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I went into my Corporate Sprint store today and got to see the Evo 3D...I was wondering why the whites look so yellow-ish or an off white kind of look to it..Is this a result of qHD? Of course the Sprint employee couldn't answer any of my questions because he wasn't even suppose to let me see the phone supposedly.But we all know he couldn't answer me because he just did't know.
So yeah,screen is a little dingy on the whites and I noticed it right away..Maybe this was just the store model? And if not is this something that could be corrected with root later?
I hope that's not the case. I have a launch day EvO HW0002 and when I saw the HW0003's, I was like What did they do? Right away I saw the screen looked washed out and whites had a yellowish tint. Then they came out with the HW0004's and it looked like mine again. You can youtube the videos to see people showing the differences. After the reviews and whatnot, I just keep saying to myself...You have 30 days
I noticed a few reviews also commented on the poor viewing angles. The screen is probably going to make it or break it for me. It will be hard letting go of my Epic with Super AMOELD, but I will definitely have to see the Evo 3D in person before I buy it.
Everything on the screen looked super crisp and sharp.I didn't hold it in any peculiar way to see the viewing angels.But the white on the clock just didn't look right.I've been a sense user since 09 and i'm just use to they way it looks and I could immediately tell there was something different..Oh well,like the guy above said I got 30 days.Either I get use to it or it goes back if it bothers me that much.
BrianBaker said:
Everything on the screen looked super crisp and sharp.I didn't hold it in any peculiar way to see the viewing angels.But the white on the clock just didn't look right.I've been a sense user since 09 and i'm just use to they way it looks and I could immediately tell there was something different..Oh well,like the guy above said I got 30 days.Either I get use to it or it goes back if it bothers me that much.
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Meh any samoled looks yellow in whites to me I know this is slcd just sayin
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I recently switched to sprint and got 3 EVO 4Gs. I notice even all 3 of them are 0004, one of them is more yellowish (which i perfer) than the other 2.
Hi,
I have read a great deal about Super AMOLED plus screens having the best blacks because they physically dont turn on the backlight, saving power.
Now i have noticed, When viewing a black screen in the dark, there is actually a fair bit of light leaking through. even though it is "black light" (like on an LCD)
Can anyone else confirm this, or explain it?
Thanks
Its as black as black can be for me.
jayquinten510 said:
Hi,
I have read a great deal about Super AMOLED plus screens having the best blacks because they physically dont turn on the backlight, saving power.
Now i have noticed, When viewing a black screen in the dark, there is actually a fair bit of light leaking through. even though it is "black light" (like on an LCD)
Can anyone else confirm this, or explain it?
Thanks
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Perhaps the black wallpaper is not a pure black, instead it's a combination of colours to make it appear black.
I really can't see it in mine, but I've always wondered about this when looking for a black wallpaper. It's actually hard trying to find the darkest black using a PC, and wondered how you can really tell, as all black wallpapers would be a combination of colours.
I think it would be great for the power saving on the SAMOLED screens if you had an option to select "no" wallpaper or colour, so the background would automatically not actually turn on, using zero power.
This would guarantee you are using the purest BLACK and ultimately ZERO power on the background of your SAMOLED screen.
How does my theory sound
No Wallpaper and Colors apps in the Market will do a pure black wallpaper.
Use a microscope. lol
Actually it is a nice way to do it. Go to hobby town or somewhere and get a cheapy 10.00 microscope and you can look at the actual pixels. Not only can it help you here, but its always rather interesting to see.
Also, keep in mind that even when black, it still does have a little power in it, even if very minute, and still allows light a little bit, even if just in very very very very very minute amounts.
Ohh! Someone else has this to!
What happens is if you look at a pure black in the dark yolu will see almost white / grey areas, and it is not the image it is the same for everything that is 100% black , but is less noticible when something else in on the display, I also have a dark spot in the center of mine when it's on min brightness, Might send to Samsung, Or ask Vodafone they seemed to have a dodgy batch of phones.. this will be my 3rd
So I think it's a defect? The first phone I had didn't do this
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Ohh! Someone else has this to!
