Screen brightness - HTC Droid DNA

Just walked into a corporate store to check this thing out and get a feel for it, see if its worth leaving a GS III. Everything about it seems legit, except the screen set to full brightness still seemed too dim. Might just be the AMOLED screens spoiling my eyes for the last 2 years, but just wanted some comments from owners who have been able to take this thing outside.
So how is the brightness for you guys? Is it still fairly viewable in sunlight? Please no discussions about color clarity/saturation. I know it doesn't hold a candle to reproducing vibrant colors like OLED does.

I went out in full daylight and could see perfectly clear. First time ever on a smartphone that I've never had to cup my hands around the screen to see
Sent from my Droid DNA. 1080p never looked so sweet

Awesome. I was initially concerned with it being LCD, but I remember reading on a few sites that the superiority in SLCD3 was its manufacturing quality and clarity. I guess that coupled with the display being bonded better and closer to the surface translates into better visibility. Thanks for responding.

It is interesting to hear others review on this screen.
Since the major reason I did not buy galaxy 3 or note is AMOLED screen really looks dime even max brightess is only equel to my htc one x 's 50% brightness level which I can not accept.

It's a beautiful sunny day in Los Angeles.
Walked outside.
Had no issue seeing the screen contents.

mb02 said:
So how is the brightness for you guys?
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We decided to pit the Droid DNA against the iPhone 5, Nexus 4, HTC One X, and Samsung Galaxy S III (from left to right it's the iPhone, Nexus 4, Droid DNA, One X, and Galaxy S III). All screens were turned up to maximum brightness, as can be seen in the photo above. The first thing you'll note is that the Droid DNA isn't the brightest by a long shot; that title still belongs to the iPhone 5, followed by the One X (though the One X seems brighter because there are simply more pixels in total). Disappointing? Yes, though it's still plenty bright enough to be visible in daylight.
http://gizmodo.com/5960289/htc-droid-dna-vs-iphone-5-and-everyone-else-whos-got-the-best-display​
The displays on the One X+ and 8X are 20% dimmer than the OG One X too. Previous One X's had panels from Sony, Acer, and Sharp. The new display on the One X+ is from a mysterious fourth vendor (0x944a03) that hasn't been identified yet. Maybe HTC's changed panel vendor's for their new devices?

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Screen color temps between units

Here's a side-by-side of two ATT GS2s on auto brightness showing the same application. The one on the left has a bluish/greenish tinge to the display, while the one on the right looks...I dunno...pinkish? Almost dirty by comparison, at least to my eyes, as it's much harder to read in low light settings. I thought at first it was the Helvetica vs stock font, but it's clearly the panel's lighting characteristics.
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Here are the same phones again running the 'dead pixel test' from the Market, set to max brightness on the white screen color test.
The one on the right doesn't seem to be able to produce a true white.
Now, I get that there are different screen suppliers, and manufacturing variances among panel batches, but this whole thing has me a little disappointed at Samsung's QC. I would love to know what qualifies as a successful screen test, because the one on the right is a huge disappointment to my eyes. Just for the hell of it I compared both screens to my old Captivate, and to my surprise that had the most accurate color reproduction of the three.
How bout you guys - true whites on your screen? (try the gmail app, for example) Maybe I just got a bad batch?
The screen on my SGS2 has no colot tinge whatsoever. It's white and bright. I did however notice a bluish tint on my Infuse; which drove me crazy. I actually exchanged 3 Infuses because of a flaw in market where I got the "unable to download, insufficient memory on device". Each Infuse had a different tint, or brightness to the display. I switched to thw SGS2 and haven't looked back since.
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Wow... big difference.... what the hell...
I thought this too about my SGSII when comparing it side-by-side with store units... Turned out for me the brightness was the same but another setting (adjust screen to save battery or something like that) was checked on my phone, making the screen look like crap on some colors, including making white look gray and yellow look bluish. Once I uchecked that box the display looked fine.
yeah I am anal about colors too. Being a photographer.
So I was looking for ways to improve the displays on my SGS2(now returned).
I have a Gretag i1-Pro spectrophotometer that I use for calibration and also matching color swatches. So I 'calibrated' my screen to the best of the available software. There is a program call 'Screen Adjuster' you guys can use to alter the RGB values. However gama will be off, and you can only calibrate EITHER high bias RGB or low bias RGB. There is no way to calibrate both.
Have you tried Supercurio screen tune? He just started making it but can probably help you out with colors and such.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313652
QC and screen temperature were both big issues with the ISGS2 when it launched. There's a 100 page thread that's been talking about it since May. Five ISGS2's side-by-side all had from slight to wild differences in color temperature. Some of the ROMs also alter color temperature which makes it even more confusing. Cool/blue is what's intended to be normal and warm/yellow is the exception. The phone on the right in the pic looks like it has a warmer screen. I'd guess they changed either the screen or manufacturing process for the ASGS2 or you guys would have been freaking out by now.
P.S. - Samsung manufactures all their own displays and they all come from the same factories. So if there are differences it's QC or allowable deviation.

