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Screen dimmer in general after update?

I feel like the screen brightness is trending significantly lower with the auto brightness sensor enabled. I could swear that the screen would bump up the brightness more in certain settings that now appear too dim. Is anyone else seeing this, or am I imagining it?

Actually, I didn't really notice at first, but my girlfriend's Epic has been updated already and mine has not (still waiting for the update message). After i read this post I put them side by side to check...in the same lighting conditions her Epic is definitely dimmer now.

Sigh... why'd the break it! Screen brightness was perfect! Now I find myself pointing the screen at a light source from time to time because it goes too dim too fast. Sure, it may give the OLED matrix a slightly longer life, but most of us don't use this thing for hours outdoors anyway - in addition to the fact that we'll (probably) be replacing the phone after 1-2 years for the next best thing anyway. Any fixes anyone?

It seems like the screen can get dimmer now but I could be wrong.
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i was thinkin that before and also while web browsing i used to be able to adjust brightness even with my general brightness on auto .. but now i cant ....

I just leave mine at either 50% or 100%

They lowered the minimum brightness, which affects the auto scaler at all levels. I noticed that the EVO could get much duller than the Epic and that when indoors, the lowest setting was still quite bright. It should help save battery.
I use manual, so I don't care.

i really love the dimmer screen, i always have it very low because at work i really dont need a brighter screen and of course save battery, love that change.

I like the lower setting because it was hard to look at in the morning after waking up before. You can easily adjusting the brightness by swiping left or right on the status bar.
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Nexus 4 outdoor visibility question

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.

Screen flickering once in a while?

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?

Itaintrite said:
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.

Itaintrite said:
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.

WilliamG said:
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.

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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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?

znibbor said:
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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Pink screen at low brightness

I'm hearing a lot of different stories regarding the screen turning heavily pink when the brightness is at its lowest.
Thought i'd make a poll to see how many people are affected, then we can hopefully gather its its a hardware defect.

No pink here, even using an app that takes it lower than stock.
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I'd say it's more purple than pink but yes I have it. Same thing when I had a Galaxy S4. I'm pretty sure they're using the same AMOLED tech, which is a shame but yeah.

spunkfaucet666 said:
I'd say it's more purple than pink but yes I have it. Same thing when I had a Galaxy S4. I'm pretty sure they're using the same AMOLED tech, which is a shame but yeah.
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clothednblack said:
No pink here, even using an app that takes it lower than stock.
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Make sure to actually vote guys, would help out a bunch

I have had two 6's and sent the first back because of the pink issue. 2nd phone is still pink below 1/3 brightness slider, just not as pink as the first. Called Google and talked with a hardware tech and they said it was part of the performance of the screen, and just to keep it above 1/3 brightness (wack). Both phones I had only turned pink with adaptive brightness on and the slider below 1/3 in a dark room. In normal lighting it doesn't seem to dim into the "pink" range.

jbbuie said:
I have had two 6's and sent the first back because of the pink issue. 2nd phone is still pink below 1/3 brightness slider, just not as pink as the first. Called Google and talked with a hardware tech and they said it was part of the performance of the screen, and just to keep it above 1/3 brightness (wack). Both phones I had only turned pink with adaptive brightness on and the slider below 1/3 in a dark room. In normal lighting it doesn't seem to dim into the "pink" range.
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Same. I use adaptive brightness. My grays have a pinkish hue at very low brightness settings. Doesn't bother me, don't usually have brightness so low.
Just part of being an early adopter, I suppose. Not that big a deal to me, but I can see how others might be upset. It's my first phone of this caliber so I'm still totally stoked with it.

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My device turns pink with adaptive on in a dark room. Also without adaptive only when the screen is just about to turn off.

Mine does this of course, because it is something that happens with every AMOLED phone I can think of. It was something I forgot about of course being on a phone with a regular LCD screen for the last year, but as soon as I got my Nexus 6 I remembered about this little quirk of AMOLED. Hopefully custom kernels can minimize how much we notice it with custom color calibration.
Mine is also much more purple than pink, if it is actually a really pink color them maybe something is wrong, IDK. My purple tint doesnt start to happen till I am about 25% of the way down the brightness slider. All the way down and the screen is very heavily tinted purple. But that is too dark to see with anyway so I never turn things down low enough to make things look bad enough that I would actually care about. The screen look beautiful in any normal lighting conditions. I just think of it as a "night time feature" to be easier on tired eyes. lol.

