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 LG G7 ThinQ'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!
Not Low Enough Compared to the Competition
The minimum screen brightness is worse with the LG G7 ThinQ compared to the competition such as Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy series, iPhones, and the Oneplus.
I've noticed this issue when I bought 6 LG V30s from T-Mobile and all 6 of them had the noticeable uneven lighting on their POLED displays after lowering the brightness below a certain percentage.
After doing some research as well as calling LG several times, the rep admitted that the reason for the limited the screen brightness was due to a software restriction LG placed for the V30 to hide the uneven lighting even though the Android SDK allows it to be lowered more.
Now with the LG G7 ThinQ, even though this issue does not exist with this phone, LG have forgotten to disable the software limit they had originally put for the LG V30s minimum brightness.
In conclusion, due to a software restriction LG put for the V30 and later forgot to disable for the LG G7 ThinQ, the screen brightness does not get as low as the competition even when comparing LCD phones like the iPhones.
For people with light sensitivity, do not buy from LG.
Agreed minimum brightness on the G7 is pretty meh, along with the screen in general (I'm coming from a delicate samsung galaxy s8 which had a gorgeous OLED screen that I couldn't find a proper protector to wrap around the silly curves.) Tho the max brightness levels are great with the LG! To take advantage of that I threw this privacy guard/glass screen protector on my G7 and I'm not looking back - the amount of light it cuts parasitically makes bedtime reading much closer to where I like it, and I get lots of privacy for on the subway etc. Privacy guards are not for everyone, some people hate them.
Terrible lowest brightness. It's very bright making it uncomfortable to watch in the dark.
dannejanne said:
Terrible lowest brightness. It's very bright making it uncomfortable to watch in the dark.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you use the Night Owl app for Android, you can solve this problem. It allows you to lower the brightness further. I just installed it. I haven't tried Lux yet, but that app may also have an option to lower the brightness beyond the minimum...?
I really don't understand the low rating here. I'd say it has a really low minimum light level. In a completely dark room, it's comfortable in use. My comparison is a previous Samsung phone. Even with an LCD panel, I think G7 does really well.
Related
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 Razer Phone'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!
The saddest part about display is this I quote: "Razer seems to have opted for the latter since the Razer phone has one of the dimmest screens we have ever seen. Its brightness maxes out at just 223 nits. There is no max auto over-burn either, so you are stuck with that. Perhaps the high refresh rate necessitated this sacrifice. Whether or not it was a justified one is up to fans to decide. Contrast is sub-par as well. Definitely not flagship grade." Quote taken from gsmarena : https://www.gsmarena.com/razer_phone-review-1683p3.php
I run my brightness as low as I can usually for battery savings and lifespan of the screen so this makes no difference to me
No phone does well in direct sunlight imo.
kungpaoshizi said:
I run my brightness as low as I can usually for battery savings and lifespan of the screen so this makes no difference to me
No phone does well in direct sunlight imo.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would like to disagree. Samsung S7 and newer S models are great in direct sunlight. Same with most Samsung AMOLED panels. usually LCD's are lacking in direct sunlight. And since this phone has such a dim screen, it makes sense.
xocomaox said:
I would like to disagree. Samsung S7 and newer S models are great in direct sunlight. Same with most Samsung AMOLED panels. usually LCD's are lacking in direct sunlight. And since this phone has such a dim screen, it makes sense.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Idk, I just returned a s8 and that sucked in sunlight. Heh..
kungpaoshizi said:
Idk, I just returned a s8 and that sucked in sunlight. Heh..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting. Then you'll hate the Razer as it will be far worse than the S8. lol
Na, I accepted long ago that glossy screens and sunlight doesn't go together. Physics and all.. If it's an emergency I'll make it work of course.
I know I'll be happier with the razer before I even touch it because I won't be strongarmed into submission like a Samsung user. That was one disappointment coming from the Windows Phone failtrain. Held out a good number of years..
Plus this has a combo of hardware that is unmatched right now. The software is obviously rough in the camera and display section, but at least it can change. I would hate to be iphone/pixel users atm.
kungpaoshizi said:
I run my brightness as low as I can usually for battery savings and lifespan of the screen so this makes no difference to me
No phone does well in direct sunlight imo.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here, and the fact that having the screen up at full brightness is just way too uncomfortable. Especially under ambient lighting conditions.
