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[DISCUSS] Screen brightness sensor a joke!!

Sending this straight back, I cannot believe there is no option to disable auto brightness settings on this heap of ++++.
It has got a mind of its own and is extremely annoying to suddenly see the screen get dim and bright every 5 seconds without any change in actual lighting condition...it makes the phone almost unusable.
Hope someone can make a hack for this soon.

hawrai68 said:
Sending this straight back, I cannot believe there is no option to disable auto brightness settings on this heap of ++++.
It has got a mind of its own and is extremely annoying to suddenly see the screen get dim and bright every 5 seconds without any change in actual lighting condition...it makes the phone almost unusable.
Hope someone can make a hack for this soon.
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Yes, totally a reason to send it back, software bug on a phone with a unlockable bootloader. Hope your next one doesn't have any real issues

Maybe this was the software bug vodafone was saying?

http://www.google.com/search?client...rceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest
sure you can't find a solution? It must be somewhere in the settings (I'm no android expert though).

It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!

hawrai68 said:
It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!
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and apps force closing are just the man keeping us down!
... unless the sensor it's self is dicked, then it can be fixed in software, even if it is dicked, it can be completely disabled.... just cool your jets.

well i report no such shinanigans happening on my phone! i can see the light sensor in action when i cover it with my thumb, it works really well and the gradient of fading and lighting up is the best i've seen on any phone so far! i dont notice it when using it normally.
you must have a faulty one....

johnsongrantr said:
and apps force closing are just the man keeping us down!
... unless the sensor it's self is dicked, then it can be fixed in software, even if it is dicked, it can be completely disabled.... just cool your jets.
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How can I disable it?...Why not have a simple option like other phones?

hawrai68 said:
It's not a "software bug", it's SE dictating to us that in order for the paltry battery to last a day, we need to use it in the dark, or disco mode!
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They have to stop the complaints some how, at least the speakers are not gimped

Thought I'd mention that I have no such problem with my device.

I'm very happy with the screen. Especially good as I moved from a nexus one.
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Can't you install brightness level from the market to controll the auto brightness ?

Wanna control your brightness levels quick and easy? I use a very slick widget called Dazzle. It has every option you can think of to control just about everything on your phone. Give it a try.
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I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
A Dutch review actually mentioned a lack of auto-brightness as one of the downsides to this device.

svenk919 said:
I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
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Hello? Use Dazzle.
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svenk919 said:
I don't seem to have auto-brightness, do have a slide in the settings to ste brightness though, on highest I can easely see in the sun and it hurts in the dark, on the lowest settings it's hard to read at night.
A Dutch review actually mentioned a lack of auto-brightness as one of the downsides to this device.
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It does have Auto Brightness as if you put a finger over the light sensor the phone screens dim.
The phone had an update pending the day I purchased it so most of the reviews I have seen are out of date. This phone is excellent at playing games.

Techdread said:
It does have Auto Brightness as if you put a finger over the light sensor the phone screens dim.
The phone had an update pending the day I purchased it so most of the reviews I have seen are out of date. This phone is excellent at playing games.
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I hear that. In love with my Xperia Play.

Guys can someone tell me. A lot of reviews say that the screen is very dim even on max setting and a lot of reviews say the exact opposite. So what is it?

Mine is perfect in the sun. I'm starting to think there are 2 types of screens involved, anyway to check what screen you have without opening the device up?

Screen brightness is ok for me, but just remarked the display have some ghosting issues. Slide beetween programs screens and observe carrefully the icons.... with red "Adresse" one this is very visible. i can't belive sony use a high response time display on a gamer device.

[Q] Galaxy S4 Screen dimming.

I got my Galaxy S4 yesterday and noticed even after i turned auto brightness off, Set my screen to dynamic, the screen still changes brightness levels when entering the Chrome web browser (gets dimmer), playing some video games (screen get brighter) and other various tasks.
I am not a noob, I've gone through the phones settings for each app and cannot find a fix, do you guys notice your phones doing the same thing?? I might be a slight change in brightness level but non the less i like my screen extremely bright this is just my preference.
Any thoughts, ideas, tweaks or feedback on how to resolve this issue??

