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.
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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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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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!
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.
nb:
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.
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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.
The colors on the screen are gorgeous and bright, but black text on a white or gray background is actually pretty dim, much dimmer than even my Inspire. Is this just a limitation of the ameoled screen, or do I have a bad phone? Is there any fix if it's typical? Pretty much a deal breaker for me if I can't fix this... Thanks for any help!
Black text on a white background is as plain as night and day for me. Id say check out the store demo to compare. If the demo is better than yours, swap out.
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Good call, I'll do that. Out of curiousity, what was your last phone, and have you compared black on white with it? Thanks!
There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
Shmegmaking said:
There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
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Thanks! That was driving me crazy. It was very prevalent in the stock email app. I can't believe I overlooked that stupid box...lol.
Where is this setting I don't see it in display. The white and black drives me crazy with this phone.
theofficial43 said:
Where is this setting I don't see it in display. The white and black drives me crazy with this phone.
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Settings>Display>Auto adjust screen power. Uncheck that box.
It will put a little more drain on your battery, but it's more than worth it, and hardly noticeable to me.
Thanks.. Still seems like the colors are off compared to the Epic.
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There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
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I will check that out as soon as I get home tomorrow. Thanks!
Synner12 said:
Settings>Display>Auto adjust screen power. Uncheck that box.
It will put a little more drain on your battery, but it's more than worth it, and hardly noticeable to me.
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Tried that today, much, much better! Thanks very much!
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Thanks.. Still seems like the colors are off compared to the Epic.
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For those of you who want to fix the colors on the Skyrocket, I posted the solution here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351137
Has anybody noticed the following phenomenon? You look straight at the tablet while holding it perpendicular to the floor at your eyes level.
Then you start tilting it towards yourself - brightness fades at about 45 degree but then returns at about 70 degree and stays at the original level almost to 90. Same if you turn the tablet around.
I would not be surprised if the brightness was gradually fading as the angle increased, but this is the fact that it fades and comes back as the angle increases is what's puzzling me.
Not a big deal, I am just curious.
mazuka said:
Then you start tilting it towards yourself - brightness fades at about 45 degree but then returns at about 70 degree and stays at the original level almost to 90. Same if you turn the tablet around.
I would not be surprised if the brightness was gradually fading as the angle increased, but this is the fact that it fades and comes back as the angle increases is what's puzzling me.
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Color saturation is different when "the angle increases". I suggest you look into LCD polarizing filters. It's probably the screen component you want to investigate in order to understand this phenomenon.
Could it be the amount of light the ambient sensor is picking up? If you have it set to auto adjust that is.
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I suggest you look into LCD polarizing filters. It's probably the screen component you want to investigate in order to understand this phenomenon.
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I could not find that info related to tf700 screen... even generic articles on IPS and SIPS do not contain detailed description of how exactly brightness changes with viewing angle.
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Could it be the amount of light the ambient sensor is picking up? If you have it set to auto adjust that is.
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Nope, I have it on manual.
In case you have a tf700 - can you see this phenomenon, or it is just me?
I tried tilting while the screen showing a blank white page - same behavior, and it was almost like I could see some evenly distributed cloudy matter under the screen while at about 45 degree angle, and then the matter disappeared as the angle increased past 45...
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OK, so I wrote Asus on it in get in reply usual "do a factory reset, if does not help - open an MRA";
I still insisted and got in reply something like "in this case we suggest you open an MRA".
I then visited a couple of stores and while I could not find TF700, I examined screens of TF101, TF201, TF300, Galaxy Tab 2, Acer, Toshiba - none had the issue.
At this point mine is going back to the seller.
mazuka said:
OK, so I wrote Asus on it in get in reply usual "do a factory reset, if does not help - open an MRA";
I still insisted and got in reply something like "in this case we suggest you open an MRA".
I then visited a couple of stores and while I could not find TF700, I examined screens of TF101, TF201, TF300, Galaxy Tab 2, Acer, Toshiba - none had the issue.
At this point mine is going back to the seller.
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HELP!
I returned my TF700 and got another one - and here we go, THE SAME issue - I tilt the screen - brightness fades at 45 degree then returns at 75 or so.
Dear FT700 owners, take a few seconds, share your experiences with me, I do not believe I am the only one having this issue.
ASUS folks, I would really appreciate if you chime on this too. If I return my second TF700 - I am done with ASUS tablets in general.
I went through blurry TF101, not working TF201, and now two TF700 seemingly having a display issue, and this is while the display is the main selling point of the unit.
mazuka said:
HELP!
I returned my TF700 and got another one - and here we go, THE SAME issue - I tilt the screen - brightness fades at 45 degree then returns at 75 or so.
Dear FT700 owners, take a few seconds, share your experiences with me, I do not believe I am the only one having this issue.
ASUS folks, I would really appreciate if you chime on this too. If I return my second TF700 - I am done with ASUS tablets in general.
I went through blurry TF101, not working TF201, and now two TF700 seemingly having a display issue, and this is while the display is the main selling point of the unit.
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Yes, my TF700 does the same thing - I believe that it's completely normal....
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jtrosky said:
Yes, my TF700 does the same thing - I believe that it's completely normal....
