Screen Brightness widget - Hero, G2 Touch General

Evening all
I'm after a widget so i can dim the screen more easily than dropping into setting after setting.
There's loads i hear you shout..
Well all i've tried set the screen nice and dim for the screen only to getting brighter again as soon as the app is closed. I've tried it with auto adjust brightness on and off and all allow the system to revert back to the initial brightness set.
Help before the wife kills me while i midnight browse in bed.

All of the widgets i have used do the same thing as you describe. The 'Toggle Settings' app works fine for me though.
EDIT: no it doesn't. Arse.

yup tried that and failed lol
also tried making a short cut to the systems settings for brightness but failed on that as well.

Noticed something possibly odd about this- The brightness scales on Toggle Settings and in the actual settgngs menu have a different scale. It's possible to make the TOggle Settings app say that you have minus 10% brightness.
I've no idea if that helps

anything new about this? i tried some, but they all changed the brightness for a short time, and then the hero changed it back

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Automatic brightness adjustment?

Anyone know if there is a way to adjust the automatic brightness function - i.e. have it still be automatic, but be a little bright or darker for a given ambient light?
would really like to keep using it, but want my overall brightness turned down. using manual brightness with widget for now, but don't see why automatic brightness could not be tweaked. tried searching for an app to do this, but have not come up with anything. nothing came up in a google search of xda either. anyone got anything?
I want to know as well, I wouldn't mind setting the auto brightness to be more fine tuned as well, smaller changes.
Yes a better working app is needed. something like My Light or Lumos for winmo

Auto Screen Brightness is too dark

Hi all,
I found that the default auto brightness setting always render the screen darker than my favourite. For certain I want to keep the adaptive approach (i.e. the screen brightness will change according to my physical enviornment), however I would like to fine tune it such that it will always return a +1 / +2 brightness on top of the default return. Do anyone know any apps / tricks can I do so?
p.s. I know I can place an widget to manual adjust the brightness, but I am now looking for a way to fine tune the automated value.
Thanks all!
HKcow said:
Hi all,
I found that the default auto brightness setting always render the screen darker than my favourite. For certain I want to keep the adaptive approach (i.e. the screen brightness will change according to my physical enviornment), however I would like to fine tune it such that it will always return a +1 / +2 brightness on top of the default return. Do anyone know any apps / tricks can I do so?
p.s. I know I can place an widget to manual adjust the brightness, but I am now looking for a way to fine tune the automated value.
Thanks all!
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Did you ever solve this. Posted numerous times about a similar issue but never really found a proper solution.
You can use Tasker. Set up profiles for depending how much the light sensor sees, you can have the brightness exactly how you want. Note: You need to disable auto brightness for this to work.

adjusting auto-brightness range

Looked on google for this and found other people asking about it but no answer so far.
If i leave the screen brightness set to auto-adjust, the phone NEVER adjust the screen brightness down to it's lowest setting, even if i am sitting in a pitch dark room. Is there some way to adjust the range of the brightness setting so that it will actually use the lowest brightness? It seems beyond stupid that in a pitch dark room the screen doesn't go down to it's lowest level.
Most of the time i find the screen to be too bright, so if i could adjust the auto-brightness over-all to be darker, that would be cool too.
failing that, is there an app that makes adjusting the brightness quicker then digging down into the settings to move the slider?
thanks
I use widgetsoid (free) from the market place to do what you speak of and 7 other things as well.
i think i already have something that does what it looks like widgetsoid does. I have a button on the screen that i can tap that switches the screen between 3 brightness settings. i was just wondering if there was one where you could tap and get a slider. Seems silly to have the actual slider itself on the screen since that would take up so much room. But a button that would open up into a slider would be nice.
I'd still prefer to be able to adjust the autobrightness settings and use that if possible.
You can set autobrightness levels with tasker. There's a thread floating around with details.
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merkk said:
i think i already have something that does what it looks like widgetsoid does. I have a button on the screen that i can tap that switches the screen between 3 brightness settings. i was just wondering if there was one where you could tap and get a slider. Seems silly to have the actual slider itself on the screen since that would take up so much room. But a button that would open up into a slider would be nice.
I'd still prefer to be able to adjust the autobrightness settings and use that if possible.
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Again, Widgetsoid does this. Once it is setup, modify, settings/Brightness Modes and set it Custom (Seekbar) or use one of the other 2 settings. You can change those as well with custom. Exit. Go to toggle and you have slider with one click on one button, which option of adding 7 more.
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Again, Widgetsoid does this. Once it is setup, modify, settings/Brightness Modes and set it Custom (Seekbar) or use one of the other 2 settings. You can change those as well with custom. Exit. Go to toggle and you have slider with one click on one button, which option of adding 7 more.
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ah ok, cool, thanks. I'm going to see if i can find the thread about tasker since i'd prefer to have auto-brightness working better. if that fails then i'll give widgetsoid a try.
thank you
Just what I was looking for Screen brightness less then 10% and Less then Curvefish's toggle to 4%. I was looking for the 1% brighness and I think i got with the Widgetsoid only compaint is no exit after setting... Thanks

[Q] problems with brightness setting Tmo TAB [maybe others]

has anyone noticed that in the web browser, brightness reduces to about 30%?
I have the setting on manual to about 70%; every time I go to the browser it automatically reduces the brightness [WTF] if I hit the home button it comes back to the previous setting I chose. if i use the quick bar and go to a recent app it automatically goes back to normal
also even though it reduces brightness in the browser if I use the quick brightness setting it still shows what I had it set to. If I choose the auto brightness setting and then switch to manual again it gets bright again but as soon as I browse to another page it goes to reduced brightness
The browser has a separate brightness setting, just hit the menu button in the browser, and there will be a brightness setting don't worry it threw me off at first too.
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[Q] QuickSettings app killed my screen

OK, so my screen isn't actually `dead`, but i accidentally used it and set my brightness to 0, now the screen is 100% black and I'm not sure how to fix this.
any ideas that don't involve getting a new data.img?
schme16 said:
OK, so my screen isn't actually `dead`, but i accidentally used it and set my brightness to 0, now the screen is 100% black and I'm not sure how to fix this.
any ideas that don't involve getting a new data.img?
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No Guarantee's it will work, you could try replacing just the system.ext file since that contains your system data. it's worked for me on occasions. tho it will restore the default kernel module's, etc (if you have changed them)
worth a shot
i encountered this before and i remembered the position of the widget brightness
so i imagined the screens, pretending to do each 1 by 1
unlock screen
navigate to the widget
imagine pressing the widget
scrolling the bar
and wahlah, i got my screen brightness again
i flashed Hastarin kernel, which didnt allow me to get into this situation as 0% brightness still alllowed me to see something with it
if you dont have a brightness widget , u're probably going to have a hard time finding it in the Settings > Display > Brightness >
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Thanks for the reply guys, I tried kam333's suggestion and it didn't work (thanks anyways); then moved on to jcsy's suggestion, I don't have a brightness widget, but I am totally boss, and just wen through each step in my head and viola!
Thanks all!
Infrared glasses. That'll do it. Or night vision goggles.
Sometimes you can shine a light behind it and see through it, but try the night vision goggles.
If you don't have them, google the goggles.

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