Hi all,
Is there any way to reduce screen brightness even lower than what we could do with built-in settings? Thanks.
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Wear sunglasses?
I'd love to know too. The screen is just a touch too bright in bed at night
jimbob1971 said:
Wear sunglasses?
I'd love to know too. The screen is just a touch too bright in bed at night
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I'd like to know this too, I have it at the lowest setting usually and it's still a little bright, I don't even need to turn it up outdoors.
On my modded galaxy s, the darky rom come with an app called "screen filter", it enable you to get your screen WAY dimmer, may be worth a look for in honeycomb, nice for froyo/gingerbread, you even have it in the task menu... my 0.02cents
I noticed that i always have to set it to the max cause it cut down on the glaze. This screen is like a mirror during the day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731032
try that app (requires root)
AdjBrightness doesn't work. I'm running Modaco ROM HR3, which means it's rooted, but AdjBrightness keeps saying it requires root. Thanks anyway.
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Try "Brightness level" by curvefish. I can't guarantee it will work but it works on my g tablet?
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I don't think any apps can make it dimmer, without rooting and system access. Brightness level widget doesnt make it any dimmer (it reports the brightness level as 8%, when the system brightness bar is all the way to the left, and when set to 0% in BLW the screen doesnt change).
One of the first things that I look for before buying any device is can the screen be set to a low enough brightness. Manufactures often overlook this in their quest to make screens as bright as possible, and in one case I ended up taping a piece of plastic over the screen of an Acer netbook as a filter to get the brightness down low enough to use in a dim room. In the case of the Transformer, I could not try before I bought, but the screen does go down pretty dim.
+1 for Screen Filter. I don't have a TF yet so I haven't tried it but it works great on my SGS and doesn't require root. I suspect it may not work as well on an LCD as on my SAMOLED screen on my phone since it doesn't actually reduce the backlight, but it's still worth a try.
Thanks, screen filter works!
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Hi guys, if you think how the power button will break sometime because it feels so fragile, maybe you want to use this app. I made this app for personal use, but I do want to share with you.
This app basically only make the screen brightness to 0 (zero), and you gotta wait for 10 seconds to let Android call the lock screen.
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if you didn't wait till time out (10 secs), you are still basically locking it manually. that means you have to press the hardware button twice to wake the screen up
Is it possible to change this in a way you can control how bright the screen is? The lowest setting is '12' that i can get and even that is nearly too bright indoors for me
I havent seen an all that does that
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madpuma13 said:
Is it possible to change this in a way you can control how bright the screen is? The lowest setting is '12' that i can get and even that is nearly too bright indoors for me
I havent seen an all that does that
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You should try an app called LUX. It will allow you to drop the brightness below the standard brightness.
madpuma13 said:
Is it possible to change this in a way you can control how bright the screen is? The lowest setting is '12' that i can get and even that is nearly too bright indoors for me
I havent seen an all that does that
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yup there's an application for that already.
AcIdC0R3 said:
You should try an app called LUX. It will allow you to drop the brightness below the standard brightness.
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Lux is a pay app and reading description in market says nothing about dimming below stock settings.
Screen adjust otoh actually can lower brightness to zero can also modify color and contrast too. Best of all it's free. Been looking forever for something like this that works in honeycomb as lowest stock brightness is still too bright for nighttime reading for me.
Hi everyone. I ran a search for this and couldn't come up with anything. I'm somewhat new to this forum, and I see that I'm breaking the rules by posting a question here, but I saw other "[Q]" threads here and there's no Q&A for Kindle Fire. Admins: Please forgive me.
Basically, my question is there any way to turn the brightness down below the standard percentages (less than 25%)? I downloaded several apps in the market that control brightness, but none accomplished what I'm looking for.
I'm starting to read on my Fire now and it's still bright at night with the black background. I downloaded apps like Adjbrightness and it said that it could not be done on my device.
Does the Fire allow this at all? Am I just wishful thinking? Any help would be appreciated!
Display Brightness will allow you to go down to 1%. It also puts a nice slider (that auto hides) on your screen to adjust the brightness.
I use screen filter since I can set it as a widget and just toggle it on/off
screendim goes even lower than display brightness
jacewt said:
screendim goes even lower than display brightness
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Is there any chance of damaging the kindle by going lower than the factory settings? I am curious because the lowest factory setting is still just too bright for my eyes.
Laquox said:
Is there any chance of damaging the kindle by going lower than the factory settings? I am curious because the lowest factory setting is still just too bright for my eyes.
