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Very aggressive auto brightness

I have the brightness turned almost all the way down then I turn it on auto. Is this the correct way to set it? It seems very bright even set so low.

brianfields33 said:
I have the brightness turned almost all the way down then I turn it on auto. Is this the correct way to set it? It seems very bright even set so low.
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It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly

I noticed this as well. I just turned it down and left it (no auto).

Luxferro said:
I noticed this as well. I just turned it down and left it (no auto).
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I thought about doing this, but then it will be hard to see in bright sunlight.

brittonberkan said:
It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly
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I've never used Lux. Could you share the profile if possible when it's complete?

brianfields33 said:
I've never used Lux. Could you share the profile if possible when it's complete?
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Sure thing, check back a little later please man, what were the folks at google thinking when they made these settings...
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Agree the screen is way too bright out of the box. Interested in your lux config as well
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garrisj said:
Agree the screen is way too bright out of the box. Interested in your lux config as well
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I'll have it done in a few hours. The dark values are fine but i need to wait for daylight
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brittonberkan said:
Sure thing, check back a little later please man, what were the folks at google thinking when they made these settings...
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They were outside in California during the summer in the day and in an overly bright and cheerful Google headquarters during the night. They forget not everywhere has retina burning light levels

I've noticed that iOS, Touchwiz and a few other vendor Android skins implement a sliding-scale auto-brightness: You can enable auto, but also slide the overall average brightness up and down. This is a simple solution for varying comfort levels: Brightness fiends can tune the auto higher and those with sensitive eyes can tune it lower. I am surprised stock Android has yet to implement this.

I found auto brightness to be a bit erratic. I'm sticking with manual brightness.
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Here are my lux settings. At very bright areas you might have to add a few steps but it works well for me in darker, dimmer areas
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IQuH022o2GSTAyWGtWTnhmaEU/edit?usp=docslist_api
I'm using dynamic mode
Edit: Sorry it apparently wasn't publicly available, but it is now

Have any of you had your brightness fluctuate from higher to lower? I don't remember the n4 doing that only. I thought android only went from low to high.

I actually want the opposite. I set my brightness all the way high in manual but I hate that automatic dimming. Can I get that fix? All I want is to work like my HTC One where I set the brightness all the way high and never saw the screen dim itself automatically. Please help

jbecerril said:
I actually want the opposite. I set my brightness all the way high in manual but I hate that automatic dimming. Can I get that fix? All I want is to work like my HTC One where I set the brightness all the way high and never saw the screen dim itself automatically. Please help
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So yours is dimming itself as well correct? Pheww.. I'm not crazy

digitalsmoke said:
So yours is dimming itself as well correct? Pheww.. I'm not crazy
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Yeah, and i hate that. I am not battery crazy like some other users, all i want is a bright screen regardless what time of the day it is. 100% brightness all the time. Can Auto brightness be turned off? Otherwise, and I hate to say it, but will going back to the One until this gets fixed.

auto brightness is terrible
the screen become yellow and green look while the brightness is low
only 100% can present the true white color
compare with htc one, i think one is better performance
anyone get the yellow tint problem?

brittonberkan said:
It definitely is too bright, i agree. I'm just putting together a nice setup for the Lux app, and hope that Google will make it a little less aggressive and therefor more battery-friendly
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+1 for Lux. I had the battery-guzzling HTC Amaze ("you'll be AMAZED how fast your phone dies!" ). Lux would almost double my battery life when I programmed it with ultra-conservative (but still usable) settings.
If Google will update the auto brightness calibration everyone will start seeing much better battery life.
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riprowan said:
+1 for Lux. I had the battery-guzzling HTC Amaze ("you'll be AMAZED how fast your phone dies!" ). Lux would almost double my battery life when I programmed it with ultra-conservative (but still usable) settings.
If Google will update the auto brightness calibration everyone will start seeing much better battery life.
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Which Lux app do i need from the Play Store? There are many of them...

