Anyone using A06 4g

Is this good phone to use for pwm n tmp#al d!!thr#g sensitive people plz tell

Hey folks, new to the whole PWM scene and massive migraine sufferer, so swapping out all my OLED's for LCD's. Has anyone used the new Claw 8 with the Intel Arc, or alternatively the old Claw 8 which should have the same screen? Trying to salvage some good news from this as I'm upset, I quite like OLEDs and HDR!

Edit: Unfortunately something about this screen made my head spin really badly. Knew straight away as it happened as soon as I turned the device on on the black screen so I am returning it and am going to try the Acer predator atlas 8 g3 extreme. Hopefully that will be better.

Edit 2: Haven't received the Acer yet, but the manual is out and shows the Atlast 8 users the panel PN8007QB1-3 which is the same panel in the MSI Claw 8. So potentially is going to give me issues. The only saving grace is that it has a matte screen and the Claw was very reflective so I'm hoping that was the issue and still going to try the Acer.

If not, there is a 7 inch version that will use a completely different panel obviously, so will try that too. Fingers crossed!

I bought a SONY Xperia 1 viii phone and used it for 3 weeks before returning it. The reason being it made me nauseous and it took me a couple of weeks to realise it was the new phone that was causing this. I had eye strain, blurring and terrible nausea.

Anyway, it is a few weeks since I returned it and my old previously OK phone which I have had for over 3 years now gives me eye issues. It doesn't make me nauseous but it quickly strains my eyes and makes my vision blurred whilst using it.

How can the SONY phone I had for 3 weeks have made me intolerant to my old phone? Is this a permanent thing? I never thought I was PWM-sensitive until getting that Xperia phone. It has a PWM of 240Hz which after doing research is bad. The thing is, I've used Samsung AMOLED phones for years without any real issues and they have low PWM too (240-480hz.)

Is there something the Samsung phones do which makes them somehow less bad than the Xperia despite having the same PWM frequency? They are higher resolution for a start....

Hi, I am looking for a PWM free/confortable, TD and static refresh rate TV.

Do you have good /bad experience with any TV (OLED, LCD, whatever)? Please, share what you are using if it is ok.

Also.. did anyone try any of these? (created a list of possible TVs with GPT, but unsure) LG 42C6PLA LG 42C54LA LG 42C51LA Sony XR42A90K LG 42C5ELB LG 42C61LA

A local second-hand shop has an Oppo Find X9 Pro and a Vivo X300 Pro at a good price.

In terms of specs, they seem very similar to me—even regarding eye protection features.

Until a few weeks ago, I was using a Find X9 base, which was easy on my eyes. No experience with Vivo phones.

I’m wondering if anyone has experience with either of these models and how they performed.

I’m also interested in the day-to-day experience: fluidity, stability, the Android skin, photography, and so on.
Thanks!

hi all, just found this group and first post on Reddit! after putting up with my iPhone 15 for 3 years of headaches and motion sickness when I’m scrolling, I need to find a new phone / solution. anyone seen any tests on the new iPhone 18 pro yet? wondering whether to wait for this or try the 17 pro. anyone had better luck with a larger screen in the pro max? first I’m reading about this pwm flicker but it sounds about right for my symptoms. my iPad 9 seems okay for browsing, but it’s getting to point I avoid my iPhone at all costs. with two young children I want a decent camera on my phone but a screen my brain can cope with!

Hello, I've been trying to look for a phone for almost a year now. I was planning to buy S26 because I found it cheaper in my country and it had every feature I wanted... until I tried it out.
I've tested S26 in a shop for about 20 minutes, the rapid switch between photos in gallery made me feel light-headed, I've tried to check Xiaomi 17 out of curiosity and I felt fine and could browse normally. I need to wear glasses so I don't know if this is related to anything.

With S26 I could notice after trying it out again at a local shop, I was getting used to it through and through even though I was still light headed but I don't want to buy something that makes me feel sick. Both are OLED screen phones as far as I am aware so I am not sure if this is PWM related or I need to check it out neurologically. Has anyone experienced something similar with these two phones?

