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Notification Light Issue

So when will there be an update to fix this? Notification light at the bottom ONLY works for low battery and charging nothing else...

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sonic2911 said:
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I hope! haha seems to be an issue with the Z as well.

yup, z and zl are same -,-
im thinking again to buy ZL or TX. TX is much cheaper -,- but hard to get the good display version

sonic2911 said:
yup, z and zl are same -,-
im thinking again to buy ZL or TX. TX is much cheaper -,- but hard to get the good display version
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Nice phone but when going from the Note 1 and then Note 2 from last year I cant go to any screen smaller than 5inches

oh, u got the bid hands

sonic2911 said:
oh, u got the bid hands
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Nope. VERY small hands haha

hyelton said:
So when will there be an update to fix this? Notification light at the bottom ONLY works for low battery and charging nothing else...
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I don't have the device yet, but have you tried LightFlow?

exchequer598 said:
I don't have the device yet, but have you tried LightFlow?
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Not yet, But this issue seems to be a known issue and has to do with the settings but I think I might try it.

hyelton said:
Not yet, But this issue seems to be a known issue and has to do with the settings but I think I might try it.
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PLease let us know if Lightflow works for the ZL. Thanks

caliber177 said:
PLease let us know if Lightflow works for the ZL. Thanks
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Lightflow did not work Got an update today and it didnt work either..

hyelton said:
So when will there be an update to fix this? Notification light at the bottom ONLY works for low battery and charging nothing else...
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Notification led works fine here. No issues whatsoever for last 3 days. It blinks for missed calls, sms, other notification on lockscreen, while charging, when battery is low (<15%), on playing media or changing media (pics/songs etc) playback. The led even changes its colour according to the pics being viewed or album art of the song being played, which feels quite awesome :victory:!
I have the international Xperia ZL black (C6502) currently running latest stock sony rom (build ver 10.1.A.1.434), not rooted & oem BL status (ie locked).

Yes it works for some people but it's a KNOWN SONY ISSUE! Even with the z.
Sent from my C6502 using xda premium

Fixed it! Had to reset and make sure Google account wouldnt backup or load a backup and now works

hyelton said:
Fixed it! Had to reset and make sure Google account wouldnt backup or load a backup and now works
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By works, do you mean you are able to set custom LED notifications using light flow? Mine works while viewing pictures, listening to music, low batt and missed call. But there are no options to customize it.

anirudh412 said:
By works, do you mean you are able to set custom LED notifications using light flow? Mine works while viewing pictures, listening to music, low batt and missed call. But there are no options to customize it.
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By works I mean that It WORKS when I get MMS,SMS,Email, Missed call, Gmail and so on. Before Notifications would only work during battery low or battery charging which is a KNOWN issue with Sony at the moment for the Z and the ZL. But yes I use light flow to change the colours.

hyelton said:
By works I mean that It WORKS when I get MMS,SMS,Email, Missed call, Gmail and so on. Before Notifications would only work during battery low or battery charging which is a KNOWN issue with Sony at the moment for the Z and the ZL. But yes I use light flow to change the colours.
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Sorry for being retarded, but you mean LightFlow works for you now?

anirudh412 said:
Sorry for being retarded, but you mean LightFlow works for you now?
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Yes.

hyelton said:
Yes.
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Wonderful! So you say you did a factory data reset? and uncheck 'allow google to back up this phone'?

Weird. Mine worked out of the box.
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[Q] The so called Optimized Backlight

Or does anyone know how to turn off this annoying misfeature?
Optimized Backlight is the name sony gave to the screen content dependent backlight setting. If your screen has a big proportion of white or other bright colors, the backlight will be brighter as well, if the content is mostly dark, then the backlight will get darker.
This is independent from the adaptive backlight setting and can not be turned off.
I did try CM11 to get rid of it, but CM11 also has this feature.

Try - hard boot using vol up + power button. Z1 owners reported it works.

thermalboyz said:
Try - hard boot using vol up + power button. Z1 owners reported it works.
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Nope.
But, I searched a bit, and this feature is called Content Adaptive BackLight or CABL.
So, for the custom ROM builders out there, what about the build.prop setting ro.qualcomm.cabl ? In the sony ROM it is set to 1. Perhaps setting it to 0 would work?

