Question Prevent screen brightness dropping automatically - Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra

This is probably the worst issue I have with the phone, it seems to drop screen brightness when it heats up, which more likely than not happens when using the phone in direct sunlight, making what is generally a bright screen under sunlight become a pain to use.
I'm not exactly a heavy phone user, so I'd much rather keep the phone at max brightness for short periods, even if it heats up a little. Anyone had any luck disabling this safety feature?

inpression said:
This is probably the worst issue I have with the phone, it seems to drop screen brightness when it heats up, which more likely than not happens when using the phone in direct sunlight, making what is generally a bright screen under sunlight become a pain to use.
I'm not exactly a heavy phone user, so I'd much rather keep the phone at max brightness for short periods, even if it heats up a little. Anyone had any luck disabling this safety feature?
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Have you tried turning off Adaptive Brightness in Display settings?
And also have you got the latest firmware update?

babyboy3265 said:
Have you tried turning off Adaptive Brightness in Display settings?
And also have you got the latest firmware update?
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Yes, it was all turned off, but in the meanwhile I cleared the data for Device Health Services and it seems to have stopped sudden changes in brightness, it would visibly brighten up the display going from indoors to outdoors before.
Seems it was still retaining some adaptive brightness settings even after having disabled it. Will test if further tomorrow to see if that fixed it.

inpression said:
Yes, it was all turned off, but in the meanwhile I cleared the data for Device Health Services and it seems to have stopped sudden changes in brightness, it would visibly brighten up the display going from indoors to outdoors before.
Seems it was still retaining some adaptive brightness settings even after having disabled it. Will test if further tomorrow to see if that fixed it.
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Well good luck bud!

Well, it still dims and brightens the display, to a lesser extent now, but I'm starting to doubt it's due to heating. Heating it up with intensive use while keeping it in bright conditions keeps the display at maximum, but changing lighting conditions like going indoors or covering the light sensor causes it to dim the display.
Is this a bug or a feature, I've seen people elsewhere complaining about this, so it's not a unique occurence.

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burn in

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
NIKKOTUASON said:
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...
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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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
Motowojo said:
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.

Auto brightness? Or control % yourself?

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.
Auto!
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.
krabman said:
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.

Note 9 britness issue while playing pubg(Most of the times)

I was on one ui 2.0 when i started playing pubg i noticed that when i play on full britness and auto brightness turn off my phone's brightness goes down automatically and at the same time when it goes down, on the bottom of the screen blue edge light also blinks.
and after a little while edge light blinks again and britness goes up as it was before.
when it goes down brightness slider remains on full.. auto britness is off.
now i updated to one ui 2.1 and reset my phone but same happens ..
can anyone help me why its happening.
even today i noticed that while i was on full brightness and browsing web my brightness also fluctuates but not to that extent when i was playing pubg.
today i changed my "screen mode" from adaptive to cinema photo.
hope it will solve my problem ..
let's see what happens..
actually same happens with me for pubg. didn't got any solution yet.
debbuger said:
actually same happens with me for pubg. didn't got any solution yet.
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I play pubg also and notice yesterday it felt darker where I places brightness at 50% since the update. I also feel sounds are muted since the update.
umairkhalid415 said:
today i changed my "screen mode" from adaptive to cinema photo.
hope it will solve my problem ..
let's see what happens..
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it did not worked..
its very irritating..
it was on one ui 2.0 and now it's on 2.1 also.
umairkhalid415 said:
I was on one ui 2.0 when i started playing pubg i noticed that when i play on full britness and auto britness turn off my phone's britness goes down automatically and at the same time when it goes down, on the bottom of the screen blue edge light also blinks.
and after a little while edge light blinks again and britness goes up as it was before.
when it goes down britness slider remains on full.. auto britness is off.
now i updated to one ui 2.1 and reset my phone but same happens ..
can anyone help me why its happening.
even today i noticed that while i was on full britness and browsing web my britness also fluctuates but not to that extent when i was playing pubg.
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no brightness issue while playing COD Mobile.
umairkhalid415 said:
it did not worked..
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Go to pubg settings/graphics and scroll down you will see brightness bar
I kept pubg brightness to full 150% and phone brightness 50% i play with no issues.
Trex888 said:
Go to pubg settings/graphics and scroll down you will see brightness bar
I kept pubg brightness to full 150% and phone brightness 50% i play with no issues.
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Thank you so much for your suggestion actually i live in a hot climate and i realized that when i use my phone at full britness while gaming phone gets very hot and also the display of the phone and then this thing happens because of thermal throttling..
when i play in a cooler environment like in an ac room it doesn't happen.
and your are right when i ise it at 60 to 70% Brightness and not letting my phone overheat brightness issue resolves.
Same issue. When playing COD, sudenly it decrease brightness to very low. I have been taking care of not obstruct sunlight sensor. What I have to do is to increase it at maximum manually....
BUT, also I have problems with ping. It increases dramatically and then I have lag!. Horrible. It happens usally twice by game. I think is just on wifi, but i can not confirm yet. Anyone else with this other problem.???