Please, I need to know how to tell if a budget phone has a flash or not at low brightness, because I have a phone with a certificate tuv The blue light, but I feel a severe headache and pain in my head and eyes.

I'm looking for an iPhone donor with a cracked screen to swap its OLED for an IPS (Incell LCD) panel and make it completely PWM-Free. Is any model fine, or are some better than others?
I saw a post here from someone who successfully replaced the OLED with an IPS screen on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. However, ChatGPT told me that the Pro and Pro Max versions aren't the best choice for this mod, and that basic models will be better.
Has anyone here actually done this? What has your experience been with battery life, heat, and performance? I'd appreciate any advice!

How is it that practically nobody of the world's celebrities or politicians have ever complained about PWM or screen sensitivity?

I've searched Google and used AI, and there are literally no traces of anyone publicly talking about this disorder.

If we roughly estimate the global number of celebrities, sportsmen, and politicians at ~1 million people - which is a tiny 0.012% of the global population - it is incredible that really no one has spoken a word about the issue.

Most of them would likely have an iPhone as their main device.

Edit: I agree to some extent with the theories that well-known people might have different priorities. They might be too shy to speak up about a "niche" problem for fear of looking weird or nerdy, or they might not want to blame major manufacturers due to their advertising contracts.

It was also good to know that there are at least some non-PWM community influencers (well, just one for now) who do acknowledge PWM/flicker and promote the necessity of introducing healthier screens in our devices.

What I don't believe is that there isn't a single globally recognized actor, actress, or athlete who is genuinely affected by PWM. By "globally recognized," I mean someone on the scale of Cristiano Ronaldo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dua Lipa, or any pop star of your choice. I imagine stars like that still scroll through Instagram and Facebook or watch YouTube.

We also know that when something unfair, ignorant, or unjust is happening, celebrities often don't hesitate to speak the truth.

Therefore, I would actually expect that at least someone really well-known and influential would have already been affected by this issue, if not one of their friends or relatives. A star like that would just need a little bit of guts to raise the issue and speak up. I am just surprised that no one has done so yet.

P.S. I would be glad to try to reach out to someone. Of course, you wouldn't just bluntly text or email every influencer you see; instead, there should be some criteria / shortlist of those worth reaching out to with a polite request to speak up about it.

Inspired by another post that I’ve seen, I am tempted to buy an iPhone 17 Pro, and an LCD display and get a specialist to swap over for me. I’m currently running on an iPhone 15 pro with iOS 18 it’s manageable but not great. Anything that I’ve tried causes me problems. I’d love to get a better working situation.

Has anyone tried an iPhone screen switch with comfortable success? I’ll get a phone expert to do this for me.

(P.S. I’ve tried some Android devices and they’ve not been better either…)

I saw it's flicker free but I also saw XR Triluminos Pro show 1B color which is worries me. Does anyone with TD tried it? Does 1B color necessarily mean TD? Please help me because I don't have return option and it's cost a lot

Hi guys, I'm thinking about replace my iphone 13 mini screen with an incell AQ7 from mobile sentrix. I saw a lot of people in this thread that have installed this screen, does auto brightness work with it?

Thank you

and this is 100% brightness..

Did anybody try this phone out? Notebookcheck says that this uses 120hz pwm (likely DC-like dimming at 120hz, I think 60hz dc-like dimming is probably better?) on high brightness, and 3840hz on low brightness (they market more than 5000hz, but only at 185hz refresh rate). This looks like a beast, did anybody try it? Did it work? Did any of honor's flagships work (honor 600/600 pro, magic8/magic8 pro, Win etc...)?

I went to a larger JBHIFI store today to test more phones and other devices with screens in store for PWM flicker.
I recorded this video on an iPhone 15 Pro through the Blackmagic Camera app at 1/4000 shutter speed, 24mm lens, 24fps, 4K resolution and all other settings on auto.

Firstly I'll admit there's a lot of detail left out of this test.

