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my woman got the Galaxy S2 and has a problem with the camera app. The app shows a very dark screen like a maximum power saving mode. The rest of the apps are Ok. It can help then if I turn off the automatic brightness of the screen and the energy saving settings and turn them on again. But after a couple of days you have to the same again. So she is a bit p...ed about that. Does anybody of you have an idea how to get it stable bright?
BR MArtin
'my woman'...lol.
Anyway if you go into the camera app settings, scroll to the bottom and click 'reset'. Maybe your exposure settings or contrast etc were changed somehow. If that doesn't work...might be something up with the camera, or even some rubbish on the lens. You could just take it back and get a new one..
Never had problems with that, but all I can think of is that the illumination-sensor next to the front-face cam is dirty?
(less light coming tru makes everything darker?)
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With the settings in the picture everything is ok. The picture taken with the camera are ok. Also the Sensor is ok as it is working fine everywhere else. Any other ideas?
Br Martin
And yes it's my wifes phone I have a HTC Sensation
msichler said:
With the settings in the picture everything is ok. The picture taken with the camera are ok. Also the Sensor is ok as it is working fine everywhere else. Any other ideas?
Br Martin
And yes it's my wifes phone I have a HTC Sensation
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Strange. Was it like that when she bought it? Just take it back and exchange it for a new one...
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666fff .. Why take it back to the store immediately?
Anyways... So I you have the app (camera) open.. Do the bars (with the icons in it) also seem dark or do they look (normal)bright?
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Yes everything is dark must be some problems with the energy settings or whatever
BR MArtin
Let me eliminate some causes:
- you've unchecked 'automatic screen brightness'?
(@settings)
- you've tried maximizing brightness manually?
- you've rebooted throughout the process? (giving the phone the chance to apply it's settings, sometimes all it needs is a reboot)
Let me know.
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Basically I tried evrything you said with unchacking and Checking the automatically settings and also the additional Energysaving settings it gets back fine for some days but then it changes back to the dark setting unless i check and uncheck the boxes again. So it seems not to be a stable sollution. So I search now for a sollution that the camera app always runs with maximal display brightness
I've tried about everything then.
I ran some tests on my own SGS2 but I can't emulate the dark bars.
Not even by holding my finger over the light-sensor.
But I guess it's like this and I DO NOT know a fix for it: seems like the phone is learning that you don't use the camera much. So if you do. It will automatically go into power saving mode since the priority for battery-use is for system instead of cam (due to low-use)
So the only last thing I could think of, is that you've enabled automatic power saving?
Uncheck it and take Juice Defender as your 'battery saver' fixed alot of issues with brightness going up and down for me(very annoying) never goes up and down for me anymore!.
I hope this is of good help.
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Ok will try that with Juice Defender.
BR MArtin
I have write me a task with Tasker witch put me max sensor light and auto rotation on when I open the cam. after closing it revers to the normal state! ,-)
I think I had the same problem as you.
In the camer app > Settings > Outdoor Visibility > ON
(it unfortunately resets everytime I exit the app)
Hope it helps
I tried with the Outdoor visibility but this seems to change the colors of the screen and not the brightness.
You are right, that does not work. I was at work when I tried this and it seemed to make the screen brighter, but outside in the sun light it does not make any difference. So I have the same problem as you lol
It's not his screen or image. It's the gray bars on the sides that he means.
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I tried the following thing and it's work :
1. Uncheck auto brightness
2. Make the brightness 100 %
3.Check again auto brightness.
On my phone when i made this the brightness on the camera is 100% and is not depending from auto brightness.
this totally worked! seems like within the camera app, there is no auto-adjusting of brightness and it always defaults to what the last brightness setting was set, regardless of auto-brightness status (checked/unchecked).
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.
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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.
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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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Kcarpenter said:
There's source?
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Not right now there isn't. Would be nice if there was.
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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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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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Hello Guys!!