I don't have a solution, but I agree that this is an annoying anti-feature that adds nothing to the user experience or image quality, just gets irritating fast.
Small consolation: it doesn't seem as aggressive on KitKat ...

ghtop said:
I don't have a solution, but I agree that this is an annoying anti-feature that adds nothing to the user experience or image quality, just gets irritating fast.
Small consolation: it doesn't seem as aggressive on KitKat ...
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I dug a bit further and it seems that at least in some versions or on some devices with cm there actually is an advanced display settings dialog, where cabc, as they call it, can be disabled, but it wasn't there on my cm11.
ARBEIT ANGST KONSUMTERROR

Any solution to this yet? I'm guessing root is the only way? I find it annoying, but at least it's not as bad as the Z1.

toiletsss said:
Any solution to this yet? I'm guessing root is the only way? I find it annoying, but at least it's not as bad as the Z1.
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i have root but still no way to turn it off do you know how to switch it off?
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Ame123 said:
i have root but still no way to turn it off do you know how to switch it off?
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This can not be turned off even if rooted.

I have same problem Its really anti feature!

Dislike this feature

mcghun said:
Dislike this feature
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HARD REBOOT is the right way to fix this problem for a while.

Wrong thread, meant to post in c6903 sorry.

[Q] z1 compact screen brightness change itself even auto brightness is disable.

xperia z1 compact brightness change itslef even when i have turned off the auto brightness. for example, the brightness becomes dimmer when the overall display colour is dark or black colour and it becomes brighter when the ovrall display colour is white or bright colour. i mean im able to notice there is a slight change in display brightness when im viewing photo, watching videos or surfing inernet. the brightness just change itself even when i turn off the auto brightness. so is there any solution or is there anyone has same curcamstances?

CABL
Sent from the app on my Z1C...

if you're rooted you can disable it by changing the build.prop ro.qualcomm.cabl=1 to ro.qualcomm.cabl=0

Riyal said:
if you're rooted you can disable it by changing the build.prop ro.qualcomm.cabl=1 to ro.qualcomm.cabl=0
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I tried that, but the effect still appears. Any idea?

I've noticed the same issue, especially when browsing using Dolphin

Two ideas (which both may be totally wrong).
Does the phenomenon occur anywhere or only in certain apps? Some apps just ignore certain system settings and mess with the phone how they want or how is defined within the respective app settings (like switching to auto-brightness even when it is turned off in the android system settings). There seem to be some very basic points missing in the holy whatever-app-coding-styleguide for android: Options shall always be OPTIONAL and, in case of doubt (which is always), don't fcuk with stick to the system defaults ... but I'm running off the track here.
With auto-brightness turned-on, there may be some slight loop-back kind of behaviour in that a brighter screen also creates a brighter environment for the light sensor, thus, making the device turning up brightness even more. Things like that happen in control/measurement systems all the time (well, not really all the time, but they do happen). I've never seen it on my phone, though. So, this is a very very hypothetical hypothesis if I may say so.

Hi
I set ro.qualcomm.cabl to zero, and for me the irritating behavior went away., and unfortunately the irritating behavior is still there.
Thanks for the info!
//Gunnar

GunnarKarlsson said:
Hi
I set ro.qualcom.cabl to zero, and for me the irritating behavior went away.
Thanks for the info!
//Gunnar
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Just one qustion:
I assume i have to be rooted to set this value, correct?
Thanks in advance

Zweistein82 said:
Just one qustion:
I assume i have to be rooted to set this value, correct?
Thanks in advance
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Correct!

GunnarKarlsson said:
Hi
I set ro.qualcom.cabl to zero, and for me the irritating behavior went away.
Thanks for the info!
//Gunnar
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That's strange because it's kernel related so changing the build.prop has no effect as already mentioned, which I can +1 to.

