Hi all,
Just wanting to confirm what colour everyone's notification bar is running stock sense 4.0?
I've just started setting up my replacement S and one thing that keeps catching my eye is the colour of the bar coming out of aps. One the home screen its transparent, but whilst using aps it's solid black.
Can't remember it catching my eye as much on my 1st handset and just wondering if there's a setting somewhere to change it.
Cheers.
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Mines the same. I think it's normal lol
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Ok, so think the colours are okay. Now I think I may have another issue that may be causing it to catch my eye.
When using an ap the bar is black as I said. When I hit the home button the bar stays black on the home screen for approx 0.5 of a second before it changes back to transparent. Enough as I say for it to catch my eye.
Would really appreciate it if someone else could do a wee test and see if they're phone is the same.
Thanks.
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mitchgixer6 said:
Ok, so think the colours are okay. Now I think I may have another issue that may be causing it to catch my eye.
When using an ap the bar is black as I said. When I hit the home button the bar stays black on the home screen for approx 0.5 of a second before it changes back to transparent. Enough as I say for it to catch my eye.
Would really appreciate it if someone else could do a wee test and see if they're phone is the same.
Thanks.
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Normal behaviour, nothing to be worried about.
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Normal behaviour, nothing to be worried about.
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Thanks bud. Would be nice if they just made the bar black I reckon.
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It is pretty crazy how people who have the skyrocket ignore that the screen looks awful when dim. Its even worse that Samsung has not stopped production to fix the problem either. You would think the white one would come with a fixed screen. Usually by this time you have people writing reviews and ranting about phone defects on YouTube, yet with this phone nothing. Just hoping someone agrees with me and maybe we can stick these problem up samsungs behind.
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Dont think anyone cares that much
Why use the screen dimmed? Kinda defeats the purpose of having a super amoled
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Dont think anyone cares that much
Why use the screen dimmed? Kinda defeats the purpose of having a super amoled
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Agreed.
I have mine set at 50% and its bright enough for me all the time.
I never go lower than that though, so I personally never experience poor screen quality.
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I've never notice the problems mentioned throughout the forum regarding dim settings and colors/lines. I'm sure that to a good eye mine is too afflicted.
One a side note, took my screen protector off today, and man! is that screen gorgeous. It's gonna be hard to put it back on, but I learned that lesson with the Atrix when I took it's protection off and it hit the ground.
You see, and that is the problem. You are ignoring to issue. So when your in a dark room you have your screen full brightness? I don't so it does bother me.
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I agree my screen sucks at low brightness. I mainly run my low to save power only turn it up when outside. I wrote a review on Samsung site and did give a bad review on the screen.
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I just picked up a white skyrocket yesterday and I've got the screen issues / lines. Looks like a "brushed metal" overlay on top of everything.
I'm going to be getting it exchanged for a new one tomorrow.
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Maybe I got lucky... I've had my I727-SR for about 4wks now and haven't experienced the screen lines / screen problems others are posting.... I consistently run at low brightness with a screen protector and screen looks perfect.... no lines, blobs or other anomalies.
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Mine has it. So does the white one I looked at. It bothers me and I notice it often. But its the only phone on AT&T that I want and LTE just went live a week ago. I will sadly have to live with it :-(
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Guess I got a new batch, because my phone has no problems.
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I feel bad for anyone having screen problems, but as I type this, I turned the brightness almost all the way down... No problems at all!
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I feel bad for anyone having screen problems, but as I type this, I turned the brightness almost all the way down... No problems at all!
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I got lucky on my new white one. the screen is much better. hoping our second white one is just as nice.
Planning on taking pics to compare to those of the black unit that I posted earlier this week.
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SMH ! Get over it! A few slightly lines which is only visible when phone is up your nose an on a dark grey background on 0% brightness, is the end of the world run!!!
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My screen is great. No lines or any of that kind of stuff.
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just picked one up today. white one.
i see the lines below 50% brightness. above, they are gone.
I believe this is just a simple issue of having the same pixel density of the galaxy S2 but with a larger screen.
this should be device wide.......i dont see why people should have different results....
edit: i have it only above 30% brightness actually....
No problems here... at 0 it still looks great, no lines or weird issues
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I have personally seen this vary from device to device. what may not be that bad on yours could be 20x's worse on another. others of us are in fact picky and expect more for what we paid for this device.
To each their own
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SMH ! Get over it! A few slightly lines which is only visible when phone is up your nose an on a dark grey background on 0% brightness, is the end of the world run!!!
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When I play video ie Netflix YouTube etc I notice that the picture quality is not.what I expect.from a 250$ phone. I love this phone and that is.my only complaint. I have tried.adjusting.the brightness but it doesn't seem to help. Is this a problem that all are having?
I just got the Skyrocket today and just now turned the brightness all the way down and did not see any issues with screen clarity. Looks pretty good to me.
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Mine has the same issues. However, they are ignorable if you customize the look of your phone. I changed the screen density and customized my phone with a dark bg and modified system apks.
