How to disable the auto brightness in the Samsung Series 7 Slate
One of the things that I noticed right away with the Samsung Series 7 Slate was the auto brightness constantly changing the brightness on the Slate. This is a real problem when I am holding it because I am left handed so my right hand holds the slate near the brightness sensor (1/3 of the way down the right side of the slate in the black/bezel area). My right hand would always cover it or just go over the sensor causing the screen brightness to adjust. It really got annoying, so I wanted to disable it, but I could not figure it out. I finally found that there is a Samsung utility called Easy Settings that allows you control a bunch of settings including this auto brightness.
Well I am in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, so this is the following way to turn off.
1. Download the Samsung Easy Setting software to help you better control Touch, Power Management, Wireless, Display, Background, and Screen Saver. Get it here.
2. Go to Manuals & Downloads, then to Software.
3. Find Easy Settings (software) (ver.1.2.0.23) and download.
4. Comes in a zip file so unzip it into a folder
5. Find the Setup.EXE and run it in Windows 7 Compatibility mode.
Note: When I say to run in Windows 7 Compatibility mode = To install these drivers you will need to right click on the file, select Properties, click on the Compatibility tab. Put a check in the Compatibility Mode (Select Windows 7), Click ok and then double click on the file to install.
You may get a pop up about it not installing correctly. Don’t worry it installs. This should create a shortcut on your desktop. Go ahead and launch it.
6. Click on the Display setting.
7. Uncheck “Use the auto brightness control depending on the ambient illumination” and then you can close the window.
Now you won’t be annoyed with the constant screen brightness changing.
UPDATE: (Windows 8 RTM)
The Samsung Easy Setting application is no longer working in Windows 8 RTM. To work around this.
Open Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Power Options
Click on the Change Plan Settings link to the right of the Power Plan. Click on Change advanced power settings link.
Scroll down the list and look for Display and expand.
Under Enable adaptive brightness change to No.
Cameron Mergel 
Thank you so much, I called samsung’s support…. they were no help at all.
I just follow-up your steps and works perfectly, thanks again…. I really appreciate the tip:)
Carl, glad it helped.
Thanks for your helpful, clear and detailed posts on the Samsung series 7 State with Win8! That screen brightness flicker was during me mad!
Walter,
I am glad it helped you. I am right there with you. It drove me crazy as well.
Cameron
yay brightness, I could barely see anything with the brightness changing on me all the time and i was changing it every 30 seconds, Thanking you!
Hey, I’m glad it helped.
Thanks for the post, I tried running the setup file in compatibility mode, it installs fine, but when trying to run the application the program stops working. Any fix for this?
Shadi,
I have not run into problem. Not sure what to try.
-cm
That’s ok. I managed to disable the auto adjust from the windows control panel anyway. Thanks.
How were you able to adjust from Windows?
RTM will not let me install the Easy Settings software regardless of compatibility setting.
Thanks! Alex
Alex,
Yeah, running into the same problem with Easy Settings app on RTM. I now have the //BUILD tablet and I can’t seem to reproduce the brightness issue now.
But there should be a way as well in the Power Options. What do you have set for your Power Options?
Control Panel | Hardware and Sound | Power Options |
Try High Performance
Or click on the Change Plan Settings link to the right of the Power Plan. Click on Change advanced power settings link.
Scroll through the list:
Look for Intel(R) Graphics Settings and expand.
What do you have for On Battery and Plugged in?
Scroll further down the list:
Look for Display and expand.
What do you have for the Enable adaptive brightness?
Ah! I didn’t know about the Advanced power settings.
There, under Display, there is an “Enable adaptive brightness”, it was On. I turned it Off.
No more dimming!
Thanks!
Alex
Awesome! I think I will update the blog post to include that since Easy Setting is no longer working in W8 RTM.
Brilliant. Thx a lot from another left handed guy. I was already thinking my device had a screen issue. The update for win 8 is very useful. I would never have found it by myself.
I’m so glad u posted this! Any movement of my laptop and it seemed to change brightness. I thought something was wrong with it! Who would even make this setting at all??? A complete nuisance and very distracting. I hope samsung does not repeat this feature in future laptop designs
Kristy,
I’m glad that it helped out.
Thanks Cameron this has helped keep my sanity! I don’t suppose you have seen an issue where there is a missing keyboard option? I don’t have the full keyboard option to select, which is the full keyboard option. This means I don’t have a tab etc unless I am plugged in!??
I think i saw that it is related to one of the versions of wacom drivers. I think the latest version of wacom should fix that.
Thanks Cameron I appreciate your interest and help with this, I shall investigate this
Thanks for the help it was driving me nuts . A bit annoyed I have to run around the net to get my brand new technology to work properly ! Cheers
Kim,
I am glad that helped. It is an annoying feature. 🙂
Cameron
Hello!
I just bought a samsung series 5 laptop (15″,1600×900) , and i have a similar issue with the display. The brightness/contrast is adjusted when switching from one application to another, from explorer to desktop etc… It is driving me crazy.I followed the steps above for windows 8 but it doesn’t work. Thanks for your advice
Same here series 7, 13″ turned of adaptive brightness as explained above and also in services panel and put on maximum performance. It works but not completely – system still adapts (but not as aggressive). There is probably some Samsung software taking over, but I can’t find it. For all that think you fixed it – shine a flashlight into sensor near webcam and watch screen get brighter – you may or may not be surprised. Anyone have a fix?
Thank you so much! Took me WEEKS to figure this out (off & on hours & here there). Thank you thank you thank you! These exact directions worked for my Samsung Chronos 7 notebook (in Windows 8, but did all directions above)
Glad it worked for you. Yeah, it is such a pain.
thank you so friggin much for this
Glad it helped. More and more of these tablets and computers are coming with this enabled. Very irritating.
This is my first time visit at here and i am in fact pleassant
to read everthing at one place.
The above didn’t work for me in Windows 10. Instead I used the following:
Type “services.msc”
Locate: “Sensor Monitoring Service” and disable it.
Should be ok once restart Windows.
*Note: Not sure whether this will effect any other sensors, but im fine with it so far. All the best