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I do it at night, I don't know if it's bad for the kindle.
It has 2 sliders, one lowers the backlight all the way to .4
The second slider lowers the contrast and it looks even darker late at night.
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I do it at night, I don't know if it's bad for the kindle.
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That's what worries me. I know some devices when you start playing with their brightness you can damage the screens and this piece of tech costs a bit too much to be playing without knowing the repercussions.
Great. Thanks for all the replies everyone!
I love my tab through and through but there is one thing that makes me think I need to return it.
In darker surroundings the sensor does not work properly.
I use the lux-app to measure and set the brightness. On my NexusOne I for example measure ~200 lux.
On the Infinity lying just next to it the measuring process goes completely wild.
Once it measures 0 lux and gets stuck there. Then after a while it will measure 4 or 10 lux and stuck there even if you cover the sensor totally.
Only after measuring several times it will jump to 0 lux again.
Also when I try a sensor monitor and read out the ambient I can see that the readings will stop eventually for some time and then go on for some time period only to stop again for some time and so on.
I don't have all this in normal to bright light conditions.
I wonder is my unit just defective or is this a general problem.
I am afraid to send my unit back as it is working in every other aspect than this, well build and so on.
Do not want to swap it for a crappy unit
That is something I need to try. Coming from a prime I just thought the settings were different. I can't even leave mine on auto brightness as it turns it all the way down no matter what.
Good call on checking the sensor.
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Here ya go - I found a way to "tune" the autobrightness - please read through this thread for details:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30417539
Hope that helps - works great for me.
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So whilst playing around with the power settings, i noticed that when you set it to power saver setting, the screen does like 3-5 flickers, and you can clearly see the picture quality get worse. the colors get bad and everything doesnt look right. now this is not smart dimmer because im pretty sure this happens as soon as you hit the button and not when its just a dark scene or a movie.
try this for me someone, take a look at the screen in normal mode, then hit the power saver one and you will notice the screen slightly flicker and then you will notice the colors would go a little off or off contrast or something.
tell me im not crazy
Everything looks fine on mine.
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It is smartdimmer -if you disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode, the screen instantly gets better...
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curiousmileo said:
So whilst playing around with the power settings, i noticed that when you set it to power saver setting, the screen does like 3-5 flickers, and you can clearly see the picture quality get worse. the colors get bad and everything doesnt look right. now this is not smart dimmer because im pretty sure this happens as soon as you hit the button and not when its just a dark scene or a movie.
try this for me someone, take a look at the screen in normal mode, then hit the power saver one and you will notice the screen slightly flicker and then you will notice the colors would go a little off or off contrast or something.
tell me im not crazy
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You are not crazy. It definitely looks washed out or something, the contrast goes screwy. I've noticed that before. I turned off the auto dimming just because it was constantly going back and forth, but set it fairly low and keep it on normal mode. battery life is roughly the same. The screen is what chews up the battery life.
Yep, noticed it too. The contrast lowers and everything starts to look like you've been using a cheap detergent... Also, on power saving mode the light doesn't transition so much as walks the stairs with a bad leg. Very irritating when you have a live wallpaper that simulates a cloudy day scene and the brightness keeps flickering. Turned off auto brightness on day 1, so that's not it.
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It is smartdimmer -if you disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode, the screen instantly gets better...
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no im telling you its not the screen getting darker, its literally everything looks washed out
see the other people see it too. im not crazy
when using power saver mode, it actually adjusts the contrast of the display which is why it looks more washed out.
at the same time, contrast is improved when using high-performance mode.
so no, no one here is going crazy.
fatpandas said:
when using power saver mode, it actually adjusts the contrast of the display which is why it looks more washed out.
at the same time, contrast is improved when using high-performance mode.
so no, no one here is going crazy.
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this is correct. its intentional. meant to save power in powersavings mode. if you rooted and have a overclock app installed, like ATP tweaks, that allows you to set the power modes, you can set balanced to 1ghz. it won't trigger the nvidia prism power savings. its only activated when pressing powersavings tab. of you set any other tab to 1ghz, your screen will look fine.
f.y.I. there's a tweak in Nexus7 forum, tegra3, that can disable smartdimmer feature also. smartdimmer isn't just lowering brightness either. you can disable smart dimmer manually or use the flashable zip. check nexus 7 forums for details.
