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Did Google/ASUS lower the color bit-depth to 16-bit with the 3.1 update?

I have a pretty good eye for these things--it looks to me that either Google or ASUS lowered the bit depth of most of their applications (even the OS) to 16-bit color.
I'll get a picture in a bit, since I can't find my camera off hand, but I noticed a particularly grainy quality now in the home screen and the browser (possibly not the Picture Viewer), whereas before, the color gradients seemed alot smoother.
The fastest way to see this issue (for those of you with 3.1) is to go to the Settings page, and go to "Privacy". Right above the "Reset Tablet" button, there's a color gradient that might be an easy-to-see example of what I'm talking about. Also, in general, every "gray" color now seems to have this 16-bit depth grain to it.
I'm thinking of rolling back to 3.0.1 just to prove that I'm not insane, but what does everyone else think? I'll post some pictures in a few minutes for everyone to see what I'm talking about.

i have good eyes everything looks the same to me. gunna have to prove your case on this one though.

As a photographer I keep LOTS of really high rez pics on the Transformer and I'm not really noticing any gradation in color tones across any of them. I hope this doesn't come off a flippant but I DID notice that my brightness was jacked way up after the update which would do all sorts of funny things to your gray's but if you changed that already not sure what else it could be.

I didn't notice anything BUT, i would kill for a way to tweak some of the display settings on this device. The colors in general are a little dull especially on low backlight settings. A contrast control and a color boost control would be amazing. Heck i'd even settle for a digital vibrance slider like nvidia has for their desktop cards. The colors are just a bit too muted for my taste.

swampthing1117 said:
I didn't notice anything BUT, i would kill for a way to tweak some of the display settings on this device. The colors in general are a little dull especially on low backlight settings. A contrast control and a color boost control would be amazing. Heck i'd even settle for a digital vibrance slider like nvidia has for their desktop cards. The colors are just a bit too muted for my taste.
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Yea that would be awsome. A havker for samsung galaxy s was able to do it for the phone

(concept) get amoled's deep blacks and great colours on any device

Now personally, I don't like amoled's oversaturated colours but there are many who do so. As we cant recalibrate the screen (or can we? pls explain how calibration is done), I have thought up of an idea. We could go about it two ways:
1) Put a screen overlay giving more colours : kinda like those screen dimming apps that put a translucent black layer over the screen. It would be like a instagram filter or a real filter by which we can get richer colours.
2) You know in image editing apps ( even the stock one ) there are options for increasing vibrancy and saturation? Well how about use similar algorithms that run always , all over android.
I don't know whether this works. I am a total NOOB at development and programming so don't expect any results from me. I know something of this sort has been done in bravia engine, but the effect is barely noticeable. This is just a concept/idea and if you want to move forward with this idea, feel free.

How to: Dark navbar in dark themed apps

So as the oneplus missed the bit on dark navbar on dark themed apps:
Small guide for the somewhat skilled xda-members.
Take backups as usual.
Pre req:
1: Deodexed rom
As not there are none so you have to do it yourself
(Fulmics deodex tool is an good start)
I may provide an rom if enough requests.
2: Decompile OPSystemUI.apk
An excellent toll : Advanced+ApkTool
3: Go to: OPSystemUI.apk\res\values\colors.xml
Change to <color name="op_nav_bar_background_light">#ff000000</color>
4: Recompile, and flash
I attach an updater for deodexed roms.

The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.

Tefzors said:
The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.
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Navbar app resets to defaults, eg, not functional on op5T

For me "Navbar Apps" does the trick, you just need to grand accessibility service, you don't even need root. I just disabled the color changing animation.

Any screens?

Navbar apps work but not everytime. Like - It doesn't work perfectly on Nova Launcher and Google App.

For the most apps the navbar app improved the ugly grey navbar. Facebook in App browser for eg forces the grey navbar. I attached chrome screenshots with enabled black navbar and the default grey one. Nova launcher works perfect for me.

I've never been a fan of the black navbar. I've always thought it should match the color of the top status bar.
So far, using the Light theme, the off-white navbar looks pretty good.

