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Color Calibration?

I had a Nexus 5 and I can't adapt to the color options available. Is there any app that I can calibrate the color saturation?

brenopapito said:
I had a Nexus 5 and I can't adapt to the color options available. Is there any app that I can calibrate the color saturation?
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Go to the display settings and set it to "basic" color profile. The colors should be spot on with the N5

I am wondering same thing. Basic is extremely muted and has very yellow whites

wrinklefree said:
Go to the display settings and set it to "basic" color profile. The colors should be spot on with the N5
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Even "Basic" is very bad, I would like to setup a custom profile.

brenopapito said:
Even "Basic" is very bad, I would like to setup a custom profile.
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Same here. I think software can help the slight pink tints for people

Photo is pretty good. But I hear you...the Nexus 5 had very natural calibration. People thought it was washed out but I loved it!
Right now your eyes are just getting adjusted to LCD vs AMOLED.

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Google Pixel 2 XL's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
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Checked out the xl2 at verizon. Colors seems having too much black. Still has greenish color shifting in some viewing angle
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Colors seemed washed out, much less vibrant than Note8. I will try to upload few comparison pictures later today

jedras95 said:
Colors seemed washed out, much less vibrant than Note8. I will try to upload few comparison pictures later today
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Yes couldn't agree more, my pixel XL 2 is so washed out I'm tempted to switch back to my note 8!!

Here are some of the comparison photos

juicemane141997 said:
Yes couldn't agree more, my pixel XL 2 is so washed out I'm tempted to switch back to my note 8!!
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Compared to a over saturated Samsung it probably does look washed out, in the picture posted, look at the hearts, the pixel looks red and you can see how oversaturated the Sammy is

cwalker0906 said:
Compared to a over saturated Samsung it probably does look washed out, in the picture posted, look at the hearts, the pixel looks red and you can see how oversaturated the Sammy is
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Well in contrast, look at the beach on both photos. When I looked at both side by side, Pixel definitely lacked saturation in my opinion. I guess it comes down to personal preference but I never understood why people wouldn't like Samsungs saturation. Makes everything look much nicer, and if one wants to mute colors, there are a bunch of profiles in the settings as well as adjustments for individual colors. When you lack saturated colors like on this Pixel to begin with, you can't just bring more color out that easily.

The Verizon I went to had it setup with some preloaded messages, didn't actually get to see the OS and working screens. My comparison would be to the numbers the display is measured at, delta E, gamma, etc,... that is the only true measurement of color accuracy.

A similar post on Reddit mentioned that the Pixel 2 XL is set to sRGB mode by default, and that there was a toggle to make it more vibrant somewhere in the display settings. It would be interesting to see the same comparison with that toggle set to "On" with the Pixel (assuming that the info is good, and that the toggle exists at all).

jvillalo said:
A similar post on Reddit mentioned that the Pixel 2 XL is set to sRGB mode by default, and that there was a toggle to make it more vibrant somewhere in the display settings. It would be interesting to see the same comparison with that toggle set to "On" with the Pixel (assuming that the info is good, and that the toggle exists at all).
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That's true, there was a switch "Vibrant Colors" under Display settings but it was turned on at the one I checked

Google devices have been historically very accurate with the screen colors. Going from LG/Samsung will be noticable.

jedras95 said:
Well in contrast, look at the beach on both photos. When I looked at both side by side, Pixel definitely lacked saturation in my opinion. I guess it comes down to personal preference but I never understood why people wouldn't like Samsungs saturation. Makes everything look much nicer, and if one wants to mute colors, there are a bunch of profiles in the settings as well as adjustments for individual colors. When you lack saturated colors like on this Pixel to begin with, you can't just bring more color out that easily.
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People tend to get that way these days because of the way televisions are sold with the brightness and color saturation practically maxed out. This results in super unrealistic colors that tend to offset your idea of what "good" is while killing off subtle image details in the process. Samsung seems to like to do the same thing with phones, perhaps based on the same mindset that their TV guys use: Make things flashy.
In the showroom it may boost sales, but when I take my TV home, the first thing I do is tone all of that down to make sure the color balance is more realistic. For example, I want grass to look like grass would be colored, not neon-green. sRGB mode on Google's phones is nice because it does that for you, without needing any color filters and test patterns.

Rakeesh_j said:
People tend to get that way these days because of the way televisions are sold with the brightness and color saturation practically maxed out. This results in super unrealistic colors that tend to offset your idea of what "good" is while killing off subtle image details in the process. Samsung seems to like to do the same thing with phones, perhaps based on the same mindset that their TV guys use: Make things flashy.
In the showroom it may boost sales, but when I take my TV home, the first thing I do is tone all of that down to make sure the color balance is more realistic. For example, I want grass to look like grass would be colored, not neon-green. sRGB mode on Google's phones is nice because it does that for you, without needing any color filters and test patterns.
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YES. So. Many. Times. This.
I shake my head when I see people show off their new TV's with sharpness at 100 and vivid color profiles with bright colors and cool temp selected. More power to do what u want with your stuff, but it just looks rediculous.

As a photographer using calibrated displays and a Photoshop user, don't make up your mind on Webb posts. And I want a natural and sRGB.

Love the super saturated colors. This is coming from a normal consumer without any "expertise" in anything related to the subject matter. My eyes like it.

I despise the over-saturation Sammy does. This is good news to me.

This is funny because although I was only able to see the the Pixel 2 screen (non XL) I'm positive both will have great displays. I do like Samsung displays however I hate when the over saturation shows the absolutely wrong color. But not too long ago the Samsung S8 & S8+ displays had a red & purple tint on the white screen. And that was actually a very prevalent issue which was fixed by a software update. After seeing the Pixel 2 display I thought it looked good.

