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In Direct sun light my phone is really black.
Impossible to use it, I've to turn on the fast bright. The screen light auto calibrate seems not to function as well. Is there a way to Set the auto-light calibration values?

No, this is a characteristic of AMOLED screens, sadly.

What sun? There was no sun here since I got it

Use Anti-glare screen protector from Powersupport. They dont make the one for Nexus, but its so good that i fitted iPod Touch protector on my N1

It works when you turn brightness up, right? I can see mine just fine in the sun with full brightness.
I don't like auto-brightness. It shouldn't work well in the sun for any phone, considering it's trained to become brighter in low light situations and thus, dimmer in strong light situations.

karnovaran said:
It works when you turn brightness up, right? I can see mine just fine in the sun with full brightness.
I don't like auto-brightness. It shouldn't work well in the sun for any phone, considering it's trained to become brighter in low light situations and thus, dimmer in strong light situations.
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Actually you got that the wrong way round.
In dimmer conditions the screen is also dimmer as less light is needed to see the screen.
In brighter conditions the backlight should be brighter to counteract the bright light.

Amdathlonuk said:
Actually you got that the wrong way round.
In dimmer conditions the screen is also dimmer as less light is needed to see the screen.
In brighter conditions the backlight should be brighter to counteract the bright light.
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Ha, thanks. It just seemed to have been getting brighter in low light situations for me so I turned it off.
I still think the screen is perfectly readable in the sunlight using the widget for full brightness. I'm surprised to hear so many complaints.

the complaint is about auto-brightness.
If I've it on and look at the phone in a sunny day it's very hard to find the widget to turn on the fast bright.
There's a way to set the values of auto-brightness? I mean to set bright at max when there's a lot of light?

my screen looks fine in the sun. I set my brightness to like 65%

If you move the widget to your homescreen it shouldn't be too hard to find in the sun.

It's the same Wobblebonk, sometimes when you light up you phone is not the home screen that appears you. In a sunny day the nexus screen appear totally black

poisons said:
It's the same Wobblebonk, sometimes when you light up you phone is not the home screen that appears you. In a sunny day the nexus screen appear totally black
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try taking off your sun glasses :>

The home button returns you to the home screen... hence you can get back to the home screen regardless of what you can see.

the light sensor on my N1 is ****ed. maybe thats another issue......

try a soft reboot it helped with mine power +volume down +trackball resets without data wipe

Light sensor and screen protector question.

Hello,
I just bought a samsung note 10.1, and for now I just put on a makeshift screen protector which is covering both the camera and the light sensor. This is just until I can buy on to fit it. Anyway my question is, it seems like the auto brightness isn't working or working well. I have it on and the screen seems very dark, and I don't have the power settings on either. Would the screen protector covering the light sensor cause this?? or is there some other kind of issue?
Thanks all.

I can't recall how the auto brightness worked before I installed a screen protector so I can't comment on its direct impact but I wouldn't think it should matter. I do find th auto brightness a bit too dark in almost all situations and I think that is a Note 10.1 issue in general.
I just did some test in varying light conditions and the sensor was quick to respond and went quite bright when I was in a very bright room. I just think it over compensates in dark situations.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 10.1

Thanks for the reply. I am sure it's ok, but it's been awhile since I had a android tab, so I wasn't sure.

flippingout said:
I can't recall how the auto brightness worked before I installed a screen protector so I can't comment on its direct impact but I wouldn't think it should matter. I do find th auto brightness a bit too dark in almost all situations and I think that is a Note 10.1 issue in general.
I just did some test in varying light conditions and the sensor was quick to respond and went quite bright when I was in a very bright room. I just think it over compensates in dark situations.
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One more question. Do you slide the slider for brightness all the way to the right then click on auto? I heard some say you put the slider all the way to the right, then click on the auto brightness, and that it wont clock lower then the max or something?

Note 4 super bright mode?

