I am coming from the Samsung Note 9 (before that was the S8+ and earlier Note phones). Basically been with Samsung for over 15 years. The Note 10+ is the first Samsung I have ever owned that is virtually unusable in bright sunlight. I live in a fairly warm climate (day time temp about 82 degrees currently) and if I use the phone in sunlight for more than 3 minutes or so the screen will dim about 20%. Then if I continue to use it for another 4-5 minutes in sunlight it will continue to dim even more... taking it all the way down to a maximum of 50% screen brightness. As you could probably imagine, having your screen set at 50% screen brightness in direct sunlight results in a useless phone as it's almost impossible to read or see anything.
I know it takes it to 50% because when I try to move the brightness setting bar it will brighten up to 50% of the bar (right in the middle) but does not go any brighter if the bar is pushed further to the right.
I understand that this is probably to protect the phone from overheating but why on earth wouldn't the engineers at Samsung gimp the processor (to reduce overheating) since the vast majority of the heat generated from a phone is from the processor - not the screen. It's one thing to deal with a slow phone in direct sunlight... it's another when the phone is entirely useless because it's too dim to read.
As noted, I have had many other Samsung phones and not one has reduced the brightness level so drastically in direct sunlight that the phone becomes useless.
Do I have a bad phone or is this what others in warm climates and direct sunlight use are experiencing? If this is a new but totally normal gimping feature for the Note 10+ is there any possible way of overriding this? I would prefer to have a shortened phone lifespan (I don't keep my phones for more than 1.5 years) then to have a phone that is the equivalent of a brick in direct sunlight. Any feedback is much appreciated.
I know it takes it to 50% because when I try to move the brightness setting bar it will brighten up to 50% of the bar (right in the middle) but does not go any brighter if the bar is pushed further to the right.
I understand that this is probably to protect the phone from overheating but why on earth wouldn't the engineers at Samsung gimp the processor (to reduce overheating) since the vast majority of the heat generated from a phone is from the processor - not the screen. It's one thing to deal with a slow phone in direct sunlight... it's another when the phone is entirely useless because it's too dim to read.
As noted, I have had many other Samsung phones and not one has reduced the brightness level so drastically in direct sunlight that the phone becomes useless.
Do I have a bad phone or is this what others in warm climates and direct sunlight use are experiencing? If this is a new but totally normal gimping feature for the Note 10+ is there any possible way of overriding this? I would prefer to have a shortened phone lifespan (I don't keep my phones for more than 1.5 years) then to have a phone that is the equivalent of a brick in direct sunlight. Any feedback is much appreciated.
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