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Looking for a simple brightness managment app

All I want is an application that can switch between Auto Brightness to Minimum setting (OS specified or lower) at specific time, time when it gets dark. or maybe it can choose the time automatically based on dusk and dawn.
I noticed that Auto setting NEVER drops to minimal setting for some reason......

kolyan said:
All I want is an application that can switch between Auto Brightness to Minimum setting (OS specified or lower) at specific time, time when it gets dark. or maybe it can choose the time automatically based on dusk and dawn.
I noticed that Auto setting NEVER drops to minimal setting for some reason......
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There is an app called Timeriffic (I think that's how it's spelled). You just input the settings into the app and at that predetermined time, it will adjust settings (including brightness, not sure about auto brightness).
I have it set so that at a certain time (when I leave the house) it will turn off the wifi, turn on vibrate, etc...
But if you fall out of your routine, you kind of go bonkers because you forget that you have timeriffic set and can't figure out why the wifi turned off, etc... LoL!

How about just using Power Widget when to switch between auto/minimal when you realize the screen is too bright?

Thanks. Timeriffic gets the job done, but i wish it would support auto brightness. using power widget doesnt work for me because if i forget to switch back to auto setting, in sunny day i cant even see the screen at all and have to find shaded area just to switch back

kolyan said:
Thanks. Timeriffic gets the job done, but i wish it would support auto brightness. using power widget doesnt work for me because if i forget to switch back to auto setting, in sunny day i cant even see the screen at all and have to find shaded area just to switch back
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Yeah I've had to learn where certain objects are on my home screen.
*Unlock* *Swipe right* *press top right of phone*
Haptic feedback is my friend
It's a shame, OLEDs are so much better than TFT screens for battery conservation but they suck in the light, you know, outside, the one place you are most likely to use your MOBILE phone. Ah well, it performs almost as well as the iPhone when the N1's on full brightness. I held it next to my friend's 3GS, but thinking about it forgot to check what brightness hers was on... DOH.
I think they've corrected it now though, with newer designs.

There is also an app that is called auto bright and it can be made into a homescreen shortcut and is basically a macro that turns on autobright. I put it next to my power control widget so in the case where I need to switch brightness manually I can easily switch back. FYI Froyo's power widget has added the autobright setting so soon as a stable version of Froyo comes out this will be a mute point.
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Setting Profiles does the same as well, and a whole lot more.

App I use is called, dimmer. It has to manually be switch.

jimtc said:
There is also an app that is called auto bright and it can be made into a homescreen shortcut and is basically a macro that turns on autobright. I put it next to my power control widget so in the case where I need to switch brightness manually I can easily switch back. FYI Froyo's power widget has added the autobright setting so soon as a stable version of Froyo comes out this will be a mute point.
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OP pointed out (correctly) the Automatic Brightness setting will never automatically set the brightness to the minimum point (that is, as low as you could set it manually). I can confirm that, though Froyo does include the Automatic option on the power control widget, it still won't go all the way dim. It seems rather silly that the Automatic range doesn't go all the way down.
Also, the word you're after is "moot", not mute.

codesplice said:
OP pointed out (correctly) the Automatic Brightness setting will never automatically set the brightness to the minimum point (that is, as low as you could set it manually). I can confirm that, though Froyo does include the Automatic option on the power control widget, it still won't go all the way dim. It seems rather silly that the Automatic range doesn't go all the way down.
Also, the word you're after is "moot", not mute.
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yes. thats correct. if auto setting would go all the way down, then i would not need any 3rd party software to begin with. i really wish we could adjust the range and sensitivity of the sensor
ps. developer of Timeriffic said that its not possible to add Auto Brightness setting to his app because there is no API for that and the only way around is to hack it.

do you use auto-brightness or manual?

I have been using auto-brightness, but I feel that it is usually brighter than necessary. I'm trying to get better battery life ( get a day just fine as is using the phone quite a bit) but I'm going to experiment with manual brightness to see how much life I can save. What do you use? How has it affected your battery life?

I use auto brightness too, but have been thinking about using manual brightness with the screen always #1 in my battery history (consistently 60-70% battery use).
It seems like the only people able to get the screen out of the number one slot for battery history are those setting screen brightness manually. Can anyone confirm this?

