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[DISCUSS] Screen brightness sensor a joke!!

Sending this straight back, I cannot believe there is no option to disable auto brightness settings on this heap of ++++.
It has got a mind of its own and is extremely annoying to suddenly see the screen get dim and bright every 5 seconds without any change in actual lighting condition...it makes the phone almost unusable.
Hope someone can make a hack for this soon.

hawrai68 said:
Sending this straight back, I cannot believe there is no option to disable auto brightness settings on this heap of ++++.
It has got a mind of its own and is extremely annoying to suddenly see the screen get dim and bright every 5 seconds without any change in actual lighting condition...it makes the phone almost unusable.
Hope someone can make a hack for this soon.
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Yes, totally a reason to send it back, software bug on a phone with a unlockable bootloader. Hope your next one doesn't have any real issues

Maybe this was the software bug vodafone was saying?

http://www.google.com/search?client...rceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest
sure you can't find a solution? It must be somewhere in the settings (I'm no android expert though).

It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!

hawrai68 said:
It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!
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and apps force closing are just the man keeping us down!
... unless the sensor it's self is dicked, then it can be fixed in software, even if it is dicked, it can be completely disabled.... just cool your jets.

well i report no such shinanigans happening on my phone! i can see the light sensor in action when i cover it with my thumb, it works really well and the gradient of fading and lighting up is the best i've seen on any phone so far! i dont notice it when using it normally.
you must have a faulty one....

johnsongrantr said:
and apps force closing are just the man keeping us down!
... unless the sensor it's self is dicked, then it can be fixed in software, even if it is dicked, it can be completely disabled.... just cool your jets.
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How can I disable it?...Why not have a simple option like other phones?

hawrai68 said:
It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!
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They have to stop the complaints some how, at least the speakers are not gimped

Thought I'd mention that I have no such problem with my device.

I'm very happy with the screen. Especially good as I moved from a nexus one.
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Can't you install brightness level from the market to controll the auto brightness ?

Wanna control your brightness levels quick and easy? I use a very slick widget called Dazzle. It has every option you can think of to control just about everything on your phone. Give it a try.
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I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
A Dutch review actually mentioned a lack of auto-brightness as one of the downsides to this device.

svenk919 said:
I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
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Hello? Use Dazzle.
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svenk919 said:
I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
A Dutch review actually mentioned a lack of auto-brightness as one of the downsides to this device.
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It does have Auto Brightness as if you put a finger over the light sensor the phone screens dim.
The phone had an update pending the day I purchased it so most of the reviews I have seen are out of date. This phone is excellent at playing games.

Techdread said:
It does have Auto Brightness as if you put a finger over the light sensor the phone screens dim.
The phone had an update pending the day I purchased it so most of the reviews I have seen are out of date. This phone is excellent at playing games.
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I hear that. In love with my Xperia Play.

Guys can someone tell me. A lot of reviews say that the screen is very dim even on max setting and a lot of reviews say the exact opposite. So what is it?

Mine is perfect in the sun. I'm starting to think there are 2 types of screens involved, anyway to check what screen you have without opening the device up?

Screen brightness is ok for me, but just remarked the display have some ghosting issues. Slide beetween programs screens and observe carrefully the icons.... with red "Adresse" one this is very visible. i can't belive sony use a high response time display on a gamer device.

[DISCUSS] xperia play. bought it. 2 hours later. was back to the store :/

so yeah. title says it all. its sad how small things can f**k up an awesome phone.
that doesnt mean i wont buy it forever though. but those things are really annoying.
first :
my screen. was yellow. it has a yellowish tint . the whites looked yellow. while my iphone is totally cool blue white.
and i am very OCD about this. god knows how many galaxy S and iphones i returned because of this issue.
and the store didnt have any stock back so there was no option but return it or keep it.
second :
i knew about this issue but god i didnt know its that annoying. no option to turn off the auto brightness. its very low for me . i have to keep a light close to it to keep it on high brightness. i dont care about battery i want to enjoy my gaming sessions with a screen i can SEE ffs.
Third :
i was playing the N64 emulator. mario 64 sometimes lagged at the beginning of the stage, but once you play, its ok. F zero was running below 60fps for sure because my brother has a nexus S and it was super smooth. killer instect not playable on both phones. Xtreme G not playable on both phones.
maybe too many things were open thats why it lagged a little in my gaming tests.
i love the hardware design. and i am sure the roms will fix the auto brightness issue. all i need is a phone with no dead pixels and with a screen that doesnt look like someone pissed on it.

