This looks to be a great fone. However, one of the digs I read on many reviews concerns the display brightness both on the high and low end.
Any comments on readability in sunlight, ability to dim in the dark and overall impressions of contrast, color and depth of black will be appreciated.
Unfortunately locked into Big Red until July 10th. No more of that with this fone.
Brightness is OK on the high end. Not the brightest but I haven't had a problem reading display in sunlight - the CABC is very aggressive.
Minimum brightness is a problem because it doesn't get NEARLY dim enough!
Some apps can get brighter than the stock implementation reaches, btw. Though the higher limit isn't too much brighter.
For the automatic birghtness I do feel the auto-brightness levels for the low light and bright lighted areas is incorrectly calibrated.
For night time reading when I want lower brightness than permitted by the phone, I use the application "Screen Filter" from Haxor Industry. It's available on the Google Playstore and is a highly rated app.
For day time viewing when I want a higher brightness, I just turn off auto-brightness control and push the display brightness slider up.
Wish Asus had given us a tool to calibrate this according to our individual preferences. This kind of a tool was available in CyanogenMod, unfortunately not implemented by Asus as yet.
I've not received mine yet so I'm not talking from experience of this phone but I always use lux auto brightness on my devices rather than those that come built in. You then have complete control of its behavior.
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I started using Velis Auto Brightness last night and now the display brightness at all times is just perfect. The velis auto brightness tool also allows me to tweak the brightness curve to my individual preference.
The stock brightness solution leaves a lot wanting. The minimum brightness is way way too high.
Try lux app ?
Its brighter than the Moto X 2014 and I think my Nexus 6 ( I haven't compared it yet) however it's still easy to see in direct sunlight for me YMMV
I hope we'll see an increase in max brightness in a future update. Hopefully it's just a matter of pushing a little more voltage to the screen. It's not unusable...but using the phone yesterday in the car, a little bump in brightness would have been welcome.
Auto-brightness is fairly worthless...so investing in Lux and learning it.
Thanks lux is pretty awesome for dimming the screen well try brightness later. Since its super bright and hot day I'll check out brightness with lux on
Visibility is a bit better with lux turned to max
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From what I understand, the "Auto" mode goes brighter than the maximum setting allowed when setting brightness manually. Is this correct?
When I use the Tab Pro 8.4 outdoors on a bright Sunny day and use "Auto" it is almost decent... So I put a hood on it to make it even better. But with the hood, the sensor gets screwed up and turns down the brightness. Here is what I mean with putting a hood on:
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Basically, I want to keep the screen at absolute highest possible brightness possible - and put a hood on it as well to make it easier to read.
I'm also interested in hearing recommendations for anti-glare screens. It is impossible to tell what people are selling and what the differences are between different offerings.
I don't know about stock (I once heard that you can't turn it off in stock, but can't confirm), but any of the AOSP-based ROMs can have the brightness ramped up to an eye-blinding value.
I have my brightness fixed at about ~10% of the whole bar because the adjustment is so sensitive it often adjusts to that super brightness and cause pain in the eye...
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I was curious on the screen brightness of the robin, so I sent an email to nextbit asking if they had any information on what the screen brightness is. This is the response I received....
I wrote....
Hi,
"I have a question about the screen brightness of the phone. Do you have an idea of how bright the screen is and how readable it is in direct sunlight? When the screen is on full brightness how many “nit” units does the screen measure if you can share that?"
they responded....
"We checked our min and max screen brightness is the same LUX values as Nexus 5X, and yes you can see it on a sunny day."
For the record the nexus 5x has a measured max brightness of 487 nits
Not bad should be just fine.
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I feel like my auto brightness isn't as responsive as it should be. I find myself lowering the brightness in the dark and having to raise it in sunny conditions. More interestingly, sometimes when I'm in sunny conditions, the screen brightness will actually drop and I have to manually raise it.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the OnePlus X's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
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It's decent , i even compared it to samsung S6 , same output .
mine is not great iff their is direct sunlight even on full brightness. Not sure iff it is the cm13 rom or iff it was the same on oxygen.
