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Decrease brightness

Especially at night the screen of the phone is to bright for my opinion.
Is there any app to decrease the brightness of the screen?

Screenfilter
On market + free = Awesome

What a brilliant little app. That is exactly what I've, been looking for...
Superb!
The only remaining thing I'd like would be a way to turn the screen negative too, so that I can flip bright white web pages to being black background instead. Happy to have the distorted photo colours this would induce.
Although thinking laterally, the better way to solve this in the browser itself might be with local css style sheet over-ride, (if it was possible?).
The negative screen mode would still be useful to flip other bright white apps though. Of course ideally, the screen would be negative inverted as well as having this screen filter available too, so that you could convert background to black and still also reduce brightness of text.
Anyone know if such a feature exists, or could be created easily?
Thanks
Mike

Daneshm90 said:
Screenfilter
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wtf I changed it too zero couldnt see anything
had to remove the battery to reboot the phone
SIlly mistake

You don't need an app, just run your finger left/right on the notification bar to increase/decrease brightness.

sionyboy said:
You don't need an app, just run your finger left/right on the notification bar to increase/decrease brightness.
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the minimum brightnes is still too strong in dark, therefore is screenfilter needed

Lowest you can get from the notification bar is down to 8%.
With a few different brightness widgets you can get down to 0%, which is still blindingly bright and not much darker than 8% to be honest... especially at night in a dark room!
This "screen filter" software lets you make the screen much darker than 0% by adding a grey lens over the whole screen for when you want it darker. It works really well.
Mike

Wow i didn know screenfilter exist. *Rushing to check it out*. Finally no more blinding light when in my bedroom.

ScreenFilter
don't set it all the way down lol

Small Request to whoever has the Note

Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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kunalparwani said:
Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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Most lockscreen wallpapers look horrible on my Note, not sure if my 240dpi is causing this. I use another lockscreen app set to transparent, so I don't care.

The Note's screen is 24 bit, so a picture with 16 or 8 bit depth might not be rendered properly.
Best to find a 24 bit image to test, try Google search.

kunalparwani said:
Hey! Can someone with a note set a pre black background a the lock screen background and report whether it looks normal? Someone had reported a problem with the gallery background with a black image, but I couldn't find a mention of lock screen there. Just google image search "black" and download and set it as lock screen. Seems to be giving me pinkish hues... same image works fine as a desktop background...
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Something weird is going on with the background on the lockscreen when i use a black picture.
Its greyish with stripes and stuff... realy strange... the same pic works fine as a homescreen background.

robertsydbrink said:
Something weird is going on with the background on the lockscreen when i use a black picture.
Its greyish with stripes and stuff... realy strange... the same pic works fine as a homescreen background.
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Same here.

Good to know that I'm not alone. Every other background seems fine. Same thing happens with the gallery background when the only image in the folder is a pitch black one, right?

Bigmille said:
The Note's screen is 24 bit, so a picture with 16 or 8 bit depth might not be rendered properly.
Best to find a 24 bit image to test, try Google search.
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Well all those images render fine in other applications on the phone so its the lockscreen wallpaper 'setter' wich messes it up I think.

Ya, I'm pretty sure too that that is the case...

I have a black lockscreen and it looks great.
I have noticed that when I have 'screen filter' app running, it dims the foreground but causes the background to do the 'grey' thing.
I have most of the auto display stuff turned off (auto brightness, auto adjust screen power)
- Frank

Looks like the same problem as with the video playback:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714

MartijnMM said:
Looks like the same problem as with the video playback:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344714
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That guy mentions that his blacks aren't completely black. Our problem here is that setting a completely black image as the lockscreen leads to a messed pattern with greyish/pinkish stripes...

edit ; same thing occurs on mine. I even created two black background non compressed, 24 bit, one even with 285 dpi.. both show the wierd little gray stripes on lock screen. only notice it in very dim light by the way and even then if i look very close.
this is what i use. both screens look black as night.
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bedspringlex said:
this is what i use. both screens look black as night.
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So no lock screen issue with your phone?

wonderwout said:
Most lockscreen wallpapers look horrible on my Note, not sure if my 240dpi is causing this. I use another lockscreen app set to transparent, so I don't care.
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Use the darker red "sun" wallpaper gallery image - awesome on mine!

I have the same problem...
Has anyone tried restoring?

I set a black image and got the very dark grey bars others have described. However, I reset it to the original wallpaper and noticed that the white-ish parts of my background has bars as well! Just not as noticeable, and its only on the lock screen.
This is my background picture by the way:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2754/yellow_autumn.html

There seems to be some kind of gradient over the image on the lock screen - I'm just using the default for now, but if you set the default as your normal background as well as lock background, there's quite a difference. Could it be this gradient which is causing the issue with pure black backgrounds?

I'm using widget locker and here is my lockscreen with the homescreen wall paper which uses solid black background color

I am having the same issue. I just noticed it yesterday. I really thought it had something to do with the phone going below the minimum brightness it was designed for, but if you look at the notification bar it's still a clean black.
My guess is the phone is compressing the lockscreen wallpaper to save memory.

ph00ny said:
I'm using widget locker and here is my lockscreen with the homescreen wall paper which uses solid black background color
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Can people try WL (If you've purchased it) and see if it does the job?

Screen colour problem, please help

I was looking at Google Map when I noticed the colours changing. It was as if the contrast was suddenly being reduced making the colours look washed out. When I went to my Home screen my windmill live wallpaper is also looking washed out because the grass no longer looks very green. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I attach some screen captured to show what it looks like.