Granted, Direct sunlight readability will be an issue but I live in London and most outdoor phone use requiring more than a few minutes of screen viewing just isn't conducive to city life
Right.. Being a grown up now I can do so much more, so hanging around in random places outside usually doesn't happen anymore.
I'm at my computer usually if not at work. I'll just be glad to have this, which is just about as premium as premium gets for a phone, a computer, an entertainment device, and a personal gaming device.
to be fair the screen brightness can go much higher, its just software probably holding back. as the device has an unlocked bootloader, expect alot of custom roms will be able to refine this device. razer will probably be very dev friendly...
Got my phone, I think people complaining about screen brightness just never turned off adaptive brightness or Razer adjusted it since those reviews. The screen gets super bright. Almost as bright as my lumia 950xl.
The white on this is better than the white on that too, and it's an amoled.
Satisfied with the minimum brightness. It's not too blinding.
I find the minimum brightness to be far too bright. I'm rooted, running Magisk and Xposed, but my usual methods for lowering brightness aren't working. Does anyone have a method that does work?
How well do you know your fifty shades of grey? Rate this thread to express how good the Nokia 7 Plus's display contrast is. A higher rating indicates that black is true black, rather than a very dark gray.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Hello. I would like to ask about the deep blacks on low brightness in an environment without a light. I read before sleep, and I set my nexus 6p amoled to black with white text. Knowing that LCD cannot block all the light for blacks, I want to know how strong the gray shade is. I searched for an image taken from the display during night with no luck. Though considering the variable exposure of photos I guess it is useless to see that. Unfortunately the same can be said about human perception, but anyway I really appreciate any thought on the matter.
So couple of days later and I have the phone. I will post my opinion on the screen here for anyone wondering.
First about the thread topic: The blacks do look grayish in a very dark environment, so compared to an amoled the backlight is visible, however, if the brightness is brought all the way down to minimum, it is bearable.
According to this statistics the Nokia 7 plus screen gets a top score in contrast among LCDs. According to Nokia their screens have an additional polarizing layer which filters more backlight for darks. I confirm that even with an ambient light the grayish tone of blacks is not visible.
Now before discussing the cons of the screen, I have to say that I consider it a good screen. The contrast is good, colors pop out (not as much as amoleds), the sunlight reading is good (not excellent, 3.5 out of 5, amoleds capped at 3), and I enjoy watching movies, peculiarly even more than my nexus 7 amoled, I think it has to do with that faint grayish blacks! Since if I increase the amoled brightness the contrast will increase to an unnatural level for movies (just my opinion).
Now the shortcoming is the absence of white balance adjustment, on software side. This absence is problematic in this case because it is a very cold screen, which means the colors are a little toward blue tones. On the same website if you look at the "Color Temperature" you see it scores 8105, compared to 6863 of Pixel 2. How important this is? It is personal preference! I found turning on the night mode with a very light intensity fixes the problem; Yet we need more color control like in Oxygen OS from Oneplus. Will be happy to see it included in pure android since the needed filters exist as core android libraries.
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 OnePlus 6'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 came from a phone that was like having a light bulb on in your face at night so maybe my opinion is affected a bit but the minimum brightness on this phone is GREAT.
To me it seems exactly the same as with the 3t.
i always activate nightmode as well as battery saver (makes the display a bit dimmer)
The minimum brightness feels about the same as my op3 was. Just got my op6 today. This thing is pretty nice.
Does anyone else get a weird fairly obvious blue tint when you're on minimum brightness? It's especially terrible in dark grey themed apps.
I believe this is just the price you pay with current OLED technology, my Nexus 6 had a very obvious purple tint on minimum brightness.
I also have the purple tint at minimum brightness, guess the oled need some time to warm up from black/off to color. Color to color on low brightness is fine.
the display can get very low which is excellent for my needs
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 OnePlus 7 Pro'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!
