Is it just me or auto brightness for galaxy alpha = to dim ?
I compared it to my previous phone (galaxy s3 and note 2)
You know that even Auto Brightness can be adjusted ?
I set mine to +2, see the attached screenshot showing the dragged down notification bar.
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GalaxyAlpha said:
You know that even Auto Brightness can be adjusted ?
I set mine to +2, see the attached screenshot showing the dragged down notification bar.
Cheers!
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I know but even at +5 it can't beat galaxy note 2 auto brightness at 0.
I guess I have to result to 3rd party apps.
ayamgoreng said:
I know but even at +5 it can't beat galaxy note 2 auto brightness at 0.
I guess I have to result to 3rd party apps.
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I've got it at +0 most of the time, and at -5 at evening hours / dim rooms. So for me it's fine, but it's propably a matter of personal taste
Another thing samsung did on purpose . auto is very dark ! just to save battery.. nothing else
And your evidence for this is what exactly? Or is that just opinion? I don't really have a problem with the auto brightness, it works fine for me, but I wish I knew why Samsung did things.
MaskedMarauder said:
And your evidence for this is what exactly? Or is that just opinion? I don't really have a problem with the auto brightness, it works fine for me, but I wish I knew why Samsung did things.
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DID all this JUST because to save power.. !
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OK been using adj brightness in the market and it was brilliant in brightness control. Unfortunately it doesn't work on the galaxy s2 and because my eyes play up, am finding the phone to bright for me especially when using it at night when lights are off, what alternatives are their to lower the brightness level please.?
For Amoled screens of any type "Screen Filter" seems to be the best.
I agree. Screen Filter seems to be excellent and can make the screen as dark as you ever want. (to a level that no LCD can ever go to imo)
Thanks guys it worked it is the best av seen so far.
I got mine sgs2 on Saturday and hadn't really thougth I would need an App to control this, the settings ont he power widget were good enough for me. However, I tried this out for a laugh and it works well. Will definitely use it at night time.
Although at the moment I am just enjoying the super brightness
Birghtness control from the notification bar
Can one still adjust the brightness by swiping the finger along the notification bar, like one did on the i9000?
Can one disable the automatic brightness from somewhere in the settings menu on the i9100 in the same way as the i9000?
Yep, same thing works in the SGSII.
NZtechfreak said:
Yep, same thing works in the SGSII.
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Perfect. Great. Thanks.
Never mind.
forgetmyname said:
Can one still adjust the brightness by swiping the finger along the notification bar, like one did on the i9000?
Can one disable the automatic brightness from somewhere in the settings menu on the i9100 in the same way as the i9000?
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Swype for brightness. How I just tried dropped down and not
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crypticc said:
Swype for brightness. How I just tried dropped down and not
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Your location is marked as London, so I think that you ought to be able to write a non-nonsensical sentence in English. No offence, but this is unintelligible!
crypticc said:
Swype for brightness. How ? I just tried dropped down and not dropped down and no change
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Swype for brightness. How I just tried dropped down and not
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Hi Crypticc,
You misunderstood what I wrote.
1) I referred to a partially completed sentence:
" How I just tried dropped down and not" - not what?
2) You have confused the verb 'to swipe' with an application called Swype.
As I noted, you wrote your location was from London, yet that you are not a native anglophone; No problem, but I was a little confused in the beginning.
To summarize: Your reply confused me. You partially clarified what you wrote, and now I understand. Thank-you.
* Back on topic
In order to change the brightness by swiping along the notification bar, please ensure that you have turned off the automatic brightness adjustment setting in the menu. I do not recall the exact name. Then, it should work.
I think that this can be found in : Settings -> Display -> Brightness
Best regards.
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Your location is marked as London, so I think that you ought to be able to write a non-nonsensical sentence in English. No offence, but this is unintelligible!
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Lol awesome... You funny definately are.... Maybe hes Yoda?
jangomango said:
Lol awesome... You funny definately are.... Maybe hes Yoda?
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I tried rather than did that's the problem
( swype just replaced swipe with swype - oh and it replaced a few other words too).
That said, thanks for the tips folks; both on previewing/reviewing posts, plus on how to swipe to change the brightness.
What would you all suggest be the optimal brightness setting to put the phone on?
sohanlon07 said:
What would you all suggest be the optimal brightness setting to put the phone on?
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OFF completely?? Maximum battery life... FTW
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This is really bugging me, is there a way to disable the browser brightness settings? Our can I make it synchronise with the main display brightness?
I don't use automatic brightness and rely on the switchpro widget on my home screen to adjust the display brightness on the fly. It's really annoying to see the monitor changing brightness when I switch between an app and the browser, or even going through the bookmarks page within the browser itself!!
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Isn't that settings/display/untick LCD power adjusting? Give it a try dude
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JupiterdroidXDA said:
Isn't that settings/display/untick LCD power adjusting? Give it a try dude
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It's already unticked. And I do mean the browser brightness settings inside the stock browser.
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What? No one is having the same issue?
I want my screen brightness level maintained throughout various apps/homescreen/browser, is there a hack for this?
hycian said:
What? No one is having the same issue?
I want my screen brightness level maintained throughout various apps/homescreen/browser, is there a hack for this?