CitizenX said:
Which Lux app do i need from the Play Store? There are many of them...
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I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
The trick is in setting up the profiles by hand, the automatic profile settings can be wonky.
Take some light measurements in dimmes light and establish the lowest level you can accept the screen. On an N5 this is probably all the way min. (At first you may find that it's pretty dim but Realize that you'll get used to this and later wonder why you liked the screen so bright.)
Then go into bright light and find the min level that you can accept. This might be all the way bright (on my Amaze, all the way bright was unnecessarily bright EVEN IN SUNLIGHT).
Then take a reading in a normal room and find the min acceptable brightness. This may still be all the way min.
You may want to sample a point or two in other light levels, usually 3-5 samples is enough if you suss out the power curve correctly.
Everyone loves iPhone battery life... ever notice how conservative an iPhone's auto brightness setting is? I'll go out on a limb and guess that, if the N5 is as aggressively bright in auto mode as everyone says (don't have mine yet), there's the possibility of getting an entire extra hour of SOT just by switching instead to very conservative auto-brightness settings.
Also if the min brightness is still pretty darn bright, there's a really good chance an update can knock that brightness down and stretch the battery even further.

[Q] Brightness changes (even though auto-brightness is off)

Hi all
I am having a strange issue with my Nexus 5, so I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this:
Auto-brightness is off, brightness is set to maximum. Every now and then, as I am using the phone, the brightness would change. It would go slightly darker, and then sometimes after some time (minutes) slightly brighter again (back to maximum). When this happens, the actual brightness settings slider does not change, it's always saying 100%. I've tried to notice some pattern in the occurrences of this issue, but so far cannot identify any steps to reproduce it. It is easily spotted when the screen has a big area of a solid colour, e.g. on a web-page's white space. So most often I see it while scrolling a news website. Note that during these brightness changes, my environment's lightning does not change (auto-brightness is off anyway, so this should not matter).
I don't even know if this could be down to a software or hardware issue.
So, anyone had similar problems?
Thanks,
Nik

It's throttling (overheating)

Found a related thread
Thanks supersain08 for your answer. Now using this term, I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516915

sovata said:
Thanks supersain08 for your answer. Now using this term, I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516915
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How can you use the brightness at maximum on this phone? This phone has one of the brightest displays I've ever seen. At 30% or so it's brighter than most phones on full.

Synyster06Gates said:
How can you use the brightness at maximum on this phone? This phone has one of the brightest displays I've ever seen. At 30% or so it's brighter than most phones on full.
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Well I think that's beside the point, but let's say it's a personal preference.
And also it is possible that one would like to have a 100% brightness in light/sunny conditions, so then this issue could become relevant for anyone.

Last time I used 100% brightness on a phone screen was on the first days of my gnex.
Displays are in indoor situation much too bright on 100%, brigther doesn't look better all the time. I am going with Auto-Brightness (to have it at 100% in outdoor situations) but it is still to bright in low light situations. I have to wait for a customrom to adjust this like I did with the gnex.
Can not understand how people can use it at 100% all the time.

Why do you feel it's necessary to argue whether 100% brightness is useful or not?
That's not the point of the original question.

supersain08 said:
It's throttling (overheating)
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I've been having the same issue; glad to know it isn't a defect, and that it's supposed to do that. Thanks for the information

How's the auto brightness in Nougat?

I'm considering getting this phone but after "test driving" it, I noticed the auto-brightness is too low in EMUI 4.1.
How is it in EMUI 5? Any changes?
Thanks!

It's probably about the same.

It seems much better for me than on Marshmallow. I don't get random drops in brightness or the brightness not changing. I also don't have the bug where unlocking the phone can result in low brightness.

Saythis said:
It seems much better for me than on Marshmallow. I don't get random drops in brightness or the brightness not changing. I also don't have the bug where unlocking the phone can result in low brightness.
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Same for me.

I also think auto-brightness works a lot better on Nougat than Marshmallow.

Saythis said:
It seems much better for me than on Marshmallow. I don't get random drops in brightness or the brightness not changing. I also don't have the bug where unlocking the phone can result in low brightness.
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Have you tried wiping the sensors? I find that sometimes cleaning that part of the device helps with auto brightness issues on my devices.