What happens is if you look at a pure black in the dark yolu will see almost white / grey areas, and it is not the image it is the same for everything that is 100% black , but is less noticible when something else in on the display, I also have a dark spot in the center of mine when it's on min brightness, Might send to Samsung, Or ask Vodafone they seemed to have a dodgy batch of phones.. this will be my 3rd
So I think it's a defect? The first phone I had didn't do this
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Im glad im not the only one!
Yeah, I already sent my first GS2 back for screen problems, I dont want to have to send it back again and live without it for another 3 weeks. Also, I have subsequently flashed custom roms, so I would prefer not to.
If it ends up breaking, I'll just get the screen replaced when it happens.
Instal lcd test from market. When you see black,its like the screen is off...try it...
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jayquinten510 said:
Im glad im not the only one!
Yeah, I already sent my first GS2 back for screen problems, I dont want to have to send it back again and live without it for another 3 weeks. Also, I have subsequently flashed custom roms, so I would prefer not to.
If it ends up breaking, I'll just get the screen replaced when it happens.
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Hmm, I just ordered a JIG thing to use to set my counter in download mode to 0, should be useful for other things too But as soon as this is herre I think I'm going to send it off I think, It can be annoying
claimui said:
No Wallpaper<snip> apps in the Market will do a pure black wallpaper.
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Excellent, thanks for the tip, it's as black as I'm going to get ;-)
When I look really closely at my Amaze 4G's SLCD screen, I can see a small horizontal line pattern overlaying (a lot easier to see at maximum brightness and with brightly colored icons). It's not really noticeable at a normal distance from the eye, but I was just wondering if my screen was defective or if anyone else has something like this on their's?
Also, I found that the moving objects in the screen (icons, menu labels, etc) tend to blur a lot more than the super AMOLED screen I had on my old phone when they're in motion around the screen. Is this normal?
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When I look really closely at my Amaze 4G's SLCD screen, I can see a small horizontal line pattern overlaying (a lot easier to see at maximum brightness and with brightly colored icons). It's not really noticeable at a normal distance from the eye, but I was just wondering if my screen was defective or if anyone else has something like this on their's?
Also, I found that the moving objects in the screen (icons, menu labels, etc) tend to blur a lot more than the super AMOLED screen I had on my old phone when they're in motion around the screen. Is this normal?
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I have the blur a bit too. I believe that is just normal. I'm not sure what you mean by white lines though, I can't see any on my screen.
I have the blur as well. I guess it is normal.
yeah i can see the pixels too, i notice this as soon as i got this phone as i had the sensation before and the screen on the sensation was muuuuch nicer even though they say its the same its not.. it was better in every way and yeah the blur when you move the screen in certain menus..i already complained to htc saying i felt like this phone was a downgrade from my sensation instead of an upgrade!
Ah okay so it's not just me. Thanks for letting me know, it's a shame that the screen isn't as nice, but it's not so bad that it's a deal breaker I guess
When my screen is off, I can see vertical lines. But I know that's the polarization of the screen... Can't do anything about it!
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When my screen is off, I can see vertical lines. But I know that's the polarization of the screen... Can't do anything about it!
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Touch digitizer maybe?
Not fine lines, there were like 6 or so and they were roughly 5mm thick. Now that I try to see them again... I can't 0.o They're gone! lol
I know I've seen a topic on this matter before, but I'm going to do this anyway.
I've got a red HTC EVO 3D GSM (for US/Asia market), and two friends of mine bought their EVO 3Ds from a store here (Romania, Europe, that is). So mine is red, for US/Asia, and theirs is golden, for EU market.
If I put my 3VO right next to the two others, with screen brightness set on maximum, displaying a full-white image, the screen of MY 3VO is definetly yellow-ish. It's not much - I mean, it's only noticeable when in contrast (put next to another 3VO or a Desire S or such). If there's no other phone display nearby for me to see, my EVO 3D's display rocks but as soon as I see another one... I freak out...
