1. The 4 dock icons at the bottom, thought they looked a little stretched vertically. The kind when the resolution is slightly incompatible with the the screen...
2. The display looked darker than usual. The brightness was max, but still looked a little less brighter than my HD7...
With your RaZrs, do you guys think so...
ALso, is there a way we can set the resolution and the brightness...there is an auto and there is manual right?
I saw it had something called 'Ambient lights' i display setting...
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Hi Guys - great phone which I've had a week or so now. Upgraded from the first Galaxy S.
Now I must admit to having very good eyesight (sometimes wish I couldn't see finer details!) and..
On white / grey images (download the various screen test apps to have a look for yourself)
The screen, when on a low brightness, is "muddy" and demonstrates a few vertical darker lines on the screen with mine showing quite a prominent one in the bottom right heading up about half way up the screen.
This is mostly visible when the brightness is at a minimum (regardless of auto or the powersaving options)
When the brightness is turned up it is barely visible, if at all... looks fantastic..
But.. at this point I preferred the screen on the Galaxy S which, when dimmed was more vibrant and didn't have this "problem"
Hands up who can see what I see? Any darker lines visible on your white / grey backgrounds? a side effect of this new subpixel arrangement? totally normal? some pixels not as bright in a row hence darker lines?
What do you guys think?
Cheers, B
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Could you take a pic or something?
ASAP yes (no camera ironically so will have to ask a colleague!)
hold menu and press power button for screenshot off the device.
Yeah, mine set to minimum brightness and has some line artifacts like when LCD supplied with low voltage. (low brightness setting)
Easily noticeable when displaying grey colors.
I'm also using Screen Filter app, setting brightness even lower, some black points around 0.3cm is exposed at night.
Not sure those points are affected by anti-scratch film though.
Hola
I can confirm that I see the same "line banding" effect when using the device with low brightness. Like others have mentioned I also use the free Screen Filter app to get even lower brightness levels especially when reading stuff in bed in the near dark.
I would think this is a side issue with having the Super AMOLED Plus type screen but I guess only a Samsung tech can confirm.
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hold menu and press power button for screenshot off the device.
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Taking a screen shot wont show anything.. its the screen not the image
@ OP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13444483#post13444483
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065359
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1062966
65" long exposure exposing some black spots.(digitally enhanced)
Lowest brightness + Highest brightness.
Wondering those spots are caused by screen protector or defective screen or limitation of current AMOLED's.
You can see there is some current leak.(It should be bezel-like black if it is ideally off)
http://img691.imageshack.us/i/93767661.png/
http://img69.imageshack.us/i/36284360.png/
Not sure I understand you cpu98!
Is there a consensus we all have this "problem" - i'm on the verge of taking it back for a refund and "monitoring things"
Anyone understand the tech / spoken to Samsung?
B
Not sure what those black spots are... is your camera messed up? There's spots on the right even off the phone...
Also yes, pure black for SAMOLED still produces SOME light, but it's almost indistinguishable to the human eye.
Take a picture of a dark grey image on low brightness and it should show the bands the best...
cpu98 said:
65" long exposure exposing some black spots.(digitally enhanced)
Lowest brightness + Highest brightness.
Wondering those spots are caused by screen protector or defective screen or limitation of current AMOLED's.
You can see there is some current leak.(It should be bezel-like black if it is ideally off)
http://img691.imageshack.us/i/93767661.png/
http://img69.imageshack.us/i/36284360.png/
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dinan said:
Not sure what those black spots are... is your camera messed up? There's spots on the right even off the phone...
Also yes, pure black for SAMOLED still produces SOME light, but it's almost indistinguishable to the human eye.
Take a picture of a dark grey image on low brightness and it should show the bands the best...
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That spot off the phone is on the wall not defective cam. As you can see photos are taken at different angle. And it is visible in naked eye.
Yeah I like its screen very much. That black issues are no problem in real use.
I'm very satisfied.
Hello XDA,
I've searched around for this problem a bit, and it seems this issue hasn't been brought up anywhere. If it has, then I apologize.
The S2 has an awesome display with great colors, blacks included, but I noticed this issue one night when I was watching a film on my S2. When the display is showing black/dark images you can clearly see what appears to be glue smudges all over the screen, especially along the rims. It is only noticeable when there's little to no other light in the surrounding environement. Increasing brightness seem to worsen the problem.
It is hard to describe and very difficult to capture on camera but I made an attempt. I can't post links yet it seems but here's an imageshack url:
img842.imageshack.us/img842/5420/blotches.jpg
The image was taken with a Canon 450D with 20 sec exposure (hard to focus when it's that dark I'll tell you). Edited slightly in photoshop to cut down the size.
