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Screen is too dim (White GSII vs. Black GSII)

Hey guys I currently have a black GSII and a white GSII on hand right now. I was planning to return my black one for a full refund to Amazon (because I wanted a white one), but now I am baffled. So as you guys can see in my pictures I have a black GSII on stock KI4 firmware and a white one on stock KI4 firmware. They are both on lowest brightness, however the white one has a much more washed out display and looks significantly dimmer than the black one when they are both on lowest brightness. The screen on the white one seems to have a grainy texture as well. FYI: both screens are set to NORMAL display modes (not dynamic or movie). In addition when I look at pictures with a lot of black in the background in pitch-black I can see gray spotches over my screen. I am almost positive that this screen is faulty (on the white one of course). Can anyone confirm that the White one does indeed have a faulty screen? Thanks
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Oh yea - don't mind the charging on the black phone - it doesn't make a difference whether it's charging or not because it plenty of juice left anyways. There are no screen differences when it's charging and when it's not.

Could it be because the black one is charging ...
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itsjusttim said:
Could it be because the black one is charging ...
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It makes no difference dude.

I just posted exactly the same problem!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313318

It not diffirence between black or white , it also happen to black and black, white and white . Samsung galaxy s2 is the best phone i'v ever used but it LCD panel pretty not stable . Even the phone just arrive in this month or the phone arrive in June are all the same , sometime i think i can never find 2 galaxy s2 phone that match in LCD panel.

I have the exact same issue with our other SGS2 that had its screen replaced. The one is way too dark/dim.
Pictures in my post ->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18653861#post18653861

Any difference with the same rom and kernel?

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Any difference with the same rom and kernel?
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No difference for my case. It was dark on stock ROM (though I could swear it was okay when the store staff turned on the phone to let me check ). Even after I flashed it to the same ROM and kernel as mine, problem still persists. For the time being, I have hacked into framework-res.apk to crank up the brightness at every level. This suffice for now.
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For those interested, you can follow the instruction here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235212&highlight=brightness to crank up the brightness of your screen. I am currently using
80, 120, 180, 230, 255
As a comparison, I have to crank down the brightness of my black SGS2 to
5, 40, 80, 140, 220 and it is still brighter than the cranked-up white one!

My white one is fine and identical to the black one I used to own. I did notice a difference in blacks and greys.
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Xperia S in White or Black?

I think black looks cleaner as white is not having 100% white frame like X10 used to have but looks great on the back side ;-)
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Honestly one of the nicest phones ever designed. White for the girls, and black for the guys. Those are probably the targets too.

I'll buy in black.
Every phone I get is usually in black.
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I like how the display in black phones just melt in with the rest of the phone in a way that i dint find the white ones doing. I think the screen seems smaler when u have a white phone, and I like big screens

Usually black makes slim.

If it's matte black then I'll choose black but if it's glossy black then I'll choose white over it any day.

i was thinking of making this thread as well, im confused about which color i want to get myself too

You know what they say: Once you go black, you never go back.

Maybe this should be transferred to the Xperia S forum now?
In any case, unlike most here I prefer the white one from the front as I like the contrast. But, I'm afraid there's too much white for my taste on the back.
As far as the black one goes, I don't think the bottom plastic part will blend nicely with the deep glossy black bezel surrounding the screen, as the plastic will just look a little "less black" and not very integrated if you know what I mean.

black is the best colour. Whie does look nice but you will get bored of it very easily and no way of changing it. I used to have x10 with both white and black housing but after 2 cdays with white i always ended up returning to black.

Black. I think white is more.. girlish. No offense
Black colour is better because, if it gets dirty/scratched, it will be harder to notice it. Especially when talking about those shiny covers.

I pre-ordered the white one, I think it looks better than the black version.
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Black. I think white is more.. girlish. No offense
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So that proves your point haha.
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Black
I have Arc S in white, but next one will be black

[SOLVED] Crushed blacks

So, one of the big reasons that I waited for the S3 instead of upgrading to the Galaxy Note, was because of widespread reports of "crushed blacks" on the Note's display (see this thread).
Crushed blacks is where instead of seeing an even progression in brightness from absolute inky black to the next darkest series of grays, you'll see black and then a stark jump in brightness to the next darkest gray. This defect makes watching movies and other media with lots of dark scenes a problem because it's hard to ignore the high contrasty / blotchy areas.
I'd appreciate it if someone could verify that this is a non-issue on the S3 by using the test image I've attached below. Download it, and view it fullscreen in a dark room. An actual photo of your screen would be nice too. TIA.
EDIT: Thanks all! Glad this isn't a problem on the S3 (and hopefully it won't be on the Galaxy Note 2 either).
720p test image:
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I'm coming from a note and that pic looks perfect on this S3. On my note it jumped at like 2 bars from the bottom on the left side.
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dante2512 said:
I'm coming from a note and that pic looks perfect on this S3. On my note it jumped at like 2 bars from the bottom on the left side.
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Awesome! *sighOfRelief*

I can see all boxes on full brightness.
At 50% I can't see the first two.
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I come from a Galaxy Note, too. The problem doesn't exist on the S3.
First thing I did when I got my S3 was that I did the test like on the Note (opened the image in QuickPic with the setting "Force true color decoding on") and went into a pitch dark room. Breathed a sigh of relief.
Here is a good example of what the problem with the Note looked like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg

