I have a question about the automatic brightness of the FP 6. The minimum darkness is too dark for me. I already had the problem with FP 5, there was a workaround, but I don’t know it anymore. And it was also with Android 13.
Swipe down twice and change the brightness level. It should learn this after a while, as far as I know.
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I have tried this already, but without success.
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The display wasn’t brighter afterwards?
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No, it wasn’t. But perhaps I have to do it 100 times?!
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It should react immediately.
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Hi @Martin_1964,
Is this how you dit try to change the brightness?:
To learn more about the adaptive brightness of your phone, please read:
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/24996992746514-What-is-Adaptive-Brightness
Hopefully this is helpful for your.
If you still have issues, feel free to let us know or ask more questions.
Greetings.
Tom
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For me its too dark in low light and I adjust it every time. For me its good when its really dark.
The “problem” is: the impression of what is good is very subjective and for each device there is always a group complaining its too dark or too bright…
@yvmuell, Google could allow us to set a minimum and maximum. If you’re willing to file a feature request at Buganizer, I’ll support it.
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On the FP5 it’s way brighter. It was what I would call normal on Android 13, but then they changed it on the FP5 on Android 14. For the FP6 it’s normal for me as well, at the moment. The problem is that Fairphone does not have auto learning.
I’m now on a Pixel phone because my FP6 broke and it learns based on the time of the day, ambient lumen levels and application that’s in the foreground. It’s really nice and Fairphone should introduce the same. Otherwise they will keep changing the defaults. And never satisfy everyone.
I had to use my FP5 for a few days, but I just gave up. The screen burns my eyes out at night. I’m glad I could switch to a Pixel.
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Here’s what I have on my FP5/A15: Go to your screen settings, under the header “Color” you should find a switch that makes your screen go under the minimum brightness. Check if it is switched off or on.
It ist not switched on.
It’s a temporary switch. But also the auto brightness randomly peaks on the FP5. Even when its dark.
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Thank you. Very helpful. I had the same issue, but it seems to be successful.
I have serious problems with automatic brightness, too. None of my previous phones (Samsung S5, S8, Poco X4, some iPhones) did half as bad as the FP6 does. If there’s any learning process, it cannot adjust the minimum brightness to my needs. There is some kind of learning, but it tends to overshoot instead of averaging my settings.
In addition, most GUI I had the last 15 years, did not hide the brightness slider behind two necessary swipe-downs.
In a few words: It’s a horror to me, in-ac-ceptable.
In my experience, the brightness sensor has a bad design. To me it looks like the sensor’s view angle is far too small. With a window behind or a spotlight, only small position or angle changes lead to significant brightness changes, which should not do. The changes aren’t smooth, but in significant steps. Sometimes brightness is pumping.
If I switch off automatic brightness, I have to adjust less than with it.
I have a FP5 and auto brightness has never worked satisfactory. It does not appear to learn a thing. And I find setting the lower brightness range very finicky, it gets either just too dark, or just too bright. I would strongly prefer to have an option to enter a percentage in a box.
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Have you complained to support? They prioritize issues based on incoming tickets. I think they honestly think the auto learning works.
Hi,
Maybe its me getting confused!?
The topic was started about the Fairphone 6 but the Fairphone 5 is discussed now as wel.
i have a FP5
The automatic brightness dit have issues:
see: Auto screen brightness doesn't work in low light again
What looks like its finely solved recently, at least on my FP5 ist finally working properly… …touch wood.
a second topic FP6: FP6 brightness randomly gets scaled down
What if i dit get it right is the same issue as the FP5 hade before on Android 14, only difference on the Fairphone 5 it scaled up, and was permanent, a reset was needed to bring it back down.
This reset option was removed in the Android 15 update.
brightness issue was solved shortly after the Android 15 update. wel we dit get a different issue in return, the backlight dit stard to flash, up doun up doun, in low light. wat looks like is just solved.
I think that prifius miss behavior was only possible if ther was some kind of memory and learning of the brightness,
was that issue solved by removing the memory entirely?
and was the same done to the FP6?
which has caused this new problem?
Or do i get things mixed up now?
On the FP6 the defaults are just much better and also the brightness sensor. Let’s hope they will add auto learning (although I don’t have to adjust it that much on the FP6).