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Hi,
My nexus s is new and since day 1 i just use it with 0 brightness.after hours of exploring, i noticed that when i open up the keyboard for more than 10secs and drag down the notification bar the keyboard boxes can still be clearly seen.its like a shadow of the keyboard imprinted in the notifiaction.noticed this in market as well when searching for apps the keyboard shadow can be clearly seen.also more than 5 sec static on your homescreen,after that i drag down i can clearly see the icons shadows in the grey notifocation bar. Is this normal? All of you have this behavior when on 0 brightness?or do i have a weak display?its kind of annoying sometimes.
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the same on my nexus s
i guess it's a disadvantage of amoled display
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the same on my nexus s
i guess it's a disadvantage of amoled display
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Have you noticed it since the first day you bought it? Does it not bother you bro?
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Anyone having the same behaviour?
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Its sort of a burn image. The blues fade out and get a yellow haze. You can test this by displaying a blue image for example google image blue and zoom in. Auto brightness and sleeping the ohone when not using will keep the colors rich. I had a vibrant that did the same thing.
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Sucks but it cant be fixed without replacing the phone/screen
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vabeachfc3s said:
Its sort of a burn image. The blues fade out and get a yellow haze. You can test this by displaying a blue image for example google image blue and zoom in. Auto brightness and sleeping the ohone when not using will keep the colors rich. I had a vibrant that did the same thing.
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Luckily im not experiencing this(yet).but my phone is suffering from image retention tho which is annoying like the one i described from op.does your phone do that too since day one?
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Oh btw the shadowing does fade away like 5sec more or less tho its not like a permanent thing
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I have no image issues with my nexus s.
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Are you using voodoo colors?
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Sure am. I would not use this phone if i had to stay with the stock washed out colors.
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vabeachfc3s said:
Sure am. I would not use this phone if i had to stay with the stock washed out colors.
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Hmm interesting.. maybe the stock washed out with yellow tint screen is causing the image retentions.ill soon find that out when i root my phone.thanks for the insight bro
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OK, got some pics and a video here! Should see what I was talking about.
http://youtu.be/3-UUMtQ9vdE
When you receive a notification, say an email, it shows a line in the notification drop down list. Press the line will open particular app. This is we all know.
But, have you noticed something like this? When press the notification line, don't release you finger but keep pressing it, sometimes, not often but did happen to me a few times, the font of the notification line became blurred and hard to read, unlike the normal case, it should be slightly smaller than the unpressed notification to indicate it's being pressed.
It's really hard to notice I know, since we just press it quickly and another app is opened right away. And, I tried to reproduce this but failed. So it just happens quite randomly or in a very certain circumstances.
Have you ever noticed this guys? Or can you try the same, press but not release when new notification comes in the future to see if it's just my phone?
Cheers!
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updated pictures and video, could anyone help me on this? noticed this on your one s?
Just tried on a couple of different notifications. Held them for about 10 seconds with nothing other then the text getting smaller when initially selected.
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DigitalMonk said:
Just tried on a couple of different notifications. Held them for about 10 seconds with nothing other then the text getting smaller when initially selected.
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Yes, this doesn't happen to me very often, I haven't figured out in what circumstances this would more likely to happen but maybe when battery is low, say about 15% or less. Could you and others just be mindful when clicking notification that will just be enough.
Cheers.
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h.han said:
Yes, this doesn't happen to me very often, I haven't figured out in what circumstances this would more likely to happen but maybe when battery is low, say about 15% or less. Could you and others just be mindful when clicking notification that will just be enough.
Cheers.
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This has happened to me to even when my battery is nearly full but not all the time mostly with gmail though
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This has happened to me to even when my battery is nearly full but not all the time mostly with gmail though
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Ok, so it seems not just me then. I was a bit bothered by this even I knew it was just a small thing.
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Do you guys also think brightness level of the three capacitive button below the screen is too high? That causes the light leaks that is referred to here. especially at night, they look kind of annoying to my eyes. Is there a way to come up with a MOD to lower their brightness? Or it has to be changed at kernel level?
If so maybe we can post this to htcdev forums and ask HTC to do something about this.
I'd like to be able to turn them off completely. Annoying when watching videos at night. If solves the light leaks even better.
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Adjbrightness . On Google Play, need root.
will this improve batter life a little?
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Adjbrightness . On Google Play, need root.
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Awesome man. Turned mine off permanently.
Tip. Some reviews complain about the app having too many permissions. If you uninstall after making the changes, the settings maintain. We'll see if they remain after a reboot.
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will this improve batter life a little?
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Probably not in any huge way unless you use the phone a lot in dark places.
For me, I prefer them off. Watching videos at night is much better and I no longer have the light bleed at the bottom corners
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Awesome man. Turned mine off permanently.
Tip. Some reviews complain about the app having too many permissions. If you uninstall after making the changes, the settings maintain. We'll see if they remain after a reboot.
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How do you turn it off permanently, mine does return after locking the screen.
