About two weeks ago I turned on my Auto Brightness. Last week the screen just started going dim randomly. To be clear, its so dim I can't see anything unless its at a particular angle. Also (depending on how bright the screen was prior to going dim) if I apply pressure to the sides of my phone, just above the Menu and the red End button, the screen will become bright again. Since then I have turned off Auto Rightness and performed a hard reset yet the problem still occurs. Can someone please help me?
It hasn't been dropped, or been subjected to moisture of any kind. I've only had it for about two months. It was a replacement from Asurion Insurance. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Anyone? Any ideas? Haha, I'm desperate!
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Auto brightness on our phones hasn't really been all that great, I've had random dimming or it'll go super bright in a dark room. mostly the issue is that auto brightness on phones is not all that great, they don't monitor the brightness of your surrounding but rather your face and that's where the problem lies.
My Auto Brightness isn't enabled. Yet the screen still goes super dim.
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lactosedept said:
My Auto Brightness isn't enabled. Yet the screen still goes super dim.
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Then thats a different problen, i havent come across this. Sorry.
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lactosedept said:
My Auto Brightness isn't enabled. Yet the screen still goes super dim.
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Make sure it isn't on, because it shouldn't happen if you have it set to a custom level
Haha damn, don't like the sound of that. Thanks for the help!
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lactosedept said:
Haha damn, don't like the sound of that. Thanks for the help!
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No problem, let me know if you need anything else!
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Hi,
I find the fact that the buttons under the screen keep lit until you turn the screen off annoying. I often use the tab in the dark and even if you cover them up some of their light "contaminates" the bottom area of the screen, especially with dark images.
Is there any known way to get them working back as they did on Froyo? Maybe if someone could extract the old Froyo backlight driver I could try it on my tab...
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i want that too
chiasottis said:
Hi,
I find the fact that the buttons under the screen keep lit until you turn the screen off. I often use the tab in the dark and they're annoying. Moreover, even if you cover them up some of their light "contaminates" the bottom area of the screen, especially with dark screens.
Is there any known way to get them working back as they did on Froyo? Maybe if someone could extract the old Froyo backlight driver I could try it on my tab...
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I think its a great feature, especially for using in the dark as I often pressed wrong button accidentally. However I do think there should be some sort of setting to adjust when its on all the time and when its not etc.
Try an app called blinker I think from the market.
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Try an app called blinker I think from the market.
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Well, thank you very much! I downloaded BlinkerTab from the market and was able to turn the buttons backlight off.
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OMG!
Thank you so much! I hated those lights so much I was gonna return to 2.2.1
No I dont have to.
Go to market
Download blinkertab for free
Turn those hatefull lights off
Enjoy a book or movie in the dark.
Cheers
Thanks again darkpal
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Yeah cheers going to down load right now.
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When someone develops a rom for this phone, can you boost screen brightness in auto? My screen seems so dim next to other android phones I put it next to..
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I agree 100%. The automatic brightness is way dimmer than my OG Droid, I finally had to set the screen around 75% but now it's not quite bright enough for sunlight and too bright for nighttime.
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Probably intentionally dim out of the box w/auto-brightness to save battery.
Would be cool if you could choose your auto-brightness settings (dim, medium and bright presets?)
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Probably intentionally dim out of the box w/auto-brightness to save battery.
Would be cool if you could choose your auto-brightness settings (dim, medium and bright presets?)
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agreed... im greatful for how dim it gets because I know it helps with battery, but being able to configure this would be nice as well.
Just used my friend's atrix.. Someone please hack the brightness!
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Yeah, I am on board with this too
Screen brightness outside is abysmal
Hey guys just wondering what kind of battery life people are getting with either of the settings on? I keep mine on a manual 50% and the battery seems OK, but I've seen real good reports of people using auto brightness too.
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If auto-brightness was a person, i'd punch in the face and kick it out of my house. I use manual brightness, about 40-50%, i get 8-10 hours out of it.
i use auto on n7 and gnex, no battery complaints.
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If auto-brightness was a person, i'd punch in the face and kick it out of my house.
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lol... I have similar feelings
I love the auto brightness, but it makes the screen flicker on the N7
But I hate auto brightness on the iphone with a passion!
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Nexcellent said:
If auto-brightness was a person, i'd punch in the face and kick it out of my house. I use manual brightness, about 40-50%, i get 8-10 hours out of it.
