On my old Nokia when the battery got below 10% the backlight would automatically reduce to minimum brightness to save power. On my Touch HD it happily blasts away at full brightness until 0% when it croaks.
Is there an application that will dim the light at a pre-defined %age level of battery power?
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Is there any way to customize the auto backlight levels in mango? The screen is always too bright indoors and too dim outdoors.
tht's true, it would be cool to customize, because auto backlight depends on the battery level but nothing about light sensor...
Umm, the automatic backlight is very much based on the phone's light sensor. Battery Saver *might* lower the brightness automatically, but the "Automatic" option under Settings -> Brightness is based on the light level that the phone detects.
wow...shame on me i didn't notice that...
HD7 screen is not really effective when sun is shining outdoor...
Just curious, for indoor use like the Office, how do you like your Display Brightness ? Do you use Adaptive Brightness, or use an app or set it to a specific % yourself ?
I kind of like setting it to 50% myself in the office, as Adaptive seems to go either go too low dim, or sometimes too bright, but doesn't stay.
I don't use adaptive; I just set my brightness manually with the slider in quick settings. I prefer fairly low brightness indoors (about 20%), I set it to around 50% outdoors, or full brightness if I need to read the screen under the sun.
Hi,
I am using my Nexus 6p in a quite screen heavy way (mostly in the car) and I am looking forward to reduce battery usage.
What I am doing at the moment is:
1) Use AutoMate in the car for navigation and music
2) Set up the screen timoeut after 15sec.
3) Use Caffeine app to prevent screen from going sleep
As an effect of this after 15 seconds my screen dims to certain level and Caffeine keeps this state all the time.
The thing is that the dimmed screen level is too high for me and I am looking forward to reduce it.
I realised that if I change the screen brightness to minimum then "dimmed" level is also lower so I suppose the system is doing something "When dimmed lower the current brightness level by x%".
I do not want to change the "screen awake" brightness level but just make the system to dim my screen by greater percentage so then I could get to nice and bright screen with just one touch without having to activate variety of apps.
Just curious. How many of you are seeing screen-burn in on your phones?
I use CF.Lumen to adjust the screen to be warmer at night. I notice some darker areas/burn-in with CF.Lumen enabled and the screen brightness dimmed to super low levels (using CF.Lumen's built-in darkness slider for Sleep mode)
What I notice is a sort of dark spot at very low brightness, and a sort of dark shadowy line running down the screen close to the left side. It's kinda annoying but I really only see it when I have text on the screen (and I'm trying to read text) at lower-than-stock dimness levels. I'm slowly getting used to it. At first I panicked thinking that my screen had burned in already at a few months of use, but when I have CF.Lumen off and I have the stock brightness slider set all the way to 0, I don't notice any lines or weird dark spots.
Then again, 0 brightness using the stock brightness slider is still VERY bright if you're coming from iOS's Accessibility settings. Android has poor screen filter settings and few good screen filter apps outside CF.Lumen and f.lux and I doubt Android 12 will change that.
So, are any of you experiencing screen burn-in? OLED burn-in is something that always has me worried. I try to avoid OLED phones for this reason, because I'm paranoid.
OLEDs have a finite lifespan. The brighter they burn, the shorter they last.
The higher energy blue emitters have the shortest life span, while red the longest.
Darker screen wallpaper, dark mode and less white icons/headers helps reduce wear.
Use manual brightness control and avoid going over 50% whenever possible. Don't use in direct sunlight... this is a killer.
Move icons and widgets periodically on the homescreen. Avoid prolonged white screen viewing and apps that are dark mode illiterate.
These practices also increase battery life substantially.
Use Screen Test to see if any damage is present.
After over 1.5 years of heavy usage and one battery replacement, my AMOLED display on my Note 10+ shows no signs of damage. How you use it day to day/what you view with it makes a big difference in display longevity.
I have noticed my refresh rate only changes when the display is at a certain brightness or when I'm in a well lit area?
No wonder battery depletes faster if it's stuck at 120 when in those lighting conditions with adaptive brightness on.
Anywell else notice this?
I have been running at minimum brightness to trigger adaptive refresh (about 18%?) while using Extra dim quick setting tile at different levels to adjust brightness down more, which keeps refresh not locking to 120.