Not better than MM. People saying it's better probably want to believe themselves it's better. It's about the same.

Coolyou said:
Not better than MM. People saying it's better probably want to believe themselves it's better. It's about the same.
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After hearing this I might be getting rid of my honor 8. This problem drives me crazy. I had the honor 5x before this and the auto brightness worked perfectly. So I don't understand why this phones is so crappy. Also I can't stand Huawei's crappy OS and development seems pretty slow on this device I'm guessing it has something to do with it having Huawei's processor but I'm not sure.

Outdoor visibility (max brightness)

Rate this thread to express how well you can see the OnePlus 6T's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Ok well here I go, I see a ton of views in this section but no comments.
First of all, I'm coming from a Moto Z2 Play and a OnePlus 3T:
The screen brightness of the OnePlus 6T is the major letdown I ever had, it is miserable, sad, despicable... Here is the deal, if I set the screen to 100% brightness in the O6T, it equals to anywhere around 85% or less of the max brightness in my 1 year old Moto Z2 Play !! also, the OnePlus 3T is brighter than the O6T by a tiny notch, but I have to add that my OnePlus 3T is 2 years old and noticeably lost its max brightness, but it still beats the O6T!!!!
If you are wondering about my device, I went to 2 T-mobile stores in the area and compared brightness, they are the same as my unit, so it is safe to say that the O6T is a disappointing device when it comes to screen brightness...
I will edit this post if I get more info or if I need to correct something.

Does the Oneplus 6T support a HDR10 display?
I had the Xiaomi Mi8 Pro and that did.

Looks good on maximum brightness, or very close to it, but anything else looks quite dim.

I must say that the screen is quite dim. I have to keep the phone at 65% or more while indoors to get good visibility from the phone. Not sure what that's about, but highly disappointed.

i found the built in ambient brightness kept setting a little dark and was slow to react to going out into sunlight. switched to velis auto brightness and it is fine now.

thanks for the comments. Was comparing this phone to a couple of others for a blackfriday purchase. Sounds like this one is hard to view outside.

jake21 said:
thanks for the comments. Was comparing this phone to a couple of others for a blackfriday purchase. Sounds like this one is hard to view outside.
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I have zero issues with mine in direct sunlight.

I had to get ElementalX's HBM app to uncover the hidden 40%+ brightness of the screen.

geminium said:
I had to get ElementalX's HBM app to uncover the hidden 40%+ brightness of the screen.
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I dont know this app, yet. Does this app work on OnePlus 6T without rooting it?

Puddies said:
I dont know this app, yet. Does this app work on OnePlus 6T without rooting it?
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My apologies I didn't mention it. It has to be rooted

I find the screen itself bright enough. Just the auto brightness is a bit aggressive and can set it too low

But the auto brightness is learning!
It was constantly to low on my phone too. But I dragged it higher every time it was to low. After 1 week of annoying adjusting, it's working fine now!

For those who complains that they have to dial up the brightness slider:
I was like you too, complaining about the auto brightness. However, it has now changed to "adaptive brightness", meaning it learns from your preference. Just turn it on and manually adjust when the auto adjustment doesn't suit you, after a week or two it will get better thanks to machine learning in the system that will learn your preferences.
Also, I remember reading somewhere that the brightness slider now adjusts the brightness in a logarithmic scale instead of linear on older versions of Android.
You can read more about adaptive brightness from an article by Android Authority:
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-pie-adaptive-brightness-927080/
(Also if you are interested, and geeky enough , you can read this excellent article on Android Pie's logarithmic brightness curve here: https://medium.com/@Tunji_D/reverse...ies-logarithmic-brightness-curve-ecd41739d7a2)

The screen brightness is great indoors but not bright enough (even with auto brightness off and on the max setting) for use outside on a sunny day.
Anyone who says otherwise isn't being honest with themselves, with us or possibly both.

jeff7424 said:
For those who complains that they have to dial up the brightness slider:
I was like you too, complaining about the auto brightness. However, it has now changed to "adaptive brightness", meaning it learns from your preference.
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Ha! I wondered why I was so much less annoyed with the auto brightness in the last couple of weeks. Thanks for the tip!
Gotta say, have loved the battery life. I like my screen bright and for a while it forced me to behave.

