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[Q] light sensor / auto brightness

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.
Thanks

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

Poor Brightness levels of capacitive buttons

Hi all!
I know this isnt that big a deal, but the capacitive backlights look weak and dim.
Screen brightness setting doesnt increase these lights at all.
Im use to the really bright "white" lights from my older Galaxy I
Is there a way to adjust these to be brighter? Thanks!!

anyone have the same problem?

Mine are not super bright, but they are not too dim either. I would prefer to have them darker anyway due to how bright the ones on my Galaxy S 4g were at night.

Mine are the same way.. Very dim compared to my Skyrocket I had. My home button is actually a little dimmer than the other 3. It bothers me a little bit. Not sure if I should take it back for this. Other than that its flawless..Just got it today.. from AT&T corporate store in Daytona. But I think it was the only White one in stock..
QUOTE=markmessier8888;21055492]Hi all!
I know this isnt that big a deal, but the capacitive backlights look weak and dim.
Screen brightness setting doesnt increase these lights at all.
Im use to the really bright "white" lights from my older Galaxy I
Is there a way to adjust these to be brighter? Thanks!![/QUOTE]

Screen issue normal

Have the s6 have the screen on basic setting. For some reason it still adapts to sunlight making it brighter automatically. When in low light it goes away. Just wondering if it's normal.

Brightness and screen tone are two separate settings independent of one another

SASQUATCH said:
Have the s6 have the screen on basic setting. For some reason it still adapts to sunlight making it brighter automatically. When in low light it goes away. Just wondering if it's normal.
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Yes, that is so you can see it in sunlight. I actually love this feature. AMOLED panels are notoriously bad in full sun so this really helps out.

laureanop said:
Brightness and screen tone are two separate settings independent of one another
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I have tone on basic and auto brightness off. It still happens.

Why is this phone's auto-brightness so utterly useless?

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.

Blaalad12 said:
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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Reset the useage patterns with adaptive brightness
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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.

Another greenish tint/hue screen, ambient EQ to blame?

Can anyone provide a picture of 2 phones or the same phone with separate pics actually showing ambient EQ doing it's thing? I tried having it on and off for long periods of time and I've noticed what seems like no difference in color temperature. I just got this XL off swappa a few weeks ago and I came from the 2 XL which has a totally different color experience. I like the color and temp on the 2 XL over this 4 XL but what's boggling my mind is the settings and if they are what is causing the issues! I've read that a ton of people are having issues with this greenish tint/hue at lower brightness and it seems as though this phone has the problem as well. It's killing me as the screen always looks like I have a low level of night mode on, it's super warm and will turn grays to greenish hues at lower brightness. I wonder if ambient EQ that is supposed to be dynamically adjusting screen temp and colors based on ambient light is just basically broken and THAT is what is causing so many issues with the color temp and washed out vibrancy. I've tried all the suggested settings about forcing 90Hz, AOD, etc etc but nothing seems to change this. Infact 90Hz just being on in the normal display settings makes it worse. I did a split screen with settings and chrome on this website (I have dark theme enabled) and toggled smooth display and I can see it get MORE greenish when on so I've turned it off for now. Anyone else think that ambient EQ might be the root of the issues? By the way, I factory reset this phone like 4 times already when I first got it thinking that might help but it has not. Thoughts??

Blame samsung. Oneplus 7t which also has 90hz refresh rate suffers the same issue