Auto-brightness-once it goes up it doesn't come down - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

On my nexus, my auto brightness is not working right. If I take my phone in bright light, the screen brightness goes up. However, if I move away to a dim place or cover the light sensor, it doesn't dim the screen. Its like its stuck on that higher setting till I turn the screen off and on. Of course we have the very low brightness issue also, but this is different. Can anyone try this on theirs' and see what happens?
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Same here. Minor inconvenience. Last phone did it also.
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I've never had a phone other than an iphone 2g that did this. Its very bad for battery life. I mean, you would be using your phone in bright light and then move away to a dim place and expect the screen to go down in brightness to save battery. But its but working here this way.
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if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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Im using a myTouch 4G and its always done that. My mothers MT4GS does the same thing. I think its just something that isnt accounted for
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@rbiter said:
if you unlocked, there are a couple of patches in development section.
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yes pach it

guys, especially the new Verizon owners, do you all notice the same thing on your phones?

Please can someone test this out? I need to see whether its a defect on just my phone or whether its normal behavior with the Nexus . Thanks.
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Its not just yours. Patch it or move on.
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All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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kangxi said:
All you have to do is lock and unlock the phone. It will adjust
Edit: Didn't see that that's what you already do
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Great, but it shouldn't do that. It should auto adjust on the fly. I saw it functioning fine on the Note I had. After the patch, does this work normal now?
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OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?

wm2001wm2001 said:
OMG I've just tested my iPod Touch 4th Gen with my LED torch.
It behaves exact same as the Galaxy Nexus
Once the screen brightness has been boosted up, it won't go down until I switch the screen off and on again.
What the hell is this? Is it a kind of function but not a bug?
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Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.

Or simply not use auto-brightness.

frankdeale said:
Or simply not use auto-brightness.
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You could do that, but the intent of this thread was to highlight an obvious flaw with ICS. Im sure thats how google wanted it, but why?
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Did anybody find the patch and does it work?? I searched the dev section and all I could find was patches to increase the light levels of the auto brightness, couldn't find the patch or a fix for the auto brightness not dimming. If someone could link it or point me in the right direction that would be awesome

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Nobody was ably to fix the issue of the screen not dimming???

Same here on 4.0.4, I find it very annoying. A friend of mine now uses AOKP MS5 on his device, which dims correctly (as I think of what "correct" is).

mike2518 said:
Yea, my old iphone 2g had worked the same way. Once it goes up, it doesnt come down. I've never had a android phone that works that way. All of them go up or down dynamically as needed. I'm sure the change is something new on ICS. Gingerbread & older OS did not do this, example: The Galaxy Note I had before Nexus would dynamically shift. But not the Nexus. On the Nexus, I have to turn the phone off then on for it "sense" the dimmer lighting to decrease the brightness.
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Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)

evcz said:
Stock android has always been in this way iirc...
Only phones not running an aop Roms (like samsung) lower the dimm...
CM9 has a specific option to enable backlight dimming and always had (yes, in gingerbread too)
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Im the OP of this post, turns out most of the custom roms have an option under display settings called decrease hysteresis that allows the screen to dim. I am completely satisfied now.
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Related

Auto brightness too dark?

I used to use a galaxy s captivate and now I'm on the galaxy nexus.
One thing I really liked about touchwiz was how you can swipe across the status bar to change the brightness.
Now on my galaxy nexus I just put it to auto brightness. But I think its usually darker than how it should be.
Is this how it has been for android all the time? I never used auto brightness in the past so I'm not sure if I'm the problem or if its the device.
I agree. It's too dim for me to use.
I leave mine anywhere between 35 and 45 percent and its perfect. If I'm in direct sunlight I crank it up to 100%.
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I can use auto brightness fine, can even use minimum with no problems. However I set it to 50% so that I don't get some of the colour changes that amoled is prone to.
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mfdemicco said:
I agree. It's too dim for me to use.
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I second you
Do you guys know any mod that can change this? Or if there will be an update regarding this issue?
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bluemoon1221 said:
Do you guys know any mod that can change this? Or if there will be an update regarding this issue?
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Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410
afilopou said:
Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410
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Thanks a lot
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I'm worried about my auto brightness as it doesn't seem to work at all. Standing in a dark room and then turning lights on bright makes no difference. On 4.0.1.
We should ask for a change request to Google.
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Of course .Here you are
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1377410
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Used that fix on Android Revolution HD Rom, worked perfectly.

LED notification....

