Anyone here using this app for Auto Brightness on AOSP/AOKP
If so, can we share settings?
superleeds27 said:
Anyone here using this app for Auto Brightness on AOSP/AOKP
If so, can we share settings?
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Just installed after read your post. First impression: Awesome!!
This app may be the perfect addition to AOPK/CM9 Roms because it's a lot more intelligent than the stock auto brightness settings which are present at those custom roms.
Currently i'm looking after the right settings. What's your current status?
Did you meanwhile find any nice to know settings?
Meanwhile i read the whole instructions and found out my perfect settings.
1) There are several modes of auto brightness
I've chosen the dynamic mode because it adjusts the brightness level immediately when the environment light takes a significant change.
2) If Lux doesn't find your perfect brightness level you can easily go to the dashboard and adjust the brightness by moving the brightness slider to your desired brightness level. After you found your wished brightness level for the current environment you can push the "link" button to save the current brightness level to the environment light.
I did not do any more changes yet as i presume that those setting will be enough to get the perfect brightness settings
What's your experience?
Reinstalled, gunna try it again!
my test settings ;-)
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I figured this would come along by now but for some reason it hasn't. On my iPhone I could set my brightness that the auto brightness would adjust accordingly. Because the auto brightness is generally too bright or too dark. Also maybe adding some timing controls for how long before the auto brightness adjusts. The displays in these devices suck down the battery like crazy this would help significantly.
BrandonG777 said:
I figured this would come along by now but for some reason it hasn't. On my iPhone I could set my brightness that the auto brightness would adjust accordingly. Because the auto brightness is generally too bright or too dark. Also maybe adding some timing controls for how long before the auto brightness adjusts. The displays in these devices suck down the battery like crazy this would help significantly.
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I too thought we might have seen this by now. I know there have been some tweaks in ROMs, but a slider that sets the sensitivity or the upper/lower limits would be excellent.
u talking about this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708660
extended controls has a auto brightness controller sort of if thats what your looking for
b33zy682 said:
extended controls has a auto brightness controller sort of if thats what your looking for
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Extended controls has an Auto Brightness setting, same as Froyo Power Control widget.
What OP wants is auto setting where you can control sensitivity of light sensor.
Ok I'll try explaining again. Communication isn't my strong suite. Basically, on an iPhone you can set auto brightness, then under auto brightness checkbox you have a slider that calibrates the brightness throughout the range of the ambient light sensor. So it's still a brightness control it just works in conjunction with the auto brightness setting. Being able to fine tune the brightness throughout the range of the ambient light sensor would be a bonus because with the current auto brightness I can barely see the screen in daylight but it's not maxed out because I can still adjust it all the way up with the power control widget and the opposite is true at night, i could go dimmer at night and still see the screen clearly. Strictly copying the functionality of the iPhone wouldn't fully address this. An app would be ok I suppose but I'd much rather see a system mod. I really hate apps like Trackball alert, nothing against the author I just don't like running an additional app to address the lack of a feature in the OS itself.
Good thought
I agree completely. I'm a recovering iPhone user and the adjustable auto-brightness is a feature that I desperately miss. One of my top complaints about android.
This idea is fantastic. It's something I've been thinking about too (never knew iPhone has it though)
When indoors I sometimes find auto brightness too bright. When outdoors and its sunny sometimes its upper limit is not bright enough. In both situations I have to turn off auto.
Actually last night I noticed that auto brightness was dimmer than the lowest brightness setting. I reckon that a lower/dimmer threshold should be available too on the manual brightness settings.
I just installed Android 2.1 and rooted it. In the brightness setting there is no longer a selection to choose the Auto-brightness setting, just a slider for low and high brightness.
Also I noticed the Power Widget that has the brightness control switch lets you switch between low, auto, and high, but while in Auto (the dimmer setting while the button is ON), the sensitivity is very poor and will only brighten the display by about 10% while moving from a very dark environment to a very bright environment.
Yup, i agree. This sucks. Although i had forgoten how nice everything looks with the brightness turned up. All the same id like to have it back.
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cant expect everything in 2.1 to be perfect. Yes it has taken them a while but i wouldnt expect it to be without any flaws!
At least we got it finally. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
azian_advanced said:
I just installed Android 2.1 and rooted it. In the brightness setting there is no longer a selection to choose the Auto-brightness setting, just a slider for low and high brightness.
