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.
I know this has probably been asked before, as search turned up a few results, but they are scattered all over and not easily comparable with the Nexus.
So, my question is. Has anyone that's actually running a modified voodoo color hack noticed any affect on battery life? Either positive or negative? My current settings are as follows:
multipliers:
Red: 2883763840
Green: 3067833920
Blue: 3210999360
gamma:
Red: -47
Green: -44
Blue: -46
And I swear it's eating the battery up faster than the stock settings. The colors pop more on this setting (an understatement), but the overall brightness is less than stock, which should *THEORETICALLY* be easier on the battery. So I'm wondering if other people have noticed a battery life hit.
BTW: I keep the actual brightness on about 1/4.
Apparently on amoled the colour red uses the least power.
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bedalus said:
Apparently on amoled the colour red uses the least power.
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Black uses no power
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bedalus said:
Apparently on amoled the colour red uses the least power.
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I think so
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How do I do this? I can't use my phone if it's dark, my retinas are burning!
Did you try that?I can't help you and I expect you to get a satisfactory answer.
You could download screen filter from the market
Jerry69 said:
How do I do this? I can't use my phone if it's dark, my retinas are burning!
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CM9 or AOKP, you can set levels there.
I can't dim it enough with aokp
You can try rootdim from market
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Use a dark background?
like bedalus said; download screen filter from the market, I set it up to 50% at night and no more headache.
Nexus S
AOKP build 36
air kernel v4.2
ScreenFilter is perfect, thanks
anyone have battery drain with screen filter?
ironia. said:
anyone have battery drain with screen filter?
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Not especially. If you see ScreenFilter taking a lot of juice, reboot and it should be fixed.
As for AOKP or CM9, you can set the lowest level to 1, which I frankly doubt is too bright for you. Default lowest is 20.
Hey guys May i know how do i change voodoo colours setting on slim bean + air kernel r171 voodoo colour enabled? I tried downloading voodoo control plus but couldn't find the voodoo colour settings Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance. :angel:
Try a different kernel first.. could be a dodgy kernel.
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There are options for this. See bottom part of voodoo sound. And the kernel is good
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ciaastek said:
There are options for this. See bottom part of voodoo sound. And the kernel is good
I feed my Nexus S with jelly beans.
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No.I think he's saying the settings aren't there therefore he might of flashed the kernel wrong or something so voodoo colours aren't showing up. He should try bedalus kernel that supports voodoo too. If it doesn't work on that then he's done something wrong.
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Maybe someone can explain some about voodoo colors to me... After flashing Air 171 voodoo, my screen looks awesome. The blacks are super dark and the whites are super bright and the colors pop. It's like night and day compared to other kernels I've run before (presumably without voodoo color). The other day after running the kernel for a few hours, everything turned this nasty grayish greenish color (I mean every dark color looked washed out and nasty). I tried a bunch of things to troubleshoot including wiping and a different ROM, and came to the conclusion that it was the kernel. After I flashed back to Matr1x, the problem went away, but so did the nice looking colors.
So my question is: is voodoo supposed to make the colors darker/more vivid? When I flashed Air 182, it looked just like the phone had always look, kinda bland in comparison. So now I'm back on 171 but I'm scared it's going to goof up the colors again...
ncblackout said:
Maybe someone can explain some about voodoo colors to me... After flashing Air 171 voodoo, my screen looks awesome. The blacks are super dark and the whites are super bright and the colors pop. It's like night and day compared to other kernels I've run before (presumably without voodoo color). The other day after running the kernel for a few hours, everything turned this nasty grayish greenish color (I mean every dark color looked washed out and nasty). I tried a bunch of things to troubleshoot including wiping and a different ROM, and came to the conclusion that it was the kernel. After I flashed back to Matr1x, the problem went away, but so did the nice looking colors.
So my question is: is voodoo supposed to make the colors darker/more vivid? When I flashed Air 182, it looked just like the phone had always look, kinda bland in comparison. So now I'm back on 171 but I'm scared it's going to goof up the colors again...
