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[Q] minimum brightness

So I just got my Asus transformer and I'm all happy with it. there's one tiny little thing though: It's too bright for me at minimum brightness.
I know people have been complaining about the thing actually being too dark - but at low light it is just too bright for my eyes.
So, is there maybe a work around to lower the brightness even a bit more?
any help is highly appreciated.
thank you for your time,
tantin

Get an app called "Lux (Beta)" from the Market. It allows you to set the brightness below minimum (among other things)!
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or, manually adjust the brightness settings under:
Settings --> Screen ---> Brightness

He said that he already reduced it to the minimum in settings and it's still too bright. That't why I recommended Lux, since it allows the screen to get dimmer than Settings will allow...
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I use the "screen filter" app from the market for that, works great
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thank for two simple, good solutions.

Tantin said:
So I just got my Asus transformer and I'm all happy with it. there's one tiny little thing though: It's too bright for me at minimum brightness.
I know people have been complaining about the thing actually being too dark - but at low light it is just too bright for my eyes.
So, is there maybe a work around to lower the brightness even a bit more?
any help is highly appreciated.
thank you for your time,
tantin
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Have tried screen filter and until recently was the only option that did anything to lower brightness sort of in honeycomb. I was not crazy about it because rather than darkening the screen to lower brightness it seems to overlay a darker transparent screen so while darker contrast etc seemed to be affected.
As for the other app mentioned here. It is beta and costs money and nothing in market description says it goes lower brightness than stock settings.
That said I just discovered a free app in market that not only can lower brightness all the way down to 0, but allows adjusting brightness contrast as well as red blue and green. It works great!
it is called screen adjust. Even has widget so you can preset a dark setting if you like and one press enables it.

I also have mine set to the minimal brightness & was lookin for a way lower it to. This in hopes of squeeking out a little mord battery life.

jadesse said:
I also have mine set to the minimal brightness & was lookin for a way lower it to. This in hopes of squeeking out a little mord battery life.
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Get Lux from the Market - it costs $.99, but it works great. Can go below minimum brightness with Lux as well.
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jtrosky said:
Get Lux from the Market - it costs $.99, but it works great. Can go below minimum brightness with Lux as well.
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The free version seems not to do that. Just a soft dim. Maybe full does?

Try touch blocker beta. It is free and also allows you to set up dead spots (unresponsive areas to touch) for carrying or reading without F'ing up the screen.

[Q] Auto Screen Brightness uses CPU (and effects performance)?

Is it true that setting the Screen Brightness to AUTO means more CPU-usage?
This might bot be significant, but interesting non-the-less
thx

benyben123 said:
Is it true that setting the Screen Brightness to AUTO means more CPU-usage?
This might bot be significant, but interesting non-the-less
thx
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I would imagine it would use a little more CPU, but I leave it on all the time and I never notice a dip in performance.
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From what I've read the auto brightness only effects(negatively) your battery life. But I haven't tested so I don't know for sure. Mine isn't on because most of the time it can't decide between bright or not, which is really annoying

Lower brightness settings?

Greetings everyone I would like to know if its possible to modify a value to enable a brightness setting lower than 25% as a minimum?
I ask this because if I am in a pitch black room and turn on the phone even the minimum brightness setting is enough to blind me
Do these settings reside in the from or kernel?
Thanks
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Jahcure said:
Greetings everyone I would like to know if its possible to modify a value to enable a brightness setting lower than 25% as a minimum?
I ask this because if I am in a pitch black room and turn on the phone even the minimum brightness setting is enough to blind me
Do these settings reside in the from or kernel?
Thanks
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Check out "Screen Filter" (by Haxor Industry) in the PlayStore (Market)

Thanks il check it out but it would be neat if the rom can do that since it relies on the light sensor to adjust the power of the screen it would be cool if the auto setting was able to read from a lower value than 25%

Gsam has an app that might be to your liking. on my kindle it can drop the brightness to below the minimum level. Search Gsam in the play store and then scroll to "other aps by:".
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Screen filter is good. Lux if you want to set some manual points for brightness but I'm not sure if the sensor will limit your ability to distinguish from pitch black and dim since the phone itself will emit light in pitch black. Worth a shot though.
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I am currently using screen filter and it works pretty good I don't go blind at night trying to read my phone its just that I have to remember to turn it on I tried the app by gsam but even at .5% the screen is still very bright so far screen filter does the job
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There's a new app out there (XDA story on it today) called Galactic Night that's designed specifically for ultra-low-light settings. It's also in the Play Store now. It says it works with Galaxy S2 "devices" running GB and ICS. Not sure if that includes the Skyrocket, but no harm in asking the dev if it's what you're looking for.

+1 on screen filter
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Very aggressive auto brightness

I have the brightness turned almost all the way down then I turn it on auto. Is this the correct way to set it? It seems very bright even set so low.

brianfields33 said:
I have the brightness turned almost all the way down then I turn it on auto. Is this the correct way to set it? It seems very bright even set so low.
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It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly

I noticed this as well. I just turned it down and left it (no auto).

