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Adaptive Brightness not working with FP4

  • /e/ version: 0.21-20220112156786
  • Device model(s): Fairphone 4
  • Device rooted: yes/no

Summary

Enabling adaptive Brightness has no effect Log shows related sensor cannot be accessed (see log attached below):

01-27 07:46:36.688   842 29936 E sensors-hal: handle_sns_std_sensor_event:176, handle_sns_std_sensor_event light sensor get backlight failed
01-27 07:46:36.687   842   842 W 51_see  : type=1400 audit(0.0:36552): avc: denied { read } for name="brightness" dev="sysfs" ino=47661 scontext=u:r:hal_sensors_default:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:sysfs:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
01-27 07:46:36.798   842 29936 E sensors-hal: handle_sns_std_sensor_event:176, handle_sns_std_sensor_event light sensor get backlight failed
01-27 07:46:36.795   842   842 W 51_see  : type=1400 audit(0.0:36553): avc: denied { read } for name="brightness" dev="sysfs" ino=47661 scontext=u:r:hal_sensors_default:s0 tcontext=u:object_r:sysfs:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
01-27 07:46:36.908   842 29936 E sensors-hal: handle_sns_std_sensor_event:176, handle_sns_std_sensor_event light sensor get backlight failed

The problem

Steps to reproduce

Enable adaptive Brightness in Phone settings

What is the current behavior?

Display Brightness not adapting

What is the expected correct behavior?

Brightness adapts to environment

Technical informations

Relevant logs (adb logcat)

adaptive_brightness.log

Relevant screenshots

Solutions

Workaround

Possible fixes

Edited by AE Pessimal