Yesterday I let my battery drop to below 5% for the first time, just to see how long it would take. I noticed that as soon as the phone hit 5% it dropped the screen brightness down so dark I could barely see that it was on. When I opened the notification bar, the brightness control was gone. Plugging in the phone immediately brought it back to a usable brightness and the control returned. Is there a way to disable this?
bdcooke said:
Yesterday I let my battery drop to below 5% for the first time, just to see how long it would take. I noticed that as soon as the phone hit 5% it dropped the screen brightness down so dark I could barely see that it was on. When I opened the notification bar, the brightness control was gone. Plugging in the phone immediately brought it back to a usable brightness and the control returned. Is there a way to disable this?
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I think if you use a brightness control app like Lux, this can be overridden.
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I found the captivate drain battery too fast, even at the lowest brightness the phone gives. So I am thinking about maybe we could further turn down the brightness of the screen, this might save a lot battery.
But how??
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I noticed that from JF6 to JH7, the brightness went down one tick lower. When I had stock JF6 set to manual brightness, I used to not have a hard time reading the contents on the display while the phone is on my desk, set to the lowest setting. When I did the JH7 OTA update, I noticed that the lowest brightness setting (when set to manual) is even lower. It made it harder to read. Hope that answers your question on brightness settings. There is more on JH7 than just the brightness settings changes. Plus, there are other things you can do to save battery power than just adjusting the display brightness
When I go into Settings, About and battery use.
It show that the Display using about 60% of the power.
Everything is relative on that page. If all you do is turn on the screen and browse, the "Display" battery usage will be higher. If you're on the phone for an hour or so (which, by default, the display turns off) you'll see "Voice calls" number go up. Etc.
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When I go into Settings, About and battery use.
It show that the Display using about 60% of the power.
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Basically it's saying, the time you've had your device unplugged, 60% of the battery usage has been due to the display. and 40% of it is among other things.
There's an app on the market called Dimmer that will knock the brightness down a bit from the lowest setting. There's a small window that pops up that says "changing brightness from XX to 10" where XX = 30 on the lowest setting via the default brightness settings.
This makes me suspect that the brightness could go even lower, though I don't if it would impact the performance of the screen, given the Super AMOLED tech.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/dimmer-%28-night-mode-%29/com.geekyouup.android.dimmer
baseballfanz said:
When I go into Settings, About and battery use.
It show that the Display using about 60% of the power.
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This is normal..All this means is your display is using the most and you don't have any background programs eating the battery.It should always show this as the highest from what I've been told.
In settings you can can either use the automatic brightness setting..or not... it is in Sound and Display..scroll down to display settings and you will see Brightness...Screen Time Out...and Power Saving Mode . Click on Power Saving mode....if you see the green check mark there..you are unchecking it..then open the Brightness tab..click on automatic brightness adjustment if checked and do the same thing ..and then ok. Your screen will darken.. You can then install the power bar on one of your screens by touching a unpopulated area large enough to accept the power bar strip. You will then be able to adjust the brightness by tapping on it..as well as being able to turn on and off wi-fi..blue-tooth..satellite..sync..and lastly brightness.
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This is good. It turns my screen from 30 to 10, and it does save battery.
yourtvlies said:
There's an app on the market called Dimmer that will knock the brightness down a bit from the lowest setting. There's a small window that pops up that says "changing brightness from XX to 10" where XX = 30 on the lowest setting via the default brightness settings.
This makes me suspect that the brightness could go even lower, though I don't if it would impact the performance of the screen, given the Super AMOLED tech.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/dimmer-(-night-mode-)/com.geekyouup.android.dimmer
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Theres also an app called Screen Filter which does the same thing as you guys have been describing, except it has a slider you can use to set what you would like, I use it for reading in bed, and it works wonderfully.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-filter/com.haxor
I have had my TF300T for a week and a half now. Whenever i watch movies in full screen, you tube, actual file on my tablet, flash video, or Netflix. the screen seams to adjust its brightness randomly throughout the video. I have ensured that i have auto brightness turned off, and have tried this on all three modes (performance, balanced, power saver). I get the same results in each mode. If i set the brightness high enough there is no auto adjustment of the screen brightness, but this is pretty annoying because i either have to choose between sucking my battery dry or dealing with the brightness randomly changing. Am i the only one having this issue? remember this only happens in full screen videos.
brittan said:
I have had my TF300T for a week and a half now. Whenever i watch movies in full screen, you tube, actual file on my tablet, flash video, or Netflix. the screen seams to adjust its brightness randomly throughout the video. I have ensured that i have auto brightness turned off, and have tried this on all three modes (performance, balanced, power saver). I get the same results in each mode. If i set the brightness high enough there is no auto adjustment of the screen brightness, but this is pretty annoying because i either have to choose between sucking my battery dry or dealing with the brightness randomly changing. Am i the only one having this issue? remember this only happens in full screen videos.
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This happens to me too when I'm watching at the lowest brightness point, just raise it a bit and it should be okay. Anyways ASUS need to fix this too.
Thank you for the fast reply. I just wanted to make sure that it was not a defect with my tablet before i go past the return policy. I think i will call Asus and let them know about this issue to get their attention about it.
Since upgrading, my batter life sucks. The battery meter shows the culprit to be the screen. Before it was Media Center or my game. Today im showing 80% usage by my screen.
I have power saving mode set for the screen, and I use auto adjust so it stays relatively dim most of the time.
Any suggestions?
blindguyinanorgy said:
Since upgrading, my batter life sucks. The battery meter shows the culprit to be the screen. Before it was Media Center or my game. Today im showing 80% usage by my screen.
I have power saving mode set for the screen, and I use auto adjust so it stays relatively dim most of the time.
Any suggestions?
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Have you been using your phone a lot today? What is the screen-on time?
So, even with auto brightness off the screen will dim, seems to be a power saving feature but it's so poorly implented.
Just writting this message the brightness went from 100% to dim to 100% again, is there any solution to keep the brightness at 100% all the time?
Do you mean after a certain amount of time? It could be the dim before it auto-turns off the screen. You could extend the time it takes before it dims and turns off screen by increasing the timeout in display settings.
brezzo said:
Do you mean after a certain amount of time? It could be the dim before it auto-turns off the screen. You could extend the time it takes before it dims and turns off screen by increasing the timeout in display settings.
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No, what I'm talking about is that the screen will periodically get dimmer during use, as a power saving measure or because of overheating, I don't know.
You need to be at full brightness to begin with to notice the drop in brightness, it's not ultra obvious but it's definitely there. The device seems incapable of staying at full brightness for a prolonged time.
I got my Moto G3 yesterday and I noticed the screen was very bright, I checked the brightness level and it was on the middle of the slider, with Adaptive Display on. I tried adjusting the slider but nthing happens, I tried turning Adaptive Display off, still nothing happens. Doesn't matter if I'm in a room with no light or if I'm outside on the sun, the screen is always on what I assume is 100% brightness.
I have also tried a factory reset, updated to Android 6, downloaded a 3rd party app to adjust brightness, getting it on safe mode... nothing works
It is really annoying having the display at full brightness always, battery drains, phone screen gets really hot, etc
Someone have a possible solution? I don't want to stay more days without a phone by taking it to warranty.
Even I noticed that the screen's brightness is same from 1% to 30% (approx).. It doesn't change at all.
What variant do you guys have?
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