Control your brightness when you slide your fingers across the top of it from left to right?
Mine does and I'm not sure if it did the first few days or even if it is supposed to....
Thanks
It only does it if auto brightness is off.
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Tpavey said:
It only does it if auto brightness is off.
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I was just gonna post I found that out too.. Thanks now I know my device isnt defective...
Holy crap, that's awesome! Finding out new cool **** with this phone everyday!
Cool. Nice find with that one. I just use the power settings widget to switch between the set brightness levels (keeping it on the lowest setting).
This was a thread in the Galaxy S forum and I tested it to make sure it worked on mine a few hours ago
Great find, thanks.
I am getting use to touch wiz. I don't know why people don't like tw. It has some good feature s.
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Wow, that's seriously awesome. Now I have no need for the automatic brightness, which always seems to keep the screen darker than I'd like.
This is pure awesomeness now that I know about this! I had just added the Power Control Widget so I could turn brightness up/down whenever I needed to. This is much, much easier and what I wanted since I can control everything else from the notifications already and faster.
My screen has randomly brightened or dimmed and I didn't know why. This explains a lot.
Pneumatic said:
My screen has randomly brightened or dimmed and I didn't know why. This explains a lot.
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Same here. All of a sudden it would be to the lowest brightness level then it'd be the highest and I'd be so confused on why it kept changing.
@sl8125: People didn't like TouchWiz because the previous version of TouchWiz was awful.
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I have my brightness setting as low as it will go. At night (darkness) it's still too bright. Is there a way to get the brightness even lower? Thanks.
i've been wondering this too, haha
i just keep everything on the lowest, and make sure the browser setting are adjusted too
Any solution yet?
Has any one found a way to this cos the brightness really hurts my eyes at night!
Thanks.
Try an app called dimmer in the market.It will set brightness to 10. The default low point is 30
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highv0ltage said:
I have my brightness setting as low as it will go. At night (darkness) it's still too bright. Is there a way to get the brightness even lower? Thanks.
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use a voodoo kernel with colorfix. the lowest brightness setting will be suitable at night after installation.
jl8935 said:
Try an app called dimmer in the market.It will set brightness to 10. The default low point is 30
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Thank you, the brightness is the cause of the headache I am currently experiencing, thanks a lot.
jl8935 said:
Try an app called dimmer in the market.It will set brightness to 10. The default low point is 30
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Thank you - I've been looking for something like this since I got my Vibrant. I'm also going to try Screen Filter and see which one works better.
Man screen filter works perfectly! ..cept for notification bar
Been trying to figure this out forever
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I am so glad that works!
So my original brightness setting was automatic and i was using it at bed one night. Decided it was too bright and brought the slider down to the minimum. The next day, I forgot all about it and used it as per normal. The brightness didnt even affect me. Before the streak, i was on the iphone 4 and when the brightness was low, its obvious.
I think the brightness could go even less before it becomes unreadable.
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So my original brightness setting was automatic and i was using it at bed one night. Decided it was too bright and brought the slider down to the minimum. The next day, I forgot all about it and used it as per normal. The brightness didnt even affect me. Before the streak, i was on the iphone 4 and when the brightness was low, its obvious.
I think the brightness could go even less before it becomes unreadable.
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I made a post about this very thing not to long ago. Auto and lowest setting suck when in a pitch black room.
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I agree the screen brightness is not dim enough at the lowest setting. Imagine the addition batterylife that would be saved if the streak could dim the screen even further . Maybe its a simple fix with next rom update, dell is aware of it.
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If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
My screen flicker when I reach less than 10% with adj screen brightness. Am I the only one ?
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If you click on the clock icon in the menu to bring up the clock, on that main page there is an icon on the top right, looks like a sun icon half colored in. Click on that and the brightness goes way down, so i know it can be set lower. I think its a sleep mode or something
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If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
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Thats pretty good.
Troute said:
If your Streak is rooted there's an app on the market called AdjBrightness that will do what you need. I think the Streak on it's own will only go to 30%, AdjBrightness lets you take it down to 5%.
