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I tried setting my Vibrant to the lowest possible brightness level (with auto brightness disabled, of course). It still seems very bright to me compared to the lowest level on every other phone I've used. I realize this phone has a nice screen, etc. but is there no way to make it dimmer in situations where you just don't need that bright of a display and want to save battery?
Edit: I want to clarify, I love the screen's brightness, I'm just mainly asking for battery saving purposes.
I was running a black bg for a while. It would seem to be your best option for both issues. It was said in another thread that black uses the least amount of battery.
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You can get tinted screen protector....The bright vibrant screen is the best thing on this phone.
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All~G1 said:
I was running a black bg for a while. It would seem to be your best option for both issues. It was said in another thread that black uses the least amount of battery.
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Interesting idea, i'll try it.
STi489 said:
You can get tinted screen protector....The bright vibrant screen is the best thing on this phone.
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Yeah, that's not my complaint. No doubt this screen is awesome
What I mean is that I'd actually like to increase battery life further by going even dimmer, if possible.
Then a black background is a good idea, black pixels literally use no battery on an AMOLED screen because the pixels aren't on when they're black, so it's a true black. That's the wonderful thing about these screens, and why the contrast ratio is so ridiculously high. Also why the Kindle app has the color reversal option, making the background black and the text white, and a lot of the UI uses black in places I've seen stock android white or gray. I read a couple chapters of Sherlock Holmes the other day and my battery went down 2%. Awesome screen.
Also the web browser has a separate brightness setting.
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..I read a couple chapters of Sherlock Holmes the other day and my battery went down 2%. Awesome screen.
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**slow reader..jk
maybe one of the genius phone gods could post a mod for a supper dim night mode. hint/nudge :burning eyes:
I would have to agree even on low the brightness of the screen is very high. I didn't realize this until today my friend wouldn't believe me I had brightness on low (his Droid's screen looked like crap compared to mine ).
Thanks for the tip on the black background... I really do need to find out ways to improve battery life on this thing.
I made a similar thread a while ago. For me it's too bright in low light situations. I'd love to see a way to lower the lowest setting.
+1, i'd like to see to an option to go even dimmer.
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Same here. The browser is downright blinding in low-light.
Hey I'm not the only one who thinks the phone should have much lower brightness settings. I think I've seen it dim lower than the lowest brightness, but only on auto mode and only for a short time. Or maybe not. But I'm sure it can go lower because it would be weird if it couldn't. I also much rather have dimmer colors than a black vacuous screen for battery savings.
It does go lower. Put the brightness on manual and set it to lowest possible then wait for it to timeout and go to sleep. 5 secs before it goes to sleep the screen goes dimmer. On the G1 the lowest setting was this pre-sleep brightness. On the Vibrant we can't get that level as an option. Fingers crossed a non-samsung rom like CM6 will fix this.
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It does go lower. Put the brightness on manual and set it to lowest possible then wait for it to timeout and go to sleep. 5 secs before it goes to sleep the screen goes dimmer. On the G1 the lowest setting was this pre-sleep brightness. On the Vibrant we can't get that level as an option. Fingers crossed a non-samsung rom like CM6 will fix this.
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Good observation. Indeed hopefully its fixed in a custom ROM or even by samsung themselves (though i'm not holding my breath on that one).
Alarm Clock Plus
The "dim mode" in Alarm Clock Plus is really dim. It would be nice to have a setting that would allow me to drop the brightness down that much.
yeah, because even on low MY EYES, They BURRRN!
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seriously
+1 for supporting this thread!
+1 for lower brightness option.
+1 from me too. This thing lights that whole dang room when my wife is trying to sleep.
Sorry it took so long to reply to this thread. I had to go find my sunglasses.... Seriously though, I read in bed at night and yeah its way too bright.
