AOD brightness Good Lock/LockStar not working

[13brv3]

Greetings,
I just replaced my S10e with an S21, and I'm trying to get things working as they need to. I know that for some silly reason they removed the AOD brightness option, which is unfortunate. Most complain that this is too dim, and it might be for daylight use, but I have this on a stand/charger as my clock at night. In a dark room, the AOD is REALLY bright. The S10e was too bright, but nothing like this.
It's also super annoying that they removed the natural color of the notification icons, since I used to be able to tell at a glance what was there just by the color.
Searching brings me to the same solution repeatedly, and that's installing Good Lock, then LockStar. I did that, and I get the slider, but if it changes the brightness it's not enough to notice. I saw videos where people changed the brightness to min, then it was completely off. Mine unfortunately, never gets below the normal brightness.

UI- 6.1
Android 14
AOD- 8.7.99.11
Good Lock- 2.2.04.95
LockStar- 6.1.00.18

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rusty

 

[13brv3]

I ultimately determined that the phone manufacturer sets a min and max brightness in hardware, and apps can only work within those ranges. I think Good Lock was changing the aod brightness, but there isn't enough range in the hardware to get any dimmer. For now, I have a thin piece of tinted plastic that I set in front of the phone on the charging stand at night.

 

[mustang7757]

You can use extra dim in the pull down panel scroll through the pages or adjust the auto brightness bar down further to dim onock screen

 

[13brv3]

Extra dim seemed to make it dimmer than it normally would be in general, but the min brightness still seems the same whether extra dim is on or not. Again, I think that's just hitting the min hardware limit.

Thanks for the comments, but I've wasted enough time on this, and have a working solution with the tinted screen.

 

[mustang7757]

Extra dim seemed to make it dimmer than it normally would be in general, but the min brightness still seems the same whether extra dim is on or not. Again, I think that's just hitting the min hardware limit.

Thanks for the comments, but I've wasted enough time on this, and have a working solution with the tinted screen.

Hopefully, an update to goolock will bring back the adjustment for AOD