Have anybody missed AUTO BRIGHTNESS feature in L9 because lack of Ambient Light Sensor,
If yes, the don't worry. I have an easy solution for Auto Brightness, Yes you can use Auto Brightness on LG Optimus L9:victory:
NO ROOT REQUIRED
Download and install These two app from following links:-
Lux Auto Brightness
Tasker
After Installing these apps follow these steps:-
Lux Auto Brightness:-
Go to Lux settings
Tap on Sample Collection
Tap on Select light reading source
Select Camera
Then get back to main settings menu
Tap on Mopdify linked samples
Tap on Luma TAB
Tap on ADD, set brightness (yello bar) to 4% Luma value to 1 and press ADD
Add 3 more links with these values= 35%-70|100%-80|50%-120|
Exit Lux
Tasker:
Open Tasker, tap on Plus Gign(+) on main screen
Tap on Event
Select Display in Event Category
Select Display On in Display Event
A blank screen will appear, do nothing just press BACK Button
TAP on New Task +
Enter Name to task or just tap on tick
A blank screen will Appear, tap on Plus Sign (+)
Select Plugin from action category
Select Lux Plug-in
Tap on Edit Button
Scroll Down and Tick in front of Refresh Backlight brightness? Under Force
Press Done, then press back and back again
Exit Tasker
Thats all work to do, now your dvice have Auto Brightness feature:silly:
To test, just press power button and lock the screen and then cover front camera with finger and press power button again, screen will Light up wait 1-2 seconds, Screen brightness will reduce, remove finger, lock unlock screen and brightness will resume to normal.
I have tested this for full day on my L9 and got no any battery drainage.
You can modify Linked Samples Values to your comfort zone for batter sample values you can also search other XDA forums.
Guys try it and let me know how you feel
if you got any issue please post, I'll try to solve it (Coz m also new to TASKER & LUX so may be it will take little bit time to Solve:fingers-crossed
EDIT: You can uncheck "Presistent notification" in general settings of Lux Auto Brightness, If you think it is draining your phone's battery. This will also disable the annoying Lux icon from notification.
HIT THANKS IF I DESERVE IT
Another mod we miss in our L9 just got fixed.
thanks for sharing
i'll try it as soon as i can and report back.
Is this battery hungry workaround ? Two apps must run in background so they must eat battery .
Is it possible to have a refresh .. for example every 10 minutes camera will check light to set brightness?
Found it's in lux settings!
hamdimo said:
Another mod we miss in our L9 just got fixed.
thanks for sharing
i'll try it as soon as i can and report back.
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Thanks for your appreciation hamdimo:laugh:, i'll wait for your review...
sebx_g1 said:
Is this battery hungry workaround ? Two apps must run in background so they must eat battery .
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No, I have tested this yesterday for full day and haven't noticed any battery drainage coz of these apps. According to me, besides draining battery this MOD should save battery by adjusting it according to Ambient Light.
Mr.Brown94 said:
Is it possible to have a refresh .. for example every 10 minutes camera will check light to set brightness?
Found it's in lux settings!
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Yes Mr.Brown, you can set automatic refresh in general settings, but I'll never suggest you use automatic mode, it could drain your phones battery.
Do not use lux with easyeyez it will slow down your phone too much
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Do not use lux with easyeyez it will slow down your phone too much
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Yes bleuwavem you are absolutely right, that's why I am using tasker to initiate refresh process on display on. If you use lux individually then it will slow down your phone and drain the battery. In my tutorial actually lux is not running in background (if it is running you can kill it). Tasker plug in triggers it to refresh the brightness. Coz i have used it for hole day and currently using, I have not face any issues with device performance. If anyone body faced any issue can post here i'll try to solve it.
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Lux Auto is incompatibile in play store with P760 ?!! . Is Lux Auto Lite sufficient to work in this case ?
sebx_g1 said:
Lux Auto is incompatibile in play store with P760 ?!! . Is Lux Auto Lite sufficient to work in this case ?
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I was also unable to find Lux in play store and its fully compatible with our device. I haven't tried light version, you may try it and plz let me know if it is working so i can attach light APK in first post.
Light version of LUX AUTO don't have option for using camera so it is usless , only paid version work but I don't want to pay for it just too test if whole mod work , not now .
sebx_g1 said:
Light version of LUX AUTO don't have option for using camera so it is usless , only paid version work but I don't want to pay for it just too test if whole mod work , not now .
