I came from an Ipaq H5550 and I have been using it as a device to store and review my pictures (I am a professional photographer).
After I received my XDAII I noticed a strange behavior on some textures, it appear that the XDAII does not display all the color my Ipaq was capable of.
This is not a complain even because I never relied on PDAs screen or Laptop screens to judge the color of my pictures and also I love my XDAII, instead I am just curious to confirm if I had made a step back on this matter and know my toy a little bit more.
I know that the display even being the same resolution it is not the same size, the image is also more contrasted and darker compared to the Ipaq.
This is the only aspect I prefered the Ipaq, any other I prefer the XDAII that make for such a superb and complete toy.
I have noticed the same thing (dithering) a lot on the XDA 2 and I am very worried. I felt it was not a true 64bit 65000 colour screen, but no-one else replied to posts on the subject so I thought perhaps I am being silly!
The same to me: my new i-mate shows picture in the same way as xdaI was. The screen is bright, the colors are perfect, but the picture looks like on 4096 colors mode.
No dithering is turned on.
The same effect with different images& viewers.
Is there a way tio get a clock in the screensaver? my just turns totally black.. in my old nokia and SE it was possible to put a clock in there.. i have tried but cant find anything about it.. / Jörgen
It's not a screensaver, that's the screen being turned off to save battery. My guess is that on smaller screens the power drain involved in displaying the clock is quite low as the backlight wasn't on. On the screen on the hero (and pretty much every other colour screen phone brought out in the last 5 years) the screens need to be backlit to show anything and the power drain would be huge.
In short, there might be an application to do it but you are far better off just pressing the on button when you want to see the time.
herman3101 said:
On the screen on the hero (and pretty much every other colour screen phone brought out in the last 5 years) the screens need to be backlit to show anything
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Really? Why is that?
Modern LCDs all have a backlight and the image you see is obtained by filtering this light through individual switchable filters (these make up the pixels). In the past some screens worked by varying how light is reflected from the screen using these filters but these are inferior to modern lcds. We are now seeing a return to non-backlit screens with the new OLED technology but this is still actively lit at the individual pixel level.
If you don't believe me then take apart a laptop or LCD screen and disconnect the power inverter which is responsible to supplying the power to the backlight. The screen will appear to be completely dark unless you shine a very bright light on it and then you will be able to see the image very faintly. Just don't do what I did and snap the inverter, felt very silly.
I received my phone yesterday.
Wow what colors! the black and the colors are beautiful.
However, the white, while great when looking at it straight on without tilting the phone, as soon as we tilt there's the blue tint that takes over the white, or whatever we call it =D but oh well! still a great screen.
This is the most touch sensitive screen I have ever used. I tested it by using my thumb, I don't have to feel that I touch the screen and it reacts. This is a bit of a problem since all the phone is touch sensitive except the home button..
I tried my nails also and it reacts perfectly to my nails
Hint for everyone, it's soooo easy to change the brightness! no need for a widget. You know where we swipe down the notification bar? well if you go to that area on top without swiping down but just swipe left and right instead while holding the notification area then you will control brightness from 0 to 100%, works perfectly! (Makes sure to remove automatic brightness or it won't work)
I find the screen is too sharp though, it needs a bit of blurring if that makes sense (on the letters that is, because I can see the pixels very easily) but it's pretty special to see it so sharp compared to my previous HTC Magic
Actually upon using it more I'm realizing it doesn't have the best white ever.. it always looks like there's a bit of "blueish tint" over the white =(.
the phone is sooo easy to clean lol I just wipe it on my jeans, both the screen and the back of the phone and it's wiped clean.
The vibration of the phone is very very weak. =(
The sound of the phone is loud for me.
The phone is very bright at 100% but still too bright at 0% which is a problem at night because it's way too bright, you think it's at 40% when it's at 0%. but that's fine still =)
I think sometimes that the phone doesn't save some settings.. I set up the camera, close it, etc.. come back in it and sometimes some settings are changed :S... I set up contacts.. then out of nowhere it unchecks Sim contacts and keeps phone contacts.. could be because I opened the case and moved the sim card a bit though.
720p recording looks wonderful, and normal camera is not bad, I feel Samsung could have done better there to maintain clarity of picture for far objects.
I would love a firmware update to help with camera speed: it is a bit slow to review pictures compared to my HTC Magic. the rest is quick and lovely .. so many settings T_T
the font is huge all over the phone lol, it is so easy to read.
edit: vibration is actually pretty strong, there's a setting to decide how strong we want it in "Sound and Display" (I thought it was for the touch feedback only but turns out it's for calls and sms, etc....)
