Evo screen is brighter than most phones with AUTO light sensor on = more battery drain.
Just found app "screen adjuster". It works along with LIGHT SENSOR. I'm setting it to 50%. So it's half the brightness and you keep the auto sensor on.
https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uZXRtYW5zbGFiLnNhIl0.
Going to try it out. I've thought the same thing for a long time. Thanks for the suggestion!
Tried this app out not sure how much battery it would save replacing the brightness with an app constantly running in the background considering it has to run 24/7 to maintain the brightness level I doubt it would save any battery if not kill it faster than the brightness level since 1. Brightness is off when screen is off but this is still running while screen is off and 2. The brightness only goes all the way up when you are in bright light so you can see the screen setting the app at 50% is really pointless since on auto the screen is at 50 - 70% when you are indoors
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I think your points are valid, but just wanna throw out that I think the OP is saying the baseline screen brightness is too high. At all levels.
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@Evil
I think your points are valid, but just wanna throw out that I think the OP is saying the baseline screen brightness is too high. At all levels.
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It only sets Max at whatever level u set it to then autos from there, and it runs ~5mb ram constantly so it really doesn't do a whole lot it just sets, as an example, u set it to 80% with the app then on auto ur brightness goes from min to 80% and back to min or in between the two it doesn't dim all levels, and runs constantly so I would say its more trouble than its worth it would be nice if u could just set a lower Max and not need the app running 24/7
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Tried this app out not sure how much battery it would save replacing the brightness with an app constantly running in the background considering it has to run 24/7 to maintain the brightness level I doubt it would save any battery if not kill it faster than the brightness level since 1. Brightness is off when screen is off but this is still running while screen is off and 2. The brightness only goes all the way up when you are in bright light so you can see the screen setting the app at 50% is really pointless since on auto the screen is at 50 - 70% when you are indoors
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There MANY processes constantly running in the background, the OS is smart enough to pause most of these processes when in sleep mode (display off). For example, if you use the light sensor and your phone is off the sensor is not being polled anymore.
Setting 50% means if the brightness is normally at 100 it would be 50, if it was normally 50-70 indoors it would be really be 25-35 with the app.
Or a lower baseline, which I believe is the OPs point. But yes, running an extra ap is an inefficient way to do that.
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There MANY processes constantly running in the background, the OS is smart enough to pause most of these processes when in sleep mode (display off). For example, if you use the light sensor and your phone is off the sensor is not being polled anymore.
Setting 50% means if the brightness is normally at 100 it would be 50, if it was normally 50-70 indoors it would be really be 25-35 with the app.
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The app doesn't pause it runs as a notification task killers don't touch it, and it doesn't work the way u think in lower light it will stay at 50% it just prevents the screen from going past where u set it it doesn't change the values of anything in the sensor just stops the screen from going above x% so if ur in a bright room where ur screen would be at 50% and u have it set to 50% it would still be at 50% not 25%, what I'm trying to say is the app doesn't work the way its advertised
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This was on my list of things to be fixed nearly from the start but nobody, especially devs, seemed to care.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=716547
Display brightness
Based on experience what are the optimal display settings for the best battery life?
lol 0% is the optimum setting. really, the more its off, the more you save. the less its off, the more you save. its really up to your eyes and what you can tolerate. i just have a widget, at night i flip it to 0, and during the day if i'm out doors and in doors i leave it on auto, and if i'm indoors like at work, i leave it at 25%. what sucks is i don't smoke in my apt, so when i wake up i go outside for a cig and my screen's at 0, and i'm trying to read it in the sunlight to turn it back on lol... buuuuuut, i'm sure my way saves more battery than using an app that is constantly running
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Which preference do you use? Is automatic brightness option best for battery saving?
i remember it was an official battery saving tip for iPhone and wondered if it's the case for N1.
eh, just keep it on the lowest brightness... thats the best bet
the problem with auto-brightness is that it fluctuates a bit too much if you're in a room with localised lights and shadows... even in a seemingly bright area to your eyes, the display will go to lowest brightness... i just found it personally annoying, as it would usually fluctuate when i wasn't expecting, and to a lower brightness than i could stand... i've since stopped using it... i set my brightness manually to about 25%... for me that's a good balance between a usuable brightness for all conditions, while still giving good battery life...
I use auto brightness with locale which toggles it on and off based on my location. But even before I did that I really didn't notice to much of a difference in battery levels at the end of the day.