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The dark, nice colors come from changing the gamma hacks. The amazing, deep, crisp colors do however come with a price. What price? Well you experienced a little of it, the green flicker. Turn your brightness a little up to avoid it, no big deal. That's not the major problem. Changing the gamma hacks causes your phone to "age" quicker. Meaning it will basically get worn out faster and eventually will lead to damaged colors and OLEDs (permanent). Not for a LONG time, UNLESS you max out the gamma (-50+ is dangerous). I had mine at -59 and -60, now my screen is damaged. Forever. I have piexalted errors and over saturated colors, especially noticeable on black and whites (and now reds). And i have some overheating issues too. Lower gamma = more heat. If I change my gamma settings, nothing happenes because I've broken the screen (then again, I recently had a cheap screen replacement done so part of the reason is the cheap screen just sucking). Lesson is be careful when you mess with the gammas!!!!!!!!! The reason the newer air kernel had different colors was because r_data changed the gamma values (but be did it to get rid of green flicker, I presume) from his last build.Now I am looking for a job to by myself new phone And of course have some money.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1200/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
So I'm curious why it's called "flicker" then... for me it's consistently green until I flash a new kernel. I kinda figured that was what I was experiencing, I was just confused by the verbiage. Anyway, it's a shame that these screens have the potential to look that good but dong so ruins them...
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I spoke too soon... it's back to looking good now
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Also, his long did you run those gamma settings before it screwed IP your screen? I know you said a long time but can you give an educated guess?
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ncblackout said:
So I'm curious why it's called "flicker" then... for me it's consistently green until I flash a new kernel. I kinda figured that was what I was experiencing, I was just confused by the verbiage. Anyway, it's a shame that these screens have the potential to look that good but dong so ruins them...
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I spoke too soon... it's back to looking good now
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Also, his long did you run those gamma settings before it screwed IP your screen? I know you said a long time but can you give an educated guess?
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Using the stock OEM screen I had gone for 8 months of perfectly fine colors. A week of the new screen replacement I had then it was dead. If you used gamme values that are lower on the stock screen it'll last a VERY long time, you'll get a new phone before anything happens for sure.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
Well in that case it looks like I'm running it this way if I can get rid of the green...
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Well in that case it looks like I'm running it this way if I can get rid of the green...
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You can lower the values, just do NOT go passed -50, stay -45 and above.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
309041291a said:
The dark, nice colors come from changing the gamma hacks. The amazing, deep, crisp colors do however come with a price. What price? Well you experienced a little of it, the green flicker. Turn your brightness a little up to avoid it, no big deal. That's not the major problem. Changing the gamma hacks causes your phone to "age" quicker. Meaning it will basically get worn out faster and eventually will lead to damaged colors and OLEDs (permanent). Not for a LONG time, UNLESS you max out the gamma (-50+ is dangerous). I had mine at -59 and -60, now my screen is damaged. Forever. I have piexalted errors and over saturated colors, especially noticeable on black and whites (and now reds). And i have some overheating issues too. Lower gamma = more heat. If I change my gamma settings, nothing happenes because I've broken the screen (then again, I recently had a cheap screen replacement done so part of the reason is the cheap screen just sucking). Lesson is be careful when you mess with the gammas!!!!!!!!! The reason the newer air kernel had different colors was because r_data changed the gamma values (but be did it to get rid of green flicker, I presume) from his last build.Now I am looking for a job to by myself new phone And of course have some money.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1200/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
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I can't see how changing the gamma make the screen wear out faster. We're not talking about multipliers here, or refresh rate or anything of the sort. We're not going out of spec but simply changing the already available settings. Burn in exists already even on the stock settings, so don't be too quick to blame the problems on Voodoo.
polobunny said:
I can't see how changing the gamma make the screen wear out faster. We're not talking about multipliers here, or refresh rate or anything of the sort. We're not going out of spec but simply changing the already available settings. Burn in exists already even on the stock settings, so don't be too quick to blame the problems on Voodoo.
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The creator of the Voodoo app warns people not to max out the gamma settings, because they can destroy your screen faster.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
I am also sticking with Air Kernel #171 for the perfect color on my 9020T. I don't understand why the voodoo color default keeps changing with each update.
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The creator of the Voodoo app warns people not to max out the gamma settings, because they can destroy your screen faster.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
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You wrote - and + though. Still cannot conceive how exactly it is possible to break something faster while operating it in the normal range. Are you sure he is not talking about the multiplier settings and not the gamma settings?
The gamma settings only affects the level, from darkest to lightest of every separate color (RGB). Think of it as deciding on 100%, how much of each color there is in the picture. You can't do 110%, maxing out every slider will only give you a white picture, but that's only every channel at 100% intensity.
