The screen is too bright for me at home during the night even when brightness is set manually at zero. The odd thing is the phone has a dim mode when inactive that is very dim. Any way to manually access the phones inactive dim back light?
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Sorry, I see using battery saving mode lowers minimum brightness.
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I use this app, 'Screen Filter' during the dark.
If you only want to dim brightness download and try something like Yetanother auto brightness (YAAB) from the store.
It goes lower than stock and had a night mode.
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Why does it randomly stop working? Or, right before the screen shuts off, insted of dimming, it brightens? I can be in total darkness and if i close an app, it goes to 100%.
I experience that as well. It's quite annoying.
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I've found that it simply doesn't work
The auto brightness sucks. When it's in a completely dark room, its too bright. When it's in direct sunlight, it's not as bright as it COULD be. Annoying.
I wish we had the brightness notification slider like the vibrant but till that comes out I have been using the power control widget works fine for me.
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Part of this may have to do with "Power Saving Mode" under Sounds & Display..
It says it analyzes the image on the screen and adjusts the backlight to save power.
I've noticed when I'm on a screen that's majority white pixels, the display will dim regardless of the light in the room.
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egg_head said:
Part of this may have to do with "Power Saving Mode" under Sounds & Display..
It says it analyzes the image on the screen and adjusts the backlight to save power.
I've noticed when I'm on a screen that's majority white pixels, the display will dim regardless of the light in the room.
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I agree with that theory.
I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
Noticed this too but seems to only occur when I use a widget to toggle between Auto and 100%.
If I leave the setting in Auto from within settings then it seems to work. Brightness widgets seem to break the auto functionality.
Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
Strahlenkanone said:
Hmm, I don't use a brightness widget. The light of the softbuttons go on if I cover the light sensor, but the screens stays in high brightness.
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Must be an all around bug then. If you turn the Atrix off and back on then the auto brightness functionality is restored.
Strahlenkanone said:
I noticed that the brightness only brightens but never dims back in automatic brightness display setting. I can reproduce this easy with turning the lamp on my desk on and off. It only goes back to the lower brightness if turning the screen off and on again.
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This must be an Android thing. My Atrix does the same thing, as did the Nexus One I had before. I've had several (high end) Nokia's that dimmed/brightened perfectly. After 5 seconds, they would brighten (or dim) accordingly. I was hoping Motorola was better at making phones than HTC (the KING of bad battery life). We ALL lose here. Our precious battery life is being drained by the poor execution of a simple function.
This is a stock android thing (problem). Custom ROMs can allow it to dim and change brightness smoothly rather than in discrete steps (Cyanogen).
That's what I thought. I found this free app called "esdimmer". It supposed to be for Galaxy phones, but it's somewhat working on my Atrix. Does this function work any better in Gingerbread?
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Well it's good to hear that it's a stock android problem and not the actual phone. I did find a way to get around this problem but it's very limited. You can get the screen to dim by first putting the phone into standby and then press the standby button once again (which gets you into the lock screen). You'll notice that the screen then dims (if coming from a well lit area/room to a darker one).
With auto-brightness turned off an brightness turned up all the way, I am seeing the brightness go down when some apps are launched and turn back up when the app is closed. I noticed this today when launching GoChat and then also saw it when launching the stock jellybean web browser. I am not sure but I think this has only been happening since the last software update (T-Mobile USA).
I wonder if others are noticing this and if it is occurring on I9505 models or just T-Mobile models.
Is power saving mode on?
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Lolxa said:
Is power saving mode on?
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And auto adapt screen tone must be off
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From DisplayMate:
Since the display often uses 50 percent or more of the total Smartphone power, various display power management schemes are frequently used. The Galaxy S4 uses one innovative approach to overcome this – when Automatic Brightness is turned on, the Peak Brightness becomes significantly brighter in high ambient lighting than is possible with Manual Brightness, up to as high as 475 cd/m2, which is 34 percent higher than is possible with Manual Brightness. This is done so that users can’t permanently set the brightness to very high values, which would run down the battery quickly.From Samsung:
Samsung Adapt Display: The Galaxy S4 "learns" what you are viewing and adjusts the display's brightness accordingly. If the phone senses you are reading an article, for example, it will illuminate from a more muted brightness.
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With auto-brightness turned off an brightness turned up all the way, I am seeing the brightness go down when some apps are launched and turn back up when the app is closed. I noticed this today when launching GoChat and then also saw it when launching the stock jellybean web browser. I am not sure but I think this has only been happening since the last software update (T-Mobile USA).
I wonder if others are noticing this and if it is occurring on I9505 models or just T-Mobile models.
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I'm experiencing similar issues as well with my S4 I9500.
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And auto adapt screen tone must be off
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power saving mode = off
auto brightness = off
auto adjust screen tone = off
still the same problem.
I see the thread talking about 33% briteness reduced during web browsing, but this shouldn't be if all brightness reducing settings are off.
