I was wondering if anyone knew a way to improve the brightness on this phone as it gets really difficult to read under sunlight. Before I got it, I heard that you can change the saturation levels. Whether that would make a difference or not I don't know, but I can't find the option. Also, I wanted to know if brightness is something that is related to hardware or software (or both)? I'm hoping that it's software because that means it can get better
Thanks for the help ;D
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Hi there,
I've been reading all these wonderful things about this perfect phone. Battery, power, speed and screen. It's awesome. However, I haven't found anything about legibility under the sun. Could anyone post some pics of it under bright sunlight or at least let me know how it compares with SGS1? Has it improved a lot?
Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb6UMvdNAgI
A video on the screen outdoors.
Hope this helps.
oh great! Thank you!!
related question, how is the visibility in direct sunlight with screen brightness turn down to minimum, i.e. 0%? i know its a weird question, but please humor me!!
RogerPodacter said:
related question, how is the visibility in direct sunlight with screen brightness turn down to minimum, i.e. 0%? i know its a weird question, but please humor me!!
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Hmm... Not sure but, when I get my own SGS II I'll test this out if someone else doesnt cover it before I get mine.
While using my Tablet throughout the last month, one thing has really been bugging me. The screen seems to be very yellow. Rather than showing white screens as white, they're off-white, greys look a bit darker and greener than they should. The color temperature of the screen is very warm, and it bugs me. Anyone else experience this? Or do I just have a bad screen?
Better question, does anyone know of a fix for this? I'm hoping it's not a hardware problem, but a software one.
Try taking a screenshot ("n" + volume down) of this and let us look at it. I'm guessing if its yellow to us as well, its s software issue. If not, its likely a hardware issue.
Judging by your screen temp, early guess its a hardware problem, but lets see what the screencap shows.
Sent from my Nook Tablet using (((sonicboom)))
There is app called Screen Adjuster that you can grab from the market. It will allow you to change the color of the screen. I use it for night reading tobreduce the blue.
Just remember to disable it when installing apps. Otherwise the install button will be disabled.
Alright, so I grabbed a screenshot and sent it to my Droid X, which has a totally neutral color warmth, and the shot looked perfect. That's a little depressing, but still, something tells me that it has to do with the stock B&N, cause I know Google did something like this with the Nexus S for "enhanced contrast" or something like that.
I know this is probably wishful thinking, but I'd still like to believe there's a way to fix this.
Also, I tried Screen Adjuster, but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. It seems to just put a filter over the screen.
There was a thread about the color temprature early on in the life of this forum. The OP is a professional photographer and was bothered by the color balance of the NT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354639&highlight=warm .
conundrum768 said:
There was a thread about the color temprature early on in the life of this forum. The OP is a professional photographer and was bothered by the color balance of the NT: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354639&highlight=warm .
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Touche. I did try the fix listed in there, but it didn't work (for a number of reasons). The problem has essentially been ignored since then, so I'm assuming either it doesn't bother that many people, or I have a defective unit. That's why I'm asking if anyone else notices it.
Though now this thread does seem redundant..
Seems the NT is a bit more yellow than standard.
http://www.displaymate.com/IPS_Tablet_ShootOut_1.htm
The Nook Tablet also has a very good factory display calibration. Its gray-scale is actually more accurate than most living room HDTVs. The White Point at 6,016K degrees is somewhat more yellowish than the 6,500K standard – that was most likely done in order to increase the screen’s maximum brightness, power efficiency, and battery run-time.
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I just got a Galaxy Note and have some questions and concerns:
1. The speaker seems very tinny and distorted anywhere close to maximum volume – almost like a blown speaker rattles. It sounds like I am talking to someone via two tuna cans and string. Can you crank your speaker phone volume all the way up without any distortion?
2. Screen color saturation: The colors are way too over saturated. I’ve made the cursory adjustments to brightness and found one interesting app called “Screen Adjuster” and while it allows for general color balance and contrast changes, it won’t let me do much anything with saturation. Anyone know of any apps specifically designed to do this or how to adjust color saturation on this gadget?
3. Screen in general: I had to turn off Automatic Brightness as it seems the screen was dimming/lighting every few seconds. Has anyone else had this issue with their Note and perhaps might have a fix?
