Is there any way to adjust the color balance of the G2X's display. Compared to my Moto Atrix 2 and Nexus One the G2X is shifted toward red where other phones are more true or shifted toward slightly green or blue.
jboxer said:
Is there any way to adjust the color balance of the G2X's display. Compared to my Moto Atrix 2 and Nexus One the G2X is shifted toward red where other phones are more true or shifted toward slightly green or blue.
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In CM7 there's an option to adjust it. Under CM settings.
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In CM7 there's an option to adjust it. Under CM settings.
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What about a stock rom? If rooted is there an app that can adjust it?
I would be interested in this as well.
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My wife is using my old Nexus One. I tried giving her my G2X but she didn't like it because of tendency for whites to have a red tint to them. For example if you go into the Dropbox or Facebook app on the G2X there is a definite red tint, but if you go into the same apps on the Nexus One there is a slight green/blue tint while on the Moto Atrix 2 (changed to get 850Mhz 3G for DTAC Thailand) there is almost no tint (more true white). I guess all the various types of display panels (LCD, SLCD, OLED and iPS) have their different peculiarities. If I could shift the color to a truer white, I think she would then like the G2X. I guess the OLED display on the Nexus One spoiled her, but I think my Moto Atrix 2 has the truest color of the three.
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My wife is using my old Nexus One. I tried giving her my G2X but she didn't like it because of tendency for whites to have a red tint to them. For example if you go into the Dropbox or Facebook app on the G2X there is a definite red tint, but if you go into the same apps on the Nexus One there is a slight green/blue tint while on the Moto Atrix 2 (changed to get 850Mhz 3G for DTAC Thailand) there is almost no tint (more true white). I guess all the various types of display panels (LCD, SLCD, OLED and iPS) have their different peculiarities. If I could shift the color to a truer white, I think she would then like the G2X. I guess the OLED display on the Nexus One spoiled her, but I think my Moto Atrix 2 has the truest color of the three.
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Ever tried voodoo color? Not sure if it works on g2x but worth a shot if its that bothersome. I've personally never noticed it and always liked the g2x display.
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kwes1020 said:
Ever tried voodoo color? Not sure if it works on g2x but worth a shot if its that bothersome. I've personally never noticed it and always liked the g2x display.
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I loved the display for the year I used the phone. Then when I went to the Moto the colors were more vibrant and true. I did not notice the red tint until my wife gave me the phone back and said it bothered here and wanted to keep the Nexus One instead. The Nexus One is starting to run out of memory, etc. and I need to get her stepped up to a better Android phone soon. I will check out the app you mentioned. Thanks.
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Is there any way to change the color calibration on the display? I want to raise the blue levels because I'm a bigger fan of a cool color tone and the whites on the g2x are more than an off white. (compared to my mt4g with good lcd where whites are bright white)
I have heard about the color calibration hack for the nexus one but I don't know if it'll work on the leaded gingerbread ROM from paul o'brien
If you don't know what I'm talking about go to the color settings on your computer monitor or tv and change from "cool" to "normal". The g2x is more like the normal setting while i like the cool setting better.
I posted a link already. There is a calibration tool in the Nexus One forums that you can use. I don't think the G2x needs it though. Mine looks natural.
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I posted a link already. There is a calibration tool in the Nexus One forums that you can use. I don't think the G2x needs it though. Mine looks natural.
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I'm fine with all the colors except for white, I'm a bigger fan of a more bluish white like on the iphone.
I'll give the nexus one thing a try but i think a bunch of people who tried it on the g2x it force closed. Not sure about the leaked gb rom though so I'll try it and report back
the flash aborted because it says amend scripting is no longer supported since android 1.5?
I also tried installing both apk's and they both force close when I try to do anything
pretty sure you have to be on cm7 for it to work
Is it just my specific device or are the whites on this phone not really true white but more like off-white? If u compare it to the mytouch 4g with good lcd there's a big difference. Although this device does have truer blacks.
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Every LCD is different. Even if the phones are the same model. Mine has a bit of a red tint when showing white but its only noticeable if I look at it next to my Vibrant.
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Every LCD is different. Even if the phones are the same model. Mine has a bit of a red tint when showing white but its only noticeable if I look at it next to my Vibrant.
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I know different phones have different color tones but I just wanted to know if it was just my device where whites weren't true white because some people have been talking about a yellow or orange tint. I'm expecting a replacement phone to arrive next week so I guess I'll do a comparison when it arrives.
Looks fine to me, but really I'm all about resolution. Colors can vary and sounds can be medium quality and I probably won't notice a difference.
