I have a wireless charging cradle that I put my G6 on overnight. It's allowed me to get rid of my old school alarm clock. The problem is that the time display is a little too dark for my tastes. I don't want it bright and blaring but a little bump would be nice.
For comparison, my wife has a Galaxay S8 with the same charger on her side of the bed and hers is brighter and easier to read without being obnoxious.
I do not use the always-on display during the day but have it set to come on between 10pm and 6am which is typically when I'm in bed and the phone would be charging.
I looked but do not see a way to adjust the brightness of the always on display nor do I see a setting to bump up the brightness while on charge. Am I missing it?
No specific option to increase brightness while charging. You can enable "brighter" AOD in the AOD options menu, but it basically prevents the AOD from dimming too much. You can use an app like Lux to adjust things like this.
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I came from a Nexus 5 and had to always leave my screen brightness on about 1/3 in order to preserve battery. After playing with my 6P for over a month, I feel like the battery can handle a brighter setting (with my usage). But, I have concerns about burn-in if I put the setting too high since this is an AMOLED panel.
What brightness settings are you using and have you had any issues with burn-in?
I will get this started. I first started by activating the Adaptive Brightness under the display settings.
It makes the screen dimmer - to my eyes even though it sets the overall brightness to exactly half way.
I thought my whites looked somewhat grey at that setting so I turned it off and put my screen back down to 1/3 (LOL) and I am pleased with the results - especially at night as the whites look whiter.
anything past half at night burns in my retinas much less the screen.
I have not noticed any less Screen on time. I still get about 4.5 - 5 hours until it hits 15%. This is with location turned on and email push. I don't use twitter, facebook or any of those social apps the young people are using these days.
Is there an easy way to dim the screen to the point where you can't see the picture? I stream the phone in my car, which means it will get hot with charging, screen on, and high usage simultaneously. Since it is an AMOLED screen, it would not allow for screen off like other devices. Seems like without this, burn in would be a big problem for me.
I would think that you could just do the 2 finger swipe to bring it to the default menu. Then set the slider down as low as possible until you can barely see anything. I took a 5 hour drive today with my Nexus 6P with the girlfriend and had it plugged in for at least 2 hours at a time. My phone did not get really warm while either plugged or when running on battery.
Also I have enabled the System UI Tuner and now my phone screen only stays on when plugged into the power source if I select "stay on when plugged in"
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I would think that you could just do the 2 finger swipe to bring it to the default menu. Then set the slider down as low as possible until you can barely see anything. I took a 5 hour drive today with my Nexus 6P with the girlfriend and had it plugged in for at least 2 hours at a time. My phone did not get really warm while either plugged or when running on battery.
Also I have enabled the System UI Tuner and now my phone screen only stays on when plugged into the power source if I select "stay on when plugged in"
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No burn in issues? I would think there is a way to reduce brightness beyond stock but I don't know enough to do that at this point. Perhaps through Xposed it something.
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I came from a Nexus 5 and had to always leave my screen brightness on about 1/3 in order to preserve battery. After playing with my 6P for over a month, I feel like the battery can handle a brighter setting (with my usage). But, I have concerns about burn-in if I put the setting too high since this is an AMOLED panel.
What brightness settings are you using and have you had any issues with burn-in?
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I had a gnex that I kept on low brightness and refused to get another nexus until battery was straightened out. On my dmaxx, I kept the brightness high and no burn in on the amoled. The 6p isn't as good at battery, despite being huge, but it's good enough. I keep it on 60-100 brightness, using lux to adjust it as needed. No burn in so far
The always on display screen is just way too dark and I'm outside in the sunlight. I can't read it at all. Everything else is fine, normal phone screen brightness is just right. Is there a way to adjust brightness of the AOD display at all?
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I just recently turned mine off because of this. If I leave my phone face down it is too dark when I pull it up to see the time etc. If I left it screen up it would be at a very high brightness. It just adjusts to the situation slowly.
Thanks....I actually didn't see any response from the AOD to get brighter in sunlight...maybe I didn't wait long enough, but I waited a lot longer than I thought I should need to. Are you sure the AOD screen has any reaction at all to ambient lighting?
Yes it does effect it if it's on. Just put a finger over the sensor and it will dim
I had turned on the always on display shortly after setting up my new G6, and then a few days later I turned it off. However the setting keeps turning itself back on, usually overnight. I had turned it off yesterday, but woke up this morning to the display being on, and the setting set to on.
Starting to think I have a gremlin messing with me.
Go into your AOD settings and verify you didn't accidentally set up something the revolves around the time for your AOD to come on. See attached screenshot
Good call. I checked the "Daily timeout" and it was setup.
Turned it off and we will see if that stops it from turning back on in the morning.
I love the AOD. I was using the digital clock, but then changed to the analog clock. I like watching the red second hand. I also use the screen saver when wireless charging, although I feel more thought could have been put into it. The screensaver seems half baked to me, but it works.
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How goes battery drain with this turned on?
I don't notice anything adverse.
