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direct sun light

In Direct sun light my phone is really black.
Impossible to use it, I've to turn on the fast bright. The screen light auto calibrate seems not to function as well. Is there a way to Set the auto-light calibration values?

No, this is a characteristic of AMOLED screens, sadly.

What sun? There was no sun here since I got it

Use Anti-glare screen protector from Powersupport. They dont make the one for Nexus, but its so good that i fitted iPod Touch protector on my N1

It works when you turn brightness up, right? I can see mine just fine in the sun with full brightness.
I don't like auto-brightness. It shouldn't work well in the sun for any phone, considering it's trained to become brighter in low light situations and thus, dimmer in strong light situations.

karnovaran said:
It works when you turn brightness up, right? I can see mine just fine in the sun with full brightness.
I don't like auto-brightness. It shouldn't work well in the sun for any phone, considering it's trained to become brighter in low light situations and thus, dimmer in strong light situations.
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Actually you got that the wrong way round.
In dimmer conditions the screen is also dimmer as less light is needed to see the screen.
In brighter conditions the backlight should be brighter to counteract the bright light.

Amdathlonuk said:
Actually you got that the wrong way round.
In dimmer conditions the screen is also dimmer as less light is needed to see the screen.
In brighter conditions the backlight should be brighter to counteract the bright light.
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Ha, thanks. It just seemed to have been getting brighter in low light situations for me so I turned it off.
I still think the screen is perfectly readable in the sunlight using the widget for full brightness. I'm surprised to hear so many complaints.

the complaint is about auto-brightness.
If I've it on and look at the phone in a sunny day it's very hard to find the widget to turn on the fast bright.
There's a way to set the values of auto-brightness? I mean to set bright at max when there's a lot of light?

my screen looks fine in the sun. I set my brightness to like 65%

If you move the widget to your homescreen it shouldn't be too hard to find in the sun.

It's the same Wobblebonk, sometimes when you light up you phone is not the home screen that appears you. In a sunny day the nexus screen appear totally black

poisons said:
It's the same Wobblebonk, sometimes when you light up you phone is not the home screen that appears you. In a sunny day the nexus screen appear totally black
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try taking off your sun glasses :>

The home button returns you to the home screen... hence you can get back to the home screen regardless of what you can see.

the light sensor on my N1 is ****ed. maybe thats another issue......

try a soft reboot it helped with mine power +volume down +trackball resets without data wipe

Is there a way to make the screen less bright?

I know we have the auto setting, and can adjust the brightness through the notification bar. But at night, watching TV I find the screen far too bright. Is there an app or setting where I can make the screen dimmer than the low setting in the default range?

Lower than the lowest setting in Settings > Sound & Display > brightness?
That's pretty low. hmmm?

yeap. In a dark room with just the TV on the low setting is still pretty bright.

I have actually had this same thought. We were at the movies and I really wanted to play around with my phone but even on the lowest setting it was too bright.

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I have actually had this same thought. We were at the movies and I really wanted to play around with my phone but even on the lowest setting it was too bright.
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that must have been one boring movie

Nah I was just a geek with a new toy.

Maybe editing the init.rc?

Blueman101 said:
that must have been one boring movie
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Holy hell my first thought too. LOL
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for me
new toy > all else.
Movies will be fun again in a few weeks

I was also wondering if there was a way to reduce the brightness more than the allotted minimum. I spend much of my time in a pretty dim environment and even the lowest brightness is slightly uncomfortable.
Magicked from my Vibrant by tube traversing XDA elves.

I agree the screen while it looks amazing is way too bright in the dark. I checked my messages in the morning before sun-up and was nearly blinded by the screen.

There has to be a way to make the screen less bright. I know the app "Dimmer" from the market can make the brightness go down to 10 (out of 255), but I've read that with a rooted phone you're able to get your brightness down to 2. I don't have my phone rooted personally, so would someone else care to check?
And yes, 10 is still too bright for my tastes. It's a lot brighter than my laptop screen at its lowest brightness, and makes it a pain to use at night.