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The original Galaxy S and its variant all had this "feature". I HATE IT. 3rd party browsers are too clunky and bloated, but geez. Having to change the brightness TWICE every time I want to change it really blows.
It's not that nobody else has this issue, it's that (for some reason) nobody with the skill to fix it cares to do so.
count me in as 1 of the people that is tired of having a separate brightness control. I can set my brightness way down and in the middle of the night I turn on my browser and boom! a super bright light is in my face.
Frustrating.
Of course I have the issue as all others. But it doesn't make an impact as I always on Auto Brightness
Regards.
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Please has anyone had any luck with this. Keep trying others and ending back with stock. Just wish it used system brightness and that it let you close a window even if it was the only one.
Anyone had joy with either?
Thanks
Another one for 'Tasker' to solve
Download 'Tasker' from the market (£3.99 I think?)
You can then create a profile so whenever you open 'internet' tasker will set the screen brightness to a setting of your choice.
Simples
(believe me this is only the tip of the iceberg with what Tasker can do)
Tasker does not have a setting for Browser Brightness.
Hi thanks for the idea, but I have been trying to find a way to do this using Tasker without any luck. Tasker already controls my Screen brightness. Far better than Auto. But the Screen Brightness and Browser Bightness are two seperate settings. I can only get Tasker to adjust the Screen one.
Still if anyone has any ideas, please. It drives me nuts when I turn over at night to check something on the web, then get blinded by a full brightness broweser on a dimmed phone.
I use wolf rom v3.8 and auto brightness function don't work. I checked other roms and it was the same. How can I turn it on?
u cant turn it on i think u need to try with power widget ..that has the auto brightness option ..works for me though, should for u too !!
Thank me if it worked !!
I used a lot of different power widgets and they show auto brightness icon, but nothing changes. Android Assistant widget has list of sensors available in phone and under Light Sensor I have: not support? wtf?
with power widget
bsilvino said:
with power widget
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As I said I used it and it didn't work.
Lesmian said:
As I said I used it and it didn't work.
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Lesmian, why don't you try ewjet rom? So far is the best rom out there.. smoother and faster and works flawlessly, including auto brightness feature.
Is auto brightness not working at all or you just cant find the option for it? Mine works fine but no option to enable or disable.
Im on zmod cm7
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autobrightness always was VERY subtle on my x10i, it even works "better" on my ZTE Blade, so you may just not see it, the only time i really noticed it was when i was reading on the train and drove through a tunnel.
peter.neilmann said:
Lesmian, why don't you try ewjet rom? So far is the best rom out there.. smoother and faster and works flawlessly, including auto brightness feature.
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I tryed it. Good rom, but auto brightness didn't work for me ;o
kindred7 said:
Is auto brightness not working at all or you just cant find the option for it? Mine works fine but no option to enable or disable.
Im on zmod cm7
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I found option to enable/disable it, but in my opinion it doesn't work.
SeZ87 said:
autobrightness always was VERY subtle on my x10i, it even works "better" on my ZTE Blade, so you may just not see it, the only time i really noticed it was when i was reading on the train and drove through a tunnel.
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Hmm. Maybe its true that just not see it. But I did a couple of tests. I lower my brightness and then I put phone under lamp. Nothing changes. Then I increased brightness and cover sensor with my finger, still nothing changes. ;/
Did you read the FAQ section? LOL
Prodigy said:
Did you read the FAQ section? LOL
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If you mean wolf rom FAQ section I read it. And it says that auto brightness works with power control widget. I used it and it doesn't work with my phone. Btw I don't know why you LOL? I did something wrong?
Auto Brightness
I may be able to add some insight into our auto brightness problem. I know it was disabled in 2.1 apparently. First question does anyone know if it was enabled in 2.3.3?
I am currently running a generic X10i with Virgin WB 4.0.4 ROM and DooM Kernel v04b. I use Juice Ultimate Beta v3.6.6. There is a brightness control in JD and I have noticed that on my phone it says brightness sensor unavailable.
The other thought I have is that maybe it is available in x10a's and not x10i's. This may explain the wide variations in people who have it working and people who don't. I have also tried the second step (e.g. larger cirle icon) of the brightness widget in WB's rom which is mentioned in the ROM thread that didn't enable auto brightness. My phone came with 2.1 installed and I have never had auto brightness. This may also be another reason.
I might try and flash 1.6 if I can find it and see what happens. Can anyone think of a reason why I shouldn't try this. I assume I would need to flash a 1.6 basband first.
Any more thoughts would be appreciated.
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
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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
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Set brightness to fixed.
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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.........
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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
does anyone know of a way i can get the international version -5 or +5 auto-brightness adjustment? i want to extend my screen on time a little bit without having to adjust it manually all the time.
many thanks
Nobody knows of any way to get this one little tweak?
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a brightness app I like a lot
fade2green514 said:
Nobody knows of any way to get this one little tweak?
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I know this isn't what you're looking for - but - if you can't find it, take a look on the playstore for an app called Display Brightness - it has the icon of a yellow lightbulb. You can place a fine line along any edge of your screen and simply move it up or down to adjust the brightness. You don't have to leave what you're doing and I find it wonderful when I suddenly go out in the middle of the day and can't see a thing - at least I know where the control is.