One thing i love about ICS and JB is it has vastly improved the Caller images, those low res small images used to really get my goat! Using Hax Sync on ICS was able to get pretty good images and on JB i think the native resolution of the images is even higher because they seem to be a lot sharper. I still dont get the wierd way on which google has decided to splice the photo in the people app / contact menu tho, usually manages to cut of the head or something ,, seem completely illogical for me, tho again Hax Sync and its face detect feature to the rescue .. somewhat atleast ! :victory:
However another issue i see is the black background which pops up on incoming calls which covers about 60 % of the screen. This completely covers the image and defeats the purpose of having these beautiful high res photos of ppl synced to your phone.
Is there anyway around this which can either reduce the size and coverage of this black background or alternately control its translucence?
Any ROMs / Mods out there that address this ?
Would appreciate any suggestion on this..
Thanks
Hoshner.
Here check out this screen shot, as you can see, almost 75% of the screen is taken up by the opaque black background and the top by the translucent caller id banner, leaving just a thin slice of the screen for the caller photo..
Any devs have / can work on mods for this?
One of the reasons i bought this great phone is that it has multiple colour notification lights. I found it strange that you can only enable or disable them in the configuration of the phone.
I've tried some apps from the Play Store to configure specific colours for specific apps, but non of them work very handy and consumes a lot of power as well.
Any suggestions?
you may use Light manager pro (works fine), Light Flow.
Unfortunately, notification Light (on non-rooted phone) has small viewing angles and can be enabled only after screen is off.
If somebody wants to buy Redmi Note 3 Snapdragon, maybe this pros and cons can help.
This pros and cons are from my point of view, from my experience and needs from one smartphone.
After 2 weeks of usage. (Latest Global ROM)
Pros:
- Display (when you are inside, nice colors and sharpness)
- Performance (nice and smooth in day to day use, 78k on antutu, more than S6,Z5,Nexus6..)
- Speaker and Headphone out
- Battery life (average usage on wifi messenger, instagram, viber, browser and bluetooth music streaming.. Getting 8h+ on screen time)
- Camera (but only for social networks)
- Slot for SD Card
- Fast fingerprint sensor
Cons:
- Camera (when you put captured images on PC or zoom in you can see whats going on)
- Lack of Optical image stabilisation
- Display (when you are outside and wearing sunglasses you almost can't see anything on screen)
- Notification LED (tiny and dark)
- MIUI restrictions for font change and theme customization
- Lack of 2.0 quickcharge
Thats it for now.
fgermne said:
If somebody wants to buy Redmi Note 3 Snapdragon, maybe this pros and cons can help.
This pros and cons are from my point of view, from my experience and needs from one smartphone.
After 2 weeks of usage. (Latest Global ROM)
Pros:
- Display (when you are inside, nice colors and sharpness)
- Performance (nice and smooth in day to day use, 78k on antutu, more than S6,Z5,Nexus6..)
- Speaker and Headphone out
- Battery life (average usage on wifi messenger, instagram, viber, browser and bluetooth music streaming.. Getting 8h+ on screen time)
- Camera (but only for social networks)
- Slot for SD Card
- Fast fingerprint sensor
Cons:
- Camera (when you put captured images on PC or zoom in you can see whats going on)
- Lack of Optical image stabilisation
- Display (when you are outside and wearing sunglasses you almost can't see anything on screen)
- Notification LED (tiny and dark)
- MIUI restrictions for font change and theme customization
- Lack of 2.0 quickcharge
Thats it for now.
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I agree with your point of view and i will share with you little tricks to optimize cons parts
1.camera----->install Google camera from Play Store;you will get a better performance&quality
2.display:a)set colors to "cool"
b)set contrast to"increased contrast"
3.MIUI deep customization:a)turn off internet on the device
b)clear data from theme app(don't worry,you will don't lose any previously downloaded theme)
c)open theme app with internet off and go to desired category of customization
d)turn on internet and you will be able to download whatever you want:boot skins,lock screens,icons,etc
4.notification LED--->you can change LED color
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I agree with your point of view and i will share with you little tricks to optimize cons parts
1.camera----->install Google camera from Play Store;you will get a better performance&quality
2.display:a)set colors to "cool"
b)set contrast to"increased contrast"
3.MIUI deep customization:a)turn off internet on the device
b)clear data from theme app(don't worry,you will don't lose any previously downloaded theme)
c)open theme app with internet off and go to desired category of customization
d)turn on internet and you will be able to download whatever you want:boot skins,lock screens,icons,etc
4.notification LED--->you can change LED color
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Thank you on advice!
1. will try again. I have tried with google camera first day but results were almost the same.
2. Still can't see outside when it's sunny and wearing sunglasses.
Redmi Note 3 Mediatek version have 30% brighter/better screen on sunny day situations.
Xiaomi said that they have changed "screen pixel technology" on Snapdragon version and now it sucks on sunny days unfortunately.
3. Worked!
4. Any color, LED light is small and dark.. they should put bigger or brighter LED light.
fgermne said:
Thank you on advice!
1. will try again. I have tried with google camera first day but results were almost the same.
2. Still can't see outside when it's sunny and wearing sunglasses.
Redmi Note 3 Mediatek version have 30% brighter/better screen on sunny day situations.
Xiaomi said that they have changed "screen pixel technology" on Snapdragon version and now it sucks on sunny days unfortunately.