Wasn't this talked about before release? I thought it was part of the brightness setting and to make it more of a battery saver?
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On... So if I jack my brightness down, it gets a little pink. Whoopty-do... Why care? It looks fine at whatever brightness I use and I've never expected a display to look perfect when it's almost off. It's not some damning evidence that the thing is low rent.
Everyone's looking to complain. Omg, If I click on back 19 times while shaking the phone and switching back and forth into chrome, I drop a frame.... A $650 shouldn't do that!
Smh

Oh I'm not looking to complain at all, I just wanted to see if it's something everyone had or not.
I've just heard so much Conflicting info on this it's driving g me nuts... Either way, I'm super excited about getting it ?

italia0101 said:
... Either way, I'm super excited about getting it ?
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You should, it's a great phone. But like every other phone out there, there will be some that have issues and others that are just here to stir the pot.

Heck, I thought it was a feature to make it easier to read text with the brightness super low...
*shrug*
Well, I guess if it's a bug I am glad I got a bad one. Sure as heck not sending it back with the PVS 13. With my luck I'd end up with a 2.

My 2014 Moto X screen turns pink when I crank the brightness down also on lollipop. I think it's due to the AMOLED screen because I can do the same to my N7 and it doesn't turn pink. I've noticed on lollipop that the screen can be made a lot dimmer than on kk

This is all due to amoled folks. And partly how it is calibrated. But it is an inherent quality in these display panels. As long as it's not pink at your "normal" viewing brightness then :thumbup:

Sorry my screen is pretty:good:

One thing I have noticed is that with adaptive brightness on...if I turn my brightness all the way down I do see tint pinkish hue. If I turn my adaptive brightness off and turn my brightness all the way down...I don't have a pinkish tint on the screen.
Anyone else's screen reacts this way?
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I've been reading about this issue all over. Maybe I lucked out but I don't have the pink issue at all.

gruppe3942 said:
One thing I have noticed is that with adaptive brightness on...if I turn my brightness all the way down I do see tint pinkish hue. If I turn my adaptive brightness off and turn my brightness all the way down...I don't have a pinkish tint on the screen.
Anyone else's screen reacts this way?
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Yeah mine does. Lol I am now learning that adaptive is not the same as auto-brightness. But seems like with adaptive on it keeps the screen a bit darker than without. I noticed with the slider maxed out or turned all the way down it gets much brighter and dimmer respectively with it off.

Gorjira said:
I've been reading about this issue all over. Maybe I lucked out but I don't have the pink issue at all.
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If you turn adaptive on, and manually turn the brightness all the way down (something you would likely never do in real word use) you will see it. Even in a dark room I don't see it since my display is still bright enough to stay over the threshold where this phenomenon manifests. If I go lower the brightness way down however, it appears.

Adaptive brightness issues

Is anyone having trouble with the adaptive brightness. I have it turned on and the brightness of the screen is not change regardless whether i'm in a fully lite room or in a dark room. I have it turned on in settings under display. Is there more too it? am I missing something?

Screen protector messing with the sensor?

nrfitchett4 said:
Screen protector messing with the sensor?
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No screen protector.. however I believe this is user error. I just read up on the difference between auto-brightness and adaptive brightness (which is on 5.1.1 and later). My device as functioning as expected.

The adaptive brightness on my device seems really sensitive, it even changes when the image on my TV changes from dark to light in a darkish room.

Agreed; mine is annoyingly sensitive, if I can say that. Very distracting while driving at night with the GPS on. Every minute it goes between bright and dark. Didn't have this on Nexus 6.

bicho6 said:
No screen protector.. however I believe this is user error. I just read up on the difference between auto-brightness and adaptive brightness (which is on 5.1.1 and later). My device as functioning as expected.
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Could you expand on this a little more?

allen099 said:
Agreed; mine is annoyingly sensitive, if I can say that. Very distracting while driving at night with the GPS on. Every minute it goes between bright and dark. Didn't have this on Nexus 6.
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Yes. It happened to me while driving at night also. I hope that it will be tweaked and will be less sensitive.
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Screen protector messing with the sensor?
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No part of the phone protector covers anything on the screen-side, but are there ambient light sensors on the back, next to the camera?

I've got the issue too. Has anyone seen a solution like a kernel, xposed module or something?