To start off, I just got the nexus 4 a couple days ago. Sold my Note 2, bought a phone and a Acer Transformer.
Anyways. My phone is rooted with Orca rom. What I am finding is I can't see the screen at all outside. It was doing this stock so its not the rom. The light sensor works, it does dim inside but outside it doesn't allow it to get bright enough.
I'm forced to manually crank the brightness up in order to use the phone outdoors.
Could this be a defective phone, or is this a common problem? And I'm aware of the contrast issue, but this is not the case. Its simply too dark
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g2tegg said:
To start off, I just got the nexus 4 a couple days ago. Sold my Note 2, bought a phone and a Acer Transformer.
Anyways. My phone is rooted with Orca rom. What I am finding is I can't see the screen at all outside. It was doing this stock so its not the rom. The light sensor works, it does dim inside but outside it doesn't allow it to get bright enough.
I'm forced to manually crank the brightness up in order to use the phone outdoors.
Could this be a defective phone, or is this a common problem? And I'm aware of the contrast issue, but this is not the case. Its simply too dark
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Normal behavior. I just manually crank mine up when needed. :good:
Ive found auto brightness on any phone I have used to be 97.4% crap. That is why I run Switchpro with a button that cycles between 0%->60%->100% brightness.
The issue with brightness sensors is they use the sensor facing you, which is basically adjusting the brightness for the phone looking at you, not looking at the phone.
Never had this issue with any other phone I've owned. And I've owned a few.
Is there a ROM that has the light sensor settings? I cant remember if that's CM or not.
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Most phones that I've used in general have poor auto-brightness. My One X is good and my iPhone 5 was decent about it, but my GNex and Nexus 4 are both a bit conservative with their auto-brightness. I've found that Lux from the Play Store works much better. I would recommend that you and anyone else having this problem give it a try. You can set it up to work as you wish if the app's default settings are too bright or too dim. It's very nice.
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After I got my Nexus S today I noticed on autobrightness, it was less bright than my Vibrant. I tested them both at full brightness and both were similar, so I figured the autobrightness/light sensors are just calibrated differently on the Nexus S, no big deal.
However, later on in the day I realized autobrightness is not doing anything. To confirm my suspicion, I did a test (very unscientific, mind you):
1) I took the Nexus S from my fairly well lit room into an unlit closest. No change in brightness.
2) I repeated the same thing, except this time I took the Vibrant with me. Vibrant had a clear decrease in brightness while the Nexus S, once again, did nothing.
3) I covered the light sensors on both my Nexus S and Vibrant (using my thumb). The Vibrant reacted to the "less light" and lowered brightness; Nexus S did nothing.
At that point I became fairly convinced there is something wrong, despite my friends reassurances that it was just in my head. So, the only thing to determine now was if the light sensor itself is broken or if it is a software issue. I downloaded a few light sensor testing apps from market and it seems like the light sensor itself is working fine. So it must be a software issue.
Am I the only one with this problem? I will test this out further tomorrow in the sun and see what happens, but I am convinced something is up.
My autobrightness seems to work fine, but its colors are all sorts of weird just like the reviews...it literally looks like my screen was peed on when its on auto
Works fine for me.. except one problem. even on auto or manually set to lowest brightness, IT'S TOO DAMN BRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's really really hard to use the phone in complete darkness in bed because it's just way too bright.
Is there a setting for home button being dimmed. My home buttons are very dim. I dont wanna have to return again for this.
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I'm not aware of any setting. The Nexus S button backlight is significantly dimmer than that on the other Galaxy S phones, though. That's not a defect, it's part of the device's design.
I like the fact that they are dim, they're not distracting. I've never had a problem seeing them either
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I think there is a hardware issue with the lights. Mine arealso quite dim, and I've seen several phones that had them both dim and much brighter, all straight out of the box.
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The two I've played with (including the one I own) both had a dim backlight. If there are phones with a brighter backlight, I'm glad I don't have one. The backlight on my Vibrant hurt my eyes when I was using it at night. Now if only the screen brightness went lower so I could stop using Screen Filter...
maybe they are only using one LED to lit the whole thing vs. 2 ore more used on the SGS ?
to save battery power?
that's just my guess, we wont know for sure until we take one apart
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maybe they are only using one LED to lit the whole thing vs. 2 ore more used on the SGS ?
to save battery power?
that's just my guess, we wont know for sure until we take one apart
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I can tell you without taking it apart.
