Screen Brightness After Lollipop

[CampCash]

My Screen Brightness since updating has not been for the good. When set to Auto, evening light or around the house at night, the screen dims so low I cannot read it. It just looks terrible dimmed so low too. I have tried searching around to see if there is an automatic fix other than disabling the Auto setting, but I cannot find anything. I cannot be the only one?

 

[Javier P]

Take a look at this thread. Things changed a bit after Lollipop. Worth reading the link in the last post.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/an...uto-screen-brightness-slider-makes-sense.html

 

[dkelly701]

I have noticed the same thing. Contrary to what the linked thread indicates, I can't change the brightness and keep the auto box checked. As soon as I move the slider to change the brightness, the auto box unchecks just like it has in the past.

 

[montanaxvi]

Had the same problem with screen appearing too dark in auto mode after update. What I did was looked into the power saving mode and noticed there's a screen brightness mode in there, under the restrict performance section. Unchecked that box but left power saving on and auto brightness set to on as normal and screen is back to pre lollipop status for me.

 

[rasterize]

Appears to be a Verizon only problem. Grrrr how do we get them to fix it??

 

[EMarioC2015]

Thanks, but this would only be valid if power saving is on I would think. Even as that might be the case I did give it a try by setting it and then turning power savings back off, still not luck.

 

[motron3000]

I'm having the same issue with Lollipop on the S5 with Verizon... -_-

 

[CampCash]

I did a Reset and still cannot stop the auto brightness from going too dim.

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

 

[See Russell]

Had the same problem with screen appearing too dark in auto mode after update. What I did was looked into the power saving mode and noticed there's a screen brightness mode in there, under the restrict performance section. Unchecked that box but left power saving on and auto brightness set to on as normal and screen is back to pre lollipop status for me.

This worked for me, thanks! S5

 

[Leonidas Kyriazis]

I also have the same problem. Possible a small improvement. No too happy.

 

[MaxPower203]

I've noticed that the brightness slider is now no longer smooth. It's kind of jerky and slow to respond now that I have Lollipop.

 

[Bonnie Butterworth]

I have a Samsung S5 and updated to Lollipop 2 nights ago. The Auto Brightness functionality (or whatever it's called now) simply doesn't work. Click the "auto" tick box and the screen stays very dark; when I go into bright light it doesn't change so it's impossible to see my phone at all in the daylight unless I uncheck "auto" and then manually adjust the brightness. This new OS sucks. I called Samsung and they blamed Google, who wrote and released Lollipop. I called Google and they blamed Samsung stating Samsung screwed up the OS by adding in their own updates; Basically Google wiped their hands of the bugs in the OS. The rep at Google stated the only thing I can do (yes, I already hard-rebooted) is to wait until another OS update comes out. Real nice, Samsung and Google. Screw the customer and refuse to resolve the issue.

Regarding MontanaXVI's note, my power saving mode doesn't have any setting at all, it's either on or off, but no option to change anything. Anyone else have any solutions I can try?

 

[anon(605125)]

There is another setting to check. On my S4 with lollipop att under display settings there is a setting called "Auto adjust screen tone" which is supposed to adjust brightness based on the on-screen image. I am hoping that fixes the dimming/brightening problem.

EDIT: Well, that didn't fix it. Neither did pulling the battery and doing a soft reset. Neither did the brief software update when I restarted it after the soft reset. It still dims by itself out of the blue and there is no control over it.

 

[Tritonemusic]

I can only speak for my version; SM-G900V. The Verizon version (perhaps the worst ever) doesn't work at all. The Auto feature is pretty much worthless. No matter what, it's always too dark for me. Sure, it might adjust, but it's always too dark on my phone. Never had this problem before.

 

[liz Ellison]

For my HTC One M9 I dowloaded the App LUX and my screen is now brighter

 

[Miles Hart]

This isn't a provider issue.

 

[Nour Badr1]

I just found in settings the solution. Go to the settings then go to "display" then the brightness will appear and then you can fix the problem hope it helped you and be careful because you should remove the automatic brightness because it didn't serve a lot of brightness

And even when you go to the apps or the menu there is three points above click galaxy essentials then close it you will realize that the brightness in fixed

 

[taceverhart]

Thanks so much. I have a Galaxy Note 3 with AT&T and just saw the screen dimming in the past few days. Your tip worked. I had "automatic brightness" checked and I thought that's what I had to do to get it to be bright automatically. Anyway, once I unchecked that option, my beautiful, bright screen came back.
Thanks so much. And, thanks to everyone in this forum who tries to help out; I would be lost without you.

 

[Wasay Khan]

When your s5 is running on kitkat does it have same problom or does this problem starts after update

 

[Samsung Galaxy S6]

Re: "Sun Allergic"

When the aambulite sensor is exposed to the sun (Note that my phone is at full brightness and auto-brightness is off) the screen will become much brighter than its maximum brightness. Is this normal? Makes my phone look like it has one of those old amo-led screens from first generation galaxies. I am running Android Marshmallow (6.0.1) on my Samsung Galaxy S6.