[M10 and Pro5] Screen dimming switch?

[Stefan]

Is there a switch anywhere is M10's system settings to turn screen dimming on/off? It can be annoying at times...

[Stefan (boldos)]

NOt affecting bluez.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

You can set the lock timeout to never, or you can use some options with the powerd-cli command line tool.

[Stefan (boldos)]

Hi Pat, thanks for a quick response.
The behavior (screen dimming) Im describing is actually the same as in std. desktop Ubuntu, where it can be turned on/off within System Settings -> Brightness&Lock -> 'Dim screen

[Stefan (boldos)]

...to save power'. This dimming took place omy M10 after approx 50 secs.
Now, hours later, after some toying around, setting things on/off and two reboots, the be dimming is gone....
Even after reboot (to make sure that some settings will not get reset/restoerd, the dimming seems to be defitely gone...

Just for the record, never seen this behaviour on E5.

Well, weird things are happening on Fridays :)

[Stefan (boldos)]

Ok, to teyt further, I re-set the device to its original state.
And although it remains updated to OTA-10.1, the rest was reset.

It seems that the 'dimming' feature is back; display will set itself to the lowest possible backroud lighting state after 50 secs. of inactivity again.

Once I idntify how I turned this 'feature'off last time, I will post it.

Until then, this should be regarded as a bug, since the feature is turned on by default and is nowhere to be controlled by enduser.

[alain (al1guillet)]

Hello,

The setting for screen dimming disappears automatically sometimes from the menu and the brightness doesn't adjust automatically in this case. A restart is enough to make the menu back and the brightness adjust automatically.

I use a Meizu Pro 5 in OTA 11.

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

@alain I think that should be another bug - please check if there's one open or open it yourself along with steps to reproduce and screenshots if you have them

[Julia Palandri (julia-palandri)]

I can confirm that the only option in which is not dimmed off is i I set the automatic locking in "never" - if I set it in any of the other options, the screen is dimmed before it is actually locked.

[alain (al1guillet)]

ok, Julia I will open a new bug for this. I can be long before I do it since it happens randomly and you would like a screenshot.

[Stefan (boldos)]

My original bug no longer issue. Bugreport can be closed.