Just got my nice new XDA2...
And I am dismayed to find that the screen colours/wallpapers etc, all seem to be dithered images in a low colour depth.
Instead of smooth gradients, it seems banded from one colour to the next, and shades are made up of dots instead of many colours.
As this has 65,556 colours, I was not expecting this.
Its much like a real pc running in too low a colour depth - but unlike a real pc where this can easily be changed to 24bit or 32bit colour, I can find no such option on my XDA2. Anyone got any ideas, or is it really this bad (because that's how I would genuinely describe it - bad...)
Bumping ^
Anyone?
Same problem we all have, I think it is down to pixel alignment as if one tilts the top of the Xda II backwards the pixels and display appear how one would expect.
I feel cheated, i used to have a Dell X5 Advance. That display was flawless. Now i cant use some colors, especially blue. It gets really messed up...
Its sad
I still never found a satisfactory explanation, as it STILL looks as though the screen is simply NOT displaying anything like 65K colours...
Discovered this bug early on, but found a workaround. The problem seems to be a contrast issue (too high). Use the Pictures application and adjust the contrast of your pictures one notch downward.
I had an iPAQ H5555 before the XDA II (and a long list of iPAQ's before the H5555 ) I have no complaints over the display on my XDA II colours are crisp and clear, focus contrast and brightness are fine also.
Are you having problems with the default wall paper themes or other inages you have installed?
I have problems with any image used as the today background.
Even those created in Paint Shop Pro.
On my PC, they are smooth, gradiented fills, and blend smoothly.
Soon as you put them onto the XDA2 however, and it gets 'Banded' terribly. Legs appear in what seems like just two colours, a light flesh pink in the mid, and another lighter colour for the outline - a sharp jump from one colour to another - no gradiented fill in between.
Alas, I can't of course attach REAL screen shots, as in so doing the images would appear fine on here, as the images really ARE fine - its only their appearance on the XDA2 that goes haywire.
A simple example of what I mean, SIMULATED however, is as attached.
I have done this simply by posting a view from my window, in true colour 24K format, and then a copy of it, with the colour depth reduced to just 256 colours, with no error diffusion used.
This is almost EXACTLY what the resultant appearance is like on my XDA2. But sure enough, as some users say, if you ANGLE the XDA2, this becomes a lot less pronounced.
I am at a loss to understand why it does it at all however, becuase as far as I know, current screen technology does not need to suffer an issue such as this.
Mmmmmm.....
I have not found any sollution to the problem.
I am saddened to say, but it seems like it's the phone to blame.
So much for 65K Transflective being the bees knees.
I have designed a batch of about 60 themes for the phone, using photos. No matter what quality I save at, or even saving as .bmp based, half of them look terrible, with skin tones such as legs being made up of a lighter outline colour, with a big pool of a darker colour in the middle - TWO colours used to make up a part of an image that should be 100's of colours.
Terrible.
Even worse, I notice now, that this applies to Windows Media Player, playing back videos too.
If you angle your head/the XDA2 a certain angle, this reduces the effect. But I mean come on.
Obviously (based on my last comment there) this is a limitation of the screen technology.
Not impressed by far is all I can really say.
This annoys me too.
It feels like somewhere deep inside the XDA2 there's a hardcoded 4096 colour setting left over from the XDA 1. It's especially noticable on web pages.
You should bring this device back to where you got it from and test it side by side with another XDA II using the same themes.
The quality of my screen is perfect and the colours are all vivid and no banding appears unless the theme itself has banding.
I had an iPAQ 5455 that had the same problem as yours, colours appeared to only show 4096 colours 8bit. I sent back and it was replaced with another one that had a perfect screen.
Cheerio
Howard
Mmm - now this topic is getting interesting...
Anyone else think that there is a problem?
I have hinted all along that it's as if the XDA2 is only displaying images in a limited number of colours, and to now hear other people saying the same kind of thing makes for interesting reading...
hmmm
maybe i'm totally wrong, but: do you use CLEAR TYPE ???
i did activate it, and realized that eg. in the phone application the "talk" or the "number" buttons did really look awful.
so i turned clear type off, and my problems where gone... or was it all imagination ? i don't know ...
just a thought
servus ize|man
I do use it, so I'm about to experiment, and report back.
