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LCD problem?

Hello,
I've just got my replacement phone (the previous one had mechanical problems) and the display seems a bit strange with this new device.
There are visible banding effects in color gradients, (web pages, pictures) I know the Lcd has only 65K colors, but I don't remember those bands being so strong on my previous device.
Could you fellow G1 owners check this on your device please? I am in Hungary, Europe and I don't know any other G1 owners here (you know it's not available here, actually mine is an ADP1).
It's easy to check, the effect is very visible on http://www.google.com/news (Google international news mobile site) in the Android browser. It's slightly visible in the dark blue title bar, more in the light blue bar below and very strongly in the "Sections" bar far below.
Please check it and tell me what you have found...
Thanks,
Peter

I see the same issues with google/news. I think it has to do with google's site and/or the g1's browser. Here's a few high quality jpeg gradients Black-White, RainBow and Blue-Red. Unfortunately google compresses them and they look like junk online. So, here's a .zip of the three gradients your can download right to your phone and view with Astro, or extract to pc etc. They should look fairly smooth on the g1, better on pc tho..
use there gradients for w/e you choose.

Hello sonikamd,
Thanks for your help! Interestingly your test pictures look better (smoother) in the standard picture viewer app than in Astro's viewer. Can you confirm that?
Also how old is your device? It looks like that mine (the replacement device) is very old, it's serial number is lower than what I have sent back (purchased in december).
Thanks,
Peter

Just one last quick question: on the incoming call screen there are strange lines appear, do anyone see those on the G1 or it is just me?
Click on the picture to see what I mean.
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No, I am not crazy - I am a graphics artist and really sensitive to things like that.
Thanks,
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Hi lilithpro,
Thanks for the image, however you won't see the effect on a screencapture (like you attached). I made the pic in Photoshop (from a captured emulator screen) to show the effect - I exaggerated the effect in the pic a little.
You should check your device's lcd during an incoming call to see it. I think it is something to do with the lcd panel. Today I managed to check an other G1 and it showed that effect, too.
So it seems it is not my ADP1's problem.

Any way to fix wallpaper gradients??

It seems that any wallpaper with a gradient or any shading or glowing is displayed like in 8-bit style. What I mean by that is this.
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Its really making alot of wallpapers look hideous and would like to know what I can do to make it look the way it should. Thanks in advance.

Seems like a little help and a little research does wonders these days.
Just so this can be used as a reference, i'm gonna go a little in dept here.
newone757 said:
might try adding some noise to the pic. just a little bit. I used to have to do this on my touch pro 1+2 on some walls
let us know how they turn out
a quick google turned out this:Say Goodbye To Gradient Banding | Planet Photoshop
this looks promising too
How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using Photoshop - SloDive
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These methods work in getting rid of the banding lines but what I figured out was to keep the quality, you need to do alot of tweaking and messing around. What I found out was adding a gaussian blur on a new layer thats slightly transparent and adding a little noise on a overlay layer thats slightly transparent is the trick.
This took me 2 mins to do. (Its 6:22am on fourth of July, I'll put up better examples later)
Before
After
What got me thinking was some of my camera pictures and other pictures in the gallery look stunning but anything I transfer via pc had horrible banding. Didnt make any sense at all. I'm no expert but adding a little blur and noise almost tricks the evo's screen.

great idea! thanks, now i can finally get some good wallpapers onto my evo.

How about sharing the exact settings you used? Or even better would be to post a PSD template that only requires people to paste their wallpaper (or possibly copy a layer style)

Download wallpaper set and save from the market. It fixes this problem.

Am I the only one with these UI glitches on 2.1 ROMs?

Hi,
Since I've updated to 2.1 that I've been noticing that user interfaces with tabs are not looking so good as they used to.
I don't know if this is just me or everyone using 2.1 ROMs... I want to understand if this is a problem in my ROM (and all other 2.1 ROMs I've tested) or if it's a general problem and if anyone knows of a fix cause they look bad compared to the previous ones.
Here's a screenshot from Cupcake 1.5:
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Here's a screenshot from Eclair 2.1:
You can clearly see that there's a problem in the separator between the tabs and the rest of the content and also on the tabs labels text color, which is barely readable...

No one else notices this?