4. I’m assuming the only way to get the “Yellow Pages” (YP Mobile) app off and out of my contact list would be via root and a custom ROM, eh?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
cat
catfla said:
I just got a Galaxy Note and have some questions and concerns:
1. The speaker seems very tinny and distorted anywhere close to maximum volume – almost like a blown speaker rattles. It sounds like I am talking to someone via two tuna cans and string. Can you crank your speaker phone volume all the way up without any distortion?
2. Screen color saturation: The colors are way too over saturated. I’ve made the cursory adjustments to brightness and found one interesting app called “Screen Adjuster” and while it allows for general color balance and contrast changes, it won’t let me do much anything with saturation. Anyone know of any apps specifically designed to do this or how to adjust color saturation on this gadget?
3. Screen in general: I had to turn off Automatic Brightness as it seems the screen was dimming/lighting every few seconds. Has anyone else had this issue with their Note and perhaps might have a fix?
4. I’m assuming the only way to get the “Yellow Pages” (YP Mobile) app off and out of my contact list would be via root and a custom ROM, eh?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
cat
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No.get a custom recovery and flash the yellow pages zip u dont have to rooted for that or changing modems
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Having the same thoughts here. Have learned to deal with it, but would rather "fix" it.
catfla said:
I just got a Galaxy Note and have some questions and concerns:
2. Screen color saturation: The colors are way too over saturated. I’ve made the cursory adjustments to brightness and found one interesting app called “Screen Adjuster” and while it allows for general color balance and contrast changes, it won’t let me do much anything with saturation. Anyone know of any apps specifically designed to do this or how to adjust color saturation on this gadget?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
cat
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XyonNYC said:
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Having the same thoughts here. Have learned to deal with it, but would rather "fix" it.
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Regarding screen saturation, I've read on some other threads that there may be an option in the ICS international version for this setting but I haven't found any definitive screen caps to confirm this. If anyone running ICS can, that would be spectacular.
I've scoured the app market to no avail. I humbly asked the very swell fellow who wrote "Screen Adjuster" to see if he might write a fix but I'm not sure how difficult this might be.
The bottom line is what many people perceive as "color pop" to me isn't at all. It's a simple over saturated display problem. I'm a photographer and one of the reasons I got this device was to be able to lose my Asus Transformer and use this as an on the go gallery display device, but I'd never show anyone my work on this gadget - it's simply so far off of what real colors look like.
I may have to send it back at the end of my 30 days. Damn shame as I am really coming to like some of the other pluses.
If I figure anything out, I'll post back as from reading other threads there are more than a few people who aren't thrilled with this.
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Regarding screen saturation, I've read on some other threads that there may be an option in the ICS international version for this setting but I haven't found any definitive screen caps to confirm this. If anyone running ICS can, that would be spectacular.
I've scoured the app market to no avail. I humbly asked the very swell fellow who wrote "Screen Adjuster" to see if he might write a fix but I'm not sure how difficult this might be.
The bottom line is what many people perceive as "color pop" to me isn't at all. It's a simple over saturated display problem. I'm a photographer and one of the reasons I got this device was to be able to lose my Asus Transformer and use this as an on the go gallery display device, but I'd never show anyone my work on this gadget - it's simply so far off of what real colors look like.
I may have to send it back at the end of my 30 days. Damn shame as I am really coming to like some of the other pluses.
If I figure anything out, I'll post back as from reading other threads there are more than a few people who aren't thrilled with this.
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Thank for the reply.
I'm on GB right now, and won't be switching to ICS for a while.
Hopefully something pops up.
Has anyone else noticed the color palette on ICS is more muted or toned down? Its as if it has a reduced amount of saturation. I think it was meant to counter act the inherent over saturation in OLED screens, and is more natural- just want to see if anyone has noticed it or if its just my imagination.
Knowing my luck t here is probably a press release that notes this as a known change and I just haven't read it yet. If so please link me to the change log and ignore the thread
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Has anyone else noticed the color palette on ICS is more muted or toned down? Its as if it has a reduced amount of saturation. I think it was meant to counter act the inherent over saturation in OLED screens, and is more natural- just want to see if anyone has noticed it or if its just my imagination.
