How do you control screen brightness on your Pixel 4 / 4 XL?
To help battery life, I have read that Ambient display or Adaptive Brightness and that EQ thing too, can be a bit of a battery drainer, and it's best to just set your brightness yourself. But there's no easy quick way to do that it seems? Other than going into Settings - Display, and sliding the bar up or down to get the specific % you want.
Is there an app, or what are you guys doing?
Zorachus said:
How do you control screen brightness on your Pixel 4 / 4 XL?
To help battery life, I have read that Ambient display or Adaptive Brightness and that EQ thing too, can be a bit of a battery drainer, and it's best to just set your brightness yourself. But there's no easy quick way to do that it seems? Other than going into Settings - Display, and sliding the bar up or down to get the specific % you want.
Is there an app, or what are you guys doing?
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I'm a full manual kinda dude. Inside, i'll set it at 50, then up to 90 or so when I go outside. If it's really bright, then i'll hit my HBM widget :good:
I run it with adaptive brightness on and ambient EQ on. Time saved on micro managing something like brightness is worth a little battery life. I calibrate my adaptive brightness to 0% in pitch dark and don't touch it anymore.
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EeZeEpEe said:
I run it with adaptive brightness on and ambient EQ on. Time saved on micro managing something like brightness is worth a little battery life. I calibrate my adaptive brightness to 0% in pitch dark and don't touch it anymore.
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I like doing that thanks.
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I used to use manual for my OnePlus 7 Pro because that thing was horrible with setting brightness for me. It would always get too dim. This Pixel, however, has solid auto brightness and doesn't drastically increase or decrease.
Battery life part isn't an issue for me since I don't really notice a huge drain with it on + I'm almost always around a charger anyway.
For those that aren't aware the auto-brightness on these phones takes quite some time to fully adjust to your preferences. You need to keep fiddling it every time you're not satisfied and it will remember the setting you made, make note of ambient light, time of day, etc. and adjust accordingly until it has you pegged. This takes days, a week, more or less. Dutifully counsel it as to correct brightness and you may just find it works very well and can be left alone once you've got it in line. Think of it as a stubborn dog that must corrected until trained.
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For those that aren't aware the auto-brightness on these phones takes quite some time to fully adjust to your preferences. You need to keep fiddling it every time you're not satisfied and it will remember the setting you made, make note of ambient light, time of day, etc. and adjust accordingly until it has you pegged. This takes days, a week, more or less. Dutifully counsel it as to correct brightness and you may just find it works very well and can be left alone once you've got it in line. Think of it as a stubborn dog that must corrected until trained.
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Not for me. I literally just put it to 0% in pitch black and, for me, it's adjustments to all other ambient lights is perfectly fine for me. But you are correct that it can take some time but I say within a week and not multiple weeks.
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I didn't say multiple weeks, I meant the time can be days or up to a week more or less, sorry if I didn't phrase that well. Mine was about a week as was the previous pixels before it. Anecdotally it seems it takes longer if you prefer your phone brighter in general but that's just based on my reading different observations people have had of it. Your own tend to fit that mold, you clearly prefer it dim(mer) simply because the phone really likes to keep it down in the stock model so if you were good to go with just one adjustment you lean that way.
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When the battery gets low (not sure what percentage), the screen dims and there is no option to turn up the brightness. Is there a way to change this on a rooted Tab? Is it possible through the development API to adjust this, so that it can be implemented in an app?
Charge your battery. It comes on when like 5% remains anyway.
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It comes on when there's 15%, as I got two more low-battery notifications after that. The problem is the tab is almost unusable at that brightness (especially outdoors or in a car during the day) and since I ran it for two more hours with Angry Birds and YouTube, I've lost two hours of battery life period. If it let me adjust brightness, I could at least use it until it depleted.
There has to be some way to change this, even if I have to root it, change a config file, or write an app to let me change it. Does anyone know how to modify this setting?
Genuine question only because it wasn't mentioned. Auto brightness isn't checked right?
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Brightness was checked the first time, the second time it was unchecked and all the way up.