There is one LED for every key. (total of 4)
How I know this?
Press just in a corner or any of the four keys (back, menu, search or home) and you will see it get dimmer (almost off) individually from all others.
I'd rather mine to lit up bright so is this something where bestbuy will replace it.
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They'll probably replace it as many times as you want as long as it's in like-new condition. But I doubt any new one you get will be different.
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I'd rather mine to lit up bright so is this something where bestbuy will replace it.
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I'd rather mine cook me dinner, but it wasn't made that way...
sosasami said:
I think there is a hardware issue with the lights. Mine arealso quite dim, and I've seen several phones that had them both dim and much brighter, all straight out of the box.
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Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, however it is true that some Nexus S devices have brighter softkeys than others.
I bought my Nexus S a couple weeks ago (Rogers) form FutureShop. The led backlighting on the soft keys are dim. My girlfriend got hers yesterday. The lights are bright.
My room mate also has a Nexus S and her lights are bright as well. I went to Futureshop to see what they would say. The guy at the counter agreed he has seen the same thing on various Nexus S devices. Some with brighter buttons than others. It might just depends where the device was made (what factory) etc. and what leds were used.
The phone is not defective, however, personally, I prefer the brighter backlight.
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Is there a setting for home button being dimmed. My home buttons are very dim. I dont wanna have to return again for this.
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I think this might be of some help to you - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141233
I would have to agree this was by design. The buttons are just light enough to make an faint but elegant appearance in fluorescent lighting, and dim enough as to where when using the phone in a dark room the buttons aren't so bright they distract you from the screen (aka the content).
Same for me...and it's driving me crazy
I love the Nexus S (using it on Rogers here in Canada), but the dimness of the soft keys is very disappointing and making the phone difficult to use at all times of day, but of course particularly at nighttime.
I have checked with Rogers, Samsung and Android Central and nobody knew of any solution, so I'm happy to see this thread to learn it's not only me, and I didn't get a bad unit (Rogers told me to send it for repair, of course, because they didn't want to actually pick up a phone to see if they are all like this).
My phone recently did an auto-update to 2.3.6, but I don't seem to remember the buttons being brighter even prior to the update.
So does anyone here think this could potentially be fixed through a firmware update at a later time or is it really a hardware issue? I must add that this is particularly annoying to me because I also have two HTC phones and their soft keys are *brilliant*.
Thanks, everyone!
rashad1 said:
I like the fact that they are dim, they're not distracting. I've never had a problem seeing them either
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Agreed... They're only 4 buttons and the only time I cant easily see them is in the middle of the day when i'm outside. It really helps the device and makes it look good with the blacked out design.
Seriously, you'd have to be senile to not have the muscle memory to hit the buttons as they are... You shouldn't even need a light on then to be honest
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It's definitely by design and not defective.
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I think this might be of some help to you - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141233
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Thanks but it's not worth all that effort for me.
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snowmanwithahat said:
It's definitely by design and not defective
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Shame, IMHO. Thanks for the response.
Hi all,
I just purchased a new Nexus 10 from Staples. I was worried about lightbleed so I downloaded Backlight Bleed Test off of Play.
I took a photo of the screen with the bleed test app running at 100% brightness. I'm not an expert on display quality by any stretch, but that looks like some pretty bad light bleed.
Judging from the photo, is this a non-issue or should I exchange it?
Thanks for your help everyone.
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Hi all,
I just purchased a new Nexus 10 from Staples. I was worried about lightbleed so I downloaded Backlight Bleed Test off of Play.
I took a photo of the screen with the bleed test app running at 100% brightness. I'm not an expert on display quality by any stretch, but that looks like some pretty bad light bleed.
Judging from the photo, is this a non-issue or should I exchange it?
Thanks for your help everyone.
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I'm no display expert either, but my personal opinion is that's significant light bleed. Considering you paid $500 for the device, I'd suggest you exchange it for another before the window to do so at Staples closes.
