I thought they outsourced the FP3 android software development to a company in asia because they don’t had the ressources in the past? (was topic at the last big issues around buggy network compatibility in european networks - this issues stayed undiscovered because the software company just testet the FP3 in asian networks).
This auto brightness error is nearly in all FP3s around me so I could think it’s a general bug. So FP didn’t test it itself before release or the software department has a very bad QA. I mean it’s not a tricky bug, it’s very obvious.
Don’t count on a fast fix or update. In the past, these kind of “non-showstopper” bugs did not got an extra hotfix update. My guess is november…
“A company in asia” would be their phone production parter Arima, and I would guess they outsourced it because their inhouse software team is still servicing the Fairphone 2.
Today I was driving in my car using my Fairphone 3+ to navigate.
I was in a longer tunnel and here the brightness was reduced too.
The screen was so dark, that I could not see anything, so I missed the correct lane.
I’ve had the same issue. I have random unexplained drops in brightness. Has anyone found a solution other than tape? I don’t really want tape on my phone.
So i got the update and the ambient lighting issue is very prominent and sometimes even dims the light so far that i even at night can no longer read the text on my phone. I can understand that it could be the result of a fix to save battery (if that was the motivation behind it). I also want to try to leave some room for thought. Is it maybe possible to make smaller jumps from being bright to being dim but therefore have more of them? I can imagine that could maybe help with these big jumps from being bright to being dim. (I have checked that and most of the time it was switching from the dimmest setting to half brightest setting and vice versa if you tilt the phone the right way (I use a FP3+). Hopefully this is more helpful to you than my initial comment.
I was riding my bike two days ago with the FP3 on the handlebars. In pure, bright sunshine, which should be the brightest the ambient light sensor could ever see, the brightness suddenly went to zero. I had to restart the phone as I had absolutely no chance to see anything on the screen.
So there is definitively something terribly wrong with the software handling the value from the sensor.
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Just to have it open until 2/04/2022…
I really liked the adaptive brightness feature as it was before so I’ll check for updates on a regular basis and keep on moving the slider from 0% to 50 or more. Maybe he is a slow learner…