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Screen turns on slowly

Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"

Mine is extremely fast
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Zeffir said:
Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"
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Yeah it is affected by ambient light sensor... just tested it myself now... but sayin so.. might also be affected by the low battery,

misiokicio said:
Yeah it is affected by ambient light sensor... just tested it myself now... but sayin so.. might also be affected by the low battery,
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I'm guessing it's purpose is so it doesn't turn on too bright in dark or dimly lit rooms and allows your eyes to adjust. Which is a nice feature now that I think about it, I've been blinded by previous phones numerous times when I turned them on at night. I don't know though, it just lacks a certain smoothness that the device's other animations have.

What bothering me the most is that we can't adjust the brightness on the always on display... is too bright

Zeffir said:
Whenever I unlock my device the screen turns on noticeably slow, it's like it's trying to transition but it isn't smooth so it feels off.
What is strange is that this doesn't happen when my phone is tilted at a <45° angle, it just powers on almost instantly with no slow transition. Anyone have a similar issue or know of how to fix this?
Edit: I take the angle back, it seems to be ambient lighting based. Still not sure how to disable this "feature"
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In display settings you have an option called "keep screen turned off", which prevents the screen turning on accidently in dark places such as a pocket or bag.

AOD way too dark outside - any fix?

The always on display screen is just way too dark and I'm outside in the sunlight. I can't read it at all. Everything else is fine, normal phone screen brightness is just right. Is there a way to adjust brightness of the AOD display at all?
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I just recently turned mine off because of this. If I leave my phone face down it is too dark when I pull it up to see the time etc. If I left it screen up it would be at a very high brightness. It just adjusts to the situation slowly.

Thanks....I actually didn't see any response from the AOD to get brighter in sunlight...maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I waited a lot longer than I thought I should need to. Are you sure the AOD screen has any reaction at all to ambient lighting?

Yes it does effect it if it's on. Just put a finger over the sensor and it will dim

Notification LED dimmer after the APD1 update ?

Has anyone noticed this ? After the APD1 update, the notification LED is quite a bit dimmer. I tried upping the screen brightness, thinking that it may obey the screen brightness settings. No luck. This really pisses me off, since I rely on that LED, given that the AOD feature does not display most notifications.

dude did the auto-restart issue solved under the new firmware ?

Same for me, notification light definitely dimmer, a shame there seems to be no apparent settings to adjust this.

I didn't notice that. What kind of led color is dimmer?

Cst79 said:
Has anyone noticed this ? After the APD1 update, the notification LED is quite a bit dimmer. I tried upping the screen brightness, thinking that it may obey the screen brightness settings. No luck. This really pisses me off, since I rely on that LED, given that the AOD feature does not display most notifications.
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My LED doesn't appear to be dimmer after the APD1 update, though I've really only seen blue so far.
What colors are appearing more dim on your device?

spectrumfox said:
My LED doesn't appear to be dimmer after the APD1 update, though I've really only seen blue so far.
What colors are appearing more dim on your device?
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Good question and idea. It's the green color. I will switch to other colors if those are not dim, maybe red.

Cst79 said:
Good question and idea. It's the green color. I will switch to other colors if those are not dim, maybe red.
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The green LED just got activated on my phone. I think it's just as bright as it was before the APD1 update.

spectrumfox said:
The green LED just got activated on my phone. I think it's just as bright as it was before the APD1 update.
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Just did a test again: the LED now obeys the ambient light sensor, in bright light it is bright, and in low light it becomes dimmer (you can try by covering the sensor). Same with the AOD, as someone reported in another thread.

Cst79 said:
Just did a test again: the LED now obeys the ambient light sensor, in bright light it is bright, and in low light it becomes dimmer (you can try by covering the sensor). Same with the AOD, as someone reported in another thread.
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Very interesting [emoji53]
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Under sun light the led is barely visible. Violet color in this case.
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I have the "dimmed green led" issue too. APD1 here. Interestingly the first couple of activities after a full reboot for the green color are bright, then it dims... I thought of a faulty led at first but now I know I'm not alone.
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I confirm that with a medium light the led is almost visible [emoji19]
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Ok. I can confirm that the led now uses the ambient light sensor to adjust brightness. Weird but true
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Same problem here after updating APD3 , when i recieve a message on whatsapp for example , the led notification flash red 1st time , then flash purple .... but the light of the notification led is dimmer ..

