I might buy it again to give it another try. I don't want to keep buying and returning though on these accounts because I've returned a lot of phones and electronics lately because of eye strain and they start restricting your account haha. I bought it because based on what I read on it, it seemed to be the one with the best chance of not hurting my eyes.
Usable Smartphones?
Markus Samsung S2 and Yotaphone 2 both OLED give me no eye strain. I eventually want to buy another OLED phone as that's the only time I have any luck. I'm using Yotaphone 2 right now.
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jasonpicard Have you looked at an iPhone X for any length of time? I got instant weird feelings in a shop, like worse than most things and even older phones there. It's supposed to be OLED and I think the XS newer model is as well but I've not seen one. I've not spent enough time with any Android OLED phones to be sure but a Samsung OLED tablet did seem hard to look at...or maybe just different but I already had strain that day. I was hoping OLED would be some magical solution at one point even if it was gonna be a while before laptops and desktop monitors were common. Clinging to my Windows Phone Nokia 635 for now as its comfortable.
hpst keep in mind every single Samsung phone and tablet uses pwm except the S2. I heard the apple OLED phone doesn't use PWM at 50% brightness. Every other brightness it does. There is a test of it somewhere in the internet. I have not tried it though. I still have hope for OLED because I have had the most luck with it.
jasonpicard I heard the apple OLED phone doesn't use PWM at 50% brightness
I've heard it still does
Has anyone tried Galaxy S9 or Pixel 3? Verizon is offering $400 off for Black Friday.
hpst You may want to check the XS as unexpectedly gave me no problems over 20 min. I tested the X months ago when it came out, and it was dreadful with long lasting suffering. I have no idea why the XS would be better than the X though. It would be nice to hear a confirmation and find out what they eventually differ by.
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ryans I used an S9 briefly and it was tolerable for short usage. Don't know how it would fare over the long run, but I might check out this deal on Friday... it's currently $33/mo. but with the $400 credit that'd be more like $15/mo. which is much more palatable...
They're running the deal on the LG V40 ThinQ as well, I might check that out since some people thought the G7 ThinQ was good, and I know someone (JTL) was using the V20 without issues.
With XS I think it depends from screen factory, I had one from Apple store online, and it was surly better then one I have now. I had to return it and then I've tried XR from Apple online and it was 100% worse than XS as I wrote before.
So I've bought for me XS and my wife XR in other store in my town and when I compare this two now XR seem to better for me. Not perfect but better. After two weeks of usage XS I can use this for 30 minutes some day longer some day not.
XS is better for me than XR with size and two cams. I will give it some time if not I will change this with my wife's XR. I use this now with mate screen protector and it dont help a lot. I ordered also some expensive ZAAG screen protector with blue light filter, but I don't think it will help and I hope they return 30 days policy work as they wrote..
The only phone which I know that actually works with me is a Samsung S4 Mini. I have whole my life Eye strain with certain screens. Is there anybody who also has no eye strain with the S2 and can recommend some other phones? The new Samsungs and Apple's dont work for me.
Leachim38 S2 OLED screen gave me no eye strain. I'm now only using the Yotaphone 2 OLED screen OLED side it gives me no eye strain. I can't use any LED screen without getting eye strain. This phone is the only thing that doesn't cause strain. If I use the crappy e ink side I get strain. OLED side no issues. I have had it for two years now.
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KM How important did you find Paranoid Android for eye comfort? I'm on 8.0 right now and I spent all night trying to do this without success (fastboot not working and tried all solutions I could find). I will try it on 8.0 for now.
Also how are you setting to to 65/255 brightness?That brightness manager seems to be gone.
jasonpicard Now that's strange because OLED part of yota 2 gives immediate sharp pain for me and the eink was the only solution to use android for the last 6 months. However Dasun paperlike 3, gives me some kind of eye pain, so as I can see eink is not a solution for us, atleast not for everybody.
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degen Like super usable vs totally unusable after a while. I'm not sure anymore if I tested the version you're on now.
If you need some help, let me know. Basically you unlock the bootloader somewhere in the Android Settings. It's a simple switch. Then you get the latest TWRP image from twrp.me for the OnePlus 3. You reboot into fastboot mode, and then from a terminal on your computer, type fastboot devices to see if the phone is connected properly. If it shows up, type fastboot flash recovery twrp.img (or whatever the filename is). Then reboot into recovery mode, which is now TWRP. It automatically runs ADB in the background. So you download Paranoid Android 7.3.1 for OP3 as a zip file and then copy it onto the device by typing "adb push paranoid.zip /sdcard". Then the file is on the phone's internal 64 GB memory. You can then install the ROM from within TWRP.
If something ever goes wrong, dont worry for there is an unbrick tool: https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3405700
There are a lot of guides that tell you to do this and that, but most of it is not necessary. For example, you don't need to install root access. But if you want the Google Play Store, download an OpenGapps package from opengapps.org, choose ARM64 and the right Android version (7.1). nano or pico should be enough, in doubt choose nano. Install that zip file right after you installed the ROM, with no reboots in between.
I use Linux for adb and fastboot. For Debian/Ubuntu it is as simple to install as typing "sudo apt install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot". On Arch, IIRC "pacman -S android-tools". Not sure about Windows.
degen Also how are you setting to to 65/255 brightness?That brightness manager seems to be gone.
Wow, it seems it's really gone. That is most unfortunate, but some other simple apps should be able to do that, too. I just don't know of any right now. Look for screenshots that show values 0-255 and stay away from any "dimming" apps that change the colors.
Or search for "brightness manager igor Tseglevskiy" and download it from some other, trustworthy app store.
Almost forgot: if you choose to stay on OgygenOS, the brightness is 68.
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I had the opportunity to play with Pixel 3 for about 30 minutes in the store. While using it my eyes became very strained and it became hard to focus when looking away from the device. I also felt very anxious for about an hour after using it 
. The Pixel 3 XL did seem easier on my eyes for whatever reason.
I've purchased LG G7 ThinQ directly from Verizon and am cearly praying it is tolerable.
