Pixel 4’s screen scales down to 60Hz when brightness is set below 75%

23 October 2019
The only fix is to force 90Hz from the developer options menu.

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so i shoud go to yard under direct sunlight to enjoy my new exoensive phone's feature without blinding myself?and this method only applys if you live in a sunny place like california not uk!

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    • Anonymous
    • 7tV
    • 23 Oct 2019

    007roh, 23 Oct 2019This is laughable, a $800 phone's display can't run high re... moreThis phone is a big blunder... iPhone 11 series handily wins this year.

      Hey you, 23 Oct 2019So you're saying I have to use my phone at 75%< brightne... moreLove your comment aha

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        • SKA ANDROID
        • c}H
        • 23 Oct 2019

        Google keeps thinking it's the apple of the Android world. Underwhelming pixel phones

          So you're saying I have to use my phone at 75%< brightness to get the 90hz feature with a 2800 mAH battery?
          Where are those Pixel fanatics, please swim in here and explain this BS for me.

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            • Anonymous
            • D0d
            • 23 Oct 2019

            Google has really lost its mind with pixel 4 phones. Specsheet is a mess. Now this one is another poor way of doing it.
            Let users decide whether they want 60hz or 90hz without clauses. Just give features and improve it

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              • Anonymous
              • 3xN
              • 23 Oct 2019

              Go to developer settings and Force 90 HZ.

              Simple you get worse battery life.

                This is laughable, a $800 phone's display can't run high refresh rate below 75% brightness (when majority of people keep brightness around or below 20%), and camera can't record 4k videos at 60 FPS.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • mJs
                  • 23 Oct 2019

                  Developer: yes i can do that, but why should we throttle the hz if we can reach up to 90hz? Google CEO: Batteries are too expensive, just do it!

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                    • AnonD-843592
                    • pc7
                    • 23 Oct 2019

                    This phone just becomes a bigger and bigger fail for each day. Definitely the worst phone in 2019 and the price is just ridiculous. Google is becoming as arrogant as Apple. No 4K 60 fps, why? Because Google don't think you are going to need it (said by Google themselves).

                      Yep. Marques Brownlee said the same in his review. The reason they've done this is because both the Pixels give very poor battery life when set to always 90hz mode. Google would've known about this during the development of this phone, but decided to run it in 60hz mode practically all the time (let's be honest, most of us keep the brightness way below 75%), instead of putting a bigger battery. Talk about incompetence.

                      If anyone's really interested in a 90hz display, the 7T/7T Pro actually give decent battery life, and they run 90hz all the time (except when it's useless, like watching videos, etc).

                        It should be the other way around the more brightness the more battery you spend

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