geminium said:
I had to get ElementalX's HBM app to uncover the hidden 40%+ brightness of the screen.
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have you a link for this app please?

gege0202 said:
have you a link for this app please?
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Here we go
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.hbmwidget

geminium said:
Here we go
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.hbmwidget
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thank you and what setting do you use?

gege0202 said:
thank you and what setting do you use?
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You're welcome.
Nothing's fancy with the settings, I think I just made it auto (I believe everything's is by defaults)

Horrible Auto-Brightness

I was really hoping OnePlus has resolved this issue, it did it on the 6, the regular 6T and the McLaren. Anyone else experiences this? Where the phone just won't adjust? For example you walk outside and it takes it almost a couple min to kick the brightness into full gear. Another example is let's say you're laying in bed in the dark and all of the sudden it kicks it into full brightness and then slowly goes back to a more comfortable one. My S10+ never did such things, nor did it have problems quickly adjusting, if it did it was instant.

Yeah, I've noticed this as well. It's annoying.
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yes, it's horrible. I have to manually adjust brightness now

Yes! It's terrible
Sometimes it does adjust but does the EXACT opposite of what it should.
Go into bright light and it drops it to minimum brightness or blind me when it's dark

Would be nice if there is a way to fix this, or adjust. I'm looking at returning the phone, I couldn't stand that on the 6T.

Turn on adaptive brightness and change it whenever you want, it will learn over time. Mine did since I've had it since launch and it was awful, but now works great.

Root, Lux, done :good:

Anyone know where the proximity/light sensor is? Not sure where it is but the phone screen does turn off when you put it neae your face during a call.

I have the same issue and just like you I was hopong they fixed it since my last OP phone was the OP6. Can't believe they haven't fixed it in over a year. This is my only con about this phone but it is almost a deal breaker, yeah fingerprint sensor is incredibly fast compared to my S10+ but that doesn't matter if I have to do the extra step of manually adjust brightness every time I unlock the phone

Android Pie's adaptive brightness comes with auto-learn feature (which I hope was not disabled by OnePlus devs). So while having adaptive brightness enabled simply adjust brightness manually every time you want it to be different. It'll learn and improve over time.

Pfeffernuss said:
Root, Lux, done :good:
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Do You mean this one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux

C3C076 said:
Android Pie's adaptive brightness comes with auto-learn feature (which I hope was not disabled by OnePlus devs). So while having adaptive brightness enabled simply adjust brightness manually every time you want it to be different. It'll learn and improve over time.
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Knowing OnePlus they probably removed it haha

Pfeffernuss said:
Root, Lux, done :good:
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Lux was amazing before Android had native adaptive brightness. It's ancient now. Hasn't been updated in over 3 years because it's obsolete (sadly). I wouldn't use this any more.

News flash people. Auto brightness is a horrible feature in general on any phone. Especially when you can have full control over the brightness level from the quick settings pulldown.

338lm said:
Lux was amazing before Android had native adaptive brightness. It's ancient now. Hasn't been updated in over 3 years because it's obsolete (sadly). I wouldn't use this any more.
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Hahaha sure. Because of a full wipe "had to" use the stock automatic brightness for a few hours. Well, that was a nice heads up.
Adaptive brightness is completely useless. But, to each his own. Now fully enjoying my custom Lux setup again.

Anyone confirms the adaptive brightness work well after several days? I must use Lux because of this terrible auto brightness on Oneplus. LG V40 has very good auto brightness.

starrynighthn said:
Anyone confirms the adaptive brightness work well after several days? I must use Lux because of this terrible auto brightness on Oneplus. LG V40 has very good auto brightness.
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For me it works pretty good after using the phone for a couple of days. There are still minor adjustments to do, especially when going from bright sun into a dark room (for me the system sets the brightness too high, but nevertheless it adjusts pretty well and goes very low).

Using this accessibility one handed menu makes things a bit easier

it takes so long, usually i click the auto brightness icon twice to make it work

It seems a little slow catching up...