Hi
When 2.0 was realesed there was a full black theme, in 2.1 it turned gray. I have a AMOLED display and because of that I want the full black theme, is there anyway to upgrade and still have a 100% black theme?
With pretty much all the current themes being black, dark or various shades of red, I was wondering if there are any good "light" themes out there for stock. I'm running Bones Stock and am using (and loving) the Note 2 keyboard, so it would be nice to have a light theme for that too
Hi everyone,
It's my first time using a Nexus device.
I just switched from Samsung Galaxy S2.
With the samsung screen, the black is a real black whereas in the Nexus the black shows the backlight of the LCD (or however it is called now) screen so there's this white glow coming out when it supposed to be pure black screen.
I'm not referring to when the phone is off, I'm referring to when it suppose to display pure black background like when using the Daydream clock feature.
I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to understand if this is how it supposed to be
Thanks
gil80 said:
Hi everyone,
It's my first time using a Nexus device.
I just switched from Samsung Galaxy S2.
With the samsung screen, the black is a real black whereas in the Nexus the black shows the backlight of the LCD (or however it is called now) screen so there's this white glow coming out when it supposed to be pure black screen.
I'm not referring to when the phone is off, I'm referring to when it suppose to display pure black background like when using the Daydream clock feature.
I'm not complaining, I'm just trying to understand if this is how it supposed to be
Thanks
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It's normal. Use this for awhile and then go back to the s2, I have one too. You'll see how much better this screen is.
I agree that sharpness and colours are amazing on the Nexus but it's not the black colour / contrast I got used to from the S2.
I came from an S3 and I love the screen quality. I can actually see my phone in daylight.
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gil80 said:
I agree that sharpness and colours are amazing on the Nexus but it's not the black colour / contrast I got used to from the S2.
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samsung uses samoled screens, the blacks are blacker and the colors are more vivid. but, samoled screens dont show the real colors, they are much more overly saturated. oh, and black.. samoled dont light up pixels for black, thats why it seems blacker.
klin1344 said:
I came from an S3 and I love the screen quality. I can actually see my phone in daylight.
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I could see as well with the S2
Anyway, as I was saying, I'm not complaining or anything... I just didn't know if the black I was expecting to see on the Nexus is about the same as in the S2...
Unfortunately, I must admit that the S2 presented a much deeper black and the Nexus 5 displays white glow rather than black.
IPS != AMOLED
S2 -> AMOLED. That's almost pure blacks and too saturated colours.
N5 -> IPS. In the N5's case, pretty accurate colours, but with background light, cause the tecnology is like that. You're not gonna get black blacks with IPS. The panel is quite a lot better in every other aspect though.
thanks @Molitro
I agree that besides the blacks, this screen is amazing
As others have hinted, only Oled screens can turn their pixels off complely (0nits) and that's why they can do cool things such as active notifications on the Moto X. When looked on head on the black levels of the Nexus 5 IPS screen are quite good compared to other non Oleds. Infact it out right destroys my desktop and laptop Tn displays in that regards.
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The note II was my last amoled phone so it's been a while. Is it normal for the S6 screen to take on altering green and red tints when displaying white backgrounds and tilted at minor angles? I'm coming from an M8 so I'm not accustomed to all the crazy pentile sub pixel arrangement used in the new amoled panels.
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use pencile
Only i use pencile !!!
Is there a dark themed ROM that is battery oriented? I know you could use substratum, but most themes I want cost money, and for the battery, I'd like to stay away from root
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I have read that a black or dark theme could save a bit of battery with oled or super amoled but not with non-oled screens. This is apparently due to the way the backlight works in lcd screens.