I figured id pass this along...after talking to friedrich420 and twistedumbrella we figured out to bypass the dimming led notification or brightness you have to have a kernel that can control the led. I use ael kernel and sku to control the mA.
You have to be rooted and im not responsible for any damage if any.
Start sku then click stytem tab then scoll to "led control"
i changed high power mA to 255 and low power mA to 255 to always have bright led notification. The higher the mA i noticed it cant produce certain colours when using custom led colours.
Have you experimented with different levels to find a good trade off for brightness and still be able to have a good range of colors?
Seems it's either bright or dim. I settled on 255 for bright. I'm not even sure what the highest values are
I put it at 255 and 240. Seems to work perfect with all ra ge of colours.
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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).
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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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Here's my dilemma... I like saving battery by setting my brightness level lower than the automatic setting (since the screen still looks great anyway), but I would like it if I didn't have to go into my settings manually to change the brightness level so that I can see the screen when in direct sunlight. Is there any way someone could develop a mod to have the automatic brightness, but about 20% dimmer? I don't know if it's possible, but it would be pretty awesome.
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geoffott said:
Here's my dilemma... I like saving battery by setting my brightness level lower than the automatic setting (since the screen still looks great anyway), but I would like it if I didn't have to go into my settings manually to change the brightness level so that I can see the screen when in direct sunlight. Is there any way someone could develop a mod to have the automatic brightness, but about 20% dimmer? I don't know if it's possible, but it would be pretty awesome.
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I have my screen set pretty dim, and use the Power widget to crank up the brightness if I go outside.
You can also you the "Screen Filter' app to make the screen x% darker than the current setting. (which even allows you to make it darker than the dimmest brightness settting, which is really nice on the batteries.)
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geoffott said:
Here's my dilemma... I like saving battery by setting my brightness level lower than the automatic setting (since the screen still looks great anyway), but I would like it if I didn't have to go into my settings manually to change the brightness level so that I can see the screen when in direct sunlight. Is there any way someone could develop a mod to have the automatic brightness, but about 20% dimmer? I don't know if it's possible, but it would be pretty awesome.
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I am current searching for the same thing.
temp solution is to Market > Dimmer (night mode) by geekyouup
It toggles auto brightness and sets back light to min. when on. click once, screen goes super dark, click it again, auto brightness take over. handy. (put it up to status bar w/ bar control and you can get to it when ever)
Problem with auto brightness right now is at it's lowest setting, the back light is still at about 25%. there is gotta be a way to change that in the settings.apk
or better yet, have an option to set your own ambient light to lcd brightness ratio for the auto brightness
option to set own ambient light ratio?
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there is gotta be a way to change that in the settings.apk
or better yet, have an option to set your own ambient light to lcd brightness ratio for the auto brightness
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I'm search for this also. I believe you can adjust this in CM7 but is there is a way to do this that is not ROM specific? I'm currently using RoyalGlacier with Faux123 kernel and I find the auto brightness setting for dim ambient to be too bright and the bright ambient to be not bright enough.
The "low" brightness is way too bright for me. Microsoft is nice enough to introduced 30 levels of volume but offering just 3 levels of brightness is pretty dumb.
Anyways I was looking through registry hack and I found the MinBrightness and MaxBrightness setting. Originally I set it to "manual" and "low" in the brightness setting. Then I checked the registry and the Min and Max is 0 and 19 respectively.
I changed the Max to 0, and it APPEARED to be dimmer than before. I went back to the Setting -> Brightness and now my brightness level is shown as "Medium", Auto adjust set to off. Both of them are grey out so that I cannot change it, I supposed the setting screen read an unsupported combination and freaked out. I wonder if anyone else tried this, or this is just my placebo effect?
I thought I was the only one having this problem.
Hopefully there will a solution regarding this issue.
I wonder if I can use privacy screen to lower the brightness, or even those tinted window screen from home depot.
So where to tweak this in registry?
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Does anybody know of a way of reducing the backlight brightness below the stock settings?
I've tried various screen filters, such haxor Screen Filter, but these apps are rubbish IMO. All they do is apply a grey transparency filter over the screen, they don't actually reduce the backlight brightness The result is a trick, the screen looks darker but it's really only because the white pixels are made grey. The problem with this approach is that it messes up the contrast and colors, and gives a washed out look.
I like to sometimes use my N10 in a pitch black room, which needs a very dark screen. My old Galaxy Tab 8.9 was good for this, because the backlight was able to go much darker than the N10. The thing is, I know the N10 hardware is capable of having a darker backlight because if you don't touch the tablet for a few minutes, the screen first goes dim before it turns off.
I would like to be able to manually activate the very dim screen setting, or better still, have a lower brightness range available in the brightness settings.
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Thanks - works a charm!
Everyone knows that the intensity of the notification LED is depended on the ambient light intensity, on a bright situation the LED glows at it's full brightness and in a dark situation it fades and much lower intense. I am rooted, is there any way I can change this behaviour and make the LED bright always, other than flashing a custom kernel. Light Manager did work for this on Note 2, but it's not working on S4, I mean the brightness part.
Thanks in advance.
I didn't know the intensity can change depending on the light level. To my eyes it looks the same at any light level. I am sure Tasker can control this, I decided to control my LED with tasker because as powerful as Lightflow is, it's just not flexible enough, their selling point is the amount of apps and the ability to take over led, vibration, and sound... i want to control my led's colour, duration and intensity and only Tasker can achieve this tbh.
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I didn't know the intensity can change depending on the light level. To my eyes it looks the same at any light level. I am sure Tasker can control this, I decided to control my LED with tasker because as powerful as Lightflow is, it's just not flexible enough, their selling point is the amount of apps and the ability to take over led, vibration, and sound... i want to control my led's colour, duration and intensity and only Tasker can achieve this tbh.
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Thanks. Tasker never popped in mind. But as I have never used it, I have no idea how to use it. Could you please guide me, on the LED part only? How to achieve what you said?