So I can select "auto" brightness by the slider on the notification panel. When I move the slider, auto is unchecked. BUT, I know since I've had the S5 over the past few weeks, I've had the slider show a +/- option that allowed auto to remained checked while you could move the slider between like +3 and -3 for the relative level of auto you want.
I know this type of option can be achieved through various 3rd party apps, but is there any way to enable it from stock? I'm just confused because I know I've had this option, but I haven't used any type of brightness app, and now the option is gone. I did have wanam Xposed installed before...does that add the option?
Hmm, looks like this is an option in wanam Xposed and probably a default option so I was seeing it when I had that installed... Wanam says:
Use Auto-Brightness Detail*- Enables a +/- 5 slider for auto-brightness
was the auto brightness fine adjustment ever working for you? i havw wanam on my s4 and my s5, auto brightness adjustment doesn't work on either. maybe im doing something wrong
I believe it was working when I had wanam installed, but I honestly didn't really test it out...and I took off Xposed framework for the time being.
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I believe it was working when I had wanam installed, but I honestly didn't really test it out...and I took off Xposed framework for the time being.
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man. i really wish i knew why mine doesnt work on 2 different devices. i spent hours searching and reading forum posts and found no answers. i know it works on TW because i had some TW rom that had it and it worked great, but i ditched the rom casue there were things it was missing and some things i didnt like.
I did see that Lux Auto Brightness and Velix Auto Brightness might provide good 3rd party solutions to better personalized brightness control fwiw.
Ive tried lux and some others. They either worked great and killed my battery. Or didnt work woth. ****
Good to know those are battery killers, I hadn't tried them our yet myself.
Lux user here, paying user actually, works great for me, no significant drop in battery unless im in an area where the screen is staying super bright.
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Good to know this as well, was thinking of trying lux or velix one of these days. Have you tried velix?
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Good to know this as well, was thinking of trying lux or velix one of these days. Have you tried velix?
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Ive tried lux and twilight, i used twilight for a while cause i wanted somethjng like redshift/f.lux, but i found lux which had auto brightness and screen temp adjustment so i stu k with that. You could also try cf.lumen, personally i havent even heard of velix though.
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i remember seeing it but i cant find it.
its an app that will change the brightness of the phone depending on the time of day.
does anyone know the name of it??
'locale' can change the brightness according to the time and other things (gps/battery/etc). I think 'power manager' can too, but I haven't used it much.
Ambient Light Sensor will take a reading from the camera, and set the brightness accordingly, every time you unlock the phone.
yea thats the one i was trying to think of. its not working right now though apparently so im gunna wait for a little bit til the dev fixes it.
If you want an app that changes brightness based on time (not camera reading), timeriffic has just added that feature.
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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"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.
Lux is installed properly everything is fine but not happens when sliding bar to sub zero it has no effect.
Any way to get sub zero brightness. As I read a lot at night.
In AOSP, we believe..
Adonis_2115 said:
Lux is installed properly everything is fine but not happens when sliding bar to sub zero it has no effect.
Any way to get sub zero brightness. As I read a lot at night.
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If you like you can try screen filters.
Also, if you are rooted, install Xposed, GravityBox, there's detailed brightness section in gravity box to lower your brightness way lower than standard brightness.
Hi there!
For sometime now I want to move to LP but I find too many things that are missing compare to my current KK.
I'm using Lux Auto Brightness on my current device and on LP it caused so problems (fullscreen overlay, presist notification etc..)
I was wondering how is the stock auto brightness of the LP (if it's any different from the current KK) or is there any alternative for LP to the Lux?
Thanks!
I absolutely love the stock brightness settings. You set a desired screen brightness with the slider and it adapts the screen in a way, so that depending on environment light you perceive the screen at the same brightness u initially set. In my opinion it works really, really well.
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I absolutely love the stock brightness settings. You set a desired screen brightness with the slider and it adapts the screen in a way, so that depending on environment light you perceive the screen at the same brightness u initially set. In my opinion it works really, really well.
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What is your opinion about the brightness compare to KK?
I recall seeing some very poor performance form the stock brightness management in sunlight.
Sydrox said:
For sometime now I want to move to LP but I find too many things that are missing compare to my current KK.
I'm using Lux Auto Brightness on my current device and on LP it caused so problems (fullscreen overlay, presist notification etc..)
I was wondering how is the stock auto brightness of the LP (if it's any different from the current KK) or is there any alternative for LP to the Lux?
