Screen Brightness After Lollipop

[jseal1987]

i had this same problem on my sm-g900w8 galaxy s5. I updated from 4.4 or 4.1 or whatever to marshmallow 6.0.1 and i did the multiple separate OTA's because i was busy doing other stuff and just letting it update several times in a row, so the problems could have come from lollipop or marshmallow, not really sure. and i noticed the next morning that all the colors were off from normal, they were a bit more grey and green, and the menu bars were grayscale looking and such.

Turns out, they added like 19 different color changing options/tweaks in the update and they are all in a different place in the settings. lol.

• First, go to: settings>display>screen mode> and change it to standard, or whatever looks best
• just below that option under the display menu you will see "auto adjust screen tone" which had some affect on color, brightness, and the tints.
• Next go to accessibility>vision>colour adjustments and go through the process of matching the colored squares up sequentially, placing the ones that are most similar in color together. this will help to calibrate the screen a bit, and i thought that would fix it, but there's more. (also make sure 'negative colors' isn't activated, although that one is a major change and you'd notice if that option were at fault)
• There is also a 'grayscale' mode that can be activated in one of the 'power saver' settings screens, but i didn't have that one activated and still had the problem.

• The setting that i finally found that fixed the gray looking screen and messed up, slightly off tint colors was the last one i found regarding the screen's display colors or anything like that, naturally.

To finally fix that awful dead/zombie grey color and the icky weird teal color that was supposed to be green:

goto 'Developer Options'>then scroll down a good bit to "simulate color space" and change it to 'disabled.' This finally gave me back a bright, vibrant, sharp, crisp screen display with colors that actually matched the colors i am used to seeing, not those weird dull grey pastel creepo depressing screen colors that were there before.

*Note that i went through all these steps, and my 'vision'>'color adjustments' effects from lining up the similar colored boxes is still active and i like how it looks. You might want to play with the above settings until your screen pops at you and makes you happy faced.

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?

 

[Shane Smira]

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?

I am having the exact same situation as yours. As of a few days ago my brightness on my cell phone automatically changes and goes dim. I went to the settings, devices and make sure the auto adjustment brightness is turned off and then it goes back to the writer settings so I could at least read my text. Out of the blue throughout the day it automatically unchecks and it dims back. I have no idea how to fix this and I also tried to call Samsung and they are denying everything. I took my phone to AT&T and they have no clue. In contrary, I do believe it's from one of those updates and it's suddenly hitting my phone