Was worth a try, but alas, no difference on my XDA2.
Just chose a couple of my themes that seem poorly 'dithered' and colour 'banded'.
Turned Cleartype off.
Did a reset...
And the themes look no different or better alas.
Damn.
Thanks for the suggestion though mate.
It REALLY does seem as if the 65000 colour XDA2 is forced into running with just 4096 colours - possibly even less.
But the way or angle you look at the screen makes all it look different, so then again, this could be an inherit issue, and in effect, 'feature' of the screen technology.
A very poor one if so, given the hype of how much much better this new screen is over the original XDA.
Probably one of the poorest that I have seen...
Here's my image quality.
I took your good image and put it onto my machine and took a screen shot. Here's the sample.... no banding!
Cheers
Exactly the same for me: no banding, good quality.
Perhaps something is wrong with your device.. :roll:
Er no guys...
Because that was just a SIMULATED screen shot, which I don't even use on my XDA2 - I just took a photo I had from my back window, and recoloured it down to 256 colours, to simulate what I see (as this is EXACTLY what it looks like with other themes).
I SHOULD have done it with a real theme I use, but in this case I hadn't.
I will post a theme file that is bad for me, and you can try that if you like...
My problem of course, is that all my many themes, are ADULT based images of my gf and her gf etc, so not suitable to post in a general forum such as this.
I have attached a screenshot of one of the 'tamer' ones though.
The screenshot, taken straight from ActiveSync Remote Display, appears FINE on a PC - it's on the DEVICE that it looks bad though.
So take a look at the screenshot, the area where I indicate bad 'banding' then run the also attached theme on your device, and tell me if you get 'banding' where I indicate, when you put the theme on your actual device?
Shadamehr,
It's the result of too much contrast. Try this:
1. Take the background bitmap you used for your theme and copy it to your XDAII.
2. Load the Pictures application and view the picture you just loaded.
3. Click Edit|Brightness And Contrast and adjust the contrast one or two settings downwards until the picture looks okay.
4. Save the picture, copy it to your PC and us it in your theme.
5. Try your new Theme on your XDAII and see if the banding problem goes away.
Hope this helps,
Rene
Hi, Today my Xperia Media Experience Panel changed colour to red and I have no idea what happened of how to change it back to blue. I have searched the internet for the an answer however this was the only thing I could find was this:
ppcsg.com said:
QUOTE(SecretAdmirer @ Nov 20 2008, 11:33 PM)
Anyone knows how to change the Media Experience Panel background color?
My Media Experience Panel background color which is usually blue, turn into red, I don't know why.
it was changed when you changed the xperia panel background colour. go to the options and select ocean, and your media panel will be blue again... when you select the xperia background - the media panel will take the last colour selected.
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Link to post.
However am not sure what he meant.
PS Thank you for everything! Without you I would not have been able to get rid of Vodafone rom.
Thanks Devs.
The panel has 4 different colours - they change according to the time of day!
Idea
Maybe we should make a thread about how to change the damn colours at each time of day? The only time I ever use my phone is when the colours are the darn awful orange and the other, (not blue or turquoise). I would prefer it to be the navy blue all day long or turquoise in the day and navy blue at night.
Good Idea
jas0607 said:
The panel has 4 different colours - they change according to the time of day!
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That makes sense!
Thanks for the info.
@alias_neo: Yeah, the best colours are the blue & turquoise and they seem to change come on at morning and evening, when I least use my phone. Well the devs here have managed to cook roms so I'm sure setting up a different colours cant be that hard, I hope.
When you activate the to show the Battery at S2U2 the wallpaper disappers. I tried to find the backgrund in the gfx folder, but there are only some for a small part of the screen. The rest stays black. Is it possible to change the screen?
Dude... seriously?
I'm not one of those guys that loses their minds at people who don't use the search function. And yes, I know everyone has to start somewhere... but c'mon.
I use search functions, but in this case I don't seem to find the information. The rest of editing is quite simple. But the hole screen thing with battery I don't find .
My god, it's in the S2U2 settings man!!!!!
The normal wallpaper is in the settings, but if I change to showing the Battery, the wallpaperr is gone, and I just have a green battery on a black wallpaper.