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I don't wanna start a new thread. But can you in any way customize the AOD? I don't need the battery icon shown there as it distracts a little from notifications. Any way to turn notifications and icons on/off?
And did you guys notice any serious battery drain when turning AOD bright instead of normal mode?
Whats the brightness selection, is it the overall brightness of the AOD? I think from default it's reasonable
Hello guys, I installed 4.5.11, but auto-brightness is very agressive, many times i find it on the lowest setting. Any way to fix this? I just want it a bit higher.
Seems like Oneplus is having everything that saves battery on, from brightness to Doze. As some notifications didn't show untill i opened the app. Usually whatsapp. Personally, instead of 7h of screen on time, i prefer having "just" 6 and everything working good. Just got this phone, 6-7 hours of SOT on a 3300mah battery is insane!
This is very stupid. I have the same problem. I dont know why OnePlus don't make AutoBrightness ajustable like Samsung in Touchwiz for ex...
same with me, when autobrightness in darker room, display is always set to lowest brightness ever. really annoying.
On my side, I really love the way auto brightness behave on my OP5. Too much light is not good for the eyes.
Exactly, the user should be able to set a default level, then auto brightness goes from there.
For those who have sensitive eyes, you can always use night mode. It just block the blue light that is mostly responsible to keep is awake.
When the auto brightness is too low did you go into Settings / Display and move the Adaptive Brightness slider to your desired brightness? I am now in a very dark room and the slider isn't all the way down to the minimum. I can see my screen fine.
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When the auto brightness is too low did you go into Settings / Display and move the Adaptive Brightness slider to your desired brightness? I am now in a very dark room and the slider isn't all the way down to the minimum. I can see my screen fine.
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Yeah or i do it from the status bar. Still after a while it returns to a lower level. While i already want it on a low level, it's too agressive. I whish i could raise it by 10-20%.
Yeah, that slider doesn't adjust the adaptive brightness level like it would on a Nexus or Pixel device. It remains as a standard brightness level instead
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Well, we could install xposed to fix the brightness. But then i don't know i want to install all of that just for brightness.
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Very happy with my 6T so far. Adaptive brightness has been a little bit wonky.
I work at my computer in a relatively dark environment. When I wake up my phone and look at it, brightness starts off around 15% and I can barely read the display. I hold my phone screen up to my monitor to get adaptive brightness to kick in, and brightness quickly goes up to about ~80% as expected. Then when I face it back towards me, it finally settles back in around 40% after a few seconds and stays there, which is perfect for my environment.
It seems like there's some kind of issue with adaptive brightness initializing the ideal brightness in a dimly lit environment. Yet it knows where the brightness should be set after it has been exposed to more light.
Is this all part of Android Pie or does OnePlus have some control over how this works?
Pie issue, I believe there is an app that helps, can't recall what the name is, most people seem happy with it.
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Mine does similar ,screen brightness fine ,then if unlock it comes back on very dim and I have to alert it in settings and adaptive doesn't always seem to work
The impression I get is that it isn't a learning adaptive as you see with Samsung, Pixel, and so on. You just get the same answer for the lighting every time it wakes up, or at least that's what I'm getting from mine.
Adaptive brightness is fully controlled by Pie. You can't set the base brightness in Pie and then let adaptive brightness control it from there.
Yeah I noticed the same thing too just a few days ago. Initially the phone handled fine, but now is always too low. Not sure where the sensor is, and if it is covered by the oem screen protector. If so then maybe that is the issue . The plastic OEM is a smudge magnet.
Yeah this was really annoying me last night. The brightness was fine, then I lock the screen, unlock and the screen is dim compared to before despite the light level staying the same. If I swipe down quick settings and toggle auto brightness off and on again it goes back up so it seems to be the auto brightness not picking up the correct level after unlocking the phone.
Guys have a read about adaptive brightness in Pie. Basically it learns from your behavior. You have to adjust it constantly to your liking and then the phone will learn after a week. Mine is noticeably better after 9 days. Almost perfect I would say. You just have to let it adapt and don't stop adjusting the brightness manually with adaptive option on.
App store, "Velis Auto Brightness", prolem solved..
I've noticed that the adaptive brightness is quite crap in oos. I never like adaptive brightness until I used a pie rom on my 5t, but op did something to the adaptive brightness and it definitely is not as good as Googles version
Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
download and setup Velis Auto Brightness from the play store, and you can get the same adaptive brightness..learns and after a few days the difference is great..
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Guys Goog has just now announced they've added their learning adaptive brightness feature into Pie, and it's up to OEMs to use it at their discretion, Samsung for instance has their own learning adaptive brightness already in use. In any event this phone does not appear to have it. I had a Pixel XL 3 and the brightness there really is learning, you can it adjusting immediately and see a solid difference in a matter of days, by a week it's about perfect. This phone does not do that, mine hasn't adapted at all and is still just as bad as day one.
Any comment on that @Funk Wizard ?
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Still broken and its been like that for some time. Hopefully in the coming builds it should be taken up as priority :good:
So far it's not that good for me but I have to give some more days to train itself to my usage behaviour. Will see.