Did you notice, the backlight for the four haptics buttons at the bottom will also turn off at this point, which makes them impossible to see when it's dark.
You need check then uncheck auto, you be able to change the brightness
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I'm having the same issue. I have a battery issue where my tab displays 1% when I have 20% or more remaining. Was wondering if you found a fix to this.
I have only used the note for like 1 day, I really like the screen when I have 100% brightness when I set it to auto it looks so dead and boring..
Have some do more testing, I wonder if it worth to put the brightness on auto, I Do not need to have my phone running for two days on battery so I am willing to sacrifice battery time in favor for greater brightness, however, I still want to be able to go through one full workday, and I will probably watch a lot of videos/tv during the day.
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I have only used the note for like 1 day, I really like the screen when I have 100% brightness when I set it to auto it looks so dead and boring..
Have some do more testing, I wonder if it worth to put the brightness on auto, I Do not need to have my phone running for two days on battery so I am willing to sacrifice battery time in favor for greater brightness, however, I still want to be able to go through one full workday, and I will probably watch a lot of videos/tv during the day.
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Recommended to turn on Auto brightness for your case since you are probably watch a lot of videos during daytime and yet to survive on one full workday. I am using the custom rom and yet the battery drain so fast (brightness set to 0) as i am dramaholic too. 20-30% drop for 45 minute video.
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Auto brightness is a battery killer for me. I usually have it 20% all the time. Seems to be the sweet spot for me. Great battery life.
I don't use autobrightness. It wastes power constantly polling for lux values. I just use "display brightness" to put an invisible slider up the right side of my screen.
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I just leave Lux on Auto Brightness and Dynamically, and let it do its thing. I don't mess with the levels or anything. It's far superior to the stock auto brightness right away
I use stock auto brightness :/, anyone use full brightness?
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Auto brightness on N5 is buggy
I had a N4 for a year and auto brightness worked fine but on my N5 I find that auto brightness bounces the brightness around frequently and seemingly for no reason. It surely must be a software bug?
Using stock AutoBrightness and get 4hrs SOT with 2-3hrs voice calls so that's good enough for me. My Nexus 5 last longer than my Nexus 4 for sure with the same checking/usage during the work week, I can go 1 day 16hrs with this before it's fully dead.
Right now i'm 22hrs 23min 56s on battery and have 31% remaining. Being today is weekend I have 2hrs 15mins 12s screen time but 3hrs, 41min 18s voice calls. Obviously bunch of SMS and Hangouts today as well.
Use lux auto brightness... Its bettr than the stock one...and doesnt battery too if the settings are proper!!
Dont frget to press the THANK button!!!
I keep switching from and to auto brightness because I don't want to flash a modded kernel to avoid losing official updates, but I really hope Google will fix it soon
Luckily there's an app called Profile Scheduler which I set to automatically lower brightness when I'm home (connected to WiFi or recharging) and at night
I don't use auto unless I'm out in the sun...
After using Flux on my desktop and laptop, I have grown accustom to the features the night mode brings and needed to bring it to the mobile phone as well. Using lux as my auto brightness go-to app and has served me well with it's profile editor and being able to go (negative) in brightness which helps my battery life.
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I simple automate my brightness to change by time of day. Using 30% during the day, 20% at night and 5% before bed as set in Llama.
The times will need to be adjusted as the daylight hours change.
So far so good
Its so much better than my Hercules was
Nope, I never use auto brightness. Just crank it down to the minimum while I'm inside, use screen filter in a dark room, and crank it up until I am satisfied with the visibility when I'm outside. (Depends on how sunny it is out.) I've always liked changing it myself because I don't find myself changing areas of lighting all that very much. When I'm inside, I'll probably be inside for awhile. When I'm outside, I'll probably be outside for awhile, and so forth.
I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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I'm actually using it stock, it's quite good really
never used autobrightness..usually i keep phone's brightness set about at 20%..i see autobrightness consumes a lot of battery
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I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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The sensor itself uses negligible power and makes no difference to battery life.
