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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.

New Nexus S owner - quality issues

Hi everyone,
I'm a former N1 owner and just bought a new NS i9020a from Negri Electronics and I'm finding a few funky things that I'd like to run by you guys. I'm suspecting that the phone might be defective, especially 1 and 2 below. Anyone else have these issues, or perhaps they are really non-issues?
1) My screen has pretty bad horizontal banding. It's most obvious in the notification pulldown, but is also noticeable with certain wallpapers, dead pixel test apps, etc. Please see screenshots below. Has anyone else had this, and do they fade away over time?
2) The galaxy live wallpaper has a layer of static "stars" or something above the actual spiraling galaxy. This layer kinda looks like stars, but some are splotchy/smeary. The galaxy itself also has a pink border/box around it too. I've factory reset twice and the same thing happens. Maybe my wallpaper is defective? See screenshots.
3) The screen in general has pretty yellow whites, especially in low brightness settings. I am not wowed as I thought I would have been with the SAMOLED screen.
4) When in the camera app, the picture doesnt actually take up the entire window. There are a few columns/rows of black pixels surrounding the picture. It's not centered either. See screenshot.
5) my volume rocker has a middle click, so there's up, middle, and down.
Banding:
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i'm on an ns4g, and i have the exact same problems. its not big enough to bug me though. btw, the samoled is more known for their deep blacks than their whites.

I would get that exchanged asap but since you bought it from Negri you will hard time.

i have a i9023 and got exactly same black line in camera app, it just doesn't take up the entire windowi believe it's a "feature"
i think "middle" button in volume rocker is normal, cause every android device i owned it was present, sometimes when you press it, your system gets lagged for a while, like 5 secs, i believe it's something related to debug setting, also you can use it to disable power button in cw recovery (don't know why)
the rest of your problem i can't actually help, since my screen is not the same!
edit: when you change from photo to video in camera app, don't these lines/rows change at all?!

Camera looks normal, just like mine.
Banding looks bad though. Possibly defective display. If you have warranty, you should exchange.

Sudden and unexplained drop in screen 'bit', resulting in poor colour gradients

I know there is already a thread about the general performance with gradients on this phone, but my phone just suddenly seems to have switched to 256k colour mode rather than 16M.
Doesn't affect videos, but does in games and static images.
See the gradient on my Equalizer widget and the icons at the bottom compared to an earlier screenshot on the right.
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And this is looking at a picture I took in the Gallery.
Any ideas what could cause this sudden degradation of quality? I haven't changed any settings.

Same here
Did you ever figure this out ..i too have the same problem .. very easy to notice when using quadrant .

i would be keen to see if this has been resolved this happen recently but only for a split second before it corrected itself, maybe wiping the phone and flashing might fix it

i've noticed this and found if you go to display properties and disable 'Auto Adjust Screen Powe' it brings my pictures back to life. Not sure if this is the fix but it helped me.

update
After trying lots of custom roms and different kernels i decided to try the stock Orange branded rom BVKG3 and now my graphics are nice and clear again.
Can anyone explain why this is happening and is there an unbranded rom that will work for me ?
Thanks

Got this when i was using cf3d and used an option on it (forgot what it is) to reduce wuality but improves performance.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Its chainfire3d it affects gallery too. Change default settings back. Reduce trxture quality to off !
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

sorry for beig a noob but how do i change the settings do i need to download a plugin .. i have not changed any settings ?
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ok so i dloaded chainfire and had a look at the settings..ie reduce texture quality and its unchecked .. and also seems to make no diference when it is checked

I still have no clue what is causing this ..tried Villainrom too still happening.

Driving me nuts
ok so this is getting annoying .. I have 2 sgs2 phones one black one white.
Both run perfect with the standard Branded orange rom no bad graphics / rendering.
Both the same age model etc.
However the black one has the problem already mentioned.
So now i have downloaded android hardware info tool just to make sure they were physically identical and they are ..
So just to recap --same rom --same kernel-- same baseband

Colour rendering issues

Hello,
I have a problem with my Axon 7 , it is not rendering red anymore. When I start the phone it is showing the colours correctly and just until the startup page with the collage is about to change to home page all the red is changed in muddy brown and stay like this. See attached pics. Does anyone encountered the same problem?
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nelulepra said:
Hello,
I have a problem with my Axon 7 , it is not rendering red anymore. When I start the phone it is showing the colours correctly and just until the startup page with the collage is about to change to home page all the red is changed in muddy brown and stay like this. See attached pics. Does anyone encountered the same problem?
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did you do a hard reset? Probably you could change the "color modes" over at screen settings, see if that changes. if that's not it look on developer options if there's an sRGB option and change it.
maybe downgrade to Marshmallow if you are in Nougat and then upgrade again? If you have an unlocked BL you could also download a full EDL image from the guys over 4PDA and flash it with MiFlash
Weirdest thing I heard about...

Your image seems to be broken so it's hard to tell what the issue is. But judging by the description do you have the Night Light setting enabled? Check first by going to
Settings -> Display -> Night Light (9th option down)
See if that's enabled or set to turn on at a certain time. This feature changes the color of your screen to an amber effect which might be what you're seeing? Sorry if this isn't related to your problem. You may want to re-upload your picture showing the issue.

I don't have night mode on my phone. It is a G version and now have the B04 on it. But the problems started with B02 so it is not the last update. I cannot attach pics but all the red colours are a muddy brown now.

nelulepra said:
I don't have night mode on my phone. It is a G version and now have the B04 on it. But the problems started with B02 so it is not the last update. I cannot attach pics but all the red colours are a muddy brown now.
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Then do what I told you, it seems that downgrading to Marshmallow actually wipes everything.

I have done a hard reset and everything is just fine now.