[Money Mike]

Excellent write up here. I've been messing with brightness since cm7 was first released on the x and this has helped a ton. Thanks!

 

[Money Mike]

I'm noticing now that auto brightness is no longer adjusting itself unless I turn auto off and back on. An I the only one experiencing this?

Edit: I rebooted and it's working again.

 

[Money Mike]

OK cool, but you know that having 8 levels is useless too right? You can have as many levels as you want but you will only ever use a maximum 4 of them.

I tried 8 levels a while back and I can say from experience they don't work. They actually seemed to cause my phone not to adjust brightness correctly.

 

[Money Mike]

I just wanna point out one more time in case you didn't see what I said.

If you have light filter set to on:

-A reset threshold of anything other than "disabled" is going to make all of your extra levels (those not including 10, 100, 3600, or 8600) useless except for the ones between 10 and 100.
-Your extra levels are only going to be active for a maximum of your window length (10s on your settings). They don't have the ability to be persistent because of the huge deviation between the Droid X's discrete detected values.
-You're going to change brightness much more slowly, and I don't even mean because of the extra brightness level in between, I mean because the extra CPU usage will cause your phone to adjust slower.
-If you move to a different environment, you're going to be using a screen brightness based partially on where you were rather than entirely on where you are for a period of time equal to your window length (10s for you).
-You're going to drain more battery and use up processor allotment in real-time, meaning 100% of the time your screen is active.

If this is worth the "cool" look to you then you have nothing to worry about, just want to make sure you know the details.

+1 to this. I had the reset threshold enabled and it took forever for my phone to change brightness. It was most annoying in my truck in the dock. Now that I've disabled this my screen changes almost instantly when going from shade to direct sunlight.

 

[Money Mike]

Here's a cool trick I just found by accident...

If you press settings + vol up, it will set your brightness to max. I guess this is a quick way to get there if you are in a bright area and dont want to wait for your phone to auto adjust.

Doesn't seem to work with ssx2.1 but it was working with miui.

 

[Money Mike]

I'm not sure if I caused this or it was the script but all of sudden my sensor reads -1. It doesn't change the brightness anymore.

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I had this issue when I updated miui to the latest version. I had to wipe data/cache to fix it. I restored everything but system settings with miui backup.

 

[Money Mike]

Yes it is. It's an intermittent problem, so I know the settings are usually right. But there are times when it just sticks.

I've had this issue also. Never found a permanent fix but rather than rebooting you should be able to turn auto brightness off and back on to get it unstuck.