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When I have my nexus one set to automatically adjust brightness, it doesn't seem to do anything.
I can move it between dark and bright environments and the screen brightness doesn't seem to change at all. Am I missing something or is this feature not working on my phone?
It works fine with mine. I just clicked auto in the brightness setting. Make sure you didn't accidentally change it to a different setting with the settings widget that is by default on the first home page to the right.
works fine on mine yet not a feature i use....i just set it statically.
I find the auto-brightness to be too dim for my liking. It would be great if you could adjust the overall brightness while still maintaining the automatic scaling.
Turns out it does work, it just need to be *really* bright to make it change.
It doesn't change really at all in my office between switching the lights on and off (even though that's a really big change in light levels to me). However, if i go outside, it does get brighter.
As you say though, it does seem to be set a bit low (hence it not brightening up when my office lights are turned on I guess).
If I enable auto-brightness on mine, it seems to constantly vary the brightness in my office. It's annoying as crap and I turned it off. Am I the only one?
It's probably taking a look at the available APIs to see if it's easy to write a quick app to do auto brightness with settings to be able to tweak it.
The auto-brightness feature changes constantly for me as well.
I 'm also having issues of the varying brightness when using auto-brightness -- even though the lighting in my environment has not changed and I avoid contact with the light sensor. It's VERY annoying.
I've since switched to using a static setting for the brightness.
auto brightness was one of the first things i turned off. it was way too dim for me
Not bright enough for me. Doesnt seem to change much.
I do see the variability occasionally. Most of the time it's stable, but it will take spells of shifting up and down repeatedly. Glad to know I'm not alone.
Auto bright annoyed me as well when I first got the phone. Then I realized where the sensor is (top left) and what it was responding to. Depending on where I'm sitting, what light sources are behind me, in front of me but reflecting off of me. It's usually just responding to a light source that's just withing view of its sensor. Also, my hand has shielded the sensor more than just a few times, confusing the sensor.
Now I leave auto bright on all the time, and it more often than not does a good job.
IMHO this is one of the few broken features on the phone. In continuous lighting it jumps from bright to dim to everything in between like a jack rabbit on speed. I still use it to save battery life but it pisses me off regularly.
am also having this problem. it constantly goes much brighter, and then, suddenly goes back to dim.. very annoying... however, the light sensor for calling works well... so, is it a software issue.. hope it gets google's attention and gets fixed in next update...
Bicster_ said:
If I enable auto-brightness on mine, it seems to constantly vary the brightness in my office. It's annoying as crap and I turned it off. Am I the only one?
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+1 so I also manually go between three on the widget
Note that the light sensor is under the glass on the front of the phone. Some cover-all cases cover this, and if you use one of these I assume your phone will remain on the dimmest setting.
In general, while indoors it will remain on the dimmest setting (for me anyway), but rise to the necessary full brightness when in sunlight.
w00yee said:
am also having this problem. it constantly goes much brighter, and then, suddenly goes back to dim.. very annoying... however, the light sensor for calling works well... so, is it a software issue.. hope it gets google's attention and gets fixed in next update...
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There are two sensors, one is a light sensor and the other is a proximity sensor to detect when you've taken the phone from your ear. I think you're referring to the second.
w00yee said:
am also having this problem. it constantly goes much brighter, and then, suddenly goes back to dim.. very annoying... however, the light sensor for calling works well... so, is it a software issue.. hope it gets google's attention and gets fixed in next update...
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+1 constant occiliation on dimmness levles under consistant light. It goes from way too dim, to just right then back dark again. I too hope that google will correct this with the next update. Hopefully the patch gets pushed soon, i'd like that extra memory
Hi guys
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.
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.
mkurzum said:
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?
+1
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.
dadoc04 said:
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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.
EDIT: Wrong subforum, sorry.. please move to Q&A
Very happy with my 6T so far. Adaptive brightness has been a little bit wonky.