ll_l_x_l_ll said:
so yeah. title says it all. its sad how small things can f**k up an awesome phone.
that doesnt mean i wont buy it forever though. but those things are really annoying.
first :
my screen. was yellow. it has a yellowish tint . the whites looked yellow. while my iphone is totally cool blue white.
and i am very OCD about this. god knows how many galaxy S and iphones i returned because of this issue.
and the store didnt have any stock back so there was no option but return it or keep it.
second :
i knew about this issue but god i didnt know its that annoying. no option to turn off the auto brightness. its very low for me . i have to keep a light close to it to keep it on high brightness. i dont care about battery i want to enjoy my gaming sessions with a screen i can SEE ffs.
Third :
i was playing the N64 emulator. mario 64 sometimes lagged at the beginning of the stage, but once you play, its ok. F zero was running below 60fps for sure because my brother has a nexus S and it was super smooth. killer instect not playable on both phones. Xtreme G not playable on both phones.
maybe too many things were open thats why it lagged a little in my gaming tests.
i love the hardware design. and i am sure the roms will fix the auto brightness issue. all i need is a phone with no dead pixels and with a screen that doesnt look like someone pissed on it.
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1: cant say I have this issue personally screen is bright and vibrant.
2: has a widget you can press for 3 set levels to sort out brightness, so yeah it can be switched off.
3:mario 64 no lag for me not tried Fzero though.

waz000000 said:
2: has a widget you can press for 3 set levels to sort out brightness, so yeah it can be switched off.
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more details please. can you do something about the auto brightness to be turned off? i will go buy it again if thats the case.

ll_l_x_l_ll said:
more details please. can you do something about the auto brightness to be turned off? i will go buy it again if thats the case.
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sure just use the power widget whihc has the wifi/BT/GPS/SYNC/Brightness
press the brightness button up to 3 times each time you press it the screen gets brighter until it hits 100% and then goes dark again if you press it one more time.

waz000000 said:
sure just use the power widget whihc has the wifi/BT/GPS/SYNC/Brightness
press the brightness button up to 3 times each time you press it the screen gets brighter until it hits 100% and then goes dark again if you press it one more time.
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that doesnt turn off the auto brightness
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that doesnt turn off the auto brightness
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does for me for some reason maybe im lucky Peeps some to get issues and im not suffering at all

waz000000 said:
does for me for some reason maybe im lucky Peeps some to get issues and im not suffering at all
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As mentioned this doesn't turn off auto brightness.
All it does is make your brightness 100%. If you cover up the auto brightness sensor, your screen will dim.

I don't own this phone but I do own an HTC EVO and there is an option to turn off the auto brightness. To do this you go to Settings > Display > Brightness and un-check the "Automatic Brightness" box. After that just move the slider to the highest setting and you should be good to go.

MistaSal said:
I don't own this phone but I do own an HTC EVO and there is an option to turn off the auto brightness. To do this you go to Settings > Display > Brightness and un-check the "Automatic Brightness" box. After that just move the slider to the highest setting and you should be good to go.
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I'm positive that a function exists to turn off auto brightness on the xperia play, but at present Sony have omitted any functionality of accessing this from the end user UI.
Meaning it is not possible to turn off auto brightness unless you start rooting and customising your own ROM.

Use "notification toggle" from the market you can disable auto brightness.. But tbh its pretty well implemented..
As for yellow, I have the same issue, but I look at a galaxy s and its really blue, look at my wifes n1 its got a red tint.. The warmth of the screen colors will be adjustable once the phone is rooted
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Ran across this fix for the Xperia Arc. They said it might work for the Play.
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/enable-auto-brightness-xperia-arc-neo-play-pro/
Worth a shot...maybe?

