Is there any way to use only the second screen? I am not talking about muting the main screen by lowering the brightness through the dual screen tool, I mean just use the second screen.
Yes actually there is. It's kind of a workaround but I'm working on an app for it. Since it's an OLED display, pure black with no action on touch is essentially the same as screen off, though gestures will still work. I will post the APK here when I finish the app. In the meantime, download or create a png or jpg file that's just pure black, a black square essentially, of any resolution. Open it in your stock Gallery app on the main screen and click on it to make it go full screen. This doesn't disable touch but it will essentially turn off your primary screen even while actively using the second screen.
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Yes actually there is. It's kind of a workaround but I'm working on an app for it. Since it's an OLED display, pure black with no action on touch is essentially the same as screen off, though gestures will still work. I will post the APK here when I finish the app. In the meantime, download or create a png or jpg file that's just pure black, a black square essentially, of any resolution. Open it in your stock Gallery app on the main screen and click on it to make it go full screen. This doesn't disable touch but it will essentially turn off your primary screen even while actively using the second screen.
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Nice! I have been doing the gallery trick but the picture tools and the status bar still show up.
Wow I'm really pumped now.
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Yes actually there is. It's kind of a workaround but I'm working on an app for it. .... .
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Sweet, sounds cool!
Use black screen app
Also rgb for selfie light
I use the Black Screen app as well. Especially useful when watching landscape video on second screen. Plus it's accessible as a toggle in quick settings.
harysviewty said:
Use black screen app
Also rgb for selfie light
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Thanks!
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I just noticed that my S2 screen has distinct green tint to it compared to my desktop and my iPhone. Is this normal for a Super AMOLED+ screen and is there and app or method to do a little colour correction to the screen so I get a more accurate display? I'm a designer/photographer so it would really help to have the screen as accurate as possible!
settings - display - screen mode. change as desired
Should get you a little closer to what you are after
radicalgel said:
I just noticed that my S2 screen has distinct green tint to it compared to my desktop and my iPhone. Is this normal for a Super AMOLED+ screen and is there and app or method to do a little colour correction to the screen so I get a more accurate display? I'm a designer/photographer so it would really help to have the screen as accurate as possible!
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As was said....
settings - display - screen mode.
I find Movie to be the most accurate. The other two options are oversaturated.
donalgodon said:
As was said....
settings - display - screen mode.
I find Movie to be the most accurate. The other two options are oversaturated.
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I used to only use movie then one day after flashing a new rom i left it on standard now movie seems to washed out for me
But yea, dynamic is far to blow your face off bright.
So I was at a concert the other night where photography was not allowed, and of course I wanted to take pictures, but didn't both out of respect and not wanting to get my phone taken away. But I was still curious if I could figure out a way to take photos with the screen off for situations like this. I was able to set up a Tasker profile that allowed me to do it, sort of. I keyed the long-press search button to take a photo, and it works with the screen off, but for some reason Tasker's camera function only takes a very, very low-res photo, and I can't seem to find a way to change that. So does anyone else have any clever solutions? Obviously it'd be a problem if it prevents the device from sleeping.
You can use a app called screen filter it can darken your screen and make letters visible.
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Robert235 said:
You can use a app called screen filter it can darken your screen and make letters visible.
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Great suggestion, thanks! That's certainly a start.
what if you got two pieces of polarized plastic and cut them opposite so the light from the screen is blocked completely. Then use this app: to take a picture with the volume button.. So just open up the app, cover the screen. Then when you need to take a picture just press the power button, slide to unlock, then take the snap.
con247 said:
what if you got two pieces of polarized plastic and cut them opposite so the light from the screen is blocked completely. Then use this app: to take a picture with the volume button.. So just open up the app, cover the screen. Then when you need to take a picture just press the power button, slide to unlock, then take the snap.
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you can shoot pics with either the vol or the search buttons if you use Vignette instead of the stock camera app.
Vignette is better than the stock app in every possible way after you figure out all its many options.
Have you tried "Spy Phone" in the market? There is a free version too. You can set a custom picture or just a black screen and tap anywhere on the screen to take pictures/videos. It also mutes all the sounds so you dont have the shutter sound. There used to be an app called Simple Notepad, i think, but was similar to this(Blank screen, tap to shoot), but i cant seem to find it. I believe there are a few on the market that i have not tried out too, just search for "spy cam" or "candid", or something on those lines.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sivartech.SpyPhoneLite&feature=search_result
Here is the simple notepad. I guess the name has changed.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zecurisoft.mhc1202&feature=search_result
Lol that simple notepad app is awesome.....
Has anyone else noticed the Camera app on ICS for the SGS2 is really weird? For instance, I take a photo and it will show the photo in full colour but then when I click on the photo in the bottom left (portrait mode) the image is missing half its colour until I press the return key, the colour comes back but as expected the image shuts and goes back to the camera application. Then when I view the photo in the Gallery application, the image is in full colour. Any thoughts on this or is it only happening to me?
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Has anyone else noticed the Camera app on ICS for the SGS2 is really weird? For instance, I take a photo and it will show the photo in full colour but then when I click on the photo in the bottom left (portrait mode) the image is missing half its colour until I press the return key, the colour comes back but as expected the image shuts and goes back to the camera application. Then when I view the photo in the Gallery application, the image is in full colour. Any thoughts on this or is it only happening to me?
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I think it happens just because the auto-mode in the screen bright settings, try it with full bright and you'll see is it keep happening.
I remember also there's an option to set max bright when you take a picture so that can be the reason too.
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I think it happens just because the auto-mode in the screen bright settings, try it with full bright and you'll see is it keep happening.
I remember also there's an option to set max bright when you take a picture so that can be the reason too.
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Where can I find this option to set max brightness when I take a picture?
