The night clock background on my Dinc was much darker than the background on the Rezound. Is there any way to make the background black/turn it off without losing the clock feature?
Also, you could turn on the night clock from the Desk clock screen on the Dinc. Again, with the Rezound, once you go to the Desk clock, it takes about 5 minutes to enter the night clock mode. Is there a way/button to toggle to get in the night clock mode?
My Dinc has the AMOLD display which is known for deep, dark blacks. My Rez has an LCD...black background is slightly backlit.
I couldn't find a fast way to get to the standard night clock. After installing and removing numerous night clocks apps I settled on the app NIGHTCLOCK which allows independent adjustment of text and background brightness. Problem solved for me...ymmv.
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Which Night Clock
surfer2.3 said:
My Dinc has the AMOLD display which is known for deep, dark blacks. My Rez has an LCD...black background is slightly backlit.
I couldn't find a fast way to get to the standard night clock. After installing and removing numerous night clocks apps I settled on the app NIGHTCLOCK which allows independent adjustment of text and background brightness. Problem solved for me...ymmv.
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Thanks for the heads-up on the difference between the Dinc (AMOLD display) and the Rez LCD.
Can you tell me which NightClock you used. The one I purchased was Night Clock (Ned Fox) but it does not have an adjustment for the backlight and was essentially no darker than the stock. There are probably 5-6 Night Clocks in the market and I thought I had tried them all and still didn't get the black like on the Dinc.
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Hey guys,
Wat's te ideal brightness setting for the battery? Mines on about 20-30% but in battery usage it says 58% usage and the phone hardl last a day ...
Any thoughts?
Stats in Battery usage graph and your Brightness level is completely two different things.
I always use Auto.
I think I will try that. I also wonder if noled app is having an effect but I set the brightness on that to 1%.
Ever since 2.3.4 I've had mine on full brightness. The battery on 2.3.4 roms has always been good for me.
Is that stock or custom ROM?
Also anyone find that once the battery saver option kicks in that when it recharges that the settings don't switch back to what they were previously? A bit annoying as I don't want to have to manually change my screen timeout etc everytime.
Also what's the option for adjust screen brightness tickbox about just below the general brightness setting? Don't quite understand that.
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Is that stock or custom ROM?
Also anyone find that once the battery saver option kicks in that when it recharges that the settings don't switch back to what they were previously? A bit annoying as I don't want to have to manually change my screen timeout etc everytime.
Also what's the option for adjust screen brightness tickbox about just below the general brightness setting? Don't quite understand that.
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You mean background effect?
- Dynamic: bright, vivid colors
- Standard: standard colors.
- Movie: contrast higher, warmer image.
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You mean background effect?
- Dynamic: bright, vivid colors
- Standard: standard colors.
- Movie: contrast higher, warmer image.
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I think the option is: "Auto adjust power" int he Display settings menu. Something about analyzing images or something.
Anyone able to expand upon this please?
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since its upgrading to samoled+ even we set the brighness to 0 it is still bright but then again depending your eyes and needs of battery consumption (bc) theres also a"custom rom"way like hollow to follow or if you prefered moderate usage without flashing i think on 20-30% bright it contribute to bc
My browser is set is have the brightness at 0 which is fine, I think there's a service in the background using more CPU than it needs. Likelihood it is a Glu game ~.~.
Hey,
I'm running on CM7. Can the brightness on the phone be set lower than the slider-bar allows? I'm often inside dark rooms and would prefer the brightness to be at a lower level. I know the phone can be less bright, because when you turn Desk Clock mode on (from within the Clock App) it set the screen to a super-low brightness. I was wondering if I can have that brightness for normal use.
Thanks.
settings > cm settings > display > automatic backlight > use custom / edit other levels
not sure what settings would accomplish this, or if it is even possible - but those are the settings you are looking for.
I have -no- idea what the settings do, or how to enable it at all. I tried setting everything to the lowest it goes to (2) but it did nothing... Hmm.
Look for "screen filter" app in the market.
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Look for "screen filter" app in the market.
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Won't this just set a "filter" on top of the screen, making it darker? It won't really affect the actual backlight, will it? I was hoping to both make the screen darker, and save a bit of battery. Don't know how screen work, just what I think is happening.
According to the description and some users it saves battery on amoled screens...but I haven't tested it...you could be right.
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Yeah, I downloaded it, and it didn't do anything at all...
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A bump to this. Anyone know of a real way?
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I believe the effect in the desk clock is essentially the same as Screen Filter. It just darkens it. Just like Desk Clock on the Captivate, evident because the status bar stays the same brightness but the clock lowers. That's why the CM7 app makes the status bar disappear, so the app can darken itself and you won't notice it's darker because it doesn't affect the system and the status bar would have stayed the same brightness. Screen filter is a wonderful option. I had it to "hold menu button" in CM7 settings.
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Won't this just set a "filter" on top of the screen, making it darker? It won't really affect the actual backlight, will it? I was hoping to both make the screen darker, and save a bit of battery. Don't know how screen work, just what I think is happening.
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I don't think AMOLED screens have a backlight, that's why they're LED and not LCD.
I have the same problem: at night, the screen is too bright. Cyanogen has an option to only display one of the 3 primary colors, so you can turn on only the red subpixels. Sure, you are left with a monochrome screen, but it is dim and uses less power.
Running ViperRez. Is there a way to make the screen any dimmer than the current lowest setting? . I find it is still too bright at night.