0355 said:
Ok. I can confirm that the led now uses the ambient light sensor to adjust brightness. Weird but true
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I don't see this adjustment. In a bright environment it is almost visible. At least on my phone. How do you say that it use the ambient light sensor?
ManDone.vRs said:
Same problem here after updating APD3 , when i recieve a message on whatsapp for example , the led notification flash red 1st time , then flash purple .... but the light of the notification led is dimmer ..
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The first red blink is a know "issue" of this phone.
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turtuv said:
I don't see this adjustment. In a bright environment it is almost visible. At least on my phone. How do you say that it use the ambient light sensor?
The first red blink is a know "issue" of this phone.
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Adjustment is not based upon screen brightness, which could lead to errors as screen brightness is only refreshed with phone unlocked. If you receive a notification and there's light falling directly on the ambient sensor while screen is off you'll see a bright led. If you cover the sensor (with screen off) you'll see a dimmed led. It is worthy to note that this adjustment is made only at notification arrival and not after. So if you have the phone inside a pocket you'll always see a dimmed led even if you take out the phone in the sunshine. If you have the phone out in the sunshine when notification arrives then you'll see a bright led.
I have thoroughly tested this and it's how the system now works (at least on my phone).
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0355 said:
Adjustment is not based upon screen brightness, which could lead to errors as screen brightness is only refreshed with phone unlocked. If you receive a notification and there's light falling directly on the ambient sensor while screen is off you'll see a bright led. If you cover the sensor (with screen off) you'll see a dimmed led. It is worthy to note that this adjustment is made only at notification arrival and not after. So if you have the phone inside a pocket you'll always see a dimmed led even if you take out the phone in the sunshine. If you have the phone out in the sunshine when notification arrives then you'll see a bright led.
I have thoroughly tested this and it's how the system now works (at least on my phone).
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I get it, interesting but I don't understand why it works only at notification arrival. Anyway if your phone does that so the other phone must do that too. P. S. What is exactly the ambient sensor?
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They also ****ed up the battery life on this update.

lvnatic said:
They also ****ed up the battery life on this update.
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Confirmed its controlled via Light, so rules apply the same as OLED / Always on Display
As for the battery life, to when did you update?
People have complained about battery life, But i am yet to experience this issue everyone else is.
With that in mind, Linux is a rather complex system, and has some cleaver memory management utility's
(it does not operate like windows, Close down your apps to free up RAM, Linux does this on its own)
So keep that in mind, Then you performed a update, This no doubt a few settings to the kernel have been changed, Or even a update / patch.
So any information its retained about applications, Ram and process memory will / SHOULD be ereased and re-done
and the behaviour of the kernel is different.
As a result of this, you will notice a increase in battery drain for the first few days.
You can apply this same logic and method to Flashing Custom ROMS.
You have a Version of a customer ROM (For this example V1.0)
The developer releases V1.1 With some very minor adjustments
To ensure the running of the ROM, you wipe the device and start from Fresh.
WOW after installing this ROM am getting MASSIVE battery drain
(But give it 2 days or so and you will notice it will settle)
(After the Kernel has collected enough information about running process, whats needed whats not, what you keep opening and closes, What is needed to suspend and keep active)
The list goes on.

turtuv said:
I get it, interesting but I don't understand why it works only at notification arrival. Anyway if your phone does that so the other phone must do that too. P. S. What is exactly the ambient sensor?
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Ambient light sensor. The one which drives automatic screen brightness
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AOD Dim after update

Hey i received an update for the Always On Display (update number 1.1.22)
after i updated the app i noticed that the AOD is much dimmer in some places than it was before
also i noticed that my girlfriend's s7 AOD is much brighter than mine in the same areas (they were the same before the update)
is there a way to undo the update? (was update through galaxy apps)
Thanks in advance

As far as I know, the AOD dimming is introduced in APD1 and later firmware updates. What is your firmware version ?

Yep, they pretty much ruined the entire feature. Its now too dim to see in anything but outside in full sunlight. Indoors its pretty much just a black screen now. Been a month, they still havent fixed it.

The update is to solve screen burning, this is why is dimmer now.
Cheers.

No, it never burned in since it was always moving. Now it is so dim that i cant even see it, rendering the entire feature useless.
It must be a bug, it cant possible be intended.

Dunno if you tried it but I noticed my AOD accomodates with the lighting condition in the room but im often sitting in the corner where I face the light so when I turn it off I face it to the light so the AOD would be bright. weird habit for now huh hahahah

Still annoys me to hell that they basically took one of the best features of the phone and essentially ruined it (so dark its unreadable indoors, if you dont have a ceiling light shining straight on the sensor). Just by a single little forced software update. Why couldnt they just provide a simple brightness slider in the AOD settings?
Third party AOD apps exist that allow complete brightness control, but sadly none of them run with the samsung AOD "tech" so they all keep the phone hot and running as if fully awake, draining battery more than just the pixels being lit do.

just done the update this morning and I didn't notice difference in the brightness of the AOD. it remained the same. are you sure your dim situation is not caused by some setting, which was reset after the update ? For example, It happened to the fingerprint lock setting in my phone, which become corrupted, unusable after the update. I need to delete the previously saved fingerprint and add a new one again for it to work.

100% certain it was the update. I literally can barely see the AOD indoors anymore. Before the update it was always very bright and vibrant.

Baleur said:
No, it never burned in since it was always moving. Now it is so dim that i cant even see it, rendering the entire feature useless.
It must be a bug, it cant possible be intended.
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How often does your clock move on your screen, because mine stays stationary unless I turn the screen on and it turn it off again, then it'll change to a different position.

oneplus 6t fingerprint

I'm thinking about getting a OnePlus 6t however, when using the fingerprint sensor in the dark does it automatically put your brightness up full and blinds you ?

the screen stays dark,on mine, when I pick up the phone in the dark the screen stays black except for the time and date pops up and the image of the fingerprint outline glows to where you need to place your fingerprint. not bad at all.

It happens for a few fraction of seconds, and it doesn't get bright enough to blind you, its comfortable.