Brightness slider has completely disappeared from notification window. And the slider inside settings doesn't work and is greyed out. What the heck is happening? Did Samsung or AT&T think manual brightness options are unnecessary now?
EDIT: turns out the brightness control is disabled when low battery. Ran the phone for two days now without a charge so yeah. Didn't know that.
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Auto brightness seems to behave very unpredictably--when I wake my phone and unlock/use it, it will remain at dimmest setting (too dim), and will seemingly randomly move to a more appropriate brightness (not with intense activity, it's really random), and will again randomly revert to dim setting (not with stoppage of activity).
Is auto brightness messed up with android or the note, and how can I fix it? Just set a manual brightness level?
Running cassie x lite rom and latest franco kernel btw.
No advice about this anyone?
Automatic brightness issue
Hello Friends, I have a similar problem as the OP, octavian90.
For my Galaxy Note, following the sequence below,
Applications > Settings > Display > Brightness
By default the slider for Automatic brightness is towards the middle/centre.
I have unchecked Automatic brightness and calibrated the slider to the extreme left.
I have come across the following strange observations -
1] When I unplug my device after charging, the slider resets to the default level.
2] After I recalibrate it to the extreme left once again and make a phone (voice) call, the slider resets to the default level over again.
Is this normal behaviour or does my device actually have a problem? I am very confused and worried. The device is not even a month old.
Eagerly awaiting your expertise. Thank you octavian90 for initiating this topic.
Friends, awaiting your much needed replies to my queries above.
Have you disabled the screen saver or what its called that adjust the brightness automaticly.? Works like a auto brightness but it can adjust some things brighter and some dimmer eaven on same light....
I just checked my settings and the have the slider all the way to the right because last time I manually adjusted brightness for reading in full daylight. It is currently on automatic brightness (I prefer that setting and don't find it changes too often or too laggy)
I just then manually adjusted slider to about 20% from left while on USB charge then turned automatic back on again. I then removed charger and it still shows automatic and slider about 20% from left.
Could be a ROM/Kernel issue? I am using Rocket ROM with Franco Kernel.
I don't think the position of the slider matters when backlight is set to auto. Or does it?
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altae said:
I don't think the position of the slider matters when backlight is set to auto. Or does it?
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No it doesn't matter when on autobrightness. But it should remember the last manual setting chosen so not sure what is causing that glitch.
Hm never really paid attention to the behaviour of the slider. I will take a look and report back how mine works.
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What I found out: On my device the position of the slider before activating auto mode is completely irrelevant because as soon as I activate the auto mode the slider is reset to its middle position.
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Interesting - just turned autobrightness of and you are right - slider went to the middle. Must be by design then. Problem solved
SoonHD2 said:
Have you disabled the screen saver or what its called that adjust the brightness automaticly.? Works like a auto brightness but it can adjust some things brighter and some dimmer eaven on same light....
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Sorry SoonHD2, I did not understand what you meant. I am confused with the screensaver part you stated.
A humble request for an explanation, if required. Thank you.
altae said:
What I found out: On my device the position of the slider before activating auto mode is completely irrelevant because as soon as I activate the auto mode the slider is reset to its middle position.
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This happens with my Galaxy Note as well. Thus, it seems like it is meant to be this way.
I will keep an eye on this and report if and when the Auto brightness slider acts differently.
Wondering if anybody else has encountered any problems with the Nook HD brightness control.
My almost new unit now will not allow me to set the brightness above about 55%. Moving the slider control over 55% results in a dim screen - and to go back to a 'bright' screen requires me to move the slider back to 0% and then increase back up again. The 55% setting looks pretty bright which makes me wonder if the hw has somehow lost the backlight calibration.
The above occurs both under stock B&N and CM10 - so I don't think it's a CM problem - likely my HW.
John.
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matthewsjl said:
Wondering if anybody else has encountered any problems with the Nook HD brightness control.
My almost new unit now will not allow me to set the brightness above about 55%. Moving the slider control over 55% results in a dim screen - and to go back to a 'bright' screen requires me to move the slider back to 0% and then increase back up again. The 55% setting looks pretty bright which makes me wonder if the hw has somehow lost the backlight calibration.
The above occurs both under stock B&N and CM10 - so I don't think it's a CM problem - likely my HW.
John.
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I wasn't having the same issue but I was having a brightness problem on my HD today and this thread helped:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38756161#post38756161
I flipped the bit from a 1 to a 0 and now my brightness is able to be controlled again. What was strange is that the "1" apparently represents the "auto" mode and when I went to settings, the box was not checked and not able to be toggled. So I'm guessing that something got funky and the bit flipped. The 0 certainly has fixed it though. I had to download the app for $3 to fix it but totally worth Leapinlar's efforts.
Just picked up an ME572c and I'm very impressed for the price. However I have noticed the screen brightness levels keep fluctuating as if the light sensor is constantly detecting different light levels.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Just picked up an ME572c and I'm very impressed for the price. However I have noticed the screen brightness levels keep fluctuating as if the light sensor is constantly detecting different light levels.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Hi,
i notice this too, but that can be related to the power saving mode. Plz turn it off and check the settings in detail. Maybe that helps.