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Normally I'd agree with you, but auto is actually working pretty well on the N7.
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Auto seems to get stuck for me. I'll go in a dark room and it lowers brightness, but won't go back up when it gets light. Sometimes it's reversed.
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redmonke255 said:
Auto seems to get stuck for me. I'll go in a dark room and it lowers brightness, but won't go back up when it gets light. Sometimes it's reversed.
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Agree that the auto bright may have some issues. Sitting in a room with TV and a single lamp and the unit dims. Had to switch to manual to read
redmonke255 said:
Auto seems to get stuck for me. I'll go in a dark room and it lowers brightness, but won't go back up when it gets light. Sometimes it's reversed.
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its supposed to be like that. Its bright in the sun so you can see and dim at night so still visible, but not hurting your eyes
Manual brightness setting on a tablet is good for me, since I use it inside 99% of the time. And I usually keep it fairly low.
On a phone, you really need a GOOD auto-brightness. What looks good inside can cause the screen to be invisible outside. Trying to navigate blind to adjust the brightness manually isn't always easy.
Overall, I would say the N7 has a good auto-brightness control from when I played around with it. Haven't tried outside though.
I like the auto brightness. I trued manual and auto and the auto gives me the same brightness level I would have chosen myself.
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I think the auto on the N7 is pretty good BUT I would like the ability to bump it up or down a bit. So whatever the sensor is calling for add or subtract a percentage to it. I like my tablet a bit brighter so I tend to use manual brightness most of the time. That's really the only setting I am missing with the "phone" style UI. I liked that brightness slider was right in the ICS tablet UI menu that popped up. I am getting 8 hours at 50% brightness most of the time.
I thought it looked rather dim with auto; I've been keeping mine on max brightness since shortly after I got it.
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its supposed to be like that. Its bright in the sun so you can see and dim at night so still visible, but not hurting your eyes
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I know how it works, but if it brightens up in a light room it doesn't go down in a dark room and ends up searing my eyes like a tuna steak.
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I have auto brightness off, auto adjust screen tone off and brightness set to max. My screen randomly dims and then gets bright again...anyone know what's causing this?
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Hmm is it this adapt display option maybe?
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Same here then I went into my settings to check the brightness (settings, display, brightness) and it said brightness decreased to prevent over heating or something like that ..check it next time you notice it dimming and see if it's the same thing ..pretty annoying
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power saver uses the dimming option for low consumption of battery and make sure auto adjust is off in display settings
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I'm willing to bet adapt display
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Power saving isn't on. Adapt display didn't fix it either
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I have everything turned off also ..I checked in my settings every time my screen dimmed and every time the same message ..it was driving me nuts for days (still is)
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I've had this happened to me also.
It seems to be more frequent when I'm using Chrome ( not stock browser ). It suddenly gets dim and then may or may not eventually brighten up again, it's pretty random
Also happens when I'm on the launcher but not as frequent
- Automatic Brightness / Off
- Screen Mode / Professional Photo
- Power saving mode / Off
- Auto adjust screen tone / Off
Is there something else I may be missing?
It happens to me while using the xda app. Annoying as hell. It has the same message as Melissa
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Rippley05 said:
It happens to me while using the xda app. Annoying as hell. It has the same message as Melissa
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Does anyone know if this processor does thermal throttling? That could possibly trigger a power save dim with overheating. If we get root this can be disabled using trickster mod.
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The Otimus G Pro had a setting in the hidden menu to disable thermal throttling.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
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PeartFan40 said:
The Otimus G Pro had a setting in the hidden menu to disable thermal throttling.
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"
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Hmm I wonder if t his is hidden somewhere? It is incredibly annoying
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Hmm I wonder if t his is hidden somewhere? It is incredibly annoying
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Agree..
If you find something, let me know
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xxmelissaxx said:
Agree..
If you find something, let me know
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Will do, you as well plz :good:
Thought this was an issue with my phone when I got it from AT&T yesterday. Glad to know it isn't just me. It seems to only have the issue when I am in a low-lite area (at least on mine) but when I am in an area with good lighting and the back light is 75% or more it doesn't dim nearly as much. Would be interested to see what a fix would be for this.
psychonewb727 said:
Thought this was an issue with my phone when I got it from AT&T yesterday. Glad to know it isn't just me. It seems to only have the issue when I am in a low-lite area (at least on mine) but when I am in an area with good lighting and the back light is 75% or more it doesn't dim nearly as much. Would be interested to see what a fix would be for this.
