Been several posts in Q&A, and in general about best methods for adjusting brightness. Personally I like the slider in the notification tray, but the app Q Bright is by far the best app I've used for this purpose. Full slider, 4 customizable presets, full app customizations, fast acting, oh yeah, it's free.
Thought I'd share.
It's actually Qbright one word
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I like screen filter. It's free as well. It can make the screen go dimmer than with the notification slider. Q bright is pretty cool too. Wish I had a search key to long press to bring it up though haha
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I've been using Lux for awhile now and it's been working great.
I also use lux, but everytime i reboot i have to open the dash to get it to work. I have the notification icon active, which always says for some reason 50% after boot until I click it. Lux works with tasker and i like that for profiling.
<quick hijack>I've been on the hunt for a widget I can pop in my homescreen that will jump between preset brightness levels. I generally keep my phone around 5% or so but when I'm outside I can't see that. I can pull down the notifications and adjust the slider but a button on my homescreen is much easier.
This one works pretty well but the icon doesn't center properly and my ocd brain can't take it. Plus sometimes it will just jump between 30%-100%...No idea why.
Sorry for derailing the thread
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Saw that too, I couldn't deal with the off center widget either. I mean seriously, wtf? Who wants that on their screen?
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the best app I have ever used for adjusting screen brightness and saving your battery would be LUX. It is in the Market for free but the paid options are far worth it.
Auto brightness from google store... i like that app... useful and great
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Lux is wonderful
I've been using Brightness Level by Curvefish for over 2 years. The widget is perfect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel
McDastardly said:
I've been using Lux for awhile now and it's been working great.
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I agree. This is what I've been using for.months and love it! It allows you to set custom presets based on the current luxury, which you can use the default reader or even use the camera to detect. I use default, and set customs by long pressing the link button on the luxury widget.
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I just discovered a very simple way to control your backlight on your captivate. Just slide your finger left or right on your top task bar
. left to reduce brightness and right to increase brightness.
Try it out.
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Awesome tip!
That explains why my screen would dim/brighten when I'd swype my that status bar for notifications. I had chalked it up to a glitch.
This does not work for me. Some of the things I have added? Beautiful Widgets?
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Awesome tip!
That explains why my screen would dim/brighten when I'd swype my that status bar for notifications. I had chalked it up to a glitch.
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Ha, yea same thing was happening to me, so I decided to do some investigating, ie swyping my my finger ask around the screen till I found it..heh
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This does not work for me. Some of the things I have added? Beautiful Widgets?
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Really its like the top edge of the task bar....I dont have any apps that I think would influence that but it does it for me too
Do you have auto brightness off or on? Mine us on and it is not working.
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madjsp said:
Do you have auto brightness off or on? Mine us on and it is not working.
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True, when auto brightness is enabled this neat little trick is disabled.
great tip! I love it!
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Wow, turned off auto brightness and works like a charm, you found a easter egg loool
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Wow, turned off auto brightness and works like a charm, you found a easter egg loool
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I think is is the best way to control the backlight!!!....now i can keep it only as bright as needed at all times!
Awesome find. Thanks!!!
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Is this phone awesome or what?
Thanks for the tip. VERY useful for saving battery.
jlluck said:
Is this phone awesome or what?
Thanks for the tip. VERY useful for saving battery.
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i have to agree, i was really a big big big big big HTC Loyalist, and after my fuze, had decided to never buy another phone unless it was made by HTC... but with AT&T's failure to pick up one of the high end HTC Android devices, i decided to give the Captivate a go... and i am SUPER Impressed!!
WOW fantastic find!!! 99% of the time I use auto brightness, but this is a fantastic tip for adjusting the brightness quickly when needed.
Ive done a bit of searching through the market but can only find apps that use the screen as a torch.
Any recommendations? Thanks
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me using [APP] Widgetsoid2.x
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=936653
or you can go for Tesla LED
i prefer everything in 1 app, less wasted space, faster phone
TeslaLED. Perfect. Thanks!
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Using the LED, dosen't it increase the chance of the Led getting spoiled?
Anyone run across any new LED apps since this was posted? I cannot overstate the usefulness of a good LED torch app.
Torch from CM7 works fine.
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TeslaLED. Perfect. Thanks!
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I use TeslaLED, works great. I noticed that it lags turning on from the homescreen widget compared to G2, but it's not the end of the world.
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Using the LED, dosen't it increase the chance of the Led getting spoiled?
