Hi,
I am using my Nexus 6p in a quite screen heavy way (mostly in the car) and I am looking forward to reduce battery usage.
What I am doing at the moment is:
1) Use AutoMate in the car for navigation and music
2) Set up the screen timoeut after 15sec.
3) Use Caffeine app to prevent screen from going sleep
As an effect of this after 15 seconds my screen dims to certain level and Caffeine keeps this state all the time.
The thing is that the dimmed screen level is too high for me and I am looking forward to reduce it.
I realised that if I change the screen brightness to minimum then "dimmed" level is also lower so I suppose the system is doing something "When dimmed lower the current brightness level by x%".
I do not want to change the "screen awake" brightness level but just make the system to dim my screen by greater percentage so then I could get to nice and bright screen with just one touch without having to activate variety of apps.
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I wanted a simple auto brightness app that scaled a wide range from full bright to very dim without having to manage very specific settings to get it to work properly. I created Lumen to do just that. I also wanted to create something that would get as bright as adaptive brightness does on full brightness but still dims to appropriate levels.
Lumen features:
* Custom color filter - includes ability to put filter on timers.
* One touch notification bar controls for brightness boost and color filter. Brightness boost also temporarily adjusts your screen timeout to 5 minutes. Once you turn off the boost or turn the screen off it reverts back to normal. Great for gaming or showing something to your friends.
*Automatically scales from night mode to full bright. Allows calibration slightly to easily accommodate different phones sensors.
Please let me know what you think, especially with the brightness levels that my algorithm puts out. Thanks!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compass.lumen
For those who have tested it out, thank you!
Would there be any value in adding options to apply the color filter based on sunrise and sunset?
Just curious, for indoor use like the Office, how do you like your Display Brightness ? Do you use Adaptive Brightness, or use an app or set it to a specific % yourself ?
I kind of like setting it to 50% myself in the office, as Adaptive seems to go either go too low dim, or sometimes too bright, but doesn't stay.
I don't use adaptive; I just set my brightness manually with the slider in quick settings. I prefer fairly low brightness indoors (about 20%), I set it to around 50% outdoors, or full brightness if I need to read the screen under the sun.
Is there any way to decrease the brightness of always on display?
Just cant see it in a settings.
Any thoughts?
I haven't noticed a setting but I have noticed that the brightness does seem to change based on lighting conditions so I feel like it's got a default auto brightness setting. It does seem somewhat slow to adjust sometimes though.
The screen should refresh every minute, so i think the interval for auto brightness is the same
So i would like to use screen Auto brightness but it sets the screen too dark or some times keeps hunting for a level ...
Any place to adjust the sensitivity of the auto brightness itself?
Right now i just turn the auto brightness off and set the screen brightness level manually
redhatter said:
So i would like to use screen Auto brightness but it sets the screen too dark or some times keeps hunting for a level ...
Any place to adjust the sensitivity of the auto brightness itself?
Right now i just turn the auto brightness off and set the screen brightness level manually
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Agreed, I do the same as you. I always found that these auto-brightness functions don't work worth a squat. I don't know who is in charge of designing the sensitivity settings for it but they really don't work that well. So I always leave it on manual brightness setting and set it to my liking.
Just curious. How many of you are seeing screen-burn in on your phones?
I use CF.Lumen to adjust the screen to be warmer at night. I notice some darker areas/burn-in with CF.Lumen enabled and the screen brightness dimmed to super low levels (using CF.Lumen's built-in darkness slider for Sleep mode)
What I notice is a sort of dark spot at very low brightness, and a sort of dark shadowy line running down the screen close to the left side. It's kinda annoying but I really only see it when I have text on the screen (and I'm trying to read text) at lower-than-stock dimness levels. I'm slowly getting used to it. At first I panicked thinking that my screen had burned in already at a few months of use, but when I have CF.Lumen off and I have the stock brightness slider set all the way to 0, I don't notice any lines or weird dark spots.
Then again, 0 brightness using the stock brightness slider is still VERY bright if you're coming from iOS's Accessibility settings. Android has poor screen filter settings and few good screen filter apps outside CF.Lumen and f.lux and I doubt Android 12 will change that.
So, are any of you experiencing screen burn-in? OLED burn-in is something that always has me worried. I try to avoid OLED phones for this reason, because I'm paranoid.
OLEDs have a finite lifespan. The brighter they burn, the shorter they last.
The higher energy blue emitters have the shortest life span, while red the longest.
Darker screen wallpaper, dark mode and less white icons/headers helps reduce wear.
Use manual brightness control and avoid going over 50% whenever possible. Don't use in direct sunlight... this is a killer.
Move icons and widgets periodically on the homescreen. Avoid prolonged white screen viewing and apps that are dark mode illiterate.
These practices also increase battery life substantially.
Use Screen Test to see if any damage is present.
After over 1.5 years of heavy usage and one battery replacement, my AMOLED display on my Note 10+ shows no signs of damage. How you use it day to day/what you view with it makes a big difference in display longevity.