Hey guys, can someone else with the samsung note 4 exynos model try their phone in direct sunlight on auto brightness and tell me if the screen kicks into a super bright mode with high contrast and strange colours? You have to be in direct sunlight with auto brightness turned up. I'm getting paranoid about this and not sure whether to swap mine. I know samsung have just added assertive displays to the exynos models and possibly now snapdragon but not sure if this is whats going on.. it almost makes some colours look fluro.

Yes it does, it is normal.

Lodix said:
Yes it does, it is normal.
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Hope they get rid of this feature soon then.. it triggers so easily.

And it looks terrible, thought my screen had broke first time it did it.

thelestat said:
And it looks terrible, thought my screen had broke first time it did it.
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Glad im not the only one then.. do your colours kind of go fluro?

Hmm just took my samsung tab s outside in bright light and it did the same must just be much more pronounced on the qhd display

At first I didn't like it, comes it makes the phone look all weird, but after a while I've really come to like it, especially when driving, I've reliazed, never once was it hard to view the display. Which IMO is awesome! I've never had a smartphone I could always accurately see the screen, in every type of light

I do outdoor hiking and I use the phone for navigation and taking photos. You do have to set the auto brightness to On for it to boost the screen brightness but it triggers after u turn on the phone screen instead if consistently. Battery is not an issue because I carry spare batteries
Anyway to keep the screen on at its Max brightness consistently? II don't care about color distortions either as long as I can see things!

pafc66 said:
Hope they get rid of this feature soon then.. it triggers so easily.
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I hope they don't, I want to be able to see my screen under sunlight.
Maybe tweak the levels a bit so that it doesn't activate until absolutely necessary, but removing it completely? Why? So people can start threads about how they can't see their screen outdoors?
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this is a great feature, why should they remove it? if people fine it annoying , just untick the auto brigtness job done

im looking for method how make super brightness constantly... but no luck... anybode know how? using stock rooted mm

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.
Sent from my Nexus 6

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.
Sent from my Nexus 6
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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?
N6

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.

Any way to increase brightness?

Samsung throttles the brightness when outside. It may save battery, but it makes the screen hard to see for my 50 years old eyes. On my other phone I can just turn up the brightness, but not on the Samsung. This means that I cant use my S10+ outside without reading glasses, so useless when out walking and the Samsung will have to stay at home.
Only help I have found, is an app called “High Brightness Mode”, but the difference is very small. And the Performance mode with 10% brightness increase, of course.
Anyone got a solution to this? Thanks.

Maybe you don't have auto brightness on because when it detects sunlight it bumps up the brightness a lot imo, or idk maybe you have either a defective unit or defective eyesight because mine gets plenty bright when outside.

I do have autobrightness on. But it only works in direct sunlight. If the sensor is in shade, the screen gets dim, even if all surroundings are lit by sunlight. Try moving your device in/out of sunlight and you will see, that it almost doubles the brightness when sensor sees the sun. That is the brightness I want access to.

sbcdk said:
I do have autobrightness on. But it only works in direct sunlight. If the sensor is in shade, the screen gets dim, even if all surroundings are lit by sunlight. Try moving your device in/out of sunlight and you will see, that it almost doubles the brightness when sensor sees the sun. That is the brightness I want access to.
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Yeah, I don't think we can access that brightness level indoors (not manually anyways), and maybe it's because at those brightness levels (1000+ nits) the screen could suffer from premature burn. Probably that's why.

TonyGzl92 said:
Yeah, I don't think we can access that brightness level indoors (not manually anyways), and maybe it's because at those brightness levels (1000+ nits) the screen could suffer from premature burn. Probably that's why.
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Should still be the choice of the owner, not Samsung. I dont think any other brand makes screens this dark... But thx for your input.

You need to make sure your display mode is Vivid and not natural. VIVID mode allows the phone to get sunlight readable when auto brightness is turned on. Hope that helps.
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sammieboy said:
You need to make sure your display mode is Vivid and not natural. VIVID mode allows the phone to get sunlight readable when auto brightness is turned on. Hope that helps.
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Have you actually tested this? I know this is a year later but natural boosts just like vivid, i dont see any reason why would it be different ever

Samsung let YouTube has the colorful mode but other app can't, this's rather very stupid