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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?
madgibbon said:
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.
tycoo said:
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?
muiriddin said:
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.
Is anyone having trouble getting adaptive display to work consistently? It kind of just does it when it wants. Cannot get notifications to display constantly and when picking up phone almost never works.
joshtb86 said:
Is anyone having trouble getting adaptive display to work consistently? It kind of just does it when it wants. Cannot get notifications to display constantly and when picking up phone almost never works.
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Yes. I turned that crap off a long time ago. It improved my batterly life a lot. I'd rather have knock to wake enabled than stupid adaptive display. Or an LED. And to think, Motorola disabled the LED and knock to wake because of Adaptive display and it doesn't even work right!!!!!!!!!!!
blazinazn said:
Yes. I turned that crap off a long time ago. It improved my batterly life a lot. I'd rather have knock to wake enabled than stupid adaptive display. Or an LED. And to think, Motorola disabled the LED and knock to wake because of Adaptive display and it doesn't even work right!!!!!!!!!!!
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i wonder if thats whats causing my battery problems. i turned it off also. does anyone have any ideas for a solution??
joshtb86 said:
i wonder if thats whats causing my battery problems. i turned it off also. does anyone have any ideas for a solution??
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I'm hoping they fix it in the next update? The workaround to get the LED working doesn't seem to be fruitful at this point. Just gotta make due I suppose?
Adaptive display?
Is that some weird hybrid between Adaptive brightness and Active display?
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joshtb86 said:
Is anyone having trouble getting adaptive display to work consistently? It kind of just does it when it wants. Cannot get notifications to display constantly and when picking up phone almost never works.
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i have been able to duplicate this behavior by selecting no lock screen. then ambient display seems not to work even if selected to. but when i enable any lock screen it works "almost all" of the time.
do you have a lock screen set? do you use trusted devices etc?
blazinazn said:
I'm hoping they fix it in the next update? The workaround to get the LED working doesn't seem to be fruitful at this point. Just gotta make due I suppose?
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I am rooted, using light flow and my LEDs work just fine. Albeit, but colors do not seem to mix well. More like three separate LEDs plus a charging led as I understand it.
This is what I followed... Works the bahlzzzz
Can't seem to paste the link. Notification light confirmed byJMUT. In the general section.
lock screen is set on mine.
also use trusted devices.
I use a pattern unlock and my bluetooth headphones are a trusted device. I have no issues with the notification
Is Ambient display supposed to keep "pulsating" until I check the notifications?
I don't fully understand ambient display, how is it supposed to work? When I receive a notification, the display is supposed to light up and then turn itself off a few seconds ago (kinda like the iphone does ) until I pick up the phone and then it automatically turns on the display and show me the black & white version of the lockscreen , right? But why is it that sometimes the display keeps "pulsating" every couple of seconds like it does when you get a notification but it doesn't stop until I check it? Is this behavior app independent?
Yes. Me also faced the same issue. That's why I keep it off.
Read this, it's a pretty good explanation of ambient display http://www.androidcentral.com/ambient-display-nexus-6
Waynehead69 said:
Read this, it's a pretty good explanation of ambient display http://www.androidcentral.com/ambient-display-nexus-6
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Yep pretty much works like I thought it did , when it keeps "pulsating" it's probably because of a bug of the app that's sending the notification
Hello, does some one knows why the AOD sometimes is brighter sometimes dimmer, regardless of ambient light, it is driving me nuts as I do not find some setting for controlling this…
Btw, I am still on 7.1.1, 950 F stock
winol said:
Hello, does some one knows why the AOD sometimes is brighter sometimes dimmer, regardless of ambient light, it is driving me nuts as I do not find some setting for controlling this…
Btw, I am still on 7.1.1, 950 F stock
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I Think it's related to the light sensor on top of the device. When you get your phone off your pocket it will be lighten up.
And probably will happen at the same time you read out the screen. Aftere facedown the device or when it hasn't recognized human usage for a while (1 to 2 min.), it should be dimmed to reduce power.
Have you set auto brightness to off at 'settings/ display' or else tried to set 'adaptive display' to 'basic' at 'settings/ display/ screen mode'?