DocRambone said:
Navbar app resets to defaults, eg, not functional on op5T
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I'm using it ,it does no issues so far

DocRambone said:
So as the oneplus missed the bit on dark navbar on dark themed apps:
Small guide for the somewhat skilled xda-members.
Take backups as usual.
Pre req:
1: Deodexed rom
As not there are none so you have to do it yourself
(Fulmics deodex tool is an good start)
I may provide an rom if enough requests.
2: Decompile OPSystemUI.apk
An excellent toll : Advanced+ApkTool
3: Go to: OPSystemUI.apk\res\values\colors.xml
Change to <color name="op_nav_bar_background_light">#ff000000</color>
4: Recompile, and flash
I attach an updater for deodexed roms.
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Thank you for this...
I really miss some of the ROMs from the good old days. Where Devs would take stock ROMs deodex them, decompile individual apps make edits like you mentioned above and smali edits. In some cases the end result would be a stock based ROM with all the extra options.
This was all before Xposed.

Tefzors said:
The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins. And I read somewhere that you can download this app called "navbar app" which can change it to black if you're really wanted too.
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I don't think you need to worry about burn in down there. Better option would be to change the spacing and nav theme more often (like once every few months).

The reason for why it's white is because it's to avoid possible burn ins.
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White color only makes it burn in harder.

I have not had any issues with the navbar apps from play store. I set to static black and stays that way. I would not mind a fully deodexed stock ROM though, That would be nice. No other modifications, just deodexed, fixed nav of course why this thread is here, and boom. lol

Am really disappointed ,I never imagine that you can change navbar color /icons /notification background /etc. on samsung s8 /s8+/note without root and in our device it will be so difficult .
Never mind i will live with this .

m7ixalis said:
Am really disappointed ,I never imagine that you can change navbar color /icons /notification background /etc. on samsung s8 /s8+/note without root and in our device it will be so difficult .
Never mind i will live with this .
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You can change everything except for the navbar.

reqmon said:
White color only makes it burn in harder.
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Yeah not sure what they were going on about.
bp328i said:
Thank you for this...
I really miss some of the ROMs from the good old days. Where Devs would take stock ROMs deodex them, decompile individual apps make edits like you mentioned above and smali edits. In some cases the end result would be a stock based ROM with all the extra options.
This was all before Xposed.
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+1 to this, I would love to see a deodexed stock OOS for our device that has a few modification options. Similar to what Fulmics did with the LG G3 (and other LG devices). He is the author of that deodex tool after all. Probably most of it could be done through modifying this same system APK & flashing on a rooted device, something I'm considering toying around with (but it would be time consuming...). Only problem with solutions like this is when new system updates come out you need to wait for an updated version of this as well in many cases.

Easier just to install Navbar apps from play

reqmon said:
White color only makes it burn in harder.
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No, the *off white* color used with the grey buttons reduces burn-in greatly. A black navbar on an OLED screen simply causes the pixels in the navbar strip to remain deactivated for prolonged periods of time, causing the buttons themselves and every other part of the screen whose pixels remain active more often to degenerate at a much faster rate, causing the burn-in effect. Since the nav-bar isn't completely white, the pixels in that area aren't being driven as hard as they would be, were they stark white, or as white as the display can go. The grey buttons/icons help reduce burn-in as well, as the pixels are still active and "lit" in these areas and are not being driven the hardest possible (stark white on OLED drives the pixels harder than off-white, grey, and most other colors displayed by the phone).

TurboBot247 said:
No, the *off white* color used with the grey buttons reduces burn-in greatly. A black navbar on an OLED screen simply causes the pixels in the navbar strip to remain deactivated for prolonged periods of time, causing the buttons themselves and every other part of the screen whose pixels remain active more often to degenerate at a much faster rate, causing the burn-in effect. Since the nav-bar isn't completely white, the pixels in that area aren't being driven as hard as they would be, were they stark white, or as white as the display can go. The grey buttons/icons help reduce burn-in as well, as the pixels are still active and "lit" in these areas and are not being driven the hardest possible (stark white on OLED drives the pixels harder than off-white, grey, and most other colors displayed by the phone).
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This might be right. But it's ugly as f***

MrPepperino said:
This might be right. But it's ugly as f***
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If you use a dark theme it is.
I use the light theme so it matches pretty well.

No red color on display

Hi, I just got my Mi 10 Ultra. Camera is fantastic and it's fast. I usually use Nova Launcher but Xiaomi prohibited to change that.
However, at first I thougt the camera had horrible white balance but when viewing pictures on other devices I find out that that is not the case. However, it really don't show red colors - they look almost brown. I have not found any way to adjust it with sw and suspect that it is a HW problem?
Any ideas?
Attached is the same photo viewed on another phone and on the Mi 10 Ultra (to the right).

