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Help Auto Brightness Disabled in KitKat?

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smg65

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My wife received her Moto X (Verizon) the other day. I was showing her how to use some settings, and when I came to Display/Brightness, I saw auto brightness could not be checked. Brightness could only be selected manually. The phone was delivered with KitKat.

Curious, I went to the Verizon and ATT stores to look at their demo phones. Verizon had two demo phones sitting side by side. One had the latest KitKat, like my wife's, and the other had an earlier version (perhaps Jellybean?). The KitKat one, like my wife's, could not allow auto brightness to be checked. The older one had a check box that did allow auto brightness to be selected. The only ATT demo had KitKat, and auto brightness also was not working.

I haven't found any discussion that addresses this. Right now, I'm assuming this is a Moto X/KitKat compatibility issue. She loves the phone, and will live with this. Just wondering if anyone else has dealt with this issue, and has possibly corrected it somehow.

Thanks!

Steve
 
I have a VZW X with Kit Kat and I am able to set auto brightness on and off. The bar is separated with a short bar on the left and the brightness scale on the right. Just tap the bar on the left to toggle between auto and manual.

Autobrightness on:
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Manual Brightness:
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smg65 said:
Thank you!!!! My old eyes did not see two bars until you pointed it out to me.

Again.... Thank you for your quick assistance!
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No worries, it was a subtle change in Kit Kat, and I hadn't figured it out until you asked. I also noticed when looking at the Sun icon you can tell if it is set to auto brightness if there is an A inside.
 
That is really, really, really bad UI. What was wrong with the old checkmark for auto-brightness??
 
doogald said:
That is really, really, really bad UI. What was wrong with the old checkmark for auto-brightness??
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This.

Another unintuitive annoyance - settings with a check box, where the description under the title describes the current state, and changes depending on whether the box is checked our not, instead of describing the actual setting. For example, a setting with a check box titled "Auto Brightness". The description should ALWAYS say something like "enable auto brightness", but instead it says "auto brightness enabled" when it's checked, and "auto brightness disabled" when it's unchecked (which to me indicates that auto brightness is NOT disabled because the box is NOT checked.
 
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