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I know different phones have different color tones but I just wanted to know if it was just my device where whites weren't true white because some people have been talking about a yellow or orange tint. I'm expecting a replacement phone to arrive next week so I guess I'll do a comparison when it arrives.
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I answered that.
Every LCD is different. Even if the phones are the same model. Mine has a bit of a red tint when showing white but its only noticeable if I look at it next to my Vibrant.
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Meaning if you took a number of G2x and put them side by side none of them would be completely identical. So its not just you that has a slightly off screen.
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I answered that.
Meaning if you took a number of G2x and put them side by side none of them would be completely identical. So its not just you that has a slightly off screen.
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Well thats why I want to change the color settings because the high levels of red in the whites are really bothering me.
I have two droid charges and I drop down the notification bar, the brown looks totally off from my other droid charge, every color brown is distorted, looks like a pinkish tint.what can be the problem? totally stock
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juanzr1 said:
I have two droid charges and I drop down the notification bar, the brown looks totally off from my other droid charge, every color brown is distorted, looks like a pinkish tint.what can be the problem? totally stock
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I had 2 fascinates and had the same issue. I'm guessing since the screen is organic it changes color over time, or maybe 2 screens made at different times just have different hues....
Mine has a noticeable greenish tint next to my wife's. I considered trading out but then who says the next one I get wouldn't have some other defect? I just write it off as 'adds character'.
Very common for any type of display. Thats why there are such extensive color/gamma correction features built into LCD TVs, though people rarely take advantage of them. If we had some sort of gamma tool for Android you could remove these variations fairly easily.
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I had 2 fascinates and had the same issue. I'm guessing since the screen is organic it changes color over time, or maybe 2 screens made at different times just have different hues....
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yea your right, its just that my charges colors are so real. and the other one has all the same colors except that brown looks pinkish
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Mine has a noticeable greenish tint next to my wife's. I considered trading out but then who says the next one I get wouldn't have some other defect? I just write it off as 'adds character'.
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lol yea your right, it might be a good thing
Same thing happened to my girlfriend and her mom on their fascinates
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yea your right, its just that my charges colors are so real. and the other one has all the same colors except that brown looks pinkish
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My brown looks awesomely brown. Is this a change up in the display lately?
I suspect that Voodoo Color, if it worked on the Charge, would be able to remedy this. I have no idea if Voodoo Color for the Charge is under development or has been scrapped though.
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I suspect that Voodoo Color, if it worked on the Charge, would be able to remedy this. I have no idea if Voodoo Color for the Charge is under development or has been scrapped though.
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Imosyen's kernel has bits of voodoo color built in.
It's definitely possible to have the full mod available for us. In fact it's probably on its way.
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I went through three replacement Charges before getting one that looked close enough to stock. Was really bugging me... I'm happy to hear that there might be a way to adjust in the future.
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I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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i love my lg thrill screen it looks ten times better then my sisters samsung infuse 4g with the amoled display in direct sunlight. purely awesome. amazing color clarity as well. lg really knows how to make screens
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now my dad owns a nexus s. but both of my phones with "LCD" (APPLE IPHONE 4S & LG OPTIMUS BLACK is far better than it.
OLED screens does not give the actual color. it gives overly saturated colors and are not very good under direct sunlight.
if u love OLED, u'd be owned by a good IPS like the optimus black (if u are talking android, that is).
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I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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Bad choice. RAZR's screen is terrible, pixelated garbage. Get the GNex or GNote.
Avoid LG at all costs. Their update schedule is so messed up.
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Bad choice. RAZR's screen is terrible, pixelated garbage. Get the GNex or GNote.
Avoid LG at all costs. Their update schedule is so messed up.
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agreed this is my lasy lg phone!!! it sucks cause their hardware is great!!! it tricks you.. they suck at updates!
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I'm not sure how the Rezound hurt your eyes, one of the best screens I've ever used.
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I remember when I went from my vibrant back to a my touch I thought my eyes where bleeding lol
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I'm not sure how the Rezound hurt your eyes, one of the best screens I've ever used.
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rezound display is great,once autobrightness controls come like setting levels it'll be even better
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I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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Droid Razr's screen is pixel-ated garbage; I would go with the galaxy nexus - get my updates and unhindered bloat-less experience. Everything these custom UIs give you, a custom launcher can do and better.
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welcome to the club
i only buy devices with SAMOLED+ or SAMOLED HD or at the very least SAMOLED (as found on some Nokia phones)
I mostly stick to Samsung phones as they always carry SAMOLED # screens
HTC Desired had them for a while until they ran out of stock
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I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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I absolutely LOVE the display on my Rezound. It's been mentioned earlier but once auto-brightness tweaks are able to be implemented it will be flawless.