Have you set the AOD to be always on? Or having time specific settings enabled?
Hopefully this will help you out.
Thanks , I use entertainment mode, I set AOD to always, as for light sensor, in dark or bright situations it seems to be brighter or dimmer at random, sometimes I wake up after 2 or 3 hours of sleep antd AOD is very bright!, or the contrary, beeing for sometime outdoors and is dimmed
Which version of AOD did you have installed? Is it custom downloaded from sammobile or something? Maybe force stop the app, or better to clear app data and reboot and/or check if the app has an update. All in app-info
Currently I'm on 8.0.0 and no issues with AOD so far.
winol said:
Thanks , I use entertainment mode, I set AOD to always, as for light sensor, in dark or bright situations it seems to be brighter or dimmer at random, sometimes I wake up after 2 or 3 hours of sleep antd AOD is very bright!, or the contrary, beeing for sometime outdoors and is dimmed
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I did some research and found something that might work to decrease dimming to 0.
The app (link to Playstore) "priv set" (by: oguzhan yigit) has some powerful settings with it to set on overlay basis.
One thing... You only can use it with root privilege.
The attachment shows the possible setting to decrease dimming while dozing.
toineh said:
I did some research and found something that might work to decrease dimming to 0.
The app (link to Playstore) "priv set" (by: oguzhan yigit) has some powerful settings with it to set on overlay basis.
One thing... You only can use it with root privilege.
The attachment shows the possible setting to decrease dimming while dozing.
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Thank you toineh
Anyone having CameraLightSensor battery drain?
Edit: it is 4g Exynos model, latest firmware
I just checked and I do not see it on mine at all. T-mobile version.
No battery drain on mine either.
Possibly disable the face unlock, its going to save alot of battery for you.
coolmaster121 said:
Possibly disable the face unlock, its going to save alot of battery for you.
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Don't have it enabled, it seems it is auto brightness
Off topic: could you tell me what kind of SoT you're getting? There are no replies yet in the official thread and I'm interested in the Exynos version.
Pufanu said:
Off topic: could you tell me what kind of SoT you're getting? There are no replies yet in the official thread and I'm interested in the Exynos version.
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4 hours sot max
dzontra83 said:
4 hours sot max
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Ouch! That's on 120hz, I assume. I was half-expecting that. Thanks.
Pufanu said:
Ouch! That's on 120hz, I assume. I was half-expecting that. Thanks.
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Yup, will report tomorrow with auto brightness turned off, because today CameraLightSensor was running in the background for almost 9 hours.
dzontra83 said:
Yup, will report tomorrow with auto brightness turned off, because today CameraLightSensor was running in the background for almost 9 hours.
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That's definitely not right. Hope you get it sorted out.
Pufanu said:
That's definitely not right. Hope you get it sorted out.
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I know, don't know where to start, so first step is to disable auto brightness....
dzontra83 said:
I know, don't know where to start, so first step is to disable auto brightness....
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It definitely seems to be auto brightness, I turned it off, charged the phone to 100%, and today CameraLightSensor it not showing in the battery usage at all.
dzontra83 said:
Yup, will report tomorrow with auto brightness turned off, because today CameraLightSensor was running in the background for almost 9 hours.
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Same thing on my T-Mobile model - 3.1% over 9 hours. I have not checked my unlocked model, as its still in the box.
Have you noticed the 'ring" of pixels around the camera changing color to black when using the phone? I notice it mostly when browsing the web, or on a phone call.
Hard to describe what it is, but a "ring" about 5 px wide turns black or dark grey around the front camera just for a second. Is that the light sensor thing?
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Interesting - I read an article about samsung using the camera instead of a sensor in new phones to detect the ambient brightness. The phone will take a picture, adjust the brightness, then the picture is permanently deleted. I guess that flash of the ring around the camera is the phone doing that to see what the light levels are in the room.
I turned off auto brightness and that ring flashing has stopped.
fncd said:
Same thing on my T-Mobile model - 3.1% over 9 hours. I have not checked my unlocked model, as its still in the box.
Have you noticed the 'ring" of pixels around the camera changing color to black when using the phone? I notice it mostly when browsing the web, or on a phone call.
