Automatic brightness enabled on my new OP6T. It constantly goes too dim, where I have to slide it up some to see the screen better.
Unlocking the phone an hour later, in same low light setting, the screen has auto dimmed itself too low again.
Anyone else feel it goes too dim on its own? Or have a solution for me?
A maximum dimness setting would be nice. Not sure if that exists though.
I'm with you 100% it keeps defaulting back to a brightness that's way to low for the environment have to constantly raise it manually. A minimum brightness setting between certain hours would be great.
I wonder if something like that can be done in tasker, keep automatic brightness on, but set the minimum to 25% or so during certain hours.
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I'm with you 100% it keeps defaulting back to a brightness that's way to low for the environment have to constantly raise it manually. A minimum brightness setting between certain hours would be great.
I wonder if something like that can be done in tasker, keep automatic brightness on, but set the minimum to 25% or so during certain hours.
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This exactly!
It's generally really low. The worst is in the dark, it's almost unseeable, unless you manually adjust it.
Phone has great battery life I just crank it 100% outdoors and 75% indoors.
I agree with what others have stated but that's why the battery life is good...I'll drain it to appease my eyeballs.
Does lux work?
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hopefully can be fixed with an update...
My phone was like this for the first day or two. After that it's been just fine.
I don't know if it fixed itself, or I've just gotten used to it. I'm thinking the first because it was really dark.
I have observed this on different phones. So I suppose this is an android issue. The brightness goes too low than its supposed to or it will keep adjusting. I've tried lux auto brightness on other phones, it works perfectly. But due to lack of updates I've stopped using it lately. Custom ROMs seem to handles auto brightness very well. I've tried Cyanogen and Resurrection remix on moto x play and Honor 8 pro, auto brightness was never a bother on them. Which was not the case with the OS they came installed with.
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I've compared this yo my pixel 3xl and in low light situations its noticeably darker. After a few days I'm already used to it.
The smart adaptive brightness adjusts to your usage over time, once you manually raise it afew times in various situations it will adapt to this. Mine was dim to begin with but after 2 days it's fine.
dadoc04 said:
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hopefully can be fixed with an update...
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LUX works after enable it in usage access. Settings>apps¬ification>special apps access>usage access.
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Hi guys
Which preference do you use? Is automatic brightness option best for battery saving?
i remember it was an official battery saving tip for iPhone and wondered if it's the case for N1.
eh, just keep it on the lowest brightness... thats the best bet
the problem with auto-brightness is that it fluctuates a bit too much if you're in a room with localised lights and shadows... even in a seemingly bright area to your eyes, the display will go to lowest brightness... i just found it personally annoying, as it would usually fluctuate when i wasn't expecting, and to a lower brightness than i could stand... i've since stopped using it... i set my brightness manually to about 25%... for me that's a good balance between a usuable brightness for all conditions, while still giving good battery life...
I use auto brightness with locale which toggles it on and off based on my location. But even before I did that I really didn't notice to much of a difference in battery levels at the end of the day.
I just wish there were min and max settings for auto brightness. Cause I am pretty sure I have never needed the brightness turned all the way up.
i prefer auto brightness if it works. my 1st N1 had a glitch where the screen brightness used to flicker. on my 2nd N1 the auto brightness does not adjust on full scale........(if you go into 100% dark room, the brightness setting must automatically drop to 0)
I too found that the auto-brightness flickered too much. I downloaded Brightness Level off the marketplace and never looked back...
Auto-brightness fluctuates too much for my liking. So, I just keep it set to middle brightness.
the light sensor is unstable, so manually 25% all the time..
Auto brightness too dark
In my Nexus autobrightness works ok outdoors, but indoors it sets the light too dark. I wish it`d work fine because it's a waste of time adjusting it manually every time you move into different light conditions.
I've read Nexus users report different behaviours of their light sensors, maybe it is a bad quality component of the phone. Is there an app which can modify the sensibility of the light sensor? Would be great to adjust this sensibility and set brightness always to auto with a little more brightness indoors in my case.
manual, 25% - the best balance of battery and light for me.
i use about 60%. I hated the automatic brightness because it was darker than I would like most of the time.
My position is, I bought a phone that has a high resolution, so why not give it the brightness to make the color "pop" like they should.
Is it just me or does everyone's Epic's have terrible brightness sensor hardware/software? My sensor seems to have about 2-3 settings of brightness, and goes from completely dim to super bright in random situations and nothing in between.
Cyanogen just posted on his twitter that in the past he changed the sensor's abilities through coding modifications. Could we do something of the sort for the Epic's sensor?
Agreed. The sensor is horrible. Also, the transition between brightness settings when set to automatic is near instant instead of slowly transitioning, which makes it more obvious that its changing brightness.