Is there anyone else having a phone with this issue? My phone is from the first batch ever, I believe, since in the Hboot it says July 2011, and on the two 3VO's of my friends, it says October (so theirs are definetly newer)...
If there is anyone else having a phone with a yellow-ish screen, please tell me what date is shown in your Hboot, and if your phone is red or golden colored on the back cover.
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I've seen discussions on this before, but that was on the fact that the 3VO screen is VERY YELLOW. I don't realise mine is yellow-ish, unless I put it next to another 3VO, for example, as I said.
Even though the EVO 3D and the Desire S (what my girlfriend has) have a S-LCD screen, if I set both screens on maximum brightness, mine is definetly brighter. When I boot phones up... you know the HTC bootlogo... It's obviously YELLOW on my phone, and WHITE (well, more to the blue, if you ask me - but that could be just my brain, tricking me) on the Desire S...
I noticed my EVO I had to send back due to a faulty cell radio was definitely yellow in tint on the screen, as compared to my friends Sensation, however my new replacement is normal, both were GSM UK models with the gold trim around the cameras.
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Atomix86 said:
I noticed my EVO I had to send back due to a faulty cell radio was definitely yellow in tint on the screen, as compared to my friends Sensation, however my new replacement is normal, both were GSM UK models with the gold trim around the cameras.
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I seen the Sensation in a YouTube video. As opposed to the 3VO, THAT looked yellowish (the Sensation).
Oh well, I am not having other troubles except for the screen (which is an issue as long as I have another 3VO near me to compare it to)... The earpiece is a bit buzzy-ing, but other than that... Perfect..
Besides, I ain't got no warranty XD
In the end, it's not much of an issue (the display). If I think of it more, I guess I'd rather have it like this, not blue-ish...
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Well that's the problem isn't it, you wouldn't notice if you didn't have another phone to compare it to .
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Well that's the problem isn't it, you wouldn't notice if you didn't have another phone to compare it to .
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Yeah... I mean, I wouldn't see my phone's display as BRIGHT YELLOW unless I had another EVO to compare it to... but even sometimes, it LOOKS a BIT yellow. It's not much of a problem, but the "issue" is there, and it's... I don't know... annoying that I don't know why and how many phones it affects?
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I just got a MOMAX Anti-glare screen protector today, and I regret every bit of it . For some reason, it looks like **it on the EVO, but when I had the Desire HD, I could live with such an unclear screen protector for over a month... Now... it makes me switch to another phone, lol.
Anyway, back to the yellowish tint... Do you have it?
Seriously, no one's phone is having this... problem?! :/
Formhault said:
Seriously, no one's phone is having this... problem?! :/
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I never had this problem with my Evo 3D screen.
I don't have any problems with the colors of the screen, but since I've bought my phone 3 weeks ago I have this strange black dot in the middle of the screen. It's not inside it, I can see it very well on top of it. I just can't clean it off. Maybe it's some sort of ink??? I tried cleaning it with fingers, fingernails and by gently rubbing it with cotton. Nothing helped.
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I don't have any problems with the colors of the screen, but since I've bought my phone 3 weeks ago I have this strange black dot in the middle of the screen. It's not inside it, I can see it very well on top of it. I just can't clean it off. Maybe it's some sort of ink??? I tried cleaning it with fingers, fingernails and by gently rubbing it with cotton. Nothing helped.
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Just one dot? Like... a pixel?! Cause it could be a dead pixel, but I can't remember exactly whether dead pixels were supposed to appear black or white.
The 3VO of a friend of mine has a few dust particles under the screen, around the edges - around 5 particles or so. I'm just glad mine doesn't -.-
Formhault said:
Just one dot? Like... a pixel?! Cause it could be a dead pixel, but I can't remember exactly whether dead pixels were supposed to appear black or white.
The 3VO of a friend of mine has a few dust particles under the screen, around the edges - around 5 particles or so. I'm just glad mine doesn't -.-
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Dead pixels are black, white pixels are just blocked.
jekyll86 said:
Dead pixels are black, white pixels are just blocked.
