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.
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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
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.
For those of you who didn't know, there is an app you can install that will let you download Blacked out and Clear versions of Google Apps and other apps like WhatsApp, Twitter etc.
Visit here and download and install the TeamBlackOut Updater App, install it (it's an apk) then open the app and download whatever you want and install it. I've been using this for years and thought I'd share it. Please thank the developer there as well.
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In my AMOLED years I used to love these black apps/themes, mainly to save battery and to show off the immense contrast of those screens.
Now, with LCD, and battery saving not being an issue anymore, I really enjoy the vibrant and colorful screen of the Mate 8.
So I find it a shame to use blacked/greyed/colorless themes But as with everyting: YMMV! :good:
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In my AMOLED years I used to love these black apps/themes, mainly to save battery and to show off the immense contrast of those screens.
Now, with LCD, and battery saving not being an issue anymore, I really enjoy the vibrant and colorful screen of the Mate 8.
So I find it a shame to use blacked/greyed/colorless themes But as with everyting: YMMV! :good:
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Same here on LCD I prefer to have whites for the most part and darker grays on Amoled for the contrast and battery. However I don't quite like the look of the Settings app on the Mate 8 so I prefer it in darker color. As well as dark headers. The rest I want white. Visibility in dark apps is pretty bad outside on this phone. Not very bright screen.
Black backgrounds are the way to go. They are easier on your eyes, they are less likely to keep you awake at night from staring at a white screen and when you're laying in bed or in really low light when waking up they are worlds better to look at. I wish I could get rid of every white background on the entire phone.
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Hi,
I recently upgraded to pie by installing the Alexis Rom. It runs smooth but I've noticed the following which I can't make changed to like I could in Oreo and Nougat,
I don't have much control on full screen apps. Some games I play now look over stretched. The opportunity to make this but a full screen app isn't highlighted so I can't change it.
Also the navigation bar won't go away on certain apps especially if I'm watching video content in apps. Before pie there was an option for me to lock it to the screen or not.
Can anyone confirm if I can make the changes I need? I surely can't be the only person who finds this annoying.
Thanks
SAMSUNG also effed up the camera.
1. They removed dedicated video recording button.
2. They removed pro mode from video recording
Game tools
1. Can't change frame rates and resolution etc.
Very bad move by Samsung.
I feel everything is half baked.
So they've removed the features I mentioned above as well then?
Several things missing in pie. I do hope they get added in the next patch though. Most annoying issue I have now is auto brightness not remembering what I prefer. It keeps setting it very dark in low light. I'm constantly putting it back to around the middle. Sticking it isn't an option because in sunlight I need it to go way up.
Icons are ugly with the white templates etc etc.
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It was supposed to be just an experiment, but now I'm spend.
Basically, I can perfectly well change the resolution on my a22 4g, which was what I wanted, but certain elements, like the rounded corners and notification bar, or what it's called, are not handled. The radius is not scaled, which looks horrible. It can be changed manually, from what I've tried, but the change is not persistent. All it takes is a single rotation of the phone, and we're back to scratch, and besides, the other issues aren't solved, even if it worked.
I've tried numerous helper apps, just for kick, but they don't seem to be able to do a better job than myself, so what's the game here? Is it simply not possible, or am I missing something?
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It was supposed to be just an experiment, but now I'm spend.
Basically, I can perfectly well change the resolution on my a22 4g, which was what I wanted, but certain elements, like the rounded corners and notification bar, or what it's called, are not handled. The radius is not scaled, which looks horrible. It can be changed manually, from what I've tried, but the change is not persistent. All it takes is a single rotation of the phone, and we're back to scratch, and besides, the other issues aren't solved, even if it worked.
I've tried numerous helper apps, just for kick, but they don't seem to be able to do a better job than myself, so what's the game here? Is it simply not possible, or am I missing something?
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if you want to lower resolution , use gl tool
Guan Yu said:
if you want to lower resolution , use gl tool
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Although interesting, the name rather imply that it is not a general solution, and besides, it basically requires root, which really shouldn't be necessary. I will look into it, however, so thanks for the reply.
Zacariaz said:
It was supposed to be just an experiment, but now I'm spend.
Basically, I can perfectly well change the resolution on my a22 4g, which was what I wanted, but certain elements, like the rounded corners and notification bar, or what it's called, are not handled. The radius is not scaled, which looks horrible. It can be changed manually, from what I've tried, but the change is not persistent. All it takes is a single rotation of the phone, and we're back to scratch, and besides, the other issues aren't solved, even if it worked.
I've tried numerous helper apps, just for kick, but they don't seem to be able to do a better job than myself, so what's the game here? Is it simply not possible, or am I missing something?
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changing resolution was never great because android not officialy support it , thus creating anoying visual bug .And what is your ploblem when using native resolution outside gaming?
Guan Yu said:
changing resolution was never great because android not officialy support it , thus creating anoying visual bug .And what is your ploblem when using native resolution outside gaming?
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No problem. As I said, it was an experiment. How low can you/I go, without it being too low, and what will the impact om battery life be?
IMO to change appearance of some System UI elements you've to use System UI Tuner app