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soklean said:
I got my Galaxy S4 yesterday and noticed even after i turned auto brightness off, Set my screen to dynamic, the screen still changes brightness levels when entering the Chrome web browser (gets dimmer), playing some video games (screen get brighter) and other various tasks.
I am not a noob, I've gone through the phones settings for each app and cannot find a fix, do you guys notice your phones doing the same thing?? I might be a slight change in brightness level but non the less i like my screen extremely bright this is just my preference.
Any thoughts, ideas, tweaks or feedback on how to resolve this issue??
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The only time I've seen this happen since I've gotten the device is when the battery dropped below 5%, and it automatically adjusted the brightness to seemingly the lowest it could go, and stuck until I charged it to full again.
I blame it on Samsung's stockware.

maybe this is why i couldnt get the phone to look as bright as my note 2. i was using the browser and cnn.com to compare.. my note 2 screen was brighter with both phones brightness on max.

soklean said:
I got my Galaxy S4 yesterday and noticed even after i turned auto brightness off, Set my screen to dynamic, the screen still changes brightness levels when entering the Chrome web browser (gets dimmer), playing some video games (screen get brighter) and other various tasks.
I am not a noob, I've gone through the phones settings for each app and cannot find a fix, do you guys notice your phones doing the same thing?? I might be a slight change in brightness level but non the less i like my screen extremely bright this is just my preference.
Any thoughts, ideas, tweaks or feedback on how to resolve this issue??
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Just throwing this out there...the screen does dim about 10 seconds before the screen times out and turns off...even if you have automatic brightness disabled.
Let's say you have a 1 minute timeout:
Screen on
50 seconds later screen dims
10 seconds later screen turns off
Just putting that out there in case - it is confusing to some.

Dude I'm having the same problem, yeah it's a small dim but it's freaking annoying cuz I have mine at full brightness all the time. I have the tmobile galaxy s4. I tried changing the screen mode and it still happens
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elflip88 said:
Dude I'm having the same problem, yeah it's a small dim but it's freaking annoying cuz I have mine at full brightness all the time. I have the tmobile galaxy s4. I tried changing the screen mode and it still happens
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I've noticed it too. Just seems like typical dynamic contrast behavior. Though I don't understand why on earth you'd need it on a screen with perfect blacks.

ttnuagmada said:
I've noticed it too. Just seems like typical dynamic contrast behavior. Though I don't understand why on earth you'd need it on a screen with perfect blacks.
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Well this never happened on my S2 or S3. And i just saw a thread like this open in the tmobile forums. It really annoys the hell out of me
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elflip88 said:
Well this never happened on my S2 or S3. And i just saw a thread like this open in the tmobile forums. It really annoys the hell out of me
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I'm sure it has to do with preventing burn in. You probably already know this, but in the right conditions, the Auto brightness setting can get over 30% brighter than manually maxing the slider. Hopefully, it's something that can be unlocked at some point.

soklean said:
I got my Galaxy S4 yesterday and noticed even after i turned auto brightness off, Set my screen to dynamic, the screen still changes brightness levels when entering the Chrome web browser (gets dimmer), playing some video games (screen get brighter) and other various tasks.
I am not a noob, I've gone through the phones settings for each app and cannot find a fix, do you guys notice your phones doing the same thing?? I might be a slight change in brightness level but non the less i like my screen extremely bright this is just my preference.
Any thoughts, ideas, tweaks or feedback on how to resolve this issue??
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I don;t know if this helps or not....i notice the same thing earlier.....what i did was go to Settings--> Display, uncheck Auto Adjust ScreenTone
at least that is what worked for me

Maybe the power saving mode is manipulating it?
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Its the power saving option. Its the same in s3. Go to powrr saving settjngs and uncheck the auto dim or auto brightness or something like that. It happens when power saving is on. I cant remember the exact optin coz im using custom rom on my s3.
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This happened in the S4s I used in the store as well. Manual brightness, and auto screen adjust disabled, power save off. Opening certain apps like chrome and the stock browser causes the screen to dim a bit. Nothing I found prevented this behavior. It's annoying since I already find the screen to be a bit dim.
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Notice this as well, super annoying. I've disabled power saving, auto screen adjust, etc. and even non-dynamic modes do it.
Hopefully this gets fixed by kernel mods in the future