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Well then you will have to google for full version....
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How to set min brightness 40% in LUX ? How works those luma settings ?
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How to set min brightness 40% in LUX ? How works those luma settings ?
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in which condition you want set your brightness 40%. Like if you want to set brightness 40% in normal day light then, when you are in normal day light, go to Lux, tap on modify linked samples, tap on Luma. Here you will see Current Value: with some digits showing. Now here hold your phone in normal light and click on "tap to refresh". it will say reading for a second and then it will show you a value, mine was 118. Note that value. Now tap on add at the bottom. In "Add custom link" box, drag and adjust brightness (Yellow Bar) to 40% and in Luma enter value you have noted. then tap on Add. thats all, now your normal daylight brightness is 40%.
Try it:highfive:
My device works just wake mod only....i do not understand why need tasker app, works without
Noob Question: Why does a lux value of 120 set a brightness of 50% in the tutorial? I've set it to 100% for now till you reply.
Great solution OP! Also, why do we need tasker to force display brightness when there is a setting for adjust brightness on wake in the lux settings? Is it because it doesn't adjust it sometimes?
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I've also noticed that direct sunlight throws the lux reading off....(lux value becomes lower in direct sunlight than in shade in the same area)
AndroidSol said:
My device works just wake mod only....i do not understand why need tasker app, works without
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bleuwave said:
Great solution OP! Also, why do we need tasker to force display brightness when there is a setting for adjust brightness on wake in the lux settings? Is it because it doesn't adjust it sometimes?
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Yes bleuwave your right, I used Tasker for two reasons, first as you mentioned Lux's auto brightness Don't works some tims, so tasker force it to adjust. Second reason is this that using tasker you no need to keep lux app running in background, coz if we keep it running in backgroung it will slow down phone performance and drain it's battery. Using tasker you will never miss auto adjustment
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Noob Question: Why does a lux value of 120 set a brightness of 50% in the tutorial? I've set it to 100% for now till you reply.
I've also noticed that direct sunlight throws the lux reading off....(lux value becomes lower in direct sunlight than in shade in the same area)
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i have set 50% Brightness with value of 120, coz 120 is normal day light reading, so in normal day light 50% brightness is good enough to see the screen. 50% brightness is also no drain battery.
Yes this behave of lux also amazed me. it shows light reading value 80 in direct sunlight, in shade it shows 120. But the settings i have done, are working like charm even in sunlight also. as per my observation reason of low reading value in direct sunlight may be auto brightness setting of front camera ....What do you think about this..
Thank you very much....now my phone has auto brightness
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Hmm ... it is strange today Lux Auto stoped - it just don't work . And I must say that combo of those to programs eats battery ,maybe for the reason I have not stock kernel ?
5% per hour vs 2.4% per hour with out them running .
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Hmm ... it is strange today Lux Auto stoped - it just don't work . And I must say that combo of those to programs eats battery ,maybe for the reason I have not stock kernel ?
5% per hour vs 2.4% per hour with out them running .
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Yes sebx its strange, Stock kernel may be an issue for this. I will suggest you to change some settings in Lux, keep every thing disabled in Lux settings, because Tasker is enough capable to run its services automatically and keeping everything disable in lux will reduce battery consumption also, so change setting and try it again.
-12/7/15 Update -
LG's online chat feature was of no help either. I was told to utilize autobrightness, turn off battery saver, and factory data reset phone. No other options were given except to exchange the device. 3 years these phones have auto dimming problems, and 3 years no answers.
love this phone, but experiencing a strange screen brightness issue.
i do not use auto brightness. Any time i ever put my brightness over 50%, the screen dims itself 5 seconds after unlocking.
but when it's at exactly 50%, it does not dim.
Can anybody help me with this? 50% is bright enough but would like to have it higher without watching it dim like 5%.
anybody? I've had 2 v10's now thru AT&T, i don't know why I'm the only one having this problem
Same
Go to settings, display, brightness.