XperienceD said:
That's strange because it's kernel related so changing the build.prop has no effect as already mentioned, which I can +1 to.
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I'll look again just to make sure, there might have been a placebo effect...
I noticed the behavior in the kindle app. When reading white text on a black background the screen got brighter when there was a white chapter start image.
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XperienceD said:
That's strange because it's kernel related so changing the build.prop has no effect as already mentioned, which I can +1 to.
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You are right, just placebo on my part, when duplicating the error case I noticed it in, the CABL is still there.
I really really wanted it to work though, that must count for something... :-/
I attach the images I used for comparison...
//Gunnar

GunnarKarlsson said:
I really really wanted it to work though, that must count for something... :-/
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If only it worked that way lol. It's in the kernel but thus far no dev seems to have looked in to it.
Sent from the app on my Z1C...

XperienceD said:
That's strange because it's kernel related so changing the build.prop has no effect as already mentioned, which I can +1 to.
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From google I got cabl=content adaptive backlight and it is intended for changing backlight change.. But what is its advantage?? Is it battery saver or battery eater??
Sent from my Xperia Z1 Compact (D5503)

Was searching for a solution to this 'feature', especially on a sunny day it is very annoying. Could it be that is has something to do with the BRAVIA engine? Just a thought..

so?
So this problem is kernel-related issue?
Is there any kernel that have fixed this?

Any soulution? It is super annoying

I have same problem. Any solution?
CM11
Thank you

I know this is for z1c, but I just got my hands on a z1 c6903 and it seems to do this a lot and fade on dark colours. I read that on 4.2.2 there used to be an optimized backlight option and disabling it would stop the screen doing it but it was taken out from kitkat. Does anyone know if any custom kernels would fix it? It's just really annoying.

What about setting:
/sys/devices/mdss_dsi_panel/cabc
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Annoying Ass Issues w/ Mate 20X.. Hope You Guys Can Help

I'm planning to buy this phone. But bugs keep me from buying it. I shouldnt spend $700 with stupid issues it shouldnt have. Hope you guys know of a fix....
1. Can I turn off auto brightness without rebooting? Why no toggle for it in status bar?
2. No dark notifications... why aren't notifications dark?
3. Why does the EMUI look so outdated?
4. Some features not working with 3rd party launchers like Nova. Is there a fix?
Dont mean to sound like an ass. But I shouldnt have to invest almost a grand for a phone with issues other phones dont have. Its ridiculous. If you guys have solutions to these issues please let me know. Hope to join the huawei family without them.
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The fact thet you're here in XDA tells me that you play more with your phone than keeping it bone stock.
1 - Nope, auto brightness isnalways ON which I find stupid.
2 - There is Dark mode that turn the system UI black including Notification panel but not Notification Banner.
3 - I hate EMUI
4 - You can't change launcher on most recent update and there no fix to that. You can on older version like 9.1.0.120 but you need an unlocked bootloader and root.
So do your self a favor and stay away from any Huawei Device and go with Oneplus or Xiaomi

Have bought this phone (UK version) but yet to recieve it.
Not being able to change launcher, is that an issue just for the china version or the international version too on the latest update? That would be a biggie.
Also are there any issues with notifications not getting through all the time (an affliction a lot of Huawei phones suffer from). I had the Honor note 8 (Chinese) and this issue made it infuriating to use. A phone without notifications working properly is a dumb rather than a smart phone in my book.
Lastly one of the best bits about the Honor Note 8 was the ability to clear the notifications by double tapping on the finger print sensor. Do you have that on the Mate 20 X?

I'm planning to buy this phone. But bugs keep me from buying it. I shouldnt spend $700 with stupid issues it shouldnt have. Hope you guys know of a fix....
1. Can I turn off auto brightness without rebooting? Why no toggle for it in status bar?
Dunno, brightness never bothered me
2. No dark notifications... why aren't notifications dark?
who said that ? THEMES !! it comes will all sort of colors, just download huawei theme manager from playstore, it also including fonts as well
there is also a theme editor from the playstore where you mix and match and come up with your favorite theme all from your phone.
3. Why does the EMUI look so outdated?
because it is ! next month they are releasing a new version where they copied alot from OneUI, which is a good thing and they focused on smoothness and cleaner UI
4. Some features not working with 3rd party launchers like Nova. Is there a fix?
i am using nova, i think this is a chinese version issue not global
Dont mean to sound like an ass. But I shouldnt have to invest almost a grand for a phone with issues other phones dont have. Its ridiculous. If you guys have solutions to these issues please let me know. Hope to join the huawei family without them.
i have it for almost 4 months, and i got the note10+ with my renewal and trust me, i sold it without even opening the box. nothing comes close to Mate 20x as a complete package these days, its really fast, battery lasts forever, great screen, amazing camera, amazing charging speeds and one of a kind speakers.

