Auto-Brightness & screen lock

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Hi,

I've had my xperia S for a couple of days now and I did not notice a change in brightness depending on the ambient light. I've checked in the screen section under setting and there is no option for auto-brightness unlike my previous android phone (Nexus 1). Does the Xperia S have an auto-brightness option?

Moreover, I'm used to using the pattern lock on my previous phone. With the Xperia S, when I enable the pattern security feature, I am also presented with the normal screen lock (lock/mute). Is there a way to disable that screen?

Thank you in advance

Originally Posted by volgis

Hi,

I've had my xperia S for a couple of days now and I did not notice a change in brightness depending on the ambient light. I've checked in the screen section under setting and there is no option for auto-brightness unlike my previous android phone (Nexus 1). Does the Xperia S have an auto-brightness option?

Moreover, I'm used to using the pattern lock on my previous phone. With the Xperia S, when I enable the pattern security feature, I am also presented with the normal screen lock (lock/mute). Is there a way to disable that screen?

Thank you in advance

If I am not mistaken no SE phone has auto-brightness, reason is nowhere to be found....

The same for the lock screen, most probably the ingenuity of the SE/S engineers stopped after creating Timescape...

Originally Posted by gbil

If I am not mistaken no SE phone has auto-brightness, reason is nowhere to be found...

That is too bad, I really like the auto-brightness feature on phone. It helps improve the battery life.

Originally Posted by volgis

That is too bad, I really like the auto-brightness feature on phone. It helps improve the battery life.

What about widgets? Check them (there was something like Power Widget, or Power Control, can't remember), or you could use external aplication. I think Extended Controls or Free Power Widget got something like that. It is not in Display Settings anymore.

UPDATE:

Power Control (It has Wi-Fi, BT, GPS, Sync and Brightness buttons) Brightness should have 3 settings: Max, auto and minimum.

Originally Posted by Cholek3

What about widgets? Check them (there was something like Power Widget, or Power Control, can't remember), or you could use external aplication. I think Extended Controls or Free Power Widget got something like that. It is not in Display Settings anymore.

I do use widgets to control the brightness manually (power widgets & beautiful widgets). Both control brightness and power widget even has an auto-brightness check box that has no effect what so ever.

Originally Posted by volgis

I do use widgets to control the brightness manually (power widgets & beautiful widgets). Both control brightness and power widget even has an auto-brightness check box that has no effect what so ever.

if you want to control brightness easy way try this app:

Display Brightness

Woah, wait a minute. No auto-brightness? That can't be. The specs sure indicate there is ambient light sensor. There is indeed no "auto-brightness" box to check off, unlike with other Android devices, but I thought that this new Xperia series is supposed to work like iOS devices do. In other words, you move the slider to determine the *average* brightness of the screen, just the way an iphone or ipad does. The screen gets brighter in with more ambient light and dimmer in darkness, but the average brightness is controlled by the slider.

Most other Android devices use the slider to determine a "fixed" brightness, not an average dynamic brightness.

Are you sure the brightness doesn't change?? I find that hard to believe with an ambient light sensor on board.

The white paper says there is an ambient light sensor.

I just checked the user guide installed on my XPS. It mentioned about light sensor and brightness adjustment.

Open Phonebook and dial *#*#7378423#*#*.
Service Tests → Ambient Light Sensor

It works.

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