Has anyone seen a hack to change the default autobrightness for the fascinate? I am coming from the Droid X and this was an option offered by a user on this forum. I am asking this because I noticed that at the lower settings the screen is plenty bright enough to be usable and that the display alone consumes about 34% of my battery life. I am getting 8 hours on a full charge but more battery is always good. Any help or point inthe right direction would be awesome.
You dont need a hack to turn off auto brightness. Just go to sound and display settings and turn it off, then change brightness to whatever you want.
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I turned off auto brightness on my fascinate and have the brightness set to max. I am a power user and my battery lasts about 10-12 hours easy... Then again I use a dark theme...
i don't think he's asking about turning off autobrightness, i think he's refering to the fact that if you have autobrightness set, the lowest it will go is about 33%. it could save battery life, and still have the advantage of automatically lightening when you need it if the autobrightness would go as low as 5-10%. if i'm understanding correctly. but no, i haven't seen a way to do that yet. sorry.
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i don't think he's asking about turning off autobrightness, i think he's refering to the fact that if you have autobrightness set, the lowest it will go is about 33%. it could save battery life, and still have the advantage of automatically lightening when you need it if the autobrightness would go as low as 5-10%. if i'm understanding correctly. but no, i haven't seen a way to do that yet. sorry.
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Oooh.. I dig ya. My bad.
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When my battery reaches 5% the screen dims (probably to the lowest brightness possible) so much that when outside the phone is not usable because I can't see anything and the brightness slider from the notification bar disappears. Is there a way to disable this? btw power saving is turned off.
Also does anybody knows if the phone slows down cpu/gpu when on low battery because I've been playing some games on low battery and I think they were a bit "laggy" but power saving was turned off.
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Me too
Also trying to find a solution since more than 1 week. Until now i've no clue
Thats really annoying an i hate Samsung for that - It's strange because my girlfriend owned a S3 and she don't have this :silly:
OMG I`m not alone in this problem. waiting for the solution patiently
Robsen87 said:
Also trying to find a solution since more than 1 week. Until now i've no clue
Thats really annoying an i hate Samsung for that - It's strange because my girlfriend owned a S3 and she don't have this :silly:
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I hate this feature as well, but it's on all phones that run android
It's built into the system
At 5% power, brightness goes to minimum
It's good feature, but when you have extended battery, it's really annoying with still a lot of power left. Screen becomes pretty dark.
And the fact that power of extended battery does not show correctly, it's 5% us not even like 10, but could actually be like 20, makes it even a bigger problem
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Any ideas how to fix this issue ?
There's no actual way to override low power at 5%
It's built-in android.
If you really need backlight, get app in market, called adjbrightness, that's one word.
It can override brightness to any percentage you details yourself, it actually guess from 0-255, but it won't Activate auto brightness, since that blocked by android due to low power.
So just use that apply if you really need more light on screen till next charge cycle.
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It doesn't work. The app says that I need to be root, but I'm already am!
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It doesn't work. The app says that I need to be root, but I'm already am!
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Of course it works, and you to need to be rooted
Maybe you didn't gave apply root permissions or denied them when it asked for root.
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I have granted it several times, even manually on the SU app.
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I have granted it several times, even manually on the SU app.
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Well, it works really well for me and many others
What ROM are you running?
Stock GS4 or something custom?
Are you using any apps that control brightness?
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You can see my ROM and stuff on my signature. I don't think I have any brightness app.
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You can see my ROM and stuff on my signature. I don't think I have any brightness app.
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That's what I've thought
You need stock rom and stock kernel
Otherwise, everything is messed up.
You don't have necessary modules for the program to work with.
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This app worked for me:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.pruss.superdim
5% low battery no brightness adjustment
This is absolutely bs! I really can't stand samsung for doing this the only thing that I would say that puts samsung a downfall. I tried to do the same thing and rooted or not makes no difference. My guess is that it must be custom rom med or at least hack the binary and system to customize. Example remove enabled 5% lowest brightness from the system and identifying what the name of the file of system thats corsing the problem.
worked for me!