Excellent visibility on purity ROM.
It's honestly quite poor when I'm in direct sunlight. But that's been my experience with any AMOLED display.
actually very weak in direct sunlight....
I consider it to perform very well on highest brightness in direct sunlight.
Can see and read everything effortlessly.
on full brightness everything is perfect
amoled is quite bright so outdoor usage isnt the problem
real ques is how long is our batt going to last in total outdoor use(full brightness)
Great in the sun!!!
Our phone actually has a high brightness mode that can be enable with kernel adiutor or a widget(that was created for the nexus 6) that makes the screen even brighter. It can only be triggered by these apps, auto brightness or manual brightness won't reach this "high brightness mode"
I use my display on auto brightness so I'm pretty sure it automatically turns the brightness all the way up when I'm outside.. the brightness was has never been a problem for me outside. In my opinion, display is the most beautiful part of our phone. I just love it! ?
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The screen can go pretty dark. However for me the contrast suffers a lot when on the lowest two settings! Gaming videos on youtube get really hard to watch because everything is just dark.
The colors also shift with lower brightness. Especially the grays turn really blue. My swiftkey gray theme looks like I have a blue theme when the screen is dimmed.
Having a night mode shortcut on the notification tray, it's easy to use this device for reading in bed. Also the display will get dark enough for those kind of things.
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I think it not that easy to set. If you set it to minimum you barely see anything and like 1 mm on screen above minimum it's extremely bright compared to min. Personally I think the auto-adjustment feels kinda buggy, too.
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Auto brightness is very painful on op3, we need some small app or mod to fix this one up
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NEO2598 said:
Having a night mode shortcut on the notification tray, it's easy to use this device for reading in bed. Also the display will get dark enough for those kind of things.
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It's not getting that dark... even in night mode. It's way too bright for me!
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Auto brightness is very painful on op3, we need some small app or mod to fix this one up
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Yeah, it's awful! It seems like it never does what I want it to do. It isn't bright enough in indoor environments that have adequate lighting. And in dark environments, it is extremely dim and also randomly has random fits where it goes to maximum brightness for a few seconds and then goes back extremely dim again.
I hate it, and have it turned off unfortunately. Would like to see it corrected in an OTA from OnePlus.
About 4 nits according to a video on YouTube
I random fits are very hurtful to eyes... any one using any good apps to control the auto brightness?
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j_svas said:
I random fits are very hurtful to eyes... any one using any good apps to control the auto brightness?
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disable adaptive brightness?
I tried the best auto brightness in sultan opo's build. Just use the brightness bar to customize the brightness in auto function. Hope someone can port it into our op3 , more specifically oxygenos
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I was driving while using google maps as navigation it was a very sunny/bright day and i couldnot see much on the screen so i just disabled auto brightness some how the screen got so dim i could not see any thing at all.I had to stop on emergency lane of high way and struggle to see any thing at all because it was so dim i couldnt do any thing at all by chance i got to the auto birghtness again and put it in auto mode again.Damn this birghtness thing of op3 is seriously killing me!
This yet another auto brightness is working great https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.gyrus.yaab
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I like the minimum brightness, it's like having included a screen filter (that often distorts colors, but that is what all do). If you don't like this you can easily set the brightness bar at 60-70%, which won't be too bright (compared to other screens (Samsung S3))
The minimum brightness is quite bright, such that it hurts my eyes to look at my phone when just woke up even with night mode still on and minimum brightness.
Lux dash has fixed this issue for me
The display seems really good however once in a while my display dims as if adaptive brightness is on yet I have it disabled. I touch the screen and it brightens back up. My timeouts are set to several minutes.
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It's not getting that dark... even in night mode. It's way too bright for me!
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I also feel it's too bright for me.
My temporary solution is install a app called screen filter.
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Has anyone got a solution for this? I received my OP3 yesterday and this adaptive brightness is a complete mess. Hows the situation with custom CM roms? Maybe is because of defective light sensors or connectors? My previous LG G3 on Android 6.0 had a flawless auto brightness control. So I think it's not a Android 6.0 bug...
