Outdoor visibility - screen brightness - Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can anyone please comment on outdoor visibility with the M's screen? How about overall brightness. On my S3, one of the huge knocks I have on it is the outdoor visibility. It's nearly just washed out and blank in direct sunlight glare. I was at the Bucs football game on Sunday and damn could I not read much, even on full brightness it was bad and sucked my battery up. My fiancee's 4S screen however was at mid brightness and it was perfectly visible. Another Galaxy user commented on how she could actually see the screen when doing a group self-portrait =)
Anyway, I've read several S3 screen comparisons and know it's not the best..pentile and all and seeing the M has an AMOLED pentile display, I'm curious about outdoor visibility and overall brightness. Thanks!!

aznguyen316 said:
Can anyone please comment on outdoor visibility with the M's screen? How about overall brightness. On my S3, one of the huge knocks I have on it is the outdoor visibility. It's nearly just washed out and blank in direct sunlight glare. I was at the Bucs football game on Sunday and damn could I not read much, even on full brightness it was bad and sucked my battery up. My fiancee's 4S screen however was at mid brightness and it was perfectly visible. Another Galaxy user commented on how she could actually see the screen when doing a group self-portrait =)
Anyway, I've read several S3 screen comparisons and know it's not the best..pentile and all and seeing the M has an AMOLED pentile display, I'm curious about outdoor visibility and overall brightness. Thanks!!
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Not nearly as good as the Droid or D3. Its readable in direct sunlight but I have to really look closely. For example on a contact it is very hard to see the different number categories like Home, Mobile, etc. They should have used a bigger font.

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Display in direct sunlight conditions

Hi, i would to know the legibility of display in direct sunlight. Is it better of the Omnia display?! Or the same thing?
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Hi, i would to know the legibility of display in direct sunlight. Is it better of the Omnia display?! Or the same thing?
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i would also like to know this as well. i believe touch HD has an ambient light sensor, but it is a different manufacture than that used in iphone. also, the HD's sensor is below two layers of plastic (the screen and the touch/pressure layer), whereas iphone's sensor is just below the glass. so those of you who already have the phone, please report back thanks
buggybug0 said:
i would also like to know this as well. i believe touch HD has an ambient light sensor, but it is a different manufacture than that used in iphone. also, the HD's sensor is below two layers of plastic (the screen and the touch/pressure layer), whereas iphone's sensor is just below the glass. so those of you who already have the phone, please report back thanks
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The HD's sensor is not underneath the screen/pressure layer. It is in the opening for the speaker. The screen is not transflective therefore the backlight is required to view the display.
ardsar said:
The HD's sensor is not underneath the screen/pressure layer. It is in the opening for the speaker. The screen is not transflective therefore the backlight is required to view the display.
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okay. sooooooooo.... back to the OP's question : does the screen brightness changes when the ambient light changes? and it is good to view in direct sunlight? i couldn't extract the ansswer from your reply.
buggybug0 said:
okay. sooooooooo.... back to the OP's question : does the screen brightness changes when the ambient light changes? and it is good to view in direct sunlight? i couldn't extract the ansswer from your reply.
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yes the screen brightness changes with ambient light. Display is comparable to the touch pro when viewing in daylight, but as the iphone is transflective, it will obviously not be as good.
Hi, I've had the Touch HD for 5 days now. The display sensitivity does change according to the ambient light, which I find very useful when going in and out of buildings. The display can be read fairly easy even on direct sunlight. I was reading an ebook without any problems midday with sun over my head. As far as Omnia, I can't judge since I haven't used one. But I can compare it to my old Tytn II which was unusable in direct sunlight. The display on Touch HD is really great.
fuko747 said:
Hi, I've had the Touch HD for 5 days now. The display sensitivity does change according to the ambient light, which I find very useful when going in and out of buildings. The display can be read fairly easy even on direct sunlight. I was reading an ebook without any problems midday with sun over my head. As far as Omnia, I can't judge since I haven't used one. But I can compare it to my old Tytn II which was unusable in direct sunlight. The display on Touch HD is really great.
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OK...this is good.
The Touch HD display is not better than the Touch Diamond display in direct sunlight. Unfortunately it doesn't come close to the superb direct sunlight performance of the iPhone.
I also own the Sedna and although this device is perfectly usable in direct sunlight, even with the display brightness set to 0, the colors are dull and also much worse than on the iPhone under the same lighting conditions.
I can't hide the feeling that HTC just wants to earn easy money, look at the video performance of the Qualcomm chipset, it should have improved from the TyTN II outrage but nothing has happened yet.
HTC wants to build an iPhone killer? I'm pretty sure they can do it. Unfortunately they would need to charge much more for such a unit or at least lower their profit margin. Apparently they don't need to do that...yet.
actually it is not very good ... i cant see well...
any tweaks to make it peform better under sun??
yeah, i can hardly see anything on mine in sunlight, it would be ok to make a call, but to text or read a long text etc is verydifficult, didnt even trey watching a video, are there tweaks or anything for the screen?
disable auto backlight adjustment and crank up the backlight! battery peformance will suffer but its much easier to read. I think there are screen protectors out there than makes the screen more ligible in direct sunlight. try searching for it. dont take my word for it though
You can install Lumos and set it such that in sun conditions, it will respond with an increased backlight performance. At least Lumos will allow your phone to auto-adapt to the light conditions.
As for my personal experience, I have an ultraclear-type screen protector and the HD is pretty much unusable in direct sun light. I guess that with a less classy screen protector, the display would be readable outside but I haven't checked this out yet.
I tried disabling disabling auto adjust and cranking up brightness for sun.
It ATE my battery, left low level screen light on and this just is not a good thing.
I am outside a lot and looking for a solution, cannot believe the screen is so clear and good until you hit the sunlight. This is as I set on laptop and type in sun.