3. Worked!
4. Any color, LED light is small and dark.. they should put bigger or brighter LED light.
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Actually i used mediatek version and snapdragon version of this Phone, snapdragon variant is better under Sun light. You are not able to see with sunglasses it is true but the colours on screen will be lightened in snapdragon variant. It is called as sunlight technology and it works when you choose automatic contrast in screen settings :good:
Hi guys. I use official RR rom and everything is great. The only 'issue' I have is yellowish tint with flashlight when taking photos during night (stock CM 13 snap cam app). I remember that this was the problem (at least for me) on couple of latest versions on MIUI rom. On the other hand, I've installed PSMCameraNextMod V7 and the flashlight color, that is picture color after taking the shot is normal, with more natural white color (again, I find this to be more natural).
My question is next, is there I way to make flashlight to use white led instead of yellow, like with PSMCameraNextMod?
p.s. Although I like flashlight on second camera app, for me snap camera is producing better pictures overall, especially in low light situations, with less noise on very dark areas. But that yellowish tint with flashlight is killing me
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
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I also noticed this with Netflix. Was hoping that turning up the brightness would help but it doesn't.
YES, YES, YES, I am shocked this isn't widely reported, I couldn't find almost anything about it and I've been searching for quite a while.
First of all it is really crazy that popular apps like plex or netflix don't offer any capability to change the brightness of the video played. No, we don't change the colorspace, black levels, bla bla bla.
I DID find eventually a solution (the ONLY one that works, a bit clumsy as it is): http://phandroid.com/2016/03/22/twilight-app-reduces-dark-contrast-on-samsung-galaxy-s7/ (yes, it's for the S7 and yes I did notice there the same issue, which makes it even crazier that it isn't something widely known and fixed).
I just picked up an S3 last night and I'm having this same issue. I watched the opening scene of The Defenders on Netflix, and I could hardly tell what was going on. Rewatched it on a proper display, and you're clearly upposed to tell it's Danny Randy much earlier in the scene, but I had no idea in the S3 until a blue light was clearly shining on him from above.
I used Twilight on my Nexus 7 because it lacked a night vision mode, ala blue light filter on the S3. I'm not sure how that can really help. Surely other people have found more elegant solutions to this problem? I've opened up other media files and they're all simply too dark. I get it's an HDR screen, but surely it has a mode for non-HDR content!
Do oled display have a blue light problem, I though it was only really a led thing.
John.
Might be an inconsistency with the displays. I have no problem with mine. Not getting any lag either but running a heavy debloated rom also. Battery life could be better. It's stupid you can't turn off the Wacom digitizer when s pen not in use. On my note 4 when I lost my s pen battery life was terrible because the Wacom digitizer stayed on. Should be an option in settings to turn it off. If anyone knows how please let me know. I don't use the s pen very often.
man_with_hair said:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 and it's great but I can't figure one thing out. Which is the screens contrast. Dark scenes in Netflix or VLC player are too dark and hard to see. I tried different brightness settings, with/without blue light filter and the other color correction option for cinematic mode but nothing really works properly.
Is this an issue with the tablet or is there another setting to change the contrast or something?
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Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
Sent from my SM-T820 using Tapatalk
DAvid_B said:
Try switching from "adaptive display" to "oled cinema".
Sent from my SM-T820 using Tapatalk
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Switching to modes other than Adaptive Display just gives me seemingly the same shade of yellow....
I have tab s2 and you can't change adaptive display. I wouldn't have bought this tablet if I'd known about this issue. Very annoyed.
I actually have the issue on my Samsung Tab S2, that the colors are really "hard" and lots of color information are missing in the video, details are lost in dark areas. Is there some fix for this or is the screen just too bad on the Tab S2? I know the Tab S3 has a HDR screen, and the S2 not. I dont have any HDR screens actually, but I can put color range to "full" on my desktop PC, which will en-light colors a bit, making details more pop out in dark areas (though black isnt fully black anymore if so).
Any color profile other than basic is mostly unusable, too much saturation. Still dark areas lack lots of information. Is there no way to fix this? I tested this actually
https://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screenshot_20160321-154452-400x711.png
and it helps with the details in dark areas, but it also makes the black bars of movies in Netflix and video players not black anymore but gray.
So from what i can tell, it's only a stock rom problem. As the screen looks amazing running liniage (best screen in the house). But I've recently decided to go back to stock debloated, as I think its running a bit snappier than liniage 16 or 17.
Has anyone found a black level fix for stock yet? (preferably not a screen tint app)
Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
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Touch the left hand side of the screen when watching netlix and a brightness slider appears
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:cyclops: It's beyond what you're suggesting which is known :cyclops: but thanks for it
EDIT: I have now found a full workaround. First you need to enable Blue Light Filter. Then go to Settings > Accessibility > Visibility enhancements > Color adjustment > Personalized color, and choose all the colors in the correct order. If you do it correctly there won't be any change to the colors and Blue Light Filter will be "on", but actually not, which will override whatever Android is doing that's making the dark parts of movies way darker than they should be. So far I haven't found any cons of this workaround.
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Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but after trying to fix this problem for like half a day (lol) I think I found the best workaround so far. If you turn on Blue Light Filter and set its opacity to minimum, the filter will be barely noticable, but the brightness issue will be fixed.
One thing I noticed is that not all apps have this problem. For example VLC, Youtube do have it (you can even see the transition of colors and brightness for a second when exiting to desktop view). However Youtube Vanced doesn't have this issue, so I asssume the operating system does this dumb change of colors when it sees certain parameters in an app (maybe something in the manifest.json file?). It would be awesome if some more knowledgeable people could look into this issue, maybe they could find something about why YT Vanced has normal colors.