What do you set your brightness to on your Samsung s3?
Minutes on automatic but I'm thinking of changing it and I want some opinions on what people use!
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I also set mine on automatic, because you need a different brightness setting depending on the outside brightness where you are.
For example you would need a completely different setting when you are using your phone outdoors on a sunny day, or indoors in the evening with artificial lighting.
Hope that helps.
Full brightness for me and i adjust accordingly
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0 brightness at indoor and auto brightness at outdoor
The Lux app is working very well for me. Auto-brightness works as it should have out of the box now.
I just set the brightness to 50%. Manually.
I use the display brightness app from the play store. Adds a brightness slider to screen. Much better than auto IMHO. Auto was giving me dark screens too often.
Try this :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nnevod.loggraph
The best ever brighter controller for Android devices!!
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Hey,
Do you use Auto brightness or no?
If not, why?
I use auto as it doesn't affect my battery much needed screen look nicer when it's brighter. But there r pple tat use lowest brightness settings for battery savings reason
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Yes, yes I do.
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I don't. It drain's my battery more than manual settings. Slide your finger over notification area to adjust brightness manually.
I'm on MIUI so I can change from the notification bar. It depends, if I'm charging I'll have full brightness to show off the sexy SAmoled+ display. But if I'm out and trying to conserve battery I'll have it on auto.
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Off.
Use quick settings via notification, hate brightness changing all time so its all way down except when need to up brightness manually.
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Off. Main reason is to conserve battery. Most of the time super amoled plus display is bright enough even when close to lowest brightness. Like the others said there's a shortcut to manually increase the brightness through sliding the notification bar when needed say for example outdoors.
i never use the auto feature
Always auto.
I just can't unblock my handset when I'm out (thanks to australian sun) - I see nothing on the screen.
Unless there's a way to manually update brightness when lock screen's on ?
Off and almost always at maximum brightness. When using it in the dark (when I should be sleeping) I lower the brightness via the notification bar shortcut (that also works when the screen is locked using WidgetLocker).
No. Manual adjust is easy and more satisfying.
no!not working good....
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I do. Tried both and found that it's just as annoying having to adjust manually as it is when auto is slow
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Never..... it ( almost) allways in max. It's a shame to use that beautiful screen on dull settings.
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Im using auto.....because home is not like outdoor.....if i make it at the lowest i wont see any thing in the outdoor.......i have it on because it stimulate the sun and the low light condition.....plus .. i dont care about the battery...i bought the phone to use it and enjoy it not to sit and watch the battery all day long and keeping myself from enjoying this coool phone...........
I use Auto; I might try manual and adjusting it now and then but at the moment I'm content with auto.
I kept it off cause you can easily changed the brightness just by sliding the notification bar
No , I use manual so I can adjust it to the way I like it.
Always off, adjust the brightness level where you suit.
Auto mode may drains battery life.
I do use auto bright
It's good to enhance your view on the mobile at any light conditions
And IT DOES NOT drain your battery . it's,false thoughts guys belive me
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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 just realized something weird. I used my phone in a completely dark room and I was blinded by the bright screen on auto-brightness. I couldn't imagine that it was on the lowest setting in a dark room and switched auto-brightness off; and indeed with manual brightness I could bring the slider much more down to darker levels. Is that normal that auto-brightness doesn't go down to the lowest brightness levels?
I also don't like the auto brightness issue, it was too bright in a dark room.
I end up buying Lux from the play store and it address my problem.
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I am no fan of auto brightness inside of buidings either.
Outside it is handy, but indoors I switch to a widgetsoid app toggle on my homescreen with 5%/25%/100%/auto steps
25% is more than enough indoors, with 5% in dark rooms.
But with the advance of custom ROMs the auto brightness settings will be adjusted to more suitable values, I believe.
I just do not understand the implementation of Auto Brightness in G2.
If I go out, it never increases the brighness even by one bit. I have to swipe it up.
Same when I go inside.
Whats the point of Having auto brightness if it does not work.
Try lux dash app my friend.
Much better
I typically will point the front camera towards the sun when I go outside to get it to adjust. Usually works pretty quickly, but sometimes it fails.