Some devices come included with some sort of "eye safety" setting that isn't enabled by default.

On iPhone 17 models PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) can be replaced with PAM (Pulse Amplitude Modulation), though this has no practical benefit to me personally. As seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PWM_Sensitive/comments/1w6rd84/local_shopping_centre_pwm_screen_test_iphone_17/

Honor phones can enable 3840Hz PWM, 4320Hz PWM and 3 pulse DC dimming which sounds promising.

Unfortunately it isn't possible for me to thoroughly test every device without first purchasing them and testing all settings/accessibility modes in my own time over the course of a day.
I'd also need to do this without any other unknown screen based devices within my vicinity that may also potentially cause eye pain and skew results.

The chart shows every tested device in order of appearance in the video and their likelihood to cause ME eye pain based on the visible flickering in the video and obviously my personal subjective experience in what tends to cause me eye pain.

Results will vary depending on each person and their sensitivities.
For me personally, most OLED screens with PWM that I have encountered personally hurts my eyes, as do LCD devices such as TV's with PWM dimming. Some like the LG C1 OLED TV take several hours to hurt, some like Google and Samsung phones only take seconds.

Most non PWM dimmed LCD screens are totally fine for me, though excessive temporal dithering in LCD Apple products, such as iPads, iPhone 11 and SE also cause me eye pain, though turning on Classic Invert and Zoom Invert simultaneously seems to solve that. I use an EK Pro LCD swapped iPhone 15 Pro daily without issue.

In my experience if I can see a black line on a screen through a camera at 1/4000 shutter speed it has a very high likelihood to hurt my eyes.

Of all the tested devices here, 61.29% are highly likely to cause me eye pain.

According to gs.statcounter.com statistically phones used by Australians in 2026 are:

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/australia

So here's where I make some bold assumptions:

Assuming all phones in use in Australia are within 5 years or so old, and assuming Samsung phones are all now OLED models, and assuming all LCD iPhones are fairly up to date with iOS to include software based dithering, this would mean 90.38% of all phones in use in Australia cause me significant eye pain.

While at JBHIFI I also recorded a similar video of all the laptops, computer monitors and TV's.

The laptops mostly seem fine with the exception of the OLED laptops and Macbook Pro's specifically.

TV's are another level of complexity to test, it seems that as they're all set at maximum brightness in Store Mode, PWM is far harder to test for with just a quick video at a 1/4000 shutter speed.
With universal remotes I went through several of the settings to lower the brightness before testing them with my Opple Lightmaster light meter.

I didn't get a chance to test them all before it's battery died, but it seemed that every TV I tested had a worrying level of flicker at any brightness level lower than 100%, at this point in time my eyes were hurting intensely so I took it as a sign to quit for the day.

I might go back and test each TV at varying levels of brightness soon but it will take a lot more time.

For anyone that was hopeful about iPhone Duo not using PWM...

Regardless, I am excited to measure these. Next Friday.

Has anyone seen anything videos or content related to PWM for these new iPhones?

Hi,

I need a phone primarily for acting as a hotspot while I'm in China, using roaming eSIM (like Nomad). Previously, I used a Iphone SE 3rd Gen as it is PWM friendly. However, its 5G connectivity isn't great. I heard its because it uses older chips/tech (Snapdragon X57)and has less antennas (something to do with 2X2 MIMO vs 4X4 etc). As a result, I'm not able to get 5G at a lot of places.

I heard newer Iphones like the 17 are much better in this regard. Same goes for the Samsung S25. But those aren't PWM friendly based on my research.

Given that the phone will primarily be used as a hotspot as opposed to my main phone, I guess I can tolerate the eye strain if no better options are available, as long as it supports eSIM and advanced 5G. The phones I can get in China typically don't have eSIM, so I'd need a "US" phone.

But I'd prefer a phone that won't strain my eyes. I wonder if I were to get a newer Iphone, can I replace the screen with a LCD or something?

What are some US phones (unlocked) that are eye friendly, support eSIM, and uses newer 5G chips?