I have rooted mine and with Dimmer can take it down to 2. However, it doesn't change much - it is still VERY bright in a dark room.
Here's the deal: The screen is super AMOLED. That means that unlike 99% of the phones out there it is NOT back-lit. Every dot on the screen is a super organic LED. Think about those super-bright (annoying) blue LEDs on your PC that hurt your eyes at night. Now think 800 x 480....
Here's the fix: The only way I have been able to make the screen less bright is to use less active pixels - that means using a black wallpaper (all pixels off), less icons on the screen and a black background with light or gray text in apps. I haven't yet figured out how to make the default web background black - instead of white. If someone knows how, let me know.
To get a quick black wallpaper, take a picture of nothing in a dark room and set it as wallpaper.

Screen gets darker in sunlight

In the sunshine the screen becomes darker.
How can I make it stay brighter? I tried to disable the auto brightness but it still goes a little darker

are you sure this is not an optical illusion??
usually it should be the other way round...

It gets darker in sunlight. I am sure

Then it's defective. The display should get extra bright (in auto mode) in direct sunlight.

Normally the screen will get brighter under sunlight but you might see it's dark because the sunlight is much much brigter than the phone screen and your eye will adapt to the bright light and then your phone screen will look darker.
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HTC U Ultra, Camera Pixel defect

Hi
When i zoom the camera to the maximum on a dark surface, i see some pixels playing to white and black on the screen, just like dead pixels on lcd. Did you realize anything like that ?
To test, set the brightness to maximum, put the phone on a table or something, on camera face, set the zoom to the mximum, and see the playing 10-15 pixels on the screen
Is it normal ?
Thx
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Sounds like high ISO noise, try using pro mode and setting the ISO to 100.
You might get litres noise.
I wouldn't worry though, it's not like this is under normal shooting conditions. If you weren't zoomed in all the way on a dark surface you wouldn't get the issue.
I'd be more concerned with black pixels when zoomed in fully on a brightly lit white surface.
Some pictures of what you're seeing might help us help you better.

wiccan-two said:
Sounds like high ISO noise, try using pro mode and setting the ISO to 100.
You might get litres noise.
I wouldn't worry though, it's not like this is under normal shooting conditions. If you weren't zoomed in all the way on a dark surface you wouldn't get the issue.
I'd be more concerned with black pixels when zoomed in fully on a brightly lit white surface.
Some pictures of what you're seeing might help us help you better.
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Agreed.. besides OP, how on earth did you discover that... that could be any number of things... as wiccan said, could be ISO, could be laser reflection from the surface, could be phase detection or auto focus error... could be anything...
the only time you should worry about dead pixels is.. if your standard images have white/black squares on them or your LCD has empty pixels.. but other than that.. putting your phjne on a surface, lense down over with the camera on... well that could show anything...

Thanks for the replies. When i zoom on a white surface, there is no dead pixel, that is a good thing. I just wanted to share it, because my old one m8 does not have anything like that and everytime same pixels on the screen flickers. Anyway, trying to joy of using my ultra.
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Minimum brightness

You don't want to give your significant other yet another reason to yell at you while you're reading XDA in bed. Rate this thread to express what you think of the ASUS ROG Phone II's display minimum dimness. A higher rating indicates that the display can get extremely dim, ideal for reading in very dark environments.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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My friend says screen is great

At low brightness? No strange effects on gray color?

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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In terms of brightness I would say it's average at best. The screen is very dim my current brightness slider is set at 80% and that is just to navigate conformabley. But I would recommend a 85 to 90% settings.
The screen isn't yellowish quite the opposite actually in comparison with my 1st generation ROG, colors are even I would say and no grain.

Rashad83 said:
In terms of brightness I would say it's average at best. The screen is very dim my current brightness slider is set at 80% and that is just to navigate conformabley. But I would recommend a 85 to 90% settings.
The screen isn't yellowish quite the opposite actually in comparison with my 1st generation ROG, colors are even I would say and no grain.
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Hopefully it's just a software issue and will be resolved shortly. Hell, it couldn't be worse than the OP6T. And the ROG2 has around 200 nits more than the 6T. That fukn thing, you can't see **** on if its bright out. Overall, I would think the extra 2,000 mah would compensate for the higher brightness til its fixed.