Same problem, even with brightness max with auto off, decent charge, and off power saver. Very annoying
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Its built into the Snapdragon, its called BRITE and seems works independantly of the auto screen tuning that the S4 has. The HTC One has it and its much more intrusive. I wrote a long winded post about it in the HTC One forums. You have to wait for devs to come out with kernels to disable it, much like they did for the Tegra 3

The HTC screen is bright enough that it doesn't matter. Samsung phones need to be at max brightness to be any good.

vinuneuro said:
The HTC screen is bright enough that it doesn't matter. Samsung phones need to be at max brightness to be any good.
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Just an FYI, if you put the screen on auto brightness, it reaches a higher maximum brightness outdoors as apposed to the slider. Samsung did this to keep the screen from overheating when set to max all the time.

I want full brightness indoors too.

vinuneuro said:
I want full brightness indoors too.
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I see. If you have the slider on max all the time, i think the screen will just dim eventually because of heat. Might want to stay away from the S4 then cus you might have screen problems down the line :/

If you havent go to settings display screen mode and use something other than adapt display. No more adjusting.
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TN7 5.1 Lollipop, my concerns and opinions

Just got a fresh update from 4.4.2 to 5.1, here are some of my concerns and opinions so far:
- the main thing that I have noticed is that the colors got a bit washed out or less vivid compared to when I was in Kitkat or is it the same across all lollipop devices? After the discovery of the hidden performance menu by some people here in XDA, you can turn off Tegra Prism there and fix this issue
- the 5.1 stock launcher was the same as the 4.4.2 launcher.
- animations are nice
- IMO, did not noticed much of a speed difference, maybe because our hardware is already powerful to begin with.
- so far battery life remains more or less the same as it was in Kitkat
Well, those are just the things that I have noticed upon my recent updating of my tablet.
Update:
- SD Card Write restrictions is the same as it was in Kitkat, only some apps can write or create files on the SD Card. MS Office for Tablets and TN7's own Write app still can't write or create files to SD Card (or I think it depends on the apps if developers add the ability to write files on the SD Card?)
- No stock gallery and video player app but ES File Explorer may suffice in viewing photos and videos though.

proudtobepinoy said:
Just got a fresh update from 4.4.2 to 5.1, here are some of my concerns and opinions so far:
- the main thing that I have noticed is that the colors got a bit washed out or less vivid compared to when I was in Kitkat or is it the same across all lollipop devices? This is my first time to get a taste of lollipop so I do not know.
- the 5.1 stock launcher was the same as the 4.4.2 launcher, so I just downloaded google now launcher.
- animations are nice
- IMO, did not noticed much of a speed difference, maybe because our hardware is already powerful to begin with.
- so far battery life remains more or less the same but will continue to check
Well, those are just the things that I have noticed upon my recent updating of my tablet.
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Where did you get it?

GlaciaDDF said:
Where did you get it?
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The official OTA update. Probably being released by NVidia in waves as I have heard some TN7s still don't have the update yet.

New concern, there is no option to turn off auto brightness not the adaptive brightness. I know you can turn off the adaptive brightness in the settings but no option to turn off auto brightness. It is unpleasing to eyes seeing the screen brightness fluctuating. Never had this problem when I was in kitkat but the fluctuating screen brightness in 5.1 lollipop is only noticeable when brightness set to low levels

Hi, notification and quick settings panels are the same of KitKat or they are lollipop style?

potalifs said:
Hi, notification and quick settings panels are the same of KitKat or they are lollipop style?
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Yes notifications and quick settings are lollipop style.

Concern from kitkat
Is the touch working properly in lolipop after being awaken by the magnetic slide cover? A problem in kitkat...

Hi, any chance of a ROM dump for those of us who are impatient and want this update now

Sandy._.12 said:
Is the touch working properly in lolipop after being awaken by the magnetic slide cover? A problem in kitkat...
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I can't tell as I don't use a magnetic slide cover, I don't know what that is even. Terribly Sorry.