I just wish there were min and max settings for auto brightness. Cause I am pretty sure I have never needed the brightness turned all the way up.
i prefer auto brightness if it works. my 1st N1 had a glitch where the screen brightness used to flicker. on my 2nd N1 the auto brightness does not adjust on full scale........(if you go into 100% dark room, the brightness setting must automatically drop to 0)
I too found that the auto-brightness flickered too much. I downloaded Brightness Level off the marketplace and never looked back...
Auto-brightness fluctuates too much for my liking. So, I just keep it set to middle brightness.
the light sensor is unstable, so manually 25% all the time..
Auto brightness too dark
In my Nexus autobrightness works ok outdoors, but indoors it sets the light too dark. I wish it`d work fine because it's a waste of time adjusting it manually every time you move into different light conditions.
I've read Nexus users report different behaviours of their light sensors, maybe it is a bad quality component of the phone. Is there an app which can modify the sensibility of the light sensor? Would be great to adjust this sensibility and set brightness always to auto with a little more brightness indoors in my case.
manual, 25% - the best balance of battery and light for me.
i use about 60%. I hated the automatic brightness because it was darker than I would like most of the time.
My position is, I bought a phone that has a high resolution, so why not give it the brightness to make the color "pop" like they should.
I have been experimenting with brightness on my sgs and how it relates to battery life. So should I keep the brightness on auto or the lowest?
I have noticed that when my brightness is set on lowest, the phone will sometime turn the brightness up a lot for no reason. I think it should be on auto brightness.
Ideas?
on the notification bar up there if you sweep it left our right it'll adjust the brightness too, just found that or. pretty damned annoying.
my brightness is on it's lowest always, unless I need to see in the sun.
Adevem said:
on the notification bar up there if you sweep it left our right it'll adjust the brightness too, just found that or. pretty damned annoying.
my brightness is on it's lowest always, unless I need to see in the sun.
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Yeah.. In Froyo they don't have that "feature" (hopefully they don't enable it either).
I keep my light down to minimum too. I've had no probs looking at the screen here, but then again, it is winter and I am an evening person..
I'd say lowest setting is the best, the screen isn't difficult to see even at it's lowest. brightest just makes everything look more vibrant and awesome. you can have a separate brightness setting for the browser too.
i set mine to manual
the auto doesn't work well, i like it bright, and in auto mode, it is not bright enough for me
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I have been experimenting with brightness on my sgs and how it relates to battery life. So should I keep the brightness on auto or the lowest?
I have noticed that when my brightness is set on lowest, the phone will sometime turn the brightness up a lot for no reason. I think it should be on auto brightness.
Ideas?
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You are right. If you have your brightness set to Manual, you can adjust brightness by sliding left or right on the notification bar at the top.
It's a problem because you can by accident set it to high and therefore drain your battery fast.
I have setup Tasker to set brightness to 40 once every hour. 40 is about 16% of full brightness.
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I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
Noticed this too but seems to only occur when I use a widget to toggle between Auto and 100%.
If I leave the setting in Auto from within settings then it seems to work. Brightness widgets seem to break the auto functionality.
Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
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Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
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Must be an all around bug then. If you turn the Atrix off and back on then the auto brightness functionality is restored.
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I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
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This must be an Android thing. My Atrix does the same thing, as did the Nexus One I had before. I've had several (high end) Nokia's that dimmed/brightened perfectly. After 5 seconds, they would brighten (or dim) accordingly. I was hoping Motorola was better at making phones than HTC (the KING of bad battery life). We ALL lose here. Our precious battery life is being drained by the poor execution of a simple function.
This is a stock android thing (problem). Custom ROMs can allow it to dim and change brightness smoothly rather than in discrete steps (Cyanogen).
That's what I thought. I found this free app called "esdimmer". It supposed to be for Galaxy phones, but it's somewhat working on my Atrix. Does this function work any better in Gingerbread?
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Well it's good to hear that it's a stock android problem and not the actual phone. I did find a way to get around this problem but it's very limited. You can get the screen to dim by first putting the phone into standby and then press the standby button once again (which gets you into the lock screen). You'll notice that the screen then dims (if coming from a well lit area/room to a darker one).
full brightness of note 4 can reach upto 750 nits but for that i have to go under direct sun behind my head while using phone. that happens only in the automatic mode sure but is there a way i can achieve that manually ??? sometimes i need more brightness outdoor, real peak brightness only pops when sun is shining directly on the phone .... other than that brightness seems to be moderate .... if i could achieve that manually i would love it to be used under any condition i want
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full brightness of note 4 can reach upto 750 nits but for that i have to go under direct sun behind my head while using phone. that happens only in the automatic mode sure but is there a way i can achieve that manually ??? sometimes i need more brightness outdoor, real peak brightness only pops when sun is shining directly on the phone .... other than that brightness seems to be moderate .... if i could achieve that manually i would love it to be used under any condition i want
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Why do you need much brightness ?