Outdoor visibility (max brightness)

Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Honor 6X'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.
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With maximum visibility, with sunglasses i can read display on white pages with no problems.
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Yeah me too but maximum brightness is consume much battery, anyway visibility on sun ok
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For sure, my brightness never goes more than 3/4. Only if i have to read really important things, but usually it is at 30-35%
IPS LCD displays are very good outdoor performers
Do you guys take money or gift from Huawei? In all this real life threads there are the same guys talking about how great is this phone. That is not so great.
Didn't knew that today was crossposting day
Oh sorry I just see same people of other threads so I think that is only one.
Now you're one of those people in every thread, bravo!
The displays sunlight legibility is great. The phone does not heat up during extensive use under direct sunlight.
Looking good. No need to have max brightness to make it readable.
not so good. if you are under direct sunlight then sometime contents are not visible but that too depends on the theme you are using sometime. some gives you very bright screen even under sunlight but some doesnt. (personal observation, may vary for others).
definitely not the best when it comes to the direct sunlight condition.
Its good
Average, sometimes have problems reading text in sunlight but mostly its average
Never a problem in sunlight.
Outdoor visibility is great. Though at times maximum brightness is really needed.
everything is readable in direct sunlight.
All visible. Max brightness is good.
Outdoor visibility is really good. No problem seeing my screen on a bright day.

Minimum brightness

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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.
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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?

Outdoor visibility (max brightness)

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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.

Outdoor visibility (max brightness)

Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Realme 6'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.
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Outdoor screen performance is okish
The maximum brightness is great for indoors but okish outdoors cause under intense sunlight you might not be able to see the screen clearly. In normal sunlight the screen is not great but usable.
I was pretty worried about these negative comments about the brightness, living in Spain we see a lot of sun.
But I haven't noticed any problem to be honest. I noticed though that at some angles my sunglasses seem to act as a filter and all I can see is a black screen. The first time it happened I thought I'd put my finger over the light sensor, but when I looked over my sunglasses I realized what it was.
Do you have, perhaps, powersavings activated?
Look at: settings - Power saving Mode - reduce Screen brightness.
I usually use 50-70% brightness (without power saving enabled) and that works fine...
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The Outdoor Visibility is unfortunately really bad for me. At direct sunlight you can barely see the screen :/
Kachima said:
The Outdoor Visibility is unfortunately really bad for me. At direct sunlight you can barely see the screen :/
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Turn off the Power Saving mode from notification panel or Battery settings...
Overandout said:
I was pretty worried about these negative comments about the brightness, living in Spain we see a lot of sun.
But I haven't noticed any problem to be honest. I noticed though that at some angles my sunglasses seem to act as a filter and all I can see is a black screen. The first time it happened I thought I'd put my finger over the light sensor, but when I looked over my sunglasses I realized what it was.
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In India the sun is burning hot and it's very difficult even with power saving turned off
Yeah the screen isn't very bright at all.
Even with power savings off
this problem appeared after some update or is it a factory problem?
Factory problem.
Also disable screen optimization from battery sub menu helped in contrast.
Never get this phone if you are living in sunny areas.
terrible delay , not recommand for pubg.

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