Knowing my luck t here is probably a press release that notes this as a known change and I just haven't read it yet. If so please link me to the change log and ignore the thread
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Yes I noticed this a while back and started this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1744846 but I guess not many people have noticed but me and a few others or they are just so happy to ICS on their Note that they are simply ignoring it. I also think its because all the reviews on Youtube where people comlained about the screen being over saturated that forced Samsung to do something about the brightness/saturation. Its a big deal to me cause ICS is not nearly as bright as Gingerbread is on the Note. The only other devices I have seen people complaining about this problem on were all Samsung devices. I hope someone finds a fix or I think i will just stay on Gingerbread. ICS on the Note is way to washed out for me to like it. I need my screen to be vivid or ICS is not for me. White has to be white not blue.
To check to see the color saturation, you can go to your dialer and type in *#0*# and test all of the colors. When I checked mine just now on the official ICS update, the colors seemed crisp, clear, and super sexy. Give it a shot and see what results you guys get.
Alright, so its not just me. I actually prefer the new color levels over what it was before. The colors are much more inline with what I see on my calibrated Dell IPS, just going to have to get used to it being 'normal' after having it over done for so long.
Is there any way to remove the horrible post processing for the screen that makes everything so oversaturated and crushes the colours, shadows and shading?
I have changed the colour mode to "natural" from the "le eco" default but it is still way over saturated and not at all correct. Reds in particular are very oversaturated, although it seems to happen with all colours to a degree. The other colour modes are even worse.
Is there seriously no way to remove this? Or is it part of the firmware for the screen rather than part of the phone software itself?
It's an extremely stupid decision to post process and alter colours and have no way of turning it off.
I am on the default x829 fw: 5.8.016S if that makes any difference.
Also have the same issue.
I also have this over saturation issue on my x829 running stock 16s software. I cannot find a way of solving it as you seem to be the only other person I've found suffering from this issue.
I think it's just the kind of issue that most people don't notice (or worse, think it looks "better"). Certain content makes it really obvious and it loses a lot of detail.
Seems like a conscious choice so I doubt it's something that will be different in the other roms but as I haven't tried any other roms i don't know.
I hope it's done in software rather than the screen firmware, so that it can possibly be more easily disabled (corrected) in cfw.
Mine looked oversaturated with the reds too.
Your cases may be more complicated but mine turned out to be an oversight on my part of not clicking OK (at the top right of the screen) after selecting the desired color mode. Changes would't stick without clicking OK.
System: Indian 19s.
Thanks for trying to help!
Unfortunately I already did that and am already correctly in the "natural" mode - it certainly helps a bit compared to the Le Eco mode but is still too saturated and the gamma is too high. All the contrast is way overblown which ruins subtlety in shading.
I am getting loads of black crush which is the most irritating part.
Can people test here:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php
I can only see down to 20 on normal brightness settings.
If i turn the brightness all the way up (with adaptive brightness off) then the screen is utterly blinding and i can still only see down to about 9 or 8.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/gamma_calibration.php
The gamma is messed up too, i'm getting about 1.3 / 1.4 at 48%, 1.6 at 25% and 1.8 / 1.9 at 10%
As you can imagine it really is spoiling the phone.
nougat ROMs have KCAL app support, atleast Omni does... have you tried it?
I thought KCAL didn't support the snapdragon 820? At least it doesn't list MSM 8996 support??
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/dev-kcal-advanced-color-control-t3032080
That would be great if I could use KCAL. However I am nervous of using Nougat roms as I heard that they break the camera and other features on the phone?
In fact I have not changed from stock firmware as I have been unsure what is the most compatible thing to change to.
I don't care about breaking the fingerprint sensor though, as I never want to use that.
Hello did u solve ur problem.. Im facing the same
No, i didn't yet, sorry.
I posted about it in the small eui thread but no one seemed to pay attention. I will probably make a thread about it to bring it to people's attention as i am guessing it affects everyone's phones.
Just install kernel auditor on Omni or any rom that supports kcal. I reduced saturation to 20 and looks much better.
What is kernel auditor for if omnirom has kcal already? :S
The thing is i would prefer to keep on an eui based rom, like small eui or cuoco92 so that i don't break anything on my phone.
But if it is really not possible to fix with those then I will move to something like omni-rom. I just don't want to break phone functionality.
Also, the biggest problem is the black crush rather than the gamma - check the link i posted and see which squares you can see down to - it's really bad! Hopefully this can be fixed with kcal too...