Screen brightens then dims

**curiousgeorge** · 12-27-2011, 01:21 PM

I had a new weird behavior with my GNex this morning. As I opened various pages in various apps the screen would get bright then dim again. It would get bright just as I opened a new page in basically any app, then after just a split second would go back to normal brightness.

I did have my phone in auto brightness setting so I went and switched it to manual and set a medium brightness. But the same thing continued to occur. I tried switching back and forth between auto-brightness and manual and it made no difference. I ended up rebooting my stock GNex and it went away. Now I can switch between auto and manual and it acts normally.

Anyone else seen this?

**Xm_jdm** · 12-27-2011, 02:56 PM

I think I read that the GN has a bug where the auto brightness sucks and will need to be tweaked.

**FreakyLocz14** · 12-28-2011, 06:38 PM

I've noticed this also. It's a minor thing. Nothing to make me quite using the phone.

**yosteve** · 12-29-2011, 01:05 AM

I noticed it brightened when I was going to take a picture. It actually helped me. But then when I went to edit the picture it didn't, so I had to brighten it myself, lol.

**beck79** · 12-29-2011, 06:01 PM

I have set mine to minimum brightness (a little more then '0'), with the auto brightness is off.
When I go to the Market and click on an App, I see the brightness in the App Screenshot window changing and then settles down, more noticeable if viewing at an angle. I accidentally came across this.

I also notice that when playing movies (I used MX Video Player), it seems to bump up the brightness of the screen, atleast the controls seem brighter than they should.

**dbareis** · 12-29-2011, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by curiousgeorge

I had a new weird behavior with my GNex this morning. As I opened various pages in various apps the screen would get bright then dim again. It would get bright just as I opened a new page in basically any app, then after just a split second would go back to normal brightness.

I did notice this when I first got the phone but don't have it now, I suspect the 4.0.1 update I got fixed it.

**beck79** · 12-30-2011, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by beck79

I also notice that when playing movies (I used MX Video Player), it seems to bump up the brightness of the screen, atleast the controls seem brighter than they should.

There was a setting in the MX Player and it is fixed now.