hey guys.
i want to purchase the OnePlus 7T Pro, and i've read that there are problems with the auto brightness.
are there realy problems in the 7T pro model?
were they fixed in the last update?
how bad are they?
i must say that auto brightness issues can be a deal breaker for me
The Auto brightness is quite bad. The screen goes really dull and dim in certain light conditions and one has to manually override it. This isn't a deal breaker, but a big irritant for sure.
Have got 2 updates on my 7T Pro and this hasn't been fixed yet. I don't think this is high priority for OnePlus as there are various other software issues to take care of.
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Well... yes, it's annoying. But keep in mind it is a new device and it's a new version of Android with massive changes under the hood.
Older versions also had brightness issues and these got fixed over time. It's a nice device, I use it as my daily driver and it's good. Not perfect. But hey... the hardware is ok, so the rest can be fixed in software.
Generally the auto-brightness and adjustment are responsive and work okay. However there are some scenarios in which it doesn't work so well (dimly lit rooms with ambient light coming from lamps or monitors seems to be the worst case). If you are using dark mode (theme) it also makes the screen harder to read in said scenarios. Also if you have enabled the blue light filter (Night Mode) make sure that the brightness slider is moved to the brightest setting (although even completely disabling Night Mode doesn't solve the issue).
OnePlus were probably more conservative with the brightness levels to save power as well. It's not bad enough to be a deal breaker (I use only auto-brightness as well) but it is a bit annoying and hopefully it gets fixed in a future update (or even better yet, we get an option for different brightness profiles). Honestly, you do get used to it over time but you also kinda lose on the display quality when the brightness is low. You really start noticing it after you increase it manually a bit.
I would probably set my brightness +10% or +20% from the stock auto levels.. I haven't been able to find a way to do this with an adb tweak yet. Make sure the email OnePlus to let them know about the issue.
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Ok i wanted to start new thread with this issue
got a question about the screen. Some times I can sense and see that despite of auto brightness off that the screen adjusts its brightness by itself. It is a little change but my sharp eyes can see this... Do you have a similar thing?
I can easly notice this when playing my country game. When I click on the building menu the screen gets brighter. When i cancel the menu the screen makes darker
Also in sprinkle when I use water the screen gets little brighter
I think this is because the Tegra 3 (or ASUS's implementation of it) adjusts contrast to conserve power. The changes in contrast make brightness seem to change.
I think their settings are too aggressive and they should either scale them back or add an option to turn it off, if possible. I'm sure it's nice for battery life but it does (in some very specific instances) seem to impact the experience.
Note: this is not a doom-and-gloom post. The Prime's screen performance is the best I've ever experienced on a mobile device, maybe any device, overall. So this is a bit of a nuisance but nowhere near enough for me to have an inkling of regret about buying the Prime.
This only happens on mine while in power saving mode.
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wynand32 said:
I think this is because the Tegra 3 (or ASUS's implementation of it) adjusts contrast to conserve power. The changes in contrast make brightness seem to change.
I think their settings are too aggressive and they should either scale them back or add an option to turn it off, if possible. I'm sure it's nice for battery life but it does (in some very specific instances) seem to impact the experience.
Note: this is not a doom-and-gloom post. The Prime's screen performance is the best I've ever experienced on a mobile device, maybe any device, overall. So this is a bit of a nuisance but nowhere near enough for me to have an inkling of regret about buying the Prime.
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Do you experince the same issue as me?
tdrussell said:
This only happens on mine while in power saving mode.
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I'm not sure, I'll have to do some more testing. I seem to remember it happening across the board.
I'll note that Battery mode really does make a HUGE difference in the screen's performance. Colors become very washed out, so much so that I'm really surprised by the impact.
Well in my case this thing occurs on every mode with the same strenght... That sucks
so anyone of you can confirm if this is normal? Do you have the same isue on your primes?
