Question about auto-brightness

Xsie

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Does the auto brightness adjusts itself, depending on what different lightening your in?

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Does the auto brightness adjusts itself, depending on what different lightening your in?

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That's the idea, yes. I think it uses a sensor on the phone to detect ambient light and adjust accordingly.

FYI -- the auto-brightness feature is NOT a battery saving feature. In fact, it will generally consume more battery than keeping a static level of brightness (assuming that it's not set at a very high level).
 

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That's the idea, yes. I think it uses a sensor on the phone to detect ambient light and adjust accordingly.

FYI -- the auto-brightness feature is NOT a battery saving feature. In fact, it will generally consume more battery than keeping a static level of brightness (assuming that it's not set at a very high level).

Thanks! You also answered my next question about battery consumption!

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That's the idea, yes. I think it uses a sensor on the phone to detect ambient light and adjust accordingly.

FYI -- the auto-brightness feature is NOT a battery saving feature. In fact, it will generally consume more battery than keeping a static level of brightness (assuming that it's not set at a very high level).

Is there a way to turn off the sensor-adjustments but keep automatic brightness? Basically I want it to automatically brighten during the day and dim at night, but not adjust based on the lighting I'm in. Just time-based adjustments I guess. On my old phone (HTC Incredible 2) it adjusted very nicely on it's own. On my One the automatic adjustments are very distracting since I find it frequently brightens and dims while I'm reading or playing games.

Also, I'm just curious do you have a source on the battery thing? Or is that just logic/common sense? Lol. If it really does use more battery then I'll just switch to manual brightness adjustments.
 

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I've found the auto brightness to be overly aggressive, it works fine during the day but in very dim light it dims the screen way too much. I wish I could set a low threshold.

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