Midnight (Night Mode) for Android review
Midnight (Night Mode) is a free application for Android devices to reduce the screen brightness automatically or manually.
Bright screens can be a problem, especially late at night, early in the morning or in places where it is dark.
It does not really matter if you are staring at a computer monitor, television screen or smartphone display.
While it is usually possible to turn down the brightness of the display using built-in options, doing so regularly is not comfortable. Imagine having to turn down the brightness of the display each day in the evening, and up again the next morning.
Apart from that, you may run into thresholds that you cannot cross using built-in tools. That's where third-party programs like F.Lux for the PC, or F.Lux for Android, or Twilight for Android come into play.
Mightnight (Night Mode) for Android
Mightnight (Night Mode) is a free application for Android that requires no extra permissions when you install it. It is ad-free, comes without any annoyances, and compatible with all Android versions 2.3.3 and up. Best of all, unlike F.Lux for Android, it does not require root permissions.
The main purpose of Midnight is to reduce the screen brightness when it is too bright. It supports reducing the brightness below the minimum that Android's controls offer by default.
All features are configured on two pages. The first displays the four available filter colors, options to manually adjust the brightness, and a preview option.
Swipe to the right once you are done customizing the filter to configure manual, scheduled or automatic modes.
Manual as the name suggests gives you full control over when Midnight applies the filter on the screen. Scheduled uses a start and end time in which the filter is enabled by the application.
Automatic finally is an experimental feature that activates the brightness filter automatically using time lapse or lock screen modes.
It is suggested to check out both automatic modes if you want Midnight to control the filters on its own. The main advantage over schedule is that it may apply filters outside of the scheduled time.
Settings
The settings provide you with several interesting options. You may set the minimum screen brightness to a lower level than the default value of 20%. The app supports 10% and 5% as well which you may set under settings.
Another option that you have there is to configure Midnight's notification's behavior. The app displays a persistent notification by default that you may use to control the application's behavior even if it is in automatic mode.
That's useful to disable the filtering for instance, or change the brightness reduction. You may also set a notification priority, and dynamic notification priority in the settings. The notification priority determines where Midnight's controls are displayed in the notification area.
Closing Words
Midnight (Night Mode) may not be as sophisticated as the root-requiring application F.Lux, but it gets the job done when it comes to reducing the brightness of the screen. Android users who have not rooted their device may want to give it a try if they want to tame the screen brightness of their device at times.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?