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both running always at full brightness too
What the heck, that sounds painful. Full brightness is only needed when outdoors in bright sunlight. I leave it to auto brightness and it's usually at 25% or less when indoors, regardless of screen or phone. Are you sure your eyes are ok to require full brightness on a phone all the time?
Go to screen mode in settings, slide the slider more towards the warm side. Go to advanced settings, change the white balance settings as you see fit.
When I hear you, it looks that it's not a brightness problem but a contrast problem no ?
Have you tried going to Settings -> Display -> Screen Mode and change it to Natural?
Yes
You don't have the auto brightness thing turned on, do you? IME, that setting makes it too bright in dark rooms and not bright enough in the sunlight so I just adjust it manually as needed.
I need to use auto brightness because if I go outside the screen will be so dark that I cant even find the brightness slider
I use a program called pixel filter to make my screen less bright, it overlays a black grid, with LCDs this brings the brightness down. however with ovalids it actually straight up turns off the pixels (so it saves some battery too)
I have sometimes have to use my phone in very dim environments. so using this helps me a lot.
app is on fdroid
Samsung has this feature build in and its called 'Extra dim' or similar. Its a quick setting one can get when customizing the tiles.
I used to use third party apps too, but it was annoying that you couldnt grant permissions or install new apps without deactivating the dimming app since it was a security risk to have an app which draws over other apps.
Extra dim is an Android setting not specific to Samsung
Good to know. Never noticed it with my last phone (one plus). Its often not that clear which option is a Samsung addon and which is not.
Yeah, it's understandable. With OnePlus it could be either they disabled it or it came with a version of Android that you didn't get on it
That's interesting. It's very rarely that I need to adjust the brightness manually on mine. Most of the time it's perfect the way it handles it automatically.
It's certainly a bright ass display.
When I'm indoors, pretty much always, I have the brightness set to where the little sun icon is on the left side of the bar.
I can't say I have any issues outside though, it kicks into the super bright outdoor mode when it's sunny and everything is great, even in direct sun.
It learns your settings based on the light sensor, so it will eventually lower it down to really dim indoors if you keep changing it.
You can change the way colors are displayed