Sorry if this has been asked already but I searched and did not find it. Does anyone know how to keep the screen from dimming when it gives you the battery at 6% warning? One of the only features i find annoying about this thing is that it takes away the ability to control the brightness after it hits the 6% mark...
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I think if you turn off the power saving setting in the notification menu that will stop that from happening. The reason if dims is to give you time to save whatever you are doing by using less power. If you keep the brightness at a high level the tablet will turn off much quicker.
rtan73 said:
I think if you turn off the power saving setting in the notification menu that will stop that from happening. The reason if dims is to give you time to save whatever you are doing by using less power. If you keep the brightness at a high level the tablet will turn off much quicker.
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I did turn the power saving off but it still does the same. I know that they do this to give you the time to do some last minute adjustments but you would figure that they would give you the ability to shut it off as well. Even at full brightness, I would still get a good 15 min or so to finish up what I need to.
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I also find this very annoying. How can we alter it
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Mine doesn't drop under 70%. Anyone else have this issue?
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Doesn't really say anything. It just means that your display is taking up (approximately) 70% of the total power used.
You have to see it in relation to how you use your phone. If you have it just lying around with all power hungry stuff off and just turn on the display to look up the time from time to time you might get such a figure.
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I'm not so sure, this is only a theory & I'm no expert on this - but wouldn't it be dependent on the lighting conditions?
So if you're somewhere where you need your screen to be bright, that'd kill the battery quicker than in situations where your screen only needs to be dim.
But then there's also the sensor to think about, which has an effect on the battery, so if you're using auto-brightness, and your screen is dim for the life of the battery, it'd still use more power than if it was manually set to dim (no auto-brightness).
Yes!!!!
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One day i was on auto brigthness and my on screen time was 2 hrs whereas next day under similar usage and brightness at lowest the on screen time was 2 hrs 35 min...
Extra 35 min by putting on lowest instead of auto
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Auto brigthness always ate my battery, so now I never use it!
It does seem like auto brightness will kill your battery sooner. I used to use it all the time on my nexus one but once I found that information out I stopped.
For my sensation i just set the screen brightness for a low setting for which I could tolerate.
Although, I don't know how this happens but at times when my battery is dying faster than normal and I check the brightness setting, it is all the way up with no auto brightness checked. It has only happened a few times, but don't know what caused it, if it was my accident for which I am not aware.
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I have never had an issue with auto-brightness, and have left it always on
I think it depends.
Auto Brightness will use up a little cpu but if it keeps your screen a lower brightness then if you didn't use it, it will probably save your battery life. If you find it keeps your screen brighter than usual it will probably kill your battery life.
runderekrun said:
I think it depends.
Auto Brightness will use up a little cpu but if it keeps your screen a lower brightness then if you didn't use it, it will probably save your battery life. If you find it keeps your screen brighter than usual it will probably kill your battery life.
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I agree with you it all depends on the lighting conditions if you are in the sun all day your screen will auto adjust to max so you can see it better. If you are inside the screen will dim. I personalty keep mine on auto because I am always in drastic lighting conditions
ayvecs said:
It does seem like auto brightness will kill your battery sooner. I used to use it all the time on my nexus one but once I found that information out I stopped.
For my sensation i just set the screen brightness for a low setting for which I could tolerate.
Although, I don't know how this happens but at times when my battery is dying faster than normal and I check the brightness setting, it is all the way up with no auto brightness checked. It has only happened a few times, but don't know what caused it, if it was my accident for which I am not aware.
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This is a bug with the camera. Sometimes when you open the camera app it sets the brightness all the way up. sadly it's still not fixed even with the update.
Thanks for that information on the camera application, I thought I was losing my mind.
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Is anybody having issues with their Skyrocket keeping the volume setting and screen brightness where you left it? I've noticed that the past 2 days I will wake my phone up and the screen brightness is almost at the lowest setting. And I usually keep it around 50% all the time. I keep auto brightness off. Also just today, my incoming call volume was set to really low. And I always have it turned up. And before anybody says, are you sure you're not hitting the buttons..? I am not. Especially since ths is going on day 3 now. Thanks for the help..
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don't know about the call volume, but if the phone gets to hot, it will automatically reduce the brightness, regardless as to your settings.
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thanks for the info. But this has happened after the phone has been asleep for about 2 hours. Weird but I hasn't happened all day today. Pacific
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don't know about the call volume, but if the phone gets to hot, it will automatically reduce the brightness, regardless as to your settings.
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Do you have power saving mode enabled? I know that will reduce the brightness automatically.
...curious, I set my brightness to at about 30% or so. Some people use auto brightness.
But, do you think auto brightness uses more power (since it is forced to monitor the device) to use this feature?
yes I believe it does, on gb it was constantly flickering bright and dim. If u want custom auto brightness levels, I recommend the "lux auto brightness" app. I use it, and its amazing
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it...
I do hate that when I'm outside, if my brightness is set to 30% or so, I can't see anything on the screen. It is those little things that I miss from iOS from time to time. And of course you can't set the device to 100% or so brightness, because then the battery most certainly would not last all day.