Lumia 800 screen looks "serrated". Is it normal?

So I just bought a new Lumia 800. My previous phone HTC Mozart so I compare their screens and there is one thing that annoys me: while my HTC Mozart displays everything from fonts to live tiles smoothly, those in my Lumia 800 look "serrated":
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in which the "No sim" one was taken from my Lumia screen. Similarly, when white texts are displayed in black background, they look serrated too which a little bit hurts my eyes.
Could you tell me if this is normal for AMOLED screens or is it just my device's problem?
Thank you in advance.
I believe this has to do with the Pentile Matrix of the Lumia 800.
search "pentile" on this forum for more info.
found an online artice http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/11/2699574/lumia-900-amoled-display-no-pentile
talks about Lumia 900 not having this type of matrix
Yep, what (s)he said. It's due to the PenTile matrix used.
Thanks for all the replies. Now I believe my phone's screen is normal, although I don't really like that pentile effect at all
Not many people do. Some people apparently can't see the effect at all. Annoyingly, I can.
I can see it if I look for it, but it doesn't bother me in normal use.
Unfortunately, I got used to the smoothness of HTC Mozart display, so this really annoys me
i find it's far more noticeable if you use more warm colours (like oranges and reds) than if you use blues or greens.
I am used to the pentile. I have always disliked pentile screens but now after using one for two weeks I can say the pentile doesn't bother me one bit. Even though I see it all the time as I'm sensitive to these things. The true black and good response time of the screen makes up for it. I now prefer it over the sharper screen of my old Xperia Play. Much more comfortable screen to look at on the Lumia.
Like comparing LCD to plasma. Amoled seems much easier on the eyes than ordinary LCD.
I can notice it and I hate it, but I knew what I was getting. The Samoled+ on my old GS2 looked much better. Honestly, even looking at my GF's 710 I have to say that I like that screen better for some aspects: pics and vids have more natural colours and look less pixelated, text is also more readable in the browser without zooming. Anyway at the end of the day the 800 is overall a much better phone, and its unique design mekes you feel like you're holding a true work of art in your hand. Right now thinking about going back to my super plasticky GS2 makes me cringe.

S9 screen with red or pink tint?

Does anyone else see reddish or pink on their screen? I see it when I tilt the screen. I noticed it a few days ago on my S9+ and now can't unsee it. Straight on it looks OK but at an angle the screen looks pink, like when scrolling through GMail or web page when my phone is on a table at an angle to me. Not sure if I should exchange and risk getting other issues. Otherwise my device has been fine. I went to the AT&T store near me to compare their display models and mine shows some pink compared to the store.
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Mine show slight blue tint when tilted
The left one has a slight green tint. No AMOLED is going to be 100% perfect. Actually I think you have one of the better panels. It looks brighter and the white looks thicker compared to the display model.
Based on the number of screwy AMOLED panels I've seen, that one would probably be OK to me. My panel is yellower along the top quarter and I also consider that a keeper you can do so much worse in my opinion. In ten years they may finally nail the technology till then it's lottery.
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Mine also turns a little pink if angled... i can't remember if my previous S8 also did so...
Mine turns ever so slightly blue when tilted. It's MUCH better then my Note 8 was, which turned pink at even the slightest angle.
Try factory reset, when I got mine and turned it on I saw from the boot animation that the display was white. When it finished booting it looked like it was stuck with the blue filter on. I factory reset and the display has been normal since
This can be adjusted, at least this is what I did on my S8. Go to settings, Display, Screen mode and fine tune it there.
So my wife and I each have a US T-Mobile model. Her's definitely has the pink screen issue. Duplicating the settings between the phones and the issue persists. I will be contacting T-Mobile for an exchange.
FYI - wound up not being a hardware issue for our phones. I found out that the native Android Night Light setting transfers between phones. Was able to delete,and use Samsung blue light filter settings, using Nova and the instructions here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS9/comments/85blz5/psa_night_light_and_blue_light_filter_overlap/
anyone else experiencing this on their s9+? when i tilt my device, right before the blue shift, i can se a pink/reddish hue go across the display. do you have the same thing? should i be worried? it's kind of annoying, every slight tilt and i can notice it.
I think now that I checked it seems like mine also has a very slight pink touch on it... But i dont really care and I haven't really ever noticed it.
I use black everywhere possible. Dark theme, dark wallpaper, KIWI browser with AMOLED dark turned on, so this way I save my battery, i save my screen, and black is way better on the eye