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OLED screens does not give the actual color. it gives overly saturated colors and are not very good under direct sunlight..
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Thats exactly what i thought! "Lets turn up saturation... OH LOOK SHINY COLORZ = better display"
But maybe we are just used to under-saturated displays?
I'd rather get a screen that's more power efficient. Especially with white background.
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Thats exactly what i thought! "Lets turn up saturation... OH LOOK SHINY COLORZ = better display"
But maybe we are just used to under-saturated displays?
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Exactly. Most people are used to washed out colours from LCDs, so they see nothing wrong. But it isn't for nothing that TV manufacturers are always trying to push the vibrant colours of their screens.
For me, ever since getting the uberawesome GNote, I can't stand the faded looking colours of regular LCDs.
Besides I like screens with really nice blacks and colours that look alive.. So SAMOLED HD FTW....
I agree, the rich deep blacks on OLED screens really do spoil you.
Yep, I have a SGS and whenever i look at phones with non OLED displays I pity them. My friend has the SGS i9003 ( the one with S-LCD display) and we compared them side by side, the SAMOLED screen looks WAY better than SLCD. ( more than 6 people were there and we all agreed). Its all about the blacks baby ..
how would the screen of the arc s be rated alongside these phones???
I agree ,the Oled display use less baterry power than other displays,and i love it..
It's just sad whenever I show my screen to some1 who bought a phone and said "It was cheap, it is small, and it's not heavy." And they see my GNex, and they say "Awh, me wun that scweeeeeeeeeeeen." All I can say is.. Pwned by low-end.
I agree OLED is best solution, even if the color is not as real as some others LCD, but I think this will be solved in a near future.
Just think that Samsung, that is the 1st word producer of LCD displays, has just started the spin-off of the LCD department and has declared that the future of his research is on OLED. Say also that Samsung is going to spend a pharaonic amount of money in research for the next year, I'm looking forward to see results.
It's not a bad screen at all but I can tell the screen is a bit more blue than it should be. I wonder if there can ever be a kernel control to dial down the blue, or maybe an update will help color correct it.
No, not at all blue
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It's not a bad screen at all but I can tell the screen is way more blue than it should be.
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Nope. The white point on the one I just received is perfect...a tad on the warm side, but not obviously 'yellow' or anything like that. Colors look very natural. I'm extremely impressed; this is a WAY better screen than what's in my Nexus 4.
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I wonder if there can ever be a kernel control to dial down the blue, or maybe an update will help color correct it.
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It's possible, but it may not necessarily be easy. There is an LCD calibration and gamma control/adjuster app for Nexus 4 that I use to make the image on my N4 more acceptable, but it is *very* specific to the N4. In fact, it requires a particular kernel be running on it just to work (definitely not the stock one). Who knows how involved such a task would be on the G, or how soon anybody will realistically be able to tackle it.
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http://youtu.be/2gk8WmebS3E?t=6m55s
see this
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http://youtu.be/2gk8WmebS3E?t=6m55s
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...so, Motorola is probably using multiple display vendors, and each one's display has different qualities/traits. I suppose it could also just be "acceptable" variation from display to display coming off of the assembly line of one manufacturer. (Display inconsistencies drive me nuts, too. You shouldn't have to play a "lottery" to get an acceptable display; ugh.)
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The screen on my Moto G is very good. Not too blue at all. I actually compared it to my Nexus 5 side by side and the colors are definitely more vibrant, colorful and sharp on my G. The whites are whiter on the 5 and have a very slight yellow tint on the G but other then that the screen is fantastic. I was very surprised.
Yea my screen is nice on my g. It is little yellowish on white but I have no complaints on my end
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Mine tends to hue towards the blue but only ever so slightly. Compared next to partners nexus 5 my moto g colours seem to 'pop' more, i.e. have more vibrancy, but her nexus 5 tends to have more natural accurate colour reproduction.
Also the image on my g feels like its seated behind glass whereas the nexus almost feels like your touching the image (read: closer to the surface). Must be to do with the screen coatings or something.
The highly detailed anand tech review also talks in depth about the blue ness of this screen
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Nope, when I put it next to my galaxy mega, it's actually warmer. And my mega has a pretty neutral screen.
Compared to my mega, the screen of the moto g is dimmer, and the colors are a bit dull.