Hard to describe what it is, but a "ring" about 5 px wide turns black or dark grey around the front camera just for a second. Is that the light sensor thing?
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Interesting - I read an article about samsung using the camera instead of a sensor in new phones to detect the ambient brightness. The phone will take a picture, adjust the brightness, then the picture is permanently deleted. I guess that flash of the ring around the camera is the phone doing that to see what the light levels are in the room.
I turned off auto brightness and that ring flashing has stopped.
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Definitely when you turn off auto brightness, the CameraLightSensor is not working in the background. But it must be a software glitch, it should be active only when the screen is on, it shouldn't be active while the device is in sleep.
dzontra83 said:
Definitely when you turn off auto brightness, the CameraLightSensor is not working in the background. But it must be a software glitch, it should be active only when the screen is on, it shouldn't be active while the device is in sleep.
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I spoke too soon. Even with auto brightness turned off, the flashing ring of pixels around the camera still persist. ?
Edit: Sent in an error report along with two of them about the screen sensitivity issues.
Just checked my S20 FE 5G variant and it too has the CameraLightSensor draining at 2.8% for a total background usage of 8hrs and 28 minutes
(Snapdragon)
dzontra83 said:
It definitely seems to be auto brightness, I turned it off, charged the phone to 100%, and today CameraLightSensor it not showing in the battery usage at all.
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How many hours SOT after auto-brightness is turned off please?
My country will only have the 4G Exynos type too.
fncd said:
I spoke too soon. Even with auto brightness turned off, the flashing ring of pixels around the camera still persist.
Edit: Sent in an error report along with two of them about the screen sensitivity issues.
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Flashing ring of pixels around the camera???
ChildishSmef said:
Flashing ring of pixels around the camera???
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Yes - Whether on the home screen, in a call, or in an app, there is a perfect "ring" (if you will) about 3-5 pixels wide around the camera that goes black for a split second or so and then changes back to the color of whatever it was displaying (think background color of a chrome tab, phone call, etc). It's impossible to catch as it happens so quickly. It's almost as if a perfect circle is turning off and then back on. And it has happened on both of my S20 FE, with or without adaptive brightness turned on.
I don't think it's something that screen recorder will even capture since that doesn't show the camera cutout, but I'll try!
EDIT: So I made a screen recording - and I think it was just the troubleshooting I needed to figure out what the problem is (was). . . When recording, the screen never shuts off, so there is no need for Smart Stay to activate (the camera checks to see if you're looking @ the phone to stay on). . . As soon as I stopped screen recording, that ring of pixels turned off and back on as it has been doing. I turned off Smart Stay, and it hasn't happened in the past 10 minutes or so. . .
I wonder if those that are seeing the high CameraLightSensor usage have Smart Stay turned on? It's not on by default - you have to look for it in settings.
fncd said:
Yes - Whether on the home screen, in a call, or in an app, there is a perfect "ring" (if you will) about 3-5 pixels wide around the camera that goes black for a split second or so and then changes back to the color of whatever it was displaying (think background color of a chrome tab, phone call, etc). It's impossible to catch as it happens so quickly. It's almost as if a perfect circle is turning off and then back on. And it has happened on both of my S20 FE, with or without adaptive brightness turned on.
I don't think it's something that screen recorder will even capture since that doesn't show the camera cutout, but I'll try!
EDIT: So I made a screen recording - and I think it was just the troubleshooting I needed to figure out what the problem is (was). . . When recording, the screen never shuts off, so there is no need for Smart Stay to activate (the camera checks to see if you're looking @ the phone to stay on). . . As soon as I stopped screen recording, that ring of pixels turned off and back on as it has been doing. I turned off Smart Stay, and it hasn't happened in the past 10 minutes or so. . .
I wonder if those that are seeing the high CameraLightSensor usage have Smart Stay turned on? It's not on by default - you have to look for it in settings.
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I have smart stay off, accidentall touch protection off, face unlock off, and from today adaptive brightness off, and my CameraLightSensor is not working in the background when I turned it off. Auto brightness was definitely the culprit for me.