Question S21 Ultra Always On Display

Hi everyone.
Just wanted the community's opinion on what your thoughts are about the AOD.
How many of you use it regularly? And those that do, what is your preferred setting - Always on (+/- scheduled) or Tap to Show for 10 seconds? What has been your experience with battery life and overall usability? Any tips or tricks? Any downsides?
Those who don't use AOD, could you please post your reasons, along with any experience with battery drain or screen burn in or other issues.
I'd like to use AOD (on the always on setting), but am not very sure what it costs in term of battery or screen life. The former is a non-issue for me personally but if it's going to affect screen life or quality, I may hesitate a little. I tried the tap to wake for 10 seconds thing but it seems to beat the purpose as I can just as easily go to the lockscreen with a double tap and neccessitating user-interaction negates any real benefit of an always-on feature.
My current settings are:
AOD Always on (scheduled from 7am to 10pm)
FIngerprint reader always on (so I can go directly from AOD to Homescreen without having to go through the lockscreen)
Fingerprint icon set to tap-to-show (just as a hint if i ever miss hitting the correct position when trying to unlock)
Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
I only use AOD via AODNotify...that should have been an option in the poll.
I use a Tasker profile to turn AOD on (always) when a message arrives and revert back to tap to show when message is cleared.
I keep it on all the time, really helpful and doesn't seem to drain too much battery.
Btw does anyone know if it's possible to add weather info to the S21Us AOD?
One of the few things I still miss from my P4XL..
I don't use it drains a lot of battery
I use to always have it active on my 10+ but it got to be annoying. Tap on is fine.
I don't care to be informed every bloody second... that ain't no way to live.
Ipse_Tase said:
I only use AOD via AODNotify...that should have been an option in the poll.
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Wasn't even aware something like that existed. Thanks for the heads-up, will check it out.
Poll updated with new option.
I like to keep the setting to always on with fingerprint always enabled showing thumbprint on screen always .
What i have noticed is the aod doesnt turn off when the phone is in pocket or lying upside down.
That would save so much battery.
AOD used to turn off automatically in my s9plus when the phone was in pocket .
May be this feature is disabled due to lack of active proximity sensor
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I like to keep the setting to always on with fingerprint always enabled showing thumbprint on screen always .
What i have noticed is the aod doesnt turn off when the phone is in pocket or lying upside down.
That would save so much battery.
AOD used to turn off automatically in my s9plus when the phone was in pocket .
May be this feature is disabled due to lack of active proximity sensor
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The 10+ has a proximity sensor and AOD always remains on if set to. The face down off be nice.
Maybe it caused issues in the past. Samsung is sort of hit or miss though.
I have yet to use the fingerprint sensor, lol don't even know if it works.
Last thing I want is to get locked out of a device.
As soon as you set an access password this can happen and through no fault of your own. A hardware failure or glitch can trigger it. Had no password been set the setting wouldn't be enforced. I've gotten locked out of a PC bios like that, never again.
aj7400 said:
I like to keep the setting to always on with fingerprint always enabled showing thumbprint on screen always .
What i have noticed is the aod doesnt turn off when the phone is in pocket or lying upside down.
That would save so much battery.
AOD used to turn off automatically in my s9plus when the phone was in pocket .
May be this feature is disabled due to lack of active proximity sensor
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Does the fingerprint icon shift around like the clock or battery percentage (it has very little room to move around though)?
I hope it does, otherwise it'll land up causing screen burn if it's in the same position with the same pattern all the time. Have you noticed this?
enigmaamit said:
Does the fingerprint icon shift around like the clock or battery percentage (it has very little room to move around though)?
I hope it does, otherwise it'll land up causing screen burn if it's in the same position with the same pattern all the time. Have you noticed this?
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Probably shifts it over a few pixels but in bright light over time it will cause uneven aging.
enigmaamit said:
Hi everyone.
Just wanted the community's opinion on what your thoughts are about the AOD.
How many of you use it regularly? And those that do, what is your preferred setting - Always on (+/- scheduled) or Tap to Show for 10 seconds? What has been your experience with battery life and overall usability? Any tips or tricks? Any downsides?
Those who don't use AOD, could you please post your reasons, along with any experience with battery drain or screen burn in or other issues.
I'd like to use AOD (on the always on setting), but am not very sure what it costs in term of battery or screen life. The former is a non-issue for me personally but if it's going to affect screen life or quality, I may hesitate a little. I tried the tap to wake for 10 seconds thing but it seems to beat the purpose as I can just as easily go to the lockscreen with a double tap and neccessitating user-interaction negates any real benefit of an always-on feature.
My current settings are:
AOD Always on (scheduled from 7am to 10pm)
FIngerprint reader always on (so I can go directly from AOD to Homescreen without having to go through the lockscreen)
Fingerprint icon set to tap-to-show (just as a hint if i ever miss hitting the correct position when trying to unlock)
Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome.
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I set that sucker to always on all the time and at max brightness to boot. Cannot use a phone without the option.
chetly968 said:
I set that sucker to always on all the time and at max brightness to boot. Cannot use a phone without the option.
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According to your battery stats, how much drain is attributed to the AOD? Could you post a screenshot at the end of a day please?
I don't know how much drain is attributed to the AOD. As soon as I get the newest Samsung I turn it in and crank it up before I literally do anything else. I keep every setting on ALL the time (Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, etc). The battery gets me through a regular day. I'll try and post a screen shot. Today I took it off the charger 3 hours ago and I haven't stopped using the phone. I'm sitting at 85%.
chetly968 said:
I don't know how much drain is attributed to the AOD. As soon as I get the newest Samsung I turn it in and crank it up before I literally do anything else. I keep every setting on ALL the time (Bluetooth, wifi, nfc, etc). The battery gets me through a regular day. I'll try and post a screen shot. Today I took it off the charger 3 hours ago and I haven't stopped using the phone. I'm sitting at 85%.
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You monster, you.
My smartwatch (Fit2, cheap) negates the need for AOD.
nixnixnixnix4 said:
You monster, you.
My smartwatch (Fit2, cheap) negates the need for AOD.
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I have a serious addiction to smart phones, lol. I'm on mine about 12 hours a day. Mostly playing games or surfing the net. Today off my charger for 2.5 hours and I'm at 88% lol.
chetly968 said:
I have a serious addiction to smart phones, lol. I'm on mine about 12 hours a day. Mostly playing games or surfing the net. Today off my charger for 2.5 hours and I'm at 88% lol.
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Cycle the battery between 35-65% if you can (and then raise both those numbers slowly over time) or else you will fry your battery fast.
If you're just going to buy a new phone in 2 years, then, don't bother with what I said.