Set it at the brightness you usually use the tablet at. Try using the lightbleed app, then try watching a movie and using a couple frequently used apps. If you can see light bleed then and it bothers you, return it I think if you turn it up to 100% you will ALWAYS see something. This thing is damn bright at 100%!
Just my 2 cents
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KestrelX said:
Set it at the brightness you usually use the tablet at. Try using the lightbleed app, then try watching a movie and using a couple frequently used apps. If you can see light bleed then and it bothers you, return it I think if you turn it up to 100% you will ALWAYS see something. This thing is damn bright at 100%!
Just my 2 cents
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I agree. I'm yet to see a screen with 100% brightness using the backlight bleed ap not have any bleed. Blacklight bleed ap should be banned haha.
With that said: yours looks worse than my replacement. Check out the other thread on nexus 10 general. There's multiple pictures of other peoples bleed. Its titled "dammit I have light bleed" I think.
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I took it out of the box and noticed the problem right away. I can't replicate it since the flickering is very random and very quick. Anybody else experiencing this problem?
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I took it out of the box and noticed the problem right away. I can't replicate it since the flickering is very random and very quick. Anybody else experiencing this problem?
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Turn off your auto brightness in the settings. Mine does the same thing. I've never seen an Android device with smooth brightness adjustments. My HTC One was pretty awful, too.
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I took it out of the box and noticed the problem right away. I can't replicate it since the flickering is very random and very quick. Anybody else experiencing this problem?
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Please don't tell me the 2013 suffers the same fate as the first version. My main reason why I want to upgrade mine to 2013 because mine flickers if I am in a dark room.
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Turn off your auto brightness in the settings. Mine does the same thing. I've never seen an Android device with smooth brightness adjustments. My HTC One was pretty awful, too.
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Holy crap I turned it off and now its flickering constantly at about 30%. And the full screen blackout flickering still persists. I think this one gotta go back.
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Holy crap I turned it off and now its flickering constantly at about 30%. And the full screen blackout flickering still persists. I think this one gotta go back.
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Try set it above 30% of total brightness. That did the trick on my first gen.
Itaintrite said:
Holy crap I turned it off and now its flickering constantly at about 30%. And the full screen blackout flickering still persists. I think this one gotta go back.
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Here's my post from Reddit...
Purchased 2013 Nexus 7 on Thursday and have run into a concerning issue.
When the screen's brightness is set to less than approximately 50%, I've noticed considerable screen flickering and less occasionally the screen goes black for half a second. I thought originally the problem was unique to chrome but I am noticing the issue system wide now. The tablet is set to manual brightness control, as well.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Can anyone shed some light on what I'd causing this phenomenon and/or how to fix it?
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Here's my post from Reddit...
Purchased 2013 Nexus 7 on Thursday and have run into a concerning issue.
When the screen's brightness is set to less than approximately 50%, I've noticed considerable screen flickering and less occasionally the screen goes black for half a second. I thought originally the problem was unique to chrome but I am noticing the issue system wide now. The tablet is set to manual brightness control, as well.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Can anyone shed some light on what I'd causing this phenomenon and/or how to fix it?
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This is exactly the same problem I have. Will order another one from a different reseller to make sure different batch. It happened as soon as I took the tablet out of box so I don't think its a software problem.
I don't have this issue on my new Nexus. I did have it with the first generation model.
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I had some flickering as well, but it was intermittent. I read somewhere about what people may have done for the problem with the original N7 and one of the suggested solutions was to turn off Wifi Optimization. I did that...and mysteriously, I haven't suffered from the flickering issue since. I'm not exactly sure what one may have to do with the other, but it has worked for me as far as I can tell.
I have seen it as well only on auto dim. Looks like a bad proximity sensor. But it comes and goes. Some apps worse than others. Tapatalk being one. Tried the WiFi trick above, doesn't work for me.
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Don't ever attempt to set brightness to below 30% if you're experiencing this problem. I did just to see how it'd go, didn't go well. Screen flickered a bit then went black (or just really really dark). Had to reboot. Staying above 50% brightness solves the constant flickering problem, but I still get that millisecond screen blackout. Hopefully second one coming from Amazon is better than this. No dead pixel though, so that's a good start.
