It seems that the phone brightness and the browser are not one in the same. I have auto turned off in the phone settings as well as power saving mode off. I typically use the notification bar slide method to adjust brightness and it works great on everything except the stock browser. It keeps getting jacked up to full on it's own, and even when I turn it down, the bookmark screen has a different intensity.
Is this a problem specific to my phone or the OS in general. I'm running stock at the moment as I haven't been brave enough to root my phone yet.
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browser brightness is its own setting.
while the browser is open hit the menu button, then the more option.
brightness settings is at the bottom.
Found it, so at least I know I'm not crazy. Still find it odd though that I can change the brightness of the browser with the notification slide, but it apparently doesn't save unless you change it directly in the browser setting.
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Amazing, isn't it?
Makes one wonder if Sammy even has a Usability Lab at all.
I'm guessing "no".
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I'm after a widget so i can dim the screen more easily than dropping into setting after setting.
There's loads i hear you shout..
Well all i've tried set the screen nice and dim for the screen only to getting brighter again as soon as the app is closed. I've tried it with auto adjust brightness on and off and all allow the system to revert back to the initial brightness set.
Help before the wife kills me while i midnight browse in bed.
All of the widgets i have used do the same thing as you describe. The 'Toggle Settings' app works fine for me though.
EDIT: no it doesn't. Arse.
yup tried that and failed lol
also tried making a short cut to the systems settings for brightness but failed on that as well.
Noticed something possibly odd about this- The brightness scales on Toggle Settings and in the actual settgngs menu have a different scale. It's possible to make the TOggle Settings app say that you have minus 10% brightness.
I've no idea if that helps
anything new about this? i tried some, but they all changed the brightness for a short time, and then the hero changed it back
I want the Browswer to either,
1 - utilize the auto brightness function
2 - keep the brightness the same as what my setting is on
Is this that hard to do? why does the browser get it's own friggin brightness setting? At lease give us an option to take route 1 or route 2 on top of being able to change it.
Definitely something to think about in future roms.
And here is another example of why I despise auto brightness settings on screens. I like mine cranked all the way...except on my Sharp Aquos because that would lead to retinal bleeding at over 450nits
Just swipe from left to right along the notification bar to change the brightness to what you want.
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hurrpancakes said:
Just swipe from left to right along the notification bar to change the brightness to what you want.
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i'd much prefer it automatically matching the brightness to the system setting. Hopefully, that will be fixed in the upcoming roms.
BTW, to increase screen brightness, turn Power Savings off in the Display settings. Doing this keeps the screen at 100% all the time --the browser and other apps will not dim the display anymore.
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Very annoying. I have no idea why someone would do this. It makes no sense.
coolguy949 said:
Very annoying. I have no idea why someone would do this. It makes no sense.
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love the setting. most of my browsing is done indoors where i want brightness set to MIN to save battery. for all regular phone use I want to setting to be at AUTO
kolyan said:
love the setting. most of my browsing is done indoors where i want brightness set to MIN to save battery. for all regular phone use I want to setting to be at AUTO
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Same here, i don't need a very bright screen to browse
But having a auto for browser is basic setting in my mind though
kolyan said:
love the setting. most of my browsing is done indoors where i want brightness set to MIN to save battery. for all regular phone use I want to setting to be at AUTO
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But then you go outside and you can't see your screen because it's so low. This is specifically the reason it bugs me. I too love low brightness indoors but it sucks when you can't see the screen very well to turn it back up.
My only complaint is every page has to be white like a bright sheet of paper.
Back in the old days, computers had white text on black screens. Worked great at night or in dark rooms.
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My only complaint is every page has to be white like a bright sheet of paper.
Back in the old days, computers had white text on black screens. Worked great at night or in dark rooms.
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Also consume less battery with black background
I have a problem where the screen brightness varies by itself without any input from me. I have turned off automatic brightness and set the screen brightness at the lowest level in an attempt to save battery life. However, when I use the phone at a later time I would recognize a difference in the screen brightness. When I go to check it in settings, the screen brightness level is set at a different level.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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Go into settings sound and brightness and uncheck the power saving option at the bottom and ofcourse make sure u uncheck auto brightness.
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Yeah I've done both of those things.
Gagstr said:
also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That must be it! Thanks! I must have swiped left/right on the top of the screen without realizing it. Kind of annoying for them to sneak in a feature like that. I can see it being useful but I prefer the power control widget. Any idea how I can disable that feature of touchwiz?
getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
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getting ridd of touchwiz was the first thing i did when i got my epic so i dont really know much about it .
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How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
There was a thread on here for that from what i can remember, i cant look for it right at this moment because im at work but you should be able to find it yourself. Search for "removing touchwiz UI" if you cant find it go to google (it might have been a diff forum/Blog it was a few days ago).
You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
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You guys can change your home screen launcher, but you won't be able to get rid of TouchWiz until a vanilla ROM comes out. The ability to adjust adjust your brightness via swipe on the notification bar is - for better or worse (better imho) - not dependant on you using the TW launcher.
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If you root the epic, you CAN manually uninstall all touchwiz packqages to remove the ui...
That notification taskbar swipe is pretty handy tho... thanks to whoever shared it... I like to keep my screen dim for the most part... but that is soooo much easier to use when, say I go outside and need to adjust quickly! It even works in landscape mode! Nice!
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bojackson63044 said:
How did you get rid of touchwiz? I installed Launcherpro over it but that doesn't do away with touchwiz.
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Root your Epic, download Root Explorer from market (worth the price), make sure you already have Launcher PRO running, then go to running applications and force close TouchWiz30Launcher then go to root explorer > system > app (make sure you mount it as r/w) > and delete TouchWiz30Launcher.apk and .odex, then reboot and that's it.
You can also use terminal app if you're familiar with commands.
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also i read in another post that the TouchWiz user interface has a built in feature that will adjust brightness when you swip your finger at the top of the screen, making it brighter when you swipe left to right and dimming the screen when you swipe right to left.
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That... is... awesome! Did not know that. Guess I can get rid of the brightness app since adjusting the brightness through the menu on the fly was painfully boring.
I'm sorry if this has been answered already, but why does my screen dim when I open certain applications? Most notably in the browser. I have the brightness turned all the way up without auto-brightness and it still does this. I've even checked and un-check the power-saver option at the bottom to see if it makes a difference.
There is a separate brightness adjustment in the browser settings.
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Sweet. Didn't have that on my old phones. Thanks!
has anyone noticed that in the web browser, brightness reduces to about 30%?
I have the setting on manual to about 70%; every time I go to the browser it automatically reduces the brightness [WTF] if I hit the home button it comes back to the previous setting I chose. if i use the quick bar and go to a recent app it automatically goes back to normal
also even though it reduces brightness in the browser if I use the quick brightness setting it still shows what I had it set to. If I choose the auto brightness setting and then switch to manual again it gets bright again but as soon as I browse to another page it goes to reduced brightness
The browser has a separate brightness setting, just hit the menu button in the browser, and there will be a brightness setting don't worry it threw me off at first too.
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