Too dark notification LED - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
in last firmware update for czech republic is annoying change. Notification LED is much darker than before. I believe there is any possibility how to change its brightness. Does anybody know how to do it?
Thanks a lot.
EDIT: I found out that in "sys/devices/virtual/sec/led" are some folders and files related to LED settings.
Betwen ROMs are relly noticeable diferences betwen LED brightness thats why there must be some files where is possible to adjust LED. But it is possible that the diferences betwen brihtness are only in our czech ROMs.

I'm not aware of any setting within the stock ROM that allows for LED brightness adjustment. Purple seems to be the only color that shows up dim for me, all the other colors are nice and bright. And, I've seen zero difference between ROMS.
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I found out that in "sys/devices/virtual/sec/led" are some folders and files related to LED settings.
Between ROMs are really noticeable diferences between LED brightness thats why there must be some files where is possible to adjust LED. But it is possible that the diferences between brihtness are only in our czech ROMs.

Hi, i have exactly the same problem as you and i am from czech republic too. I am sure the brightness is adjustable. I saw the files in "sys/devices/virtual/sec/led" and is possible it is related to the notification led but those files are not readable even i cannot copy them.
I hope somebody will solve this problem.

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Green Screen / Brightness App workaround

Hey guys,
I'm sure many of you have noticed the green tint, especially at lower brightness levels. I've been using this free app to change the tint. It's working great, just remember to disable it if you need to install .apks not from the market.
Market Link
Hope this helps.
That's nice. May I know what are the settings you're using?
I change it depending on brightness but blue +5 works really well for me.

Second Screen dimming

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.
m0n0t0ne said:
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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m0n0t0ne said:
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.

Display Brightness slider and Adaptive Brightness - Non linear behaviour

To my opinion the display brightness slider seems to function non linear. In the lowest region it's very sensitive and in the middle region its not sensitve (to a slight increase of the slider) at all. This on itself is no big problem, but it seems that the Adaptive Brightness setting affected by this too. So when using the OPX in low light conditions the screen responds very heavily to a small change in ambient light. Resulting in sometimes a very bright screen and sometimes almost no back light at all. Using a OnePlus X E1003 with Oxygen OS 2.1.3 (not 2.1.3-x, but it's release notes don't note this).
Do some other users have this too?
koen12333 said:
To my opinion the display brightness slider seems to function non linear. In the lowest region it's very sensitive and in the middle region its not sensitve (to a slight increase of the slider) at all. This on itself is no big problem, but it seems that the Adaptive Brightness setting affected by this too. So when using the OPX in low light conditions the screen responds very heavily to a small change in ambient light. Resulting in sometimes a very bright screen and sometimes almost no back light at all. Using a OnePlus X E1003 with Oxygen OS 2.1.3 (not 2.1.3-x, but it's release notes don't note this).
Do some other users have this too?
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yes. These kind of stupid bugs are irritating. This issue and USSD code issue infuriates me. Seems like they don't test the ROM at all.
Yes. That's a thing I hate in this phone.
Same here!
This seems to be solved mostly in OOS2.2.1.
Does anyone know if theres a file that can be edited to change the brightness values that correspond a certain position on the brightness slider?

