I have adaptive brightness enabled, too, and it works as intended.
Even with adaptive brightness enabled you can still change the overall brightness of the screen, did you accidentally slide the setting to dark?
Itās hard to think itās not the update, when the problem suddenly occurs right after the update. But the same update did not cause this problem on my phone.
So thereās still the brightness sensor.
You could use an App for reading out the sensor (I use Sensors, but thatās from the Play Store) ā¦ What does the brightness sensor say to dark and bright surroundings? An automatically always dark screen should mean the sensor gives a āwow, itās totally dark, we donāt need a bright screenā reading to the system regardless of any brightness around it.
In this case ā¦ The brightness sensor should be the same part as the proximity sensor, this post has some cleaning tips for the area (just expand the āarchived textā bit) ā¦
And it works at my FP2 as well! I just didnāt realise, that I can adjust the brightness as well, when the display is on āautmatic brightness ONā. I must have displaced it myself!
How to make your own modem.zip on Windows 10 1709 .
As you can make your own modem.zip with a Linux shell script, hereās how to do it with Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) ā¦ and of course Iām lazy and didnāt translate the script to Windows PowerShell or something equally demanding, since Microsoft already did something really useful regarding Linux stuff ā¦ although some familiarity with Unix or Linux command line (aka Terminal) basics canāt hurt ā¦
Install Ubuntu from the Windows Store.
(Ok, you can choose between some other Linux distributions, too. I chose Ubuntu because itās closest to the Linux Mint I have on dual boot for playing around, and you can easily find lots and lots of helping resources for Ubuntu online).
Once set up enter the following commands ā¦ sudo apt update
ā¦ I donāt know whether thatās actually necessary for this limited purpose here, but updating the package list canāt hurt. sudo apt upgrade
ā¦ I donāt know whether thatās actually necessary for this limited purpose here either, but getting this Ubuntu installation up to date canāt hurt. sudo apt install zip
ā¦ else the modem.zip creator script would complain, and I use unzip from this package further below ā¦
wget https://github.com/WeAreFairphone/modem_zip_generator/archive/master.zip
ā¦ Since the script is on GitHub, you could of course employ git to clone it, but Iām not too familiar with that yet, hence the oldschool downloading and the following ā¦
unzip master.zip
cd modem_zip_generator-master
ā¦ You should see modem.sh (the script file) here now with an ls or ls -la for more info or even dir if you like.
At this point, perhaps modem.sh may not be up to date, so you could edit in the latest OS version number, download links and checksums at the start of the script ā¦ without continuing the editor war if possible, so for convenienceās sake ā¦ nano modem.sh
ā¦ Right clicking pastes something into the Linux terminal, so you can transfer the links and checksums over from the Fairphone Open OS download page (which is usually faster in publishing new versions compared to the Fairphone OS pages), and donāt forget to change the OS version number in the script,
and Control+O saves the file.
sudo ./modem.sh
ā¦ This should say āFairphone modem.zip generatorā now and create your new modem.zip in a few minutes.
Transfer the created modem.zip over to Windows ā¦ C: is mounted on the Linux side as /mnt/c ā¦ so you can copy it to somewhere the currently logged in user of the Windows side would have write permissions, e.g. ā¦ sudo cp modem-18.04.1.zip /mnt/c/Users/yourwindowsusername/Desktop
By the way ā¦ The Fairphone Open OS 18.04.1 modem blobs are the same as the 18.03.1 ones (says WinMerge), so probably there will be no new modem.zip over here.
Interestingly I found rebooting after the last update to be much faster than before. While it usually took more than five minutes itās now down to normal, just as if youād reboot casually.
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