What a wonderful surprise. I used to have problems with all of my other phones when viewing with my polarized sunglasses. As soon as I turned the phone sideways in landscape mode the screen would go dark because of my sunglasses. But today as I was navigating in my car, I turned the phone sideways and the picture didn't disappear. It didn't even dim. I had to look in the mirror to make sure I had my polarized sunglasses on instead of my prescription glasses. This is a game changer for me.
Mine is polarized,ed or at least the included screen protector is. Rainbows galore but screen is very legible though if brightness is high enough.
Interested to know if the polarization is due to the screen protector...
Can the OP let us know if it his was removed?
Thanks.
My screen is naked just the way I like it. I hate screen protectors of any kind. The smooth feel of real glass is what I'm paying the premium dollars for. I noticed that the screen actually gets a little bit brighter but changes from bluish to yellowish when I go from portrait to landscape when I'm wearing my polarized sunglasses.
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So is there a screen protector of some kind which makes the screen less shiny? When I am outside I dont see anything, when there is a bright lightsource around I cant watch a movie normally... I know the colors and brightness is better on amoled, but the screens refelction is annoying imho.
is there a workaround?
Try enabling auto brightness. It will cranked up the screen brightness in high light settings and lower it in low light. I use it and I can see just fine outside.
If you can't stand the shiny screen, you can try buying a anti glare screen protector.
Reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5Y0q9-hMc#t=00m30s
lol @ youtube
do you know if those anti glare screens work?
I have auto brightness on
The clarivue anti glare does help some out in the sun.
It goes from "I can't see ****" to "I can make out some ****".
you should have a screen protector to reduce smudges on the screen; and also like others said, enable the auto brightness. I have no problem with my Nexus under direct sunlight
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The clarivue anti glare does help some out in the sun.
It goes from "I can't see ****" to "I can make out some ****".
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HAHA. This deserves to be added to someone's signature.
I'm using a protector called UltraCase. They have three different versions. The antiglare is great and you can see it well in full sunlight. They ship from hong kong so it takes a while to get but is worth it. Their silicone sleeve is also fantastic. You paid a lot for your phone and another 30-40 bucks is well worth it. You won't be disappointed.
http://www.ultra-case.com
matte screen protector
I ordered the matte/anti glare screen protector off of ebay from dcmugen. still waiting for the product to arrive. will let you know soon. theres videos of it on youtube.
thx for feedback, I bought the clarivue anti glare online, lets see if I can distinguish some ****
so thank u muncheese and in your honor see below.
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got it in the mail today it works decently and has some advantages
I myself have pretty greasy fingers which always smear on the screen, with this protector that is a non issue. I like the strange new feeling it feels smoother and better.
so far so good, but it has one mayor downfall
the screen is a little blurred. since I have the anti-glare layer, its like there in an slightly un-transparent layer on the screen making the screen look a little blurry.
Although for some that might not be the price they wanna pay for the advantages, I kinda like it. I checked it out outside and no longer do I see my ugly face in the screen when watching a clip on youtube.
If you use your n1 much for watching downloaded movies etc then I would not suggest to use such a screen protector, but if you just use it for youtube or any other low quality stuff its not a problem.
how does it affect the readability of the small letters when surfing the web?
eric b
hardly. reading small lettered texts isnt a problem.
anyone found a good anti-glare screen protector or film for the Nexus?
the AMOLED is clearly near worthless in direct sunlight... barely readable even at 100% screen brightness setting (which would drain the battery in no time)...
I've tried the Clarivue ones - the 'anti-glare' ones they claim, but all that is is a matte/brushed finish... which just makes the screen look cloudy all the time... definitely reduces the crispness of the screen...
wondering if there is a solution (even if it's "cut your own") for a film that is smooth and glossy, but has an anti-reflective property to it.... maybe even something with some polarized property....
cheers
here in spain its pretty sunny and everytime that I use my N1 while walking I have to but brightness up to maximum. for me its allright like that even thought drains faster the battery.
So you want something glossy...meaning reflective..that has anti-reflective properties.
Got it.
I may have found something... ordered to try...
the 'DayVue' version of their film - 'anti-reflective' and 'anti-glare'... they have a regular 'anti-glare' as well, which I'm presuming is just a matte finish... But the DayVue sounds like it's what I'm looking for...
http://www.nushield.com/technical.php
http://www.nushield.com/technology.php
http://www.nushield.com/dayvue_antireflective_screen_protector_film.php
http://thedirtytshirt.com/nushield-dayvue-anti-reflective-screen-protector-film-review
Something along the lines of 'museum glass'... smooth and glossy yet extremely anti-reflective... just for reference... for those that don't believe you can have a smooth, yet still anti-reflective surface ... http://www.tru-vue.com/Tru-Vue/Products/33/ ...