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Running ViperRez. Is there a way to make the screen any dimmer than the current lowest setting? . I find it is still too bright at night.
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I remember it getting quite dim but you should search for a mod or script.
This should be in the Q&A Section though, not development. Happy searching.
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get yourself an app like notification toggle or do it manually in brightness settings. automatic brightness isn't great cause it's always checking light levels every to confirm if brightness needs to be increased or decreased. notification toggle will allow any percentage and as many levels as you want. I use 10,15,20,25,40,50 and 100
youre gonna want to get this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor&feature=nav_result#? t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5oYXhvciJd. its free and it works perfectly and you can make it as dim as you want, even to the point where you cant see the screen on at all, i used to use it to text at night all the time. It also should save your battery, i could go two plus hours screen on time on wifi and be in the high 70s for battery on my inc 2
Quicker. It has screen dim in it. I use it every night.
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youre gonna want to get this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor&feature=nav_result#? t=W251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5oYXhvciJd. its free and it works perfectly and you can make it as dim as you want, even to the point where you cant see the screen on at all, i used to use it to text at night all the time. It also should save your battery, i could go two plus hours screen on time on wifi and be in the high 70s for battery on my inc 2
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This works perfectly! Thanks for the help.
I use screen filter too, but keep in mind that it only draws a dark overlay on your screen to let out less light. The LED back light is still at the same level, but less light escapes. So, it really doesn't help your battery since we don't have AMOLED screens.
Chainfire 3D has a "Night Mode" filter if you want to give that a try too: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.cf3d
The free version currently has a red-, green-, or blue-only RGB channel filter, as well as Amber and Salmon colored filters. You can fully adjust the RGB values of the filter in the Pro version.
Oddly, there is no "balanced coloring" grayscale filter. Would need to use the previously mentioned app or buy the Pro version and adjust the RGB values equally.
Fun to try out at any rate.
I use Lux. It allows you to reduce screen brightness to completely black and unreadable. I don't know but I don't think it justs adds a transparent black overlay to make it look darker. It seems to actually adjust the brightness below the minimum allowed without the app. Here's a link to it in the market (there is a paid and free version) https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ps#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwiY29tLnZpdG8ubHV4Il0.
I just realized something weird. I used my phone in a completely dark room and I was blinded by the bright screen on auto-brightness. I couldn't imagine that it was on the lowest setting in a dark room and switched auto-brightness off; and indeed with manual brightness I could bring the slider much more down to darker levels. Is that normal that auto-brightness doesn't go down to the lowest brightness levels?
I also don't like the auto brightness issue, it was too bright in a dark room.
I end up buying Lux from the play store and it address my problem.
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I am no fan of auto brightness inside of buidings either.
Outside it is handy, but indoors I switch to a widgetsoid app toggle on my homescreen with 5%/25%/100%/auto steps
25% is more than enough indoors, with 5% in dark rooms.
But with the advance of custom ROMs the auto brightness settings will be adjusted to more suitable values, I believe.
Just got the V10 and the second screen dims after 2 or 3 seconds after turning off the main screen. Is there a way to adjust the timing when the second screen dims? The dimmed second screen is almost unreadable because it is so dim.
Ditto, the idea that this is a replacement for a notification LED is really damaged by the dimming. (It's not just me that bought the phone based on that idea, right?) What I've found so far:
With the screen brightness set to 0, the second screen dims fully a few seconds after sleeping. Icons become about as noticeable as dust reflections.
With the screen brightness set to 100, the second screen follows the ambient light sensor after sleeping. Under bright light it turns itself up to the point where it's useable.
I've been playing with all the LEDs that Light Flow sees, but at least without root, nothing has any effect. I might look through the /sys files later. We probably need to get root first to figure this out.
On auto brightness it seems to be that the device adjusts the dimmed display for the ambient lighting? It's not the easiest thing in the world to see, but it's certainly not hard for me to see what notifications I have. I really prefer this over a colored LED.
Light Flow settings
For what it's worth, here's my current setup, now that the T-Mobile H901 is rooted. This does no one without root any good, and I don't know how it would translate to similar LED managers. I've been using Light Flow since the Sapphire (MyTouch 3G).
Light Flow device settings: check direct mode, root mode, and run every command as root. The Nexus 5 force reset option is checked by default and I don't know if that's relevant (no calls yet). Everything else in the menu is unchecked.
Let Light Flow control lcd-backlight-ex.
In a notification, set that "LED" to Solid and to 255 brightness. Check Enable Mixer and App controlled flash. With that last setting, the app will reset the brightness every few seconds even if the system dimmed it due to an ambient light change.
Now I need to edit some notification icons to be big and colorful. I wonder how this will impact battery life? Now the app is going to be awake all the time.
I've noticed that today on auto brightness the second screen will increase in light but not much. It also is not as smoth of a transition as on main display. It kinda jumps up real quick..
Yes for me I've noticed on Auto brightness the second screen will dim in a dark room and if you turn off your phone while in that room then come out... The second screen is still dim.... It's like th second screen doesn't respond to the light sensors at all unless the main screen is on.
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It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
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It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
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Another one of many things that it would be cool to see baked into a custom stock rom. Good stuff. I wonder if Cloudyfa might come over and cook on this awhile. I have always loved his stock Roms....
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It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
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Color would be cool. A classic CRT bright/lime green, for instance, would probably show up much better than the white.
We need to get on their forums with these ideas. Maybe some will get squeezed into an update
An app which turns off auto dim in case screen is off would be pretty much help. Maybe I'll develop one.