I tend to lower it as much as i can for 2 reasons
Battery life
My Eyes (High brightness causes fatigue)
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Why do you need much brightness ?
I tend to lower it as much as i can for 2 reasons
Battery life
My Eyes (High brightness causes fatigue)
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when im outside but sun is not directly hitting the screen. at that point brightness is average .... i want full brightness at that time, the one which i get when sun light is hitting the screen directly
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when im outside but sun is not directly hitting the screen. at that point brightness is average .... i want full brightness at that time, the one which i get when sun light is hitting the screen directly
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Well i cant help just telling you that it is not good
Iv been thinking a lot about this as well as im outside all day and a lot of the time i could use more brightness, carrying an extra battery isnt a problem.
I Cant seem to get my full 750 nits of brightness to work at all. Iv tried everything, being in direct sun light the screen stayes the same brightness, which is the full brightness when the phone is set to the highest without it being on auto.
Iv tried puting the phone near very bright lights, yea nothing works. Any suggestions, thanks
edit:nevermind I figured it out, I went all out this time and stuck the phone in front of a giant workroom light, the kind you hang with the prongs, so yea I see the 750 nits now. I have to hold it up directly to it, I dont see how in any real world use the sun could get that bright enough to make any difference. Id like that brightness all the time when im shooting outdoors, we have the ability to change batteries, why not use that feature to its fullest.
Umm turn off auto brightness and adjust the the brightness manually.....
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Umm turn off auto brightness and adjust the the brightness manually.....
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see with the note 4, the manual brightness doesnt go all the way up to the screens capable brightness 750 nits, it has to be on auto brightness, then when its hit by a strong beam of direct light, the full brightness of the screen turns on, 750 nits. Just setting it manually the screen brightness only goes to 350.
Automatic brightness enabled on my new OP6T. It constantly goes too dim, where I have to slide it up some to see the screen better.
Unlocking the phone an hour later, in same low light setting, the screen has auto dimmed itself too low again.
Anyone else feel it goes too dim on its own? Or have a solution for me?
A maximum dimness setting would be nice. Not sure if that exists though.
I'm with you 100% it keeps defaulting back to a brightness that's way to low for the environment have to constantly raise it manually. A minimum brightness setting between certain hours would be great.
I wonder if something like that can be done in tasker, keep automatic brightness on, but set the minimum to 25% or so during certain hours.
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I'm with you 100% it keeps defaulting back to a brightness that's way to low for the environment have to constantly raise it manually. A minimum brightness setting between certain hours would be great.
I wonder if something like that can be done in tasker, keep automatic brightness on, but set the minimum to 25% or so during certain hours.
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This exactly!
It's generally really low. The worst is in the dark, it's almost unseeable, unless you manually adjust it.
Phone has great battery life I just crank it 100% outdoors and 75% indoors.
I agree with what others have stated but that's why the battery life is good...I'll drain it to appease my eyeballs.
Does lux work?
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hopefully can be fixed with an update...
My phone was like this for the first day or two. After that it's been just fine.
I don't know if it fixed itself, or I've just gotten used to it. I'm thinking the first because it was really dark.
I have observed this on different phones. So I suppose this is an android issue. The brightness goes too low than its supposed to or it will keep adjusting. I've tried lux auto brightness on other phones, it works perfectly. But due to lack of updates I've stopped using it lately. Custom ROMs seem to handles auto brightness very well. I've tried Cyanogen and Resurrection remix on moto x play and Honor 8 pro, auto brightness was never a bother on them. Which was not the case with the OS they came installed with.
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I've compared this yo my pixel 3xl and in low light situations its noticeably darker. After a few days I'm already used to it.
The smart adaptive brightness adjusts to your usage over time, once you manually raise it afew times in various situations it will adapt to this. Mine was dim to begin with but after 2 days it's fine.
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hopefully can be fixed with an update...
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LUX works after enable it in usage access. Settings>apps¬ification>special apps access>usage access.