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I may have found something... ordered to try...
the 'DayVue' version of their film - 'anti-reflective' and 'anti-glare'... they have a regular 'anti-glare' as well, which I'm presuming is just a matte finish... But the DayVue sounds like it's what I'm looking for...
http://www.nushield.com/technical.php
http://www.nushield.com/technology.php
http://www.nushield.com/dayvue_antireflective_screen_protector_film.php
http://thedirtytshirt.com/nushield-dayvue-anti-reflective-screen-protector-film-review
Something along the lines of 'museum glass'... smooth and glossy yet extremely anti-reflective... just for reference... for those that don't believe you can have a smooth, yet still anti-reflective surface ... http://www.tru-vue.com/Tru-Vue/Products/33/ ...
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They don't make a perfect cut protector for the Nexus One
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They don't make a perfect cut protector for the Nexus One
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OyVe... guess I could just get a 3.5' iPhone one and not have the corners covered to see if better... wonder if there is any glare protectors on their website to use with a 3.7' phone that I could order it for and use for the N1
Boxwave makes a pretty decent one. They offer one precut for the N1. I would post a URL but I can't yet.
Any screen protector with anti-glare properties will always make the display slightly cloudy. I got one of boxwave's anti-glare screen protectors for my Moto Cliq and it worked very well. The clouding is very minimal and is hard to notice. It also gives the added benefit of greatly reducing the visibility of fingerprints and smudges.
I just ordered one for the N1 too.
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Boxwave makes a pretty decent one. They offer one precut for the N1. I would post a URL but I can't yet.
Any screen protector with anti-glare properties will always make the display slightly cloudy. I on of boxwave's anti-glare screen protectors on my Moto Cliq and it worked very well. The clouding is very minimal and is hard to notice. It also gives the added benefit of greatly reducing the visibility of fingerprints and smudges.
I just ordered one for the N1 too.
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Thank you, might order this today. I wish there were some actual pictures to see the difference...
I just received the boxwave screen protector a few minutes ago. I attached a picture with it applied. It's not a very good picture though. I don't have manual focus on my camera, so it looks more fuzzy than it actually is. I hope this helps a bit though.
I tried it out in near-direct sunlight outside and there's a definite improvement, especially if you increase the screen brightness. It also makes your finger slide across the screen easier. You don't get that grip feeling like on the glass.
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I just received the boxwave screen protector a few minutes ago. I attached a picture with it applied. It's not a very good picture though. I don't have manual focus on my camera, so it looks more fuzzy than it actually is. I hope this helps a bit though.
I tried it out in near-direct sunlight outside and there's a definite improvement, especially if you increase the screen brightness. It also makes your finger slide across the screen easier. You don't get that grip feeling like on the glass.
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Wow
Thank you Thank you I appreciate it... I'll def get it today now because of your great suggestion.
A glossy surface reflects light.
A matte surface diffuses light.
Glare is light.
You can't have both without witchery.
I'm looking for an anti-glare screen protector, it doesn't even have to fit properly I just need a screen protector that will allow me to use the phone outdoors on a sunny day (which at the moment is not very easily). But the I saw this post on the forum saying
wmm said:
An anti-glare screen protector won't help the visibility in direct sunlight. The problem there is that the amount of light shining on the screen is more than what is being emitted by the OLED display, so the image is swamped, and a screen protector can't do anything about that.
The only thing an anti-glare screen protector will do is to turn the normal sharp, clear images reflected by the bare screen into fuzzier, more diffuse images. If you are bothered by seeing yourself reflected in the screen, for instance, then an anti-glare screen protector will reduce that to the point that you can see that it's a face but probably not identify whose face it is. That makes it easier to ignore the reflections and concentrate on the image on the screen instead. It's not a dramatic effect, but it is helpful (IMHO).
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So I'm not quite sure what to buy and whether it will help me out or not....any ideas?
Is it just me or is the note 4's display quite reflective in indoor lighting? On blackish backgrounds I can clearly see my on reflection on the display which is quite distracting
That is a common problem with all smartphone as you have a big glass panel in from of you. If you are using a dark wallpaper or if your screen is turned off it will just act like a mirror. My bratty little sister uses her Note screen as a vanity mirror all the time.
