Auto Brightness

[restlessdan]

Hello everyone,

has anyone noticed since the latest firmware (17.8.200.3) that the auto brightness seems to activate at the lowest brightness setting and slowly adjust to the light around you, which makes it harder when me or my partner are outside in bright sunlight to quickly check stats, time or notifications that come through.

I just find it a bit to slow now whereas before it felt like it woke the screen at mid brightness and then adjusted up or down,  and was wondering of the general consensus of the new auto brightness?

and also i was hoping for some official feedback as to this change? 

[Mtnman]

Glad I finally took the time to look into this.  It has been driving me crazy the last couple of days.  I liked it the way it was before they changed it.  I had to go back and manually set it to normal lighting.  Nothing worse than staring at your wrist for 10 seconds to see what time it is. 

[ThePreacher]

I thought I was imagining it. Glad it's not just me.

[TPW]

Nope it wasn't just you😎

What I did is I just put the setting of normal battery life doesn't seem to suffer that much and I can always see my display😎

Terrance P. Winkler

[estesbubba]

For those having the problem try this:

1. On the Blaze Settings, turn the Brightness to Dim, Normal, Max, Auto.
2. In your app change the Clock Face to "Zone" and Sync.
3. Test the Auto brightness in different environments. 
4. Now you can change it back to the clock face you like.

I did the steps above and it's back to working like a champ...at least for now.

[AndrewFitbit]

@estesbubba Thanks for the suggestion!

For the "Auto" setting being too dim, see my post over here.

Try switching to 'Normal' as a workaround in the meantime. Please note switching to 'Normal' will have a slight impact on battery life.

[coachmcguire]

No too dim inside and out?

[Rich_Laue]

@coachmcguire, please reread the post, above your post, then follow the link.

I believe by manually controll8ng the brightness you will be able to read thr clock.

[SunsetRunner]

In auto brightness in the dark I can barely see the watch, I need to adjust the setting to dim. Why is that? 

[Rich_Laue]

@SunsetRunner coulď it be tye eye ex are not az good as they use to bd? Or maybr tye tracker needs a restart by holding in both the left an lower right buttons.

[SunsetRunner]

I'm still having the same problem in auto brightness in the dark. During
the day it works perfectly, but at night It does not dim and I can barely
see the watch.

[SunsetRunner]

In the dark

Daylight

DaylightHere is what I see