The included S2U2 settings lets you choose when to have the battery screen show up.
However, when you choose the battery screen, your chosen background goes away and you are indeed left with a black background and a charging green battery. This is supposed to happen. I don't believe the default settings allows you to choose a background WITH the battery showing. Someone correct me if I am mistaken.
Unless there is some workaround, you have to choose between your wallpaper or the huge green battery w/ black background. I personally just have the battery show up when i plug my phone to charge
Bill80 said:
The normal wallpaper is in the settings, but if I change to showing the Battery, the wallpaperr is gone, and I just have a green battery on a black wallpaper.
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Go into the S2U2 customization thread. The skinners there have designed some batteries without background i recall.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354111
Bill80, you'll have to do some serious graphical editing of your battery files.
As previous posters stated, background is intentionally black when charging, and there is a thread which covers editing and modifying S2U2 graphics.
Sorry, but you'll have to read most part of that thread.
Bodisson said:
Bill80, you'll have to do some serious graphical editing of your battery files.
As previous posters stated, background is intentionally black when charging, and there is a thread which covers editing and modifying S2U2 graphics.
Sorry, but you'll have to read most part of that thread.
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Unrelated, I like your avatar...seems vaguely familiar...hmmmm.......
It's comic relief and i am in good mood so here's the thread in question Modding S2U graphics
gotvitamink said:
The included S2U2 settings lets you choose when to have the battery screen show up.
However, when you choose the battery screen, your chosen background goes away and you are indeed left with a black background and a charging green battery. This is supposed to happen. I don't believe the default settings allows you to choose a background WITH the battery showing. Someone correct me if I am mistaken.
Unless there is some workaround, you have to choose between your wallpaper or the huge green battery w/ black background. I personally just have the battery show up when i plug my phone to charge
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Thanx for the answers . I played around with the battery files, and got it at he end. Just scaling the wallpaper file down to the screen resolution, cutting it in 3 parts and overlaying the middle part with the battery (making it transparent). Replicate and widen the middle part to design the look the battery state, and voila.
The tread is over 500 pages long, impressiv. I had looked the before (also via search function), but just to many information to be usfull (at least for me).
I dont know if it is just me being colorblind or what, but does anyone else have a hard time (in setting for example) telling if boxes are CHECKED or UNCHECKED on the settings screen??
I believe there are a green or red check to signify the difference but I have a very difficult time distinguishing between the two.
Is anyone else having this problem and are there any ways to make it more apparent for me (like a check for check, and NO check for unchecked)???
Thanks in advance!!
I am also color blind (red/green) and I am having the same problem. Any help on changing this would be helpfull.
Glad to hear there is a least ONE other person Ron. I was afraid I was going nuts!! lol
I am finding it very difficult to know if I have various settings checked or not. Quite aggravating actually.
I wonder if there is a way to change the Background to WHITE (instead of Black) and maybe that will help a little.
I am not colorblind and if I'm not paying close attention I have to double check.
I found that changing the theme made the checkboxes easier to see (and I am not colorblind!) I am using the "Ruby" theme.
The theme that I am using, the one with the background of white squares called Carrera, uses black check marks for things in settings. However if you change your theme it will also change the check mark color. I know that with my particular theme the volume level is in grey, which isn't very smart since the background for it is also like a grey but a little darker. This will also change when you change the theme.
I am colorblind and also have the same issue. Highly annoying.
Thanks everyone. Changing themes did help a little. I changed to the "white" theme. Makes it a little easier to see, STILL ridiculously difficult to see sometimes though. I think they could have done a better job on this part of the OS.
People who have the omnia 7 can do a test with her to see if mine is defective or something? In the glow when you change from automatic to manual not, notice a big difference if they have the white background? And when at maximum brightness teem (manual) to change between the home and the other main scree apps from the white background does not get darker? And on a white background apps tb not notice the difference in whites (are grayed out)?
I think this strange..
It's not a fault mate - it's some kind of power saving feature that's built into the display. It's annoying to be honest as i too would like to use the White theme but when it dulls it to the grey it just looks horrid.
This is the only real negative thing i have to say about the Omnia 7 - i just wish Samsung had left it upto us to adjust this ourselves.