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I've seen a lot of youtube videos of the galaxy s II and from what I can tell, the screen is still oversaturated like the original galaxy s, with the same blue tint on white backgrounds. Any chance this would be adjusted, or even have a user-adjustable option, by release? I'm guessing a majority of people outside of forums don't care and prefer the gaudy colors, like how they crank up the color on new TVs and everyone's face looks red, because buyers prefer it. But an option would be much needed for those not so inclined to the heavy colors. Another thing I would want is a lower brightness setting. LCDs get washed out but AMOLEDs can handle lower settings and still have good contrast. With that, the ability to adjust the minimum and maximum threshold for the auto-brightness instead of one predefined setting, as well.
I doubt Samsung (or any other manufacturer) would let you modify that much in the settings. The phone is not a monitor, however I certainly see the possibilty of changing those options (or at least some) once some kind souls will start messing with the firmwares and kernels.
*cough* supercurio voodoo color *cough*
If it involves *cough* hacking *cough* I think I will have to pass. And yes, there are less industrious people around here as well.
i am pretty sure that the sgs 2 will have the same same over saturated colours and the tint(looking at review videos).i am not a fan of amoled i do like its blacks but the over saturation does my headache i prefer ips to amoled any day. if it was not their Soc's i'd never have bought sgs.
Bowsa2511 said:
*cough* supercurio voodoo color *cough*
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This.
Sent from my Captivate.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/nexus-s-2-3-3-update-adjusts-screens-color-temperature-we-go-e/
Or the Nexus S general forum. Fingers crossed.
A challenging task for the devs here ...........
I only see a blue tint when I tilt the angle of the screen. It doesn't take much to see it and becomes more extreme the more it's tilted. Looking straight on is fine. I didn't expect there to be perfect viewing angles but tilting just a little the blue tint is really prominent. Easily viewed on a pure white screen.
Great phone, though I want to use the device to watch videos and two things bother me: the blue tint when not viewed straight on and the over saturated colours. The colour green is very oversaturated much to the point where I think there's green in the videos showing up that shouldn't be there! I know you can adjust the colour tones, that include warm, cold and natural. If the image looks too yellow/green then the cold setting looks a bit more natural on some videos. I would have preferred a proper configuration for adjusting the complete colour balance.
The screen is wonderful but is let down by these two things. If it's something that can't be helped then that's the way it is, but it would be great to have more control over the colour settings and if the blue tint is really a limitation of the type of screen/glass, or the first batch of phones have an inherent fault with the screen?
On thing that is also off is the gamma curve!
greys become dark too fast, shadow details are crushed, even though the screen has the potential not to do this. On the contrary, with such black levels, the panel should be able to show more shadow details.
I suspect this is a battery saving choice, rather than a screen limitation. I'd rather have an accurate gamma though.
Google will need to allow custom color profiles in Android soon!
My Galaxy S has much more natural colors than the S2 that I just bought. I can't stand the disney colors! Hope some developer will be able to fix that soon!
Is it just me?
How come you guys say that the SGS2 has bluish tint? While when I compare it to my SGS(speedmod) and my friends SGS(voodoo) my SGS2 has a yellowish tint to it? I'm a bit confused. Anyway I've bought it and my only complaint is the sound. Voodoo control plus please!
There is some degree of control (not much though) over the saturation in Settings > Display > Background effect.
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washburn111 said:
How come you guys say that the SGS2 has bluish tint? While when I compare it to my SGS(speedmod) and my friends SGS(voodoo) my SGS2 has a yellowish tint to it? I'm a bit confused. Anyway I've bought it and my only complaint is the sound. Voodoo control plus please!
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The easiest way to see this is to view a white page/screen. Look straight on and then begin tilting the phone in any direction. The blue tint becomes noticeable and more extreme the more you tilt it. I wouldn't have a problem if it was only noticeable at extreme angles, but I do see it if the viewing angle isn't straight on. For phone use this is fine, not so bothered. Not so good when watching media.
Regarding the tint,
Also when i purchased the phone in may the gray was going into pink!
On later updates colors seem better! aswell i rember i posted a request in chainfires 3d drivers tread were i ask the guy kindly to add support for custom rgb mode nightmode tones...
So from his application if u play with nightmode function you can tilt your color as u like!
puremind said:
On thing that is also off is the gamma curve!
greys become dark too fast, shadow details are crushed, even though the screen has the potential not to do this. On the contrary, with such black levels, the panel should be able to show more shadow details.
I suspect this is a battery saving choice, rather than a screen limitation. I'd rather have an accurate gamma though.
Google will need to allow custom color profiles in Android soon!
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There is actually a post/study about this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124669
I just got my AT&T Note yesterday and I love the phone. I am VERY unhappy with the color though. The color red doesn't seem red to me. It's got an orange tint to it. For example, we've all see the basic google homepage. The first "o", and the "e" in Google look orangish to me when the should be red.
