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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!
Many of you may already be aware of this but thought I would post this for those that are not. The biggest drain on the battery is the display and screen brightness. Since many use their phones indoors, you can pretty much lower the brightness to near 0 by turning auto brightness off.
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
EDIT: I just learned something new with this trick. If you tap and hold the left most part of the notification bar, the brightness will change to the lowest setting. If you do the same on the right most side, the brightness will change to the highest setting. So no need to do the slide finger thing if you tap and hold the right spot.
Thanks for the tip
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keitht said:
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
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oh sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow didn't know that, ty community growing.
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or you can get the brightness widget on market.
i set it at 25%, when battery running low, i set it to 0%
netnerd said:
or you can get the brightness widget on market.
i set it at 25%, when battery running low, i set it to 0%
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True but it is nice to have control without having to go to a home screen where the widget is.
Best widget I found for this is Brightness Level. Free on market.
Nobody is asking for the best brightness widget. This was a tip on the little trick some of us didn't know about
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What! This is awesome. Thank you.
Unfortunately I won't remember this...
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Wrong title on this thread IMO.
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Now that's an excellent tip.
Now I can remove that screen brightness app.
Is this android specific or just the Infuse? Just wondering.
Damn that is cool!
andrawer said:
Now that's an excellent tip.
Now I can remove that screen brightness app.
Is this android specific or just the Infuse? Just wondering.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
Yes. Its a TouchWiz feature.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
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Nice, cool trick.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
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Actually it's not working on my Nexus S. So it might just be a Touch Whiz thing
abudabu said:
Actually it's not working on my Nexus S. So it might just be a Touch Whiz thing
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It is.
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I didn't know about it either! That saves me a ton of time!
keitht said:
Many of you may already be aware of this but thought I would post this for those that are not. The biggest drain on the battery is the display and screen brightness. Since many use their phones indoors, you can pretty much lower the brightness to near 0 by turning auto brightness off.
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
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Hmmm. Didn't work for me. I touched middle of notification bar, waited for a pop-up, didn't get one. Then tried swiping without a pop-up, didn't work either.
I'm running GO Launcher EX - not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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Hmmm. Didn't work for me. I touched middle of notification bar, waited for a pop-up, didn't get one. Then tried swiping without a pop-up, didn't work either.
I'm running GO Launcher EX - not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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There is no pop-up. You just slide your finger left and right across the notification bar and the brightness should change. Make sure auto-brightness is turned off or it will not work.
Hey everyone,
Whenever I use automatic screen brightness the screen always seems to be very dark or on the lowest brightness setting.
Has anyone else noticed this or does anyone know of a fix for this?
Thanks
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Yes my screen is pretty dim when on auto. I just don't use that setting. Maybe others will have some comments.
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I am using it all the time, except the night time.
It's working flawlessly to me during the day, for example: when i am in a room and i will enter the garden, or a brighter room.. works awesome
But the level of brightness is not good during the absolute dark, i just don't like the dim, because it's loosing lot's of contrast, so i am just sliding i little bit to make it brighter.
As i said, absolutely no problem during the day, sunrise, sunset... but the dim is not good for my eyes.
EDIT: i'm on .30 FW
My screen is also too dark on auto most of the time.
I must agree. Auto dimming isn't so good. I find it easier to just leave it full blast
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funnel71 said:
I must agree. Auto dimming isn't so good. I find it easier to just leave it full blast
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We should decompile framework.res and change the values for the dim...
Looking for some free time for doing the work...
dark auto brighness
I have exactly the same problem. It's definitively too dark and not working at all. If I put a lamp (bright light) on it, it will brighten completely the screen but will not go back to normal when I take the light away. I have to restart to find back this too dark screen. Please note that the pad I tried when buying in the shop at the same problem, and a friend who bought another transformer pad has this problem as well. Hard or software?
Try the Lux Auto Brightness app here. You can fully customize your auto brightness levels. Works great for me.
When you are in an average lit room, it will be on the lowest possible brightness
When it is night time it almost goes to full.
Don't use auto brightness if it bothers you.
sometimes the auto brightness gets stuck in dark setting .what i do to fix this is i just set the bright manualy to high and this turns off the automatic brightness . then i just turn on the automatic brightness and it works.
carlosraf20 said:
sometimes the auto brightness gets stuck in dark setting .what i do to fix this is i just set the bright manualy to high and this turns off the automatic brightness . then i just turn on the automatic brightness and it works.
