Has anyone else noticed this? I just got my Maxx yesterday and thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but every time auto brightness drops to the minimum the screen turns grays purple. I'm just curious if I have a defective phone or if it's just the way the panel is.
mbh87 said:
Has anyone else noticed this? I just got my Maxx yesterday and thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but every time auto brightness drops to the minimum the screen turns grays purple. I'm just curious if I have a defective phone or if it's just the way the panel is.
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It seems reddish to me, Is this your first amoled screen? I have noticed that each amoled screen seems to have its own quirks at low brightness.
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It seems reddish to me, Is this your first amoled screen? I have noticed that each amoled screen seems to have its own quirks at low brightness.
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No, I've had plenty. I remember the GNex having the same problem too.
Its just the nature of AMOLED at low brightness levels, mine too is purple is down low, but really evens out by like 1/4 to 1/3 brightness
I have lux from the market. Keeps my lowest point at 18 which is perfect for battery. The phone auto brightness turns brightness all the way down which is why you see the prior tint.
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Who here uses the auto brightness on the captivate? I noticed that when i have it checked off, it makes the screen dimmer than it used to be. When the screen is dimmed too far, i realized that we're not taking advantage of the super amoled. The colors just look average when the screen is dark. I checked the auto brightness off and the difference is night and day. I have the brightness around 40 percent. my only question is, will my battery take a HUGE hit from this?
btw, what exactly is power saving mode? i originally thought it was the same as the auto brightness but im guessing im wrong.
I don't use auto brightness on mine. I usually keep it all the way dim and my batter lasts wonderfully long. And when Im trying to look at something that i think needs to be brighter i just slide my finger across the notification bar to the right. To me power saving mode i think just adjusts the brightness based on the colors of the image it is displaying. I've had it on since I've had the device though so i don't know exactly how it works.
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I keep mine on the dimmest setting since it still looks great, and even downloaded the screen dimmer app recently. I've never used anything higher though... I take public transit and actually feel conscious about how insanely bright and vibrant the screen can be to people near me and never turn it up.
When I'm outdoors during daylight hours, the only way to discern anything on the display is at full bright. Yes, there is a big hit on the battery. I get about 4 hours, but I have a spare battery at the ready.
...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..
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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1 percent, I work nights so it's often dark out. Day this me, about 20 percent.
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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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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.
Hello. Has anyone encountered their screen going very bright when on automatic brightness? I have some instances where when I turn on the phone the screen will be bright and adjust itself or if I'm viewing something the screen will all of a sudden go to 100% brightness.
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My light sensor is fubar too.
Yeah my light sensor sometimes tweeks out and cranks itself to like 100% in total darkness when it should be like 20% a reboot solves it though
I find it best to keep the brightness at a comfortable level and just leave it there. The auto brightness doesn't work too well.
You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the Google Pixel 2 XL's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
I decided to use the phone with Adaptive Brightness on and the brightness level set to 29%. How I got to that was in total darkness I want it to be the lowest possible setting yet I want it to be bright enough during the day and not have to touch anything. So I moved the slider from 1% up until I noticed the screen get brighter at 30%. I also noticed that it's actually lower with these settings then with Adaptive Brightness off and the slider all the way to the left.
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I decided to use the phone with Adaptive Brightness on and the brightness level set to 29%. How I got to that was in total darkness I want it to be the lowest possible setting yet I want it to be bright enough during the day and not have to touch anything. So I moved the slider from 1% up until I noticed the screen get brighter at 30%. I also noticed that it's actually lower with these settings then with Adaptive Brightness off and the slider all the way to the left.
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Thats basically were ive landed to i also use the automatic night mode set up from dusk to dawn cuz the blue light bothers me at night
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Thats basically were ive landed to i also use the automatic night mode set up from dusk to dawn cuz the blue light bothers me at night
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I set up night mode too but specific times. I realized dusk is a little too soon for me.
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the display gets extremely dim, which is nice, except that the colors/blacks are way out of wack when the brightness is in the lower ~20% range.
anything remotely dark is straight black , pixel off, zero detail. photos and videos are very hard to view in this lower brightness. white text on black is okay.
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the display gets extremely dim, which is nice, except that the colors/blacks are way out of wack when the brightness is in the lower ~20% range.
anything remotely dark is straight black , pixel off, zero detail. photos and videos are very hard to view in this lower brightness. white text on black is okay.
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Yeah the black clipping makes it tough at night. That can be addressed with software no?
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Yeah the black clipping makes it tough at night. That can be addressed with software no?
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Yes I would think so. Not sure when they will get around to it though, since there seems to be bigger fires to put out.
I find the display doesn't get dim at all compared to my Note 5.
Even at lowest setting, night mode, it's way too bright for night use.
I read my phone in darkness every night when the kids go to bed and I find the brightness too high.
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theBeachBoy said:
I find the display doesn't get dim at all compared to my Note 5.
Even at lowest setting, night mode, it's way too bright for night use.
I read my phone in darkness every night when the kids go to bed and I find the brightness too high.
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According to Phone Arena it's minimum brightness is 2 nits so that's very low. Are you using Adaptive Brightness I feel it gets lower with it on then off at lowest as I previously posted.
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According to Phone Arena it's minimum brightness is 2 nits so that's very low. Are you using Adaptive Brightness I feel it gets lower with it on then off at lowest as I previously posted.
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Off. And I tested and with it off it gets even brighter.
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Off. And I tested and with it off it gets even brighter.
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You said off twice. Do you mean "on" for the second one?
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You said off twice. Do you mean "on" for the second one?
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Sorry, when I turn it on, the screen gets brighter. In a pitch black room.
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Sorry, when I turn it on, the screen gets brighter. In a pitch black room.
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I don't know. I just tested myself and at 29% Adaptive Brightness on still looks darker than at 0% Adaptive Brightness off. Maybe it's your brightness setting? Were you at 0-29% with Adaptive On? It actually remembers separate brightness levels for on and off.
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I don't know. I just tested myself and at 29% Adaptive Brightness on still looks darker than at 0% Adaptive Brightness off. Maybe it's your brightness setting? We're you at 0-29% with Adaptive On? It actually remembers separate brightness levels for on and off.
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Oh that was it. Adaptive was putting the slider back up.
Now much darker with adaptive on and 0%!!!
I turned off adaptive brightness as I felt it was "flickering" a lot in dim )not black) environment. To the point it was annoying as hell.
I'll have to test that 29% threshold see if that can fix it... Otherwise I'll leave adaptive off and switch on for pitch black reading.
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Oh that was it. Adaptive was putting the slider back up.
Now much darker with adaptive on and 0%!!!
I turned off adaptive brightness as I felt it was "flickering" a lot in dim )not black) environment. To the point it was annoying as hell.
I'll have to test that 29% threshold see if that can fix it... Otherwise I'll leave adaptive off and switch on for pitch black reading.
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Glad we got it figured out. [emoji4]
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