It seems the light sensor has high resolution and Asus needs to smooth up a bit the auto-brightness algorithms If your screen goes up and down then simply disable auto-brightness or change lightning conditions
ankhazam said:
It seems the light sensor has high resolution and Asus needs to smooth up a bit the auto-brightness algorithms If your screen goes up and down then simply disable auto-brightness or change lightning conditions
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Like i said auto brightness is off. Can anyone install my country and check his out for me? Just enter build menu and chec if the screen gets a little brighter
it has nothing to do with auto-brightness... Its a feature of tegra 3, it can change the brightness of each pixel to give you the best image and use the least amount of power.. unfortunately its just annoying and not implemented well.
And you cannot turn it off.
Ya I noticed this too last night and thought that I had a defective screen. Made a thread about it earlier. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421002
jzen said:
it has nothing to do with auto-brightness... Its a feature of tegra 3, it can change the brightness of each pixel to give you the best image and use the least amount of power.. unfortunately its just annoying and not implemented well.
And you cannot turn it off.
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I should b off in perormnce mode. I understand this feature in saving power mode but not on others two. I hope it will be changed
In a completely dark room, auto-brightness will sometimes randomly bump up the brightness level of the screen to, say, 25% (way too bright). In a dimly lit room, it generally stays pinned to minimum unless i move it up manually before turning auto-brightness on (way too dark).
Changes take a long time and are inconsistent. Anyone else experience this?
Never been a fan of auto-brightness. It depends on the light sensor in the device, but I turn this off on most android devices as it just ends up soaking up power anyway.
JazzMac251 said:
In a completely dark room, auto-brightness will sometimes randomly bump up the brightness level of the screen to, say, 25% (way too bright). In a dimly lit room, it generally stays pinned to minimum unless i move it up manually before turning auto-brightness on (way too dark).
Changes take a long time and are inconsistent. Anyone else experience this?
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I have noticed that as well. Specifically the in a almost completely dark room its not set at minimum brightness, and when in a dimly lit room it will be at minimum brightness.
Oddly enough when in the completely dark room if I turn off auto brightness then put it back on it will usually go down to minimum brightness. This lasts for awhile then it seems to bump back up.
mine does this also..
I do recall nearly every reviewer of the Prime saying that the auto-brightness was pretty wonky.
But with that being said, auto brightness seems rather unnecessary on pretty much any Android device. Even Froyo had native brightness widgets.
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
Never been a fan of auto-brightness. It depends on the light sensor in the device, but I turn this off on most android devices as it just ends up soaking up power anyway.
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Ditto here, you will find auto turned off on all my devices. Never seems to work for me correctly.
Same here on my 64gb model on .33 version. Also posted here ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21024017#post21024017
Can heavily be noticed in mobilephonetalk forums while scrolling the page with auto bright turned off. Even on max or min brightness....
It sucks. Plain & Simple
I do wonder why they have such a hard time making Auto Brightness / Sensors that work correctly. Or at least consistantly. I used to play with it, setting the brightness level, then going to auto on several HTC devices, and while it was a LOT better than the Primes setup, it wasn't consistent which always caused me to give up on it. Seems a waste to even put the sensor in there when no one seems to be able to control it properly.
Maybe it IS an Android thing, for I remember no such issue with Windows Mobile devices. Hmm. Hold out any hope of ICS? Perhaps it will address it, but for now, I am still skeptical that ICS is the Holy Grail everyone claims it to be. It would have to address a LOT to be anywhere near that perfect. Who knows. Maybe it IS that good, in which case, My Prime is really gonna shine!
I don't like it on my HTC Sensation either. Too much dimmed when outside and in bright rooms.
Does anyone have a device with ICS that can confirm if auto brightness still acts the same? Every Android device I have had has the same issue. I have just learned to deal with it although I do not like it.
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Does anyone have a device with ICS that can confirm if auto brightness still acts the same? Every Android device I have had has the same issue. I have just learned to deal with it although I do not like it.
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Yep HTC sensation is the same..
I find it very good on my Sensation, suits me well. But in the Prime its well too low.