Make sure the auto brightness box is unchecked.
shwnr11 said:
Go to settings, display, brightness.
Make sure the auto brightness box is unchecked.
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As it said in my original post, I do not use auto brightness.
Guys, this has been an issue with the G3 as well as the G4. There is simply no way that this is not some sort of widespread issue that everyone else thinks is normal.
Is there some way to override the auto dim? Why is LG the only company that seems to struggle with this feature?
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As it said in my original post, I do not use auto brightness.
Guys, this has been an issue with the G3 as well as the G4. There is simply no way that this is not some sort of widespread issue that everyone else thinks is normal.
Is there some way to override the auto dim? Why is LG the only company that seems to struggle with this feature?
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I get that you said that.
But there's two ways to turn it on and off.
And there could be a fault with the pull down menu one.
Or the other way around.
It's a suggested thought, to give a try.
shwnr11 said:
I get that you said that.
But there's two ways to turn it on and off.
And there could be a fault with the pull down menu one.
Or the other way around.
It's a suggested thought, to give a try.
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It doesn't work. Nothing seems to work. Lux brightness doesn't even work.
Is your phone rooted?
What is your Screen Timeout set to? Maybe its only set for 10 or 15 seconds so when you unlock the screen the timer thinks its ready to start turning off the screen due to no activity. Just a suggestion.
screen dimming after unlock
TheNamelessMan said:
As it said in my original post, I do not use auto brightness.
Guys, this has been an issue with the G3 as well as the G4. There is simply no way that this is not some sort of widespread issue that everyone else thinks is normal.
Is there some way to override the auto dim? Why is LG the only company that seems to struggle with this feature?
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It's not just your phone or LG that's having that problem and I know this is a older thread but I have a ZTE zMAX Pro and every now and then mines dims after I unlock it. Very annoying because I don't even know what it is that makes it stop doing it. I press in on the screen and sometimes it comes in but I don't know what that's about. And it hasn't always done that it just started the last couple of days.
Use Yet Another Auto Brightness aka YAAB, set max and min brightness both to 50%, start the service and you're all set
Has anyone else noticed this or do I have a bad light sensor? My phone almost always goes to the minimum, or damn near minimum brightness when I turn on auto-bright.
It's not a bad light sensor LG just has it's set to go to 0 opposed to 15 as far as I heard like a lot of other manufacturers do. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update
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Has anyone else noticed this or do I have a bad light sensor? My phone almost always goes to the minimum, or damn near minimum brightness when I turn on auto-bright.
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Which carrier are you with? I read about auto brightness issues in some reviews (including XDA's) but haven't had any myself.
T-Mobile. I have seen that now, clearly a bug.
LG had the same issue with the Pixel 2 xl. Until it was fixed I had to run Lux app and set minimum brightness to 25. They tweaked the software eventually so like 15 was the new 0 or something like that.
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When I'm in a dark room my auto brightness goes to around 12%. I haven't had any problems so far.
I noticed if I change the brightness on the other screen it fixes it.
Ya in light environments the sensor seems to work perfectly but as soon as I go into a dimmed room, not dark, it goes to zero and I can hardly see the screen.
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nkognegr0 said:
I noticed if I change the brightness on the other screen it fixes it.
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Just tried changing it on the 2nd screen. Weird that you can adjust the 2nd screen while auto brightness is on but you can't change it on the main screen.
solution
Fast Brightness Control Widget from F-Droid or Play
settings-
100%
75%
35%
20%
back out once set or close
create widget
click solar mass you want
Just as easy to turn auto off, which I do on every phone and set it manually and leave it.
I have a fix for this using Tasker. Very annoying problem that got me thinking about returning the phone the first day I received it. Been tweaking this until I got it dialed in perfectly. Your taste may vary but I think I hit the sweet spot, and it's snappy and responsive. Make sure you opt out of battery saving or whatever on Tasker and give it full admin and accessibility privileges to avoid any issues. Works 100% of the time just like stock auto brightness but without the insanely dim screen when indoors. See screenshots...should be pretty self explanatory if you have basic knowledge of Tasker.