I work at my computer in a relatively dark environment. When I wake up my phone and look at it, brightness starts off around 15% and I can barely read the display. I hold my phone screen up to my monitor to get adaptive brightness to kick in, and brightness quickly goes up to about ~80% as expected. Then when I face it back towards me, it finally settles back in around 40% after a few seconds and stays there, which is perfect for my environment.
It seems like there's some kind of issue with adaptive brightness initializing the ideal brightness in a dimly lit environment. Yet it knows where the brightness should be set after it has been exposed to more light.
Is this all part of Android Pie or does OnePlus have some control over how this works?
Pie issue, I believe there is an app that helps, can't recall what the name is, most people seem happy with it.
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Mine does similar ,screen brightness fine ,then if unlock it comes back on very dim and I have to alert it in settings and adaptive doesn't always seem to work
The impression I get is that it isn't a learning adaptive as you see with Samsung, Pixel, and so on. You just get the same answer for the lighting every time it wakes up, or at least that's what I'm getting from mine.
Adaptive brightness is fully controlled by Pie. You can't set the base brightness in Pie and then let adaptive brightness control it from there.
Yeah I noticed the same thing too just a few days ago. Initially the phone handled fine, but now is always too low. Not sure where the sensor is, and if it is covered by the oem screen protector. If so then maybe that is the issue . The plastic OEM is a smudge magnet.
Yeah this was really annoying me last night. The brightness was fine, then I lock the screen, unlock and the screen is dim compared to before despite the light level staying the same. If I swipe down quick settings and toggle auto brightness off and on again it goes back up so it seems to be the auto brightness not picking up the correct level after unlocking the phone.
Guys have a read about adaptive brightness in Pie. Basically it learns from your behavior. You have to adjust it constantly to your liking and then the phone will learn after a week. Mine is noticeably better after 9 days. Almost perfect I would say. You just have to let it adapt and don't stop adjusting the brightness manually with adaptive option on.
App store, "Velis Auto Brightness", prolem solved..
I've noticed that the adaptive brightness is quite crap in oos. I never like adaptive brightness until I used a pie rom on my 5t, but op did something to the adaptive brightness and it definitely is not as good as Googles version
Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
download and setup Velis Auto Brightness from the play store, and you can get the same adaptive brightness..learns and after a few days the difference is great..
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Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
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Still broken and its been like that for some time. Hopefully in the coming builds it should be taken up as priority :good:
So far it's not that good for me but I have to give some more days to train itself to my usage behaviour. Will see.
I've noticed weird brightness issue at Auto Brightness turned off and when I set it at full. It is actually going even brighter when is brighter outside and it's getting darker again when going into darker environment and it is making me crazy because firstly I don't want my battery to drain more when using brightness sensor and actually don't like the feeling of brightness going up and down that's why I TURNED OFF autobrightness. Could you reproduce the same behavior?
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I've noticed weird brightness issue at Auto Brightness turned off and when I set it at full. It is actually going even brighter when is brighter outside and it's getting darker again when going into darker environment and it is making me crazy because firstly I don't want my battery to drain more when using brightness sensor and actually don't like the feeling of brightness going up and down that's why I TURNED OFF autobrightness. Could you reproduce the same behavior?
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Yes i have this when dark mode is turned on, Even with Auto brightness off it will still change the brightness when i am outside in the bright sun and it also changes the way the text appears adding sort of black lines on the edges of the letters (to give it more contrast ?). It's a feature not an issue i think it also doesn't happen indoors even when lights change. For some reason it only happens when it's very bright outside.
FairTraxx said:
Yes i have this when dark mode is turned on, Even with Auto brightness off it will still change the brightness when i am outside in the bright sun and it also changes the way the text appears adding sort of black lines on the edges of the letters (to give it more contrast ?). It's a feature not an issue i think it also doesn't happen indoors even when lights change. For some reason it only happens when it's very bright outside.
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Yeah, but every feature should have "turn off" button, but Xiaomi couldn't help it with forcing something on us as always...
Under Settings/Display/Contrast & colors try using either Increased contrast or Standard. NOT Automatic contrast.