Woah that looks... very wrong. I just took a picture of a Cola Cola can and it was fine in the viewfinder and in Gallery and I'm seeing red just fine.
You can adjust in software, worth a try, look in Settings for Color Scheme. But it defaults to Auto and that is pretty accurate in my use so far... you can go into the Advanced mode to set individual colours. If that doesn't work, it could be hardware...
(btw, change your launcher from within Nova Launcher itself!)

Question Is there a easy way to change the color palette?

Is there a easier way to change the color palette that affects the button colors and stuff besides randomly testing wallpapers to see what it chooses for you, that you can't seem to edit? Or is picking wallpapers and seeing what comes up the only way?

I use the high contrast theme on my N10+'s.
Then a custom icon pack and last set the wallpaper.
The Goodlock family of apps, Quickstar will give you control of the pull down screen colors.
Theme Park may be helpful although I avoid using it.

blackhawk said:
I use the high contrast theme on my N10+'s.
Then a custom icon pack and last set the wallpaper.
The Goodlock family of apps, Quickstar will give you control of the pull down screen colors.
Theme Park may be helpful although I avoid using it.
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My lockscreen wallpaper gave me buttons with a color I like so I'll keep that, I use a custom launcher and icon packs anyway, so it was just the pulldown and phone buttons that I wanted changed from default blue (cause my home wallpaper is red, so it recommended all these pink palettes and i was like nope, no pink buttons...)

ratchetrizzo said:
My lockscreen wallpaper gave me buttons with a color I like so I'll keep that, I use a custom launcher and icon packs anyway, so it was just the pulldown and phone buttons that I wanted changed from default blue (cause my home wallpaper is red, so it recommended all these pink palettes and i was like nope, no pink buttons...)
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Pink? Jeeesze... the SK's are a bit insane.
Just look at their graffiti
Custom launchers are generally not as capable, stable or efficient as the native one. A 3rd party launcher is one app that can boot loop a Samsung with little or no warning. Take any signs of instability or lagging seriously... been there, done that.

blackhawk said:
Pink? Jeeesze... the SK's are a bit insane.
Just look at their graffiti
Custom launchers are generally not as capable, stable or efficient as the native one. A 3rd party launcher is one app that can boot loop a Samsung with little or no warning. Take any signs of instability or lagging seriously... been there, done that.
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it just doesn't make sense why they offer you 4 color pallets when you change the wallpaper but wont let you ALTER *ANY* of them or change them anywhere in the settings.
Might as well lock it down to apple level lol

ratchetrizzo said:
it just doesn't make sense why they offer you 4 color pallets when you change the wallpaper but wont let you ALTER *ANY* of them or change them anywhere in the settings.
Might as well lock it down to apple level lol
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Samsung's been screwing up since the N10+ in many different ways some of them major.
Like abandoning the power user and the SD card slot.
Some beyond reasoning.
Samsung never recaptured the clean, thoughtful form factor of the N10+. Sticking the spen on the left was tarded. Samsung claimed that most hold the phone with their right hand. A world of lefties? Land of the giants? Damn they be inept... and haven't learned the definition of insanity as they keep repeating the same mistakes

blackhawk said:
Samsung's been screwing up since the N10+ in many different ways some of them major.
Like abandoning the power user and the SD card slot.
Some beyond reasoning.
Samsung never recaptured the clean, thoughtful form factor of the N10+. Sticking the spen on the left was tarded. Samsung claimed that most hold the phone with their right hand. A world of lefties? Land of the giants? Damn they be inept... and haven't learned the definition of insanity as they keep repeating the same mistakes
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Ahh, I miss the days of the s3-6 where you could unlock the bootloader from the store and be happily on your way within a hour of purchase. now it's like the world, lock it down and do as they say

Download Samsung's Theme Park and you can change the colors yourself.
I use #Hex Installer. It requires some time and ADB computer knowledge to setup, but allows you to change any color element you want, even with full on themes.

Guyinlaca said:
Download Samsung's Theme Park and you can change the colors yourself.
I use #Hex Installer. It requires some time and ADB computer knowledge to setup, but allows you to change any color element you want, even with full on themes.
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oh good, i'll check that out.

Guyinlaca said:
Download Samsung's Theme Park and you can change the colors yourself.
I use #Hex Installer. It requires some time and ADB computer knowledge to setup, but allows you to change any color element you want, even with full on themes.
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i have read some comments about boot loops with hex installer and oneui4. have you had any problems? did you use wireless adb?

I've had no issues whatsoever. That said, I don't theme apps that regularly update.