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Wow, weird. Now, with that app installed, my extended control widget back light button controls the button backlights. Weird ****
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I noticed this as well, also I don't think the ambient light sensor is sensitive enough or not working at all because when I set mine to auto it doesn't adjust at all.
If your not rooted, check out the app screen filter.
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fone_fanatic said:
I noticed this as well, also I don't think the ambient light sensor is sensitive enough or not working at all because when I set mine to auto it doesn't adjust at all.
If your not rooted, check out the app screen filter.
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hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
keithdphan said:
hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
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Well the idea for me isn't saving battery, it not getting blinded in the dark room, such as in the middle of the night when I get a text and open the WHITE screen to read it
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hmmm, this app doesnt lower the backlight levels, but rather applys a darker tint/filter. kinda defeats the idea of saving batterylife.
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Well the display isn't as bright so in fact it does save battery...
And like the previous person, I don't use it to save battery but for when I'm using the device in a very dark area like before I go to sleep and I want to use the device.
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I have the lowest setting for the screen brightness but i noticed that it never stays on the lowest setting and seems to go a little brighter... prolly why my battery has been dying quicker this week... any explanation?
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Do you have autobrightness on? Check in settings/display
No, i don't....
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I have the lowest setting for the screen brightness but i noticed that it never stays on the lowest setting and seems to go a little brighter... prolly why my battery has been dying quicker this week... any explanation?
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Who know's. Maybe it's the lighting when you are walking between rooms or going from indoor to outdoors that has you thinking otherwise.
Personally, I use Brightness Level (CurveFish) from the Market. It's one of my favorite widgets simply because I can toggle on the fly. I have never noticed my screen brightness increasing when using it.
ok, so try going to 0 percent brightness in a dark room and start like moving around the menus, or using Tapatalk.. do you notice it randomly gets more dim, or more bright, on its own correlating to how much stuff is on the screen? like, I was in the touch buttons display menu and as I moved up and down I noticed sometimes it's brighter, and sometimes it's darker. I think the dna kind of did this too but not as harshly as this.
it's not on auto brightness. I'm on 0, but i think I've noticed this at other levels as well. yeah confirmed i notice it ever so slightly on 40 percent. hard to notice since it's brighter, have to look close. easiest to see on 0.
care to give it a try and let me know?
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it seems like it gets brighter when there's more white on the screen. when there's more gray or darker colors, it gets dimmer. seems to do it consistently on Tapatalk when going from like a thread full of white background and then going back to my subscribed which is only like 3 things, so 3 little white backgrounds and the rest is gray.. so it's dimmer there.
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and when I pull the keyboard up to reply, I'm using a gray keyboard... so it gets dim bc the screen has more dark color on it.. when I drop it down, it's gone and the screen has more white so it's brighter haha
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I haven't noticed any dimness or brightness. I have noticed a flickering of sorts on my call icon and home screen wallpaper. Maybe I'm going nuts or maybe its my eyes...doesn't bother me if its happening. Interesting though.
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Maybe it has to do with that graphic ram thats on the display. They said its suppose to save battery. Honestly i thought ive seen this happening on a couple of review videos.
oh yeah? I'm wondering the same. at 0 brightness my dna would change brightness levels around and I noticed it often.. wasn't as hard of a change as the g2 though but perhaps you're correct with the gram!
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jayochs said:
care to give it a try and let me know?
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It's called dynamic contrast and is present in all modern TVs and smartphones
Your TV set is probably CRT, hah?
I would think the constant change in brightness would mean sensors are constantly running and chewing up battery. But then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about
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heffzilla said:
I would think the constant change in brightness would mean sensors are constantly running and chewing up battery. But then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about
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Lol u sound like me, then again i have no idea what im talking about. Yeah i was just guessing on the graphic ram. But i coulda swore on one of the vids i saw the phone was really bright and then it changed and was noticeably dimmer, let me see if i can find it, could have been auto brightness but in the same lighted area it was a huge change if it was. Do u have auto brightness on?
Mine almost flickers if I have auto brightness on,its very subtle but it's there
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Billy Madison said:
It's called dynamic contrast
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this. Maybe once its rooted we can find where that is defined... hopefully it is not something supper deep within the code and is something simple like a variable.