Gaugerer said:
I was looking at Google Map when I noticed the colours changing. It was as if the contrast was suddenly being reduced making the colours look washed out. When I went to my Home screen my windmill live wallpaper is also looking washed out because the grass no longer looks very green. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I attach some screen captured to show what it looks like.
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Go to settings>display>screen mode you have changed the color management. And see if you have enabled auto adjust screen power. Maybe on of those are responsible.
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Do you use Custom Power saving?
Could be your battery running out, so its reducing your display to save power.

Braxos said:
Go to settings>display>screen mode you have changed the color management. And see if you have enabled auto adjust screen power. Maybe on of those are responsible.
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I've tried various settings but nothing solves the problem.

white-note said:
Do you use Custom Power saving?
Could be your battery running out, so its reducing your display to save power.
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I'm not using power management and I have the phone on charge.

I've discovered why there's a difference in my Google Maps screens. It seems that sometimes the map is overlaid with a white circle which makes it look washed out. I attach a screen shot so you can see what it looks like. I think the circle is highlighting an area around my satnv location.
But I'm still not happy with my windmill which still looks washed out.

The colours on my windmill home screen have mysteriously returned to normal

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The colours on my windmill home screen have mysteriously returned to normal
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wow man there is a huge difference.... no way my gnote is not doing this for sure... try to upgrade to 2.3.6 and see if that fixes it

you're sure it's not a 'feature' of the windmill LIVE wallpaper?
On the second image you have good weather, the sun is shining. On the first image however, it seems as if you have bad weather, no sun, only clouds, thus the gray layer.
So maybe it's nothing the Note is responsible for, but the weather dependend Live Wallpaper.

I know is not the same problem but maybe related,my device have some brightness change in the display,many times i'm reading and see the screen do some dimming the screen lower down the brightness and go back after like 30 seconds to the normal bright,I have enable the Auto screen power but i try desable and the result are the same.

UpSpin said:
you're sure it's not a 'feature' of the windmill LIVE wallpaper?
On the second image you have good weather, the sun is shining. On the first image however, it seems as if you have bad weather, no sun, only clouds, thus the gray layer.
So maybe it's nothing the Note is responsible for, but the weather dependend Live Wallpaper.
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I think you are probably right for nothing has changed except the weather.

[Q] Live wallpaper changes and restricts lock effect to light beam?

Decided to try out having live origami as my wallpaper, I love it. subtle, not too distracting, low battery consumption and it changes regularly, perfect for my ADD for wallpapers.
However, when I go into settings>display>wallpaper>home+lock and change it to live origami, my homescreen changes no problem, the lock screen does too. But then it resets it to having the light-shaft unlock effect and greys out the option in the lock screen settings.
Is there anyway to prevent this or re-toggle the 'no effect'(just the icon of a lock)?

Did you figure it out
I'm having the same issue as you. Just wondering if you've figured this out already.

MentalToast said:
Decided to try out having live origami as my wallpaper, I love it. subtle, not too distracting, low battery consumption and it changes regularly, perfect for my ADD for wallpapers.
However, when I go into settings>display>wallpaper>home+lock and change it to live origami, my homescreen changes no problem, the lock screen does too. But then it resets it to having the light-shaft unlock effect and greys out the option in the lock screen settings.
Is there anyway to prevent this or re-toggle the 'no effect'(just the icon of a lock)?
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Change homescreen only. Can't have live wallpaper on lockscreen and have the light or ripples. Same thing on Note2 with ripple
I think it has to do with performance and possibly look. Samsung can't conttol what the interaction would look like between the live wallpaper and the ripple/light beam.
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_Dennis_ said:
Change homescreen only. Can't have live wallpaper on lockscreen and have the light or ripples. Same thing on Note2 with ripple
I think it has to do with performance and possibly look. Samsung can't conttol what the interaction would look like between the live wallpaper and the ripple/light beam.
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Kind of the opposite of what my isue is
it defaults TO the light effect and then locks it out from trying anything else. so I have live wallpaper and am forced into the light effect also

smearing issue after mea update

So the smearing issue was supposed to be fixed on the MEA update, yes it did but only for the settings. There's still smearing issues under notifications.
Try this, make sure you have a lot of notifications, enough so you can scroll up and down, now turn brightness to the lowest or set auto brightness. Now scroll up and down and the smearing effect is back.
To be honest I'm kinda disappointed with Samsung this year.

Jason2k13 said:
So the smearing issue was supposed to be fixed on the MEA update, yes it did but only for the settings. There's still smearing issues under notifications.
Try this, make sure you have a lot of notifications, enough so you can scroll up and down, now turn brightness to the lowest or set auto brightness. Now scroll up and down and the smearing effect is back.
To be honest I'm kinda disappointed with Samsung this year.
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It isn't completely fixed. I encounter it when scrolling through the list of apps. It is very noticeable if you have the flipboard app or any app with red icons.

They didn't really fix it. They just changed the background color from true black to something close to black and doing the same for the pure white color. So, it doesn't apply to anything other than Settings and Contacts.
Samsung needs to get on the ball.
1. AMOLED problems.
2. Barely usable Gallery. (Lag + terrible thumbnail quality)
3. Slow opening native apps.
It's embarrassing when my old One X is smoother and faster than my de-bloated GS4.
Sent from my Galaxy S4

I just purchased the Samsung Galaxy S4 the other day. I will be returning if I am able.
The below website/link can be opened on your cells browser and once on that site you can blatantly see the defected hardware screens... They never fixed the issue they simply hid the issue.
I pray that I can return this thing. This is a hardware issue, a defect, it can't be fixed. My old phone was better.
**URL**
I cant post links because I dont have 10 posts so type "lagom response time test" in google. First link. This site blatantly shows the purple smearing still present in every single Samsung S4 sold... They can hide it in the settings but not online or anywhere else.