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The solution is use lux autobrightness
+1 for Lux autobrightness
eggman89 said:
I just do not understand the implementation of Auto Brightness in G2.
If I go out, it never increases the brighness even by one bit. I have to swipe it up.
Same when I go inside.
Whats the point of Having auto brightness if it does not work.
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The way the auto brightness works in LG is different from what we see on other devices. If you flashing a custom AOSP based rom you will see auto brightness working fine as we are accustomed.
Agree, stock doesn't work at all
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Thanks for the lux tip. It appears to be working well.
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It works actually..Just that it's somehow retarded..And so i have switch over to fixed brightness instead..
Another option, although not automatic, is to swipe down and use the brightness toggle. Each time you press the button it will scroll through from 50%, 90%, 0%, 50%, 90%, 0%, etc.
I usually use my phone at 50% but if I'm in direct sunlight or want to show off my G2 screen I will then hit the brightness button to make it 90%. No idea why it doesn't automatically default to 100%, though.
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I can not say I have noticed autobrightness glitches (European D802, stock rom).
I think LG2's autobrightness system is great. You can use the slider in pulldown menu to adjust your base brightness preference and it is auto according to that.
Far better than other phones with "fixed auto", i.e. my previous OneX+, where the screen is too bright in low-light conditions.
Yes LUX works...but so does the stock auto brightness setting. So if you want to use the stock version here is what you need to remember. The slider is the BASE level...which means that if you set it to 50% then that is the LOWEST the screen brightness will go when in a dark room. You can set it lower but in my testing I feel that anything lower than 40% does not lower it any more than that... YMMV.
Then, after setting your low end base, the screen will automatically get brighter when you go out into the sun. Now whether it will ever go to 100% on its own or not I do not know. But I find that with my VZ variant set to 50% base, when I go out into the brightest sun the screen brightens up to the point where I can see it just fine. One other observation is that the stock version is a little slower at making the adjustment than LUX is, but only by a few seconds from start to finish.
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Yes LUX works...but so does the stock auto brightness setting. So if you want to use the stock version here is what you need to remember. The slider is the BASE level...which means that if you set it to 50% then that is the LOWEST the screen brightness will go when in a dark room. You can set it lower but in my testing I feel that anything lower than 40% does not lower it any more than that... YMMV.
Then, after setting your low end base, the screen will automatically get brighter when you go out into the sun. Now whether it will ever go to 100% on its own or not I do not know. But I find that with my VZ variant set to 50% base, when I go out into the brightest sun the screen brightens up to the point where I can see it just fine. One other observation is that the stock version is a little slower at making the adjustment than LUX is, but only by a few seconds from start to finish.
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That might be, but the difference from full sunlight to complete darkness is almost nothing, no matter what base % you set it to. The auto brightness is just utterly completly useless. Giving Lux a try.
I found yet another brightness app works great.
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I leave mine on 40% with auto ticked and it works fine
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I personally leave mine at 50% constant but for those who want auto brightness try this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
Review:
http://androidcommunity.com/lg-g2-s...onky-give-lux-auto-brightness-a-try-20130923/
Stock autobrightness works, but it's slow and sometimes it won't change screen brightness for reasons unknown.
Lux is much better. I'm not sure about free version, but with full version you can customize brightness curve and lower reaction times so it's really quick compared to stock autobrightness.
+1 for lux with autobrightness on wake
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Yeah, i agree:
The solution here is Lux app. It's AWESOME.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux&hl=en
Is there anyway to adjust the auto brightness levels. I find the screen too bright in complete darkness and not bright enough in direct sunlight.
I tried adjusting the settings in gravity box, but doesn't seem to have any effect.
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I've been using LUX for years now just because of this(even when when i had ROMs with linkable brightness settings).
On top allowing go dimmer than default lowest brightness and customize your desired link points, it has profiles and tasker plugin.
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gotta agree with the OP here the auto brightness just doesn't cut it for me!!
although mine is bright enough in direct sunlight oddly enough this was only the case after changing the stock screen protector for an aftermarket one!!
still too bright in the dark though
Lux works well
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