When watching movies or playing games, the colour and brightness changes. It looks very bland and dead, lifeless.
It looks too bright, dull with weak colour. Sometimes brightness will change higher or lower when using the device.
Auto brightness is disabled of course. Anything I can check to try and see why my screen is acting and appearing so strange?
I'm running stock Oreo 8. Colour calibration is near the top, 12:00.
kanej2006 said:
When watching movies or playing games, the colour and brightness changes. It looks very bland and dead, lifeless.
It looks too bright, dull with weak colour. Sometimes brightness will change higher or lower when using the device.
Auto brightness is disabled of course. Anything I can check to try and see why my screen is acting and appearing so strange?
I'm running stock Oreo 8. Colour calibration is near the top, 12:00.
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Happens to me as well, I noticed when I go outside the screen becomes brighter but more washed out, don't know why though
shae23 said:
Happens to me as well, I noticed when I go outside the screen becomes brighter but more washed out, don't know why though
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It's a very strange issue, unsure if normal or not.
However, as you said, it happens the most when you are outdoors and it's bright, the screen appears to go very bright and colours are washed out.
After playing a game, I can see the brightness changing automatically and when quitting the application, the screen dimmed by itself. Very noticeable, WTF?
I've never seen such an problem with any other phone.
Even had a recent Huawei Honor 7X, no such issue with the screen.
I think Oreo is bugged, like Asphalt 8 plays slower than on nougat, freezes and chrashes my phone, like literally screen flicker and reboots, might just be another bug or something
kanej2006 said:
When watching movies or playing games, the colour and brightness changes. It looks very bland and dead, lifeless.
It looks too bright, dull with weak colour. Sometimes brightness will change higher or lower when using the device.
Auto brightness is disabled of course. Anything I can check to try and see why my screen is acting and appearing so strange?
I'm running stock Oreo 8. Colour calibration is near the top, 12:00.
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guys, thats not an screen issue thats an option on developer menu, search for ''Increase readability under sunlight'' turn off and that will fix the problem have a nice day
hack4ever said:
guys, thats not an screen issue thats an option on developer menu, search for ''Increase readability under sunlight'' turn off and that will fix the problem have a nice day
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Thanks for the tip, I've now disabled that option from the ''developer menu'' and will do some testing. I shall report back shortly! After looking through some other forums not only should it prevent the screen from dimming but also increase maximum contrast which is a bonus!
hack4ever said:
guys, thats not an screen issue thats an option on developer menu, search for ''Increase readability under sunlight'' turn off and that will fix the problem have a nice day
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Nice
Still the same. Turning ''increase readability'' on/off makes no difference. Brightness still increasing/decreasing on it's own.
Also, when watching videos, colours are weak/washed out and appear too bright.
Probably a software issue? Unfortunately, when previously on Nougat I did not test this as I immediately flashed Oreo the day I received the phone. Oreo bug perhaps.
kanej2006 said:
Still the same. Turning ''increase readability'' on/off makes no difference. Brightness still increasing/decreasing on it's own.
Also, when watching videos, colours are weak/washed out and appear too bright.
Probably a software issue? Unfortunately, when previously on Nougat I did not test this as I immediately flashed Oreo the day I received the phone. Oreo bug perhaps.
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im on oreo c432 and its not happening to me, try a complete day turning increase readability off, turn it off and restart your phone maybe works
hack4ever said:
im on oreo c432 and its not happening to me, try a complete day turning increase readability off, turn it off and restart your phone maybe works
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I will give this a try. As of now, with readability disabled, the black levels/contrast look higher.
However, it is a shame. Unsure if it's a fault or not, but the screen looks pretty good when playing games or browsing through images but when watching videos/media, colours/contrast are washed out and it looks really bad, here is an example:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
My video display on my phone is normal, it's good even better than my wife's ip7s and my bro's samsung s8, they look yellowish compared to my mate9
kanej2006 said:
I will give this a try. As of now, with readability disabled, the black levels/contrast look higher.
However, it is a shame. Unsure if it's a fault or not, but the screen looks pretty good when playing games or browsing through images but when watching videos/media, colours/contrast are washed out and it looks really bad, here is an example:
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have you tried watching a movie anywhere to see if it isnt a youtube problem ?
hack4ever said:
have you tried watching a movie anywhere to see if it isnt a youtube problem ?
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Of course. I have tried XPlayer and MX Player PRO. All movies look dull, dead, lifeless and weak colour...
kanej2006 said:
Of course. I have tried XPlayer and MX Player PRO. All movies look dull, dead, lifeless and weak colour...
