Hi,
My Screen Dims on low battery, even when Power saver is turned off. This behaviour shows since update to 4.1.
The integrated Power Saver is set to :
Turn Power saver on : at 50% battery level
Brightness : 50% Brigtness
Powersaver : OFF
But still when 5% Battery is reached, the screen goes totally dark.
So dark I cannot read it most of the time. I have to use my hand to cover for shadow, set the brightness up, and then I can use my phone again. This makes toe phone unusable when battery is low.
I hate this behaviour and would like to disable this.
How do I disable it ?
As mentioned, this was not the case with Android 4.0.3 (stock, rooted), it happens since I updated to 4.1.2 (stock, rooted)
The intuitive place to look ws the power saver, but those settings seem not to change anything.
I have searched the net and these forums, but could not find a place where to correct this settings.
I would like the screen to remain it's last setting, not dim at all.
Please help.
You didn't set the brightness to auto, did you? Because this is maybe the cause of dimming. I'm not sure but that's my first thought.
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Omario-242 said:
You didn't set the brightness to auto, did you? Because this is maybe the cause of dimming. I'm not sure but that's my first thought.
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Nope, tried both, auto and non-auto, in both cases when the 5% battery warning comes, screen is set to lowest possible level automatically, even in bright sunlight outside. In winter maybe, but in summer it suxx. Some automatic adjustment according to ambient light -might- be ok, but I would prefer that the backlight level is not changed at all.
Are you on stock? Or any custom rom?
I think you can maybe change this setting in build.prop or smth similar,
but I'm not that good when it comes to this.
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As I said in the first post, I use stock rom.
I have now looked through build.prop file. There is a " #Backlight " section, in there is some " ro.lge.lcd_default_brightness=146 " entry. I will change it and see what happens when I hit 5% battery. But since there is no other setting (like when battery below 5%) this does not look very promising..
Does your P880 show the same behaviour ?
It actually did the same when I was on stock (now I'm on WerewolfJB) but it didn't bother me back then (almost never got my phone below 5% battery.
And because I'm not on stock I can not look for the right line in build.prop or other system config files.
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Turning on Power Saver disables this feature
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Turning on Power Saver disables this feature
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So there is no "OFF" in the powersaver, it defaults to some weird settings when switched "OFF" ?
I will try that too.
Found solution here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.pruss.superdim
^works!
but for me after i lock the screen and un-lock im back at screen min, i had to re-open rootdim each time and set it. even the "lock" feature doesnt seem to overthrow the system 5% batt life force dim. annoying but at least rootdim works, even if i do have to open it each time
disable low battery dim
ugzz said:
^works!
but for me after i lock the screen and un-lock im back at screen min, i had to re-open rootdim each time and set it. even the "lock" feature doesnt seem to overthrow the system 5% batt life force dim. annoying but at least rootdim works, even if i do have to open it each time
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thanks the root dim it does work, you have no idea how long i search for this.Funny thing i came across this root app like 5 or 6 times and didn't think it would work cause i have lux dim the other root app and that one does bring the display back to 100 percent bright who would thought that the fix was this simple and yes like you say every time you lock the device it brings you back to dim mode but if you open the app and bring the slider all the way up it stays like that at 100 brightness, done that on my rooted galaxy s4 from cricket it works yey.
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When the battery gets low (not sure what percentage), the screen dims and there is no option to turn up the brightness. Is there a way to change this on a rooted Tab? Is it possible through the development API to adjust this, so that it can be implemented in an app?
Charge your battery. It comes on when like 5% remains anyway.
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It comes on when there's 15%, as I got two more low-battery notifications after that. The problem is the tab is almost unusable at that brightness (especially outdoors or in a car during the day) and since I ran it for two more hours with Angry Birds and YouTube, I've lost two hours of battery life period. If it let me adjust brightness, I could at least use it until it depleted.
There has to be some way to change this, even if I have to root it, change a config file, or write an app to let me change it. Does anyone know how to modify this setting?
Genuine question only because it wasn't mentioned. Auto brightness isn't checked right?
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Brightness was checked the first time, the second time it was unchecked and all the way up.
Did you notice, the backlight for the four haptics buttons at the bottom will also turn off at this point, which makes them impossible to see when it's dark.
You need check then uncheck auto, you be able to change the brightness
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I'm having the same issue. I have a battery issue where my tab displays 1% when I have 20% or more remaining. Was wondering if you found a fix to this.
I set Custom Power Saving Mode auto on when my battery dropped under 20%. However, once it on, I found that if I charged the battery back to 21%-100%, the custom power saving mode is still on and I have to manually switched off and then like those brightness and screen sleep mode time I have to change it manually as well. Is this normal?
No one knows?
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I set Custom Power Saving Mode auto on when my battery dropped under 20%. However, once it on, I found that if I charged the battery back to 21%-100%, the custom power saving mode is still on and I have to manually switched off and then like those brightness and screen sleep mode time I have to change it manually as well. Is this normal?
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that happened to me as well !! It doesnt restore your previous settings when the profile is no longer in use !!
another useless feature from samsung i guess ! wonder what their software engineers do...
So, I guess the auto function is uselss. Manually is better?
I have a official Samsung desktop charger and when my phone is in it the brightness drops to 12% ... I have also noticed using a Brodit in car charger and it does the same
Occasionally when the phone is in neither it also drops to 12% , it is doing my head in and can't work out why any ideas ? I have had the notes and had same problem so I know it's not the handset I have
I have disabled auto adjust power supply so I know it's not that
Any ideas ?
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Am I the only one with this problem ? Surely not as 3 handsets I have had , have all had the same problem
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I'm not sure if this is directly applicable to you, but it was the case for me in the past:
When you set your Android phone to "stay awake" when on AC power (as it is referred to in Settings) then the screen will still time-out after the usual time, however instead of turning off, it will instead dim to the "minimum" setting.