I imagine that could make your screen "die" faster, but just as much as having a white wallpaper as opposed to a black one.
I cannot comment on the multipliers, not being sure of what exactly is touched when changing them.
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You wrote - and + though. Still cannot conceive how exactly it is possible to break something faster while operating it in the normal range. Are you sure he is not talking about the multiplier settings and not the gamma settings?
The gamma settings only affects the level, from darkest to lightest of every separate color (RGB). Think of it as deciding on 100%, how much of each color there is in the picture. You can't do 110%, maxing out every slider will only give you a white picture, but that's only every channel at 100% intensity.
I imagine that could make your screen "die" faster, but just as much as having a white wallpaper as opposed to a black one.
I cannot comment on the multipliers, not being sure of what exactly is touched when changing them.
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This is what I mean by your gamma offsets. I assure you -45 is not normal. 0 on all of them is 2.3.3 defaults. You're forcing your screen to display different, darker colors than normal. Which does use more heat on the screen. More heat = not good and can lead to permanent damage on any surface, let alone a glass screen.
Don't get me wrong, Voodoo can be complelt harmless. So long as you don't max out any of the settings. Never use -60, that's just... no. Slight changes like punchy settings -14 - -18 (I believe) really don't have that much affect. But when you start forcing the screen to get darker by using -45 and under.. Yeah, its not good.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
309041291a said:
This is what I mean by your gamma offsets. I assure you -45 is not normal. 0 on all of them is 2.3.3 defaults. You're forcing your screen to display different, darker colors than normal. Which does use more heat on the screen. More heat = not good and can lead to permanent damage on any surface, let alone a glass screen.
Don't get me wrong, Voodoo can be complelt harmless. So long as you don't max out any of the settings. Never use -60, that's just... no. Slight changes like punchy settings -14 - -18 (I believe) really don't have that much affect. But when you start forcing the screen to get darker by using -45 and under.. Yeah, its not good.
Nexus S. (GSM i9020a)
Paranoid (1.97a - 4.1.1)
Air Kernel (Week 182 - Voodoo)
SmartassV2 (1000/200)
Deep Idle (On - Deadline)
Black Exodus (Inverted apps)
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Except this is not how it works with most displays, and certainly not with an active matrix OLED one. To display black, the RGB channels are at their darkest setting, which uses the less amount of energy. If that, it would even be more beneficial for the panel to use darker settings than stock. Hence my questionning.
Edit: To add details, I do not mean all type of displays, but rather OLED based ones, may it be PMOLED or AMOLED or any other branded product (Super AMOLED and so on). The cells are in off state when showing "black" hence why the blacks are so deep. Off cells = less power, and less power = less heat dissipation.
So now I've realized another related conundrum... If I turn the brightness up, apparently the green goes away, but obviously that causes my battery to die faster. Normally, before I started messing with voodoo color, I kept my screen on auto brightness which generally kept it pretty dim. I got pretty awesome battery, at one point 30+ hours on a charge. So my question is, is there no way to have the nice looking gamma hack colors and also good battery and/or a dimmer screen? Do I just need to play around with the settings to achieve this?
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So now I've realized another related conundrum... If I turn the brightness up, apparently the green goes away, but obviously that causes my battery to die faster. Normally, before I started messing with voodoo color, I kept my screen on auto brightness which generally kept it pretty dim. I got pretty awesome battery, at one point 30+ hours on a charge. So my question is, is there no way to have the nice looking gamma hack colors and also good battery and/or a dimmer screen? Do I just need to play around with the settings to achieve this?
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Depends on how low you set those values in Voodoo colors. It's a mix between low values in Voodoo for the gamma offset settings AND the brightness.
Some kernels don't have Voodoo but have preset colors that are very good and vibrant and do not have the downsides of Voodoo such as green flash.
Have any recommendations? I've tried matr1x and air on jb, didn't really do much with kernels before then.
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ncblackout said:
Have any recommendations? I've tried matr1x and air on jb, didn't really do much with kernels before then.
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I'm currently using knzo CM+.
It has BLN, BLD, touchwake and colors can be modified in the system settings if you're using a CM10 based ROM. The natural blue colors are very close to perfect colors, slightly need a tad blueish tint on my phone.
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