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What do you mean "blocked"?
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where the survey???
Formhault said:
What do you mean "blocked"?
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the pixel is composed of three color elements (RGB), if the pixel is dead none of the three elements is turned on and then is black. If the pixel is white, it means that the three color elements are lit with the same intensity, so you can not define dead but stuck on white
evod3 said:
where the survey???
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Survey = not necessarily a poll, if that's what you were asking / expected to see.
Read the first post and you'll see .
jekyll86 said:
the pixel is composed of three color elements (RGB), if the pixel is dead none of the three elements is turned on and then is black. If the pixel is white, it means that the three color elements are lit with the same intensity, so you can not define dead but stuck on white
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And if a pixel is stuck on white, could it be a OS issue? If not, the pixel is still rendered useless = as good as dead
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And if a pixel is stuck on white, could it be a OS issue? If not, the pixel is still rendered useless = as good as dead
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Dead and white pixels are hardware problems.
A dead pixel can not (usually) be fixed, white pixels can sometimes be fixed.
take a look at this
http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Stuck-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor
jekyll86 said:
Dead and white pixels are hardware problems.
A dead pixel can not (usually) be fixed, white pixels can sometimes be fixed.
take a look at this
http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Stuck-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor
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I see... Thanks for clarification !
I've tried Screen Adjuster. If I add 5 to Blue, the screen is not so yellow-ish anymore. The grays are not brown-ish anymoe, and the whites are not SO yellow-ish.
Could anyone install Screen Adjuster and add 5 points to Blue? Tell me the outcome afterwards, please.
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I've tried Screen Adjuster. If I add 5 to Blue, the screen is not so yellow-ish anymore. The grays are not brown-ish anymoe, and the whites are not SO yellow-ish.
Could anyone install Screen Adjuster and add 5 points to Blue? Tell me the outcome afterwards, please.
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Tried it, definitely gives it a more "cool" feel, like changing the colour temperature on an HDTV.
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Adding 5 points to Blue definetly makes my screen look more white. Well, not exactly WHITE, as it shifts it more towards blue, but at least it is less browish when it should be gray and so on...
At last, I no longer wanna trade my 3vo just because of the screen
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Just wondering if everyone elses LTE is set at a warm color, orange'ish whites
compared to the evo 4g which is cool with blue'ish whites
possible to ever change this?
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Just wondering if everyone elses LTE is set at a warm color, orange'ish whites
compared to the evo 4g which is cool with blue'ish whites
possible to ever change this?
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My brothers has cool whites and I have warm whites...yet our panels are both Sony...so I don't get it.
mine is also a warm-toned screen, nonetheless it looks great
I posted about this yesterday but it already got buried. Unfortunately you can either hassle with taking it back and hoping for a more blueish white panel or you can get used to it. I hated the look when i unboxed, I have the same yellowish tint on white. But im already used to it for the most part. There is an app on the play store called "Screen adjuster" that you can add some blue back in but its not perfect and it has to run in the background i haven't tested to see how much of a load it puts on the phone if left on all day. Also a good app to use to visually inspect the colors your panel is showing is "dead pixel test". So software can be used to help the tint, but as far as a permanent solution, I believe that would be up to HTC. Maybe some devs can do it eventually once we have s-off.
I've just starting to really notice this, and its driving me nuts.
The whites are not white at all, they are more yellowish eggshell (or as I like to call it 'light puke'). You can really notice it when your in natural light. I held it up to something pure white and you can see an epic difference.
Does this not bother anybody else? I forget, but don't some ROMs (for other phones) have options to change screen tones? Is this something that I can look forward to ? Or perhaps my eyes (and mind) are just playing tricks on me.
I dislike 'warm' tones a lot. I wish I gotten a 'cool' tone phone instead, I can handle the blue tone a lot better.
I wonder why this is I mean it isnt like amoled n the screens should be.the.same.... Maybe dim lights inside?
