With all power saving modes disabled brightness reduces when you open browser and several other apps. Unless brightness is very low or very high. Really annoying when you're outdoors and suddenly can't see anything
If you use power saving mode, it reduces brightness all the time but when you restart phone brightness is normal again
Only happened after enabling power save mode for first time so 100 percent a bug. Still present in latest Chinese developer Rom so not going to be fixed any time soon.
How can such an obvious bug exist in the first place let alone be around for over 6 months
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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.
when my battery is low the tablet dims. how do I remove this setting?
I would like to know this too. I realize it's a safeguard because a complete battery drain sucks for this type of battery, right? But a forced always dark kind of sucks compared to a warning forced dark that you could change back.. feels... Appley.
Hi you two, all you have to do is go into settings and then you should see 'Power Saving mode' Under storage and above battery. Simply turn on power saving mode momentarily and then you can untick the screen power saving mode and then turn off power saving mode if you wish to.
This is on the settings for JB, I dont know if this will be the same as the ICS settings, if not just have a look around in settings. It should be in there somewhere.
Sent from my quadcore beast- HTC ONE X
no effect changing that settings
I already have done this: "all you have to do is go into settings and then you should see 'Power Saving mode' Under storage and above battery. Simply turn on power saving mode momentarily and then you can untick the screen power saving mode and then turn off power saving mode if you wish to."
However, my screen stays gray and i can't see nothing more bright... my device is a samsung galaxy note 10.1 gt-n8010 with android 4.1.1 and kernel version 3.0.31-541027
Any help appreciated because this is very annoying.
Thanks,
Miguel Real.
In the same boat here, anyone have a solution?
Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk 2
I was wondering the same thing
Did anyone ever find a solution to this? The screen dimming is a pain in the ass. I'd rather burn the last few minutes of power at full brightness.
This is my only problem with this tablet. I would really appreciate if anyone came up with a solution to this
hanexs said:
when my battery is low the tablet dims. how do I remove this setting?
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I guess there is no fix without rooting? Bummer. Some things about this tablet are just so blatantly annoying I can't figure what the designers were thinking.
Hopefully the kitkat update will provide options.
It is protecting the battery. You dont need to drain your battery empty on every cycle - and it is only making bad to the lithium battery to cycle is empty-full all the time. The problem with lithium battries have, is that if the battery drains too empty, it wont start to charge. It is dead. There are safety mechanics to prevent this to happen, auto power off/shutdown features though... But when the battery is 5%, it turns the display dim to get you more time to plug it in. So, if you want to keep your battery good, dont cycle is every time from full to empty state. And dont let it to auto shut off, it may go too empty and the battery wont start to charge anymore.
It is a built in feature and Kitkat wont change this.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1 (N8000).
I used this app to work around the issue successfully:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.pruss.superdim
Hi Folks,
This issue happened a to a few times now within a short time frame. The problem is like this:
I set the brightness slider somewhere about 30-40% and have the auto mode on. This way the min brightness would not fall below the slider point (I assume and this is the way I had with all my andorid phones) and works quit well.
The issue I encountered is that the brightness slider would go down to minimum (auto is still there) on it's own and stay there. I didn't have any power saving options turned on as the phone is still burning in.
The only time I noticed this is in the evenings and night. Still wondering what's causing it.
Game service is disabled on my phone.
Regards
Asanka
Auto brightness works differently in the S7 compared to other Android phones. Auto brightness actually moves the slider for you. If you keep adjusting the slider to where you want it in different environments it should "learn" your preferences and automatically adjust the slider to what you would put it at for each environment.
Thanks for clarifying that. Thought mine was buggy.
Yea that threw me off at first also
I have this great phone since a week now but what is really annoying for me is the automatic display brightness mode. Since the sensor is in the middle of the buttom, it is often hidden by my hand and the display brightness is too low.
Is there any trick to improve this behaviour without disabling automatic mode completely? Something like a minimum brightness level (probably time based).
Or am I the only one with this problem?
Since the OTA last week, my auto brightness is determined to set itself to minimum almost every time I turn the phone on. Even in direct sunlight. Really annoying bug.
mike freegan said:
Since the OTA last week, my auto brightness is determined to set itself to minimum almost every time I turn the phone on. Even in direct sunlight. Really annoying bug.
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Same problem here in outdoors, is there any fix?
Ive got a SM-N770F/DS and I always have medium power saving mode on. I have also always had an issue with Google Maps not wanting to detect location after I turn the screen off. I assumed it was a google issue until I turned optimized power saving mode on today and Maps suddenly started reading my location and giving directions while the screen was off. Is it possible to disable the "prevent background location access" part of medium power saving mode? Long pressing my power saving settings doesnt give any options to do this, im thinking my only option is to root. Would rooting fix this? If so, does anyone know of some roms on here that would allow me to do this? I dont care about much else from the rom, I like the phone as is and this is the only issue I have with it
Do not toggled on any power management other than the power mode (optimized) and fast charging.
They screw up functionality and increase battery usage on my unrooted 10+ running on Pie.
In Developer options>standby apps all buckets should show as active otherwise power management is active. Android will manage apps well without any power management options turned on. Track down any remaining battery hogs on a per case basis and deal directly with them. Sometimes closing the window gets it done like with Brave. Others need to be dealt with by package disabler and/or Karma Firewall.
This may or may not help you.
Gmaps is crapware. Runs best on original factory load and is a parasitic drain wanting to constantly run in the backup from boot sucking up battery and bandwidth.
Unlike you my goal is to keep it from doing this
Also review Gmaps notification and other settings. It's a mess; buried settings galore.
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They screw up functionality and increase battery usage
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blackhawk said:
Android will manage apps well without any power management options turned on
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I feel like I have experienced the opposite. I felt like my battery was draining faster with optimized on today (2nd pic) compared to the past few days with medium power saving on (first pic). Obviously more testing needs to be done to see. Going off of the pics I lost about 50% each day, so optimized seems to be worse for battery life but the reduced screen on time makes up for it in this scenario