One complaint I have about my Nexus 7 is that while the form factor is perfect for bed at night, the screen is brighter than I'd like even at minimum brightness. Is the Kindle better in that respect?
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Try an app called screen filter. It is in Google play market. My fire was too bright at night also. This allows you to darken the screen more than the default settings.
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Yes. The Kindle Fire HD is able to be turned much darker than the Nexus 7. In auto setting it won't go as dark so you have to use manual setting.
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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
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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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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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So I use my phone at night and the screen is still very bright so I downloaded an app called night mode to dim the screen past stock. It doesn't dim the softkeys and I was wondering if anyone here knows a root method on how to dim the soft keys because they are still very bright at night.
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You can on a custom rom.
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So I use my phone at night and the screen is still very bright so I downloaded an app called night mode to dim the screen past stock. It doesn't dim the softkeys and I was wondering if anyone here knows a root method on how to dim the soft keys because they are still very bright at night.
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Have the same problem.
This is my workaround.
Download full screen! Which will hide your nav keys or you can use GMD gesture pro also to do the same.
Use night mode after that
Thank you a billion times! It works perfectly and just what I needed. Thanks
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Anyone else have a warmer screen? My tf700 has a more blue or cooler screen. Kinda reminds me of the nexus 10 screen.
Update: Found online that the included app "splendid" allows you to adjust screen temperature.
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I wish I could adjust RGB individually like Windows.
I found going one degree cooler in the splendid app made mine better. How about you guys?
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Based on another users recommendation, I went -6 (cooler) on the splendid app and it made the screen even brighter.
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I think that was me on the transformerforums. Im really glad they built this in. Wish the hp slatebook x2 had it. That had an even more warmer screen.
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Anyone else have a warmer screen? My tf700 has a more blue or cooler screen. Kinda reminds me of the nexus 10 screen.
Update: Found online that the included app "splendid" allows you to adjust screen temperature.
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Compared to my TF700 the screen looked too yellow for me also. It was easy to correct with the Splendid app, now it looks nearly identical to the 700 but with better color saturation. Win, Win.
The one annoying problem with the display is the auto brightness, it changes constantly, like every few seconds. Anyone else have this problem?
What is your settings for brightness and the splendid app? I don't have a problem with the auto brightness. It's pretty much doing its job to save battery life. When on any websites with a lot of text, it tends to brighten up. I actually like the feature because it puts much more emphasis on enjoying your reading experience , which is a plus for me.
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when i compare my XZ to my old htc desire hd, the lowest display brighntes of the DHD is a third of the XZs.
in a dark room the display really flashes you when turning it on. is there any way oder a rom that lowers the minimum display brightness?
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when i compare my XZ to my old htc desire hd, the lowest display brighntes of the DHD is a third of the XZs.
in a dark room the display really flashes you when turning it on. is there any way oder a rom that lowers the minimum display brightness?
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Use a app called 'night mode' found in playstore for free.
Or use automatic brightness with minimum brightness.
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