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Questions tagged [screen-brightness]

For questions pertaining to screen brightness, whether how to set, how to control or how it affects battery life.

Screen brightness has a major impact on battery life, but also has an equally great impact on user experience.

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Stop screen from dimming while on charger

How can I stop the screen from dimming when my phone is charging? (the same thing the screen does when it's about to turn off). Note that my screen already stays on, but it gets darker after an idle period. Nexus 6P, stock Mashmallow.
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How to set As Lower Brightness as in Clock application, without rooting

I noticed that with the Froyo "desk clock" application, when you put it in low light mode, it forces the back-light far darker than you can manually make it in the settings. My question is: is there an application or a non-root hack that can make…
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No auto-brightness option in LG L90 dual

My L90 has no auto-brightness option. Could anyone please suggest a way to fix the issue?
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Increase brightness level without using backlight

I'm looking for a way to increase "software" level of brightness in Android without changing the "hardware" level, just like as if I was applying a brightness filter to an image file in Photoshop. I've tried some apps like Screen Filter, but they…
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incorrect mapping from brightness slider to real system values

Sorry in advance for bad english and also for a noob question. I have a problem with brightness on my tablet Supra M94BG. There is a system brightness slider, the range is 0% -- 100% (as usual), and the problem is that 0% corresponds 0 value in…
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Auto brightness turned off, but it's not

I have problem with auto brightness setting on my android smartphone. Auto brightness turned off in settings, however it still works via not changing the display brightness, but changing lighntess(or contrast, idk) of the intarface…
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Stop App from controlling the brightness of my screen

I was on a flight watching movies on the United App. Around 8pm my screen dimmed. It dimmed a lot, to the point of being unwatchable. Pulling the notification pane (where the brightness slider is displayed) would not let me move the brightness…
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Increase brightness when display is too dark to recognize anything

Any mechanism that doesn’t require seeing the display would be good. When I’m outside under sun and the phone brightness is at low level, I simply can’t recognize anything. The only currently feasible way is to remember where the slider will show up…
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Android prevent brightness from dropping below some percentage

I had the following situation. In my phone I might accidentally drop the brightness to 0. .When that happened I could not do anything. I had a hard time unlocking my lock-screen using a pin code. I had to use some flashlight to be able to unlock my…
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Turning on the flashlight does not keep the brightness

I wrote a command to turn on the flashlight echo 255 > sys/class/leds/flashlight/brightness The flashlight turns on but after a second it shines darker. Why?
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