Polarized screen?

[Hunan]

I noticed that while wearing sunglasses, if I turn my G2 to landscape position, the screen is completely black. This has not happened with other phones I have had.

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[tech_head]

I noticed that while wearing sunglasses, if I turn my G2 to landscape position, the screen is completely black. This has not happened with other phones I have had.

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What phones did you have before???
LCD's have a polarizing filter. AMOLED does not.
G2 is LCD.

I have Maui Jim polarized glasses and since they are circular polarized the problem isn't so bad when looking at LCD screens.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

But why would it only do it in landscape mode, not portrait. Mine does the same thing. Would like to make it so it wouldn't do that.

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[kingneptune117]

The screen is not polarized, your glasses are.

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[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Correct, but why do the glasses effect the view only in landscape? Portrait is fine.

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[streetkilln]

i believe it has sumthing to do with the liquid crystals . idk this my first time owning a ips display after i owned somany samsung amoleds.
the screen feels weaker if i press down on it with little force u can see waves if u have a darkish backround. similar to lcd monitors.

ill look at my phone with galses

 

[AllUserNamesTakenX3]

Noticed the same thing in landscape mode while wearing polarized glasses.

 

[Goingcarcrazy]

It turns black because between the polarizing filter on the screen (which only allows light traveling in a certain direction to leave the screen) and your polarized sunglasses (which only allows light from a certain direction to enter it) no light is compatible between the two at certain orientations. Its a bit of a hard concept (and I Dont even really fully understand it) but I know in photography they have something called a variable neutral density filter which you can adjust to limit the light entering the lens from -3 stops to -10 stops of light (which is almost welders glass dark). All this filter is is a circular polarizer reversed onto another polarizer and essentially blocks out light, so similar effect going on with the phone.

 

[xtrmcheeze]

^^ What he said!
You will also notice this on other phones, but it is quite irritating since we can't use landscape while using sunglasses in a car for instance while the device is in a dock.
I previously had a original Droid RAZR which also had a polarized screen, however, the polarizing film was at a 45 degree angle so it only caused issues with polarized sunglasses while turned diagonal at 45, portrait and landscape modes looked absolutely fine. It is unfortunate LG did this but maybe it was because the polarized film works better at a 90 degree orientation in sunlight and holding the phone, every review says it works great in the daylight, this could be why.

 

[dontlookatme]

What phones did you have before???
LCD's have a polarizing filter. AMOLED does not.
G2 is LCD.

I have Maui Jim polarized glasses and since they are circular polarized the problem isn't so bad when looking at LCD screens.

My droid RAZR (11-11-11) has the filter Cus I can't see landscape while wearing polarized sunglasses. And it is an amoled display.

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