Badass Screen Dimmer

Is your Kindle screen too bright for reading at night?  Even on it's lowest Brightness setting, many people find that the Kindle can be too bright for reading in a dark room. Badass Battery Dimmer lets you dim the screen way past what the built-in Kindle brightness setting will allow, giving you a much better night reading experience. You can dim your screen without ever leaving the app you are currently running. Better yet, you can see the content on your screen while you dim - no need to launch into separate screens.

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Badass Screen Dimmer

Main Screen:

Badass Screen Dimmer has one screen.  This can be launched from the Notification Bar (if enabled), or directly from your launcher tray.  Note:  Since this is a utility app you'll use often, it will not always show up on your Kindle Carousel.  This is to prevent this app from always showing up in the first few Carousel items.

Launching Badass Screen Dimmer

In order to work and dim the screen past what the Kindle usually allows, the screen dimmer needs to always be running in the background.  If you want to change the brightness, simply launch the screen dimmer from the notification bar, choose a preset button (or customize it with the slider).  Then close the screen, and continue reading.



Enabled:  By default, the screen dimmer is not enabled.  When it is not enabled, the standard Brightness settings for the Kindle will be used.  When enabled, Badass Screen Dimmer will take over your brightness controls.  Note:  If you change the system brightness settings while the dimmer is enabled, the system settings will rule until you adjust (or disable/enable) the screen dimmer.

Customize Preset Buttons

Preset Buttons:  By default, Badass Screen Dimmer comes with 4 preset buttons (Min, Night, Day, and Max).   Simply clicking on the button will immediately adjust the display to the preset brightness.  Long-clicking the button will allow you to change the name (5 characters only) and brightness setting for the preset.  From hereon-out, clicking the button will set the screen to your custom value.

Settings:  By default, Badass Screen Dimmer will run on startup and show an icon in the Notification Bar.  This provides very quick access to the utility without having to hunt through your app icons.   You can disable either feature, but accessing the app becomes harder - and you want easy access to your Dimmer settings.

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Troubleshooting:

1. The screen is too dim!  I'm in bright sunlight and I forgot unsecured loans to undo my minimum dimmness.   
• Go into a dark room, or simply reboot your kindle.  This will restore the default screen brightness with the Screen Dimmer disabled.
2. The screen dimmer says it's Enabled, but the screen is still bright.
• If you adjust the brightness settings using the default Kindle controls while the Screen Dimmer is enabled, then the Kindle controls take priority.  To get the Dimmer back, simply click on the Dimmer and adjust the setting, or bad credit loans disable/enable it to restore the dimmer function.
3. I don't see the Dimmer app in the Carousel.
• This is by design.  Look in your App menu, add it to your Favorites, or simply access it from the Notification bar.   Since this will be a constantly accessed app, it shouldn't constantly show up in the first few items in the carousel, otherwise you lose the benefit of the carousel.