I would agree that it is terrible. Mine also send to sometimes turn auto brightness back on if I've turned it off.
It would be great if someone found a way to mod the code for it!
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I thought the screen was just too bright at its lowest setting. Fortunately someone came up with a fix for it that can be found in the developer section. As far as the automatic sensor I would suggest turning off "Power Saving Mode" in the Settings>Sound & Display as well. I've read somewhere that this causes the brightness level to vary on its own.
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I thought the screen was just too bright at its lowest setting. Fortunately someone came up with a fix for it that can be found in the developer section.
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Hehe, that was me. Stay tuned for more. I have coded up and will post, tonight, a new version that will let you modify the brightness curve (from the command line, for now)
As for automatic mode, I have figured out how to modify some aspects of it at the kernel level, such as the ambient light thresholds at which it switches to a different brightness level. By modifying the brightness curve, we can achieve at least some more control. But to make it really good may be significantly harder.
Personally, since manual brightness is always available by swiping horizontally on the status bar, I have little desire to use auto mode anyway.
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The sensor is actually pretty sensitive. It's just that Samsung chose to have a really small range of brightness steps for automatic brightness.
Firon said:
The sensor is actually pretty sensitive. It's just that Samsung chose to have a really small range of brightness steps for automatic brightness.
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More like they installed an awesome dimmer switch and lights, but the fixture only does three modes; high, medium, and still pretty damn bright.
Evo screen is brighter than most phones with AUTO light sensor on = more battery drain.
Just found app "screen adjuster". It works along with LIGHT SENSOR. I'm setting it to 50%. So it's half the brightness and you keep the auto sensor on.
https://market.android.com/details?...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5uZXRtYW5zbGFiLnNhIl0.
Going to try it out. I've thought the same thing for a long time. Thanks for the suggestion!
Tried this app out not sure how much battery it would save replacing the brightness with an app constantly running in the background considering it has to run 24/7 to maintain the brightness level I doubt it would save any battery if not kill it faster than the brightness level since 1. Brightness is off when screen is off but this is still running while screen is off and 2. The brightness only goes all the way up when you are in bright light so you can see the screen setting the app at 50% is really pointless since on auto the screen is at 50 - 70% when you are indoors
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I think your points are valid, but just wanna throw out that I think the OP is saying the baseline screen brightness is too high. At all levels.
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@Evil
I think your points are valid, but just wanna throw out that I think the OP is saying the baseline screen brightness is too high. At all levels.
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It only sets Max at whatever level u set it to then autos from there, and it runs ~5mb ram constantly so it really doesn't do a whole lot it just sets, as an example, u set it to 80% with the app then on auto ur brightness goes from min to 80% and back to min or in between the two it doesn't dim all levels, and runs constantly so I would say its more trouble than its worth it would be nice if u could just set a lower Max and not need the app running 24/7
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Tried this app out not sure how much battery it would save replacing the brightness with an app constantly running in the background considering it has to run 24/7 to maintain the brightness level I doubt it would save any battery if not kill it faster than the brightness level since 1. Brightness is off when screen is off but this is still running while screen is off and 2. The brightness only goes all the way up when you are in bright light so you can see the screen setting the app at 50% is really pointless since on auto the screen is at 50 - 70% when you are indoors
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There MANY processes constantly running in the background, the OS is smart enough to pause most of these processes when in sleep mode (display off). For example, if you use the light sensor and your phone is off the sensor is not being polled anymore.
Setting 50% means if the brightness is normally at 100 it would be 50, if it was normally 50-70 indoors it would be really be 25-35 with the app.
Or a lower baseline, which I believe is the OPs point. But yes, running an extra ap is an inefficient way to do that.
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mxl180 said:
There MANY processes constantly running in the background, the OS is smart enough to pause most of these processes when in sleep mode (display off). For example, if you use the light sensor and your phone is off the sensor is not being polled anymore.
Setting 50% means if the brightness is normally at 100 it would be 50, if it was normally 50-70 indoors it would be really be 25-35 with the app.
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The app doesn't pause it runs as a notification task killers don't touch it, and it doesn't work the way u think in lower light it will stay at 50% it just prevents the screen from going past where u set it it doesn't change the values of anything in the sensor just stops the screen from going above x% so if ur in a bright room where ur screen would be at 50% and u have it set to 50% it would still be at 50% not 25%, what I'm trying to say is the app doesn't work the way its advertised
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This was on my list of things to be fixed nearly from the start but nobody, especially devs, seemed to care.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=716547
Display brightness
Based on experience what are the optimal display settings for the best battery life?
lol 0% is the optimum setting. really, the more its off, the more you save. the less its off, the more you save. its really up to your eyes and what you can tolerate. i just have a widget, at night i flip it to 0, and during the day if i'm out doors and in doors i leave it on auto, and if i'm indoors like at work, i leave it at 25%. what sucks is i don't smoke in my apt, so when i wake up i go outside for a cig and my screen's at 0, and i'm trying to read it in the sunlight to turn it back on lol... buuuuuut, i'm sure my way saves more battery than using an app that is constantly running
Hello guys, I installed 4.5.11, but auto-brightness is very agressive, many times i find it on the lowest setting. Any way to fix this? I just want it a bit higher.