I noticed, but I didn't know if they looked better on the old Sense...
But yeah, again, except for the fact that we now have the 2.1 backend, the update really sucked. I don't like the glossy icons with lense flair effect (uagh, that ugly blue guitar player icon in the music player), random crashes (well, sense restarts to be accurate), UI glitches when switching between landscape and portrait mode.
You'd think with over half a year's time and countless delays they should be able to give us some proper software, that at least on the surface looks good.
Have you ever checked adb logcat while sense is running? Oh the plethora of error messages coming form that software...

Sense sucks, really annoying that we had to wait so long for the official 2.1 rom when all I wanted was a clean 2.1 without any of htc's junk. CMH rules period

This really bothered me and I'm the process of fixing the framework graphics...
I'm really close to fixing the graphics, so far so good and everything's working. I'm just not sure where can I change the color of the text labels in the tabs... Any ideas?
EDIT: Nevermind, just found it, I'll post a topic with the a patch in the dev section when I'm finished with this. I'll just a little more thing to try to fix before that...

I know that you have found a patch, but is there a chance you are using basic-Sense ROMs? If you use a full-Sense ROM you should not have this problem...?

Andyt95 said:
I know that you have found a patch, but is there a chance you are using basic-Sense ROMs? If you use a full-Sense ROM you should not have this problem...?
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I have no idea what you mean by basic/full Sense ROMs...
I'm using my own cooked ROM based on the official RUU and I didn't do any changes for this to happen. But just to make sure, I installed a clean ROM without any changes but root and the problem was still there.
The things I changed for this to look better cannot happen on their own, so I don't understand how can this be a problem for some and not everyone (if that's indeed the case).

Question about Camera app

Hi, I was having a play with one earlier - and it appeared that when you take a picture there is no way within the app to see the picture you just took? You have to exit out and go into gallery?
Is there a way around this? Ta

There is an list of latest taken photos on right side... You can even expand it & then it shows all files in image-folder...
Take a look:
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Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway

Remember that you can flash a normal non-messed up rom from the dev section,
like my orange uk version, is now a on the global rom minus the orange bloatware

Scottland said:
Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway
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If you swipe the thumbnails to the right, they will disappear... if you swipe from the very right edge of the screen toward the centre.. they will come back!... same with the menus on the other side (but in reverse!)

Is it possible to remove compression from our phone? Try to take a picture and the size only around 700kb when i use 8mp setting.

you can use vignette off the market - but in the tests I've done it doesn't really improve the image quality very much at all.. and actually in some shots I preferred the stock camera's results.

yeah, i like the result of the stock camera apps. But when i transfer the file to my PC and zoom it, the quality still not too good because of the compression. that is why i'm trying to remove the compression.

Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too

Is there any way to have multi shots option???
To press camera button and take 3-5 pictures in a row...
I miss that capability....

vegetaleb said:
Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too
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will wait for that! thx!

Yeah but pray that we get root before the SGS2 get it, I will not keep a phone without root undefinitly

Camera starts to blurr on increasing distance after 30cm from object

Untill i was using MIUI everything was fine but after I flashed lineage OS 14.1 camera quality is decreased but still it was fine. Then i tried different gcam mods and flashed a couple of zip files in hope that camera will became better but it's quality is totally low now. Even i reverted back to MIUI to see if that fix the issue but still its persisting. I have tried Miui Stock Camera, Bacon Camera, Open Camera all having the same issue.
About Issue : On taking a picture from distance it becomes blurry the more I increase distance more it will become blurry. Picture starts to blurr after moving the camera away more than 30cm (i know it's hard to believe)
Check the screen shots and plzzz help me...
(good in this)
From 15 cm :
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(start to decrease)
From 35 cm :
From 100 cm :

I think. No one can see ur screenshot,

....L said:
I think. No one can see ur screenshot,
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Updated the screenshot links
Check now

I think, thats your camera problem Not the rom / apps problem.

Yes your camera isnt using focus just flash some zip files for focus and it will work again thats the cameras focus problem

It happened with me, i had to disassemble my mobile and adjust camera module a bit to get the focus right.
Follow this guide on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcLhQtdzY4A, its not for our device but you can have a loot at it for a reference.

Sunny Za said:
Yes your camera isnt using focus just flash some zip files for focus and it will work again thats the cameras focus problem
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Will you please suggest some zip files as i am not able find them.

sheshuvadrevu said:
It happened with me, i had to disassemble my mobile and adjust camera module a bit to get the focus right.
Follow this guide on
, its not for our device but you can have a loot at it for a reference.
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Thank you man you saved my phone