Hey all,
I am considering picking up a NC, but my one concern is reading at night. I plan on rooting and all, but my primary concern is the screen brightness when dimmed down? Is it still really bright? are there any root apps that allow you to dim the screen below stock? Thanks for the help!
Dennis
I find that turning the brightness all the way down and using the Night mode for text its very enjoyable to read in the dark, It doesn't even bother my wife when I'm right next to her in bed.
I don't know of a app that will lower the brightness further, however it might be possible.
Attaching a Picture of Night Mode. (keep in mind that the Screenshot from the nook is at full brightness, in RL, the screen is much darker than the Screenshot.)
i find the built in nook night mode far too bright.
i know you said you don't plan on rooting but aldiko and fbreader both have far better night settings, aldiko has the best since you can recolor the text in night mode. this way you can have a black bg with red text. fbreader only has white as an option, but both let you adjust the brightness ever further than the lowest setting so you can make turn fbreader down to light grey on black.
downside is that aldiko doesn't remember the last page read but instead reloads the last chapter read. you can use bookmarks, but you have to remember place one.
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Sometimes I watch orb, or use mobipocket to read a book in bed, but with all the lights off, the backlight is way too bright in the darkness. It would also save me some battery too if I was able to set this.
Does anyone know how to get a dimmer display than start-settings-power-backlight-(lowest setting) ?
thanks
PS. I currently change the background color and text color in mobipocket, and while this helps, it doesn't help me for Orb (TCPMP), and really I prefer something that isn't application specific. If I fire up internet explorer its blinding!
I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was missed. I am the type of user who likes to use the phone at full brightness, as it does not seem to have a huge negative impact on my battery life in day to day operations.
I was looking carefully at the browser on the Galaxy and wondered why the whites looked so dimmed in comparison to other parts of the operating system.
I had already done the following:
1. Turned the OS brightness all the way up.
2. Turned browser brightness all the way up.
3. Disabled the screen power saving mode.
I then downloaded a flashlight application and maxed it to 100% while switching to the browser with the Home key multitask, and going back and forward between the flashlight app and the browser app, it is very clear that the browser is not pushing max brightness. Even though the brightness settings on both the OS and the browser are maxed, it seems as though the browser is capped to 80% brightness or so.
My friend also verified this during his test run, as he has just bought the Samsung Vibrant and noticed the same thing. I understand many will just leave the auto-brightness setting on, but that's not really addressing the issue here.
Is there a way for an XDA developer to correct this issue through a patch or ROM?
thanks
I checked with the shell and when brightness is at 100% it has an absolute value of 255, the same when I'm at the browser set with full brightness, so it seems it's working as it should.
You can check it with this command
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/blacklight/s5p_bl/actual_brightness
darksnarfer said:
I checked with the shell and when brightness is at 100% it has an absolute value of 255, the same when I'm at the browser set with full brightness, so it seems it's working as it should.
You can check it with this command
Code:
cat /sys/devices/platform/s3cfb/spi_gpio.3/spi3.0/blacklight/s5p_bl/actual_brightness
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I don't know, I experience the same thing as the OP. Everything's bright, except when surfing the web.
Same issue here. I use Opera in bright daylight.
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If you go in to the brightness settings there is an option at the very bottom called "Power saving mode". I'm not sure if that is having any effect on the browser.
Thanks for the numbers, but I gotta say, just comparing the flashlight app and hitting the back arrow to toggle to the browser, it is beyond obvious that the browser is not as bright as the flashlight application. I used google with it's white background and zoomed in to an area that was just white to avoid other distractions.
This is the best way to test since there will be no transition in between the application toggle and you see the screen dim easily.
As indicated by my original post, I have also turned off the power saving feature so that is not a concern. Someone did say that the Behold 2 has the same cap for their browser and that this is a samsung specific setting that's probably there to save battery. I haven't been able to confirm it on that phone yet but just give the flashlight test a chance and you'll see.
oh one last thing i noticed is, when going from the browser back to the flashlight, sometimes the flashlight app is also dimmed at the same level brightness as the browser, but tapping the screen 'wakes' up the app into full brightness.
TGalaxy browser brightness
To me it's very obvious that the browser is dimmed down, I'd say more than to 80%... Having google as the default homepage couldn't make it more obvious when opening the browser! Samsung obviously thought that no one with a decent eyesight will buy their phone. Or anyone who feels capable of managing their phone's battery life themselves.
It's just one of those niggling things that had to be included, lessening the experience of an otherwise rather breathtaking phone. Another one is the compulsory vibration when charging is finished - makes me wonder when others, or the developers for that matter, charge their smartphones! I charge them overnight, and of course every night... or at least used to, as with the Galaxy S, I can no longer sleep.
I think I've been through every menu possible to change these couple of features, with no success... if anyone knows anything, please share.
It happens on the dim-side, too
I have the same problem, but on the dim side. The browser brightens the screen when it comes on if you have the brightness set to zero. I like it dimmed all the way at night if I'm reading in bed when the lights are out and my partner is asleep, but it keeps turning it up so it's pretty bright in the pitch dark. Arrgh. It's my phone, can't I set it the way I want? Grr.
