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Backlight too bright at night

At night the backlight too bright when set to Automatic - it won't go below 30% even when it is totally dark. It seems like this threshold can't be changed. As a workaround, does anyone know if there is a way to make a shortcut to the Backlight settings screen that can be used in Quicklinks, so at least it can be quickly set manually.

try lumos. it works on the hd2

Screen brightness goes down automaticaly.

Hi,
Everytime my battery goes down 15%, my screen brightness goes to almost 0.
I cant see any setting to change this.
I dont have any app to do that.
Currently rba023 rooted.
Thank you
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If there's a way to change it I would like to know as well. It's very hard to see for that last 15%.
Wish I could help.

The last 15% would last no time if it was at normal brightness. It's designed for, you know, if you need to use it in an emergency ;-)

To get your brightness back go to the sound and display setting and click brightness. It returns it to full brightness. When your battery drops to 10% and 5% it will do the same.
As far as I'm aware there isn't a proper solution to this.

My issue with the brightness is the "auto brightness" function seems backwards to me.
E.g. if I am in direct sunlight, auto brightness turns the brightness of the screen way down, which means I can hardly see it. If anything the brightness should be turned UP.
If I am in a dark room, auto brightness turns the brightness up, when really, turning it down would be better as it doesn't need to be as bright in a dark room. So it should be turned DOWN automatically.
It's arse-over-tit, as we say.

Yes,
But now with root, i'm sure anyone with the right knowledge can modify this 'stock setting' ! ...
Anyone to try it?
Cheers!
misterzak said:
To get your brightness back go to the sound and display setting and click brightness. It returns it to full brightness. When your battery drops to 10% and 5% it will do the same.
As far as I'm aware there isn't a proper solution to this.
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Hi mine seems fine.. Yours however does, as you say, seem arse over tit.
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This doesn't really fix the query but for fast access to adjust the brightness I use an app called QuickSettings which I have on my front screen to give quick access to some basic settings. On the brightness adjuster you have to have the phone settings not on automatically adjust.

How to make screen dimmer

I often use the phone to read in bed with the lights off. The screen is still way to bright even set to 0%. Anyone know how to dim it further?
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If you're using the Aldiko ebook reader, just set the background color to black and set the text color to grey or some other dull color.

on 1% mine is very dim even in pitch black darkness, you must have sensitive eyes

I wonder if mine is behaving normally. I have set it to Auto adjust off, and slider to 0%, and it is still readable in bright light (probably daylight).

Sunglasses

Maybe you have the same problem described here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765569

Get the Dimmer app from the market, it drops the screen "0%" brightness from 18% default to 10% and I find it perfect.

I just tested 3 apps on the market. Dimmer is good, but quite simplistic. Varies the brightness between "10" and whatever you have it set at. Apparently Android's idea of 0% is "18".
I also tried "Brightness Level" which gives a bit more control and allows you to set 0%, 25%, 75%, 100% and Auto. 0% setting in Brightness Level appears to be the same as the level of "10" that Dimmer allows. The program gives a percentage indicator of brightness.
Brighterrific may be very marginally 'better' at dimming the screen. It allows you to set a minimum and maximum brightness. If I set it to 0% in the program and then compare, it says the brightness has been set to -3% (according to the brightness percentage indicator in "Brightness Level"). The difference between 0 and -3 isn't very visible to me, but maybe it'll save slightly more battery life. I also noticed that clicking on Dimmer won't work after setting it to a level of -3%; maybe because the program doesn't recognise a level lower than it's default lowest level of "10"?
Obviously lower levels must be possible if Dimmer indicates that it's lowest level has a value of 10; it must be possible to set it to 0 or 1 somehow. Needless to say, if anyone finds a program which can set -30% let me know

Thanks folks. I have installed Dimmer and I am happy with the screen brightness.
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[Q] Redminote Brightness Lose Control

When I wake up one day,I founded out that the phone screen is very bright,I tried to adjust the brightness but I can't decrease it.In the phone setting the brightness setting is in the minimum but actually brightness is still the Max. I checked the auto brightness setting,it was turned off,I can use other application to adjust the brightness,but once I exit the application,the brightness adjust to the maximum by itself. Please help!!!

Look in the power settings from Security menu
always a Newbie said:
When I wake up one day,I founded out that the phone screen is very bright,I tried to adjust the brightness but I can't decrease it.In the phone setting the brightness setting is in the minimum but actually brightness is still the Max. I checked the auto brightness setting,it was turned off,I can use other application to adjust the brightness,but once I exit the application,the brightness adjust to the maximum by itself. Please help!!!
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It might be set by the power profile which is currently active, lots of changes will be revert to set value in the power profile.
Let me know if it helps.

Try to update the MIUI
You can try to download and update MIUI and check if the issue still persists.

always a Newbie said:
When I wake up one day,I founded out that the phone screen is very bright,I tried to adjust the brightness but I can't decrease it.In the phone setting the brightness setting is in the minimum but actually brightness is still the Max. I checked the auto brightness setting,it was turned off,I can use other application to adjust the brightness,but once I exit the application,the brightness adjust to the maximum by itself. Please help!!!
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did you tried installing brightness control app it might work

Still doest work...
i checked my power profile, i didnt set anything at all. And about using apps,i tried several apps but still it cannot adjust my brightness at all. When i use the apps, i can control the brightness, but when i exit the app without closing it (that is by home button), the brightness will auto adjust to the max brightness.

s7 edge screen flickering

i recently bought a used s7 edge. the cellphone's display is damaged buf overall it works fine. except for a few issues mainly related to light sensor according to my understanding.
1: the display flickers when auto brightness turned off or when brightness is set to anything less than maximum
workaround: i installed screen filter app to control the brightness
2: the screen goes to green screen of death when device is put to sleep
workaround : turn AOD to always on and never Turn it off
3: the display goes to green death screen during call and wont get normal unless call is ended and screen is locked and turned on..
4 : at AOD ,the screen flickers at night time or in a dark place but gets back normal in bright light..
info i need : i thought what if it was possible to change the android framework values for the light sensor so that no matter whatever the light of the surrounding may be.. the device will always think it's in bright light.
for example if the settings for current values are
high 5000 medium 2000 low 600
then i change it to
high 1000 medium 500 low 25
so that the device will always think its in full bright area..
can anyone help me in achieving this goal? thanks