Who actually makes this display?
The Mrs's LG G Flex 2 also suffers with poor black levels which is odd for an OLED.
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Who actually makes this display?
The Mrs's LG G Flex 2 also suffers with poor black levels which is odd for an OLED.
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Samsung.
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Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy S10+'s display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
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it's pretty dim, to be honest, i wish we had screen brightness like some of the older motorola phones did when android motorola was still for the cool kids instead of the soccer moms.
Best device ive used in direct sunlight. I work outdoors in the Texas heat and I have no problems seeing the screen.
10/10 for the display, its gorgeous.
Agreed, the brightness when in direct sunlight has much improved over the S9+. It's very usable on a bright sunny day
The display blows the note 9 outdoor usability - Florida sun.
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I have S10+ and can't see anything while in my car or outside. The comments above saying it's so great make me think eventhough we have the same phones, that they are talking about a different phone. I think it's awful and now regretting my decision to get this phone because this drives me completely insane. Rating 2.
No problems her in crazy sunlight. Phone does get warm because of the max brightness and direct sunlight but still very clear to read.
Its excellent
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It works really well under sunlight and yeah the phone does heat up a bit but it's ok I can see and read well my screen
On max brightness it's bright. Inside it blinds the crap out of me. Outside I can see it pretty well.
Put it on adaptive brightness. I guess there's a limit to how bright we can manually set it versus how bright it gets automatically.. I played around with these settings myself and it does get brighter when you turn on adaptive brightness. Try it! I'm sure you'll like it better! Because I was thinking three same thing you said, house the hell are these people thinking it's great in the sunlight?! Way better with adaptive enabled!
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Put it on adaptive brightness. I guess there's a limit to how bright we can manually set it versus how bright it gets automatically.. I played around with these settings myself and it does get brighter when you turn on adaptive brightness. Try it! I'm sure you'll like it better! Because I was thinking three same thing you said, house the hell are these people thinking it's great in the sunlight?! Way better with adaptive enabled!
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You are CORRECT. This has been from the very start. Only adaptive brightness will give you the max potential of the brightness of s10+'s screen.
For s10+, high brightness mode is entered when sensor reads 40,000lux, and its exited when sensor reads below 8000lux (it used to be 5000lux but it must have been changed at some point). When sun hits the screen, screen is very visible and good. When you are outside but sun isnt on the screen, you can turn your phone towards sun to activate HBM, but it may exit once you turn it back to yourself.(quite annoying as manual max is very limiting at 300nits).
There is a HDR bug, only works on android 10, you can trick the phone to stay at HDR brightness(brightness is still adjustable all the way from 1.6nits to 700), so you can manually adjust it to max brightness(700nits) whenever you want. This is the reason im staying at android 10 lol. Had to downgrade from android 11. If bootloader version turns to 10(currently 9) you wont be able to downgrade(maybe with root you can, i dont know) so its good to consider doing it
Ive always auto brightness turned on,
after installing the UI3.1 , under a bright light, it doesn't go so bright...but under sun light, or in dqy light, its just brighter and its get sooo much better...,
It's like sensors understand where u r
rezadentevil said:
Ive always auto brightness turned on,
after installing the UI3.1 , under a bright light, it doesn't go so bright...but under sun light, or in dqy light, its just brighter and its get sooo much better...,
It's like sensors understand where u r
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I was on 3.1 for 2 3 months and it enters at 40.000lux just like 3.0, i doubt they increased the thereshold cuz its already too high.
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I was on 3.1 for 2 3 months and it enters at 40.000lux just like 3.0, i doubt they increased the thereshold cuz its already too high.
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Yeah that puts a lot of wear on the display fast.
Avoid using in direct sunlight or at least limit it to seconds.
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Yeah that puts a lot of wear on the display fast.
Avoid using in direct sunlight or at least limit it to seconds.
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İm actually staying on android 10 to use a hdr bug that lets me use max brightness whenever i want. Its not a suicide mission like everyone imagines