to tune the auto behaviour to better suit your taste. This is a good thing.
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HTC's website says the HD7 has an "Ambient light sensor".
When I have the Brightness settings on "Automatically adjust", I do not see any changes to the screen brightness. Darkness and sunlight have no effect. Curious to know if others are having the same problem or if my phone is faulty.
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If I set mine to Automatically Adjust on either low/medium or high settings it does adjust according to ambient lighting.
Have tested by holding up to a light bulb on all 3 settings and have noticed the changes.
Thanks for your reply.
A bit more experimenting with a LED torch and it does seem to be working. The curve is not as I would like though. I would prefer the screen darker in darkness and brighter in the light much like my old iPhone. I was in full sun today and the screen still wasn’t full brightness. So with it on High and Auto off, the screen was brighter than when on High and Auto on. So Auto was bringing my brightness down to what seemed to be about medium levels making the screen a bit of a pain to see. I want full brightness in sunlight please. I am sure others will prefer this default setting though, especially those concerned about battery life. Hopefully a future software tweak will allow sensitivity and brightness curve adjustments. Until then, I will stick with the "high" setting and Auto off.
Thanks again.
Have same problem.. Automatic light have no effect on my HTC HD7 (unbranded, with and without nodo).
I totally agree, with me its more of a problem in the darkness. It is way too high when it is completely dark and its more obvious when I switch it from auto to "low" as the screen does become much darker.
Its something with either HTC or windows as my old touch pro 2 had the same problem, in complete darkness the screen would never go lower than 30%...
The light sensor on my hd7 never seems to work..they should implement the way it is on the iphone
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Is anybody know is there light sensor available physical on HD7?
Heared on HD2 it work's fine. If it software issue then MS mast fix it.
yea my phones ambient light sensor doesnt work either i see no changes with the auto setting on.
Auto-Brightness works fine over over here - o2 debranded with NoDo update.
When i take the phone out of my pocket/case in sunlight, i notice about 2 - 3 seconds after I unlock it, it gets noticeably brighter and when comparing to "high" brightness without auto it's exactly the saem. Agreed though i would like it to be dimmer in complete darkness (in bed, for example).
I am curious if there is a registry entry that I can change to help with the highest and lowest settings. If I turn on auto it does adjust it slightly when I am inside, but when I am in the sunlight I can hardly see anything. If there is no light also it is still what looks like a medium setting making it very bright. I hope we can figure this out, it isn't a big deal but still BTW I am on TMOUS with NODO
Does anybody noticed an issue with Auto Brightness?
Sometimes when i turn the screen on the brightness is automatically set to maximum and it doesn't scale down even if i'm in a dark room.
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Does anybody noticed an issue with Auto Brightness?
Sometimes when i turn the screen on the brightness is automatically set to maximum and it doesn't scale down even if i'm in a dark room.
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Sometimes my screen is set to max as soon as I turn it on but it returns to normal right after.
the issue i mentioned appears expecially after rebooting. the brightness goes at the maximum level and does not auto adjust.
Yeah, I have noticed a number of strange behaviors on 2.3.3. In fact, I have not yet seen it work properly auto-brightness mode on, It does one of the following:
-Brightness goes to low and stays there until I turn off auto
-Brightness goes to 100% and stays there until I turn off auto
-Brightness flips back and forth between low and 100% about every 20 seconds (instantly, not gradually).
None of the above seem to have anything to do with what the ambient light level is, but I could be wrong about that.
I also noticed that (Android app) Tasker doesn't seem to be able to control the brightness anymore.
Motorola Droid.
The last time i tried Auto Brightness was when i first bought my N1 and it didn't work at all. Been set at a level i like ever since and now i have no compunction to try Auto again.
Got the new Home Hub. Already have two issues. I'm curious if others have found a solution:
1. The screen get TOO dark at night. Even though I have the screen timout setting turned off, and the Auto-Brightness Offset setting to max brightness, the screen still shuts (almost) completely off in a dark room. At night, when your eyes have adjusted to the dark, you can still only BARELY see the white numbers of the clock against the black background. People were worried that it wouldn't get dark enough for nightstand use, but this is ridiculous. Any way to brighten that up a bit? By the way, this happens even if I turn ambient brightness off.
2. The main purpose of this device will be as a bedside alarm clock (replacing my aging Nexus 7). I've figured out how to set alarms, but not how to change the alarm sound. I do not like the default tune it plays. Any way to change that? I know I can have it play music, but I do actually prefer an alarm sound -- just not the default one.
Anybody have similar issues? Any other issues that I haven't noticed yet?
Yes. Exact same experience. I'm honestly pretty confused by the settings and the language of which mode is what. The offset doesn't seem to do anything at all for me.
I haven't had that experience with screen brightness. When I turn off the Adaptive feature, the brightness doesn't seem to adapt.
I can confirm that you cannot currently change the alarm sound, though I think I saw that option is coming this month or next.
Go into the Display settings for your Home Hub and set the minimum brightness from dim to bright. This makes the numbers much easier to read at night when in dark mode.
What's going on with this thing? i always have to switch the screen on and off to get it to adjust to the current lighting. Everything about this phone is such a mess.
Do you have adaptive brightness turned on? My snapdragon did not work until I enabled that setting.
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Mudig said:
What's going on with this thing? i always have to switch the screen on and off to get it to adjust to the current lighting. Everything about this phone is such a mess.
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It might be a problem with the ambient light sensor on your unit. My S8+ does the same thing, other S8's don't. Get it replaced.
Iam pretty sure its somewhat normal. Auto brightness has never been great on Samsung phones. I realised this when i briefly switched to the Iphone xs. Its auto brightness worked perfectly. I find the adaptive brightness on the S10 plus to be terrible too. Its as if its either too dark or too bright and sometimes it changes without the lighting conditions changing. Its tolerable but its def nowhere near as good as my iphone xs. Its strange because you would think its a feature that would be easy to get right.
work great for me, better than my old S9
I found one issue. I have used a couple of screen savers with clocks on my night stand. They automatically dim the screen. I noticed every time after using them that the auto brightness was too dark. I figured out that since the phone was on auto brightness when the screen savers dimmed the screen, it was being factored into the averages and causing the overall brightness to be lower than I wanted. Now I try to turn off auto brightness before I use the screen savers. I'll probably set up Tasker to do it for me soon.
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Iam pretty sure its somewhat normal. Auto brightness has never been great on Samsung phones. I realised this when i briefly switched to the Iphone xs. Its auto brightness worked perfectly. I find the adaptive brightness on the S10 plus to be terrible too. Its as if its either too dark or too bright and sometimes it changes without the lighting conditions changing. Its tolerable but its def nowhere near as good as my iphone xs. Its strange because you would think its a feature that would be easy to get right.
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I've noticed the same thing, on my XS Max I rarely had to adjust the brightness but on the S10 I have to do it quite a bit compared to the XS.
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same problem on my s10e, its much worse than my note 9
Reset the useage patterns with adaptive brightness
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I'm very happy with it. Especially the learning part. I like to usually have the screen dimmer than standard and after a few days it started to do this automatically.
Works like a charm I'd say.
I agree that the S10 does not seem to respond to ambient light well when setting the screen brightness, especially in dark settings. I have a Bixby Routine to set my screen to 10% at night and even then it's still too bright.
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My AOD brightness is not set to auto, but it keeps adjusting on its own. I have it set to the 3rd highest level. However every couple days it keeps lowering back to the 2nd level. Anyone else notice this?