The colors on the screen are gorgeous and bright, but black text on a white or gray background is actually pretty dim, much dimmer than even my Inspire. Is this just a limitation of the ameoled screen, or do I have a bad phone? Is there any fix if it's typical? Pretty much a deal breaker for me if I can't fix this... Thanks for any help!
Black text on a white background is as plain as night and day for me. Id say check out the store demo to compare. If the demo is better than yours, swap out.
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Good call, I'll do that. Out of curiousity, what was your last phone, and have you compared black on white with it? Thanks!
There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
Shmegmaking said:
There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
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Thanks! That was driving me crazy. It was very prevalent in the stock email app. I can't believe I overlooked that stupid box...lol.
Where is this setting I don't see it in display. The white and black drives me crazy with this phone.
theofficial43 said:
Where is this setting I don't see it in display. The white and black drives me crazy with this phone.
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Settings>Display>Auto adjust screen power. Uncheck that box.
It will put a little more drain on your battery, but it's more than worth it, and hardly noticeable to me.
Thanks.. Still seems like the colors are off compared to the Epic.
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There is a setting under display that says 'anaylize images and adjust screen brightness' to save battery. This is checked by default and was not on the og s2. This is also separate from the auto adjust brightness to ambient light. I found that when i unclicked this, all my screen concerns went away.
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I will check that out as soon as I get home tomorrow. Thanks!
Synner12 said:
Settings>Display>Auto adjust screen power. Uncheck that box.
It will put a little more drain on your battery, but it's more than worth it, and hardly noticeable to me.
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Tried that today, much, much better! Thanks very much!
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Thanks.. Still seems like the colors are off compared to the Epic.
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For those of you who want to fix the colors on the Skyrocket, I posted the solution here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351137
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justed updated to 2.3.3 and the colors seem VERY washed out
anyone else notice this?
Same here, many others with the same issue. This sucks!
damn i know! not using the screen to its full capabilities. oh well. voodoo color is always an alternative.
Anyone whos rooted installed this update ? can we re-root and unlock bootloader ? and then install a old nadroid back up?
yes after you update, you have to fastboot flash clockwork, then boot into clockwork and flash the su zip. then if you want clockwork to stick (not get overwritten after every reboot) you have to rename the file called "install-recovery.sh" in the /etc folder. i just rename it to install-recovery.sh.old
jaker.the.skater said:
justed updated to 2.3.3 and the colors seem VERY washed out
anyone else notice this?
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I am running a stock NS on 2.3.3 and I run my display brightness to just above the lowest possible setting. What I noticed after loading 2.3.3 was the screen looked dimmer at that same brightness setting. I simply upped it a little bit and now it looks fine to me. I don't see any yellow tint or anything.
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I am running a stock NS on 2.3.3 and I run my display brightness to just above the lowest possible setting. What I noticed after loading 2.3.3 was the screen looked dimmer at that same brightness setting. I simply upped it a little bit and now it looks fine to me. I don't see any yellow tint or anything.
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well i usually set it to auto brightness, but after upping it a little bit, it is improved. i wish it was better at lower brightness levels.
colours on mine seems washed out too...
i have the same issue, the colors are more horrible than was in 2.3.2
The colors have always been horrible on the ns with the auto-brightness setting. Voodoo ftw!
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Damn, the 2.3.3 update converts our AMOLED screen to a SLCD screen
Yes the screen looks terrible. Google NEEDS to fix this..
Looks like they changed the whitepoint from cool blue to warm yellow. Gonna take some getting used to. Meh.
I've always left my phone on auto brightness since I first got it. With this update the colours look more natural but looks like they have knocked down the contrast a few notches and upped the brightness a touch. The greys definitely look a few shades lighter. Its probably more at reference level now, im sure ill get used to it.
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Looks like they changed the whitepoint from cool blue to warm yellow. Gonna take some getting used to. Meh.
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yes, just updated here as well and same thing. i really notice it on the whites, seem very yellowish... other than that looks normal to
It looks like the autobrightness feature is set a little lower than before. And, it is a lot slower to readjust to changes in ambient light. If I manually increase the brightness, then my screen doesn't look any different than before the update.