Wow you are my saviour. I've been having a problem with my battery showing a fualty value after rooting my galaxy tab 4 with stock ROM and kernel. My battery always reads 1% even though I charged it not too long ago. I can finally use my device again! Thanks so much!
Thanks Vlad2277
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There's no actual way to override low power at 5%
It's built-in android.
If you really need backlight, get app in market, called adjbrightness, that's one word.
It can override brightness to any percentage you details yourself, it actually guess from 0-255, but it won't Activate auto brightness, since that blocked by android due to low power.
So just use that apply if you really need more light on screen till next charge cycle.
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This works great on rooted Galaxy Note 4 with stock rom. I'm using a zerolemon battery on it and it stays at 1% for hours. Finally a way around the screen dimming issue. Thank you.
I'm so relieved just to discover at least ONE person disturbed by this one most absolitely damming function
if I put the manual slider on 100%, and then tick the "automatic brightness", it stays at 100%, even in a fully darkened room.
if I put the manual slider on 0%, and then tick the "automatic brightness", it stays at 0%, even under direct sunlight.
What gives ? LG forgot to program this feature ?
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if I put the manual slider on 100%, and then tick the "automatic brightness", it stays at 100%, even in a fully darkened room.
if I put the manual slider on 0%, and then tick the "automatic brightness", it stays at 0%, even under direct sunlight.
What gives ? LG forgot to program this feature ?
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I am not certain on this but my understanding of how the auto brightness works is that it adjusts within a certain % up or down of where you set the slider.
I am sure someone with a bit more knowledge will be along shortly to advise exactly how it works though
It appears to me that the 100% and 0% always do full on or full dimmed, whether you set auto brightness or not. Anywhere in between it does work with auto brightness, but the screen reacts quite slowly.
Auto brightness on this device is rubbish. Period. It doesn't work at all when you're set on 100 or 0 percent, and if you're in between, it works, but only buy using very slight changes to the manual setting that you chose. Why on earth did they base the auto brightness on the manual brightness???
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auto brightness works quite well for me. I have it set as a 55% baseline and it always changes in more or less light. It takes a second but it will do it and works great. The slider does not show the change though.
Download Lux Auto Brightness.
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auto brightness works quite well for me. I have it set as a 55% baseline and it always changes in more or less light. It takes a second but it will do it and works great. The slider does not show the change though.
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No, it doesn't work well for you at all. If you put it at 55%, and go to direct sunlight, it will never come close to 100% brightness (I would say only about 60-70%). Moreover, if you go to a pitch black room, you will not get 1-2% brightness, rather ~30-40%. I would say the automatic brightness control of the G2, can only play with ~10% above/below what you set your manual settings. Who does automatic brightness like this ? pathetic and useless.
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I also use a 3rd party program to control brightness. My phone would just randomly uncheck auto brightness on its own. Not sure why it sucks so bad on this phone. So, check out Velis Auto Brightness in the play store. It disables system management of brightness, takes over the job.
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D-meist said:
I also use a 3rd party program to control brightness. My phone would just randomly uncheck auto brightness on its own. Not sure why it sucks so bad on this phone. So, check out Velis Auto Brightness in the play store. It disables system management of brightness, takes over the job.
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I used to use Velis too but it was a bit too cluttered for me. Lux was a whole lot more userfriendly. Plus it can reduce brightness below minimum levels and has a built in night mode that activates automatically. Found it best for my use.
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No, it doesn't work well for you at all. If you put it at 55%, and go to direct sunlight, it will never come close to 100% brightness (I would say only about 60-70%). Moreover, if you go to a pitch black room, you will not get 1-2% brightness, rather ~30-40%. I would say the automatic brightness control of the G2, can only play with ~10% above/below what you set your manual settings. Who does automatic brightness like this ? pathetic and useless.
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whether it goes to 100% brightness or not it brightens up enough that I can see it clear as day. So why do I care if it doesn't get to 100%?