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Same for me, it does it in low light obly, with or without power saving enabled. I have the same problem on my galaxy tab 2 (7) and couldn't find a fix yet.
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Will do, you as well plz :good:
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The service mode is brought up by typing *#0011# in the dialer on this phone but aside from that i havent had a chance to mess around in there. I do know that key imput 1 doesnt bring up the main menu anymore.
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Bladerunner1825us said:
The service mode is brought up by typing *#0011# in the dialer on this phone but aside from that i havent had a chance to mess around in there. I do know that key imput 1 doesnt bring up the main menu anymore.
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Hmm says invalid MMI code.
Hmmm thats weird it worked on mine. Theres another code that didnt work for me. As soon as i find it ill edit and paste it here
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So I've been having this issue and noticed it like two days ago, and reading all your responses I looked through and noticed I had one of the features that I thought I turned off. Smart Stay says that it starts to turn the screen off when we look away maybe it's a buggy feature (one I never intended to use but it might be the one doing this dimming thing (being one of the first steps to turn off the screen)
Does anyone else have this problem when brightness is set to auto and you wake the phone in the dark the screen is too dim?
It's fine when you wake the phone in bright places.
I have the Verizon Note 5.
Thanks.
I personally think it's too bright in the dark
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yup. its painfully dim on auto setting. Verizon note 5 here...
damn, i felt it was too bright. i couldn't wait to get lux running to dim the thing down.
This doesn't let you set the auto level after you set auto like the s6?
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DAvid_B said:
This doesn't let you set the auto level after you set auto like the s6?
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If it does I dont know how to do it. Can you explain the process??
Thanks.
niners said:
If it does I dont know how to do it. Can you explain the process??
Thanks.
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I think he's referring to when you check the auto box and you're able to increase the auto brightness level on the slider, so you're auto brightness is relative to the slider.
I have the AT&T version and this does not work.
I to am having the same problem.
On the international version of the Note 5 and it just started happening to me. I walked outside and thought my screen broke because I couldnt see a thing with auto brightness on. No idea whats going on.
Midesu said:
On the international version of the Note 5 and it just started happening to me. I walked outside and thought my screen broke because I couldnt see a thing with auto brightness on. No idea whats going on.
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Had a similar thing happen to me. Was standing outside in relative darkness and suddenly, without any changes to the environment, my screen became a lot dimmer. Weird.
Willyman said:
Had a similar thing happen to me. Was standing outside in relative darkness and suddenly, without any changes to the environment, my screen became a lot dimmer. Weird.
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I had a look at the self test service (*#0*#) and checked the light sensor. It showed 0 Lux and when i shined a torch on it and did not change. Not sure what to do now =\
afazel said:
I personally think it's too bright in the dark
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Same here. Screen is too bright on auto in the dark. I have my slider set to the lowest & have to uncheck the auto setting when in the dark. Anyway to fix this?
Power saving on??
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The auto brightness on mine works even if I switch it off.
Makes it impossible to view photos in the sun
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Willyman said:
Had a similar thing happen to me. Was standing outside in relative darkness and suddenly, without any changes to the environment, my screen became a lot dimmer. Weird.
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I fixed it by flashing the latest firmware from Samsung. The senors have gone back to normal but now I seem to have a weird battery drain. The "Android System" seems to be using most of the battery
Dont really want to flaah my new phone...i have this as well. Seems to happen in the evening more than the middle of the day. Maybe the power level in the phone is lower...so its trying to help me out. Its not ... is very frustrating
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It has amazed me for years that Android doesn't let you set a custom curve for auto brightness.
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Midesu said:
I fixed it by flashing the latest firmware from Samsung. The senors have gone back to normal but now I seem to have a weird battery drain. The "Android System" seems to be using most of the battery
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What version did you flash it with?
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nfl46 said:
Funny, I have the International version as well, and same thing is happening to me. I think its a software issue.
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Sorry been busy. Yeah it is a software issue. I flashed the latest firmware from sammobile.com for my version and it fixed the issue.
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Funny, I have the International version as well, and same thing is happening to me. I think its a software issue.
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So what version did you flash?
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Sorry been busy. Yeah it is a software issue. I flashed the latest firmware from sammobile.com for my version and it fixed the issue.
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