Root it and try chainfire 3d, it has the option to change screen tone in I believe the pro version. Added bonus, works with all roms to my knowledge. I haven't tried it yet myself as I'm completely happy with the tone on mine, but I used it on the og evo for a long time.
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Root it and try chainfire 3d, it has the option to change screen tone in I believe the pro version. Added bonus, works with all roms to my knowledge. I haven't tried it yet myself as I'm completely happy with the tone on mine, but I used it on the og evo for a long time.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try since I'm already rooted. I messed around with 'screen adjuster' and 'filer your screen' and neither seemed to do the trick.
EDIT: Looks like I'll have to wait a bit longer to play with chainfire 3d. Requires S-off (or probably just unlock bootloader). Only have root. But chainfire looks promising.
This was a problem on the One X for AT&T but most of them cleared up after a week or so. My advice would be to keep the brightness up for a while when using it.
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We have two EVO LTE and one of ours is much cooler and blue and the other is much warmer. How do you check if the display type to see if they are different?
My screen is warm also. At first I thought it was the ZAGG HD screen protector that was causing that yellowish tint, but after I removed it, it was still there.
If anyone with two EVO LTE phones can post a side-by-side picture of the warm and cool screens, I'd greatly appreciate it.
TIA
Here is a picture. Its not the best quality so it might be hard to tell a difference. The difference is much more apparent in real life.
Supposedly its due to the adhesive. There is a thread about it in the HOX forum. My screen seems to be whiter than it was a week ago but that may be a placebo effect- I need to do another side by side comparison with my iPhone to tell.
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I was dreading a problem like this. I can deal with blacks not being black (have to deal with it with the very nature of LCD) but whites... Yeah, they need to be white.
Here's to hoping my device doesn't have this issue. I will update this post with news.
get an app called screen adjuster
then increase the blue a little bit, to about 15 or so
woooooorks wonderss!!!
On my NS4G, there was a kernel mod developed by SuperCurio that allowed you to adjust gamma levels. I always ran my phone with very cool blue whites.
Maybe something like that would be possible for the Evo?
I think I have the warmer screen color. Things like this doesn't bother me at all. I've seen thread like this everytime a new phone comes out. After a few week your eyes and OCD levels will adjust.
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Here is a picture. Its not the best quality so it might be hard to tell a difference. The difference is much more apparent in real life.
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You can def tell the one on the right is the warm though. I'm sure in direct natural light the difference is huge.
mlin said:
Supposedly its due to the adhesive. There is a thread about it in the HOX forum. My screen seems to be whiter than it was a week ago but that may be a placebo effect- I need to do another side by side comparison with my iPhone to tell.
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I'm hoping this is the case. Its weird because I think it changes. Like after it goes in direct natural light it gets really bad.
Racer Of All said:
I was dreading a problem like this. I can deal with blacks not being black (have to deal with it with the very nature of LCD) but whites... Yeah, they need to be white.
Here's to hoping my device doesn't have this issue. I will update this post with news.
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Same. I can deal with the black but not the whites. Whites need to be crisp and clean not yellow. I repainted all the eggshell whites in my house to pure white. To me it takes away the crispness of the screen.
flex360 said:
get an app called screen adjuster
then increase the blue a little bit, to about 15 or so
woooooorks wonderss!!!
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Man you hit the nail right on the nail. I had mine set at 14 for the past three days. It helps but it still isn't ideal. Plus its consuming resources.
dont think its an adhesive bonding process still "curing"
i think the color temp is permanent.
hopefully a dev will allow color temp change because its a little awkward staring at my pc monitor, then looking at the phone's brown and yellow drab lcd tint.
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dont think its an adhesive bonding process still "curing"
i think the color temp is permanent.
hopefully a dev will allow color temp change because its a little awkward staring at my pc monitor, then looking at the phone's brown and yellow drab lcd tint.
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This is what I am praying for. But enough people have to be annoyed by it for somebody to do something.
The best test is to open the settings menu (Evo white) and compare it against a piece of notebook paper (real white). Its gross.