I tried a bunch of wallpapers, but I think I like all black the most. I'm in love with this screen.
A black background it what I have been using since Wednesday. It is really nice.
The black "honeycomb" wallpaper included with LauncherPro (and LauncherPro Plus) is pretty gorgeous on the Epic 4G. Here's a shot:
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Doesn't black backround help save the battery?
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Doesn't black backround help save the battery?
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Yes. The brighter the colors, the more battery is used to display them. White is the worst. Black is the best.
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Yes. The brighter the colors, the more battery is used to display them. White is the worst. Black is the best.
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Also, red uses less power than green or blue.
So if you want some color in your black background, make it red.
It's funny cause even when you post what you have on here you don't really see how good it is unless you see it in person. Not even video really catches how good the screen is. But I know what you guys mean. I'm happy with this phone.
Where can one download an all solid-color wallpaper (without also downloading launcher pro)?
Open up photoshop (or Gimp for a free solution), set the resolution to 800x480, and make it a solid color. Then save it to the phone.
Wouldnt it be better to have transparent background instead of black?
Is that possible with android?
Jefe314159 said:
Wouldnt it be better to have transparent background instead of black?
Is that possible with android?
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What color would that transparent background have?
Jefe314159 said:
Wouldnt it be better to have transparent background instead of black?
Is that possible with android?
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How would that work out?
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How would that work out?
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Like this?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.kewlwall.camera
I suspect it doesn't save battery, though.
entropism said:
Open up photoshop (or Gimp for a free solution), set the resolution to 800x480, and make it a solid color. Then save it to the phone.
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Do I have this on my phone or do I have to get it for my PC.
Speaking of transparent wallpaper, a few times when trying to apply a wallpaper it wasn't applied due to some error and the background was bare black...really black. How can I duplicate this or have no background?
Transparent would show what's behind the screen duuh!
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Transparent would show what's behind the screen duuh!
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Duuh, you didn't answer my question. It happened thru error. I want to do it purposely.
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Duuh, you didn't answer my question. It happened thru error. I want to do it purposely.
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I used a live wallpaper then, force stop it
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I have a black wallpaper its easy to do take a pic w the camera w flash off in the darkness save it as wallpaper
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What color would that transparent background have?
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You'd have to use a .png, and .png with transparency default to black when transparency isn't supported.
So you'd end up with a ...black background.
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I just got android on, MDJ's 2.6 and I see some color depth problem. on the live wallpapers I see it and on the weather widget. I also see it in some of the menus. I'm just wondering if this poor color depth is normal? this is what I'm talking about:
mine looks like the middle example, maybe a little worse.
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Just try a different rom and to check if there's any change.
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I tried a different rom, same thing. I'm using the same live wallpaper on the new rom, and I don't see the problem, however I see it in the other same areas as I did with the old rom.
heres a couple pictures i took:
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http://img39.imageshack.us/i/photo23da.jpg
Dunno then!
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I just got android on, MDJ's 2.6 and I see some color depth problem. on the live wallpapers I see it and on the weather widget. I also see it in some of the menus. I'm just wondering if this poor color depth is normal? this is what I'm talking about:
mine looks like the middle example, maybe a little worse.
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I used WP7 for some time and people say that it should enable 24-bit depth, and i can't confirm this because its not so important for me but wp7 clolours look "healthier" than in android. It could be android's fault. :/
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I used WP7 for some time and people say that it should enable 24-bit depth, and i can't confirm this because its not so important for me but wp7 clolours look "healthier" than in android. It could be android's fault. :/
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so maybe if I put WP7 on and then go back to android perhaps it will be fixed?
Try Launcher Pro. Whenever I've seen someone on here complain about colour banding issues (especially with widgets!) I've recommend they try it and they've all agreed it's resolved with that 1 change.
I'd recommend Launcher Pro for many, many other reasons anyway, but it does fix this particular issue
I installed launcher pro, not sure where to go from here. I Google android color banding and found many complaints. I notice the banding on certain website logos while browsing and I even see it on the keyboard right now.
Are you saying that Launcher Pro didn't solve the problem with wallpapers and widgets? Obviously it can't affect any other app that runs but it should have made a difference to the home screen.
