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Re:Nothing Phone (1) by wlesieutre on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:57PM (#32087231)
On an OLED screen isn’t the minimum brightness setting for each pixel “off”?
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Re:Nothing Phone (1) by causi on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:02PM (#32087326)
On a hardware level, yes. Apps don't actually get to access that. Try it yourself in a pitch-black room. Compare black areas in the OEM's always-on display mode to a third-party AOD app or a fullscreen image viewer showing a #000000 box.
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Re:Nothing Phone (1) by celsoazevedo on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:01PM (#32088702)
I tested on my OnePlus 8 Pro running LineageOS and the first app I found on the Play Store (aodNotify) seems to work as expected. Pure black, as if it was part of the "always on display" feature.

I guess it could work differently on different Android "flavours".

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Re:Nothing Phone (1) by causi on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:07PM (#32097857)
Interesting. I also use aodNotify and on my S20 FE it illuminates the whole screen.
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Re:Nothing Phone (1) by wlesieutre on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:41PM (#32088483)
Don't have any OLED Android devices, but on iOS the #000000 box is indistinguishable from off
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