iPad brightness discrepancies?

[richimages]

Add me to the list of folks wanting to dim the display darker than it currently gets now ....

Looks horrible at night while trying to read before bed in pure dark room ... background blacks do not look black ... looks gray.

 

[Crosbie]

Anyone reckon we'll see a minor firmware update to fix this and other niggles before 4.0? Maybe one of the things to be announced next week so iPad users get a bit of love alongside the likely new iPhone goodies?

 

[WilliamG]

I hope so. The niggles are really irritating. On a different note, I can't believe Apple screwed up the auto-correction! I also can't believe not as many people as I thought are complaining about it.

Sometimes I'll type a sentence on the iPad and it will look like this:

"My favorite thing is when I go to the park.

Other times, it will look like this:

"My favorite thing is when i go to the park."

Why does it miss the auto-capitalization ALL the damn time!?

 

[citi]

Actually Amazon's Kindle application goes dimmer than Apple's by a tad bit...

and, if you switch to white on black, and adjust it down, it's hardly noticeable to the person in the bed next to you. I actually prefer the the kindle app to iBooks. Little things like the bookmarks always being available to you from whatever page your on. Not a hyperlink to the table of contents, then to bookmarks. Too many steps in iBooks, but I digress

 

[jamesbray]

Apple - please fix this and allow the brightness to be lowered fully in the settings.

James

 

[CapitalC]

Weather HD is another app which supports dimming beyond the lowest level; you double-tap it to have the backlight dimmed. Hopefully Apple will add better control to the 4.0 update ... Either that or a jailbreak fix!

 

[kerfkikr]

Ok, I got no programming skills at all but I found the location of the brightness settings:

iPad:
/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.springboard.plist
key = SBBacklightLevel2 with a correct value between 0 and 1
Trying to do -0.1 doesn't work.
iBook:
/var/mobile/Applications/9AFB5CC7-F3BD-4BF1-ADDC-DA73230EA957/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iBooks.plist
key = BKScreenBrightnessLevel value between -0.25 and 1
Copying the 2 lines of code in to another application doesn't work.

The kindle uses another key.
So I wanted to post this info since I had to search quite a long time to find these locations.
My uneducated guess would be that there is an api for brightness which the program writers give a name like bkscreenbrightnesslevel, now we have to find a way to make a program which uses this api and applies this to all programs or something.

 

[CapitalC]

After looking at the WeatherHD app a bit more, I think it simply "masks" the image with a dark overlay rather than actually dimming the backlight...

 

[starbai]

I am a passenger in a very dark car on the Florida turnpike right now. At the dimmest setting the brightness is distracting to the driver. My iPad is jail broken. Does anyone know of a jb app that fixes this yet?

 

[57004]

If the iPad supported colour correction (as the normal Mac OS does), then this contrast-style brightness lowering could be used to dim the brightness system-wide. Of course this would require a jailbreak or a supported solution from Apple.

For the Mac there is already a program that does just that: Shades. It just lowers the brightness system-wide by making all colours darker. It's not a perfect solution either (this diminishes the viewable colour range) however it works well if you want the display less bright than the backlight can go.

I just wish there was a way get something like 'Shades' on the iPad.

By the way, I just got a new iPad and it seems brighter than the one I had before (I used to have one around UK launch time but sold it). I wonder if this is one of the Samsung screens that were rumoured to be around. Previously only LG made the panels.

 

[57004]

I know I'm dragging this topic up but this problem has never been solved, even with a jailbreak app. Some apps now have a brightness slider in-app but it's a usability mess and a lot of apps don't.

Next week the iPad 2 will be announced so I'm hoping it will feature a lower minimum brightness.

Just wondering how many others would upgrade just for that feature I certainly would! I couldn't care less about the facetime camera etc.

 

[57004]

For people who (like me) were still looking for a solution to this problem: There is now a (jailbreak) solution, see This Thread. I must have missed it when I searched for a solution 2 weeks ago.

I just thought I'd mention it here because this is one of the threads I was monitoring regularly to see if there was a fix, and maybe it will help someone else.