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no im telling you its not the screen getting darker, its literally everything looks washed out
see the other people see it too. im not crazy
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Actually, yes, it *is* smartdimmer - trust me - if you don't believe me, go disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode - you'll see that the screen quality/brightness immediately goes back to what you are used to in Balanced/Performance mode...
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Everything looks fine on mine.
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Still the same. Iv'e been trying different color backgrounds/brightness levels/power modes and all I see is the screen flickering 2 or 3 times, just making it darker, not washing out the colors.
Just tried power save.
Blacks look a little washed out, not a massive difference here.
Turning on the IPS+ brings everything back contrast wise.
I have smartdummer disabled too.
I'll say essentially no real difference.
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hey guys got question for u all
i like so much the flip 4 but i sell it cause i had 1 major proble
i bought iphone 14 pro max but i really want my flip 4 again
my problem is any time im using the phone for facebook whatsapp and regular stuff with regular use (not even hard use at all)
the screen dimm to much cause the phone is warm
if i turn on the extra brightness its dimm alot faster with minimum use
so i i never used the extra brightness but always on the full brightness but i always use minimum use and the screen is dimm
any solution or its like that???? (the phone is ok i had 1 before and it was the same)
i have no case nothing i never pleyed games with my phone just regular use....any tips for what to do or this is how the phone act?
and just for you know im on android 13 latest thx for the help !!!
sounds like you have some sort battery saver turned on, have you checked in settings? this is not normal behaviour.
beanbean50 said:
sounds like you have some sort battery saver turned on, have you checked in settings? this is not normal behaviour.
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sure man i never use battery saver always full brightness all the way up then the phone get hit very easy and dim the screen the temperature outside is around 25 c
nobody got this iisue? no way!!
It is clear that your mobile phone has a technical problem that needs maintenance, but try to return it to factory settings
amincom said:
It is clear that your mobile phone has a technical problem that needs maintenance, but try to return it to factory settings
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ok but this my third phone loll, my sisters got the same iisue not just me, and we bought the phones in deffrent places :-(
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ok but this my third phone loll, my sisters got the same iisue not just me, and we bought the phones in deffrent places :-(
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maybe i use app that make the phone to hot the the screen dimm?
im using whatsapp facebook instagram and messanger maybe? anyone knows?
On the Flip 4 I use the Adaptive Brightness "on" setting, and Dark Mode. Your results may vary, but here's what I've seen.
In the summer, on a sunny day, I'll notice that the phone will automatically try to be as bright as possible, so the screen is readable. (I'm pretty sure when this happens the quick display panel's screen brightness slider color changes to orange. Maybe the color depends on the wallpaper/color palette.) And I never see the screen do this "extra bright" thing indoors. Only outside and only in direct sunshine.
So far so good. I think this is as everyone expects the phone to operate.
Given all this, sometimes I'll notice the screen brightness will vary, even though I'm still outside and still in the same brilliant sunshine. I've noticed this commonly when checking Google News, and for example, I'm reading a story and scrolling slowly through the article. In particular when the screen is mostly black text on a white background.
So, in this situation, that is, a largely bright background, in the bright sun, my phone will both:
Get warm to the touch, on the back-side of the phone, where the two batteries are, but not up where the cameras, CPU and memory are located. This makes sense because "scrolling text" isn't that demanding on the CPU, but I am driving the OLED screen hard.
Also the front of the phone (the OLED screen itself) can feel warm. Even in the screen's crease, away from the battery. Since the image is mostly white, all the OLED dots are "on" and give off heat. Then again, I'm in brilliant sunshine and almost any surface will get warm.
Further, I'll notice that the phone screen will automatically get dimmer after a bit of time (perhaps a minute or two of extra-bright before the dimming). This I attribute to the software doing one, or both of:
Dialing back the screen brightness, to prevent OLED burn-in.
Dialing down the power usage by the screen, to prolong battery life and/or limit the battery temperature.
What's more, after little more time, still in the same bright lighting conditions, perhaps reading the same story, the screen might be noticeably extra-bright again. It's as if the phone has given the display "a rest" and is willing to go "extra bright" again.
In short, I think the phone screen is trying hard to be brilliant in the brightest of sunshine. But there are limits in how hard you can drive an OLED screen, and how long the battery can power the screen.
All of this before we start to talk about what design limits come into effect when the CPU or graphics processing come into play, both or which compete for:
Power from the battery, and
The ability of the phone to keep itself cool.
This phone's form-factor is all about folding in half. A slab form-factor phone, I suspect, will be far more capable for heavy CPU, graphics, and provide a bigger battery and better heat disipation.