Also I noticed the Power Widget that has the brightness control switch lets you switch between low, auto, and high, but while in Auto (the dimmer setting while the button is ON), the sensitivity is very poor and will only brighten the display by about 10% while moving from a very dark environment to a very bright environment.
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I thought this today too but the Auto Brighten IS there and still working, just a bit differently.
Initially you choose the 3 levels of brightness on the quick select from the 5 widget icons. This is the brightest it will go, but if you go from a dark or light room it DOES indeed still adjust.
I noticed this after a bit today just standing in the kitchen watching the movers do their thing at my old place. The sun was ducking in and out of the clouds and the auto function was working fine. I tried it in all 3 modes, the only one it doesn't do anything in is the least bright mode...the one I noticed it most is the middle bright mode.
So YES, it is indeed working, just differently.
The auto Brightness sucked in 1.6 anyway. It was never that good for me. I use a brightness widget to adjust it.
I much prefer the way it works now. Seems to be a lot more user friendly tbh
have you tried the setting in spare parts (from the market)?
I've not tried it myself, but I know the auto setting is there.
Auto birghtness
Hmm. I have the 2.1 update and I have set the brightness to the low setting in the power widget. The brightness still adjusts automatically, and I don't want it to. I want it to stay at a low level all the time to save my battery. How?!
Hi! My question is: Is there a BIG difference between leaving lowest brightness setting and auto-brightness? If so, how much? (Hours, battery usage, etc)
Thanks! I hope this thread will be informative for everyone..
Auto-brightness consumes more battery because it is constantly changing brightness, if you want the best battery power just use the lowest brightness
as aaitken said auto brightness consumes more battery . its better to use low brightness and use a brightness control widget from market and change the brightness manually when required
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel&feature=search_result
If you have a stock firmware, or a stock based ROM, you can adjust brightness anywhere you can access the notification bar. This is built into TouchWiz. Just hold your finger on the notification bar until you see the pull-down shade, and slide your finger left or right to adjust brightness.
I leave my brightness on lowest and adjust as necessary with this, i.e. when I'm in a bright setting, and need to turn my brightness up.
Also there is brightness options in AOKP with the toggles and in CM9 (and most other AOSP roms) as a power save widget bala_gamer's option's also a good way
Thank you very much for your helpful answers..
Hi All,
Could you please point me on the file that has settings for auto brightness? I want to increase the range, the stock one is almost unnoticeable.
Thanks in advance!
Xperia S does not have auto brightness in both Gingerbread or ICS.
GT35pro said:
Xperia S does not have auto brightness in both Gingerbread or ICS.
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What you are saying? Sure that Xperia S have auto brightness ! You probably are not able to set it :laugh:
It has auto brightness xD
Try to buy some glasses...
But without custom rom or app you cannot control it.
Cyanogen mod or app ( widgetsoid) can control it very easy.
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It has auto brightness. You can go to the Service menu, Sensors section and there you will find Light sensor, there you will see its current values, as far as I remember they are 0..12 or so, but that doesn't really matter, I want to find where the dependency between Light sensor value and brightness is coded.
You should ask some rom dveloper for some info :-/
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It has auto brightness, but only the smarts can see
I found this useful post.
In ICS we have it in /system/etc/als_curve and there we have 4 folders: 0, 1, 2 and 3 with limits and parameters. I assume these are 4 zones of brightness (0-25% on folder 3, 25-50% in 2, 50-75% in 1 and 75-100% in 0).
We have to change the parameters, as in the post I referred, but personally I didnt understand almost anything, so we need to try... If someone will be trying too, let me know your results!
I have found an easy way to set auto brightness and it works beautifully:
Download and install quick settings.
When you are in quick settings, tap "customize", tap the small tool icon next to brightness, and you will be asked whether to enable light sensor.
Once enabled, you will be able to use auto brightness through quick settings app.
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Why couldn't they just add the option into the settings like everyone else??? Is it really that hard?
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That is their style.
Go and send them mail to change it.
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zeefung said:
I have found an easy way to set auto brightness and it works beautifully:
Download and install quick settings.
When you are in quick settings, tap "customize", tap the small tool icon next to brightness, and you will be asked whether to enable light sensor.
Once enabled, you will be able to use auto brightness through quick settings app.
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It is enabled by default even without 3rd-party apps. The reason of all this is to make its range bigger, more noticeable.