In the options menu there is an option to force the button backkight off.
Btw- if you uninstall the app, the lights will return after a reboot. Have not tested with the app installed plus reboot.
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Thanks man, did that but it return backs to normal after reboot. But anyway I am happy that the light leak is gone.
BTW, thanks the op for bringing this thread
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tarick09 said:
Thanks man, did that but it return backs to normal after reboot. But anyway I am happy that the light leak is gone.
BTW, thanks the op for bringing this thread
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If we can find the file that this app modifies, maybe we can make it more permanent. Unless that file reverts to stock after a reboot as well.
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That would be possible. I really hope a dev looks into this, want to get rid of the annoying light leak forever
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I found smearing also happens not only in pure black background.
For example in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327389
The first post of the thread smears if I read with xda app using "xda free" display style (dark theme) setting. The first post has dark blue text in dark grey background.
I tried to capture a video but the phenomena cannot be seen in video.
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Still, there are people here who keep on repeating smearing is fixed.
It's not and won't be due to its hardware nature. /working theory /
"Congratulations" to all the reviewers who missed such an easily to notice problem. I noticed it 5 minutes after launching this phone for the first time...
Couldn't believe my own eyes, almost cried after spending so much money on this device.
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Might sound silly, I have tried to replicate this issue on my s4, I honestly cannot see the problem. Am I the only one? Normally I am the first to notice things like this, making me think that the issue is either sporadic or that samsung changed something in more recent units, (mine is about 3 weeks old)
Steve
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Make a paint document and fill it with pure black. Then delete a white space in the middle. Open it from the phone and move the white dot around. If you get no smearing then - you have a normal phone and we have deffective units, which is not nice, but can be repared; or your brightness is very high. Lower brightness exaggerates the problem.
However, since MEA Samsung changed Settings' background to grey from black, which for me is a sign that they know about it and that's a hardware limitation. Pixels "lag", because it's the first time since Galaxy S that black actually is "turned off".
It's worse with grey on black than it is with white on black and also it gets worse the lower you have the screen brightness. grey on black at minimum brightness is an absolute mess on my phone. But i should stress you dont really see the problem in normal usage at all.
Hi, on firmware mdm so not the newest. I'll do further testing tomorrow
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The darker the screen is, the more noticeable the smearing becomes.Touchwiz menus were black and now are grey, thats how samsung thought of to fix this but in certain apps with real black background it all comes alive again so i think this is a hardware issue as many agree also and its a bit of a let down to Samsung Quality Standards when we pay so much for a flaship device like this. Definitely there is room for improvment with this amoled screens.
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Might sound silly, I have tried to replicate this issue on my s4, I honestly cannot see the problem. Am I the only one? Normally I am the first to notice things like this, making me think that the issue is either sporadic or that samsung changed something in more recent units, (mine is about 3 weeks old)
Steve
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I have not noticed any screen smearing till now.
Right, I have tested using the white dot in the middle of a true black image.
I can confirm the issue does occur, but only when the screen is set to or just above minimum and not to the extent I see it as a problem, I still cannot seem to replicate the issue on settings window even at minimum brightness.
For me, this is a none issue however If the issue is more prominent on some screens I can understand how it would be annoying.
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I may be one of the few to not actually give a rat's ass. I didn't care about it when the settings window was truly black and I don't care now when it's LCD-ish black (greyish-black).
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I may be one of the few to not actually give a rat's ass. I didn't care about it when the settings window was truly black and I don't care now when it's LCD-ish black (greyish-black).
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Yep..it is not an issue for me...i have none of those probs while playing games or watching movies or wherever screen needs to show off itself..so y shud i care if my settings looks grey or there is smearing on some xda post..its not like m gonna read it while scrolling or anything..
I wud still prefer amoled over lcd anyday..
Again its just my opinion..everybody has a different view and i respect it..
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You will notice if you play game "piggy drop"
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with high brightness you will not notice the smearing problem. With low brightness is when you can notice it
Just try to read articles in Pocket app or in feedly using black themes.
I switched to ligtht/white themes killing battery life but avoiding smearing. Now my device lasts 3h screen time at best. F... great.
Amoled screen that's not really compatible with true black! The most advertised benefit of amoled is gone with this flawed screen.
What a shame.
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Bottomline..smearing is still there.
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The smearing is also on the s3 with the 4.2.2 leaked firmware
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Guys, the news here is that it happens in dark grey background (with dark blue text). Plz try the first post, use autobrightness.
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Guys, the news here is that it happens in dark grey background (with dark blue text). Plz try the first post, use autobrightness.
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I did the test myself and I can confirm that.
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The smearing is also on the s3 with the 4.2.2 leaked firmware
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Are you 100% sure about that? If that's really the case, it's probably some feature in the kernel that actually turns off pixels completely.
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Are you 100% sure about that? If that's really the case, it's probably some feature in the kernel that actually turns off pixels completely.
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Yes im sure just double checked on my friends s3 with the leaked 4.2.2
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