Could you tell us which model you have? I'm hearing that the P-1988 is getting the update, but I've not heard anything yet about the original P-1640. Shame I always seem to be one of the last to get the updates pushed to me considering I pre-ordered this thing in November 2013... no love for early adopters.
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proudtobepinoy said:
I can't tell as I don't use a magnetic slide cover, I don't know what that is even. Terribly Sorry.
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It's the official cover for the tablet, and there's been a bug since launch where if the screen wakes from the cover, the touchscreen can become erratic and unresponsive until you lock/wake with the power button. You can test this with any small magnet placed just to the right of the front facing camera... if the bug still exists, removing the magnet to wake the screen should cause the same problem.

rchrdcrg said:
Could you tell us which model you have? I'm hearing that the P-1988 is getting the update, but I've not heard anything yet about the original P-1640. Shame I always seem to be one of the last to get the updates pushed to me considering I pre-ordered this thing in November 2013... no love for early adopters.
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I really can't tell but I think it's the P-1988? It only says "Tegra Note 7" in the Model Number.
Screenshots below:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/shares/R9F4q3

TN7 launcher
When you changed your launcher to the google one does it still show the stylus only mode and lasso mode when you remove the stylus?

zenstarlight said:
When you changed your launcher to the google one does it still show the stylus only mode and lasso mode when you remove the stylus?
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Yes it still works and other than the washed out screen colors and fluctuating screen brightness that's really noticeable when brightness is set to low level, I have not encountered any other bugs or issues yet.

If you go into the About Tablet section, it should state the Model number. The EVGA Tegra Note I have says it is a P1640 and has not received anything yet. I assume yours may be another branded model?
I did get some sort of OTA ghost announcement a few weeks ago that said I had an update, but it didn't download anything and said I was up to date when I went and checked. Was a bit odd but I am in no rush still. The thing works great for what I do on it.

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proudtobepinoy said:
Yes it still works and other than the washed out screen colors and fluctuating screen brightness that's really noticeable when brightness is set to low level, I have not encountered any other bugs or issues yet.
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Thanks for the reply. Still waiting on my Zotac TN7 OTA. Would love to see how this baby runs on ART.

proudtobepinoy said:
I really can't tell but I think it's the P-1988? It only says "Tegra Note 7" in the Model Number.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/shares/R9F4q3
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Yeah, if that's what it says then it's the P1988, because the P1640 will actually say TegraNote-P1640. I'm guessing that since the 1988 has a smaller user base and is a little more complicated than the 1640, they're probably starting there to make sure it works before pushing the update to everyone else on the 1640. I sure hope we don't have long to wait!
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IM0001 said:
If you go into the About Tablet section, it should state the Model number. The EVGA Tegra Note I have says it is a P1640 and has not received anything yet. I assume yours may be another branded model?
I did get some sort of OTA ghost announcement a few weeks ago that said I had an update, but it didn't download anything and said I was up to date when I went and checked. Was a bit odd but I am in no rush still. The thing works great for what I do on it.
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I had that too! I got so excited, but when I went to install it, it just said I was up to date. Maybe Nvidia pushed their test ROM out by accident and immediately deleted it but with no way to undo the notification that went out.
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proudtobepinoy said:
Yes it still works and other than the washed out screen colors and fluctuating screen brightness that's really noticeable when brightness is set to low level, I have not encountered any other bugs or issues yet.
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Did you go into the Display settings? You should be able to turn off auto-brightness there, and in the Power settings you should be able to disable Nvidia's Prism battery saver which will wash out your colors and make the brightness do weird things. Also be sure to check if the color correction is set to sRGB or Native; sRGB is a little more color-accurate, but it has to reduce the color gamut to do this as opposed to using Native which uses the full color gamut of the display.

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Did you go into the Display settings? You should be able to turn off auto-brightness there, and in the Power settings you should be able to disable Nvidia's Prism battery saver which will wash out your colors and make the brightness do weird things. Also be sure to check if the color correction is set to sRGB or Native; sRGB is a little more color-accurate, but it has to reduce the color gamut to do this as opposed to using Native which uses the full color gamut of the display.
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The adaptive brightness is already off yet the fluctuating brightness still persist. These is no Nvidia Prism battery saver anymore after the 5.1 update. The color correction preset is set to sRGB by default and even when I switch to native it does not make much of a difference to the colors

proudtobepinoy said:
The adaptive brightness is already off yet the fluctuating brightness still persist. These is no Nvidia Prism battery saver anymore after the 5.1 update.
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Oh goodness, I hope they didn't just enable it by default with no way to disable it... it's such a terrible feature. Who would want a little more battery life at the expense of a terrible looking image?