DRL
The greys actually look like grey now. Before the update, it was a bit reddish, the redness is very obvious when the screen brightness is set to low (and if you activate the Screen Filter app, the redness becomes more obvious).
jaker.the.skater said:
justed updated to 2.3.3 and the colors seem VERY washed out
anyone else notice this?
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The colors may look different . . . I think it looks better if anything.
After the Nexus S 2.3.3 update the colors are way off
I posted a link about this at Google's forum center. Here's the link.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=26fa0683976754c4&hl=en
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I posted a link about this at Google's forum center. Here's the link.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=26fa0683976754c4&hl=en
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Yeah, colors are off. I went back to 2.3.2
Many of you may already be aware of this but thought I would post this for those that are not. The biggest drain on the battery is the display and screen brightness. Since many use their phones indoors, you can pretty much lower the brightness to near 0 by turning auto brightness off.
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
EDIT: I just learned something new with this trick. If you tap and hold the left most part of the notification bar, the brightness will change to the lowest setting. If you do the same on the right most side, the brightness will change to the highest setting. So no need to do the slide finger thing if you tap and hold the right spot.
Thanks for the tip
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keitht said:
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
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oh sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow didn't know that, ty community growing.
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or you can get the brightness widget on market.
i set it at 25%, when battery running low, i set it to 0%
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or you can get the brightness widget on market.
i set it at 25%, when battery running low, i set it to 0%
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True but it is nice to have control without having to go to a home screen where the widget is.
Best widget I found for this is Brightness Level. Free on market.
Nobody is asking for the best brightness widget. This was a tip on the little trick some of us didn't know about
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What! This is awesome. Thank you.
Unfortunately I won't remember this...
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Wrong title on this thread IMO.
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Now that's an excellent tip.
Now I can remove that screen brightness app.
Is this android specific or just the Infuse? Just wondering.
Damn that is cool!
andrawer said:
Now that's an excellent tip.
Now I can remove that screen brightness app.
Is this android specific or just the Infuse? Just wondering.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
Yes. Its a TouchWiz feature.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
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Nice, cool trick.
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I think it is a Samsung thing. It worked on my Captivate as well but not on my friend's Motorola.
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Actually it's not working on my Nexus S. So it might just be a Touch Whiz thing
abudabu said:
Actually it's not working on my Nexus S. So it might just be a Touch Whiz thing
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It is.
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I didn't know about it either! That saves me a ton of time!
keitht said:
Many of you may already be aware of this but thought I would post this for those that are not. The biggest drain on the battery is the display and screen brightness. Since many use their phones indoors, you can pretty much lower the brightness to near 0 by turning auto brightness off.
There is a feature on the phone where you can manually control the brightness by holding your finger in the center of the notification bar at the top for a second, then swipe your finger left and right across the notification bar to adjust the brightness up/down when needed, like when you are are outside. I find this manual control easy to use and significantly helps extend the battery. Note that this will only work with auto brightness turned off.
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Hmmm. Didn't work for me. I touched middle of notification bar, waited for a pop-up, didn't get one. Then tried swiping without a pop-up, didn't work either.
I'm running GO Launcher EX - not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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Hmmm. Didn't work for me. I touched middle of notification bar, waited for a pop-up, didn't get one. Then tried swiping without a pop-up, didn't work either.
I'm running GO Launcher EX - not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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There is no pop-up. You just slide your finger left and right across the notification bar and the brightness should change. Make sure auto-brightness is turned off or it will not work.
Hi everyone. I ran a search for this and couldn't come up with anything. I'm somewhat new to this forum, and I see that I'm breaking the rules by posting a question here, but I saw other "[Q]" threads here and there's no Q&A for Kindle Fire. Admins: Please forgive me.
Basically, my question is there any way to turn the brightness down below the standard percentages (less than 25%)? I downloaded several apps in the market that control brightness, but none accomplished what I'm looking for.