I use auto brightness and it seems to do fine. I will agree with you that it does seem a bit bright in some situations though. I can get a day's worth of battery out of it with auto brightness, and wifi on (never sleep policy).
I need to do a bit more testing without wifi, but I don't see why it wouldn't be that much different (I could be wrong though)

It sucks that auto-brightness can't be adjusted at all. On the iphone you could "weight" auto-brightness to lower or higher settings. It worked great because you could still use auto brightness, but keep the screen a little dimmer to save power.

NOSintake said:
I... and wifi on (never sleep policy) ...
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Sorry for this off-topic question - does it mean you got your Captivate without a data plan?

rexian said:
Sorry for this off-topic question - does it mean you got your Captivate without a data plan?
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He's referring to whether or not your Wifi chip will go into sleep mode when the screen is off. By default your wifi will go into sleep mode when the screen is off.
To change the setting navigate to settings -> wireless and network -> wi-fi settings -> tap the menu button and select advanced which has an option for wi-fi sleep policy that had been defaulted to sleep "when screen turns off". There you have the option to change it to "never" or "never when plugged in".

phishie said:
He's referring to whether or not your Wifi chip will go into sleep mode when the screen is off. By default your wifi will go into sleep mode when the screen is off.
To change the setting navigate to settings -> wireless and network -> wi-fi settings -> tap the menu button and select advanced which has an option for wi-fi sleep policy that had been defaulted to sleep "when screen turns off". There you have the option to change it to "never" or "never when plugged in".
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What is the advantage to keeping wifi on?

Some people only have the 200MB data plan like me.
I also use google voice for my text messages because it is free. Has worked like a charm!

I used autobrightness for a few days, but then I found out that you can adjust the brightness just by sliding along the notification bar. I never went back.

k2snowboards88 said:
What is the advantage to keeping wifi on?
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Wi-fi uses less battery power, and is faster than 3G in most cases.

I use Manual brightness and i Have the power widget loaded which gives you a 3 position brightness toggle - low medium high, just in case i want to change.

alphadog00 said:
I use Manual brightness and i Have the power widget loaded which gives you a 3 position brightness toggle - low medium high, just in case i want to change.
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Try sliding your finger horizontally over the top bar. Samsung made it so that it acts as a brightness slider.

Yep I use the notification bar swipe method. Works great.
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unclejimbo88 said:
I used autobrightness for a few days, but then I found out that you can adjust the brightness just by sliding along the notification bar. I never went back.
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That's brilliant (pun intended)! Thank you for letting me know about that. I was using auto, but I'm going to try this now.

So if your using manual do you use the power saving option? I feel this is the same as auto bright ness.

app to increase brightness ?

hi,is there anyway u can up the brightness level on these phones its up full at the moment but still could do with being a bit brighter

Afaik you have to wait for custom roms to get that up'd
Regards Dousan...
e: maybe its enough with a custom kernel...

Well the screen is not that great on our phone which is why we get around 2 days battery life with average use even I would like the screen to be brighter but it will greatly reduce battery life
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Have you tried installing dazzle? This app has some niffty display controls for maxing out the brightness.
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it all comes down to the fact SE does not allow us to disable auto brightness so even if you "crank" the brightness you still have to live with auto brightness controlling the brightness while settings 1 2 3 on the power control widget appear to turn it up it is still being controlled to an extent..

FrAsErTaG said:
it all comes down to the fact SE does not allow us to disable auto brightness so even if you "crank" the brightness you still have to live with auto brightness controlling the brightness while settings 1 2 3 on the power control widget appear to turn it up it is still being controlled to an extent..
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Will probably at least take a recompile of the kernel.
An answer to this question is in the Arc section, from SE:
A question on how to disable auto-brightness on Xperia PLAY.
Unfortunately, being able to do this from userspace might be non-functional in the released kernel for Play. The engineering team is aware and it is something they are looking into for future releases, can’t comment if it will be supported though yet.
However, if you’re building your own kernel, you can modify the file arch/arm/mach-msm/board-semc_zeus.c
What you’re looking for is the structure “as3676_platform_data”, where you can change the “als_connected = 1” to “als_connected = 0”.
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I'm not sure how this would work, but there is a parameter
in /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/ "enable" which by default is set to "1"
Might want to test something like
echo "0" > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/enable
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NielDK said:
I'm not sure how this would work, but there is a parameter
in /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/ "enable" which by default is set to "1"
Might want to test something like
echo "0" > /sys/devices/i2c-0/0-0040/leds/lcd-backlight/als/enable
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this works

waz000000 said:
this works
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I think it will be set back on reboot, but it may work to add that line to /etc/hw_config.sh

yeah doesnt remain after reboot, will add later and see if it works.
It's not something that bothers me tbh.

waz000000 said:
yeah doesnt remain after reboot, will add later and see if it works.
It's not something that bothers me tbh.
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Nor me.
The auto brightness is actually pretty awesome in all fairness. I am going to leave mine on even when a fix comes out for it.

