How to set brightness through ADB on nexus 7

Question

I found some info on the web:

echo 1 /sys/devices/platform/flashlight.0/leds/flashlight/brightness

But on my Nexus 7 (flashed an AOSP), I couldn't find that directory.

Any idea about which file should I write to? Is this doable?

After ls /sys/devices/platform, I got:

LID
alarm
arm-pmu.0
bcm4330_rfkill
bcmdhd_wlan.1
bluesleep
fiq_debugger.0
fsl-tegra-udc
gpio-keys.0
grouper_misc
leds-gpio
oprofile-perf.0
power
power.0
pwm-backlight
ram_console
reg-dummy
reg-fixed-voltage.1
reg-fixed-voltage.10
reg-fixed-voltage.11
reg-fixed-voltage.2
reg-fixed-voltage.3
reg-fixed-voltage.4
reg-fixed-voltage.6
reg-fixed-voltage.8
regulatory.0
sdhci-tegra.2
sdhci-tegra.3
serial8250
snd-soc-dummy
spdif-dit.0
spdif-dit.1
spi_tegra.0
spi_tegra.3
tegra-ehci.1
tegra-i2c.0
tegra-i2c.1
tegra-i2c.2
tegra-i2c.3
tegra-i2c.4
tegra-nvmap
tegra-otg
tegra-pcm-audio
tegra-se
tegra-snd-rt5640.0
tegra30-ahub
tegra30-dam.0
tegra30-dam.1
tegra30-dam.2
tegra30-hda
tegra30-i2s.1
tegra30-i2s.3
tegra30-i2s.4
tegra30-spdif
tegra_camera
tegra_pwm.0
tegra_rtc
tegra_smmu
tegra_uart.1
tegra_uart.2
tegra_uart.3
tegra_uart.4
tegra_wdt
uevent

Try pwm-backlight! (just a guess) – thiagolr Jun 10 '13 at 16:05 — thiagolr, Jun 10 '13 at 16:05
@thiagolr Good guess! I found it there. Thanks! – JackWM Jun 10 '13 at 18:14 — JackWM, Jun 10 '13 at 18:14

score 40 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 27 '19 at 15:47

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There is a new binary shipping with Android Jellybean 4.2, which can be used to directly read/write to the system settings provider, accessible via command line.

For example: in order to increase brightness of the screen, use below command:

adb shell settings put system screen_brightness 200

Read more about SCREEN_BRIGHTNESS Note that the range of values is [0 - 255]

edited Mar 27 '19 at 15:47

tir38

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answered Jan 30 '15 at 18:27

AADProgramming

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You saved me, thanks! Is there a place where i can found commands like this one? – andrepm Jan 11 '16 at 17:49
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For more settings: `settings list namespace`. ('namespace' is one of {system, secure, global}, case-insensitive.) – David784 Aug 07 '18 at 22:41
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additionally `settings put system screen_brightness_mode 0` may be needed – cdanzmann Nov 23 '18 at 09:55
Godlike answer. – Ashton Oct 29 '21 at 02:34
This command doesn't work on my Sony XBR X850G Android TV. Hmmmm. – Trevor Sullivan Dec 10 '21 at 00:46

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '21 at 17:47

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The range of values is not necessarily from 0 - 255. On my OnePlus for example it ranges from 0-2047. If you want to know yours just set the brightness slider to max and then type: adb shell settings get system screen_brightness.

answered Feb 03 '21 at 17:47

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 20 '21 at 10:13

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You can use this adb command to set screen brightness

adb shell settings put system screen_brightness 255

and if your device has auto brightness setting then use this command first

adb shell settings put system screen_brightness_mode 0

answered Dec 20 '21 at 10:13

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '13 at 18:58

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You should use the pwm-backlight!

answered Jun 10 '13 at 18:58

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Can you please provide a full command example of how to use it? – android developer Mar 08 '14 at 00:30
I don't have a Nexus 7 to test it, but it should be something like this: adb shell "echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/pwm-backlight" – thiagolr Mar 10 '14 at 17:18

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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This did not work for the latest Nexus 7 (2013) for me. But this answer explains the way to find what you are looking for on any version: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13492336

However we need to note that in order to change any of this you need to have root access.

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answered Oct 13 '13 at 12:45

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