Hayden18 said:
Why couldn't they just add the option into the settings like everyone else??? Is it really that hard?
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I also really don't understand why Sony cannot put this option just in the brightness settings.... I have had a long time thought that the SXS doesn't have auto brightness at all but dunno that its in fact hidden somewhere which can be called out easily by a 3rd party app !
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It does have auto brightness, it just works a little different from what we're used to so far. You can find the brightness control in Settings->Display->Brightness (at least that's where you find it in Gingerbread). Now, the thing that creates so much confusion, is that this control shouldn't be called Brightness, but Visibility. What the phone does (and imo this is really clever), is that you move the slider to adjust the visibility of the screen best suited for your eyes and then the phone will automatically adjust the amount of light the LEDs glow using an intrinsic curve so that the same visibility is provided outdoors and indoors. You can test this. Set the slider halfway and then go outside, in the sun, and cover and uncover the light sensor a few times. You will see that the screen is dimmed and brightened up while you do that as the phone tries to maintain it's visibility to the setpoint you chose by moving the slider. Simple and clever, huh? What some may argue, is that the brightness variation is not aggressive enough, and they may have a point. Personally, I don't need to move the slider more than 20%, as the screen is perfectly visible even on a sunny day (of course, that is unless the sun directly reflects in the screen, but I found this happens only if you hold your phone on purpose and it is not a comfortable position).
Hello,
In my lt26w there is no Visibility submenu. But it looks like the application "quick settings" has make a trick.
Best Regards,
Vlad
I'm rooted and have EXKM and flar2's High Brightness Mode app. How can I make Tasker switch on High Brightness Mode when the brightness slider gets to 100% (and switch it off when the slider dips below 100%)?
Having difficulty finding any brightness level stuff in Tasker.
Thanks!!
finshan said:
I'm rooted and have EXKM and flar2's High Brightness Mode app. How can I make Tasker switch on High Brightness Mode when the brightness slider gets to 100% (and switch it off when the slider dips below 100%)?
Having difficulty finding any brightness level stuff in Tasker.
Thanks!!
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You don't need to use Tasker for that. Once the brightness slider gets to "near" 100%, the native High Brightness Mode will automatically kick in on this phone. If you shine a flashlight or go into the bright sun you will see the brightness slider go up to near 100% and you will see that the native High Brightness Mode is automatically enabled at this point. To verify, you can turn your slider up to 100% and then toggle on the QS HBM tile from the High Brightness Mode app and you will see that there will be no change in screen brightness.
The native High Brightness Mode will also turn off when slider/brightness dips below 100% or so. The High Brightness Mode toggle from the HBM app is really only useful when you want to turn HBM on when the slider/brightness is below 100% or so.
What you described does not represent the functionality I'm experiencing.
There's a pretty significant jump in brightness when HBM is toggled on when the slider is already maxed.
Also, it's a question about how to program this in Tasker, more than a discussion of whether you would personally find it useful.
Yes, I understand the question was about how to program it with Tasker. My experience was right after he 1st updated the app to support the Pixel 6 series (version 5.03). And my response was based on this experience, which in turn if your phone behaved the same as mine there would be no need to use Tasker.
Obviously your phone is behaving different than from my previous experience. Maybe he changed some things since then since the latest version is now 5.05.
Anyway, I'm not sure of the exact details, but I believe you want to use the %BRIGHT ~ 100 variable. But beyond that I haven't really looked into it.
Lughnasadh said:
Yes, I understand the question was about how to program it with Tasker. My experience was right after he 1st updated the app to support the Pixel 6 series (version 5.03). And my response was based on this experience, which in turn if your phone behaved the same as mine there would be no need to use Tasker.
Obviously your phone is behaving different than from my previous experience. Maybe he changed some things since then since the latest version is now 5.05.
Anyway, I'm not sure of the exact details, but I believe you want to use the %BRIGHT ~ 100 variable. But beyond that I haven't really looked into it.
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I see. It's just not clear how I use that variable, what the tilde means, when/where I input that, whether I can use < for th other part of th profile (brightness being less than 100%), and so many other questions.
The intro page when you first open tasker makes it seem simple: you give a context, a start action, and an end action. But th program isn't actually like that at all, and further it doesn't seem to list variables that people are saying are built-in (e.g. %BRIGHT).