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Originally Posted by davidfor
I have just had a play, and I think it's deliberate.
What I found is that if the light level was above 1% and I tapped the left end of the slider, it showed 0% and then went up to 1%. Then, if I tapped the end again, it went to zero.
I think this is deliberate to prevent people from accidentally turning the light off when they are trying to turn it all the way down. If you were trying to turn it to 1 or 2% but went to far and hit 0%, then the light goes off. And you have to get out of bed, turn the room light on so you can see the screen and turn the light back on. By making it a deliberate action, set the level to 1% and then turn the light off, it helps to avoid this problem. Not a perfect solution, but once you understand what is happening, I think it is workable.
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That sort of makes sense, and it's what I think they were going for.
The problem is that if you tap it to 0% once, and then
wait, the screen will go dark anyway after a few seconds.
So if you're trying to get it to 1% -ish by using gestures or the slider, you'll think you have it set properly. You start reading, and then seconds later the screen goes dark by itself. Then you have to blindly try to get the light back on and try again. At least in previous firmware, if you went too dark your finger was still on the slider. It was easy to raise the brightness again even if you couldn't see.
The ideal behaviour would be to program it so that that pulling the slider all the way down the first time just brings it to 1%, where it should stay. Then a second pull on the slider should bring it to 0% instantly.
It's a really silly design decision to have the light suddenly change, several seconds after the user last touched the screen, without any input from the user.