Yes. However I think having a glass screen protector on compared to a plastic one also increases the reflections
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Yes. However I think having a glass screen protector on compared to a plastic one also increases the reflections
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Yeah, that would definately increase the reflective qualities of the screen.
Not sure if this is common knowledge by now but on my bus ride home yesterday I had sunglasses on and changed the orientation of my phone to landscape for a video and the screen went black. I thought it was a bug but when I removed my glasses I was mistaken.
Go ahead, try it out.
Wing_Zero_Custom said:
Not sure if this is common knowledge by now but on my bus ride home yesterday I had sunglasses on and changed the orientation of my phone to landscape for a video and the screen went black. I thought it was a bug but when I removed my glasses I was mistaken.
Go ahead, try it out.
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We've been discussing this in the tempered glass screen protector thread. After installing my screen protector, I can make out the screen again. It's nowhere near crystal clear, but at least it can be seen.
I've had this issue with numerous phones in the past
Side-effect of LCD screens.
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Not sure if this is common knowledge by now but on my bus ride home yesterday I had sunglasses on and changed the orientation of my phone to landscape for a video and the screen went black. I thought it was a bug but when I removed my glasses I was mistaken.
Go ahead, try it out.
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The screen will have a polarization filter on it as well to reduce glare / reflections, when your glasses oppose the polarization of the filter you'll see nothing.
Cheap sunglasses ...
Good polarizing sunglasses will have one lens orientated at +45 degrees and the other lens at -45 degrees. That way each lens will knock out 50% of pure horizontal and vertical light each and when tilted one will let all the light through and the other will block all of the light.
Wing_Zero_Custom said:
Not sure if this is common knowledge by now but on my bus ride home yesterday I had sunglasses on and changed the orientation of my phone to landscape for a video and the screen went black. I thought it was a bug but when I removed my glasses I was mistaken.
Go ahead, try it out.
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I did that yesterday. I was so pissed when driving somewhere for my job. I had my sunglasses off for a min and noticed that. Freaked me out.... Big time. I was already looking for lgs number. When i figured out out. (sigh)
This is just how lcds work. The liquid crystal changes the polarization of the light when electricity is applied. Thus it switches from allowing light through the polarizing filter or blocking it.
What I still don't understand is why oled displays are polarized, though they seem to use a 45 degree angle, so they get dark, but not black with my sunglasses in either orientation.
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I first learned about it when i bought the Stylo earlier this summer. I wear polarized Rx sunglasses most of the time. My phone is 80-90% in landscape mode when i'm outside or driving. I take lots of pics, video, dashcam, gps. I returned Stylo. Just bought moto G3. Same thing. None of my other phones and tab have this issue. I've had LG optimus one, Nokias, cheaper older samsung, recent devices LG L9/90, galaxy s3, tab3. Never had a problem with polarization. I wanted to give moto a chance so i put a spare tab3 protector over the screen and it was perfect. Ordered cheap ebay protector for moto, put it over the screen, still perfect. Cleaned moto, peeled protective layers, applied the protector. Better but still dim and annoying. I then put one of the protective layers over the screen and that made viewing in portrait and landscape perfect. I can't apply the protective layer back to the protector, its not as smooth, i'm not getting rid of rx polarized sunglasses, i hate to return moto g3 bc i like it, i'm buying locked overpriced samsung S5 because it has a better screen. Somehow the thin protecting layer has the ability to neutralize polarization. I'll continue looking for solution.
Update: applying either a protective layer or another protector on top of a protector resolves my landscape dimming issue with polarized sunglasses in moto g3. I only placed it over the screen. Not sure if changes screen responsiveness on the long run. Didn't test long enough. I'm also changing my current polarized G15 rx lens to non-polarized. I'm a bit tired of always using polarized lenses anyway.
Wing_Zero_Custom said:
Not sure if this is common knowledge by now but on my bus ride home yesterday I had sunglasses on and changed the orientation of my phone to landscape for a video and the screen went black. I thought it was a bug but when I removed my glasses I was mistaken.
Go ahead, try it out.
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It is common knowledge. It's physics and happens every time you wear polarized sunglasses and try to look at a something that emits polarized light in the "wrong" (90° rotated) direction. Smartphone manufactures prefer to cancel out landscape view, as this is the less frequent view mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_%28waves%29#Unpolarized_and_partially_polarized_light
And no, it is NOT cheap sunglasses. Quite the opposite. Sunglasses that polarize the light are considered to have lenses in higher quality. It is a feature that is asked for and common for example in the better Ray Ban glasses.