News for brightnes controll ?

CM7 and Touch Key Lights

Is there any way to disable the touch key lights on CM7? I know you can disable them with app or editing the wled file but they will turn back on all the time because CM7 ties the touch key light brightness into the brightness settings. So far its the only thing that is driving me crazy with CM7.

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Completely disable, not that I know of.
I know that they reset themselves every time you turn the screen on and off. Out of curiosity, why would you want to turn them off completely? Battery life isn't noticeably better, only on stock because it sets the keys all the way to the highest setting. If you don't have your display set to the highest brightness, you have nothing to worry about with the touch keys.

it is too bright.i like to set auto display
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and i wanna led to be 0.1mA always in cm7
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theking_13 said:
Completely disable, not that I know of.
I know that they reset themselves every time you turn the screen on and off. Out of curiosity, why would you want to turn them off completely? Battery life isn't noticeably better, only on stock because it sets the keys all the way to the highest setting. If you don't have your display set to the highest brightness, you have nothing to worry about with the touch keys.
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I dont like them on when im playing games andni just dont need them. I know where the buttons are without the lights on.

You should be able to disable the LED touch lights by doing the following:
1. Settings -> Cyanogenmod Settings -> Display -> Automatic Backlight -> Edit Other Levels
2. Click "Edit other levels..."
3. Under "Buttons" set the four values of "255" to "0"
4. Click "Save & apply"
Although under CyanogenMod 7, as soon as you adjust the brightness the LED touch lights will come back on again, though this is fixed by simply turning your screen off and on again.
I have not used CyanogenMod in a while so this is just off hand and could be wrong.

If you set your screen brightness all the way down, that will change the touch key brightness. If you change to automatic brightness it will keep the key brightness but change the display.
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stormageddon said:
You should be able to disable the LED touch lights by doing the following:
1. Settings -> Cyanogenmod Settings -> Display -> Automatic Backlight -> Edit Other Levels
2. Click "Edit other levels..."
3. Under "Buttons" set the four values of "255" to "0"
4. Click "Save & apply"
Although under CyanogenMod 7, as soon as you adjust the brightness the LED touch lights will come back on again, though this is fixed by simply turning your screen off and on again.
I have not used CyanogenMod in a while so this is just off hand and could be wrong.
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Thats not an option in cm7.2

Joe333x said:
Thats not an option in cm7.2
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As far as I can tell, not in CM 7.1 either. Unless its just a EB issue.
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Joe333x said:
Thats not an option in cm7.2
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As I said, I have not used CyanogenMod in a while. It was a stab in the dark. However I did some searching around and found this little app in the Play Store that you might want to take a look at. Here
It does exactly what you want. I tested it and I was able to turn the lights off completely and you can set it to enable on boot.

stormageddon said:
As I said, I have not used CyanogenMod in a while. It was a stab in the dark. However I did some searching around and found this little app in the Play Store that you might want to take a look at. Here
It does exactly what you want. I tested it and I was able to turn the lights off completely and you can set it to enable on boot.
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I remember this option on stable 7. 1 on the Vibrant, but haven't seen it on any rom on the G2x.
And good job linking to the SAME apps I mentioned. Lmao
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No app can fix this. All the apps do is edit the wled which cyan sets on its own every time you turn the screen off or adjust the brightness. Example: You download an app that adjusts key brightness, you use it to adjust brightness and it works. Now you turn the screen off and on, that adjustment you made is now set back to where cyan had it. Same thing if you edit the wled. This is something that needs to be fix deeper down than an app or editing the wled file. Its something that needs to be edited within cyan it self.

theking_13 said:
I remember this option on stable 7. 1 on the Vibrant, but haven't seen it on any rom on the G2x.
And good job linking to the SAME apps I mentioned. Lmao
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Lol, I didn't see you post that. Great minds think alike?
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(Q) how do you turn off screen timeout?

On gingerbread there was an option to turn off the screen timeout in display settings but in ics they removed that option. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to disable the screen timeout? My phone spends all day in the car dock and I like to see what is going on with it without turn it back on every 10 minutes.
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