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Keyboard and other elements shadowing normal?

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

defia said:
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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Notification bar colour

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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raikesy said:
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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Smearing is not just in pure black background

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.

rosebud said:
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.
Cheers
Steve
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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).

Theshawty said:
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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dragon135 said:
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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galaxysduane said:
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.

ivkos said:
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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Anyone experience flickering?

I've played with all Note5's and Edge + phones on display and all of them had screen "flickering" present on high brightness and a white background, like the YouTube search feed or browser home page. It kinda seemed annoying, and I was wondering if you guys see it too. Everyone that I pointed it out to, saw the flickering. It's not bothersome, but I am wondering if it can get annoying under lower brightness conditions, during the night for example. It did seem more prominent on the edge+, but its visible on the note too. All the display model note 4's and s6's did not have such an issue.
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No flickering here, but my brightness is set on half or a little higher than that.

Mine flickers when going out of flipboard to the homescreen

None here friend. All brightness levels.
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redstar299 said:
Mine flickers when going out of flipboard to the homescreen
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I definitely noticed that too.
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Try going to dev options and turn on force gpu rendering
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It's the damn overheat protect on the display. It only happens when screen is cranked up. It happened on note 3, custom kernel can get rid of it.

suzook said:
It's the damn overheat protect on the display. It only happens when screen is cranked up. It happened on note 3, custom kernel can get rid of it.
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Wait so when the screen is on full brightness the screen flickers
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[email protected] said:
Wait so when the screen is on full brightness the screen flickers
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That is what I have noticed so far on all Note 5's and Galaxy S6 Edge +'s.
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I have the phone now I haven't noticed any flickering
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BTW is it major flickering noticeable to anyone or just minor cause I payed close attention and didn't notice anything
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No flickering on mine, just played with it for about an hour on full brightness. My retinas hurt now.
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No flickering but half my display has a pink gradient to it....

Super AMOLED utilization

Hey Guys,
Just came from a defective nexus 6 and got myself a Samsung S6. This phone is very snappy with its response times to actions I make I'd just like to increase the utilization of the super AMOLED screen. I'm running Nova launcher and set my home screen backround to an all black photo but am getting this grey bar on the top of my screen. I believe it comes from the grey block that drops down with a trash can icon to delete home screen items using the stock touchwiz launcher. Anybody know how to get rid of it?
Also, with the lock screen. I've set my lock screen backround to be black aswel to reduce the amount of power used by the screen, for some reason when setting a black backround the lock screen's backround shows up as light grey?
My auto brightness setting is turned off BTW.
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can you show us pic ^^

First post.. I can't post links
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I can send the photos to whoever wants to see via chat.
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Theostav25 said:
I can send the photos to whoever wants to see via chat.
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Try go to nova settings and set to transparent notifications bar

I've done that and I also have my notification bar set in Nova to not be showing.
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The grey bar is still there though. It's hardly noticeable until you look closely but it is there
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I've noticed that too long back, it's very minimal and can be ignored on the home screen but when opening recent panel with all apps closed it's very much visible on top and bottom with grey lines, using a display tester app shows proper blacks and no such grey stripes exist, idk what's on with it but it's crazy so I've stopped using black wallpapers.
Lockscreen does get all grey and that's a software thing, you can use HiLocker or something else to get rid of it.

^ you are the MAN
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My OCD has been on the fritz because of that bar.
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For future users facing the grey bar issue. I factory wiped my phone due to a very fast battery drain I was experiencing and the grey bar is mysteriously gone ! My battery drain is also gone even though I restored all of the same apps I had on before.
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