I'm starting to read on my Fire now and it's still bright at night with the black background. I downloaded apps like Adjbrightness and it said that it could not be done on my device.
Does the Fire allow this at all? Am I just wishful thinking? Any help would be appreciated!
Display Brightness will allow you to go down to 1%. It also puts a nice slider (that auto hides) on your screen to adjust the brightness.
I use screen filter since I can set it as a widget and just toggle it on/off
screendim goes even lower than display brightness
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screendim goes even lower than display brightness
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Is there any chance of damaging the kindle by going lower than the factory settings? I am curious because the lowest factory setting is still just too bright for my eyes.
Laquox said:
Is there any chance of damaging the kindle by going lower than the factory settings? I am curious because the lowest factory setting is still just too bright for my eyes.
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I do it at night, I don't know if it's bad for the kindle.
It has 2 sliders, one lowers the backlight all the way to .4
The second slider lowers the contrast and it looks even darker late at night.
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I do it at night, I don't know if it's bad for the kindle.
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That's what worries me. I know some devices when you start playing with their brightness you can damage the screens and this piece of tech costs a bit too much to be playing without knowing the repercussions.
Great. Thanks for all the replies everyone!
When set to auto does anyone have the screen lighten up then darken as you browse through a site?
It is really noticeable when I am on Google+(white background). I don't remember having this happen on my G2. Anyways I now don't use auto.
Just wondering if its normal.
Sent from my HTC One S.
It might be that while holding your phone you cover the light sensor and by that simulate dark surroundings?
I would guess that you have it near some surface. So when it shows white background, the light reflects from surface and the sensor thinks its "bright" outside, so turns on the brightness. As you surf and see some picture or change page (or w/e what doesnt have so much white) the sensor detencs that its not that bright anymore and turns down brightness...
Atleast that would be my guess. Screen does make some light and sensor can get affected by it (its above screen, u can see it true glass).
I noticed this too while playing on the demo at a TMobile store. It was only when I went to the HTC Play or movies or whatever it's called. Some of the movies would darken the screen when they started playing. Kind of odd. I wasn't moving around (changing light on the phone). Just standing there at the counter playing with it.
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When set to auto does anyone have the screen lighten up then darken as you browse through a site?
It is really noticeable when I am on Google+(white background). I don't remember having this happen on my G2. Anyways I now don't use auto.
Just wondering if its normal.
Sent from my HTC One S.
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I have noticed this
This happens to me as well, along with this yellow tint when on low brightness, anybody else getting the yellow tint? Or is it just me?
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This happens to me as well, along with this yellow tint when on low brightness, anybody else getting the yellow tint? Or is it just me?
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I believe I have seen this as well. Brief, full screen, yellow flicker/tint.
Happened to me during, or immediately after, the unlock/flash/root process, and haven't seen it since. Happened with a new notification came in, seemed to almost revolve around the notification bar. Is this consistent with what you saw?
This is common amongst a lot of light sensors. Happened to me on my Vibrant and when I had a iphone.
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Anybody else getting a washed out display at times? Almost like the contrast is too low and the whites are too bright? Seems to happen more on power save mode.
We already have a few threads on this. Switch to balanced or reboot.
Same thing here
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Anybody else getting a washed out display at times? Almost like the contrast is too low and the whites are too bright? Seems to happen more on power save mode.
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Pretty old thread this, but yes, happened to my Tf700 a couple of times lately after watching a couple of iView programs. Seems OK in the morning. Rebooting straight away doesn't seem to make much difference. Good to hear if there's a fix.
Thanks
Grant
GrantCC said:
Pretty old thread this, but yes, happened to my Tf700 a couple of times lately after watching a couple of iView programs. Seems OK in the morning. Rebooting straight away doesn't seem to make much difference. Good to hear if there's a fix.
Thanks
Grant
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Asus designed it that way. Don't use power save mode and turn off the auto dimming in the asus settings.
Doesn't go dim
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Asus designed it that way. Don't use power save mode and turn off the auto dimming in the asus settings.
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I use it that way all the time. Doesn't go dim - as jrkart99 says - it goes too white and there's no contrast.