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Are you saying that Launcher Pro didn't solve the problem with wallpapers and widgets? Obviously it can't affect any other app that runs but it should have made a difference to the home screen.
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I dont think it did, I hit the home button, selected launcher pro, then I added a the weather widget to my home screen, I still see the banding on it. When I select the widget and move it around, the banding is gone, but as soon as I let go and drop it, I see banding.
You dont have banding? goto neowin.net with the android browser, look at the top left at the neowin logo, tell me if you see banding.
EDIT: I used the stock launcher and moved the weather widget around, even while moving it, it still had the banding, so launcher pro is effecting something.
anyone else here have this problem?
this is some sort of gingerbread issue... using ocm7's cm6 rom... best of the bunch!
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this is some sort of gingerbread issue... using ocm7's cm6 rom... best of the bunch!
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you had this problem on 2.3 but don't have it on 2.2?
any more ideas/information?
HD2 is limited to 65k colors for now, hence the color banding.
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HD2 is limited to 65k colors for now, hence the color banding.
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so everyone has color banding?
Its a limitation of wm 6.5 and the radio i guess
no, i dont have that problem on 2.2... so im only using froyo atm cm6.2...
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no, i dont have that problem on 2.2... so im only using froyo atm cm6.2...
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Have you tried 2.3?
Ugh I just hate it.
I just spent all day making a great background, but when i put it on the phone, 65K strikes again
I want a 256K color screen! Or 16M...
i know other cm7 roms for different phones have it ex. nexus one. but is there any way to get the notification/status bar to the bottom of the phone?
It is apart of cm7 now so every cm7 rom can. It is under cyanogenmod settings --> tablet tweaks
There is no tablet tweaks section on mine
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There is no tablet tweaks section on mine
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CM settings > tablet setting at the bottom. Make sure you're on the latest rom.
Yeah nightly 38 and beyond has the tablet tweaks ... at least I believe it was 38. If you're on an earlier build it wont be there. Obviously.
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Hey that's kind of neat, so different with it on.
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OP, what version of CM7 are you using?
I have it on CM7 Final (EVO) and a buddy of mine has it on his Nexus One.
Also... I tried to use it, but it was tripping me out, so eh it's not for me lol
screen shot? i dont feel like flashing to see it
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screen shot? i dont feel like flashing to see it
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imagine the top bar at the bottom, pretty much self explanatory
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It's exactly what you think it is...
http://i.imgur.com/qdI0G.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/28406.jpg
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It's exactly what you think it is...
http://i.imgur.com/qdI0G.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/28406.jpg
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Well no ****!
I'd rather be able to see it then 'imagine' it.
lol, launcher pro or adw would be cool as **** with the bottom bar if you could move the icons vertically on either right or left side.
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It's exactly what you think it is...
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how'd you get such a sense-like clock? looks slick.
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how'd you get such a sense-like clock? looks slick.
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It's Fancy Widget Pro (paid/market)... with a clock skin called "Inversion Clock"
XDA Premium App | CM7 EVO
oh i'm all adw ex. might switch to normal cm7-modified now that they've been putting so much work into it. i'd hate to lose the transition animations though.
either way i got a pretty slick red clock (fancy widget pro theme) for the first blood theme (check it out. it's our first theme, and it looks amazingly cool).
I updated and have it now thanks.
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Is that a theme chooser theme that makers your notification bar icons like that?
knowledge561 said:
Is that a theme chooser theme that makers your notification bar icons like that?
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Yes, it's Sculpted and works with the Theme Chooser / Engine or whatever. Can be found in Market.
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Yes, it's Sculpted and works with the Theme Chooser / Engine or whatever. Can be found in Market.
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Thanks
10char
OK so I finally got the wallpapers!
Click on the image to enlarge the image and download it!
Alternatively I have attached a .zip file in this post to download all wallpapers easily
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Hi can anyone make a wallpaper from the cosmic flow live wallpaper?
I ALREADY HAVE THE COSMIC FLOW LIVE WALLPAPER INSTALLED BUT IT CAUSES MY X8 TO LAG, SO DOES ANY1 KNOW HOW TO MAKE A WALLPAPER FROM IT, I TRIED TO CROP THE SCREENSHOT BUT ITS TOO SMALL FOR THE WALLPAPER AND IT BECOMES PIXELATED.