I have done searching for hours on this topic and the only thing I find relates to grays, and blacks having bars. I don't have that issue. Just that everything seems orangish when it should be red. I have done the secret code that tests hardware and that screen looks red! There is an app that will allow me to tweek the lcd brightness, saturation, and hue. But the phone will have to be rooted, and I prefer not to root if I don't have to.
Anyone else experience weird color issues other than blacks and grays?
Should I go exchange the unit, or root and tweek?
Thanks in advance!
Tj
440bro said:
I just got my AT&T Note yesterday and I love the phone. I am VERY unhappy with the color though. The color red doesn't seem red to me. It's got an orange tint to it. For example, we've all see the basic google homepage. The first "o", and the "e" in Google look orangish to me when the should be red.
I have done searching for hours on this topic and the only thing I find relates to grays, and blacks having bars. I don't have that issue. Just that everything seems orangish when it should be red. I have done the secret code that tests hardware and that screen looks red! There is an app that will allow me to tweek the lcd brightness, saturation, and hue. But the phone will have to be rooted, and I prefer not to root if I don't have to.
Anyone else experience weird color issues other than blacks and grays?
Should I go exchange the unit, or root and tweek?
Thanks in advance!
Tj
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A good way to tell if it's just your phone is to open the Netflix app. I can tell you that looks super red. If yours doesn't I would exchange it.
I've used Light Flow, Light Blinker and Light Manager, and noticed that the S4 doesn't seem to display custom colors very well.
For example if I chose cyan, the LED light just looks blue. If I chose magenta or pink, the light just looks purple; choosing orange, light just looks yellow. Because of some insurance mix up, Verizon sent me two S4s, and I tested this issue on both phones and they're both like that. Is this a hardware issue? Or is there a way to correct it? I remember the custom colors on my S3 were very accurate. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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I've used Light Flow, Light Blinker and Light Manager, and noticed that the S4 doesn't seem to display custom colors very well.
For example if I chose cyan, the LED light just looks blue. If I chose magenta or pink, the light just looks purple; choosing orange, light just looks yellow. Because of some insurance mix up, Verizon sent me two S4s, and I tested this issue on both phones and they're both like that. Is this a hardware issue? Or is there a way to correct it? I remember the custom colors on my S3 were very accurate. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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If you indeed have an S4 and not the S4 Active, you are in the wrong forum.
poor color reproduction
melella said:
I've used Light Flow, Light Blinker and Light Manager, and noticed that the S4 doesn't seem to display custom colors very well.
For example if I chose cyan, the LED light just looks blue. If I chose magenta or pink, the light just looks purple; choosing orange, light just looks yellow. Because of some insurance mix up, Verizon sent me two S4s, and I tested this issue on both phones and they're both like that. Is this a hardware issue? Or is there a way to correct it? I remember the custom colors on my S3 were very accurate. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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I've had the same problem with mine, I haven't found a way yet to correct the colors. I've resorted to depending more on the blink rate for some things. Would love to have a better selection of colors though.
Miami_Son said:
If you indeed have an S4 and not the S4 Active, you are in the wrong forum.
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No, the OP was posted in the Verizon Galaxy S4 Q&A/Troubleshooting forum, I think you might have been confused when you posted. Happens to us all at some point.
jeepin05 said:
I've had the same problem with mine, I haven't found a way yet to correct the colors. I've resorted to depending more on the blink rate for some things. Would love to have a better selection of colors though.
Is that an issue with all the S4s or I just have a bad one (or 2)?
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jeepin05 said:
No, the OP was posted in the Verizon Galaxy S4 Q&A/Troubleshooting forum, I think you might have been confused when you posted. Happens to us all at some point.
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Not confused at all. It was originally posted to the Galaxy S4 Active subforum and got moved here after I posted.
Which setting do people use and why?
Default, it's more than good enough.
I have mine on default. I just wondered if anyone preferred the other settings
Compared to z5 the display seems a bit more on the yellow side. Ive increased the blue level.
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Compared to z5 the display seems a bit more on the yellow side. Ive increased the blue level.
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I think increasing the blue color will damage the screen in long term use if I'm not wrong
sRGB profile is more realistic and "white color is white color". On standard color looks very pleasing but the white color is broken to kind of yellow tune. which is very visible on Settings for example.
pavitra.das said:
sRGB profile is more realistic and "white color is white color". On standard color looks very pleasing but the white color is broken to kind of yellow tune. which is very visible on Settings for example.
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I have read in somewhere that in IPS LCD yellowish screen work better than blue one to show black color.
maybe this is the secret behind the crisp looking screen of the XZ1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
iPhone 4 had the same issue !
now it is Sony turn to tell us about the yellow screen ?!