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auto brightness works quite well for me. I have it set as a 55% baseline and it always changes in more or less light. It takes a second but it will do it and works great. The slider does not show the change though.
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You have no clue how are the brightness works.
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You have no clue how are the brightness works.
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and like I said, why do I care if it is changing brightness to levels I can see for the given light I'm in what does it matter? Apparently it is doing something right.
Have seen a lot of varied answers on this topic but having owned an iPhone in the past LG has set up their brightness controls to work in much the same way. You basically have two independent controls that can be combined to work together.
For example, I have my brightness on 85% and Auto is checked to ON. This means brightness will adjust automatically but never exceed 85%. You are setting a ceiling and it will NEVER go to 100% bright if set this way. If I turn Auto OFF, its always 85% regardless of ambient light. Hope this helps some peeps understand this better. I actually prefer their implementation but it's familiar to me.
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Have seen a lot of varied answers on this topic but having owned an iPhone in the past LG has set up their brightness controls to work in much the same way. You basically have two independent controls that can be combined to work together.
For example, I have my brightness on 85% and Auto is checked to ON. This means brightness will adjust automatically but never exceed 85%. You are setting a ceiling and it will NEVER go to 100% bright if set this way. If I turn Auto OFF, its always 85% regardless of ambient light. Hope this helps some peeps understand this better. I actually prefer their implementation but it's familiar to me.
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now this makes sense, if only someone explained it like that before, rather than saying you don't know what you are talking about.
nateinva said:
Have seen a lot of varied answers on this topic but having owned an iPhone in the past LG has set up their brightness controls to work in much the same way. You basically have two independent controls that can be combined to work together.
For example, I have my brightness on 85% and Auto is checked to ON. This means brightness will adjust automatically but never exceed 85%. You are setting a ceiling and it will NEVER go to 100% bright if set this way. If I turn Auto OFF, its always 85% regardless of ambient light. Hope this helps some peeps understand this better. I actually prefer their implementation but it's familiar to me.
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This explanation contains logic, while LG's automatic brightness control, contains none. If you set brightness at 85%, and turn automatic brightness ON, assuming 85% set the top ceiling, then going into a pitch black room will still allow the LG to turn brightness to something like 5%. In reality, it doesn't happen, even in pitch black rooms, the LG is still close to 85% (maybe 65%), which is totally blinding. If you want to see how a working automatic brightness control behave, install lux brightness control.
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This explanation contains logic, while LG's automatic brightness control, contains none. If you set brightness at 85%, and turn automatic brightness ON, assuming 85% set the top ceiling, then going into a pitch black room will still allow the LG to turn brightness to something like 5%. In reality, it doesn't happen, even in pitch black rooms, the LG is still close to 85% (maybe 65%), which is totally blinding. If you want to see how a working automatic brightness control behave, install lux brightness control.
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I don't disagree with this at all....I'm still observing some odd/unexpected behavior and you're right.....it doesn't seem like there is enough 'travel range' when using auto in very dark environments. 85% in regular/full light should scale down dramatically in a dark room...one would think?
I actually prefer my screen brighter though so this hasn't bothered me, but that is personal preference and definitely not one size fits all. I have used the built-in controls on CM based ROMs on a few of my other devices before the G2 and you get much more fine-grained control there. I will say though that as far as the stock brightness controls go, the G2 behaves identically to the 2 iPhones I've used. If anyone reading is interested and has a friend with an iPhone, hop into the settings and look at the brightness controls. I think you'll see where LG drew some inspiration.
Loving this phone overall....best I've owned so far! I purchased off contract and sold my Droid RAZR MAXX HD on Swappa....couldn't be happier.
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This explanation contains logic, while LG's automatic brightness control, contains none. If you set brightness at 85%, and turn automatic brightness ON, assuming 85% set the top ceiling, then going into a pitch black room will still allow the LG to turn brightness to something like 5%. In reality, it doesn't happen, even in pitch black rooms, the LG is still close to 85% (maybe 65%), which is totally blinding. If you want to see how a working automatic brightness control behave, install lux brightness control.
