Screen Dims All The Time

[babyfett]

Just got my Fascinate yesterday and LOVE it. But I find that the screen dims all the time, in the middle of use. I have the Power Saving Option off, but it still does it. Any suggestions? Is this common?

 

[Ytaay]

Just got my Fascinate yesterday and LOVE it. But I find that the screen dims all the time, in the middle of use. I have the Power Saving Option off, but it still does it. Any suggestions? Is this common?

Sounds like you may have "Automatic brightness adjustment" checked. I personally find when you have that enabled it auto-dims alot and gets to be annoying. I think the screen is so bright to begin with I disabled the auto brightness and keep it manually low (about 11%) all the time for indoors use. When I need to use it outdoors I hit the Brightness Toggle Widget I put on one of my Home pages and it jumps to 100% (use 100% sparingly; big battery hog!). Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your view), I live in Michigan and we get our fair share of clouds so I don't have to use 100% brightness too much.

To disable auto-brightness, from a Home page hit the Menu key, then Settings>Sound & display>Brightness, and uncheck the box.

If you want a Brightness toggle widget, it comes with Beautiful Widgets, one of the most popular apps used by people around here. After you install it, long-press on a Home page and select Widgets. Then select Beautiful Toggle Widgets and you will see Brightness there along with some Power type stuff like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.

Hope that helps!

 

[Sta11i0n]

The power control widget that comes on the phone also does it, but it's a little bulky since it also has toggles for wifi, bluetooth, gps and sync. Like Ytaay said, Beautiful Widgets has individual ones for each of these functions, so you can just add the ones you actually use.

 

[cjmiller1973]

I also like the brightness widget (Sisedi media). Has three configurable levels for those of us that like something between power sipping and fused retinae. I like the idea of the auto adjusted levels, but it seemed too sensitive to anything (hand or whatever) moving between the sensor and the light source.

 

[DroidXcon]

Sounds like you may have "Automatic brightness adjustment" checked. I personally find when you have that enabled it auto-dims alot and gets to be annoying. I think the screen is so bright to begin with I disabled the auto brightness and keep it manually low (about 11%) all the time for indoors use. When I need to use it outdoors I hit the Brightness Toggle Widget I put on one of my Home pages and it jumps to 100% (use 100% sparingly; big battery hog!). Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your view), I live in Michigan and we get our fair share of clouds so I don't have to use 100% brightness too much.

To disable auto-brightness, from a Home page hit the Menu key, then Settings>Sound & display>Brightness, and uncheck the box.

If you want a Brightness toggle widget, it comes with Beautiful Widgets, one of the most popular apps used by people around here. After you install it, long-press on a Home page and select Widgets. Then select Beautiful Toggle Widgets and you will see Brightness there along with some Power type stuff like WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.

Hope that helps!

Good response Ytaay