Here you can see the general color of the screen (gray-ish) and some of the blotches of (what I'm guessing is) glue in the back. If I had to guess I suspect the blotches might come from the capacitive touch layer of the screen. Is this an issue or is it to be expected on phones like these? It's not a major problem but it's actually quite annoying when you're watching a film/youtube clip/playing a generally dark game or whatever. Should I return my device? I've used it for just about a week and a half.
Thanks in advance for any help.
i have this too, its the AMOLED display. you can turn the screen off and on and you'll see it go off n on. not the sgs, but amoleds generally. my omnia HD had this too (1st gen AMOLED)
the blacks are not 100% black i say
Im having this too, nothing to worry about this as it doesnt disturb the beautiful display of this mobile.
So I've been looking closely at my screen lately wondering if it might be defective. Gradients seem to look bad on all SGS phones, but the gradients on my phone seem to look extra bad. They don't just look banded, they look similar to JPEG artifacting as well.
Not only that, but in certain games there's almost a visible "film" over the screen, but under the glass. The best way I can describe it is an unchanging group of lines or artifacts on top of the actual screen itself. This is quite noticeable in person, but is probably going to be hard to see in the video I post due to the fact that I'm recording a screen. My suggestion is to take a look at the bottom left-hand corner. It's most noticeable there.
The image I posted I just noticed today. On the Netflix login screen, the red beside the email and password boxes is a lot brighter than the rest of the red. This is significantly more noticeable at low brightness, but still noticeable at regular brightness where I took the picture.
Is this normal or do I have something wrong with my screen?
Thanks!
EDIT: I took another video and another picture where everything is far more apparent.
Video: http://www.multiupload.com/YF6AMEBLMD
Video 2: http://www.multiupload.com/1RZJM7A598
Posted a new picture and video where the problem is much more apparent.
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'm always using the lowest brightness (0% or whatever it is), at stock browser there is an option to change brightness too so you can get even lowest brightness then you got...
While I'm doing that I've notice that there are some pretty invisible lines - about 2 vertical lines on the right side of the screen - while viewing white or gray page.
The more the brightness is lowest you can notice it, and the more the brightness is higher you could not see it.
Its not like the burning screen thing as I never keep the screen on too much time on the same point (and always using Live Wallpaper), I know how its look like because I had it on my Nexues One... its showing only when using lowest brightness and could see it on white or gray wallpaper (I've notice it on google search at browser)
Anyone have any idea why is it happens (again, when you make the screen brighter its gone) and is it safe to use the lowest brightness or should I avoid it and put the brightness to little bit more ?
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I'm always using the lowest brightness (0% or whatever it is), at stock browser there is an option to change brightness too so you can get even lowest brightness then you got...
While I'm doing that I've notice that there are some pretty invisible lines - about 2 vertical lines on the right side of the screen - while viewing white or gray page.
The more the brightness is lowest you can notice it, and the more the brightness is higher you could not see it.
Its not like the burning screen thing as I never keep the screen on too much time on the same point (and always using Live Wallpaper), I know how its look like because I had it on my Nexues One... its showing only when using lowest brightness and could see it on white or gray wallpaper (I've notice it on google search at browser)
Anyone have any idea why is it happens (again, when you make the screen brighter its gone) and is it safe to use the lowest brightness or should I avoid it and put the brightness to little bit more ?
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AFAIK it is not dangerous for the display.
There are many screen filter apps available to lower the brightness even lower, and never heard someone reporting a damaged screen because of this.
Usually, your lower the brightness of the display to reduce the battery consumption for a better battery life.
If that is your aim, then try to use as black background as possible.
With dark/black screen the battery consumption of an OLED (like our AMOLED) display is lower than on light (white) background.
And you won't see the "pretty invisible lines".
maybe a burn in ...
It_ler said:
AFAIK it is not dangerous for the display.
There are many screen filter apps available to lower the brightness even lower, and never heard someone reporting a damaged screen because of this.
Usually, your lower the brightness of the display to reduce the battery consumption for a better battery life.
If that is your aim, then try to use as black background as possible.
With dark/black screen the battery consumption of an OLED (like our AMOLED) display is lower than on light (white) background.
And you won't see the "pretty invisible lines".
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Well, actually when I thought about it I was playing a game "Jetpack Joyride" for almost two hours continuously and played it a lot at the last days, even though the screen at the game is changed every time, the 'roof' has some constant lines, so maybe it cause the 'burn in' vertical line/s that I see.
The weird thing is that burn in looks better and 'tougher' when using higher brithness and not lower as in this case...
When I put high brightness the 'burn in' seems to dissapears.
Is it possible or its something else? [I know AMOLED screens are pretty sucks about that situations of burn in things]