I've Got Tegra Note Cherry Mobile Tegra Note 7 LTE .. but it seems the lollipop update is still not rolling up on my device yet... I hope to see it in the next few days..

Nooblike said:
I've Got Tegra Note Cherry Mobile Tegra Note 7 LTE .. but it seems the lollipop update is still not rolling up on my device yet... I hope to see it in the next few days..
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The 5.1 update I have got on my Cherry Mobile TN7 (Wifi Only) is only a soak test (according to the Tegra Note community in Google+)...if only I knew that this was just a test I would not have updated but I think this presence of a soak test means that the updating of our TN7s is near
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J7 Pro AOD problem

Hi everybody. Recently I bought a J7 pro for several reasons, one of which was Always on Display, a.k.a AOD. However from the first night I used it as a night clock I could apparently see that the background of the clock and notifications is not black and has a faint light. The funny part is that the preview of AOD is fine with all the black pixels off, but when you actually use it, all the pixels are on. I asked several J730F owners and they had the same problem, however my device is J730G. Please test and report. Just remember the environment must be completely dark.
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UPDATES:
Fixed Custom Rom (with battery drain):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76737172&postcount=210
Partial Fix (Needs changing the Kernel):
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76076708&postcount=186
Fixed Firmwares:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75513596&postcount=103
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75868032&postcount=114
Tested other versions of AOD app:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74429656&postcount=24
Link to the thread I started on Samsung official forum:
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Other-Mobile-Devices/J7-pro-AOD-problem/td-p/168875
Update on Oreo and Pie
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=79764566&postcount=229

Hey
I have the same problem
I have a j730f/D's
It's really frustrating and I guess it drains the battery a lot
I also noticed the that the preview of the aod is perfect on all brightness levels
Maybe thats because the display panel uses different settings when real aod is on ( like udervoltage and lower refresh rate things like this but I am not an expert )
Also visible on 3rd party apps from the PlayStore
I guess Samsung is using some hardware tweaks there to optimise battery life
What I also noticed is when the real aod is set to full brightness because of the sunlight the screen really gets black ( you can try this with a flashlight or so )
But on the lowest brightness the screen gets grey .
Would love to know if this is just software related or hardware
Because if it is hardware I give it a try and send it back

wer wo was said:
Also visible on 3rd party apps from the PlayStore
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I have no problem on 3rd party apps, yet battery drain is not acceptable.
wer wo was said:
What I also noticed is when the real aod is set to full brightness because of the sunlight the screen really gets black ( you can try this with a flashlight or so )
But on the lowest brightness the screen gets grey .
Would love to know if this is just software related or hardware
Because if it is hardware I give it a try and send it back
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That's exactly my situation as well. On low brightness the screen is unbearably gray, otherwise it seems to be completely black. I guess you can try sending it back, unfortunately I don't have that option.

3rd party apps sucks because they can't use this special display mode Samsung uses
Maybe I will send it back
But I am not sure about that I wanted to wait until an update is coming, maybe it's software related so they can fix it .
I also send an email to Samsung but I saw your post on the Samsung forum so I don't expect too much
With how many ppl did you talk about that problem that have the j730f ? I mean it doesn't make sense to send it back and get a new one if it is a problem for every device

I got the same issue on my J730G/DS. When on low brightness aod, i can notice the whole screen lighting up a little bit. But on high brightness it is completely black. I think all j7 pro have this issue. At least we could try to send it back to samsung and see if they will fix or even do something about this issue.

wer wo was said:
3rd party apps sucks because they can't use this special display mode Samsung uses
Maybe I will send it back
But I am not sure about that I wanted to wait until an update is coming, maybe it's software related so they can fix it .
I also send an email to Samsung but I saw your post on the Samsung forum so I don't expect too much
With how many ppl did you talk about that problem that have the j730f ? I mean it doesn't make sense to send it back and get a new one if it is a problem for every device
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I found 2 users with the same problem.
game.tikboy said:
I got the same issue on my J730G/DS. When on low brightness aod, i can notice the whole screen lighting up a little bit. But on high brightness it is completely black. I think all j7 pro have this issue. At least we could try to send it back to samsung and see if they will fix or even do something about this issue.
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Unfortunately we don't have a robust Samsung representative here and I believe we cannot convince them about this issue. I believe you guys should go for the guarantee. This way at least you raise the issue to their awareness in practice.