Sent throught the wormhole from my CoinInserted Sensation OG.
it's ok. not perfect
I also never use auto backlight, but on the TFP it seems ok.
It's not perfect but it almost always reacts pretty fast to changes in light.
When I'm in a dark room it always goes to the lowest setting.
Sometimes it seems to 'forget' to work and then I need to turn the auto setting off and then back on again and that seems to remind it to go back to work.
Not only do I have light bleed but I'm also seeing screen flicker. I really want to keep this device but I'm getting sick of this...
The first thing I noticed when I turned on the device was the light bleed. Its pretty bad, and I normally don't mind those types of things. No flicker here though.
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I noticed if I turn up the brightness it goes away.
I don't have light bleed, but I do see flicker if the screen brightness is turned down. It's reminiscent of the original Nexus 7, which had the exact same problem.
I have the flickering too...really annoying. I was hoping that this would replace my iPad but it's not looking good. Although lollipop is pretty amazing so far.
Does it only happen you adjust the brightness? If so, i dont think its a big deal as long as it doesnt happen during actual usage.
I noticed the flicker issue when I first was using it. I then turned off auto brightness from the main settings and started using Lux Auto Brightness and the issue has been resolved as far as I can see. I suspect this is an issue with the Lollipop build's brightness manager and not a hardware issue from the backlight. Also as far as bleed goes, there is apparent bleed when viewing the screen at an angle and looking directly at the edge, however I have found that it is a complete non issue in normal use (even in a fully dark room), which stands in stark contrast to my Nexus 10 which has noticeable edge bleed when viewed straight on.
No Flicking here
No flickering here either.
No flickering, but the auto brightness is very weird! It goes from extremely bright to extremely dark without me actually moving, same light conditions?
No flicker here!
Well, I guess we can all admit screen flicker is of the norm of Tegra.
Im seeing flikkering too.....
Only when brightness is low.
Remind me why Google/htc did not decide to use a 64 bit Qualcomm processor instead? :-\
Do you think that this issue can be solved via software update, or is this issue hardware related, and therefore cannot be fixed easily
bobmarleo said:
Do you think that this issue can be solved via software update, or is this issue hardware related, and therefore cannot be fixed easily
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considering that not everyone has it
So i say no
This issue seems to be related to auto brightness/adaptive brightness: The same brightness level set manually doesn't flicker.
Seems to be a software issue to me, and it seems highly likely every Nexus 9 flickers with auto brightness on (and at low relative brightness setting) in low light environments.
PartyMango said:
This issue seems to be related to auto brightness/adaptive brightness: The same brightness level set manually doesn't flicker.
Seems to be a software issue to me, and it seems highly likely every Nexus 9 flickers with auto brightness on (and at low relative brightness setting) in low light environments.
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But, my screen flickers when I am on a constant brightness level. But, it doesn't show up as much when the screen is on at full brightness, just when the screen is at half brightness or just below half.
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But, my screen flickers when I am on a constant brightness level. But, it doesn't show up as much when the screen is on at full brightness, just when the screen is at half brightness or just below half.
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I guess we aren't experiencing the same issue, then: My screen only flickers with adaptive brightness enabled in low light conditions, seems like it is constantly readjusting the screen between two brightness values.
My Nexus 9 doesn't flicker at any constant brightness setting.
Yep, my Nexus 9 flickers as well.
About 15-20% brightness (fixed). It doesn't flicker all the time and it goes away if you change the brightness level or even by itself if you change the app you are using.
This leads me to believe this might be a software issue (N7/2013 had this too when it came out).
Its just too damn bright !! Mine seems to get stuck at higher levels and doesnt automatically dim, unless the change is quite dramatic (like dark room). I have to manually tick auto brighness off then on to make it work again.
I have tried using lux and it seems to be working perfectly so i am guessing its a software issue from LG side.
Anyone else having similar issues ?
