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Got my Mini Pro yesterday, but is it just me or is the screen not that bright even on max brightness?
I have an old Samsung C3050 here and that thing melts my eyes its that bight, the mini i can hardly see outside.
Also, there is no auto brightness option!
I think auto brightness is on by default
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Nope, not that i can see anyway
auto-brightness is always on, you can not disable it afaik.
Had a fiddle and ive seen the brightness go up on its own, but is there a way to get max brightness all the time?
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check this post -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285172 , i had the same issue, i've deleted the lines of the hw_config and the screen goes super bright now...
sorry about my poor english :B
Georg1992ad said:
I think auto brightness is on by default
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that's rights, cz the device have light sensor
gustavolatil said:
check this post -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285172 , i had the same issue, i've deleted the lines of the hw_config and the screen goes super bright now...
sorry about my poor english :B
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Can you be more specific on which lines to delete? Thanks
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xperia s has auto briightness which you cannot turn off.it wastes battery it does this by the ambient light sensor,anyone know an app to turn it off?
You can change your brightness with any widget. Also from my experience auto brightness saves more battery than it drains.
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it dont work. i tried it when i put my finger over the ambient light sensor the brightness still changes i want that sensor to be off
unrealboot1 said:
it dont work. i tried it when i put my finger over the ambient light sensor the brightness still changes i want that sensor to be off
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Set brightness to fixed.
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K900 said:
Set brightness to fixed.
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Tried it doesn't work. I set a brightness but when I put my finger over the sensor it changes the brightness. The brightness change is only like 10% either way from the set brightness. So its like partial auto brightness. But i want to turn it off altogether.
Go to Playstore and search "Toggle ALS Xperia"
Install this app Disable Automatic Brightness. And please note it needs u to be rooted
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K900 said:
You can change your brightness with any widget. Also from my experience auto brightness saves more battery than it drains.
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Unless you're someone like me and can accomplish most tasks with 0% brightness.
tyrien said:
Unless you're someone like me and can accomplish most tasks with 0% brightness.
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When set at 0% auto brightness is disabled it seems (to me).
tyrien said:
Unless you're someone like me and can accomplish most tasks with 0% brightness.
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Are you sure you're human? I can hardly see anything at 0 brightness, especially under direct light.
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tyrien said:
Unless you're someone like me and can accomplish most tasks with 0% brightness.
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Doesnt this defeat the object of having a HD screen? :S
I cant do 0% its way too dark. The screen is killing my battery im trying my best to minimise power usage of the screen and i think this ambient sensor is part of the problem - im not too sure how much power it really uses. After very lightly using my phone for 10 hours i checked the stats and it says 50% of the energy is used by apps,wifi and phone radio which is fine, but the other 50% is used by the display...And the display was only one for 1 hour of those 10 hours.........
unrealboot1 said:
I cant do 0% its way too dark. The screen is killing my battery im trying my best to minimise power usage of the screen and i think this ambient sensor is part of the problem - im not too sure how much power it really uses. After very lightly using my phone for 10 hours i checked the stats and it says 50% of the energy is used by apps,wifi and phone radio which is fine, but the other 50% is used by the display...And the display was only one for 1 hour of those 10 hours.........
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I have exactly the same problem!
I can't turn it OFF...I hate the Xperia S auto-brightness...it's so slow and not smooth at all...it's like varying from 10% to 10% and it never stops varying!!so annoying!...initially I even thought it was a screen/light problem until I noted "ohh...this is not a screen problem, is just an awful auto-brightness"
I tried every widget, everything and is useless! either is at 100% or 0%...the rest is AUTO-Brightness!
Then there's battery...the display is always above 65% of all power consumption...is such high percentage normal?
Need help too!
Colinn789 said:
I have exactly the same problem!
I can't turn it OFF...I hate the Xperia S auto-brightness...it's so slow and not smooth at all...it's like varying from 10% to 10% and it never stops varying!!so annoying!...initially I even thought it was a screen/light problem until I noted "ohh...this is not a screen problem, is just an awful auto-brightness"
I tried every widget, everything and is useless! either is at 100% or 0%...the rest is AUTO-Brightness!
Then there's battery...the display is always above 65% of all power consumption...is such high percentage normal?
Need help too!
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Use the app someone oiled
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Use the app someone oiled
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Is the app called "someone oiled"? Can't find it anywhere...anyway, tried already so many apps, widgets and FW...always the same issue, either 0%, 100% or auto.
I have a blocked bootloader so I guess there's no way I can switch the freagging Auto-Brightness off. Just another disappointment regarding this phone, among many others
Colinn789 said:
Is the app called "someone oiled"? Can't find it anywhere...anyway, tried already so many apps, widgets and FW...always the same issue, either 0%, 100% or auto.