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Backlight colour variation is a fact of life with white LED backlight - the LEDs are manufactured and then sorted into bins of particular characteristics, and to attain a better cost a manufacturer may specify several bins are acceptable. A device manufacturer might not even specify which bins the backlight for their device should come from, leaving it to the display module manufacturer to choose.
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Hmmm I did order it from Amazon...
Maybe Faux's new kernel will allow us to fix it someday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582635
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Hmmm I did order it from Amazon...
Maybe Faux's new kernel will allow us to fix it someday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2582635
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holy shiet faux kernel! i didnt even see it
and yeah, and if faux's kernel does fix it we would have a great display tbh
Faux kernel doesn't yet support colour calibration however I think moto g has perfect mixture of colours as
the whites look crystal white while all the other colours are very accurate and are saturated but not so much.
It has better colour representation than my 2nd gen Nexus which has very excellent screen.
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I feel that the contrast for dark colours is not ideal at my phone. When in game in in shade I feel like it was night...
I think it is too yellow
I find my screen has a pinkish hue to it. Does not bother me at all though.
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I think the screen is very good love the DPI
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So, any information on Amazon UK - which Moto G (display-related) it sells?
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So, any information on Amazon UK - which Moto G (display-related) it sells?
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I have one on the way, I'll check what I got. However for the record, tesco sells the "good" screens, no blue pink or any hue to the screen on the moto g I looked at.
So I have no idea how no one has noticed or mentioned about this feature in the new Moto X Pure Edition but it has a new feature under display settings called "Color Mode" where you can now choose between "normal" and "vibrant" screen colors.
Since they moved this year from AMOLED to TFT LCD this year I guess they wanted to give us an option to choose from
Here is the phone
Do you see a big difference between the two? Which do you prefer? My pure was delivered this morning but I'm away and won't get it till Monday ?
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Here is the phone
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Is that the dark teal?
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It comes on Vibrant as default. At first, when I changed it to normal, it looked a little flat, but after a while I could live with it. But I left it on vibrant anyways, coming from saturated amoled screens in the past, I'm pretty much used to it.
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Is that the dark teal?
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yes it is, with a silver accent
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Do you see a big difference between the two? Which do you prefer? My pure was delivered this morning but I'm away and won't get it till Monday
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Normal looks a little flat and less attractive than the vibrant setting in my opinion
Vibrant uses more battery I believe.
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Vibrant uses more battery I believe.
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I don't believe so
but I will let you know after a day or two of switching between modes
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yes it is, with a silver accent
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I got that with silver and white front too. Is that a blue bumper around the edges?
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I got that with silver and white front too. Is that a blue bumper around the edges?
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I do not have any bumper on my phone. That is a pic straight out of the box
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I got that with silver and white front too. Is that a blue bumper around the edges?
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He has the black/dark trim
So I will say after switching between modes for the past couple days, on and off. Vibrant mode is definitely the better color mode. With normal the colors seem more washed out and whiter, while vibrant makes the colors darker and less white, while at the same time making the whites whiter(if that makes sense)
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So I will say after switching between modes for the past couple days, on and off. Vibrant mode is definitely the better color mode. With normal the colors seem more washed out and whiter, while vibrant makes the colors darker and less white, while at the same time making the whites whiter(if that makes sense)
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Depends on what your definition of better is. The normal mode provides more accurate colors than vibrant mode, nearly matching my 2015 MacBook Pro. Most people are just used to oversaturated screens, especially those coming from AMOLED screens, so they will probably prefer the vibrant mode. I'm just glad Motorola gave us the option because everyone has their own preference between accurate and sexy and this way we can all be happy.
This is true, I will agree with you there
I prefer more accurate color reproduction within the limits of the display technology. My eyes hurt when dealing with high contrast screens. But superficially, "vibrant" will seem better, just like how people will gravitate towards the TVs in a store with the higher contrast and brighter colors even if it's just a setting. Having had a couple TVs professionally calibrated in the past, I'm not into artificially adding more color than exists normally. Vibrant probably crushes blacks too.
Saturated just has more punch and seems more contrasty. I refer color accuracy. The blacks are probably blacker on normal mode, just the whites don't get as bright so the blacks lose their depth. Speaking from experience in general, and not having moto x in hand experience.
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I prefer more accurate color reproduction within the limits of the display technology. My eyes hurt when dealing with high contrast screens. But superficially, "vibrant" will seem better, just like how people will gravitate towards the TVs in a store with the higher contrast and brighter colors even if it's just a setting. Having had a couple TVs professionally calibrated in the past, I'm not into artificially adding more color than exists normally. Vibrant probably crushes blacks too.
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Couldn't agree more....
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