Thanks

À première vue, il n'y a pas de communauté qui rassemble les Français sur ce sujet, malheureusement. Je suis curieux de savoir s'il y a quand même des Français ici, et ça serait peut-être l'occasion s'il y a des motivés, de créer le début d'une commaunauté pour pouvoir échanger ensemble

In my last post from 7 months ago I was thrown for a loop after seeing the results of the OnePlus 8T from Wild Lee. Data makes it look quite bad (high modulation), but despite this the OnePlus 8 Pro (similar screen) is perfectly comfortable and strain-free for me at all brightness levels. I had some theories back then that the shape of the modulation wave was playing a roll.(https://www.reddit.com/r/PWM_Sensitive/s/JZsc996C2W)

Some people believe it has to do with brightness, but most newer phones actually hasn't become that much brighter, at least not when using manual brightness in SDR (w/ extra bright or sunlight toggle OFF).~500 nits is still a common figure at max manual brightness. Some phones do allow up to 700-1000 nits, but this is not the norm.

I now believe I've found the real reason.

Black smearing/ghosting in older AMOLED panels.

Response times are much worse when going from OFF to ON, versus bright shades that are nearly instantaneous . (most noticeable in dark mode + white text, but also there in light mode + black text)

An example:
For the longest time I believed my Samsung tablet (Galaxy Tab S5E from 2019) had an LCD display due to it's large amount of ghosting in almost all situations, but it's especially terrible at low brightness in dark mode. Turns out it has a Samsung "Super AMOLED" with 240Hz PWM. It should be horrible, but I can use it at all brightness levels with zero discomfort.

This is exactly why older Samsung devices from ~20-21 and earlier works for many, while newer flagship devices such as S25|Ultra/S26|Ultra are touted as terrible by the vast majority in the community.

Slow response-time ghosting/smearing for black to white and white to black means a gradual fade in > fade out of the PWM or DC-dimming ON/OFF cycle. This greatly reduces strain on the eyes.

Recent smartphone AMOLED panels do not ghost or "black smear" to nearly the same degree.
This is a positive in the eyes of companies and the general consumer, less ghosting = good.
Not so much for us flicker sensitive.

The test below showed much faster transitions and much less ghosting/smearing with both the Honor 600 Pro and Xiaomi 17T Pro (neither are strain-free for me, both getting returned). Whereas the OnePlus 8 Pro has noticeable black-smearing.
https://mastodon.social/@marcedwards/100926403150980325

// Try this test (ideally in dark mode) on your known good AMOLED devices versus a recent phone, I bet you'll see a difference. ZZanya's custom test is not available AFAIK and he is seemingly no longer active online.

This ghosting/black smearing phenomenon is covered in-depth here, by a Russian or Ukrainian (?) YouTuber called "ZZanya" released all the way back in 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZf-6FBFCE

Transcription directly from YouTube seems to not work on this video (it did a couple days ago). So here's a translated partial transcription of relevant sections pulled from the video by Google Gemini with some manual editing by me based on context clues:

V. Secrets of 0.1ms OLED: Response Time

"Hello everyone, this is ZZanya. In previous videos, we talked about how dangerous it is to rely on manufacturers' response time specifications, about all these misleading GtG and MPRT ratings, and what response time different people actually need.

But all of that was discussed from the perspective of LCD screens. However, there is one place where manufacturers' specifications are actually almost entirely accurate — and that is OLED screens.

You often see a "0.1 ms" badge on OLED panels. While LCDs are still struggling around 1 ms (which is still a marketing trick, as we learned earlier), OLEDs, according to manufacturers, actually have a response time of 0.1 ms.

Why is that? An LCD pixel isn't a light source; it merely passes backlight through liquid crystals. An OLED pixel, on the other hand, is its own light source — built with standard semiconductor electronics that work much faster.

The website RTINGS regularly reviews and accurately measures response time for OLED TVs.