Maybe this forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472073 ?
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Maybe this forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472073 ?
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dosn't work, keeps force closing
phil18 said:
Maybe this forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472073 ?
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I mean i have it but want to make a normal wallpaper from it
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maybe this can help you
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maybe this can help you
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Thanks mate!
EDIT:
This image gets pixelated. Can anybody make one for our screen?
I will make for our screens tomorow
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Hi can anyone make a wallpaper from the cosmic flow live wallpaper?
I ALREADY HAVE THE COSMIC FLOW LIVE WALLPAPER INSTALLED BUT IT CAUSES MY X8 TO LAG, SO DOES ANY1 KNOW HOW TO MAKE A WALLPAPER FROM IT, I TRIED TO CROP THE SCREENSHOT BUT ITS TOO SMALL FOR THE WALLPAPER AND IT BECOMES PIXELATED.
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what rom do you have? Mine is Kernel Alfs 7 ICS and FireDroid 1.0 no lag at all even at 600 Mhz
I made 2 Wallpapers for you... Take this if you have only 1 homescreen.
I made one more with 640x480 resolution, you can take this one if you have more than 1 homescreen...
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I made one more with 640x480 resolution, you can take this one if you have more than 1 homescreen...
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This one is good, but it still gets pixelated, and also the blue stuff is covering the whole screen instead of just the middle.
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This one is good, but it still gets pixelated
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I know, this is the maximum i get out of the picture i found.
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and also the blue stuff is covering the whole screen instead of just the middle.
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I can make it just in the middle, but it would be deformed or something of the blue wave gets lost. Its because i found only horizontal screenshots of the livewallpaper.
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I made one more with 640x480 resolution, you can take this one if you have more than 1 homescreen...
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I know, this is the maximum i get out of the picture i found.
I can make it just in the middle, but it would be deformed or something of the blue wave gets lost. Its because i found only horizontal screenshots of the livewallpaper.
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i guess there isnt a bigger picture, so it doesnt get pixelated. Itried and got the same results as you. Thanlks for ur effort though
Ok, made 2 more, maybe one of them is slightly better, but this is definitely the limit. I already edited with photoshop.
This do the job?
Cheers
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This do the job?
Cheers
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Dude thats great!!!
Thanks a lot!
Can u make one where the blue waves are thinner and more in the middle, instead of spreading upwards?
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Dude thats great!!!
Thanks a lot!
Can u make one where the blue waves are thinner and more in the middle, instead of spreading upwards?
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Well i don't know really what you want, so look if some of these help you
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Well i don't know really what you want, so look if some of these help you
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No thats not what i wanted but thanks for your help.
I added ur pics in OP
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No thats not what i wanted but thanks for your help.
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Wow you want a new one? well that wallpaper is not my job( i used one in the Web, and turn it all blue like the cosmic flow with Gimp), if i could or knew how, i would do it, but i'm not an expert in design and photoshops
So far I think its coming along good. Tell me if the color is OK. I'll post screenshots. I am aware that there are still some blues. I'm working on this. It takes a while because I have a work around for the systemui.apk that I need to use because my apk manager doesn't do the job right . Anyways, please give me some feedback!
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1st..... so far so good. are you planing on changing icons?
Not sure. This is my first them. I'm keeping it simple. Maybe later. The screen shots are poop. The real color is way better. Its bright and beautiful
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Looks really good man, I always like the contrast of yellow on black ( huge fan of gb green on black).
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Thanks. Should I make the button press green or like a whitish-gray? I mean like when u select something. For example when u press Apps in settings. The highlighted color. I'm not sure if I want to make it green cause it might be to much green. What do you guys think?
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I say go for green...
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Really nice job so far
CM9 Beta 1 El30 Shadow Kernal
I don't even like green, but that looks really good!
Its a go then. Working on it during class lol
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Help
I cant change the color of the press. Does anyone know where the .9.png's are? Or which ones?