Question Notification lights on AOSP-based roms, what do you use?

Hello.
I've always used phones with a notification led so things were pretty simple. This one doesn't have a led and while the colored screen edges were ok with MIUI, I'm using crDroid and I can't replicate the same behaviour (I've turned on that option on ambient display settings but nothing lights up after a notification pop). I've tried the app "aod notification light for pixel" from the google play store and it works alright but the battery drainage is crazy (overnight it drained pretty much half my battery), being responsible for 20% usage of a full charge.
What workaround have you found? Do you just live without any notification alert?
Notification alerts are overrated. Back then we had a nice rgb small led, now mostly gone. Try pick up gesture on ambient light. Or turn on edge lighting, crdroid should have it.
I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.
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I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.
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How's the battery drainage using that app?
diogofd8 said:
How's the battery drainage using that app?
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Not even in the app list on batt usage.
Because the actual battery drain is under "Display"
(But I don't expect it to be high, with conservative settings anyway.)
I hate it that they removed the LED from newer phones, lighting up the display for mere notifications seems so out of place. Thanks for the advice, I'll look around some options and report back if I find something interesting.
@diogofd8 Then again with AMOLED displays, showing a small notification on display is pretty much equivalent to using a dedicated LED as far as battery drain goes.
I vaguely remember there used to be an app to pretty much simulate a notification LED when AMOLED displays were first introduced on Android by literally just showing a couple of pixels in various color, but can't remember how it was called and no idea if it even exists still.
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@diogofd8 Then again with AMOLED displays, showing a small notification on display is pretty much equivalent to using a dedicated LED as far as battery drain goes.
I vaguely remember there used to be an app to pretty much simulate a notification LED when AMOLED displays were first introduced on Android by literally just showing a couple of pixels in various color, but can't remember how it was called and no idea if it even exists still.
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I've tried the app "aod notification light for pixel" from the google play store and it works alright but the battery drainage is crazy (overnight it drained pretty much half my battery), being responsible for 20% usage of a full charge. It's basically the functionallity you've mentioned and I don't think 20% is just due to the light... oh well...
Klaus69 said:
I use True Edge from playstore, it's free, tons of customizations. To change the pattern, i had to watch a advertisment only once, so not much problems with it.
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Looks really nice and with network access blocked in the settings there's really no chance of ads being shown and data collection problem with Google Analytics is solved too.
The only real downside is that the app isn't open source and uses Google Libraries.

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