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What's your brightness at?

The iPhone is way too bright on full 100%! I can't even have my computer display at 100% brightness. In fact, my Apple Cinema Display is on the lowest brightness setting possible and that's still too bright at night.

I keep my iPhone 3G brightness nob just below the "g" in "brightness"

I keep my original iPhone at 50% though because it seems like that display is dimmer than the 3G at night but, when light hits it, it blinds you. I think the sensor is too sensitive or something. However, on the 3G, the sensor isn't sensitive enough... I try to look at it in the sun and I can't see a thing until I lock it and unlock it again for the sensor to react.

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ChrisN said:
Mine's at 30 or 25, having it bright hurts my eyes.

ChrisN
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Does having it full brightness cause you to look like your avatar?

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Hehehe.
 
Kilamite said:
Yeah so do I.

Hours of on the web (bus rides) and then texting, phone calls throughout the day.

If you charge every night (or roughly once every two days) then 100% brightness will be fine..
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Speak for yourself. I'm at 35% brightness and I've never beaten 20 hours of the phone being on except for the times I've left it at home by accident and didn't touch it all day.
 
Kilamite said:
Whack that up to 100% and report back.
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Well, I'd love to give you a report, but my usage is so different from day to day. My average battery life is anywhere from 7-15 hours depending on the day.

So even if I did this and gave you a number tomorrow, I don't think it would prove anything since the range is so wide anyway. I'd come back and say something like "12 hours," but what would that mean? Nothing, really.
 
Small White Car said:
Well, I'd love to give you a report, but my usage is so different from day to day. My average battery life is anywhere from 9-15 hours depending on the day.

So even if I did this and gave you a number tomorrow, I don't think it would prove anything since the range is so wide anyway. I'd come back and say something like "12 hours," but what would that mean? Nothing, really.
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Well why use it at 35% instead of 50%, 80% or 100% if you don't know what impact it would have.
 
Small White Car said:
Because physics says that more light requires more power.

I don't really need to run a test to know that.
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We're not running a test to determine whether running at higher brightness will use more power - it's obvious it will.

The test was to determine how much more power - whether you'll loose and hour and not miss it much, and benefit from the brighter display (outdoor situations etc).
 
Kilamite said:
We're not running a test to determine whether running at higher brightness will use more power - it's obvious it will.

The test was to determine how much more power - whether you'll loose and hour and not miss it much, and benefit from the brighter display (outdoor situations etc).
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Gotcha.

Yeah, but then I'd have to turn it back down inside because it's too birght when it's much above 50%. So no matter what I do it's not gonna be perfect all the time and I don't feel like changing it back and forth all day. Just under 40% feels like a good compromise, so that's where I leave it.

The bottom line is that I wished the auto-brightness did more. Maybe a "strong" and "weak" setting for it would be a good idea? (Instead of the "super-weak" setting it seems to be on now.)
 
Small White Car said:
The bottom line is that I wished the auto-brightness did more. Maybe a "strong" and "weak" setting for it would be a good idea? (Instead of the "super-weak" setting it seems to be on now.)
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I'm pretty sure that auto-brightness setting is just a dud switch. Does nothing for me.
 
Small White Car said:
Well, that's an improvement over me...mine works backwards! It gets brighter in the dark and darker in the light.

Funny stuff, iPhone! :rolleyes:
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It works, but it isn't as sensitive as you'd think. It only changes when you go from extreme light to dark. If I'm in a room and the lights go out, I know that my iPhone will dim.
 
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Kilamite said:
mavis said:
I actually USE my phone, so 15-20% to save battery. 0% at night.
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Yeah so do I.

Hours of on the web (bus rides) and then texting, phone calls throughout the day.

If you charge every night (or roughly once every two days) then 100% brightness will be fine..
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I hate to belabor the point, but either you've got a magical iPhone with the world's most amazing battery, EVER, or we're talking about two different products. MY iPhone doesn't even make it through a single day - let alone two - without having to be recharged. I bought an external battery pack for emergencies and keep an extra charger at work, because I got real tired of not having a functional phone after 16:00 every day.

Keeping the brightness low, wifi and location services off, and setting my auto-lock to one minute are the only things I can really do to prolong the miserable battery life to last me between charges. I can't turn 3G off because I live in Japan and 3G is all that's available. So there's not much else I can do. I just wish I had one of those magical iPhones like you've apparently got. ;)
 
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tsice19 said:
Small White Car said:
Well, that's an improvement over me...mine works backwards! It gets brighter in the dark and darker in the light.

Funny stuff, iPhone! :rolleyes:
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It works, but it isn't as sensitive as you'd think. It only changes when you go from extreme light to dark. If I'm in a room and the lights go out, I know that my iPhone will dim.
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That's odd. Neither my iPhone, my 1st gen Touch nor my 2nd gen Touch have ever dimmed automatically when I move from a brightly lit room (bathroom) to one that is literally pitch-black (bedroom at night) ... This is going back to October 2007, by the way. It has never worked, on any firmware, EVER.

The brightness always increases automatically when necessary. But never decreases. ;)
 
mavis said:
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I hate to belabor the point, but either you've got a magical iPhone with the world's most amazing battery, EVER, or we're talking about two different products. MY iPhone doesn't even make it through a single day - let alone two - without having to be recharged. I bought an external battery pack for emergencies and keep an extra charger at work, because I got real tired of not having a functional phone after 16:00 every day.

Keeping the brightness low, wifi and location services off, and setting my auto-lock to one minute are the only things I can really do to prolong the miserable battery life to last me between charges. I can't turn 3G off because I live in Japan and 3G is all that's available. So there's not much else I can do. I just wish I had one of those magical iPhones like you've apparently got. ;)
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Yeah, I hear ya. Maybe he's lying to make it sound like he can justify using his 100% brightness.

1. I don't know how anyone can tolerate looking at 100% brightness screen. It hurts my eyes a lot (especially in the dark)

2. I don't know any iPhone battery that lasts as long as he claims. The MOST I've ever gotten was 9 hours or something (that's not with iPod use).

3. My longest standby though was 13 days, but during those 13 days, I had Wi-Fi off and Airplane mode on and I didn't touch it at all. It had like 5 minutes of usage and 13 day standby.

I think he's making stuff up or he has a modified or magical iPhone.

mavis said:
The brightness always increases automatically when necessary. But never decreases. ;)
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Mine dims automatically on my iPod touch, my 1st gen iPhone and my 3G, but it takes a while. It takes a while.
 
mavis said:
I hate to belabor the point, but either you've got a magical iPhone with the world's most amazing battery, EVER, or we're talking about two different products. MY iPhone doesn't even make it through a single day - let alone two - without having to be recharged. I bought an external battery pack for emergencies and keep an extra charger at work, because I got real tired of not having a functional phone after 16:00 every day.
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Depends what you are doing on it.

I'll browse the web for a couple of hours in total during that day, be on the phone and send a number of texts, while using it constantly to check calendar appointments.

At 100% brightness, I've squeezed two days out of it with that sort of usage. The battery meter does drop a lot, but even on the low icon, it'll go 5 hours.

Maybe you are using your phone more than me I guess.
 
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