Got a new unit and problem does not exist, so old one was definitely defective. Screen does not flicker when set at even 20%.
Mine does none of this, mad dim or auto dim there is no flicker. Perhaps anyone with this problem should exchange asap.
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I have the screen flicker issue when I enable auto brightness. If I disable auto brightness and leave brightness level above 30% then I am good to go. I am not satisfied with this workaround so I am going to try to get an exchange at Best Buy as soon as they have more in stock.
It is strange last night, I manually slid the brightness slider below 30% and it was able to dim properly whereas it would in my case go completely dark. But as soon as I tried the auto brightness, it would start to act up again. It gets to the point where I have to try to turn the screen off and on several times before I can even get a chance to disable the auto brightness again.
I am glad to hear that this issue is limited and that I can get a good unit and that this issue is hardware related and not software.
I have return my first Nexus because of bad flickering above 50%. It seems like a senor issue. With the second Nexus, I am using it in a dark room tonight on auto brightness without any flickering issue.
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Flickering for me every couple of minutes, manual brightness, anything below 50% going to try to exchange at office depot today.
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Experienced it on my first original Nexus 7, replaced it and the next didn't have it. Our new 2013 Nexus 7 doesn't seem to be doing it at all. Like others have said, it seems to be an issue with just some of them, hopefully replacing it works for those experiencing it here as well...
Mine did this at first also for the first day then never happened again
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I get some flickering on my nex 4 in the lock screen when the brightness is set to bottom low. I haven't experienced it on the new nex but I'm using auto brightness. Not sure if it is related though.
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Experienced it for first time today. Toggled auto brightness on and off and it stopped. Definitely something to do with sensor.
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Some thing weird I noticed on my nexus 7 2nd gen. If I push brightness slider all the way to the right instead of screen brightness going to max the screen goes dark? So if I lift my finger I can't bring screen brightness back on again? Is this normal? Doesn't behave this way on my gnex on 4.2.2
Edit: my normal understanding as a long time android user is that brightness slider all the way to the left is about 10% brightness (dim enough for you to still see something), while all the way to the right is max 100% brightness. The behavior I'm getting on my new nexus 7 is dim screen (but not dark) all the way to the left but black screen all the way to the right. So instead of linear brightness the slider behavior is like a bell curve? Android 4.3 bug or feature? Its annoying because if you slide all the way to the right it goes 100% dark and it's hard to get brightness to come on again because you can't see anything
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terenceleechan said:
Some thing weird I noticed on my nexus 7 2nd gen. If I push brightness slider all the way to the right instead of screen brightness going to max the screen goes dark? So if I lift my finger I can't bring screen brightness back on again? Is this normal? Doesn't behave this way on my gnex on 4.2.2
Edit: my normal understanding as a long time android user is that brightness slider all the way to the left is about 10% brightness (dim enough for you to still see something), while all the way to the right is max 100% brightness. The behavior I'm getting on my new nexus 7 is dim screen (but not dark) all the way to the left but black screen all the way to the right. So instead of linear brightness the slider behavior is like a bell curve? Android 4.3 bug or feature? Its annoying because if you slide all the way to the right it goes 100% dark and it's hard to get brightness to come on again because you can't see anything
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somethings wrong. All the way to the right make my tablet very bright.
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somethings wrong. All the way to the right make my tablet very bright.
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Yeah that's what I feared. I did a factory reset but still the same problem. My nexus can't go very bright just goes dark with the slider all the way to the right. I'm on stock rooted. Any help? Should I flash a factory image?
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I have reflashed a factory image but brightness slider does not behave as should. I thought it was just software issue. So is this a hardware issue?
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I would just exchange it for a different one while it is still under warranty.
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I would just exchange it for a different one while it is still under warranty.
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Damn. I shipped it from the US to the Philippines I wouldn't want to spend on shipping again. All I did was unlock and root it. Now its all back to stock with no root and issue is still there. Tough luck for me
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Can anybody recommend any brightness app I can use so I can have a working brightness slider?
Edit: tried lux and backlight widget. Still the same behavior. Seems my tablet only has 3 brightness levels - dim, normal and completely dark. No levels in between. Looks like hardware defect. I can live with it though, no biggie
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