I'm happy to report that I had no issue on my screen. Looked great and no crushing at all. I also went ahead and did a dead pixel check and turned out to be 100% :good:

stevieraveon said:
I come from a Galaxy Note, too. The problem doesn't exist on the S3.
First thing I did when I got my S3 was that I did the test like on the Note (opened the image in QuickPic with the setting "Force true color decoding on") and went into a pitch dark room. Breathed a sigh of relief.
Here is a good example of what the problem with the Note looked like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg
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wow that's terrible, here in bed, auto brightness. I didn't even know there was number row to the left lol but on my s2 I'm using, until I watched that video
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Display/Video Issues

Anyone having any issues with the display on theirs? I'm coming from a Note 5 and I feel like the screen on the S7 Edge is worse. I really only notice it in games like Clash of Clans or Boom Beach. Even the quality on the loading screens looks much worse. Not sure if it's just mine or if there's something I'm doing wrong but it's driving me nuts. I don't know if I should reset to factory default and start over but I haven't done much to the phone and definitely nothing that should be affecting this. Has anyone else noticed this with theirs?

Downloaded clash just too test this. Everything looked crisp

Side by side with my s6 this is definitely an improvement. Especially at lower levels

I too am coming from a Note 5. Waiting on my order.. Would love more updates on this..

Cleared cache and it looks better but I still feel like the Note 5 looked better at least in CoC. The screen looks great otherwise.

I noticed the colors in CoC look much deeper and crisp. Almost to a point that it's distracting. I took a screenshot of the game and looked at it in the gallery and it looks more like the it does on all my other devices. I thought maybe game tools was doing something to it and turned that off. That didn't make a difference either. I'm sure there's something that's being done on the video processing level that's affecting the color.

And how about the color swift? The white turn into blue or green when you view in low angles?

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And how about the color swift? The white turn into blue or green when you view in low angles?
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It's just physics. There's going to be color shift with a curved screen. That being said I don't notice it.

Xileforce said:
It's just physics. There's going to be color shift with a curved screen. That being said I don't notice it.
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Im not talking about the edge curves, I'm talking about the screen, I see the edge and note have a lot of this issues and not so much the s6 normal and s7 normal.

I noticed it too. It seems that if a game is detected, it changes the screen mode from basic to one of the more super saturated modes. I dug through the settings looking for a way to shut it off, but haven't found anything yet.
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You put the phone in settings (white images) and if you see in a little angle you can see the whites turn in to green or blue, and I see it more in the edge variant than the normal. It's very annoying

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It's just physics. There's going to be color shift with a curved screen. That being said I don't notice it.
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I'm talking about this issues, I see a lot of videos in YouTube and the edge have this issues and the s7 normal won't. This is why some edge have a more visible edge curve with this color and other not so much. See the photo
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Maybe you dont like the change lower it on game launcher i play coc too and love the graphics

How is the screen uniformity on your S5E?

I have a wifi US S5E a couple weeks now. I like dark mode and use it wherever it's available. But as you know, dark mode doesn't necessarily mean black background but dark gray backgrounds, and one noticed some uniformity problems. So I finally pulled up a gray test pattern and yep it's pretty ugly
Here's the S5E (right) next to my 6 year old original first gen tab S, displaying this video. Brightness is set to around 33% on both.
https://youtu.be/Qi4Wy7vE8-o
Like all OLEDs the S isn't perfect, but you can see the S5E is worse, almost like a gradient, grey on one side, black on the other side. Also, while the S is grey like it's supposed to, the 5e has a purple tint to it. The tint is exaggerated somewhat by the camera, but it's there in real life too. I never notice anything amiss with the S display on regular content, but the 5e uniformity definitely sticks out from time to time, especially in the evening.
So I'm wondering, do I have particularly bad uniformity or is this par for the course? Kind of disappointing that my spanky new tablet has in some ways a worse display than one that's ready to croak.
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The display on my Tab S5e is not bad

barth2 said:
I have a wifi US S5E a couple weeks now. I like dark mode and use it wherever it's available. But as you know, dark mode doesn't necessarily mean black background but dark gray backgrounds, and one noticed some uniformity problems. So I finally pulled up a gray test pattern and yep it's pretty ugly
Here's the S5E (right) next to my 6 year old original first gen tab S, displaying this video. Brightness is set to around 33% on both.
Like all OLEDs the S isn't perfect, but you can see the S5E is worse, almost like a gradient, grey on one side, black on the other side. Also, while the S is grey like it's supposed to, the 5e has a purple tint to it. The tint is exaggerated somewhat by the camera, but it's there in real life too. I never notice anything amiss with the S display on regular content, but the 5e uniformity definitely sticks out from time to time, especially in the evening.
So I'm wondering, do I have particularly bad uniformity or is this par for the course? Kind of disappointing that my spanky new tablet has in some ways a worse display than one that's ready to croak.
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I suffer from poor uniformity too. Maybe not as bad as in your case, but clearly visible. I read that the bigger OLED screen is, the higher probability of suche issue. I was thinking about sending it back to get refund or exchange, but since I bought it abroad, I finally gave up on the idea. And you know what? After few months I almost forgot about it ? It's possible to get used to it
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