Usually the time elapses, the screen dims, then 1 or 2 seconds later the screen turns off. With "Stay Awake" enabled, it dims then stays on.
The reason I suspect this might be happening to you is that you are using docks, presumably using the stay awake setting so that you can always see the display when docked?
There is a potential solution, but I don't know if it will work for definite. Try downloading and installing Widgetsoid (others will work but I am most familiar with that one) then add a new widget, select switcher 1x1, then "screen" at bottom, then "Always on" one up from bottom of list. If my theory is correct, that will keep the screen on constant without dimming after time-out.
Hope that applies and/or helps!
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Auto brightness is a battery killer for me. I usually have it 20% all the time. Seems to be the sweet spot for me. Great battery life.
I don't use autobrightness. It wastes power constantly polling for lux values. I just use "display brightness" to put an invisible slider up the right side of my screen.
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I just leave Lux on Auto Brightness and Dynamically, and let it do its thing. I don't mess with the levels or anything. It's far superior to the stock auto brightness right away
I use stock auto brightness :/, anyone use full brightness?
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Auto brightness on N5 is buggy
I had a N4 for a year and auto brightness worked fine but on my N5 I find that auto brightness bounces the brightness around frequently and seemingly for no reason. It surely must be a software bug?
Using stock AutoBrightness and get 4hrs SOT with 2-3hrs voice calls so that's good enough for me. My Nexus 5 last longer than my Nexus 4 for sure with the same checking/usage during the work week, I can go 1 day 16hrs with this before it's fully dead.
Right now i'm 22hrs 23min 56s on battery and have 31% remaining. Being today is weekend I have 2hrs 15mins 12s screen time but 3hrs, 41min 18s voice calls. Obviously bunch of SMS and Hangouts today as well.
Use lux auto brightness... Its bettr than the stock one...and doesnt battery too if the settings are proper!!
Dont frget to press the THANK button!!!
I keep switching from and to auto brightness because I don't want to flash a modded kernel to avoid losing official updates, but I really hope Google will fix it soon
Luckily there's an app called Profile Scheduler which I set to automatically lower brightness when I'm home (connected to WiFi or recharging) and at night
I don't use auto unless I'm out in the sun...
After using Flux on my desktop and laptop, I have grown accustom to the features the night mode brings and needed to bring it to the mobile phone as well. Using lux as my auto brightness go-to app and has served me well with it's profile editor and being able to go (negative) in brightness which helps my battery life.
Nexus 5 4.4.2
I simple automate my brightness to change by time of day. Using 30% during the day, 20% at night and 5% before bed as set in Llama.
The times will need to be adjusted as the daylight hours change.
So far so good
Its so much better than my Hercules was
Nope, I never use auto brightness. Just crank it down to the minimum while I'm inside, use screen filter in a dark room, and crank it up until I am satisfied with the visibility when I'm outside. (Depends on how sunny it is out.) I've always liked changing it myself because I don't find myself changing areas of lighting all that very much. When I'm inside, I'll probably be inside for awhile. When I'm outside, I'll probably be outside for awhile, and so forth.
I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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I'm actually using it stock, it's quite good really
never used autobrightness..usually i keep phone's brightness set about at 20%..i see autobrightness consumes a lot of battery
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I tried out auto brightness again and it would seem 4.4.2 has tweaked it for the better. Its actually useable now for me and gets the brightness even lower then I had it indoors. Not sure how much battery the sensor uses but having lower brightness all together might make up for it.
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The sensor itself uses negligible power and makes no difference to battery life.
I've tweaked the framework-res.apk file to use more brightness steps and to be dimmer in darker conditions. Saves installing an app when the phone has it built in. If anyone is interested I can post it, needs flashing with TWRP or other recovery.
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Hi,
I realized that with the Always on Display and with the setting for Edge only, I still see the stars in the background (using the default wallpaper). Doesn't this mean that even more battery is being used than with the standard full screen Always on Display? Isn't it supposed to only use certain LED's on the screen to conserve battery? If so, is it not possible to have the Edge setting on and save battery by disabling the background?
You could try not using one of the built in live wallpapers, that's where the stars come from.
Hope this helps.
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You could try not using one of the built in live wallpapers, that's where the stars come from.
Hope this helps.
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So does anyone actually use the always on display feature? Seems like it wastes alot of battery
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I don't personally, no point using the battery when your not using the phone, I just see if the led is flashing or not.
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So does anyone actually use the always on display feature? Seems like it wastes alot of battery
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About 3% to 5% in my experience.
You can turn on AOD feature, but when you put the phone on the desk for a long time without touching it, just put a small piece of paper (sticky paper) over the top of the screen (above the proximity sensor).
That way the AOD screen will be turned off in a couple of seconds.
When you need to check time or notifications, just lift up the sticky paper and the AOD will come back on.
You can save several % of battery using this way.
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You can turn on AOD feature, but when you put the phone on the desk for a long time without touching it, just put a small piece of paper (sticky paper) over the top of the screen (above the proximity sensor).
That way the AOD screen will be turned off in a couple of seconds.
When you need to check time or notifications, just lift up the sticky paper and the AOD will come back on.
You can save several % of battery using this way.
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That, or face down
Weird. Mines on with a custom picture ( I converted to grey scale ) and unplugged overnight i only lose about 3-5% total. I haven't tested without AOD but it can't be using more than 2-3% tops as I'm sure the system is using up most of the battery while I sleep.
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I have a custom AOD and battery life is fine. Its good to glance and see the time without having to pick it up and unlocking.
If your worried turn it off or flip the phone face down. With quick charge on the phone does it really matter?