Seems like Oneplus is having everything that saves battery on, from brightness to Doze. As some notifications didn't show untill i opened the app. Usually whatsapp. Personally, instead of 7h of screen on time, i prefer having "just" 6 and everything working good. Just got this phone, 6-7 hours of SOT on a 3300mah battery is insane!
This is very stupid. I have the same problem. I dont know why OnePlus don't make AutoBrightness ajustable like Samsung in Touchwiz for ex...
same with me, when autobrightness in darker room, display is always set to lowest brightness ever. really annoying.
On my side, I really love the way auto brightness behave on my OP5. Too much light is not good for the eyes.
Exactly, the user should be able to set a default level, then auto brightness goes from there.
For those who have sensitive eyes, you can always use night mode. It just block the blue light that is mostly responsible to keep is awake.
When the auto brightness is too low did you go into Settings / Display and move the Adaptive Brightness slider to your desired brightness? I am now in a very dark room and the slider isn't all the way down to the minimum. I can see my screen fine.
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When the auto brightness is too low did you go into Settings / Display and move the Adaptive Brightness slider to your desired brightness? I am now in a very dark room and the slider isn't all the way down to the minimum. I can see my screen fine.
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Yeah or i do it from the status bar. Still after a while it returns to a lower level. While i already want it on a low level, it's too agressive. I whish i could raise it by 10-20%.
Yeah, that slider doesn't adjust the adaptive brightness level like it would on a Nexus or Pixel device. It remains as a standard brightness level instead
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Well, we could install xposed to fix the brightness. But then i don't know i want to install all of that just for brightness.
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Very happy with my 6T so far. Adaptive brightness has been a little bit wonky.
I work at my computer in a relatively dark environment. When I wake up my phone and look at it, brightness starts off around 15% and I can barely read the display. I hold my phone screen up to my monitor to get adaptive brightness to kick in, and brightness quickly goes up to about ~80% as expected. Then when I face it back towards me, it finally settles back in around 40% after a few seconds and stays there, which is perfect for my environment.
It seems like there's some kind of issue with adaptive brightness initializing the ideal brightness in a dimly lit environment. Yet it knows where the brightness should be set after it has been exposed to more light.
Is this all part of Android Pie or does OnePlus have some control over how this works?
Pie issue, I believe there is an app that helps, can't recall what the name is, most people seem happy with it.
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Mine does similar ,screen brightness fine ,then if unlock it comes back on very dim and I have to alert it in settings and adaptive doesn't always seem to work
The impression I get is that it isn't a learning adaptive as you see with Samsung, Pixel, and so on. You just get the same answer for the lighting every time it wakes up, or at least that's what I'm getting from mine.
Adaptive brightness is fully controlled by Pie. You can't set the base brightness in Pie and then let adaptive brightness control it from there.
Yeah I noticed the same thing too just a few days ago. Initially the phone handled fine, but now is always too low. Not sure where the sensor is, and if it is covered by the oem screen protector. If so then maybe that is the issue . The plastic OEM is a smudge magnet.
Yeah this was really annoying me last night. The brightness was fine, then I lock the screen, unlock and the screen is dim compared to before despite the light level staying the same. If I swipe down quick settings and toggle auto brightness off and on again it goes back up so it seems to be the auto brightness not picking up the correct level after unlocking the phone.
Guys have a read about adaptive brightness in Pie. Basically it learns from your behavior. You have to adjust it constantly to your liking and then the phone will learn after a week. Mine is noticeably better after 9 days. Almost perfect I would say. You just have to let it adapt and don't stop adjusting the brightness manually with adaptive option on.
App store, "Velis Auto Brightness", prolem solved..
I've noticed that the adaptive brightness is quite crap in oos. I never like adaptive brightness until I used a pie rom on my 5t, but op did something to the adaptive brightness and it definitely is not as good as Googles version
Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
download and setup Velis Auto Brightness from the play store, and you can get the same adaptive brightness..learns and after a few days the difference is great..
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Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
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Still broken and its been like that for some time. Hopefully in the coming builds it should be taken up as priority :good:
So far it's not that good for me but I have to give some more days to train itself to my usage behaviour. Will see.