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Default Auto brightness

Does anyone have a solution to auto brightness issue?

Even in the darkest room, the lowest light level is "medium" and not low! Its excellent setting when using phone outdoors but in dark room or at night its just too bright. Is my phone broken or is it general windows phone setting?

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on my titan, the auto brightness behaviour is erratic and sometimes goes too low.
the camera is one of the issue triggers. after every return from a photo session, the screen goes to a lower brightness.
also, sometimes it happens when unlocking the phone but i don't know what triggers it. then suddenly the screen would return to its normal brightness after a few seconds, although not always.
i suppose it's a driver issue...

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on my titan, the auto brightness behaviour is erratic and sometimes goes too low.
the camera is one of the issue triggers. after every return from a photo session, the screen goes to a lower brightness.
also, sometimes it happens when unlocking the phone but i don't know what triggers it. then suddenly the screen would return to its normal brightness after a few seconds, although not always.
i suppose it's a driver issue...
so you get the autobrightness to go as low as 'low' set manually? - I tried it but even after camera the lowest brightness I am getting is same as 'medium' when set manually!
 
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so you get the autobrightness to go as low as 'low' set manually? - I tried it but even after camera the lowest brightness I am getting is same as 'medium' when set manually!
no, not that low only lower.
but you are right, even in complete darkness the screen won't go to its lowest setting...

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Yes same issue here.

Automatic can go a little bit lower than medium, but not much. Too bright in dim environement.

For general use, i would like to have a preset between low and medium

Since these days many people like ultra bright screens (and ultra loud sound) i am not sure HTC will try to fix this "issue".
I just hope Microsoft can add a brightness slider in the future. (Or bility to set the min auto and max auto levels)

Btw, do you know why camera mode go into max brightness ? This is a little harsh indoor.
 
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Yes same issue here.

Automatic can go a little bit lower than medium, but not much. Too bright in dim environement.

For general use, i would like to have a preset between low and medium

Since these days many people like ultra bright screens (and ultra loud sound) i am not sure HTC will try to fix this "issue".
I just hope Microsoft can add a brightness slider in the future. (Or bility to set the min auto and max auto levels)

Btw, do you know why camera mode go into max brightness ? This is a little harsh indoor.
Yes that behaviour is very strange too! I think it's present only in the Titan. Some other windows phone manage the camera brightness a little better. But then I think increased brightness while using camera sort of makes it little pleasant when using it outdoors. But indoors as you mentioned, it's a bit too harsh brightness!

I think it's the light sensor that doesn't work properly. Some places/forums mentioned about issues with various HTC driverseven after those 2 softwares updates we received in Nov-early Dec.
 
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In daylight,the auto brightness works wonderfully for me,I never change it.
But in a fairly dark room,it's too bright and most of the time,I set it to low
 
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I usually set it to medium... and set to low by myself by night.
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I have sent a message to HTC (via theirs contact/ticket system) about the "can be improved" auto brightness, and "camera set brightness to max" issues.

Better than nothing.
Since this is a easily reproductible problem, maybe they can take a look if they receive several messages about this.
 
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I wonder if the screen going to max brightness with camera may have something to do with the "HTC Camera modes" addon ? (who knows..)

But i don't see how to remove it. I even can't find it on the marketplace (under HTC section).

 
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