Minimum brightness is still too bright — will it ever be fixed?

Laptop 16 / AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS / Windows 11

After checking the forum, I saw that this issue has already been reported multiple times. The screen is almost unusable in low-light conditions.

I don’t know much about drivers or firmware. Is this something that can be fixed? Will it ever be fixed? Would buying a GPU improve the situation?

For now, I’m using the Night Owls app. It dims the screen with some kind of color trick, except for the mouse and a few pop-ups.

I’m really undecided whether to keep the laptop or return it.

I thought someone dove a little deeper into the screen and saw that part of the issue had to do with the LED drivers themselves can only go so low. I though it was PWM related or something, I am stretching my memory to remember more on this topic.

Though not a great option, putting a (Privacy?) filter on the screen will cut down on the brightness some. Not an elegant solution though this use case is pretty specific to just low light environments right?

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It’s a good suggestion, but I prefer the Night Owls app i think. There are a lot of small imperfections, both this for me is a major issue.

About the LED drivers and the PWM, maybe one day I will investigate myself. I have no knowledge about electronics. Maybe I will use this to learn a bit about it and try solve it.

How hard it could be to send less power to a monitor? :sweat_smile:

I guess I will keep the laptop, but in general, it feels more a prototype than an end product. I cannot buy this for the rest of my workers.

But well… good try framework

Not very, the problem is doing so without deepfrying the colors, which is why there is a min limit and manufacturers aren’t too happy to let you go outside of that.

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Did the manufacturers not consider that we might like our colors deep-fried, with 11 secret spices? :poultry_leg: :100: :ok_hand: Shame on them for trying to dictate how we may eat our colors, which we paid for.

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Don’t worry, we got amds ABL for that XD, all of the deep-frying with none of the lower brightness.

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