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Display dimming unless plugged in - Brad - 05-07-2021

Hi everybody
I just received my pinephone beta with convergence pack which is the latest they offer with Manjaro and Plasma Mobile. 

Things have gone perfectly with it.  I have updated and upgraded everything perfectly but for some reason at the end of the day yesterday the display goes to black unless I hold my finger on the display.  Initially I thought that it may have been related to low battery which was at 15% so plugging it in fixed it.  But today with full charge the display shows itself only momentarily and then dims.  If plugged in its fine.

The "display brightness" slider that I access by dragging the screen down will slide itself to left and dim the display.  If I drag it to the right to full brightness it stays there while my finger is on it, if I remove it the slider slides back to left and gives a black screen.

I don't that this is related to an update as the phone was fine for a while after I updated and upgraded. Its just went like this for seemingly no reason.

Can anybody possibly suggest a way forward here?

Thanks for amy help.


RE: Display dimming unless plugged in - Brad - 05-07-2021

I should add that I have also checked the display setting and both lock screen and screen turn off are set at 15 minutes.


RE: Display dimming unless plugged in - megous - 05-07-2021

The phone has an ambient light and proximity sensor in the top left corner. It may not be working correctly.

Maybe just disable the automatic brightness adjustment in your distro?


RE: Display dimming unless plugged in - acrux - 05-08-2021

(05-07-2021, 02:23 PM)Brad Wrote: I should add that I have also checked the display setting and both lock screen and screen turn off are set at 15 minutes.

It helps if you search the forum Wink
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13744


RE: Display dimming unless plugged in - Brad - 05-08-2021

Thank you for that reply and the link.  I did search but was unable to turn anything up.  That has however fixed the issue for which I am very grateful.

Thank you for taking time to reply.


RE: Display dimming unless plugged in - Brad - 05-09-2021

Thank you for the reply. I didn't have any luck searching first time. But this did appear to be the problem and now its all good.

Thanks again for taking the time.