A1 Brightness Setting

Accutronman · 02-02-2017, 09:35 PM

New A1 user. Have brightness and natural light settings both set to auto with bedtime set to 10 pm. If I read past 10, I'm finding that after a bit brightness suddenly goes to zero. Software bug or some setting I have set wrong?

kansaskyle · 02-02-2017, 10:52 PM

Are you on the 4.2.8432 firmware? I experienced that problem last night too.

Accutronman · 02-03-2017, 09:49 AM

Yes. I've found if I uncheck the auto option on brightness things work fine

jiminrussell · 02-03-2017, 10:56 PM

This isn't unique to FW 4.2.8432, I have had the same thing happen with 4.2.8283.

nunocrzt · 02-05-2017, 04:43 PM

Ever since I received my KA1 (and it's already a replacement), auto brightness never worked really well. For example: if you lower it to 2% it will completely turn the light off regardless if it's day or night. Sometimes it's turned off when I power up to read, which still didn't understand why. If I try to set higher than 5% say 15, a few seconds later it will go back to 5 and i you try to put it back to 15 it will fight you and go back again to 5. It's rather annoying. I have noticed that it never goes lower than 4 and higher than 5%. In contrast natural light auto control works well. For instance auto brightness on a kindle voyage is really good and accurate and learns your settings quite quickly, something KA1 dooesn't.

02-02-2017, 09:35 PM	#1
Accutronman Member Posts: 12 Karma: 15318 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: Kobo Aura One	A1 Brightness Setting New A1 user. Have brightness and natural light settings both set to auto with bedtime set to 10 pm. If I read past 10, I'm finding that after a bit brightness suddenly goes to zero. Software bug or some setting I have set wrong?

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02-02-2017, 10:52 PM	#2
kansaskyle Addict Posts: 245 Karma: 765530 Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Austin, TX Device: Kobo Aura One & Forma, Kindle Voyage, PW, and Oasis 3	Are you on the 4.2.8432 firmware? I experienced that problem last night too.

02-03-2017, 09:49 AM	#3
Accutronman Member Posts: 12 Karma: 15318 Join Date: Jan 2017 Device: Kobo Aura One	Yes. I've found if I uncheck the auto option on brightness things work fine

02-03-2017, 10:56 PM	#4
jiminrussell JimInRussell Posts: 355 Karma: 143302 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Russell Ontario Canada Device: kobo Aura One, Forma, Elipsa, Sage	This isn't unique to FW 4.2.8432, I have had the same thing happen with 4.2.8283.

02-05-2017, 04:43 PM	#5
nunocrzt Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 15318 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: Kindle voyage	Ever since I received my KA1 (and it's already a replacement), auto brightness never worked really well. For example: if you lower it to 2% it will completely turn the light off regardless if it's day or night. Sometimes it's turned off when I power up to read, which still didn't understand why. If I try to set higher than 5% say 15, a few seconds later it will go back to 5 and i you try to put it back to 15 it will fight you and go back again to 5. It's rather annoying. I have noticed that it never goes lower than 4 and higher than 5%. In contrast natural light auto control works well. For instance auto brightness on a kindle voyage is really good and accurate and learns your settings quite quickly, something KA1 dooesn't.

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