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Stock auto-brightness (erm, I mean "adaptive brightness") sucks on Lollipop IMO. It's another example of something that wasn't broken but Google tried to fix it anyway and utterly borked it in the process.
My experience is that it does not "adapt" nearly enough. If I set the slider to the right level in daylight, when I go into a dark room I am blinded. If I set the slider to the right level in a dark room, when I go into sunlight I cannot see the screen. Frankly I cannot see the screen adapting at all. If it is adapting then it's in within a very narrow range. I even did a software repair to see if that would solve it, but it didn't.
I've not used Lux, but I've not heard good things about it in Lollipop and am loathed to install an app to do something that previously was handled fin by the OS. Stock auto-brightness worked very well for me in KK.
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Stock auto-brightness (erm, I mean "adaptive brightness") sucks on Lollipop IMO. It's another example of something that wasn't broken but Google tried to fix it anyway and utterly borked it in the process.
My experience is that it does not "adapt" nearly enough. If I set the slider to the right level in daylight, when I go into a dark room I am blinded. If I set the slider to the right level in a dark room, when I go into sunlight I cannot see the screen. Frankly I cannot see the screen adapting at all. If it is adapting then it's in within a very narrow range. I even did a software repair to see if that would solve it, but it didn't.
I've not used Lux, but I've not heard good things about it in Lollipop and am loathed to install an app to do something that previously was handled fin by the OS. Stock auto-brightness worked very well for me in KK.
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Are you sure that you have adaptive brightness enabled at all? I can see it adapt quite clearly on mine.
Sydrox said:
Hi there!
For sometime now I want to move to LP but I find too many things that are missing compare to my current KK.
I'm using Lux Auto Brightness on my current device and on LP it caused so problems (fullscreen overlay, presist notification etc..)
I was wondering how is the stock auto brightness of the LP (if it's any different from the current KK) or is there any alternative for LP to the Lux?
Thanks!
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I'm using Lux on LP and don't have any issues. The persistent notification can be set so it's only visible in the swiped down notification view, but not perpetually visible in the notification bar (in Lux settings, set notification visibility to lowest priority). What do you mean by "fullscreen overlay?"
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I'm using Lux on LP and don't have any issues. The persistent notification can be set so it's only visible in the swiped down notification view, but not perpetually visible in the notification bar (in Lux settings, set notification visibility to lowest priority). What do you mean by "fullscreen overlay?"
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As I've mentioned, I was unable to click "install" in the APK installtion dialog or click on grant/deny in ther SuperSU window.
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As I've mentioned, I was unable to click "install" in the APK installtion dialog or click on grant/deny in ther SuperSU window.
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You need to add Package installer and SuperSU to the sleep list in Lux.
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You need to add Package installer and SuperSU to the sleep list in Lux.
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I just faceplamed myself so hard
I think I found the problem; when battery saver mode is enabled, when it kicks in, it will set your screen brightness to a certain fixed level. But when you charge the phone again and battery saver mode deactivates, it will not automatically re-enable adaptive brightness, so you need to re-enable it manually.
My experience was that kitkat was better on the screen brightness. Lollipop works fine and adapts well, except that in bright sunlight it won't turn up the brightness as much as kitkat did.
On my Note 3 I used an xposed module to give me the option of lowering the screen brightness right down to the minimum that it drops you to when you use the power saving mode. That was one of the modules I was looking for when I moved up to the Note 4 but there's nothing coming up.
I don't want to just use a screen filter, I was looking at something that would enable me to actually lower the brightness right down. Any suggestions? (I'm rooted and running stock MM with Xposed)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.ScreenDim.Full
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.ScreenDim.Full
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Cheers, I had a look at it and it's like a lot of the apps I've seen, it adds a lot of stuff I dont need. Ideally all I want is the ability to drop the brightness lower using the factory slider, not having to mess around with an external app.
I tried it but once it's installed it removes the factory slider when you remove notifications , which is a tad annoying!
Cheers, I had a look at it and it's like a lot of the apps I've seen, it adds a lot of stuff I dont need. Ideally all I want is the ability to drop the brightness lower using the factory slider, not having to mess around with an external app.
I tried it but once it's installed it removes the factory slider when you remove notfications , which is a tad annoying! It also doesn't go as far as the setting you get when you use the "power saving" mode on my Note 4. You could reduce the contrast but that's effectively just working like one of the screen filter apps. Hmm.