Dark scenes difficult too see in movies

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
man_with_hair said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
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I also noticed this with Netflix. Was hoping that turning up the brightness would help but it doesn't.
YES, YES, YES, I am shocked this isn't widely reported, I couldn't find almost anything about it and I've been searching for quite a while.
First of all it is really crazy that popular apps like plex or netflix don't offer any capability to change the brightness of the video played. No, we don't change the colorspace, black levels, bla bla bla.
I DID find eventually a solution (the ONLY one that works, a bit clumsy as it is): http://phandroid.com/2016/03/22/twilight-app-reduces-dark-contrast-on-samsung-galaxy-s7/ (yes, it's for the S7 and yes I did notice there the same issue, which makes it even crazier that it isn't something widely known and fixed).
I just picked up an S3 last night and I'm having this same issue. I watched the opening scene of The Defenders on Netflix, and I could hardly tell what was going on. Rewatched it on a proper display, and you're clearly upposed to tell it's Danny Randy much earlier in the scene, but I had no idea in the S3 until a blue light was clearly shining on him from above.
I used Twilight on my Nexus 7 because it lacked a night vision mode, ala blue light filter on the S3. I'm not sure how that can really help. Surely other people have found more elegant solutions to this problem? I've opened up other media files and they're all simply too dark. I get it's an HDR screen, but surely it has a mode for non-HDR content!
Do oled display have a blue light problem, I though it was only really a led thing.
John.
Might be an inconsistency with the displays. I have no problem with mine. Not getting any lag either but running a heavy debloated rom also. Battery life could be better. It's stupid you can't turn off the Wacom digitizer when s pen not in use. On my note 4 when I lost my s pen battery life was terrible because the Wacom digitizer stayed on. Should be an option in settings to turn it off. If anyone knows how please let me know. I don't use the s pen very often.
man_with_hair said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
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Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
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DAvid_B said:
Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
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Switching to modes other than Adaptive Display just gives me seemingly the same shade of yellow....
I have tab s2 and you can't change adaptive display. I wouldn't have bought this tablet if I'd known about this issue. Very annoyed.
I actually have the issue on my Samsung Tab S2, that the colors are really "hard" and lots of color information are missing in the video, details are lost in dark areas. Is there some fix for this or is the screen just too bad on the Tab S2? I know the Tab S3 has a HDR screen, and the S2 not. I dont have any HDR screens actually, but I can put color range to "full" on my desktop PC, which will en-light colors a bit, making details more pop out in dark areas (though black isnt fully black anymore if so).
Any color profile other than basic is mostly unusable, too much saturation. Still dark areas lack lots of information. Is there no way to fix this? I tested this actually
https://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screenshot_20160321-154452-400x711.png
and it helps with the details in dark areas, but it also makes the black bars of movies in Netflix and video players not black anymore but gray.
So from what i can tell, it's only a stock rom problem. As the screen looks amazing running liniage (best screen in the house). But I've recently decided to go back to stock debloated, as I think its running a bit snappier than liniage 16 or 17.
Has anyone found a black level fix for stock yet? (preferably not a screen tint app)
Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
Baxy57 said:
Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
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:cyclops: It's beyond what you're suggesting which is known :cyclops: but thanks for it
EDIT: I have now found a full workaround. First you need to enable Blue Light Filter. Then go to Settings > Accessibility > Visibility enhancements > Color adjustment > Personalized color, and choose all the colors in the correct order. If you do it correctly there won't be any change to the colors and Blue Light Filter will be "on", but actually not, which will override whatever Android is doing that's making the dark parts of movies way darker than they should be. So far I haven't found any cons of this workaround.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but after trying to fix this problem for like half a day (lol) I think I found the best workaround so far. If you turn on Blue Light Filter and set its opacity to minimum, the filter will be barely noticable, but the brightness issue will be fixed.
One thing I noticed is that not all apps have this problem. For example VLC, Youtube do have it (you can even see the transition of colors and brightness for a second when exiting to desktop view). However Youtube Vanced doesn't have this issue, so I asssume the operating system does this dumb change of colors when it sees certain parameters in an app (maybe something in the manifest.json file?). It would be awesome if some more knowledgeable people could look into this issue, maybe they could find something about why YT Vanced has normal colors.

LED notification light on poco

Is the LED only white in color? Or is it a RGB led?
I can't change the lighting even in lightflow.
It's white only - can change the pulse rate, perhaps the pattern too (per app) but I'm not sure
Inside kernel is set to white, no idea yet if it can be enabled there.
melodystyle2003 said:
Inside kernel is set to white, no idea yet if it can be enabled there.
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I'm pretty sure that the led is only capable of producing white light - this was one of the cost savings vaunted around the time of launch which allowed the low price point

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