Luxferro said:
I noticed this as well. I just turned it down and left it (no auto).
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I thought about doing this, but then it will be hard to see in bright sunlight.

brittonberkan said:
It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly
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I've never used Lux. Could you share the profile if possible when it's complete?

brianfields33 said:
I've never used Lux. Could you share the profile if possible when it's complete?
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Sure thing, check back a little later please man, what were the folks at google thinking when they made these settings...
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Agree the screen is way too bright out of the box. Interested in your lux config as well
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garrisj said:
Agree the screen is way too bright out of the box. Interested in your lux config as well
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I'll have it done in a few hours. The dark values are fine but i need to wait for daylight
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brittonberkan said:
Sure thing, check back a little later please man, what were the folks at google thinking when they made these settings...
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They were outside in California during the summer in the day and in an overly bright and cheerful Google headquarters during the night. They forget not everywhere has retina burning light levels

I've noticed that iOS, Touchwiz and a few other vendor Android skins implement a sliding-scale auto-brightness: You can enable auto, but also slide the overall average brightness up and down. This is a simple solution for varying comfort levels: Brightness fiends can tune the auto higher and those with sensitive eyes can tune it lower. I am surprised stock Android has yet to implement this.

I found auto brightness to be a bit erratic. I'm sticking with manual brightness.
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Here are my lux settings. At very bright areas you might have to add a few steps but it works well for me in darker, dimmer areas
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IQuH022o2GSTAyWGtWTnhmaEU/edit?usp=docslist_api
I'm using dynamic mode
Edit: Sorry it apparently wasn't publicly available, but it is now

Have any of you had your brightness fluctuate from higher to lower? I don't remember the n4 doing that only. I thought android only went from low to high.

I actually want the opposite. I set my brightness all the way high in manual but I hate that automatic dimming. Can I get that fix? All I want is to work like my HTC One where I set the brightness all the way high and never saw the screen dim itself automatically. Please help

jbecerril said:
I actually want the opposite. I set my brightness all the way high in manual but I hate that automatic dimming. Can I get that fix? All I want is to work like my HTC One where I set the brightness all the way high and never saw the screen dim itself automatically. Please help
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So yours is dimming itself as well correct? Pheww.. I'm not crazy

digitalsmoke said:
So yours is dimming itself as well correct? Pheww.. I'm not crazy
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Yeah, and i hate that. I am not battery crazy like some other users, all i want is a bright screen regardless what time of the day it is. 100% brightness all the time. Can Auto brightness be turned off? Otherwise, and I hate to say it, but will going back to the One until this gets fixed.

auto brightness is terrible
the screen become yellow and green look while the brightness is low
only 100% can present the true white color
compare with htc one, i think one is better performance
anyone get the yellow tint problem?

brittonberkan said:
It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly
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+1 for Lux. I had the battery-guzzling HTC Amaze ("you'll be AMAZED how fast your phone dies!" ). Lux would almost double my battery life when I programmed it with ultra-conservative (but still usable) settings.
If Google will update the auto brightness calibration everyone will start seeing much better battery life.
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riprowan said:
+1 for Lux. I had the battery-guzzling HTC Amaze ("you'll be AMAZED how fast your phone dies!" ). Lux would almost double my battery life when I programmed it with ultra-conservative (but still usable) settings.
If Google will update the auto brightness calibration everyone will start seeing much better battery life.
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Which Lux app do i need from the Play Store? There are many of them...

CitizenX said:
Which Lux app do i need from the Play Store? There are many of them...
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I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
The trick is in setting up the profiles by hand, the automatic profile settings can be wonky.
Take some light measurements in dimmes light and establish the lowest level you can accept the screen. On an N5 this is probably all the way min. (At first you may find that it's pretty dim but Realize that you'll get used to this and later wonder why you liked the screen so bright.)
Then go into bright light and find the min level that you can accept. This might be all the way bright (on my Amaze, all the way bright was unnecessarily bright EVEN IN SUNLIGHT).
Then take a reading in a normal room and find the min acceptable brightness. This may still be all the way min.
You may want to sample a point or two in other light levels, usually 3-5 samples is enough if you suss out the power curve correctly.
Everyone loves iPhone battery life... ever notice how conservative an iPhone's auto brightness setting is? I'll go out on a limb and guess that, if the N5 is as aggressively bright in auto mode as everyone says (don't have mine yet), there's the possibility of getting an entire extra hour of SOT just by switching instead to very conservative auto-brightness settings.
Also if the min brightness is still pretty darn bright, there's a really good chance an update can knock that brightness down and stretch the battery even further.

[Q] Kernel with backlight dimmer feature

Is there any kernel with this feature???
because the lowest brightness is still to bright and I think there is no other option to lowest brightness except adaptive brightness.

I can look at it, i think the brightness is too High as well. If i accomplish it you will see it in ruthless kernel.
No promise / eta though

HelpMeruth said:
I can look at it, i think the brightness is too High as well. If i accomplish it you will see it in ruthless kernel.
No promise / eta though
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Nice, it would be great
Thanks

Try twilight app

Arcade said:
Try twilight app
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yes that's good but it drained the battery and memory hogging, my moto g3 has only 1 gb of RAM