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I think increasing the blue color will damage the screen in long term use if I'm not wrong
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I think longevity is rarly a factor when designing phones today
I had the chance to see all the colors in person and I gotta tell you, they're not properly represented by pictures and renders.
First of all, the "not pink" is really very pink. It's just a lie to say it's not pink. And it's not even an attractive shade of pink. It's a faded pink that looks almost like a dingy white.
Speaking of white, I usually pass on this color, but this white is super crisp. It has a very high quality look and feel to it. Plus, it partially wraps around to the front of the device, giving it a bit of a two tone look from the front that helps it stand out from all the other white phones.
Finally, the black. Well, here's where I was a bit disappointed. I assumed the frosted glass area was the same shade of gray like the pixel 2, but it really has more of a brownish, charcoal look to it. It's very hard to describe, but it looks like a cheap sticker and is quite ugly in person. If you hold it off axis, then the light can make it look a little more gray again, but when viewed directly, it's like a dingy gray that needs to be polished or have its moisture restored like the trim of a car.
Anyway, just thought I would share for those of you who might be in the fence about the colors. I pre-ordered the black, and regret my decision, but since I will be using a skin on it, it's not worth changing.
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I had the chance to see all the colors in person and I gotta tell you, they're not properly represented by pictures and renders.
First of all, the "not pink" is really very pink. It's just a lie to say it's not pink. And it's not even an attractive shade of pink. It's a faded pink that looks almost like a dingy white.
Speaking of white, I usually pass on this color, but this white is super crisp. It has a very high quality look and feel to it. Plus, it partially wraps around to the front of the device, giving it a bit of a two tone look from the front that helps it stand out from all the other white phones.
Finally, the black. Well, here's where I was a bit disappointed. I assumed the frosted glass area was the same shade of gray like the pixel 2, but it really has more of a brownish, charcoal look to it. It's very hard to describe, but it looks like a cheap sticker and is quite ugly in person. If you hold it off axis, then the light can make it look a little more gray again, but when viewed directly, it's like a dingy gray that needs to be polished or have its moisture restored like the trim of a car.
Anyway, just thought I would share for those of you who might be in the fence about the colors. I pre-ordered the black, and regret my decision, but since I will be using a skin on it, it's not worth changing.
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Thank you for sharing your experience. I just want to talk about the color of "not pink." I think Google did not lie when they said "not pink" because you say " It's a faded pink that looks almost like a dingy white "
big regards
DinarQ8 said:
Thank you for sharing your experience. I just want to talk about the color of "not pink." I think Google did not lie when they said "not pink" because you say " It's a faded pink that looks almost like a dingy white "
big regards
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Lol, well, if I had to use a single color to describe it, then it's pink, and definitely not, "not pink" ?
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Lol, well, if I had to use a single color to describe it, then it's pink, and definitely not, "not pink"
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:laugh:
PuffDaddy_d said:
I had the chance to see all the colors in person and I gotta tell you, they're not properly represented by pictures and renders.
First of all, the "not pink" is really very pink. It's just a lie to say it's not pink. And it's not even an attractive shade of pink. It's a faded pink that looks almost like a dingy white.
Speaking of white, I usually pass on this color, but this white is super crisp. It has a very high quality look and feel to it. Plus, it partially wraps around to the front of the device, giving it a bit of a two tone look from the front that helps it stand out from all the other white phones.
Finally, the black. Well, here's where I was a bit disappointed. I assumed the frosted glass area was the same shade of gray like the pixel 2, but it really has more of a brownish, charcoal look to it. It's very hard to describe, but it looks like a cheap sticker and is quite ugly in person. If you hold it off axis, then the light can make it look a little more gray again, but when viewed directly, it's like a dingy gray that needs to be polished or have its moisture restored like the trim of a car.
Anyway, just thought I would share for those of you who might be in the fence about the colors. I pre-ordered the black, and regret my decision, but since I will be using a skin on it, it's not worth changing.
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Thanks for the info. I've had a black phone for years now... so I ordered white. Can't wait to get it
I ordered white too but black with dbrand's new skin looks really sexy.
GizmoFreak said:
I ordered white too but black with dbrand's new skin looks really sexy.
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I've got this on my essential, it's bad ass.
GizmoFreak said:
I ordered white too but black with dbrand's new skin looks really sexy.
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Do you have a link? Looks like a winner ?
frewys said:
Do you have a link? Looks like a winner ?
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https://dbrand.com/shop/google-pixel-3-xl-skins
GizmoFreak said:
https://dbrand.com/shop/google-pixel-3-xl-skins
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So it is actually just a skin not a case? Just painted holes?
frewys said:
So it is actually just a skin not a case? Just painted holes?
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Yep.