FrAsErTaG said:
Use "notification toggle" from the market you can disable auto brightness.. But tbh its pretty well implemented..
As for yellow, I have the same issue, but I look at a galaxy s and its really blue, look at my wifes n1 its got a red tint.. The warmth of the screen colors will be adjustable once the phone is rooted
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did you try the program your self on your xperia play and it worked ? because if so. thats a fix for the problem everyone is complaining about and it deserve a new thread to be made by yours.
as for the yellow. i am not sure if it can be fixed or not. on nexus S they fixed it. the voodoo developers made it work. but i highly doubt he will work on xperia play as he didnt show an intrest aside from galaxy S and nexus S

Cm7 supports modding colors on 30 devices....
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SwitchPro
SwitchPro fixed it for me.
Thanks for the advice

dsswoosh said:
I'm positive that a function exists to turn off auto brightness on the xperia play, but at present Sony have omitted any functionality of accessing this from the end user UI.
Meaning it is not possible to turn off auto brightness unless you start rooting and customising your own ROM.
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When in doubt... try 'Any Cut'
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When in doubt... try 'Any Cut'
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For everyone still having problems with Auto Dim on the Xperia Play, there is an app in the Android market made just for the Xperia Play!
Search: Disable Auto Brightness by hatcyl in the android market!
This app will stop the screen from Dimming / Brightening once it is being used.

Alright guys ...
I had created an application to disable the auto brightness feature of the Xperia Play. The app has now been updated ... and it's great!
1. Thanks everyone for the support!
2. The app has been updated.
New features:
a. Toggle Auto Brightness from launcher.
b. Tasker support (Kinda)
c. THE SCREEN IS NOW SUPER BRIGHT!
Thanks Everyone!
Get the app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hatcyl.android.Disable_Auto_Brightness
ps. This app may also work for other Sony Ericsson devices!

I having similar issue.
Got a new Xperia Neo V and the screen has a yellow tint. Googled around & found that I am not alone. Brightness etc is fine but color is not.
Now since I am still digging in I wanted to know if its a known problem?
If so is there a fix?
Hardware or software?
Thanks

Good job for bumping a dead thread!
If you have a yellow tint to your phone, you have two options. One, you can search for an app of some sort that can adjust the system colors on your phone.
Second option, you can take your phone back and complain about it, if it's been recent enough that you purchased it, you should get an exchange.

Having problem with auto brightness

I got note 3 days ago. I notice that The brightness always jumping, sometime happen with open application with white background.
Wonder any one have the same problem or just me. I'm on the KJ4 Kernel
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I have the same problem

I got the same kernel but without the auto brightness jump you are experiencing, unless I move my hand over the camera.
I suggest goto Settings --> Display and un-tick "Auto adjust screen power" if it's on and see if that makes any difference.

Auto-brightness is hopeless anyway, turn it off, as well as the setting Bigmile mentioned. Then, to make quick on-the-fly adjustments to your Note's brightness long press in the notifications area and slide left and right till you get the brightness you want. Much better way IMO.

NZtechfreak said:
Then, to make quick on-the-fly adjustments to your Note's brightness long press in the notifications area and slide left and right till you get the brightness you want. Much better way IMO.
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Well I never knew that you could do that. That's well clever. Thanks mate.
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Galaxy S and SII were the same, but still surprisingly little known feature.

NZtechfreak said:
Auto-brightness is hopeless anyway, turn it off, as well as the setting Bigmile mentioned. Then, to make quick on-the-fly adjustments to your Note's brightness long press in the notifications area and slide left and right till you get the brightness you want. Much better way IMO.
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Just switch from iPhone. IPhone have perfect auto brightness adjustment. However I still like the note very mush as it have nice BIG screen.
Hope it will fix in future update anyway.
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duoshock said:
I got note 3 days ago. I notice that The brightness always jumping, sometime happen with open application with white background.
Wonder any one have the same problem or just me. I'm on the KJ4 Kernel
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define applications with white backgrounds?
if youre referring to the browser, it has its own independent brightness setting that can be adjusted inside the browser.

