Google may integrate the Extra Dim feature that makes the screen dimmer into the brightness slider, and it could happen in Android 15 QPR1.
  • Blackout
    56•6 days ago

    Netflix won’t follow it. I have to use a pirate app to watch their shows in the dark cause the lowest brightness it allows is supernova

  • @[email protected]English
    18•6 days ago

    I have ‘night mode’ and ‘extra dark’ in my quick settings right below the slider. If I can get rid of one or both with an updated slider that’d be a great improvement. Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.

    • Dave.English
      33•6 days ago

      Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.

      Because they have to compete with 50k lux outside and then scale to 600 lux indoors, then down to just to a few lux in a darkened room.

      Perhaps the brightness slider needs to be more logarithmic so you can slide from 0.001 percent to 100 percent more easily.

      • Die4EverEnglish
        15•6 days ago

        Also they probably want to avoid the issue of a user accidentally sliding it all the way to the left and then being unable to use their phone lol, there’d be no way to fix it except finding a dark room (if you were even aware of what happened and why your screen “won’t turn on”)

        • @[email protected]English
          6•6 days ago

          This certainly happened to me ones. “Can I see the screen on minimum brightness while it’s bright outside?” the answer is no, I could not

        • @[email protected]English
          1•5 days ago

          My screen gets dimm enough that it’s almost impossible to see outside with the slider at the left.

          The solution is extremely easy though. Put an option in the settings so pressing volume up/down while the screen is locked changes the brightness instead of the volume.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•6 days ago

        That would be great. The only time I’m ever adjusting the slider is the dimmest 5%. The top 50% of the slider really doesn’t matter to me. It’s annoying trying to hit exactly the right pixel on the low end though

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
    19•6 days ago

    I already did that with Tasker. It’ll be welcome to have it built-in. :D

      • Avid AmoebaEnglish
        4•6 days ago

        Here, this is an export. Try importing it.

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  • @[email protected]English
    -16•6 days ago

    Are you fucking kidding me. I already can’t see shit at the maximum brightness, when I am trying to use my phone under the sunlight.