Further inside the developer options there is another option to configure the auto brightness.
You can change the behaviour from dynamic to immediately or slow mode and active an onscreen lux, gain and brightness value display.
Btw i am not satisfied with the auto control, as for my taste the brightness is still too low in a less lighted room. Sensor is reporting 0 lux already with a brightness of 14 which would be ok for a really dark room & night but not at daytime.
What is your experience?
I tried playing with power saving mode and the auto brightness controls in developer options. While I could reduce the fluctuations, I could eliminate them completely. Unfortunately I found it too distracting and returned the device earlier today. It's a shame as everything else was quite impressive for the money.
I also found the fluctuations annoying, my solution was to turn the auto-brightness off. Honestly I dislike auto-brightness on any device, it was also one of the first things I turned off on my laptop.
I am using Lux app now and raised minimum brightness at 0 lux. Thats ok for me now.
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Hi,
i notice this too, but that can be related to the power saving mode. Plz turn it off and check the settings in detail. Maybe that helps.
Further inside the developer options there is another option to configure the auto brightness.
You can change the behaviour from dynamic to immediately or slow mode and active an onscreen lux, gain and brightness value display.
Btw i am not satisfied with the auto control, as for my taste the brightness is still too low in a less lighted room. Sensor is reporting 0 lux already with a brightness of 14 which would be ok for a really dark room & night but not at daytime.
What is your experience?
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Just bumping this to confirm this works and so that others can see. I used Developer options as well (before I found this post) and noticed the instant setting works best.
One more setting to also double check... Make sure that in developer options under auto brightness that you disable allow change gain...
Even with everything disabled it appears as if something still is changing the display. I particularly see it with something like a reddit browser when I'm viewing pictures. You click the pic, it loads and displays and then 1-2 seconds later the display adjusts based upon what is being displayed. Depending upon the picture it can be pretty annoying. I may have to root and start poking around to find out what is causing this.
with the lollipop update this issue is fixed for me.
Is lollipop really solve the problem?
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with the lollipop update this issue is fixed for me.
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Hello!
Im on lollipop, but the problem you had, still occur at me.
Did you noticed this problem, since you on lollipop?
I have the same problem. When i read, or browsing, the brightness changes in 2-3 steps.
We've used EasyProfiles Pro (profile manager) to activate various settings since HTC Desire days. One thing that the P20 Pro does when unlocking the phone is to reset the brightness to mid-way, over-riding the profile setting. Autobrightness is off.
During daylight hours this is not so noticeable but at night when the phone is unlocked it switches to mid-brightness despite the profile settings for minimum brightness. A tap of the profile widget restores it to dim, but each time we grab the phone it's very bright for night use.
I've looked through all the phone display settings and can't see any reason why the phone should revert to mid-brightness after unlocking when Autobrightness and Eye Comfort are off.
Developer of EasyProfiles has abandoned the app years ago so no actions possible on that front.
Can anyone confirm this behaviour ... turn off Autobrightness, set brightness to low, lock the screen, unlock, check brightness level?
CLT-L29, 8.1.0.130(C363)
Update ... been liaising with Huawei support, they suggested B150 would fix this. Update B152 was installed but did not help.
Further testing suggests the problem is the lockscreen always uses Automatic Brightness irrespective of the user settings. To test this I set the phone to a daytime profile, locked the phone, then went into a dark room. When I woke the phone the screen began to dim and when I unlocked the phone the brightness was very low.
Similarly, I chose the night profile and went into a lit room, the lockscreen brightened and unlocking forced the brightness higher.
Sounds like they're going to escalate this, assuming they can replicate the issue.
Is anyone experiencing issues with screen brightness adjusting itself without you changing it? I'm not talking about auto-adjusting from adaptive brightness - I'm talking about the slider moving up on its own. I keep it around 25% or so often to save battery life during heavier usage, and after turning the screen off and checking moments later, the brightness level will be up around 50-75% (it varies). I've only noticed this since the Pie update, and I'm not sure if it happens while adaptive brightness option is turned off. Anyone else have this issue?
Pie made a change were "Adaptive Brightness" literally means the slider moves on its own(and is now the absolute brightness). Its supposed to be more clever than the "offset" style slider we had before because it "learns your preferences" if you move it manually. I guess the idea goes you just keep adjusting it manually if you don't like the setting it chose and the next time it encounters that level of light it uses your setting instead of what it usually would have used. Seems pretty cool to be honest.
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Pie made a change were "Adaptive Brightness" literally means the slider moves on its own(and is now the absolute brightness). Its supposed to be more clever than the "offset" style slider we had before because it "learns your preferences" if you move it manually. I guess the idea goes you just keep adjusting it manually if you don't like the setting it chose and the next time it encounters that level of light it uses your setting instead of what it usually would have used. Seems pretty cool to be honest.
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Ah, OK, I didn't realize that. It does sound cool, as long as it starts remembering where I like it. I do move it around though during different times/situations, so I may just turn it off and manually adjust when I need to. Thanks for the info.