screen not as bright as Samsung Fascinate when in auto brightness mode

[WCMack]

Go to the Android Market and search under "display brightness". There are several to choose from.

[JerryF]

SandraW,

Here's one worth a KUDO.   This is a neat way to QUICKLY increase or decrease the brightness of your Samsung Charge phone's screen without going into any menus.  To use it you will have to first turn Auto Brightness OFF:  Settings>Display Settings>Brightness.

All you do is TOUCH and HOLD the notification bar at the top of your screen until you see the brown colored bar of the notification screen appear BUT do not pull it down and do not lift your finger off the screen.  Just slide your finger left and right to either darken the screen (go left) or brighten the screen (go right).

Slide your finger back and forth to see for yourself.  It couldn't be faster to make your screen brighter when you walk outside or darker to save battery power when inside.

I tried it on my Samsung Charge and it worked great.  I love it when a plan comes together!

I went back and looked at the Brightness settings slider at Settings>Display Settings>Brightness and using this method you are actualy moving the brightness bar slider back and forth when you slide your finger left and right. 

JerryF

[HoustonHeart]

You can also add the control buttons to an area on the screen that toggles brightness as well as auto brightness on off. THe slider trick is a Samsung feature added.

In the Beta build for ginger bread __1h and now 1c, you have a button on the upper bar you hit and hold and a slider apears to control it, as well as it also gives you saturation control.

[SandraW]

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HoustonHeart wrote:

You can also add the control buttons to an area on the screen that toggles brightness as well as auto brightness on off.

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How do I add this control button to toggle auto brightness one and off?

Thanks!

[JerryF]

SandraW,

Did you try the method I described for making the screen brighter or darker?  It's better than a toggle button because you can use it without leaving your current screen and/or without leaving an APP that you may be currently using but you need the screen to be brighter.

JerryF

[HoustonHeart]

Slider works best. Def turn off auto brightness for it to work right.

[HoustonHeart]

You add it as a applet to the screen. Hold down on screen to select one for get the name. It palces a bar with buttons. Toggles wifi, gps, brightness ect. IT isn't as exact as using the slider technique, the bar button is preset levels.

[JerryF]

HoustonHeart,

Saturation control will be GREAT for viewing photos.  With it a person may be able to do a quick color calibration of the colors on his or her screen.

Also, in GingerBread the button may be a faster way than the slider method that I described to increase/decrease screen brightness. 

Thanks for the info on GingerBread.

JerryF

[SandraW]

 Wireless employees on this forum shoudl stop marking threads as "resolved" for no good reason.

The original question is NOT resolved. Not by a long shot.

[JerryF · Accepted solution]

SandraW,

I worked in the computer world for many years.  When new software is developed every decision point in a software program cannot be pre-identified and/or pre-decided.  Because of this as the programmer is writing the code he or she must make certain decisions themselves.  My guess is that the programmer decided on what would be the nominal level of brightness for the Charge. With the Fascinate probably a different programmer made that same decision as to the nominal level of brightness and that is why they are different..

Looking back at you original question you actually answered your own question when you said, "Is this just how Samsung programmed the auto brightness level on the Droid Charge?"  That's a correct observation by you!

You also said," any advice appreciated."  May I suggest that you turn the auto brightness OFF and use my suggestion re the slider to control the brightness yourself.  It's a few posts down this thread.  I now do this to save battery power because the screen is by far the biggest user of mAh's of battery power.  In the house I dim the screen brightness but outside I can quickly, using the slider, put it back to full brightness if I receive a call or for whatever other reason.

JerryF