When you live and/or work near water, on snow you will always want to use ONLY polarized sunglasses.
I had some improvement indoors with a regular cheap ebay screen protector but in car its dim, almost no difference with or without protector. Applying another protector on top of a protector makes a difference, but still not perfect. I'm trying to find a protector that cancels polarization in LCD so i can use my rx glasses and the phone in landscape mode.
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I had some improvement indoors with a regular cheap ebay screen protector but in car its dim, almost no difference with or without protector. Applying another protector on top of a protector makes a difference, but still not perfect. I'm trying to find a protector that cancels polarization in LCD so i can use my rx glasses and the phone in landscape mode.
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Very interesting discovery! Please forgiving me for posting the basically same reply (with added details at the bottom) that I did to the other thread on AC.
I just tried this myself. I used a common polyethylene ziplock bag, laid over the screen. Then put on polarized glasses to see what it did. If I rotate the bag so it faces in a certain direction, I can once again see the screen in Landscape mode. It happens to look brightest near the ziplock strip. The bag film may be thicker there, the surface is also textured in that area.
If I then look at the screen in Portrait mode, however, the screen looks dimmer near the ziplock strip. So in this particular example, there seems to be a trade-off in how the screen looks in Portrait vs Landscape.
There may be other materials that do a better job of reducing the polarization of the light from the screen. I tried having just 1, or both layers of film in the front of the screen, the results seemed about the same to me.
See the attached pictures. I put a polarizing filter on my camera, to simulate wearing polarized glasses. I oriented the filter so it worked like glasses (bright in Portrait, dark in Landscape). Then oriented the bag to maximize the brightness of the screen in Landscape mode, with another picture taken in Portrait, for comparison.
For testing, at least, perhaps you could try a large screen protector, like for an iPad. Something with enough real estate that you could cut a G4 protector from it, in the orientation you needed.
This assumes, of course, that the single film of that screen protector would help provide what you want, if oriented at the proper angle. Can you test this theory by peeling off the cheap eBay protector, and test rotating that film while wearing polarized glasses and viewing it in Landscape orientation?
So i've finally done it. Thinking two protectors would do the trick i applied another protector. Coincidentally i couldn't peel off the top protecting layer so i kept it. Now the screen is viewable again. I decided to peel off the top protecting layer just enough to test what it would be like with just the two protectors. Dim in landscape. I left the protecting layer on for now. Hopefully someone will come up with polarization canceling protector soon. I don't feel too bad because i didn't buy flagship g3/4 but still upset. See pics below. Without glasses, portrait, landscape.
keithwalton said:
The screen will have a polarization filter on it as well to reduce glare / reflections, when your glasses oppose the polarization of the filter you'll see nothing.
Cheap sunglasses ...
Good polarizing sunglasses will have one lens orientated at +45 degrees and the other lens at -45 degrees. That way each lens will knock out 50% of pure horizontal and vertical light each and when tilted one will let all the light through and the other will block all of the light.
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I have the same "issue" with both of my sunglasses - Ray Ban and Maui Jim polarized sunglasses
if you think those are cheap, you are mistaken..
Furma said:
I have the same "issue" with both of my sunglasses - Ray Ban and Maui Jim polarized sunglasses
if you think those are cheap, you are mistaken..
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Polarized G15 rx $110 at local walmart not cheap for a garbage polycarbonate lens :laugh:
I don't have this problem with my M9 lcd, I use it landscape everyday in my car for audio and gps, though I wear Rayban aviators and screen is at 100% brightness. Of course it's perhaps 10-15% less bright than eyes naked but it's still perfectly visible, perhaps LG is using an extra coating (or htc is)
Anybody have any luck buying a tempered glass protector or other variant to help reduce the darkening in landscape?
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Anybody have any luck buying a tempered glass protector or other variant to help reduce the darkening in landscape?
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I ordered tempered glass on ebay for my moto g3. Will post when it arrives.
Almost perfect with a tempered glass protector. Probably 90-95% as good as portrait. Seems like glass cancels polarization better than clear plastic film.
Maybe yours, but not all. My screen basically turns black in landscape with my tempered glass protector.
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Maybe yours, but not all. My screen basically turns black in landscape with my tempered glass protector.
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I ordered the cheapest tempered glass i could find on ebay for my moto g3. Before i had temp glass i constantly had to remove my glasses while driving to look at the screen. I use GPS and record video in background often. Couldn't take it anymore. Ordering another temp glass protector for backup. Can't think of anything else unless someone makes a protector specifically for G4.