I have a blocked bootloader so I guess there's no way I can switch the freagging Auto-Brightness off. Just another disappointment regarding this phone, among many others
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Damn autocorrect. That was ' someone linked '
chopra.har**** said:
Go to Playstore and search "Toggle ALS Xperia"
Install this app Disable Automatic Brightness. And please note it needs u to be rooted
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This ^^
K900 said:
This ^^
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Exactly...the only thing I didn't try was to root my phone I MOD...but that's only because I have my Bootload blocked so... no solution for me as I already tried all apps and widgets in the market
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Exactly...the only thing I didn't try was to root my phone I MOD...but that's only because I have my Bootload blocked so... no solution for me as I already tried all apps and widgets in the market
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599378
Hi,
Since a couple of days I've noticed that my screen flickers sometimes.
Mostly when I'm moving my hand while holding the phone...
Is it possible that the light sensor auto adjusts my screen brightness ?
If so, how can I turn it off ?
Thanks in advance,
Niels
If you have rooted the phone, you can install Disable Auto Brightness for Xperia phones. or you can disable it manually editing the file /ect/hw_config.sh.
Search the forum for the tutorial
Thanks for your answer !
So unless you start rooting or changing files there's no way to stop the flickering ?
Unfortunately, no. By the way, this problem usually affects st15 models... as far as i know, you've been unlucky
Okay, I'm sure now that it's really because of the lightsensor and not just a problem with my screen.
I was standing near a window and when I put my finger on the lightsensor a few times the brightness was clearly automaticly adjusted...
I'll look for the tutorial, thanks for the info !
Other solutions, if any, are still welcome though
Niels
NelisC said:
Okay, I'm sure now that it's really because of the lightsensor and not just a problem with my screen.
I was standing near a window and when I put my finger on the lightsensor a few times the brightness was clearly automaticly adjusted...
I'll look for the tutorial, thanks for the info !
Other solutions, if any, are still welcome though
Niels
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Hey, my ST15i does also automatically adjust the brightness....it's not a problem mate When i am outdoors the screen get brighter but when i am indoors my screen automatically gets darken
Yes I now, but I find it annoying, it gets flickery sometimes..
I want the screen to stay on the brightness I've set.
today I was wondering why this phone doesnt have auto brightness adjustment feature, because I have to manually turn brightness to zero when using phone while on bed at night. I looked into settings and no such feature found, I wonder the light sensor actually works
Yes it does, I've tested it.
Try standing near a window or holding it near a lamp and put your finger on the sensor... (The screenbrightness may not be set to 0 if you try this..)
I too find it strange that there's no possibility to set the auto adjust on/off..
Niels
I don't think there is any auto-brightness option in LWW as I've not found any. if there were any then they would have provided an check box option turn it on/off. but the brightness ups and downs happens to me to specially when i've put the brightneww to lowest level at night. could not explain myself.
yup it works (just checked thru window operation )
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I don't think there is any auto-brightness option in LWW as I've not found any. if there were any then they would have provided an check box option turn it on/off. but the brightness ups and downs happens to me to specially when i've put the brightneww to lowest level at night. could not explain myself.
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The fact that you can't turn it on/off doesn't mean it doesn't work. Actually, the auto-brightness is always on. You can disable it manually editing /etc/hw_config.sh or using the app Disable Auto Brightness Xperia. You need root anyway.
I was messing around with the settings on my phone to try and eek out some more battery life. I noticed with the stock battery monitor that the screen was using the most battery (as is expected) so I turned the brightness setting all the way down using the slidebar in settings.
Then I went into the Sprint Zone app, clicked help, then my device, then power controls. There it shows what is turned on on the phone and a general breakdown of how much those things are drawing on the battery (kinda nifty). On the lowest possible brightness setting it says it's at 11% and that that's "medium" usage. Is there a way to get screen Brightness lower? I just find it odd that it still registers as medium usage on its lowest setting...
Also has anyone noticed that on the "Automatic" screen brightness setting that the screen doesn't go as dark as it could go when there is a low light condition? For example if I'm sitting in the dark with auto brightness on, I can turn it off then make the screen darker manually than it would go on auto.
Any thoughts? Or fixes?
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moses2303 said:
I was messing around with the settings on my phone to try and eek out some more battery life. I noticed with the stock battery monitor that the screen was using the most battery (as is expected) so I turned the brightness setting all the way down using the slidebar in settings.
Then I went into the Sprint Zone app, clicked help, then my device. There it shows what is turned on on the phone and a general breakdown of how much those things are drawing on the battery. On the lowest possible brightness setting it says it's at 11% and that that's "medium" usage. Is there a way to get screen Brightness lower? I just find it odd that it still registers as medium usage on its lowest setting...