I have the same issue too.
I've chatted with samsung and ask them to try this but they keep saying "All of our units are fine".

JasonS. said:
I have the same issue too.
I've chatted with samsung and ask them to try this but they keep saying "All of our units are fine".
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In fact, as I check the problem with several users of the 16 and 32 GB variants of both Chinese and Philippines models, it seems ALL their units are faulty.

Greight said:
In fact, as I check the problem with several users of the 16 and 32 GB variants of both Chinese and Philippines models, it seems ALL their units are faulty.
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I think we can just hope that Samsung want to release an update for our J7 Pro AOD
Has anybody send the J7 Pro back to samsung store?

JasonS. said:
I think we can just hope that Samsung want to release an update for our J7 Pro AOD
Has anybody send the J7 Pro back to samsung store?
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I found several threads out there talking about this problem. Generally the problem was with S7 and other Samsung flagship devices. In all the circumstances there, the problem only was fixed by changing the AMOLED panel. However here in J7 pro it seems that when the screen is well lit, the black is truly black and when the ambient sensor reduces the light the problem shows its ugly face. This problem was not mentioned anywhere in those threads I mentioned.

Greight said:
I found several threads out there talking about this problem. Generally the problem was with S7 and other Samsung flagship devices. In all the circumstances there, the problem only was fixed by changing the AMOLED panel. However here in J7 pro it seems that when the screen is well lit, the black is truly black and when the ambient sensor reduces the light the problem shows its ugly face. This problem was not mentioned anywhere in those threads I mentioned.
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I don't wanna waste any more money on my phone. So yeah let see what will Samsung do. It's impossible that this is the AMOLED panel fault. Looks like the version of our AOD is a bit old. Try compare it with the A 2017 Nougat AOD.

JasonS. said:
I think we can just hope that Samsung want to release an update for our J7 Pro AOD
Has anybody send the J7 Pro back to samsung store?
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i tried atleast 3 different third party aod apps and all worked fine but only fault was battery consumption. so maybe it is not hardware problem. its just software related. we can only hope that samsung fixes it soon by update

[email protected] said:
i tried atleast 3 different third party aod apps and all worked fine but only fault was battery consumption. so maybe it is not hardware problem. its just software related. we can only hope that samsung fixes it soon by update
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Although I hope so and believe that j7 problem is different from previous problems seen on other faulty aods, but the way aod works is different from the way other aod apps work.

Hey guys
I've borrowed my friend's J7 Pro to see if she had this AOD problem. After I bring it to a very dark place, the AOD works like it should (No grayish AOD background). Guess it's a hardware problem. I will try to send it back to Samsung if I have time.

JasonS. said:
Hey guys
I've borrowed my friend's J7 Pro to see if she had this AOD problem. After I bring it to a very dark place, the AOD works like it should (No grayish AOD background). Guess it's a hardware problem. I will try to send it back to Samsung if I have time.
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Have u tried it when the screen light adjusts to the dark environment? If so please do send it back to make sure what the source of the problem is.

Greight said:
Have u tried it when the screen light adjusts to the dark environment? If so please do send it back to make sure what the source of the problem is.
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The AOD uses the ambient light sensor to decide what brightness should be used ( I think AOD only recognize Dark and Bright situation, just like most of the proximity sensors )
So because it's dark, the screen also adjust itself to dark situation. No grayish background is seen. I compare mine with her side by side and I can see the difference.
Another thing to proof that this is a hardware problem is that when you put your finger on the fingerprint sensor and it unlocks, between the unlocking process, you can see the screen flicker before it unlocks the phone. Same as when you boot up the phone. Right after when you press the power button and it vibrate, you can see a flicker before "Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro" is shown.

