When using my phone, there is one brighter screen mode that occurs when actively using the phone, and then there is a idle dimm mode that occurs after about 30 seconds of idle time. Is it possible to control the brightness of the idle screen mode and possibly set it to 0? Is there an app advanced enought to do that?
I am basically using the phone as an mp3 player at night and I have to keep the phone awake and the screen on otherwise the wifi starts to stutter, but the default dimmness of idle mode is far too bright, so a way to keep the phone awake without emitting light is what I am after, but only on idle mode because otherwise I am not able to see and control the screen.
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When my battery level reaches 10% the screen brightness is reduced to virtually nothing, I can barely see the screen in sunlight. Playing around in the display or power options doesn't change the brightness level. How to I disable this function so that I can manage the brightness myself? Thanks!
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Increase the brightness in battery saving mode. Your battery saving mode is set to start at 10 % battery and probably reduces your brightness close to 0. Either increase the brightness or just shut down battery saving mode completely and use the brightness settings you want.
Thanks, but the thing is that power saving mode was not enabled (never used it) before I reached <10% battery. I enabled it then thinking it was the cause of the low screen brightness, but even with it and setting the power saving brightness to 30% the screen still stayed very dark.
Any idea what else it could be. I've only once had it at <10% but if it happens again I'd like to be able to use the phone according to my settings.
I noticed this from the day I bought it but it was only happening while playing games so I just figured it was a quirk in the game. But last night it started happening while web browsing and going through menus. The screen's brightness will increase/decrease at seeming random.
Auto-brightness is off, I had the screen on the lowest setting with IPS+ off and set to performance mode. Is there something in the menus I may have checked that would cause this or is it a bug?
no it's not a bug. I think its called dynamic display quality. some sort of method they use to save battery even more so. its never a drastic change. it does this gradually. I always leave auto brightness off and brightness never more than 20%. I don't even notice mines doing it as much any more. try a reboot just to clear things out. a reboot every now and then is good for the device.
Is there any way to turn it off? Seems strange for it to still happen while plugged in. Only reason I want to turn it off is because I was browsing the web with the lights off and it kept going brighter to where it was hurting my eyes.
So,
Today I was messing around with GO Launcher EX and GO Locker, and I didn't like the performance, at all...so I did a search and found an app called spare parts that was supposed to help the animation speed, after a while of messing around, I noticed that my display wasn't nearly as bright as it was an hour ago. I checked and made sure that the display brightness setting was set to 100%, and that auto-adjust screen power was turned off, and the display was still about half as bright as when I started today.
How can I test if I messed something up? Or is this normal for a AMOLED display? Is there an app I can download that will force the brightness to go to 100%, to see if some app is messing with it? What the heck is going on.
Emmmmmooooo rrraaagggeee!!!
So I got a app that controls brightness , and in fact confirmed that the default controls were only boosting brightness to around 80 percent. What can affect the settings like this? Using automatic brightness, or changing the brightness through anything but this app leaves the screen dimmer than it normally is. I can't even use the touchwiz settings widget.
Interesting.
So, to further report on this odd behavior,
After further investigation, the brightness with auto-brightness seemingly drops light output further than the "0" setting in my brightness app, and further than the slider allows manually adjusting via the settings>display panel. Odd.
So,
I disabled all auto-brightness via the settings in the TouchWhiz apps (read: the browser and the video/audio player), and was just controlling brightness via the app I installed.
Later today, i turned on auto-brightness again via the Power Saving widget, and the issue where the screen dims farther than any manual settings allowed was gone. Again, i only have an issue with max brightness now-- using both the system settings panel to adjust brightness as well as using auto-brightness via both the power saving widget as well as the system settings panel.
So, in summary: the max brightness issue remains, and i can only set it to about 80% without using the brightness app i installed (the app allows me to set it to 100%....where as in the system settings, the slider goes to 100%, and stays at 100%, but the screen looks like its at about 80%. Using the brightness app i installed allows me to boost it back to 100%, but as soon as i change the brightness in the system settings app, or the power saving widget, it maxes out at 80. The slider moves all the way to 100%, but i'm only getting 80% brightness).
Note:
I have no apps installed that affect brightness...0. None of my apps have anything remotely having to do with the display, audio, or it's settings.
Maybe you can help me?
I turned off the auto brightness in the system settings/display/brightness but it seems that the screen starts to dim (sometimes). I hate this...I have to touch the screen to retain brightness. I don't want auto dimming...I want the level I set (which is about half way on the slider).
Where can I find a master override?
nomoiphone said:
Maybe you can help me?
I turned off the auto brightness in the system settings/display/brightness but it seems that the screen starts to dim (sometimes). I hate this...I have to touch the screen to retain brightness. I don't want auto dimming...I want the level I set (which is about half way on the slider).
Where can I find a master override?
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Adjust screen timeout. This happens when your screen is going to automatically turn off
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Thanks... I'll check it out.
Also in display settings uncheck "auto adjust screen power"
Was there ever a solution to this? I am now starting to get this issue of screen will not respond to 100% brightness...and the option to change display brightness is greyed out in settings. It seems to be a problem with 'power savings' which I would like to completely remove from my phone as even when I turn it off, it is keeping me from adjusting my screen brightness when below 20% battery...and with my 5400 mah battery 20% is a full 8 hour day left...really irritating...only way to solve is to charge above 20%...or go enable power savings, then disable it again...but problem returns every time the screen goes off.
I notice some roms when booting have a low brightness state thats lower than brightness 0, also when the phone is about to turn its screen off it also dims first. Also dims when left idle when charger plugged in.
Whilst dimmed I can see whats on the screen fine so I would like my phone to stay dimmed whilst using it to save battery, any idea how this can be done?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor
This might help .
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thanks will check it and hope it maintains colours.
try to search brightness level in the market
it can dim the brightness a bit lower than 0 (as written in display setting)
Adj Brightness. Set it to 2.
Hi
I'm just wondering if anyone else on here is facing the same issue? Or if this is working flawlessly for everyone?
When I have the phone on automatic brightness and go outside on a sunny day, the display will occasionally turn on the maximum brightness mode, but only for about 2-10 seconds and then it goes back to the standard maximum brightness that you can manually adjust it to. It also doesn't go back to the super bright mode after no matter how long I have tried to get it back. I even aimed the screen right towards the sun in hopes the screen would get bright again. The super bright mode works maybe once every time I turn the phone on, and then immediately turns back off, after a few seconds, extremely frustrating.
Is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Maybe there is some way to manually activate the outdoor mode?
Also found this reddit thread with the issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg5/comments/4g8l4g/g5_in_brightdirect_sunlight_with_autobrightness_on/
Thanks
I also want to have this function manual enable but at the moment I think they don't care about this. The screen is too dim compare with other top phone. I have 2 lg g5 and I think that is the reason I am gonna sell both phones.
It may be too dim in Auto but the maximum brightness is bright enough. I don't need to burn my eyes. The maximum brightness is already too much for day-to-day use.
I do wish :
1. that 100% will be the true 100% of this screen - meaning the brightness boost I get in the sun.
2. the in the display setting, I could set the auto brightness to be + X% of the default value. For example, if I set it to +20%, then if the usual auto mode sets the brightness to 50%, it will actually set it to 60%.
Overall this phone is solid, fast, camera is amazing , sound is good ..Sure, a 3500mah could have been nice but I'm happy.