Yea, it's too bright
I completely agree with you. Mine always seems to default to 61% which is too bright in normal light (45% is ideal for me). It would be nice if you could set the baseline "auto" brightness level and let the sensor adjust from there.
SHosp said:
I completely agree with you. Mine always seems to default to 61% which is too bright in normal light (45% is ideal for me). It would be nice if you could set the baseline "auto" brightness level and let the sensor adjust from there.
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Well i have done some research and seems like an app called ''Content adaptive backlight'' is the cause of issue. Seems like LG have managed to produce the same issue that plagued G2. I really hope they fix it in future patches.
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same here ... is there another way to fix it ? besides waiting ?
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I have compared G5 MM rom to my G3 and there seems to be no Content adaptive brightness app on my G3 and because of that there is no auto brightness issue on my G3.
I have done more research and there are quite a few latest phone (6p, S7 ) affected by this issue where either brightness is either too low or high.
Only solution is to either get a custom rom or get an update from carrier/manufacture.
I noticed this as well.. I am sure it will eventually get corrected via software.
Chiming in to say same issue here. Doesn't really bother me tho.
Same boat its too bright or dark and when battery saver kicks in you cant see the screen at all.
Agreed. Too bright, except in very low lighting - then too dim. Hopefully software update will fix this up.
also agree! Way to dim in dark room, haven't noticed to bright yet but then I am old and need the extra ummpphhh to see!!! lol
It would be nice if LG could add low and high limits to the auto-brightness.. I think that would fix the problem.
Does everyone use auto-brightness? Does it seem to help with battery life?
So the issue occurs since April and hasn't been fixed yet. I just received my G5 and have the same issue. It annoys me a lot and when I see that LG didn't fix it yet, I am wondering whether they ever will do that.
I have noticed it getting stuck, unchecking it and checking it again sorts it out for a while
Nobody but a few owners complained about "adaptive brightness" bug , issue or whatever is it !
Is this a randomly issue or is a general problem ? To me is a very annoying problem so I'm thinking to sell my phone only due to this . Several updates received didn't solved this bug so I'm thinking next major update to A12 won't solve it as well . More then that it seems OnePlus 9 , 8, 8T and Nord series have problems with "adaptive brightness" wich meening a well done display brightness in sun light but indoor or poor light brightness is dimming under absolutely low suported values .
What can I do , I'm very frustrated !!!
How is yours ? Works well ?
No problem here, auto brightness is working fine in low light / medium light conditions.
The only complaint is the very placement of the ambient light sensor and proximity sensor (upper right corner) , when I bought a new bumper case to replace the original one provided in the box I noticed a lot of dust was accumulating between the bumper and where the sensors are in the corner of the screen, resulting in lot of issues with auto-brightness and pocket detection . Now I have a very thin protective case with a better cut and I didn't had a single issue since then.
Same problem here. Every evening when it gets dark, the sensor doesn't work properly on auto brightness.
For now, only solution is the app ''Velis auto brightness'' from the Play store. With this app the sensor works fine. I reported this bug 3 times but no solution in the updates for now.
I know , I used Velis for a time but Isn't correct , common sense to use a third party apk for solve bugs phones . Since December I found only you claimed this issue but rest of owners ?
Seems to be only us ? Now I'm going to think this problem affect only a few phones !?
Hmm - I have kind of the opposite issue, not a bug though.
For my liking - and compared to my old Mi Note 5, the screen could be more dim.
Id there a way to tell the phone to tune brighteness in general lower in adaptive mode? Also for the sake of battery life...
questionesse said:
Hmm - I have kind of the opposite issue, not a bug though.
For my liking - and compared to my old Mi Note 5, the screen could be more dim.
Id there a way to tell the phone to tune brighteness in general lower in adaptive mode? Also for the sake of battery life...
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You can use ''Velis auto brightness'' app from the Play store
Anyone still had this issue recently? I am suffering here and it's quite frustrated.
Yes , the problem persist although there was an major update but is diminished . It's not a big issue , now . Still exist !!!