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My screen constantly adjusts brightness, but it has nothing to do with tilting the tablet. I can hold the tablet completely still and the brightness continuously adjusts, especially while watching videos. I must admit that it does get distracting as it happens every couple seconds depending on what is shown on the screen. I have autobrightness turned off.
jtrosky said:
Yes, my TF700 does the same thing - I believe that it's completely normal....
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Thank you, jtrosky. Anyone else?
Cleanskinned said:
My screen constantly adjusts brightness, but it has nothing to do with tilting the tablet. I can hold the tablet completely still and the brightness continuously adjusts, especially while watching videos. I must admit that it does get distracting as it happens every couple seconds depending on what is shown on the screen. I have autobrightness turned off.
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Try cold boot, then try factory reset, and if no results - send it back to the seller.
Cleanskinned said:
My screen constantly adjusts brightness, but it has nothing to do with tilting the tablet. I can hold the tablet completely still and the brightness continuously adjusts, especially while watching videos. I must admit that it does get distracting as it happens every couple seconds depending on what is shown on the screen. I have autobrightness turned off.
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That is the dynamic contrast that you are speaking of. Basically, the tablet increases and decreases the backlight depending on how much white is on the screen, etc... Annoying, but it also helps make the screen look good (super high contrast)... No way to disable it yet though...
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jtrosky said:
That is the dynamic contrast that you are speaking of. Basically, the tablet increases and decreases the backlight depending on how much white is on the screen, etc... Annoying, but it also helps make the screen look good (super high contrast)... No way to disable it yet though...
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What? Nothing is changing on the screen so it can't be what you are saying. If the screen is displaying STATIC content it should display the same brightness no matter how you are looking at it. As I said before in a previous post, it is manufacturing of the cheap screen. How else do you think Asus made the Infinity the same price as the Prime? They had to take shortcuts and use cheaper inferior parts. Sorry.
Saywhat? The poster that I was replying to said that it was most noticeble while watching videos, not while the screen was static... Of course it's not auto-contrast if the screen is static!
Please actually read the posts before making stupid remarks!
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I use Vplayer and Diceplayer which have the gesture controls to max bright the screen and Volume control. When I'm watching a movie I set it to high and I never have an issue with it dimming. Try it out.
I think it overrights the light sensor.
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Eroc162 said:
I use Vplayer and Diceplayer which have the gesture controls to max bright the screen and Volume control. When I'm watching a movie I set it to high and I never have an issue with it dimming. Try it out.
I think it overrights the light sensor.
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So you are saying that you set the brightness to max and leave it there while watching a video?? I think that would be way to bright for most movie-viewing scenarios!
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mazuka said:
HELP!
I returned my TF700 and got another one - and here we go, THE SAME issue - I tilt the screen - brightness fades at 45 degree then returns at 75 or so.
Dear FT700 owners, take a few seconds, share your experiences with me, I do not believe I am the only one having this issue.
ASUS folks, I would really appreciate if you chime on this too. If I return my second TF700 - I am done with ASUS tablets in general.
I went through blurry TF101, not working TF201, and now two TF700 seemingly having a display issue, and this is while the display is the main selling point of the unit.
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Oh man...I thought you wanted to understand the science behind the phenomenon, not that you percieved this as a problem.
This is normal. There's nothing wrong with your screen.
sapienssapiens said:
Oh man...I thought you wanted to understand the science behind the phenomenon, not that you percieved this as a problem.
This is normal. There's nothing wrong with your screen.
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^This
While there are some very valid issues being reporting, this isn't one of them.
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I also have a "brightness flicker" issue.
Even on a screen that does not change at all.
I just have to open google maps.
About every 2-10 seconds there are one or a few flickers.
I tried different power saving settings and disabled auto adjust brightness.
Screen still flicker.
I just have received my tf700t and have not yet noticed this flickering in other apps.
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this is normal, i noticed this too, when you go into a video it flickers and dims down but when you go back to the home screen it flickers back to normal, this is the contrast system not some bs about a cheap screen used by asus.
Anybody else getting a washed out display at times? Almost like the contrast is too low and the whites are too bright? Seems to happen more on power save mode.
We already have a few threads on this. Switch to balanced or reboot.
Same thing here
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Anybody else getting a washed out display at times? Almost like the contrast is too low and the whites are too bright? Seems to happen more on power save mode.
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Pretty old thread this, but yes, happened to my Tf700 a couple of times lately after watching a couple of iView programs. Seems OK in the morning. Rebooting straight away doesn't seem to make much difference. Good to hear if there's a fix.
Thanks
Grant
GrantCC said:
Pretty old thread this, but yes, happened to my Tf700 a couple of times lately after watching a couple of iView programs. Seems OK in the morning. Rebooting straight away doesn't seem to make much difference. Good to hear if there's a fix.
Thanks
Grant
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Asus designed it that way. Don't use power save mode and turn off the auto dimming in the asus settings.
Doesn't go dim
sbdags said:
Asus designed it that way. Don't use power save mode and turn off the auto dimming in the asus settings.
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I use it that way all the time. Doesn't go dim - as jrkart99 says - it goes too white and there's no contrast.