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You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the Note5's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
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The screen can dim down to impressively low levels. You have to turn off auto brightness though and drop the slider all the way down.

It has great dim brightness. I usually leave it low, see screenshot, but for the past 2-3 days, I've left it on auto.

svetius said:
The screen can dim down to impressively low levels. You have to turn off auto brightness though and drop the slider all the way down.
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I use Lux still now for a few years and did notice with auto unchecked the Note 5 dims low. Lux just automate's it for me.
Chris

Much too bright for my liking. I could really go for it to be around half of what he minimum is (I know to turn auto brightness off and turn it all the way down)

I use Lux. Excellent.

Hezzennater said:
Much too bright for my liking. I could really go for it to be around half of what he minimum is (I know to turn auto brightness off and turn it all the way down)
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Agreed. 2nits is none the less very dim. But the S5 and I believe the Note 4/S6....At least the S5 went as low as 1 nit. So half lol

Ok, just to be honest, the miniium brightness was bright on this phone when it was on jellybean 5.1.0. However, since the update to marshmallow 6.0.1, the new min brightness is WAY too low. Even when you adjust the autobrightness slider, the sensor still is picking up way too LOW. Too bad, one of the weakness of this phone

Z5 adaptive brightness :(

Hi,
Coming from a Z3, I am disappointed by the adaptive brigthness. Whereas it used to work nicely on the Z3 (set up to 30%), on the Z5, with the same setting, the brightness turns to the minimum when the phone is used indoor with artificial lighting, so bad...
Anobody else experienced that ?

I think the screen is pretty bright with adaptive brightness on I had to run brightness to 40%, I'm using the latest generic ce5 firmware
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Wanted to check how my Z1 faired against the Z5 and I noticed adaptive brightness and even the drop down slider didn't work. Had to toggle it off and on to get it to adjust but otherwise it's about the same brightness as my Z1 but with better colours.
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Z5 also seems to be colder (blue) but not really evident from the photo
http://i.imgur.com/Yd3LUAu.jpg Z5 - Z1

Yeah, it's not that good...

Coming from a note 4 I think brightness is good, it's brighter on the z5
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The brightness is fine all the day long (30%, adaptive on). It's only coming home at night (or anywhere with average light like a restaurant), the brightness turns to be too low. Thus the screen is not flattering anymore at all...

Immense battery drain with the screen on

The battery on this phone is generally good, but some things drain the battery more than I think they should. Standby drain is great (3-5% overnight) but the screen murders the battery. It drops 1% every 4-5 minutes of light tasks such as browsing social media and Chrome, but the drain gets much worse with anything that's more demanding on the processor. For example, 23 minutes of gaming on my PS1 emulator killed 10% of battery, and just 13 minutes of Crossy Road killed 6%.
Is there any way to improve battery life when the screen is on, or is this normal power consumption for a 2k display like this one? For reference, I have it set on auto brightness at the lowest setting to save battery already. Also, my phone gets 4-5 hrs SOT with moderate usage and maybe 30min-1hr of gaming. If it's the latter, I'd take a 1080p screen any day for better battery life...

Turn the brightness down.
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imnuts said:
Turn the brightness down.
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I said I already have it set on auto brightness at the lowest setting

Turn off auto brightness. Other than that, the screen is going to draw a fixed amount of power. Also, resolution has very little to do with how much power the screen uses, it's all panel size and brightness.
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Pretty much the only knob you have is display brightness.
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Also, resolution has very little to do with how much power the screen uses, it's all panel size and brightness.Sent from my DROID Turbo 2
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I thought resolution has everything to do with how much power the screen uses? The way I understood it a screen with a given resolution has the same amount of pixels whether it's 5.5" or 5.7" or some other size, hence phones with different size screens but the same resolution having different PPI's.
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Pretty much the only knob you have is display brightness.
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I turn it on only when I'm outside. Aside from affecting power draw due to brightness, does auto brightness also draw extra battery from having to operate the light sensor constantly as well?
Other than that, I've already been doing everything you guys have suggested. Do you all experience the same type of drain that I do?

The backlight is the primary power user in the screen. It doesn't care if there is 1 pixel or 5 million. The GPU will use more power at higher resolutions, but a 5.5" FHD screen will use nearly the same power as a 5.5" 4K screen.
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But OLED displays such as the one on the Turbo 2 don't have backlights, so the higher the resolution, the more pixels the battery has to light up and the more it drains the battery?