Camera / settings / outdoor visibility "on"
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Camera / settings / outdoor visibility "on"
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I think that's what he already has.
Put your phone in full brightness and not in auto brightness and you will be ok.
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I think that's what he already has.
Put your phone in full brightness and not in auto brightness and you will be ok.
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That's what "outdoor visibility" setting does automatically whilst using the camera. After you exit the camera, it returns back to autobrightness or whatever your setting is.
Try it
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The problem is probably in your rom, change to hydrog3n
No you guys think too much.....
When you are on auto bright your picture also is dim when you watch in gallery, you need to be set Max bright.
That's what he (OP) was asking
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oh yeah, it gives you a different screen brightness on your camera, it should be somewhere in your settings, if not just play with the screen brightness till they look the same
dude. it has yellow tint now, which is worse than blue tint, blu tint sharper,thus better!
Just got the V10 and the second screen dims after 2 or 3 seconds after turning off the main screen. Is there a way to adjust the timing when the second screen dims? The dimmed second screen is almost unreadable because it is so dim.
Ditto, the idea that this is a replacement for a notification LED is really damaged by the dimming. (It's not just me that bought the phone based on that idea, right?) What I've found so far:
With the screen brightness set to 0, the second screen dims fully a few seconds after sleeping. Icons become about as noticeable as dust reflections.
With the screen brightness set to 100, the second screen follows the ambient light sensor after sleeping. Under bright light it turns itself up to the point where it's useable.
I've been playing with all the LEDs that Light Flow sees, but at least without root, nothing has any effect. I might look through the /sys files later. We probably need to get root first to figure this out.
On auto brightness it seems to be that the device adjusts the dimmed display for the ambient lighting? It's not the easiest thing in the world to see, but it's certainly not hard for me to see what notifications I have. I really prefer this over a colored LED.
Light Flow settings
For what it's worth, here's my current setup, now that the T-Mobile H901 is rooted. This does no one without root any good, and I don't know how it would translate to similar LED managers. I've been using Light Flow since the Sapphire (MyTouch 3G).
Light Flow device settings: check direct mode, root mode, and run every command as root. The Nexus 5 force reset option is checked by default and I don't know if that's relevant (no calls yet). Everything else in the menu is unchecked.
Let Light Flow control lcd-backlight-ex.
In a notification, set that "LED" to Solid and to 255 brightness. Check Enable Mixer and App controlled flash. With that last setting, the app will reset the brightness every few seconds even if the system dimmed it due to an ambient light change.
Now I need to edit some notification icons to be big and colorful. I wonder how this will impact battery life? Now the app is going to be awake all the time.
I've noticed that today on auto brightness the second screen will increase in light but not much. It also is not as smoth of a transition as on main display. It kinda jumps up real quick..
Yes for me I've noticed on Auto brightness the second screen will dim in a dark room and if you turn off your phone while in that room then come out... The second screen is still dim.... It's like th second screen doesn't respond to the light sensors at all unless the main screen is on.
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It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
m0n0t0ne said:
It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
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Another one of many things that it would be cool to see baked into a custom stock rom. Good stuff. I wonder if Cloudyfa might come over and cook on this awhile. I have always loved his stock Roms....
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m0n0t0ne said:
It would have been nice if lg included the capability to change the second screen settings such a brightness or text color.
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Color would be cool. A classic CRT bright/lime green, for instance, would probably show up much better than the white.
We need to get on their forums with these ideas. Maybe some will get squeezed into an update
An app which turns off auto dim in case screen is off would be pretty much help. Maybe I'll develop one.
Are you noticing that when you use Stock Gallery, Netflix, and YouTube apps, rendering a completely black picture or video doesn't show pure black. Rather it looks like a blotchy black. It bother me so much since this is an AMOLED screen and I know that when an OLED panel renders black it shuts off every pixel rendering black so a plain black image should turn off the screen completely. But in my case I see blotchy black screen and this is only noticeable when you're in a dark room. Please tell me you also experience this. Otherwise, can somebody explain why? Do I have a defective screen? Thanks!
Videos and pictures in lossy formats won't have a perfect color information, the system will try to interpret it the betst as it can, mostly resulting in the screen showing strange patterns instead of a plain black picture.
This app will create a lossless black picture, you shouldn't see any difference between screen on of off.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joeleveque.backlightbleedtest
I don't see any light bleed for that. However, it's just weird because when I did a screenshot and open it on my stock gallery app, it again showed a blotchy black. But when I open in Google Photos, it is completely black. Also, watching this completely black video in YouTube also shows blotchy black. https://youtu.be/XIMLoLxmTDw
screen replacement
kenobijim said:
Are you noticing that when you use Stock Gallery, Netflix, and YouTube apps, rendering a completely black picture or video doesn't show pure black. Rather it looks like a blotchy black. It bother me so much since this is an AMOLED screen and I know that when an OLED panel renders black it shuts off every pixel rendering black so a plain black image should turn off the screen completely. But in my case I see blotchy black screen and this is only noticeable when you're in a dark room. Please tell me you also experience this. Otherwise, can somebody explain why? Do I have a defective screen? Thanks!
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I don't think this is a screen issue. I've used Mate 10 pro for 2 months and haven't come across any issue. And I found the mate 10 pro screen is very solid. If you want to replace it, that would be very difficult.
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I don't see any light bleed for that. However, it's just weird because when I did a screenshot and open it on my stock gallery app, it again showed a blotchy black. But when I open in Google Photos, it is completely black. Also, watching this completely black video in YouTube also shows blotchy black.
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Just tried this on mine and it's just black..no blotchiness or bleed
Voipboy01 said:
Just tried this on mine and it's just black..no blotchiness or bleed
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Did you try it at minimum brightness in a dark room?
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I mean maximum brightness in a complete dark environment.