NZtechfreak said:
Auto-brightness is hopeless anyway, turn it off, as well as the setting Bigmile mentioned. Then, to make quick on-the-fly adjustments to your Note's brightness long press in the notifications area and slide left and right till you get the brightness you want. Much better way IMO.
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I call my self an enthusiast and I didn't knew that? Well, the saying "You learn something new every day" is proven once more.
Been using android since launch(I guess it was implemented on GB?) and I admit I NEVER thought of sliding the notification bar icons neihter left or right in the way NZtechfreak suggested.
It's possible that I might have done it by accident, but even IF I did, I did not even noticed it. You got my Thanks.

AOKP autobrightness settings

Ok, so I have spent the last few days tweaking the auto brightness settings.
My goal was to have the screen at the dimmest level at just about all lighting conditions, and to not have to strain to see things on the screen. In doing so I also altered settings to the sensor filter and scan timing to make it a small bit snapper. I needed to do this because sometimes I unlocked the phone to a screen so dark I could not tell it was on, and it took too long to adjust. Now it is pretty snappy. I took all my samples from many light situations, however there are situations where you may be directly under a light and at a angle where you have glare. I made no compensation for glare, and find no need to as it's very rare for me.
My goals were power savings and usability. I don't care about colors. if I want better color and I'm going to be using in a dark room I'll turn auto off for a bit. But I honestly don't find them that bad and like a dim screen in bed at night..
display Settings/ custom backlight settings.
Window length: 5sec
Reset threshold 400Lux
Sample interval 2sec
Screen dim level 1
edit other levels: -> see pictures

This is good stuff. I've never been able to tolerate auto-brightness, but I may give it another go. Thanks for sharing your tweaks.

jawman27 said:
This is good stuff. I've never been able to tolerate auto-brightness, but I may give it another go. Thanks for sharing your tweaks.
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No problem. I'm not into coding at all. So when i find something that's on my level to modify i like to give a little back to the community.. Feel free everyone to post tweaks if you find some.. im still going to tweak the high levels, but have not had sunny days to get some good tests
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these settings have performed rather well for me the past day or two. including in bright sunlight and dark bedrooms.
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I'm finally been able to use my phone in a dark bedroom with these settings. Its visible enough outdoors too, and when I need some life in the colors I just turn up brightness manually. Thanks for this

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these settings have performed rather well for me the past day or two. including in bright sunlight and dark bedrooms.
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I second this. I've been on these settings for a few days now, and I haven't had to touch the manual settings. I think it's safe to say I'm an auto brightness guy now.

I still use manual when I'm indoors like in school where I just leave it all the way down because lighting is consistent, but I leave auto on the rest of the time.
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Been using these setting for the past few days and they are performing great. The brightness seems to almost always be adequate for the lighting conditions. Thanks

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Neh4pres, at the top of your screen shots it shows:
Sensor (filtered/raw): 6/5
Screen: 4
Buttons: 255
After applying your settings, my phone shows -1/-1, disabled, -1 for those same settings, but I don't see any way to change them. Is there something I'm missing?

That's a great setting for autobrightness. But i think its not good for battery life.. too many levels will cause the system works hard for changing the display. Im currently on 7 levels, it gives me a great battery life. I'll try this and report, maybe my thought was wrong...
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Neh4pres, at the top of your screen shots it shows:
Sensor (filtered/raw): 6/5
Screen: 4
Buttons: 255
After applying your settings, my phone shows -1/-1, disabled, -1 for those same settings, but I don't see any way to change them. Is there something I'm missing?
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Those are not settings, those are a read out of values of the sensor. What you need to adjust is the grey boxes... And your readings of -1 simply means your auto brightness is turned off.
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shuyin1102 said:
That's a great setting for autobrightness. But i think its not good for battery life.. too many levels will cause the system works hard for changing the display. Im currently on 7 levels, it gives me a great battery life. I'll try this and report, maybe my thought was wrong...
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You could have a thousand levels and it would not make a difference.
What would make a miniscule difference is sampling rate.. But you turn that up to high and your going to start feeling very impatient when light around you changes and your screen takes forever to reflect the changes.
And you won't be saving much of anything by doing do.
Example:
Walk indoors from the bright outdoors, your screen takes 10 seconds to turn down from max brightness. You just wasted more battery with your screen in those 10 seconds than you were trying to save by turning sampling time up.
Our screen is our biggest battery killer
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I still get about two days of life on the stock battery with these settings. Like neh4pres said, the screen is the real killer. There are also a lot of other tips and tricks out there to get the most out of battery life. In the end, I can't imagine my sampling rate is making any significant difference, and I love watching the screen quickly and smoothly ramp up when I step outside.