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wow, i tried youtube and netflix and now i see what you mean, i haven't noticed it before it looks like a high contrast image
hack4ever said:
wow, i tried youtube and netflix and now i see what you mean, i haven't noticed it before it looks like a high contrast image
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EXACTLY!!! It's a shame because when browsing through images, gaming or even browsing the net, the screen looks fantastic.
However, with movies, colours are washed out and the picture looks like high contrast. Never seen this problem before.
I wish there was a fix.
After doing some basic testing, I found a way to fix the horrible looking picture when watching movies, it does not work with YouTube or Netflix, but with regular video/movie players.
For example, in MXPlayer Pro, In the settings/tools menu, go to decoder and select ''software decoder'' . When selecting HW or HW+ the screen flickers and colours are washed out and contrast/brightness is far too high.
Can others please test this on high quality MKV or MP4 movie files?
Another update, dunno how I forgot to test the difference but boy was I surprised.
Check out some high quality YouTube videos. Watch these videos on the YouTube App followed by the very same videos on YouTube in the internet browser.
For me there is a BIG BIG difference, unsure if I'm the only one but please test this. Video's look $hit on the YouTube app, too bright and dead/colourless, horrible and dull looking.
However, the very same videos seen in YouTube in my Chrome browser look simply stunning. Amazing accurate colours and deep blacks, just how they are supposed to look.
Later in the evening I will try to compare some videos myself on both the YouTube app and in the browser.
Question is, why am I getting these issues? I would of thought YouTube, whether viewed in the App or in the browser would be the same. Is this some software fault??
Please test the above and share your results.
In the YouTube app type pure black and watch the first video. When the phone is upright it looks pure black no problems. But then watch the same video with the phone horizontal and the black totally changes. Do you think the problem you're having could be related to this bug. Huawei should fix this.
I have a different problem. I see some sort of "burn in". For example when im using one app and switch to another one i can still see some parts of first one (menus etc). It's very noticable in dark room at 20% brightness. Since i'm playing CSR2 very actively this Audi logo makes me crazy
Steelrock said:
I have a different problem. I see some sort of "burn in". For example when im using one app and switch to another one i can still see some parts of first one (menus etc). It's very noticable in dark room at 20% brightness. Since i'm playing CSR2 very actively this Audi logo makes me crazy
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I also experience screen burn. But it fades away after a while.
Hi.
Since the first time I tried to make a slow-motion video, I notice that the camera can't capture enought light, like it's always in the dark, but the regular photo/video works great.
The next day instead, one time when I open the camera app a toast appeared: "unknown error" and the camera wasn't open; in the second attempt instead it worked normally, even the slow motion video.
But sometimes, the 480fps video are "laggy", and sometimes not.
I'm pretty sure, at this point, that is a software problem. I already tried to delete the app's data, but nothing changed. Anyone have this problem too?
All high speed cameras ever made, especially stupid high framerate ones like 1000FPS+ (just gets worse the faster they get) needs bright light. You're not going to be shooting high framerate video on any device in dim lighting situations any time soon unfortunately.
Maybe turn on the improvement program data sharing if you want help with the errors, that would most likely be something the phone sends info to Oneplus about.
Already enabled. The bright problem in the slow-motion wasn't the low light itself, because I tried outdoor in the day, full of light. This disappeared after a while, but I can't replicate anymore. Have no idea.
Hello to everyone, new user of the Xperia 5ii and I have two problems
1)Has anyone observed a slightly change in the colour of the screen between 60 and 120hz? It's very obvious if you have dark mode and sit in a dark room. When you toggle the selection on and off, you can easily see it
2)I was trying to upload an Instagram story and the quality drops significantly. You literally can distinguish pixels. It's only on Instagram, on Facebook there was no problem. Also I tried to upload the photos from another device, and the same problem exists.
Any help is most welcome
Antoni-o said:
Hello to everyone, new user of the Xperia 5ii and I have two problems
1)Has anyone observed a slightly change in the colour of the screen between 60 and 120hz? It's very obvious if you have dark mode and sit in a dark room. When you toggle the selection on and off, you can easily see it
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This is true and if being honest, quite expected. It most noticable when the screen brightness is somewhere 5-20%. You can clearly see it when toggling the 60 or 120hz. The panel itself is great, many oled defects are gone or very minimal. This green tint issue is quite common on other 120hz panels too (mostly Samsung made). That might also be one reason why the new Iphone 12 phones don't have 120hz, too much quality problems.
So yes, there is a green tint. But luckily it is very minor and only on certain screen brightness. Haven't noticed it when actually using the phone.
Not sure if this count as a defect to get a replacement (the replacement would probably have the same issue).
Attached few photos I took.
I have the same issue in low-brightness and 120Hz activated