And it certainly should be with other apps. My texting app has a dark theme where background = black and text = blue. When this 'feature' reduces my screen brightness when I launch that messaging app with the dark them, it becomes difficult to read.
So they are trying to save us from ourselves... and save their battery bragging rights... but PLEASE SAMSUNG, give us options to turn all this crap off!!
So... maybe I'll have to root and reROM. Just don't want a ROM with more issues than I already have with stock ROM. I hear other ROMs aren't so good with our camera.
I have the same annoying problem.First the wifi issue which we don't know if it is hardware or software,then this,i am wanter what's next..
gruuvin said:
auto brightness = off
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Turning off auto-brightness reduces screen brightness by up to 34%.
BarryH_GEG said:
Turning off auto-brightness reduces screen brightness by up to 34%.
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No sir, Not always! Sitting here in a bright office with white walls, filled with sunlight and fluorescent light, with auto-brightness off and brightness turned up all the way, turning ON auto brightness reduces the screen brightness by quite a noticeable bit.
I've read this stated a few places that auto-brightness can actually push the brightness up higher than is possible with manual brightness, but under what conditions? It would make sense that auto would select the brightest possibility under direct sunlight conditions, but I just tested it outside under direct 11am sunlight, toggling back and forth between auto and manual (turned all the way up) -- no difference! Auto brightness did not make my screen brighter than is possible with manual brightness turned up all the way.
All.... as posted in another thread, this only appears to be a problem when launching the browser. My problem with GoSms chat was remedied when I toggled back to 'normal mode' (from it being accidentally set to 'night mode' at some point -- oops! why would an app have its own brightness setting? this should only be a global variable).
I'm on Android Nougat 7.0 stock with TWRP and root. The auto brightness goes too low when in a low lit room. Previous versions of Android adapted as I would increase the brightness and eventually learn how I liked it in differently lit rooms. However, Android 7 doesn't appear to be doing this.
Is there an app or mod that would allow me to adjust the auto brightness settings?
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I'm on Android Nougat 7.0 stock with TWRP and root. The auto brightness goes too low when in a low lit room. Previous versions of Android adapted as I would increase the brightness and eventually learn how I liked it in differently lit rooms. However, Android 7 doesn't appear to be doing this.
Is there an app or mod that would allow me to adjust the auto brightness settings?
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yeah, your fingers, turn off auto brightness or adaptive display.
Seanie280672 said:
yeah, your fingers, turn off auto brightness or adaptive display.
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Adaptive display is to adjust the colours not the brightness.
Turning off auto brightness would mean adjusting the brightness everytime I went into a different light environment. That would defeat the object.
Not very helpful but thanks for trying.
CuBz90 said:
Adaptive display is to adjust the colours not the brightness.
Turning off auto brightness would mean adjusting the brightness everytime I went into a different light environment. That would defeat the object.
Not very helpful but thanks for trying.
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you could always turn off auto brightness and try and find a middle of the road setting, but I know what you mean, when playing games on mine the screen seems to go darker in darker rooms, seems the wrong way around to me, I just move my hand away from any sensors and it sorts itself out, the 2 dots next to the top speaker.
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you could always turn off auto brightness and try and find a middle of the road setting, but I know what you mean, when playing games on mine the screen seems to go darker in darker rooms, seems the wrong way around to me, I just move my hand away from any sensors and it sorts itself out, the 2 dots next to the top speaker.
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Well on Android 6 I would manually adjust it when it was too dark or too bright and Android would remember and adjust it to how I liked it, meaning I didn't have to manually adjust it anymore. Android 7 doesn't seem to have it. I guess I'll just put up with manually adjusting it for now.
Lux. It would set how dim or how bright the screen would be in a certain level of ambient light.
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chanchan05 said:
Lux. It would set how dim or how bright the screen would be in a certain level of ambient light.
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Perfect!!
Thanks
Hi
The AOD seems to be bright in the morning but when it gets darker in evening it remains readable for only a few seconds and then dims down so badly that one cannot read anything on the AOD at night when there is pitch darkness.
I did set the brightness option in the AOD settings but that doesnt seem to help at all.
I'm not using Auto Brighness control also for the display.
Anyone else seeing this particularly at night?
Rgds
Vivek
vivekfxg said:
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The AOD seems to be bright in the morning but when it gets darker in evening it remains readable for only a few seconds and then dims down so badly that one cannot read anything on the AOD at night when there is pitch darkness.
I did set the brightness option in the AOD settings but that doesnt seem to help at all.
I'm not using Auto Brighness control also for the display.
Anyone else seeing this particularly at night?
Rgds
Vivek
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Yes, in low light conditions the aod is to dim...in normal light conditions the aod is good!
Hope they fix it in an update!
Are you using any type of screen overlay?
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Yes i use Lux-Autobrightness, but deactivated the overlay-right. Otherwise some system animations wont work...like blur in the power off screen, also you cant install non playstore apps with some type of overlay active (android security-feature). But Lux is not the problem, aod is also to dim without lux! Aod simply sets the screen brightness to low in dark enviroments.