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not sure if anyone else has noticed this but it seems that the call end button, the button to view the dial pad and the button to view speaker options are burned into my screen!!! viewing in most apps it is not noticable but if you open internet explorer and go to a new page without loading a website the images of the buttons and very visiable in a brownish color I have had my focus since it was released in the US, I have also checked my wifes focus and it also has this burned into her screen.. Has anyone else noticed this?
Yes, I have the call tile, message tile, and the little circle/arrow burned into my screen. As you said, it's only visible on light colored screens, but it is visible. Unfortunately, unlike the temporary burn-in on new plasma tvs, this burn-in will not go away.
If you want to see something really bad, go up to the at&t store and check out the Focus that's on display. The Focus at my local at&t store looks horrible. I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy that phone if they saw that display model...
edit: by the way I love your weather app, I have had a few problems with it over the time i've used it, and you have always been fantastic with your support. Thanks!
Are you using blue tiles? I heard Blue OLEDs burn out faster than other colors and changed my tiles to green.
I have been using the brown almost exclusively; occasionally I'll go with blue, green, or lime, but the brown just looks the best to me.
jmerrey said:
Yes, I have the call tile, message tile, and the little circle/arrow burned into my screen. As you said, it's only visible on light colored screens, but it is visible. Unfortunately, unlike the temporary burn-in on new plasma tvs, this burn-in will not go away.
If you want to see something really bad, go up to the at&t store and check out the Focus that's on display. The Focus at my local at&t store looks horrible. I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy that phone if they saw that display model...
edit: by the way I love your weather app, I have had a few problems with it over the time i've used it, and you have always been fantastic with your support. Thanks!
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thanks for the comment. on to your screen you have the actuall tiles burned into your screen? wow i only have the call end and function buttons burned i think its related to having my display on bright i took it off the automatic.
It's actually not the tile, it's the icon inside the tile that is burned in, but it's only visible on white screens. It's still quite annoying. As soon as the hd7s is out I'm going to compare screens, if the slcd is close to the samoled then i'm jumping ship I think...
and yeah my screen is on bright (not automatic) also. I think my problem is that I have the time out set to 5 minutes, and I never locked it myself
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It's actually not the tile, it's the icon inside the tile that is burned in, but it's only visible on white screens. It's still quite annoying. As soon as the hd7s is out I'm going to compare screens, if the slcd is close to the samoled then i'm jumping ship I think...
and yeah my screen is on bright (not automatic) also. I think my problem is that I have the time out set to 5 minutes, and I never locked it myself
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Based on HTC's latest track record with the Desire HD and Inspire 4G, make sure you analyze the viewing angle of the HD7-S. HTC has said it will have a Super LCD but, according to an answer they gave to a customer complaining it wasn't true S-LCD tech, the display will likely be what HTC is calling "Super" LCD...meaning it is their name for the super-sized display...and having nothing to do with true S-LCD tech.
If the viewing angle isn't as good as the iPhone 4 or Focus...or other SAMOLED/AMOLED equipped devices...then it isn't the higher-tech display but just an ordinary non-TFT LCD.
Super AMOLED is a great screen. But the pixel life span is still way short. The Blue pixels are the shortest. The old stats are 2000 to 4000 hours. New information point it around 10000 to 14000 hours. But Samsung didn't release any spec on this.
You should always keep the screen dim and keep it on as short as possible. Reportedly use a red theme will not only preserve blue pixels but also prolong battery life.
No burn in here. I have the phone set to turn off screen within 30 seconds, and have always used Lime colour tiles since it matches the Xbox Live tile.
Just a follow up on this issue, and possible a "what not to do" post. The burn in on my screen is getting worse. On a white screen, I can now see the phone icon, message icon, small circle/arrow, the word calender, and my google mail icon. I have the screen set to time out after 30 seconds, and I have the brightness set to high (not auto).
Hello, I think my HD2 have screen bleeding. When i'm outdoor, I have hard time to see anything on display & there is a three white bright dots on display. Can I fix this problem or I need to replace display and digitizer ?
display is quite bad in outdoor bright sunlight so that maybe normal, white dots sound like maybe dead pixels.
Try posting some images of it if you can.
Also look at backlight setting for brightness & see if adjustment seems to work correctly as maybe have issue with LCD backlight !
Like you already are thinking, LCD is needed but some images would be good to confirm this & I would not re-use the current digitizer unless recently replaced & removed without any damage.