BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Edition changes the brightness by itself

[costales]

Hi!

I can't reproduce it, but with auto mode, the brightness is changing with a reason: by example, you touch the screen, the brightness is lower and in 2" is higher with the same light.

Thanks in advance!

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Maybe your hand is momentarily blocking the light? If so, maybe the automatic brightness code should wait for any dimming to (a) persist for longer (e.g. 4 seconds) or (b) to be less volatile (e.g. turning off a light switch results in less-volatile dimming than moving your hand over the phone does).

[costales (costales)]

Hi Matthew! No, it's changing without momentarily blocking.
In other way, your fix would be great!
Best regards!

[António Miranda (abfm90)]

It's very sensible! But it's working at it should... Maybe if there was a way to react less to brightness change?

Imagine, if you move your phone the light will change and BQ does that quiet well, it changes imediatly... which sucks because it's always changing brightness...

So, in my opinion, it's not really a bug, it's more like a settings problem...

[António Miranda (abfm90)]

This is currently fixed on my BQ (15.10).

I don't know what happen, but now it's more consistent!

[costales (costales)]

15.10? That was not released yet :O

[António Miranda (abfm90)]

I'm on Vivid-proposed channel, which was updated to 15.10 Willy (Ubuntu 15.10 (r218) ). On 15.04 this bug disappear a month ago.

I don't like stability :) On RTM, my friend says brightness works well too (BQ).