I noticed after playing a bit with my TF that the auto-brightness is a bit too dim than what I'd like. Definitely not nearly as bright as my EVO, iPad, or Nook Color. I ended up setting it fixed at half brightness. Anyone else agree/disagree?
I agree, it's a bit on the dark side but its not too bad.
Autobrightness is calibrated poorly on pretty much every device unfortunately, I'd guess the Transformer isn't all that different.
http://www.displaymate.com/AutoBrightness_Controls_2.htm
I think the TF's screen is just dimmer as a whole (this is compared to my iPad 2). I don't mind it when doing things like surfing and email, etc. It only bothers me when I'm watching a movie because I have it set to about 90% brightness, which is pretty much even with my iPad 2 set at 60%, and the light bleeding is more apparent on the TF when set to that (this also makes the little home task bar buttons on the stock movie player more apparent as well. Why can't there be a movie player that just shows the movie and nothing else?)
I guess it makes sense though since the TF screen is bigger than the iPad 2's. Like in TV's; the smaller the screen, the brighter and better contrast they'll be.
I saw this also. I have auto brightness turned off and have it 1 click before max brightness.
I wonder if it could be dirt or grime covering the sensor next to the camera?
akarol said:
I noticed after playing a bit with my TF that the auto-brightness is a bit too dim than what I'd like. Definitely not nearly as bright as my EVO, iPad, or Nook Color. I ended up setting it fixed at half brightness. Anyone else agree/disagree?
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I agree. I don't know why they don't let user pick the initial brigtness and based on that, adjust the lighting. It seems like an easy thing to do.
nxp3 said:
I agree. I don't know why they don't let user pick the initial brigtness and based on that, adjust the lighting. It seems like an easy thing to do.
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I thought it never went below the value you set it at just prior to turning on AUTO.
IE- If you have it set at 50% and turning on auto it'll never go below the 50% mark.
I haven't messed about with auto since my first firmware so maybe they changed this in later ones.
jimbob1971 said:
I thought it never went below the value you set it at just prior to turning on AUTO.
IE- If you have it set at 50% and turning on auto it'll never go below the 50% mark.
I haven't messed about with auto since my first firmware so maybe they changed this in later ones.
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I'm pretty sure it's reverse, as in you set the bar to the highest setting you want and it adjusts to the room settings without exceeding the highest point you set. That's how it works in my iPad 2 at least.
Edit: This is, indeed, how it works on the TF
songmeesay said:
I'm pretty sure it's reverse, as in you set the bar to the highest setting you want and it adjusts to the room settings without exceeding the highest point you set. That's how it works in my iPad 2 at least.
Edit: This is, indeed, how it works on the TF
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Not true. I just set mine to the lowest setting, then turned on the auto. It still brightens when there is light present.
If you start testing with auto brightness, one thing that you need to be aware of that makes it hard to test is that the TF checks to see if it should increase brightness frequently, but it only checks to reduces brightness after the screen goes to sleep or a power off. So once it is bright it seems to stay that way.
dmeehl said:
Not true. I just set mine to the lowest setting, then turned on the auto. It still brightens when there is light present.
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I stand corrected. Looks like Auto, truly is, auto no matter where you set your point in the bar. I just set it on the highest and then hit auto and went into a darker part of the room and it did dim the screen down, and I did the reverse like you did and it adjusted brighter in a higher lit part of the room.
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If you start testing with auto brightness, one thing that you need to be aware of that makes it hard to test is that the TF checks to see if it should increase brightness frequently, but it only checks to reduces brightness after the screen goes to sleep or a power off. So once it is bright it seems to stay that way.
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I don't know if that is true, because if that was the case, it should be brighter most times. and less likely to dim, but I'm having the opposite effect.
So what's the final verdict. Will AB limit itself to whatever manual brightness you had set as the max or min?
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So what's the final verdict. Will AB limit itself to whatever manual brightness you had set as the max or min?
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From the testing I did, AB bypasses any setting you put on the bar and just adjusts to room light conditions.
I just bought a B60 serial TF and it has the dim auto brightness issue too.
I have also experienced this dimmer than what I want the brightness to be when I set to auto issue. So I revert back to the default brightness setting that came with Android 3.1. Much better on my eyes.
My screen is quite dim even though I maxed out the brightness. It is even dimmer when I turn on automatic brightness. This happen very randomly when my battery power saver turned on and now it won't go away. I am currently using mike's 3.6.7 sensation XE rom but I do not think that's the issue because I reflashed it and the screen did not get any better. Has anyone encounter this problem? I feel like the phone mis-calibrate its own brightness slider and now it is stuck thinking that the max brightness is that dim.
First, does anyone know a way to limit the maximum brightness? I hate going over 50 percent or so, it kills my battery. I want to keep it on auto without letting it go too high. I know there are brightness apps, but wonder if anyone would recommend one...
Also, these last two are reposted but I had no response on another section so, how exactly does app power saving mode work when set to "always" vs 3 days? Does it deep hibernate it and how soon?
Finally, which screen mode is best for battery life? Adaptive, amoled cinema, amoled photo, or basic?
Thanks
Adaptive is the best.
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If you use auto-brightness, you can still manually adjust the screen brightness. And it will learn from your adjustments. So if you keep lowering it manually, over time the "max" brightness will be less than 100%.
I don't think it will limit it to 50%, though.
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This thing is barely visible under full sunlight environment with max brightness turned on. How's everyone experience?
as you said
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It's very bright for me. I've read that you need to have the display on auto brightness for it to get max brightness.
Is the P40 Pro reducing the screen brightness when getting hot in direct sunlight?
My mate 30 Pro seems to do this. Really annoying as i dont have it on auto.
I'm asking because my Note10+ is doing that, my Oneplus 6 never did that and it really sucks for outdoor readability in sunlight...
hey, I know that when outside in the direct sun light auto brightness kicks in and dims it down as it'll help see the screen, other wise you may have the reflection of the sun and then the brightness from the screen, You can always turn it off in settings?
Actually that's not what I meant. On my Note10+ auto brightness kicks in a brightness boost in sunlight, so the display is pretty good to read, but after a while, the device heats up, caused by the sun and then it reaches a threshold and to reduce system temperature, the screen gets dimmed down to a level, where reading any text becomes very hard.