Does the Gnex have an LED notification light? I have yet to see one.
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Sure does. Its below the display. RGB too.
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The notification light in Gnex is one of my favourite options in the phone. Some ROMs provide full customization of the notification light ( ex. Paranoid android) . I've set it to flash blue for missed calls , yellow for SMS, green for whatsapp and red for tango
It only lights up when the screen is off?
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Correct
twillet50 said:
Does the Gnex have an LED notification light? I have yet to see one.
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When I first got it I actually did not know that it had a LED notification light. I got a phone call and noticed the light and I was amazed and I immediately loved my phone more
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Mine only works with Light Flow. Stock or on a rom, no workie.
tgyberg said:
Mine only works with Light Flow. Stock or on a rom, no workie.
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The rom has to support it, and you have to manually set it up...
I installed light flow. That's how I found it. I'm running Affinity rom and have not seen it work before. Maybe the rom doesn't support it.
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The rom has to support it, and you have to manually set it up...
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BAMF does support it and I set it all up long ago. Still no workie!
ac3theone said:
When I first got it I actually did not know that it had a LED notification light. I got a phone call and noticed the light and I was amazed and I immediately loved my phone more
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Same here...bi was like shut the front door... :::::
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Ep3n3wp said:
Same here...bi was like shut the front door... :::::
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Lmao nice
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Lightflow has been really flaky for me (misses many notification events). The built-in settings in CM10 works best. I don't recall it missing anything.
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It only lights up when the screen is off?
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3rdstring said:
Correct
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Except for receiving a phone call . It lights when the screen is off or on. That's at least what my phone does with PA rom
I love how I makes it pulse when I charge my phone.
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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^
Yup, didn't know there was one also. I got the point of thinking... maybe the VZW version just doesn't have one :crying:
And then it happened...:victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory::victory:
Galaxy Nexus + LightFlow has been a great combination for me. The RGB LED notification is a must for me with any future phones.
is a full on Rom the only way to customize it? Only thing id really like to see, is for it to pulse a bit faster. The length in time it takes to pulse is too long imo. I could turn the phone on an look faster than it would take for me to stare at that point and see if there is a message.
use lightflow.
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Must have been something with the Affinity rom. I loaded CNA and it works as its supposed to, plus its customizable.
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[Q] [REQ] BLD for our device?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&highlight=bld
I was wondering if someone could work this out so it works on our device
I used to use this mod when I had a nexus s, and I know it would be probably easy to work it out here as well..
but I don't know much about the code used in there....
Ty
switchfo0t said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&highlight=bld
I was wondering if someone could work this out so it works on our device
I used to use this mod when I had a nexus s, and I know it would be probably easy to work it out here as well..
but I don't know much about the code used in there....
Ty
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Link is dead, care to elaborate?
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BLD=Back light dimmer. A nice little tweak I enjoyed on my Nexus S too. Basically tweaking the capacitive lights. Which I would also be interested in too for this device. The capacitive lights are bright as f*ck on the t989 and are distracting if using your phone in the dark with low screen brightness.
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Download screen dimmer from google play. It can turn off the buttons light and further dim your screen. Sadly it can't dim the buttons (all or none for their light).

any way to lower the brightness of the led notification?

I love the led notification, nothing like waking up in the middle of the night and looking over and knowing you don't have any notifications because the light isn't going off... but when I don't need a flashlight BECAUSE it's going off it gets annoying... I wanna be able to go to sleep if I'm ignoring it; yet have it there to know I have things to look at.
(first world problem I know)
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and spare me the obvious put something on top. I want something permanent that won't subtract from the look of my phone
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Just turn it off???
Sure its nice to know if you have a message from afar but really? One of the first things I did when I got my GS3 and Note 2 was go into settings/display/LED Indicator/and unselect all boxes.
i don't think you can lower the intensity, but you can turn off the notifications and us an app called NoLED. it puts a notification on your screen instead. since OLED only lights up the active pixels the drain should be any more than the notification light. i use it with my sammy droid charge that has no notification lights.
Why not just go into settings and turn on Blocking Mode?
You can set the time frame it's active. It can keep led off, notifications, phone calls etc. You can change the settings for it.
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I have my led turned off but yet it still blinks blue.
loveshinesthru said:
I have my led turned off but yet it still blinks blue.
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I tried it the other night and it worked. I set the time and features I wanted blocked. Worked out fine from my little test.
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KB112 said:
I tried it the other night and it worked. I set the time and features I wanted blocked. Worked out fine from my little test.
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Ill try the blocking feature now. I dont want my led to blink. esp when Im trying to sleep.
KB112 said:
I tried it the other night and it worked. I set the time and features I wanted blocked. Worked out fine from my little test.
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Yep it worked. is there anyway to get rid of the blocking notification?
From what I know, it remains in the notification panel, as long as Blocking is turned on.
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There's a mod for it. Its in the development forum. Im not near a computer or I would find it for you.
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Top of screen.

Anyone notice the top of the screen above the notification bar, the light? Its a line above it. Drives me nuts. Its hard to explain.
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I see nothing on mine GN, maybe you should post a picture of it
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Could also be ROM related ... Don't remember on which ROM it was actually, but I had a bright line somewhere around the notification area ...
Mmm, if it's is a custom rom maybe it could be the battery bar (try to look if it decrease at battery decreasing). Then you've only to disable it in the settings (probably you've turned on without noticing if it's the case).
fk.gregor said:
Anyone notice the top of the screen above the notification bar, the light? Its a line above it. Drives me nuts. Its hard to explain.
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I also have a line at the top of the screen. It is there all the time, and on any ROM.
No line for me, AOKP MR1
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[email protected] said:
Mmm, if it's is a custom rom maybe it could be the battery bar (try to look if it decrease at battery decreasing). Then you've only to disable it in the settings (probably you've turned on without noticing if it's the case).
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This was what I was thinking as well...Its the only time I've ever seen a line on mine with any of the ROMs I've run
It is definitely not there on stock, so it is either your ROM or a hw failure.
It's not on stock. That's annoying.
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Well, and on which rom happens? Does it happens on everyone you have tried?

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