The pixels are smaller, and there is less power use per pixel than on a lower resolution display. Will it drain more power? Yes, but the amount is likely negligible.

What I would recommend
I know a little about a lot, When it comes to Android phones and phones in general,
The auto brightness feature always has an effect on battery life I always tell people it is much better to set this manually and to change it when it's needed. Also more modern phone os's allow this setting to be toggled quite easily. As to what screen panel uses more power I don't know a lot about that but I would have to agree with the idea that the higher the resolution the more power it draws. Good luck to you and hopefully we see marshmallow soon around the globe!

Okay. I've also noticed that the screen drains power a lot slower once battery level is below 30%. Has anyone else experienced this? Regardless, I'll calibrate my battery today and report back if it makes any difference or not.

You could also try Lux, it has a lot more options when it comes to auto adjusting the screen.

efficiency of ambient display, adaptive brightness and black ui on Amoled

hey, i want to know if these 3 features drain battery or aid in better battery life
ambient display - i know it's an amoled so only few pixels are turned on, but what i want to know is do people face a much better battery life with this feature turned on and by that i mean like a significant difference, same with adaptive brightness as compared to toggling it yourself. And lastly black color on amoled screens, how much difference in battery life can you get approximately by using a black ui throughout, like 10% or 25% ?

the battery improvements are not noticeable. even in a full black background, but that's just my experience.

rrohanjs said:
hey, i want to know if these 3 features drain battery or aid in better battery life
ambient display - i know it's an amoled so only few pixels are turned on, but what i want to know is do people face a much better battery life with this feature turned on and by that i mean like a significant difference, same with adaptive brightness as compared to toggling it yourself. And lastly black color on amoled screens, how much difference in battery life can you get approximately by using a black ui throughout, like 10% or 25% ?
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Honestly, the gains in battery life from using a black background would be pretty small in my opinion. I don't see how using ambient display would save any battery at all, as opposed to what? The biggest gain would be adjusting brightness manually instead of using adaptive brightness, adaptive brightness can be pretty heavy on the sensors.

Heisenberg said:
Honestly, the gains in battery life from using a black background would be pretty small in my opinion. I don't see how using ambient display would save any battery at all, as opposed to what? The biggest gain would be adjusting brightness manually instead of using adaptive brightness, adaptive brightness can be pretty heavy on the sensors.
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I'm trying to compare ambient display to constantly unlocking the phone to check for the time or notifications

rrohanjs said:
I'm trying to compare ambient display to constantly unlocking the phone to check for the time or notifications
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In that case I believe using ambient display would be the best option.

Minimum brightness

You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the Motorola One Action's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Hello, I have recently bought the Motorola One Action at Amazon Spain and I really love the phone except that I find the screen brightness to be very low and dark. When comparing it to other phones it only becomes more obvious that the brightness is super-low. The phone only has an acceptable brightness at 100% and I don't think that's normal. I read on various websites that the brightness of the phone with full white screen and with Max brightness should be 459 cd/m² and while testing it with the light meter I'm getting 360 cd/m²; at maximum... Is it possible that I got a defective unit? Could it be a software issue?

moto_max1 said:
Hello, I have recently bought the Motorola One Action at Amazon Spain and I really love the phone except that I find the screen brightness to be very low and dark. When comparing it to other phones it only becomes more obvious that the brightness is super-low. The phone only has an acceptable brightness at 100% and I don't think that's normal. I read on various websites that the brightness of the phone with full white screen and with Max brightness should be 459 cd/m² and while testing it with the light meter I'm getting 360 cd/m² at maximum... Is it possible that I got a defective unit? Could it be a software issue?
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Did u try to disable the adaptive brightness?

Yes, it is disabled.

In my opinion Minimal brightness is way too high. Cant complain about maximum brightness.

I also bought from Amazon Spain and the same problem. What was your solution if I may ask?

Perhaps everything could be solved with a custom rom

Running EvokutionX GSI and minimum brightness is perfect. Looks like Moto is restricting this on official firmware for reasons unknown...

guess we need a maximum brightness thread also. I live in the sunshine state, and find almost all phones aren't bright enough on a full sun day. This one included. But, as far as the minimum brightness is concerned, it is quite acceptable even in the darkest room. I do run the dark mode also.