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
jrkart99 said:
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.
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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.
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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
sbdags said:
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.
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turned on the tablet and the screen appeared red color on the place of black. what can be reason for this? or is there any way to make it as it was before?
zgogilava said:
turned on the tablet and the screen appeared red color on the place of black. what can be reason for this? or is there any way to make it as it was before?
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Not only is some places red instead of black, a number are also blue instead of white.
Perhaps the GPU/SOC is overheating or going bad? I really doubt a cable to the LCD is put in properly or loose, simply because it would be a consistent color (either red/blue/green) that would be off. Try playing an intensive game and seeing what happens. I'd be willing to bet it will either crash or something similar. Probably time to do an RMA.....
darkhawkff said:
Not only is some places red instead of black, a number are also blue instead of white.
Perhaps the GPU/SOC is overheating or going bad? I really doubt a cable to the LCD is put in properly or loose, simply because it would be a consistent color (either red/blue/green) that would be off. Try playing an intensive game and seeing what happens. I'd be willing to bet it will either crash or something similar. Probably time to do an RMA.....
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reset to factory settings, and after some time turned it on. everything was ok.
that often happens on computors anyways when you overclock the gpu/cpu too much so maby if you keep the voltages low it wont happen again
zgogilava said:
reset to factory settings, and after some time turned it on. everything was ok.
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hi how exactly you do to reset and wait few hours before turn on? i got the same problem and nothing work so far. thank you
emanoy said:
hi how exactly you do to reset and wait few hours before turn on? i got the same problem and nothing work so far. thank you
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Boot on recovery (CWM) hold Power + Volume(-)... etc. And do a "factory reset/wipe".
But if the problem comes from an OC heat, I think you will have to install also a rom/kernel without OC. Then wait some hours to start it up.
hope it helps.
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.
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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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
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
jacewt said:
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!
I have taken screenshots during the occurances, and after, but they look the same after I restart, so that is why I wont post pics.
What happens is, probably 4 times now, is that the screen suddenly changes. The whole screen will look fuzzy, as if the resolution were slightly lowered, and colors will appear to be off. I use the Chrome browser for example, and when it happens the bar on the top turns from the usual grey to almost a peach color. The text is no longer sharp as well. It usually happens while browsing, but once happened while looking at photographs.
A simple reboot fixes the error, but it is inconvenient and strange.
Has anyone else seen this?
Any ideas as to why it is happening?
There is an option to change to negative colours. Maybe you're selecting it by mistake?
This issue is interesting. For the first time today I noticed some blurring. After a restart it corrected. Its certainly worth keeping an eye on. It could be a certain app messing with the tab.
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Sparksltd said:
There is an option to change to negative colours. Maybe you're selecting it by mistake?
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Thanks but no, I'm pretty good with gadgets and I am definitely not accidentally switching to negative, that would turn everything black, and would not make anything blurry or pixelated.
cmunho said:
This issue is interesting. For the first time today I noticed some blurring. After a restart it corrected. Its certainly worth keeping an eye on. It could be a certain app messing with the tab.
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It is subtle. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if it had ever happened before and I missed it. It's only obvious when I'm carefully reading text in the browser, but it is definitely there.
I would say return it if it continues. There are bound to be lemons here and there. I haven't noticed this with mine though, but I have blacktie from BB if it does. I'm not even worried if it tumbles or something stops working.
I would return it. It sounds like it could be a hardware issue to me...
So whilst playing around with the power settings, i noticed that when you set it to power saver setting, the screen does like 3-5 flickers, and you can clearly see the picture quality get worse. the colors get bad and everything doesnt look right. now this is not smart dimmer because im pretty sure this happens as soon as you hit the button and not when its just a dark scene or a movie.
try this for me someone, take a look at the screen in normal mode, then hit the power saver one and you will notice the screen slightly flicker and then you will notice the colors would go a little off or off contrast or something.
tell me im not crazy
Everything looks fine on mine.
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It is smartdimmer -if you disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode, the screen instantly gets better...
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curiousmileo said:
So whilst playing around with the power settings, i noticed that when you set it to power saver setting, the screen does like 3-5 flickers, and you can clearly see the picture quality get worse. the colors get bad and everything doesnt look right. now this is not smart dimmer because im pretty sure this happens as soon as you hit the button and not when its just a dark scene or a movie.
try this for me someone, take a look at the screen in normal mode, then hit the power saver one and you will notice the screen slightly flicker and then you will notice the colors would go a little off or off contrast or something.
tell me im not crazy
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You are not crazy. It definitely looks washed out or something, the contrast goes screwy. I've noticed that before. I turned off the auto dimming just because it was constantly going back and forth, but set it fairly low and keep it on normal mode. battery life is roughly the same. The screen is what chews up the battery life.
Yep, noticed it too. The contrast lowers and everything starts to look like you've been using a cheap detergent... Also, on power saving mode the light doesn't transition so much as walks the stairs with a bad leg. Very irritating when you have a live wallpaper that simulates a cloudy day scene and the brightness keeps flickering. Turned off auto brightness on day 1, so that's not it.
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It is smartdimmer -if you disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode, the screen instantly gets better...
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no im telling you its not the screen getting darker, its literally everything looks washed out
see the other people see it too. im not crazy
when using power saver mode, it actually adjusts the contrast of the display which is why it looks more washed out.
at the same time, contrast is improved when using high-performance mode.
so no, no one here is going crazy.
fatpandas said:
when using power saver mode, it actually adjusts the contrast of the display which is why it looks more washed out.
at the same time, contrast is improved when using high-performance mode.
so no, no one here is going crazy.
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this is correct. its intentional. meant to save power in powersavings mode. if you rooted and have a overclock app installed, like ATP tweaks, that allows you to set the power modes, you can set balanced to 1ghz. it won't trigger the nvidia prism power savings. its only activated when pressing powersavings tab. of you set any other tab to 1ghz, your screen will look fine.
f.y.I. there's a tweak in Nexus7 forum, tegra3, that can disable smartdimmer feature also. smartdimmer isn't just lowering brightness either. you can disable smart dimmer manually or use the flashable zip. check nexus 7 forums for details.
curiousmileo said:
no im telling you its not the screen getting darker, its literally everything looks washed out
see the other people see it too. im not crazy
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Actually, yes, it *is* smartdimmer - trust me - if you don't believe me, go disable smartdimmer while in powersave mode - you'll see that the screen quality/brightness immediately goes back to what you are used to in Balanced/Performance mode...
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1stx2 said:
Everything looks fine on mine.
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Still the same. Iv'e been trying different color backgrounds/brightness levels/power modes and all I see is the screen flickering 2 or 3 times, just making it darker, not washing out the colors.
Just tried power save.
Blacks look a little washed out, not a massive difference here.
Turning on the IPS+ brings everything back contrast wise.
I have smartdummer disabled too.
I'll say essentially no real difference.
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