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hmmm...i'll have to try that.
90% of the time i use my tablet in my living room...and no matter what time of day, wether the sun is coming in through the back window or i am just using the lights, auto brightness is always too dim for me (except at night...then it is fine) its not a huge deal since they have the slider in the notification window.
thanks
David Dee said:
Try the Lux Auto Brightness app here. You can fully customize your auto brightness levels. Works great for me.
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Thank you, it a great solution
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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.
jtrosky said:
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.
curiousmileo said:
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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1stx2 said:
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,
I'm using my new nexus 5 for about two days now and something seems to be wrong with auto brightness (at least) on my device. The phone makes the screen brighter just fine, but dimming it when it gets in a dark environment doesn't seem to work really well. Can someone give this a try please?
Just turn off the lights in a room and see if the screen adjusts correctly. On mine it doesn't.
Turning on and off auto brightness fixes the issue but as soon as the screen gets brighter again, the problem starts...
Thanks in advance
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Good spot, I seem to experience this as well ! Exactly as you say works fine until the brightness gets set higher then it wont ever fall back its as if it can never lower only increase brightness.... odd!
Did you give it a minute to adjust?
Since my Nexus 5 isn't here yet this is what I've observed on stock Android in the Galaxy Nexus and other phones:
While it should go down after some time it's pretty common for auto brightness not to dim down as soon as it gets darker. You don't want your brightness to jump up and down just because the lighting changes for a second. And since turning the brightness up is much more relevant than down it goes up almost instantly but before dimming back down it monitors the environment for a while.
When you turn auto brightness off and on again you force the sensor into a new reading so this should set the brightness to the correct level without delay.
But it wouldn't be the first time auto brightness was bugged on a phone.
The delay really annoyed me on my tablet running vanilla 4.2 so installed lux which works well. You set the brightness how you want it at a given light level and then it sets the brightness according to the ambient light each time you wake it up and holds that setting until the next time you wake it up... best of both worlds.
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You're right gokpog,it does work I just didn't give it time. It took around 10 seconds to change the backlight levels which is much longer than the nexus 4 which is why I didn't notice it. Hopefully there is a more sensitive curve in the future
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Yep this has been the case with stock android for a while. Feature or flaw you decide but it is what it is and is across the board no matter what device if its using stock android on it
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Well it doesn't seem to work as expected to me: go to a bright place, then to a very dark one. Yes it will dim a bit but not quite enough. Remain in the dark room and turn off auto brightness. Then turn it on again. The screen will get significantly darker than it was before
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brittonberkan said:
Well it doesn't seem to work as expected to me: go to a bright place, then to a very dark one. Yes it will dim a bit but not quite enough. Remain in the dark room and turn off auto brightness. Then turn it on again. The screen will get significantly darker than it was before
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just swith screen off and then on again with power button to seee the difference
I'ts how stock android works..it only increase brightness but not decrease..
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just swith screen off and then on again with power button to seee the difference
I'ts how stock android works..it only increase brightness but not decrease..
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I have find too that the automatic brightness take time to decrease brightness, also increase, but the most annoying is that with the same level of light and without moving the phone, the brightness goes up and down erratically, without a reason, it didn't happen with any of my previous phones
I just installed this app today, I've had similar problems that weren't present on my N4. With this app running, when I turn the phone screen toward a light, it brightens, and back to face a darker place it dims almost immediately. To give me more battery life I've tuned the brightness curve to be a bit low, N5's auto seemed to be too bright for me overall anyway. Be sure to tinker with both the settings and advanced settings areas, by default the changes are sharp but you can make them fade instead. Fixed the problems I had at least.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nnevod.loggraph
I have the same problem with my Nexus 5.
Additionally, since day one, I've noticed that the phone consistently auto adjusts the screen to be slightly brighter than necessary given the ambient light.
I just noticed this issue last night, or at least it's similar. I was reading in bed for a few hours and occasionally (maybe every 15 minutes) the screen would suddenly dim to about half brightness and then brighten back to where it was originally. It was driving me nutz. I've also had a few random reboots, though not while I was using it. I'd notice it on my table booting up. FYI, this is stock with the latest update, no root or unlocking, and still has plenty of free space in memory. I've only had it for about 4 days.