Unless I'm in total darkness I use 100% brightness all day every day. But in the dark it hurts my eyes so I gotta turn her down a little. Battery is still pretty kick ass too:thumbup:
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It is funny how in BestBuy they have all the devices on 100% brightness. They do look nice; then again they are connected to power all day
Even yesterday I was playing with the Note. Yes it is impressive. But the size; imagine holding it to your ear while on a call. Exactly...
I have not had any Android phone that I liked the auto-brightness setting on. My wife's Inspire works the best out of all the Android phones we have had.
On the SkyRocket the auto setting always seems to bright for me.
I like Brightness Profiles. You can set what ever levels you want (or quickly turn on auto-brightness). I have mine set up at 4%, 8%, 12 %, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 90%. I have a shortcut on my home screen for quick access.
How much the screen brightness hurts your battery life depends on how much your screen is on, in addition to the brightness level.
Just turn off auto brightness. When you need to adjust it just slide your finger across the notification bar at the top of the screen ..side left dimmer, right brighter that's what I do.
Ya its seems like a lot of people don't know about that trick
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ian1 said:
Ya its seems like a lot of people don't know about that trick
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I find it cumbersome honestly, I find lux waaaay better
I keep mine @ 100% unless it's way dark. Still get a full day of battery life under normal use too. It's really user preference.
I use juice defenders auto brightness feature. Its better then the one in the settings because it can go way under the min. brightness so at night it saves a LOT of battery since the display wastes the most battery..
naviwilliams said:
It is funny how in BestBuy they have all the devices on 100% brightness ...
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I have mine set to 100% all day. I paid for this thing and I want to see it in its glory EVERY time I look at it. Why should I punish myself? That way I'll never have to post a thread such as this one.
geff603 said:
Just turn off auto brightness. When you need to adjust it just slide your finger across the notification bar at the top of the screen ..side left dimmer, right brighter that's what I do.
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That doesn't work for me with the second ICS leak. It did in the first leak.
I agree, it doesn't appear to work with the second ICS leak.
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So im (not) patiently waiting for my Galaxy s 3 to come here Tuesday and I was just wondering what does everyone have their brightness set to? I know that i personally am going to be hesistant to set my screen brightness to 100% seeing how my galaxy nexus suffered a burn in where you could see the keyboard imprinted on the screen. At the same time I want to have an amazing picture and I know i will get annoyed of the auto brightness =/ Anyways I know this is a weird question so I just wanted to know what everyone else was doing with their phone
I have mine at 25-30% by itself. Its kinda dark but I don't mind. Its just enough
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I have mine set to maximum brightness.
blackguy101 said:
So im (not) patiently waiting for my Galaxy s 3 to come here Tuesday and I was just wondering what does everyone have their brightness set to? I know that i personally am going to be hesistant to set my screen brightness to 100% seeing how my galaxy nexus suffered a burn in where you could see the keyboard imprinted on the screen. At the same time I want to have an amazing picture and I know i will get annoyed of the auto brightness =/ Anyways I know this is a weird question so I just wanted to know what everyone else was doing with their phone
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I run mine at about 45%.
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0%.
Huge improvement over an iPhone 3G's 0% brightness.
mine is at about 30% for indoor use. The screen is darker than SG1. I could use the SG1 at 0% indoor and anything over 50% used to be painful on eyes. Not in SG3. Outdoors i have to set 80% for good visibility in SG3. I hope Samsung will give us the update for brightness control on the status bar like they did just now for the international version.
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If I'm not mistaken phones tend to come with a year manufacturer warranty, personally if that's the case and you hit burn in then it should get replaced easily.
My fassy got burn in 6 months and got it swapped without issue, so I'd have no problem cranking it up if I were not concerned about battery, which I leave up now the way it is as I like seeing my screen well
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50%, I got over 2 hours of screen-on time and 15 total hours of battery.
Still have it on auto and I'm on the second week of ownership of this phone.
auto brightness all the time and it is sometimes almost too dark.
Another thing better implemented by HTC
I find that the "Auto Brightness" feature doesn't really work. Meaning it never adjusts the brightness at all. So I manually keep mine set to about 30% all the time. I don't keep a close eye on my battery but I don't have to recharge at all during the day it lasts me wake to sleep. I call, text, play games, and browse the net a little.
Auto brightness is garbage unfortunately but lux in the market works very well.
i run max brightness all the time
Using Lux. Auto-brightness calibrated to what looks good to me.
Auto brightness for me!
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Auto
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1 percent, I work nights so it's often dark out. Day this me, about 20 percent.
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corythug said:
1 percent, I work nights so it's often dark out. Day this me, about 20 percent.
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If you have root, you can set it to lower than manufacturer 0% with an app titled "Screen Filter." I don't have my GSIII yet but I've used this on older phones without issue.
Auto-brightness on battery, with 15 second screen timeout. (smart stay works 90% of the time, even when lit only by an LCD monitor)
100% brightness on charger, with 60 second screen timeout.
I use my own app (ChargeBright) to automatically toggle between the two settings, otherwise I'd go crazy.
Oh, I just realized that I'm not actually at 0%, but 15% (Samsung's minimum). Lux won't let you link below 15% in the free version, but it's still useful if you want to change what screen brightness corresponds with what ambient light.