ZeroKool76 said:
Hopefully it's just a software issue and will be resolved shortly. Hell, it couldn't be worse than the OP6T. And the ROG2 has around 200 nits more than the 6T. That fukn thing, you can't see **** on if its bright out. Overall, I would think the extra 2,000 mah would compensate for the higher brightness til its fixed.
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But even if the brightness slider is set to 100% shouldn't consume much more battery if the screen is still dim...right?
By the way, can anyone let me know how bright is it compared to Razer Phone 1?

el4nimal said:
But even if the brightness slider is set to 100% shouldn't consume much more battery if the screen is still dim...right?
By the way, can anyone let me know how bright is it compared to Razer Phone 1?
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With 6000mah you have nothing to worry about. Reduce the refresh rate to 60 and you will get time over or equal to 10 hours standby time.
Regarding the razor phone I would think it would be much brighter because it's an LCD panel. But I am not definitive.

zed011 said:
I am quite concerned about some of the comments I saw on JD.com . People say the screen is yellowish, uneven coloring and grainy which gets even worse when the brightness is low. Can anyone confirm this here?
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just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white

R8nD0m said:
just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white
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You can also adjust color temperature and saturation in display settings. I think this screen is awesome.

R8nD0m said:
just got my tencent version today. the screen max and min brightness is slightly higher than my oneplus 5. uneven colour/graininess requires you to squint with your face almost stuck to the screen so its really a nonissue. white balance is pretty on point and actually a little on the cool side tho whites are almost perfect white
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The Tencent version is that bad?!?

Cellendril said:
The Tencent version is that bad?!?
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Umm everything I said is praise.
I did notice that graininess and very slight yellow shifting occurs at near minimum brightness but its really not easy to spot
Other than that the experience has been pretty amazing

Cellendril said:
The Tencent version is that bad?!?
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The screen is excellent in my opinion, and while the maximum brightness isn't the brightest out there, it's perfectly adequate even in direct sunlight.

As far as low brightness goes, I felt like the lowest brightness was still a little too bright next to my wife in bed so I installed low brightness pro. If anyone else feels they want to go lower..

Got the phone. Definitely too bright at lowest so either use an app to add dark overlay to dim or wait for a software update I guess

Has red tint on dark theme grey on brightness below 50%
zed011 said:
At low brightness? No strange effects on gray color?
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Yes it does have a red tint on dark grey colors. Visible everywhere in apps using dark theme based on grey like google apps dark mode, the rog ui itself and any dark grey on screen.
Effect is more pronounced while using 120hz. And less on other modes.

sanurocks said:
Yes it does have a red tint on dark grey colors. Visible everywhere in apps using dark theme based on grey like google apps dark mode, the rog ui itself and any dark grey on screen.
Effect is more pronounced while using 120hz. And less on other modes.
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Same. dark greys become reddish when the brightness is lower than 40%

iShubham said:
Same. dark greys become reddish when the brightness is lower than 40%
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Same here, got the tencent version. Lets hope its just a software issue that future update can fix it. Im coming from s9 plus so its hard to compare the beauty of the screen.

Minimum brightness is way too high. Reference compared to nexus 5x and galaxy s7 on lowest setting. It's blinding

Rog 2 is brighter than the sun
I have a great appreciate of the capabilities of this phone, no matter what you might hear this phone has superb color rendering and there is no beating the refresh rate. When it comes to comparing how it delivers in color saturation compared to its competition all you are doing is splitting hairs... But as for its minimum brightness, well you cannot appreciate how truly bright the panel is until you are trying to write a blog post when the lights are off and your partner is asleep next to you.
With the slider all the way down its impossible to look at the screen without squinting real hard because those whites burn through your retinas and imprint on your soul. Do you like watching Netflix on your phone in bed? Not on this phone you won't. Want to read that last Facebook alert you just got after you turned the lights out? Absolutely you can do it... If you like staring at the sun that is. I sincerely hope Asus can do some sort of work around and deliver less power to the display in total darkness because light induced migrains are not fun.
Otherwise pretty good phone.