I have read that the display on the Pixel 2 XL has a bluish tint when viewed off angle and that the LG V30, which is said to have the same display as the Pixel 2 XL, has screen uniformity issues.
I went to my local Verizon yesterday to play with the phone and see for myself. The bluish tint off angle is absolutely there. It didn't bother me but it might bother some. As far as screen uniformity I didn't see any issues. At least not with the display phone. I tested with light gray and dark gray backgrounds at high and low screen brightness and I used my hands to block out room lighting as best as I could.
Color saturation looked good to me. A bit more saturated than my Nexus 5X I used as a side by side comparison.

The verge panned the v30 display in their review today. This isn't looking good
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I thought the tech community panned the verge years ago

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Xiaomi Mi 9's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Color saturation and contrast is terrible, it is as if the screen is a knockoff. Can not get accurate warm colors like the mi 8 or the 1+ 6t that compare side by side. The display colors are horrible. Is there something I'm missing ?

Anyone ?

Miui default display setting always have bad color saturation, no matter the phone has ips or amoled panel. I always change the contrast setting to increased contrast. Now My Mi 9 display almost look like Samsung's one.

The greens are dull and faded, reds are too dark.
Can not get the right colors !
is there any display calibration app that can change all this ?
thanks

Same here with my GFs Mi 9. She started crying when she compared with my oneplus 6t... Am really curious if there is any fix to the really terrible display calibration.

It works fine... Just make sure you set the "contrast" to "standard" (strange name for color profiles. But whatever, it works)
The colors seem pretty natural to me when using that profile. But what I didn't like, is that when playing back an HDR video, the auto-brightness can still dim down the screen... This isn't supposed to happen, or at the very least there should be an option to turn that off.
Also interesting, is that given enough ambient light, YouTube HDR playback will in fact boost the brightness to max (but it won't on a pitch black environment) But if you are playing an HDR video from another source, the brightness won't be boosted at all, and you will have to do it manually.
And while I'm on the topic of HDR video, there doesn't appear to be any tone mapping going on, so some highlights will be blown. But it does seem to properly track the HDR EOTF until that point, and the color gamut does appear to be wider than when viewing SDR content.
So to summarize, this is a great display, and I think Xiaomi did include color profiles, but there's more work to be done... I'm hoping this HDR brightness issue can be addressed on a custom ROM, and hopefully an option to add tone mapping.

Given that GSMArena measured the display's colors to be really accurate any claims of "x" or "y" to be too "dull" or "faded" is just baseless. It's most likely you're accustomed to displays actually being wrong and want to reproduce that.

Do you set : raise contrast mode, or dynamic contrast ?
For me, colors are more saturated in increased contrast mode, it's quite beautiful and flashy, but maybe exagerated saturation
Dynamic contrast with warm colors looks fine, quite less satutared
Your thoughts ?

Avamander said:
Given that GSMArena measured the display's colors to be really accurate any claims of "x" or "y" to be too "dull" or "faded" is just baseless. It's most likely you're accustomed to displays actually being wrong and want to reproduce that.
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100% agree with you.

I use automatic and warm. Very nice colours

My Mi 9 has a really nice display. I'm very happy with its color reproduction and vibrancy. I come from a OnePlus 5.

Yeah, people complaining here came from very unbalanced screens and when they meet a really good one, think it is trash. Sigh.

On Mi 9 Lite best choise: Automatic is the most optimal for me

By my side I have a defective display that has too hot colors, wite are yellowish I had :
- Red : 62 %
- Green : 62 %
- Blue : 100 %
And with these seetings wites are just wite, you can imagine how yellowish it is...

Color saturation and accuracy
I find the screen to be fine indoor and outdoor

Change display temperature?

Display is a little yellowish, any way to adjust the whites to look cooler?

synaethe said:
Display is a little yellowish, any way to adjust the whites to look cooler?
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Settings>display>colors
3 different settings to choose from!
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you sure night light isnt on? also under display>colors you can change it some
natural
boosted
adaptive

The screen is naturally more yellow, compared to my 2 xl which seemed much brighter bluish. Not in love with the screen but oh well

agreed on the more yellow. compared to both my og pixel and 2xl.. the greens on the 3a stand out the most to me as being "too yellow"
it's not bad enough for me to not like the device though.
I'd assume something like KCAL could 'fix' it https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/dev-kcal-advanced-color-control-t3032080

i switched it to natural from adaptive and the whites seem a bit whiter. i would say the colors are defiantly not as vibrant as they were on adaptive. but they look more proper now.

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
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Could use a slight vibrancy buff.

Correct colors just go to screen calibrate RGB values and set them all to 90

I was always thinking the colors in camera apps didn't look good at all, being very different from actual colors. I disabled automatic contrast and set it to default, and now the cam colors are much more realistic. The screen is probably calibrated to go with that setting.
Everything will look a bit bad when you set that setting, but it just needs a bit of time for your eyes to get used to it. White was looking yellowish at first, but now that I'm used to it it looks white. It's also much softer and less agressive than the automatic contrast that was probably way too blue.

Anyone have color accuracy tools, calibration tools, or something similar? I'd love to calibrate my display. but sadly i have no calibration tools...

There's a new setting in the display section after miui 11 update. It's the colour scheme setting, and there is a saturated colours option, but it doesn't seem to change anything. It stays the same, except when changing the temperature. Appreciate that they acknowledged the issue, but still needs work.

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Same issue to me please help me screen is looking very dull after i updated my redmi note7

Sankarshan bahirat said:
Same issue to me please help me screen is looking very dull after i updated my redmi note7
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Can you downgrade back to 10.3.6 or 10.3.5?
I hear the MIUI 11....... Versions messed up this phone
(I'm still on 10.3.5 and don't know much about the later versions from personal experience)