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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Anyone else a bit disappointed with the screen brightness?
icons on black background is not only inspirational, it probably makes for better sunlight visibility....put a black wallpaper on Hero, put them side by side on a flat surface, adjust brightness to equal (max or min probably) and shoot again :/
Be happy to do that if we get a sunny day again in the UK.
In that photo, both phones were on Max brightness.
For now, take a look at these photos. No black backgrounds here, and it is the same email on both phones.
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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
I have a sprint edition note4, when I'm in the sun and auto brightness is on, it looks like the contrast on my screen gets cranked up drastically, distorting any colors on my screen. Anyone else gettin this?
Yea, I would assume that this is a feature that allows the screen to be more visible is direct sunlight.
I think it helps.
I think it might be a defect, it only happens some times. I would love to hear from other people tho.
It could be the screen mode. Under display settings > screen mode > try basic instead of adaptive
Interesting, the colors seem more washed out on basic.
Basic is meant for artists that needed accurate color reproduction. The next two increase color saturation and contrast, and adaptive is meant to be used in full submit bright days. Ththe color suffers, but you can see the screen much better.
Mine does it to, I think it is a feature. It goes back to normal when out of extreme light
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j00manji said:
I have a sprint edition note4, when I'm in the sun and auto brightness is on, it looks like the contrast on my screen gets cranked up drastically, distorting any colors on my screen. Anyone else gettin this?
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It is known feature. It raises brightnes almost twice of nominal in direct sunlight when auto brightnes is checked.
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Feature and will also happen on any screen mode when auto brightness is enabled.
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It doesn't seem to be a huge issue, but I'm curious as to if this is a defect on my phone or if it is common. When the screen is turned off or displaying dark images and I'm viewing it under bright sunlight, there are some black "blotches" visible. It looks very similar to what I saw on my old Galaxy Nexus screen when in a dark room and with the screen on, but it's visible in completely different conditions.
Is this normal for the type of AMOLED screen used in the Note 4?
Samsung throttles the brightness when outside. It may save battery, but it makes the screen hard to see for my 50 years old eyes. On my other phone I can just turn up the brightness, but not on the Samsung. This means that I cant use my S10+ outside without reading glasses, so useless when out walking and the Samsung will have to stay at home.
Only help I have found, is an app called “High Brightness Mode”, but the difference is very small. And the Performance mode with 10% brightness increase, of course.
Anyone got a solution to this? Thanks.
Maybe you don't have auto brightness on because when it detects sunlight it bumps up the brightness a lot imo, or idk maybe you have either a defective unit or defective eyesight because mine gets plenty bright when outside.
I do have autobrightness on. But it only works in direct sunlight. If the sensor is in shade, the screen gets dim, even if all surroundings are lit by sunlight. Try moving your device in/out of sunlight and you will see, that it almost doubles the brightness when sensor sees the sun. That is the brightness I want access to.
sbcdk said:
I do have autobrightness on. But it only works in direct sunlight. If the sensor is in shade, the screen gets dim, even if all surroundings are lit by sunlight. Try moving your device in/out of sunlight and you will see, that it almost doubles the brightness when sensor sees the sun. That is the brightness I want access to.
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Yeah, I don't think we can access that brightness level indoors (not manually anyways), and maybe it's because at those brightness levels (1000+ nits) the screen could suffer from premature burn. Probably that's why.
TonyGzl92 said:
Yeah, I don't think we can access that brightness level indoors (not manually anyways), and maybe it's because at those brightness levels (1000+ nits) the screen could suffer from premature burn. Probably that's why.
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Should still be the choice of the owner, not Samsung. I dont think any other brand makes screens this dark... But thx for your input.
You need to make sure your display mode is Vivid and not natural. VIVID mode allows the phone to get sunlight readable when auto brightness is turned on. Hope that helps.
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sammieboy said:
You need to make sure your display mode is Vivid and not natural. VIVID mode allows the phone to get sunlight readable when auto brightness is turned on. Hope that helps.
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Have you actually tested this? I know this is a year later but natural boosts just like vivid, i dont see any reason why would it be different ever
Samsung let YouTube has the colorful mode but other app can't, this's rather very stupid