vodovodo said:
who said that ? THEMES !! it comes will all sort of colors, just download huawei theme manager from playstore, it also including fonts as well
there is also a theme editor from the playstore where you mix and match and come up with your favorite theme all from your phone.
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What do you mean?? The notifications drop down is dark. But the notifications banner color is white! Is there any way to get this to turn dark? Does the Power Shade app work as a solution?
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i am using nova, i think this is a chinese version issue not global
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So I can install launchers in the global version without any problems?

Auto brightness, is always on auto after a reboot but can be turned off via toggle?
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Limeybastard said:
Auto brightness, is always on auto after a reboot but can be turned off via toggle?
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Are you sure about that? Auto brightness is disabled until after a reboot.

deloj said:
Are you sure about that? Auto brightness is disabled until after a reboot.
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What I was saying is that one can turn auto bright off but it resets to auto of reboot, that's what I think.
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Limeybastard said:
What I was saying is that one can turn auto bright off but it resets to auto of reboot, that's what I think.
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Oh thats what you think so you never tried it?

deloj said:
Oh thats what you think so you never tried it?
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No I was asking inmy original post hence the question mark.
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deloj said:
Oh thats what you think so you never tried it?
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Auto brightness turns on after every reboot but you can toggle it off. It stays off until you reboot the phone again.

zain0300 said:
Auto brightness turns on after every reboot but you can toggle it off. It stays off until you reboot the phone again.
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That's what I was trying to ask and say. Thanks.
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vodovodo said:
THEMES !! it can give you dark notifications
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Would you please name one? Thank You
PS: yeah, pretty sure not being able to change Launcher is only a Chinese problem. Cause I'm able to change it on my Mate 20 X in USA. I used to use Rootless launcher for quite a bit. But switched back because of the ? animations.
(Quite jealous of the OnePlus animations and gestures control. I miss them from my OP 5T)
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zain0300 said:
Auto brightness turns on after every reboot but you can toggle it off. It stays off until you reboot the phone again.
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Is there a way through a tweak or custom rom to toggle it without rebooting?
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deloj said:
Is there a way through a tweak or custom rom to toggle it without rebooting?
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You can toggle it ON/OFF whenever. It does not require a reboot. Adaptive brightness turns ON anytime the device is rebooted. It is not such a big deal do not worry about it if you are going to buy the device.

Question Colour shift when display switches it's refresh rate .

Guys im noticing colour shift on the display when the refresh rate switches from 120hz to 60hz in Mi11x.Its so noticeable and i don't know if it's a hardware or software issue and if anybody knows the fix then plz tell .

Sorry to state the obvious, just keep display at 120!!! Sorted

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Sorry to state the obvious, just keep display at 120!!! Sorted
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Is my phone defective or is this present in every mi11x cause this is a software bug ?

Clear the data of Battery and performance app. That should do the trick. But it will return when you reboot. I do that in mine a few days and it somehow fixed it self. Now I don't do clear data trick. I'm on 120fps all the way with no color/brightness shift.

LynnnXDA said:
Clear the data of Battery and performance app. That should do the trick. But it will return when you reboot. I do that in mine a few days and it somehow fixed it self. Now I don't do clear data trick. I'm on 120fps all the way with no color/brightness shift.
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I frequently clear the data of Battery and performance app but after some time it goes back to it's original behaviour and im not able to understand if this is a issue with hardware or software and if it's with software is it gonna get fixed miui 13 update or not any idea about this ?

Syed Qaiser Abbas said:
I frequently clear the data of Battery and performance app but after some time it goes back to it's original behaviour and im not able to understand if this is a issue with hardware or software and if it's with software is it gonna get fixed miui 13 update or not any idea about this ?
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I'm not sure, but try disabling "Smoothen transitions" and "Sunlight mode" in Settings > Display > Brightness level, as well as disabling "Adaptive colors" in Color Scheme section.
I remember doing some of this fixed the problem.
Please share your results with us.