I just tried these values....its too dark for me but I like the consistency. I would like to try some slightly brighter values but I am not sure how this works. Can anyone give me some suggestions ?

retareq said:
I just tried these values....its too dark for me but I like the consistency. I would like to try some slightly brighter values but I am not sure how this works. Can anyone give me some suggestions ?
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At the top of the screen where you start the settings it shows what light level your on at that second. if it's to dark at that moment adjust the corresponding level and hit apply to see the difference.. Or. Sense i have a pretty good ratio setup, just and 1 or 2 to each level for everything below 100
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Ok using the values from the OP, currently I am on Screen 11 and its a little too dim for me. What value do I change now? If I unlock screen its on #9 and dim as well..
It's not that bad really just after unlocking there is a heavy blue/purplish tint which goes away in few seconds as the screen brightens but if I could keep it like this only slightly brighter that would work. I don't really know which value I'm supposed to change..
In the meantime I found a nice compromise, I'm using:
Window length: 5sec
Reset threshold 400Lux
Sample interval 2sec
Screen Dim Level @ 20(default)
With the default levels and it seems to be working well so far. I'll know later tonight when I'm listening to beats in the dark.

retareq said:
Ok using the values from the OP, currently I am on Screen 11 and its a little too dim for me. What value do I change now? If I unlock screen its on #9 and dim as well..
It's not that bad really just after unlocking there is a heavy blue/purplish tint which goes away in few seconds as the screen brightens but if I could keep it like this only slightly brighter that would work. I don't really know which value I'm supposed to change..
In the meantime I found a nice compromise, I'm using:
Window length: 5sec
Reset threshold 400Lux
Sample interval 2sec
Screen Dim Level @ 20(default)
With the default levels and it seems to be working well so far. I'll know later tonight when I'm listening to beats in the dark.
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Screen dim level set to 1. Then it's the values that are different in the pictures, the middle ones. Those are the brightness values. The first 2 numbers on the left are the light levels that would enable that level.
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Thanks. I did some google searching and combined your light sensor values with levels I found from another site and also enabled Decrease in the settings. Just tried it outside and inside and it seems to be working. I'm not sure if I should post the levels values here because I'm on a galaxy nexus so I'll just leave it out.

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Thanks. I did some google searching and combined your light sensor values with levels I found from another site and also enabled Decrease in the settings. Just tried it outside and inside and it seems to be working. I'm not sure if I should post the levels values here because I'm on a galaxy nexus so I'll just leave it out.
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I see.. That's probably why yours was to dark. Different screens and all.. Maybe you can make a thread in your forums and help some people out.
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Good idea. Thanks again. Some one already started a thread about it so I added it there.

Dimming the display to reduce over heating?

Alright so I just got my Note 3 here in Canada (SM-N900W8) and whenever I download an app from the Play store, or do anything I would normally do on a S4 or HTC One, the phone lowers the screen brightness (usually keep it on full brightness). When I go into Settings > Display > Brightness, it says something along the lines of to ensure your phone doesn't over heat, your phone's brightness has been lowered. Now, I've noticed this happen a handful of times, and I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem?

I don't think the phone should be doing that over simple task like downloading apps. Might want to take it back asap and exchange for a new one.

danv28 said:
Alright so I just got my Note 3 here in Canada (SM-N900W8) and whenever I download an app from the Play store, or do anything I would normally do on a S4 or HTC One, the phone lowers the screen brightness (usually keep it on full brightness). When I go into Settings > Display > Brightness, it says something along the lines of to ensure your phone doesn't over heat, your phone's brightness has been lowered. Now, I've noticed this happen a handful of times, and I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem?
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Yes, mine is doing the same exact thing. When it first started happening, I thought there was something wrong with this particular phone but then I saw that same message. It's annoying have the screen change brightness like that.

