Gurm Well, CCitrine reported it (Essential Phone) is usable, but Sunspark says it was not usable for him. Probably different issues affect them (their original posts linked in my tag). Did you ever get your functional vision checked (eye teaming, etc), Gurm ?
I don't think Sunspark tried the Paranoid Android ROM? I still don't know why Paranoid ROM is okay but nothing else is.
The Essential Phone is not in the list of supported devices: http://aospa.co/downloads
I think the only one talking about how Paranoid Android made a device usable in this thread was me, and the phone is the OnePlus 3. I believe the most likely theory so far is this ROM, like early manufacturer's ROMs, leaves the default color profile untouched, so no temporal dithering kicks in. I'm not claiming this would work for other devices.
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randomboolean yeah I'm not convinced eink is the solution. I'm not a fan of the eink side of this phone.
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Xs Max: http://www.displaymate.com/Spectra_45s_a.jpg
X: http://www.displaymate.com/Spectra_41a1.jpg
The Red and Green components, has bigger intensity on XS than the X.
Also the blue component is slighty narrow, but just slightly. Less on the left side. Supposly the worst side.
A work colleague of mine who has troubles with monitor displays, always use Flux agressively. His smartphone is Xiaomi is Xiaomi A2, in the low brightness region. He find it confortable.
It has similar contrast and brightness values has HTC 10.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/HTC-10-Smartphone-Review.165871.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-Mi-6X-Mi-A2-Smartphone-Review.315456.0.html
It has PWM, but just below 20%.
CCitrine Essential Phone - LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
https://www.gsmarena.com/essential_ph_1-8710.php
Interesting enough. This phone is the same panel than the Xiaomi A2, which my work colleague find ok.
Xiami A2 - LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_a2(mi_6x)-9140.php
oxlr I had an M7 which was perfect to my eyes.
I had a problem with GPS, then it was sent to repair. For some reason they change the display. The display was much color saturated, and colder white balance. It was horrible, to my eyes. The worst display i saw in life. I sent it back to HTC and said i want my LCD back. They change it, not for the old, but a similar one. It was OK again.
The phone its pretty unusable. I bought the Xperia XZ 2 on black friday. It's an amazing phone, but not eye friendly. My eyes sore. I will try a few day longer and see if i can manage, but i dont think it will possible.
The curious thing is that if i only look at it with the left eye, i can use it way more. My right eye is more sensible, maybe. Or is a binocular problem. Have to check my eyes on a doctor.
I was playing with some 3d cinema glasses. Some really cheap ones. One they gave me once i was seeing a 3D movie.
I tried on my Sony XZ 2 (eye-strain phone) and discovered that the left lens has a different effect then the right one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_9Mj--tKk&feature=youtu.be
When i rotate the lens on the phone it seems it goes on all spectrum. Maybe the phone polarization makes this. The violet and blue part are really strong, and green and red are not percitible, instead it's more yellow. Maybe the spectrum is like the blue white led, and the blue spectrum is really strong.
Or it might be that the phone just polarizes blue spectrum differently than green and red, maybe the coating on glass/polarizer, changes the way red and green works.
When i look to from my glasses to Sony, it seems to me that the more accute pain is when i am on the violet/blue part. I feel pain and my leg twiching. That's one of the neurological effects that i suspect blue light is triggering.
On my old HTC one, the polarization is different, so the it changes from a subtle blue to subtle warm, and in a certain angle it becomes color spiral intense. And it's the same on both lenses. Right and left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTzU4aXYgw0&feature=youtu.be
I will try to go to shopping and go play with those glasses and phones, and check if i can discovere anything.
I will try to understand if other phones like the iphone XS has the red and green component so strong has the blue on Sony. If it's polorized on the same way. Maybe those glasses just polarize the blue spectrum more intense, i dont know.
Aside from trying Skinomi Matte and trying cf.lumen, any other ideas to make the LG G7 usable? Tried my Dad's Galaxy S9+ for about 30 minutes, seems much better than the LG G7.
ryans The spectrum of S9+ has the green and red spectrum already leveled by the blue spectrum.
http://www.displaymate.com/Spectra_43s.html
I don't think the LG7 has this kind of even spwctrum
ryans I've been burned a couple times now by trying to make the latest premium smartphone work. Now I'm paying for one over two years and I have to try and sell it for greatly reduced value. Feels bad. From now on I'm just going to experiment with budget Android phones or well used phones.
It's nice to know i'm not alone in the world, having eyes that are sensitive to PWM flicker sucks!
Phone's i've had a success with...
Recently I purchased a Xaomi Mi Mix 2, it's giving me really sore eyes but none of the other usual symptoms of nausea or headaches.
Anyone tried a HTC U11?