I've tweaked the framework-res.apk file to use more brightness steps and to be dimmer in darker conditions. Saves installing an app when the phone has it built in. If anyone is interested I can post it, needs flashing with TWRP or other recovery.
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Just installed the gravity box and try to improve the battery life with adjusting auto-brightness levels.
Any recommended settings?
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Just installed the gravity box and try to improve the battery life with adjusting auto-brightness levels.
Any recommended settings?
Thank you!
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Not sure about gravity box. But try Lux from app store. Once you learn how it works...it can do a lot.
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I'd like to know what the levels in Gravitybox mean and what are ways to set it so its not so bright. But the Google is not returning much useful...like this thread . The levels seems to be undocumented.
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I'd like to know what the levels in Gravitybox mean and what are ways to set it so its not so bright. But the Google is not returning much useful...like this thread . The levels seems to be undocumented.
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After fiddling around with the Gravitybox auto-brighness settings, I want to return to default. Can anyone post these?
If you're concerned about battery life, then you shouldn't use auto-brightness. It will drain the battery faster than a static screen brightness as it will constantly poll the light sensor and adjust the brightness. I'd suggest the pull-down slide brightness change method, which I use and it works quite well, at least to increase screen brightness. Turning it back down is usually more difficult, but still doable.
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If you're concerned about battery life, then you shouldn't use auto-brightness. It will drain the battery faster than a static screen brightness as it will constantly poll the light sensor and adjust the brightness. I'd suggest the pull-down slide brightness change method, which I use and it works quite well, at least to increase screen brightness. Turning it back down is usually more difficult, but still doable.
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Gravitybox has a setting that lets you adjust brightness by sliding your finger along the statusbar at the top.
Hi somebody knows how to fix burn in on note 8 i have it in the middle of the screen anyone?
I think you need to replace the whole screen. Curious to how long have you had your note8? I've had mine since launch and my screen is still burn free, though I rarely go beyond 75% brightness.
There is no fix for burned screens, but there some precautions to prevent it, resonable brightness level is a very important one
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I think you need to replace the whole screen. Curious to how long have you had your note8? I've had mine since launch and my screen is still burn free, though I rarely go beyond 75% brightness.
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I've had it since launch too
I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...
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I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...
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Where do you derive the brightness percentage figures from?
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kanej2006 said:
I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...
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As burn in would totally do my head in, I've got mine set to around 35-40% and I think that's plenty bright enough. Obviously, if it detects I'm in bright sunlight it gets brighter of its own accord, so the relatively low brightness works well for me, plus it saves a bit of battery too.
I got burn in just the status bar,but without clock and battery and other items,just the bar itself,i use the phone for about six mounths,and i stay over 75% everyday,i work outside ..and only that bar got burn,you need to be careful cuz the note 8 is a beautiful pice.
I just got a replacement for my Note 8 after having terrible burn in using the navigation app. on my motorcycle. I always had my brightness set to auto, but had the nav app display always on. I actually have bad burn in from both the copilot app as well as the Waze app. With the replacement, I will set the app to turn the display off after a few minutes. Kind of sucks, as I used my Note 3 for 3 years and never had this issue. I wonder if reducing the screen resolution would help? I always had it at the highest setting.
Lowering the resolution will in fact make it worse, as it groups pixels to behave as one, better do what you said, lower brightness, shorter times to screen off, etc
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I just got a replacement for my Note 8 after having terrible burn in using the navigation app. on my motorcycle. I always had my brightness set to auto, but had the nav app display always on. I actually have bad burn in from both the copilot app as well as the Waze app. With the replacement, I will set the app to turn the display off after a few minutes. Kind of sucks, as I used my Note 3 for 3 years and never had this issue. I wonder if reducing the screen resolution would help? I always had it at the highest setting.
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I had a similar burn-in issue using Android Auto on my Note 4, so for my Note 8 I use Tasker to dim the screen to around 10% which is just about visible - I can restore normal brightness by using the proximity sensor to toggle it on and off.