Colors distort a bit on the minimum brightness setting
Minimum brightness is fantastic, especially since you can set night mode to make the screen even darker. The darkest setting is TOO dark for me, even in bed! No complaints from the SO
Got mine this week. I noticed some random, white flickering while on the lowest brightness (with night mode on, lowered "lightness" and warmest color temperature).
Will troubleshoot in the morning and report back if it persists.
This aside, min brightness is great. If using a dark mode app (like Reddit or XDA Labs), the whole screen feels less bright than the light from my AC. There is a bit of noticeable... something, while scrolling. When scrolling with an AMOLED black background on low brightness, the text/image looks thinner, kind of as if it took a few miliseconds for the pixel to turn on. Feels kind of like a ghost, or as if you squeezed the image. This is very subtle, but noticeable if you look for it.
Overall, the screen is amazing to look at in the middle of the night comfortably. Just be careful not to blind yourself with the fingerprint light.
leonardosegurat said:
Overall, the screen is amazing to look at in the middle of the night comfortably. Just be careful not to blind yourself with the fingerprint light.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you tried the DC dimming option in Utilities/OnePlus Laboratory? I find it more comfortable to use this mode in the dark.
klym.software said:
Have you tried the DC dimming option in Utilities/OnePlus Laboratory? I find it more comfortable to use this mode in the dark.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had not, but now I did. It's definitely darker, and there's noticeably more "white bleeding", but no flickering at all.
I do prefer this feature on.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6'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.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
So far I am underwhelmed by the tablets lies about turning off adaptive display. shine your camera flash light at the tab camera and it will get brighter even if you turned OFF adaptive display this is also true under MAX brightness. So the only way to get full brightness is shining a light at the camera array. Lol what a joke. Scrolling at 30-40 fps is also dumb. SAME 855 in my 90hz one plus 7pro and Its scrolls at 90fps. Don't try and say well the tab s6 has a bigger screen. Pixel density is almost the same. So no it must be the screen itself being subpar "more specifically the hardware driving the panel itself". What a disaster... I waited 6 months for this thing to come out and they ruined their own tablet to save what 20bucks in display hardware. WTF Samsung. Hdr content is lacking in any meaningful way. Side by side with my tab s1 1440p looks the same!!!! Oh man.. I hope all this can be fixed by the brilliant amazing people that here. "Most likely yes they can and they will" but I expected more from samsung out of the $700 box. A whole lot more. so now I have to wait a couple months till the kernels and roms are available. Sighs Haha the marketing people must be running samsung. I wanted this to show me the 400nits of hdr goodness.
Display looks amazing...period
Actually I also find that it is too dim, even on max brightness. I upgraded from the Tab S4, which was also too dim, but it is brighter than the Tab S6
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6'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.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I rate it 10 out of 10.
I have both the s6 and s4. The s6 is definitely the brighter of the 2. The s6 is so bright no one in my family can look at it with out it hurting their eyes, but I use vivid with cool, and red, green turned all the way down. I'm typing this to u in direct sunlight with snow all over so even brighter and its in night mode and I can see everything fine. It is way brighter than my old s9 and razer phone 2. Also this generation has done was better on white screens, the s4 and s9 both have a very visible green to pink tinted parts of the screen depending how your holding it. This doesn't seem to have any of that, and I've had my hands on 3 samsung s6 tabs.
Is there a workaround to put it into full brightness mode via software. I bought this tablet mainly for showing pics to client and the brightness limitation is a big issue
Simply the best!
abs0lut3z33r0 said:
Is there a workaround to put it into full brightness mode via software. I bought this tablet mainly for showing pics to client and the brightness limitation is a big issue
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You just pull down the quick settings, and slide brightness to the max. Also disable the blue light filter (also from quick settings).
You can also go into settings/display and change the screen mode from natural to vivid - it'll make pictures appear to be brighter by artificially boosting colors. It looks great, but it's not color correct (if that's a concern for you). I'm sure there are photographers and graphic artists out there who have a heart attack at the mere mention of the vivid mode, but to each their own. Personally, I like it.
Some gallery apps (I use Simple Gallery Pro) have the option to automatically turn brightness to 100% when displaying a picture. That should solve your problem nicely.