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Did you use any android phone before the G2?they all work the same way,sony Samsung,lg....
You are right that the auto brightness should go from zero to 100% depends on the available light but all the brands i used have the same auto brightness.
I think it's something related to android.
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No, it doesn't work well for you at all. If you put it at 55%, and go to direct sunlight, it will never come close to 100% brightness (I would say only about 60-70%). Moreover, if you go to a pitch black room, you will not get 1-2% brightness, rather ~30-40%. I would say the automatic brightness control of the G2, can only play with ~10% above/below what you set your manual settings. Who does automatic brightness like this ? pathetic and useless.
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if you set it at 55% or any other, then that's your max even when you go into sunlight.
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gm007 said:
Did you use any android phone before the G2?they all work the same way,sony Samsung,lg....
You are right that the auto brightness should go from zero to 100% depends on the available light but all the brands i used have the same auto brightness.
I think it's something related to android.
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It wasn't like this with my Galaxy s2.
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It wasn't like this with my Galaxy s2.
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Yes because there was not any slider to tweak the auto brightness settings.
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Is everyone here satisfied with the screen brightness? It looks somewhat nice when the brightness is at 100% but then that drains the battery faster.
I have never used the 100% brightness - outside I'm not using the G Pad, inside I'm somewhere near 50-65% brightness, and for night reading 10-20% brightness. About battery draining, I haven't keeping an eye on it. When the battery goes near 30%, I automatically put in on the charger (I got one sexy thin 4m. USB cable here so I can keep using the tablet anywhere in my room)
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I have never used the 100% brightness - outside I'm not using the G Pad, inside I'm somewhere near 50-65% brightness, and for night reading 10-20% brightness. About battery draining, I haven't keeping an eye on it. When the battery goes near 30%, I automatically put in on the charger (I got one sexy thin 4m. USB cable here so I can keep using the tablet anywhere in my room)
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50-65% for me seems somewhat dim, almost too dim to enjoy the HD screen. Are there any additional settings other than the main brightness setting? I do not have auto brightness turned on at all
Indoors i hardly ever raise brightness over 40% i have no complaints. In fact 100% brightness is damn near blinding.
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Indoors i hardly ever raise brightness over 40% i have no complaints. In fact 100% brightness is damn near blinding.
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Agreed. Brightness isn't an issue. The problem is that the gamma is too high resulting in darks being too dark.
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Agreed. Brightness isn't an issue. The problem is that the gamma is too high resulting in darks being too dark.
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That's an interesting observation. I think there are apps to adjust the gamma. Does anybody have any tips on that?
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Agreed. Brightness isn't an issue. The problem is that the gamma is too high resulting in darks being too dark.
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So can we change the gamma in the kernel ?
yes, I find the ugly screen (very dark) with the brightness below 60%.
by 100% against beautiful. But ouch battery !!
No, you can change the gamma (and saturation, and brightness and stuff) in an app, someone mentioned it here on xda, but I can't remember it's name. Take a look around
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No, you can change the gamma (and saturation, and brightness and stuff) in an app, someone mentioned it here on xda, but I can't remember it's name. Take a look around
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Screen adjuster
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Screen adjuster
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I downloaded screen adjuster but it does not have any gamma or saturation settings. Only red, green, blue, brightness, and contrast. By the way, does anyone know how to take screenshots on this tablet?
hold Unlock + Volume down
I recommend using the app LUX. It does a terrific job of managing auto brightness. Way better than the built in logic. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
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I'm slightly ahead with this advice because I haven't even looked into rooting yet. But I can tell you if Franco kernel comes out for this baby that's what you want. It fixed the gamma settings and the color settings on my Nexus 4 completely. Made it like a brand new device with beautiful accurate colors and amazing battery life to boot. I will be keeping my eyes out for Franco kernel.
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