LG vs BOE

Ok so here's my dilemma. I've had an LG screen for the past 3 weeks and it has a slight green tinge to it which can only really be seen if I sit in a dark room and turn the display grey and screen to low. In all other aspects I'm happy with it. I have also just bough a Mate 20 Pro with a BOE screen, this doesn't have any of the green to it and seems fine, just not as vivid and the white can appear slightly grey in some lights. I've also started to read on here about the screen scratching more easily and battery drain. Also that the BOE is not as good quality as the LG.
What do I do? Keep the LG or go for the BOE. Has anyone else had a problem after swapping and wished they'd stayed with the LG?
Go for BOE. LG screen is abit blueish, abit too vivid. I did the comparision between many devices included iPhone X, Xs Max, Note 9, M20P LG and M20P BOE. I'm happy with BOE right now!
BOE vs IPX vs LG
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Keep the BOE. Battery is exactly the same. I went through 6 LG screen's and every one had problems.
Stay with BOE, I had LG screen and gave it a shot even after having green tint all around the screen, with time green tint got worse. I tried to adjust the colours on phone but still, the screen was just too bad (was gutted when I showed it to my friends and they were like wtf is this? you spent this much to have this?). Finally gave up and got it replaced, so happy with BOE only problem I have with BOE is Black isn't completely black. I don't know I just feel that LG screen had got black on them nice and dark compared to BOE. Battery seems to be fine.
Another problem I had on LG screen was quality, I had the phone in my pocket with keys and i kid you not it got nicks and chips on the screen. My old oneplus 3t never had problems with keys, I was surprised with screen quality.
Display boe
Hello everyone I noticed that my display buo with the screen under the sun shadows of the. Instead of being normal, fingers have a light green Phosphorescent effect while on an LG display they are normal

No cure for burn in?

On many LG devices, there is "kcal" settings to tune the display to eliminate screen burn.
Here's a good example:- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ontrast-and-also-get-rid-of-ghosting.3653992/
I cannot find any alternative or anything similar on the S8 or S9 forums which is strange considering burn in is a big issue on our devices too.
My question is, why is there no similar cure, what am I missing?, Or have I not being look hard enough?
TIA
TheInfiniteAndroid said:
On many LG devices, there is "kcal" settings to tune the display to eliminate screen burn.
Here's a good example:- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ontrast-and-also-get-rid-of-ghosting.3653992/
I cannot find any alternative or anything similar on the S8 or S9 forums which is strange considering burn in is a big issue on our devices too.
My question is, why is there no similar cure, what am I missing?, Or have I not being look hard enough?
TIA
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The OLED pixels are failing. The calibration and color accuracy as well. Since blue pixels die first any compensation be limited and you would lose color/gamma calibration. The blue pixel output is already near its max when new compared to the other pixel colors.
Red pixels generally have the longest lifespan. No way you can accurately color calibrate one of these display by eye.
Once an OLED display is degraded only a new display will really fix it.
The only thing you can do is reduce the wear by not using in direct sunlight. Use manual brightness control and keep below 50%. Use max brightness for seconds not minutes. Use dark mode and get rid of the notification icons at the top. Use dark wallpaper and red or darker icon packs. This N10+ has over 8k hours on it. No detectable display damage or degradation.
Limit exposure to sunlight and excessive temperatures including during storage.
A hot running phone is burning both the battery and display. Correct the cause of excessive power consumption.
OLEDs are very susceptible to water damage; keep water away from phones even if ip68 rated.
My N10+ AMOLED conservation management strategy. So far it remains in excellent condition even though it's been heavily used daily almost every day for 3 years. I slightly rotate the static homepage icons every month or so. Newer Samsung's incorporate pixel shifting as well.
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