Also has anyone noticed that on the "Automatic" screen brightness setting that the screen doesn't go as dark as it could go when there is a low light condition? For example if I'm sitting in the dark with auto brightness on, I can turn it off then make the screen darker manually than it would go on auto.
Any thoughts? Or fixes?
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Try rootdim. Also, the screen brightness is going to be mostly controlled by the kernel, so try using a different kernel or build one from source.
sn0b0ard said:
Try rootdim. Also, the screen brightness is going to be mostly controlled by the kernel, so try using a different kernel or build one from source.
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There's source?
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It's not in the kernel, it's in an xml or something. There are seven brightness levels (I think it's seven) based on lumens, and there's an associated screen brightness value assigned to each on a scale of 0 to 255. Stock auto brightness levels set the bottom three levels to the same brigness value. I think it's 63. Setting the brightness manually, you can go as low as single digits, maybe even zero.
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It's not in the kernel, it's in an xml or something. There are seven brightness levels (I think it's seven) based on lumens, and there's an associated screen brightness value assigned to each on a scale of 0 to 255. Stock auto brightness levels set the bottom three levels to the same brigness value. I think it's 63. Setting the brightness manually, you can go as low as single digits, maybe even zero.
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That's cool you can edit the XML files, but how can screen luminosity or display not be part of the kernel or kernel modules? I have an HD2 with CM7 on it, and through installing different kernels and whatnot, I can get different features for display like render effect, auto brightness, and whatnot. Is this only just for sense ROMs then?
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There's source?
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Not right now there isn't. Would be nice if there was.
fachadick said:
It's not in the kernel, it's in an xml or something. There are seven brightness levels (I think it's seven) based on lumens, and there's an associated screen brightness value assigned to each on a scale of 0 to 255. Stock auto brightness levels set the bottom three levels to the same brigness value. I think it's 63. Setting the brightness manually, you can go as low as single digits, maybe even zero.
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So maybe the stock rom doesn't let you zero it out? It's posting the lowest value as 11% as read by the Sprint Zone app. Maybe they do it as a safeguard against setting it too low and not being able to see the screen to turn it up when it gets in a brighter environment?
That's a funny thought, I could see me kicking myself over something like that. Would be nice if we could make that call on our own though, wonder how dim it is...and why not make the auto brightness go to the lowest setting (or perhaps even lower than the stock setting)? At least then it would ramp back up as needed.
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Did you try rootdim? I'm pretty sure you can dim the screen lower than stock with it on this phone. I've only used it on my HD2, but it worked well with it and It's free.
Nm rootdim only allows the screen to go down to a value of 30. You can set lower values, but it doesn't change the brightness.
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So maybe the stock rom doesn't let you zero it out? It's posting the lowest value as 11% as read by the Sprint Zone app.
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Correct - stock only lets the brightness go down to 11%. I'm not sure if auto brightness will ever set it that low though, doesn't seem like it does.
jpbme said:
Correct - stock only lets the brightness go down to 11%. I'm not sure if auto brightness will ever set it that low though, doesn't seem like it does.
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Yea that's what I'm saying it doesn't go to the minimum. I mean I'm sure the battery savings isn't much, but another usefulness of it going that dark is when you check your phone at night in the car you don't want the phone to be all lit up inviting attention.
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Yea that's what I'm saying it doesn't go to the minimum. I mean I'm sure the battery savings isn't much, but another usefulness of it going that dark is when you check your phone at night in the car you don't want the phone to be all lit up inviting attention.
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I think 11% is probably dim enough for most cases. If you have a dark background that will help with the car situation. The only time I find it still too bright is when I'm laying in bed at night. I haven't rooted yet so I can't comment on the solutions others suggested but give that a try. You probably won't save that much battery though unless you're in the dark a lot.
Oh - and don't text and drive
I use an app called screen filter at night. It allows the screen to get MUCH dimmer.
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Oh - and don't text and drive
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Haha I knew that was coming :thumbup:
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When using my phone sometimes ill notice the brightness level flicker. It's usually on white backgrounds.
It happened on the stock ROM but it's also happening on dual cores ROM.
Is it something to do with automatic brightness? Does anyone know?
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cined said:
Is it something to do with automatic brightness? Does anyone know?
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Yep this is due to the Automatic Brightness. Seems to be worse under florescent lights as the software tries and auto adjust in real time. I think I saw a mod in the forum somewhere but I cant find it now. It adjust using an average instead of directly.
Life4Never said:
Yep this is due to the Automatic Brightness. Seems to be worse under florescent lights as the software tries and auto adjust in real time. I think I saw a mod in the forum somewhere but I cant find it now. It adjust using an average instead of directly.
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If anyone knows where this mod is I'll greatly appreciate it.
Anyone? Auto-brightness is annoying.