No bro it doesn't help it's still the same.
Is this problem fixed in miui 13 ?
Or is this a hw issue which means my unit is defective ?

I have tested in my phone, I can see color changes in the lapse between 60-120hz transition if the color scheme is saturated and adaptive colors is enabled. You need to try with a hard reset, I know is annoying, but we decide to get a Mibuggi phone.

It's happens to me when on arrowos 12 but setting the minimum refresh rate to 120hz fixes it for me, would prefer to have the minimum set the 60hz but this is my only work around

ErickBls said:
I have tested in my phone, I can see color changes in the lapse between 60-120hz transition if the color scheme is saturated and adaptive colors is enabled. You need to try with a hard reset, I know is annoying, but we decide to get a Mibuggi phone.
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So is this a software issue that's present on every device or hardware issue thats present on limited devices

Syed Qaiser Abbas said:
So is this a software issue that's present on every device or hardware issue thats present on limited devices
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I have been reading about and it's not clear at all.
Look to the next thread:
New - Subtle change in screen apperance/color with 120hz enabled
Since I installed Xiaomi EU weekly 21.12.8 (MIUI 12.6) I noticed that the apperence of the screen changes in a subtle way sometimes. For instance, dark elements of the background change to darker shade when I stop scrolling on the google now feed. The screen flickers for one millisecond and than...
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Syed Qaiser Abbas said:
Guys im noticing colour shift on the display when the refresh rate switches from 120hz to 60hz in Mi11x.Its so noticeable and i don't know if it's a hardware or software issue and if anybody knows the fix then plz tell .
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Well I have just spent the past half hour or so trying to reproduce your issue. With 'show refresh rate' enabled in dev options I see no change at all with whatever settings I try. I cannot see or reproduce you issue with my poco f3. However, I am running a custom rom - AICP 16.1.....
I'm not sure if this is the sole reason I don't have your problem, and I'm not saying you don't have a hardware problem. But, why not try a custom rom to see if you can reproduce th issue. I see you have been around XDA for a while so should know your way around flashing a custom rom to check... Might be easier and quicker than sending your phone off for possible repair. Also, one of the first things the repair center may well say (I'm assuming) is to try and factory reset you phone after backing up.
SO, my point is, if you are that worried its a hardware issue, and assuming the service center will just ask you to factory first of all, why not backup as much as you can and try a custom rom... see if it persists.
You can always make a note of what rom version you are running now and download it just in case. Then flash the custom rom and if the problem is still there and you need to send your phone off to the service center, just reflash the original rom locking the bootloader during flash. The service center will never know it has been flashed etc

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Is my phone defective or is this present in every mi11x cause this is a software bug ?
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[CLOSED] Serious Poco x4 pro problems even after latest update ?
I saw this video focusing on various Poco X4 Pro problems including problems with display, camera, fingerprint scanner, microphone and lagging problem on the phone. : Self-promoting video link deleted. Can someone explain the...
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i got poco x4 pro too and same issue screen flickering and **** POCO needs to do something about this I'm never going to buy a POCO phone.....

reg66 said:
Sorry to state the obvious, just keep display at 120!!! Sorted
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thats not possible even when one sets the the refresh rate at 120 it automatically reverts it to 60 randomly

RDNRHM said:
thats not possible even when one sets the the refresh rate at 120 it automatically reverts it to 60 randomly
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same issue brother btw what Phone do u have mine is POCO X4 PRO 5G Global

Syed Qaiser Abbas said:
Is my phone defective or is this present in every mi11x cause this is a software bug ?
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MIUI one of the best operating system

Bikrommani said:
MIUI one of the best operating system
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That's totally theoretical....

Syed Qaiser Abbas said:
Guys im noticing colour shift on the display when the refresh rate switches from 120hz to 60hz in Mi11x.Its so noticeable and i don't know if it's a hardware or software issue and if anybody knows the fix then plz tell .
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I'm facing same problem or bug you say, My device is 11i 5g, it's seems like a software issue to me, allmost all amolet 120hz mi device with OEM miui facing this issue.

same here My device is POCO X4 PRO 5G (Veux)