I notice when browsing web page it does it too.. can anyone else confirm? Test by turning your brightness all the way, then download a few apps and browse the web. Let me know.

same experience
Hi! Very new at this forum. Just searched the net because of the same problem. The screen keeps dimming even if im using it. I thought it was a problem so I had my unit replaced. I have a new one now but it still does the same thing. It still dims randomly. Now I dont know if I should have another replacement or if this is normal.
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Alright so I just got my Note 3 here in Canada (SM-N900W8) and whenever I download an app from the Play store, or do anything I would normally do on a S4 or HTC One, the phone lowers the screen brightness (usually keep it on full brightness). When I go into Settings > Display > Brightness, it says something along the lines of to ensure your phone doesn't over heat, your phone's brightness has been lowered. Now, I've noticed this happen a handful of times, and I'm wondering if anyone else is having this problem?
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I think the dimming may be caused by settings>device>display>auto adjust screen tones. And/or screen mode check anything but adapt mode. .. That solved it for me.
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c-mack said:
I think the dimming may be caused by settings>device>display>auto adjust screen tones. And/or screen mode check anything but adapt mode. .. That solved it for me.
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This fix it for everyone? Kinda nervous about this....

It won't hurt anything, it's just a device setting. You can always change it back. ..
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I was having this same issue so I turned off the smart view eye thing and so far no change to the brightness at all so im hopeing thats what it was .
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This is kind of scaring - because the Galaxy MEGA has the very same problem (just google it or check the mega forum here on xda).
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brooon said:
This is kind of scaring - because the Galaxy MEGA has the very same problem (just google it or check the mega forum here on xda).
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And here's the link to that thread... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382134

I haven't got the Note 3 yet partly because of this. When I compared my Note 2 to the Note 3 in the At&t store I noticed the Note 3 was definitely not as bright, while being obviously bluer. But I also caught it dimming itself too, very quickly but couldn't get it to reproduce the behavior. Changing the display mode didn't affect any of this. I've wanted to see this amazing improved display everyone talks about but I haven't seen it yet - certainly not when the brightness is set manually.
I wonder if this dimming display thing is a new normal, that they've made the brightness more an automatic control now. I have no idea if this is to save battery (but then why not let the user choose) or if these new screens need to be protected more from overheating.
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What's the point of full brightness if it's going to auto-dim all the time? I ended up returning my Galaxy Mega for this very reason.
Brgds... /Tubgirl

What parts of the phone heats up? Mine is near the camera. But I havent had this message yet on my note but it does get fairly hot alot. I dont even do anything for it to heat up this much. Just browse around and dont play much games.
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Make sure that the setting under display called "Auto adjust screen tone" is not selected.
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I have auto-tone off, the eye tracker off, adaptive display off, brightness in browser all the way up.. still happens.. the message is displayed when you go to adjust the brightness.. interesting to see i'm not the only one with this issue

Does it only happen after heavy use or what?

Also happen on my s4...verry annoying samsung
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riyoshadqi said:
Also happen on my s4...verry annoying samsung
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I have the same problem, i have started a thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475017
I have absolutely everything turned off!! It is stupid and annoying and i am returning my phone because of it
BTW this is my second device in 4 days!

Keepingitrealz said:
I have the same problem, i have started a thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475017
I have absolutely everything turned off!! It is stupid and annoying and i am returning my phone because of it
BTW this is my second device in 4 days!
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I'm on my third... and posted already in your thread! for me this throttling happens all the time, gallery indexing for example triggers it a lot!
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this throttling has nothing to do with settings a user can adjust, it's logic must be kernel implemented! no auto-contrast setting would help! and it happens even when you are on manual lowest brightness. on my devices the screen would switch even then in a cycle of ca. 20s between a additionally dimmed and the set state...
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