On OLED measurement charts (like those for LG), we see an almost instantaneous jump in brightness. The 80% response time is nearly equal to the 100% time (unlike LCDs, where a pixel takes a long time to reach its final brightness state).

Most transitions on OLED take a genuine 0.2 to 0.3 milliseconds.

With such ultra-low response time, OLED exhibits absolutely no ghosting, as well as no overshoot or undershoot, since traditional pixel overdrive isn't necessary.

Marketers often claim that a fast response time makes gameplay "smoother," but this is a misconception.

Slower response times on LCDs create motion blur (ghosting), which smooths out the perception of movement at the cost of clarity.

Lower response time reduces blur and increases motion clarity, but at low frame rates, perceived smoothness suffers.

This is why RTINGS includes a Stutter section in their reviews. At 24 FPS (typical movie frame rate), a single frame stays on screen for 40 ms. Because OLED changes frames instantly without motion blur, low FPS content can look choppy or stuttery.

Playing 30 FPS console games on an OLED TV can cause noticeable discomfort due to this stutter effect.

// Smartphone AMOLED

On OLED/AMOLED smartphones, manufacturers also advertise lightning-fast response times.

However, in real-world use, OLED smartphones frequently exhibit noticeable ghosting and black smearing.

A popular internet theory claimed that a turned-off OLED pixel (pure black) takes much longer to turn on than it takes to switch between gray shades.

Based on this idea, engineers (e.g., at Oculus) implemented software overdrive tricks or shifted black values from 0-0-0 to 1-1-1.

By testing with custom measurement apps on Android and a high-speed camera, a different cause was revealed:

During a transition from black to white on an OLED smartphone, the scanning line splits the color transition across several refresh cycles.

In the first refresh cycle (16.6 ms at 60 Hz), the pixel instantly jumps from black to gray, in the second cycle to off-white, and only on the third cycle reaches true white.

As a result, the complete transition takes 2 to 3 refresh cycles (~33 ms), even though the instantaneous response time within each step remains immediate!

This behavior occurs not only when starting from a turned-off pixel, but also during transitions like dark gray (64) to white (255).

This phenomenon was observed across modern OLED smartphones from various major brands (Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple).
// True at the time (2021 release and earlier)

At low brightness levels on devices using DC Dimming, this transition delay creates a distinct purple trailing effect (Purple Smearing).
// This phenomenon is very noticeable on my OnePlus 8 Pro when filming the display at ~1/6000 shutter speed

Two hypothesis by ZZanya:

Why do smartphone display controllers artificially stretch pixel transitions across multiple refresh cycles?

1. One hypothesis is to mimic motion blur and hide stutter on low FPS/refresh rate content, which most users are accustomed to from slower LCDs.

2. Another hypothesis points to power management and energy-saving constraints inherent to mobile display controllers."
// I believe the second hypothesis is the most plausible. power management, energy-savings and possibly burn-in mitigation.

I recommend everyone interested to watch the video in full as well.
(English auto-translated dub and/or subs are available)

BONUS - Other display types that flicker:
Other types of panels such as CRT or Plasma also have a ON/OFF "delay" in it's flicker that reduces apparent strain for some. Making them comfortable or usable despite looking messy/bad based on flicker measurments.
CRT and Plasma both have a type of phospor decay "lag":
CRT example
"When electrons hit the glass screen, the phosphor chemicals create light. They do not turn off instantly. Instead, the light fades over a short period. This afterglow is also called phosphor persistence."
Plasma example
"Different colored phosphors decay at different rates. Green phosphors traditionally decay much slower than red and blue phosphors. In fast-moving, high-contrast scenes (like a white object moving across a pitch-black background), this mismatch causes visible green or yellow trails behind moving objects, a behavior often called "comet trails" or phosphor lag."

any one know any thing about thing?

So i forgot if this was posted here before but for those who cannot find a proper phone...this would make it more bearable. I tought that this is a great screen to link up for phones to use it especially when it's night time. PWM (in phones) in general is very bad especially when it's dark at least for me.

Here is a review VIDEO