Framework... its a yellow square or something yellow/orange btw I was making a green theme just sayin =]
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But shouldnt it be blue because it is ICS and the highlight color is blue
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But shouldnt it be blue because it is ICS and the highlight color is blue
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Nope... the cm devz kept what was blue blue and what was yellow yellow.. not saying they're lazy but they didn't theme it... I guess its based on cyanogens framework so. Ya get what get just extract the frameworks contents and look through the drawble-hdpi and you'll find a bunch of yellow selections.
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Dammit!!Getting frustrated here -.-. I cant find it. I even changed the one that said "highlight_pressed" and nothing. maybe because when I save as and then put the .9.png's im putting a bunch of .9.png's and not just one. could this be it? I doubt it.
I did like half of what I was trying to do. The highlight works in xda app. But I want to change the blue from when ur in home the press menu then"select" system setting. Can't get it >:/
Update-Getting these together. It looks pretty good. Will be done maybe by sunday. Maybe an update will be out by then:/. But its ok!!. Its looking beastly
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Nope... the cm devz kept what was blue blue and what was yellow yellow.. not saying they're lazy but they didn't theme it... I guess its based on cyanogens framework so. Ya get what get just extract the frameworks contents and look through the drawble-hdpi and you'll find a bunch of yellow selections.
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The framework is because Google is lazy. Most of the images you'll want to edit are in SystemUI.apk, but there are still a couple hundred images from framework-res that are still used. Fwiw, I'd theme everything. Never know nowadays if an image in a framework is used or not lol.
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The freaking font. No seriously. The default LG font is way too thin and when displayed on a white surface is very uncomfortable to read.
I just installed Roboto font using iFont and I can no longer find any (noticeable) sharpening done on the phone.
This is not placebo. Try it yourself and be amazed! Maybe there's still a sharpening issue, somewhere. But switching the font has mostly cured it for me. Yay.
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Tried it, it's still there. It won't show up on screenshots by the way, and it's most noticeable with black text on a grey background.
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Tried it, it's still there. It won't show up on screenshots by the way, and it's most noticeable with black text on a grey background.
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You're right. Still there. But bolder fonts make the sharpening effect a lot less annoying. I can finally use Press without poking my eyes out.
I can't wait for a fix to come out for this! As a photographer, I see a lot of beginner photographers over sharpening their pictures, giving the same effect. Now MY WHOLE PHONE DOES THIS CONSTANTLY. Just kills me.
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Glad to see I'm not crazy and that people have the same issue with the phone's over-sharpening
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We humans are capable of greatness.
Switched to Vector font (iFont). Much bolder, much better lol. Temp fix for now.
Ive had my G3 since the UK release and cant notice the whole sharpening thing everyone is on about?
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Ive had my G3 since the UK release and cant notice the whole sharpening thing everyone is on about?
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I can't either. I have 20/20 vision, maybe you need better eyes to see it, but I'm not complaining.
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I can't either. I have 20/20 vision, maybe you need better eyes to see it, but I'm not complaining.
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I have great eye sight, maybe it is affecting the crap sighted?
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I have great eye sight, maybe it is affecting the crap sighted?
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That might be it!
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That might be it!
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Haha maybe we just need it pointed out to notice it. I noticed a single damn dead pixel on my first G3
It depends on the screen to be honest sometimes I'm shielding my eyes other times like this post can't see it. I am wondering if there is some algorithm running and it adapts constantly.
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It depends on the screen to be honest sometimes I'm shielding my eyes other times like this post can't see it. I am wondering if there is some algorithm running and it adapts constantly.
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Yeah it's definitely more noticeable when there's a grey background. Load this page up on your phone.
Also, once I got the effect to pop-in (not sure how, if I come across it again I'll definitely try to reproduce it) so it's gotta be some kind of processing unrelated to the display firmware.
Changing the font to Roboto Condensed using iFont completely solved the text sharpening issue. Even when the test of the screen has halo artifacts, the font looks fine.
As for icons and other issues with oversharpening, they too come and go for me. Sometimes the screen looks amazing, other times everything is super sharpened. I wonder if it has to do with throttling?
It's not everywhere. It'll show up in apps that have bad QHD support. I didn't have any of it in the vast majority of apps I was using, but then I ran into older apps and it suddenly appeared.
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Yeah it's definitely more noticeable when there's a grey background. Load this page up on your phone.
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I don't notice it on that image. I notice most in the playstore.