I've read that there are limitations on how much the screen dims and brightens unless you have a rooted phone and you use an app that's not built into the OS.
I rooted mine and there are some configuration apps that will set it to 0, but I think the built-in operating system slider doesn't go all the way to zero and might not go all the way to 255 when you slide it to the very edges. Supposedly it only goes to 10 on the low side from the notes on some apps.
So, probably it's a similar limitation on the slider for the screen brightness in the browser. We're probably stuck with this problem until someone writes an app that lets you change this setting to any value between 0 and 255 since the default sliders don't allow the low side and I'm guessing not the high side either.
So . . . any android developers out there, it would be cool if you could make an app to change this setting if it's available programatically somewhere.
I tried the "Dimmer" and "Brightness!" apps from the market. But none of them 'Keep' the brightness at the minimum always.
Why, hello there!
With the Cali sun rendering my Droid almost impossible to browse I come to XDA to seek advice on possible solutions to make the ability to see the screen even marginally better! (Bar a anti-glare shield) Heard there are some possible tweaks on brightening the screen beyond it's apparent '100%' brightness but am curious if this is just positive thinking?
I have been hunting on forums for tips and tricks but to no feasible avail and, 'go in the shade' falls short of answering my question!
So is there any new developments on this or is it not possible to brighten the screen to browse on a sunny day?
Much appreciated!
~L*xo
Are you rooted? If so go to the Market and download Adjbrightness app, it is free and lets you turn the screen display brightness to its Max or any other preset or custom brightness you like. You can also turn off the backlight on the touch keys. If you aren't rooted try auto setting in the display options or try an on screen widget such as the power bar widget that is stock loaded on the Droid1. Long press the homescreen, choose widget, powerbar. Hope this helped.
Thank you for Your reply!
I don't think I worded my question properly.. I meant brightening the screen beyond using an app that can adjust the brightness (I have mine set to 100% in the sun and 0% at night!)
I was hoping there was a further tweak to get the screen even brighter to browse when the sun is glarong down...if that is even possible?
Thank you so much!
.......Ohh and yes I'm rooted (LithiumMod)
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I really like reading with my Nook Color (CM7) but I usually read at night and even with Cyanogen's red Night Mode, browsing the web to read is still way too bright. (looking at bright stuff while trying to set yourself up to go to sleep is a recipe for bad sleep quality). I tried looking for a browser that has a real night mode (aka invert colors so webpages default to dark background, white/gray text), but as far as I can tell, none exist. I installed a fork of Stylish/Greasemonkey ("Scriptish) that is compatible with Firefox Mobile, and tried to use some of the "dark" themes/scripts. But that wasn't really much better because every time I click a link to a new page, I get a huge bright white flash of light that lasts until Firefox Mobile has completely finished rendering the page (10 seconds+). I can read eBooks fine in the dark because FBReader has a good functional night mode and you can custom set the background and text colors.
Anyway, TLDR I just found a solution that's almost as good and perhaps even more useful in certain use cases. It's a Firefox extension/add-on called GrabMyBooks: grabmybooks.com
You can have GMB grab full webpages, links that you've right-clicked on, or selected text. You can do multiple pages at a time and each one will show up as an article (chapter). It'll stick these in a file, let you give it a title, a cover, etc, and then you can download an ePub with each page as a chapter. You can also do some basic editing within the browser/GMB, or save the ePub to your computer and edit in Sigil.
The best part is that for power users who regularly want to download articles from certain sites, you can create "Detection Rules" to automatically retrieve the content enclosed between two HTML tags that have a particular ID or class.
I'm planning to use this as an alternative/complement to ReadItLater (which I love, but it doesn't work with most sites that require logins)
I use Screen Filter to adjust the brightness.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor&hl=en
I set my NC at 0% in android settings, then I apply a screen filter at 40% of that.
colorado_al said:
I use Screen Filter to adjust the brightness.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor&hl=en
I set my NC at 0% in android settings, then I apply a screen filter at 40% of that.
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I tried that too but it's not good enough, it's still a white background even if it is dimmed.
colorado_al said:
I use Screen Filter to adjust the brightness.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor&hl=en
I set my NC at 0% in android settings, then I apply a screen filter at 40% of that.
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Thanks, I hadn't heard of this
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In some watchfaces, when the watch go into low bit mode (black and grey colors) it lost quality and I wish to have the colors always
Mine does the same, almost all watchfaces, any fix?
Nobody can do it maybe, if a know something i tell you, but I understand that is normal in this watch
drjuliocalderon said:
In some watchfaces, when the watch go into low bit mode (black and grey colors) it lost quality and I wish to have the colors always
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The black and grey mode is the "dimmed" version of the watchface, and is what the watch does when you set it to be Always On. Blacks save battery on the watch – however, if you want color, you're going to have to either find a watchface that supports colors on the dimmed version, or make your own. I use the app called WatchMaker, and you can customize which elements of a watchface to turn dimmed (black and white) or stay that way all the time.