Billy Madison said:
It's called dynamic contrast and is present in all modern TVs and smartphones
Your TV set is probably CRT, hah?
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lmfao jerk nah man i have hdtvs... i've never seen that before.
do you know the explanation as to why it does it? I'm glad it's not just my phone lol. what's the point? save battery?
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My G Pro have same problem too.
But i notice when only watching movies, and not always. weird
Here is how it is disabled on Tegra 3 devices. I'm sure there is just an easy of a way for qualcomms chip... we just have to find it after we get rooted
can't wait for root!
btw, there was a secret menu for the att version where you could turn off the dimming when the phone got hot. if we could get that menu maybe we could turn that
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jayochs said:
can't wait for root!
btw, there was a secret menu for the att version where you could turn off the dimming when the phone got hot. if we could get that menu maybe we could turn that
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Yeah buddy.. i forgot to include my link.. like an idiot. Here is what i was referring to lol.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1834387
I'm not sure if it's the same thing as dynamic contrast, but it also sounds similar to some content-aware brightness settings included in some ROMs.
Does auto brightness even work on this phone? I will pull down the notification shade, uncheck auto brightness, put the brightness all the way down, check the auto brightness box and it does absolutely nothing. Anyone else notice this?
Upon further review, if I go to settings and display settings and check the box from there, it seems to work. Maybe it's just broken in the pulldown notification shade?
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Mine gets dimmer when texting...
WizeGuyDezignz said:
Does auto brightness even work on this phone? I will pull down the notification shade, uncheck auto brightness, put the brightness all the way down, check the auto brightness box and it does absolutely nothing. Anyone else notice this?
Upon further review, if I go to settings and display settings and check the box from there, it seems to work. Maybe it's just broken in the pulldown notification shade?
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Yes I felt the same. There is absolutely no change i noticed when i set the auto brightness. I just set it to 30% manually. Not sure if there is a issue with the sensor or just the software..
Can someone please explain how the auto-brightness works on this phone it seems to act a lot weirder than my galaxy nexus did. What does it mean when it talks about setting the baseline brightness and in what context? Do you use it? If so what brightness do you have it set to?
This phone has the worst auto-brightness of any device I've used.
I need to read the manual. I'm assuming the baseline is the minimum brightness, but it never seems to change when expected.
I chose to use a 3rd party app to manage it. Lux auto brightness works really well, and you can calibrate it any way you'd like.
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I have mine set to 40% on auto. I found the best way to decide the minimum brightness was to set it at a comfortable level in a dark environment.
To test this, set up your minimum brightness, then point the screen (ambient light sensor) at a light source, keep your eye on the screen and it'll gradually brighten. I've found mine to work pretty well and rarely have to manually override it, but the change is a lot slower than my note 2.
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Get lux lite from the play store. It works great
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Comfortable in a dark room for me is about 5%, unfortunately even in the brightest of sun it seems like the phone never turns its brightness up at all when on auto like this. Anything less than 50% seems to break auto brightness for my device and that is just sad. Even when it works when set above 50%, it takes 5 seconds or so to adjust which is just terrible and the brightness seems to still act funny about how and when it decides to change. It really is the worst auto brightness ever.
Whoops!
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I chose to use a 3rd party app to manage it. Lux auto brightness works really well, and you can calibrate it any way you'd like.
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zandroid said:
Get lux lite from the play store. It works great
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Thanks for the recommendation guys that app seems to work sooooo much better than the stock auto brightness so far. The stock auto-brightness is garbage on this phone. Seems like the stock setting either doesn't get bright enough or doesn't get dark enough.
I don't agree, either I have a working phone or others are broke, but this is the best autobright performing phone I've every used, after the hd2, galaxy nexus, note 1 and note 2. Its perfect according to the ambient light situation and is really fast acting
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Have any of ya'll tried this yet? I have seen this issue arise when I lower my brightness but this was posted earlier today and I havent tested it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2466268
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Have any of ya'll tried this yet? I have seen this issue arise when I lower my brightness but this was posted earlier today and I havent tested it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2466268
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it doesn't work.
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