JasonS. said:
The AOD uses the ambient light sensor to decide what brightness should be used ( I think AOD only recognize Dark and Bright situation, just like most of the proximity sensors )
So because it's dark, the screen also adjust itself to dark situation. No grayish background is seen. I compare mine with her side by side and I can see the difference.
Another thing to proof that this is a hardware problem is that when you put your finger on the fingerprint sensor and it unlocks, between the unlocking process, you can see the screen flicker before it unlocks the phone. Same as when you boot up the phone. Right after when you press the power button and it vibrate, you can see a flicker before "Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro" is shown.
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Please do us all a huge favor and take some time and send the device to Samsung (I would if my phone was under warranty) so we can make sure what the root of the problem is and don't raise our hopes. :good:

Greight said:
Please do us all a huge favor and take some time and send the device to Samsung (I would if my phone was under warranty) so we can make sure what the root of the problem is and don't raise our hopes. :good:
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I will find some time to send it back to Samsung. The distance from My home to the nearest Samsung Service Center is very far, took me about half an hour with usual traffic. But they are usually traffic jammed, so I predict an hour trip to the SSC. Not an easy job though I'm very busy all day.

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Latest response from one of Samsung forum moderators:
Hey folks.
This Community works largely with US based devices so it's hard for us to speak on what may or may not have been in that update to cause this. You are welcome to see if the Community can assist, but as many may not have the same device as you it might also be worth reaching out to your region specifically for more in depth assistance!
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I have this issue ever since I bough the phone in early August. Not 1 but 2 unit, model SM-J730G/DS. Both show the same symptom. Do Samsung selling phone with defect amoled panel or poor software implementation? What the hell!
If you all notice, the official samsung's AOD app for our J7 pro is not available anymore in Play Store. Why they remove support for our device? Why? From the feedback there, a lot of j7 pro owner report about this aod problem...

ambient display brightness adjustment

ambient display is, for me, in many situations, too dim, or it turns off in dark as it says - is it possible to disable this i noticed samsung and huawei phones don't have this issue and their always on displays are nice and bright always

evlo said:
ambient display is, for me, in many situations, too dim, or it turns off in dark as it says - is it possible to disable this i noticed samsung and huawei phones don't have this issue and their always on displays are nice and bright always
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I am also facing this issue... hope if it ll be resolve in next update

this is shiiit on low light ambient display get bright but when i need it i cant see it properly. so bad.

vilaad said:
this is shiiit on low light ambient display get bright but when i need it i cant see it properly. so bad.
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Me to, in dark situations, too dim, or it turns off when you go from light to dark, think that adaptive brightness have problem on all xiaomi phones, don't know is this problem with MIUI 10, MIUI 11 or something wrong with android 9, we will see what will be with android 10.

Well i bought mi to have at least some notifications as oneplus does to have any, but i think, i would be better of with oneplus as nothing when it is not supposed to work is better then nothing when there should be aod, but it is mostly to dark it is impossible to see or just plain off.
Well to be honest, only Samsung was where I was AOD to be really working, not even pixel or huawei was without issues. So I wonder where to go next time - I guess apple, as in EU samsungs have weird power hungry chips.
Tough I wanted full display without holes and I got it and it look really nice, shame that other functionality of the phone after update to miui11 is gone.

I have created a work around fix for this little annoying problem.
I used Tasker and made 5 profiles that reads Display Light values and adjust the Display Brightness .
I have set Auto Brightness OFF
Check it and give feedback if you find it useful.
I attach the tasker file to import it

So is there a solution for this nonsense issue already? Googling around and can't find a fix for over a year now.
I did not notice this issue on any other xiaomi phone, including mi6, mi8pro, mi9se.
This is so annoying, I want to throw this phone in to a wall at times. But then I remwmber how much time it takes to fully set up a new one.

elektrinis said:
So is there a solution for this nonsense issue already? Googling around and can't find a fix for over a year now.
I did not notice this issue on any other xiaomi phone, including mi6, mi8pro, mi9se.
This is so annoying, I want to throw this phone in to a wall at times. But then I remwmber how much time it takes to fully set up a new one.
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mission impossible in 2020