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did you expect to not use it in the case of it breaking? Why have it at all then?
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I use Nexus One LED flashlight. It's about 80k, Tesla is closer to 350k. I don't like bloated apps...
+1 for Allgamer's recommendation of Widgetsoid 2.x. That app replaced like 3 other dedicated apps for me (LED torch, battery meter, power control).
Anyone else?
TeslaLED or Torch (Comes with CM7)
I've switched to using widgetsoid. I have one widget on the homescreen with battery, ram, and torch. Another on different homescreen with a few toggles.
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I use LED Light. It has a widget that you can put on yyour home screen. That is if you want an app that does one thing and one thing well.
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Widgetsoid... u can use it for other purpose as well...
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I use the SwitchPro widgets. One switch Flashlight on/off. Very useful...
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+1 for Allgamer's recommendation of Widgetsoid 2.x. That app replaced like 3 other dedicated apps for me (LED torch, battery meter, power control).
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for me it replaced at least 9 different widgets
in total it shaved off 15 apps from my phone
I like using TeslaLED in combination with widget locker...allows you to use the flashlight from the lockscreen.
I use nexus tourch love the high brightness
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Any one of these have variable brightness settings? When I had my HD7 the ability to choose between 3 levels, low medium and high, was awesome sauce.
I was looking at my battery stats, after 12.5 hours my display has used 58% of my battery. Is this abnormally high for this phone?
I am using automatic brightness.
If this is not normal how can this be helped/fixed?
Thanks
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asb123 said:
I was looking at my battery stats, after 12.5 hours my display has used 58% of my battery. Is this abnormally high for this phone?
I am using automatic brightness.
If this is not normal how can this be helped/fixed?
Thanks
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use a pure black wallpaper, turn off auto brightness, and set it at a lower brightness manually.
Also an app called "screen filter" works great. I have 2 widgets with these settings with the app
1) 48.6% (indoors, just to darken it a bit)
2) 25.5% (at night, dark rooms)
Of course mess with it and find what works best for you
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Also an app called "screen filter" works great. I have 2 widgets with these settings with the app
1) 48.6% (indoors, just to darken it a bit)
2) 25.5% (at night, dark rooms)
Of course mess with it and find what works best for you
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the widgets themselves use up more battery.
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Really don't agree w/ you there. All they do is turn the app on/off at the selected setting. If the app isn't running they aren't doing any damage.
Screen filter seems good but it gets too dark at 48 for me, ill try a bit higher. As for the black wallpaper. That looks pretty bad IMO. Is it really worth it?
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Screen filter seems good but it gets too dark at 48 for me, ill try a bit higher. As for the black wallpaper. That looks pretty bad IMO. Is it really worth it?
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It doesn't have to be completely black. Basically dark colors helps out. Try and stay away from whites as much as possible
I am using the original honeycomb background, pretty dark but with neon blue.
Im going to try 52% filter with auto brightness. Should be good.
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Good stuff... just gotta mess and see whats best. Glad you like it though
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the widgets themselves use up more battery.
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any widget uses more battery than creating an app shortcut. Theres nothing to disagree on.
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It doesn't have to be completely black. Basically dark colors helps out. Try and stay away from whites as much as possible
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What about screen color options I currently have it on standard will vivid be better or something in custom?
I miss night mode/ render Fx that gave my eyes comfort when i read in the dark. Can anyone recommend an app that works with pics? Used to use chain fire but not yet compatible.
Sorry. You should try porting it.
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would if I could.
Assuming you're rooted, screenfilter app, right from market.
You don't have to be rooted for screen filter. I am using it without root. I guess it is best app for night reading, playing etc.
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Assuming you're rooted, screenfilter app, right from market.
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Thanks. This isn't exactly what I was looking for but it is the best alternative I've found so far. Although dimming the background light does allow for increased comfort in night reading, it doesn't provide the same amount of comfort as a red filter. I will keep playing with the app BC it may be possible that a red filter is an option that I've overlooked.
There is a pretty neat app I came across that allows you to adjust the brightness from anywhere just by swiping an overlay on the status bar, similar to a mod in aokp. Its free and you can customize it to your liking. You should check it out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness
Hit the thanks button if you like
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Love it. Thanks man.
Good bye HTC Rezound, hello Galaxy S3!
Nice finf, personally I've found Lux to be the best way to set brightness on any device I've used. Fully customizable brightness levels, smooth switching, and doesn't seem to have any affect on battery life.