Poor image quality - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

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:
http://img232.imageshack.us/i/photo13hk.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/i/photo23da.jpg

Dunno then!
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Gabe3 said:
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. :/

Silberpfeil3110 said:
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!

jornbjorn said:
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.

mosheen said:
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...

jornbjorn said:
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...

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the blacks are amazing: all black wallpaper attached

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?
itsmebryan said:
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.
hydralisk said:
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?
zombiefreak said:
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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rgregg504 said:
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.
MobileWon said:
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
Sent from my never been rooted, always stock eclair Epic.
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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ConceptVBS said:
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.

What would you change? (My Setup)

Just curious what you guys would suggest for changes. I realize everyone is different, but hearing some suggestions would be nice.
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The icons I found from this post from XDA. (thank you XDA user mikebeecham)
The background is from AndroidCentral. I typically roll black... always come back to this.
The ROM is Onyx 2.1 via Team Whiskey (leaked 2.2).
The 1x1 weather widget is Beautiful Widgets (I really do not like the 4x2 style).
I only have ONE screen... LP lets you have 15 icons at the bottom, that have swype gestures so there are really 30 apps I can open with nothing on my desktop and not opening the app drawer.
I find myself chocked full of lameness, in the sense that I rarely deviate from stock. About the only areas where I bother to customize is wallpapers and ringtones, though I have a massive collection of both courtesy of Ringdroid and Google image search.
And even there it seems that I tend to think a bit narrowly. Most all of my wallpapers are either artwork of Audrey Kawasaki or Sumi Keiichi.
Currently running TW's Obsidian v2...Heck, even my screen layout and icon positions have become a matter of course. I've kept my screen layout pretty much identical since July regardless of firmware.
I r the suk
If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!
s15274n said:
If you got some good artwork/backgrounds, post em man!
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I would...but it's actually REALLY A LOT LOL.
Furthermore it's stuff that is too easy to find if you understand how to use Google's Image search. Though wallpapers in our screen's native format are harder to come by (960x800), the aspect ratio of 1280x1024 traditional desktop wallpapers is nearly identical (1.2, compared to 1.25). An app like Wallpaper Set And Save will fit these with no discernible distortion.
In other words, I'm so lazy that I do not break out Irfanview and Gimp to custom resize, I just use backgrounds optimized for the 1280x1024 desktop resolution. Making that one change though opens up a world of millions of wallpapers to those like me who would rather look for new and interesting stuff than spend all day in image editing software resizing things....
Lazy I be.
Makes a lot of sense actually, thanks. Never really understood the point of those apps.
It reminded me of what your rockin
Still flashing
haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
This background is hysterical to me.
And here are a few more that I found recently from either Google Images, XDA or Team Whiskeys site:
s15274n said:
haha, that's awesome. Did you find that on androidcentral?
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Zedge wallpapers ,they've got some really good ones
Still flashing
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It reminded me of what your rockinhttp://tapa.tk/mu/4ccaf030-bba8-fa7b.jpg[/IMG
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Neat!
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.
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Also go to devientart.com they have wallpapers that are cool as hell
Still flashing
Check out the little icon im rockin as my launcher I love it I'm also pimpin the clear pull down bar and shiny plastic swype keYboard
Still flashing
I like it... I am more stock Guy.. not sure why so many people hate the TouchWiz UI, I love the features and have not found it to cause me any issues.
I am waiting the segmented Battery to get posted over to FROYO and a nice shade bar to come along but here is my setup.
Pretty simple but I don't feel I am lacking anything.
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[WIP] Sense 2.1 gingerbread theme [Taking requests/need ideas]

As the title states im making a new theme.
I made this thread so i can hear what people want to see
and run ideas by them. Ill post pics of stuff i make and see
if you think its good enough to make the final cut.
first ill be making the dialer, notification blind and other htc bars you
see in menus.
reserved....
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Ok im up and running. Flashed with old clockwork recovery, no problems.
first thing to re-skin, the dialer. what do you think of these buttons? :
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made a new thread where you can come and tell me what to do
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13030697#post13030697
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1st one (darker) looks better.
lvnatic said:
1st one (darker) looks better.
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The second one is pressed, you dont see that much.
i made them abit rounder :
esk02k said:
The second one is pressed, you dont see that much.
i made them abit rounder ...
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Please replace all the GREEN with BLUE as in your other Gloss theme. Love these teaser pics posted here...pleaese keep going...looking forward to alpha release
Maybe add some AOSP touch? like transparent white notification? and I really liked your gloss blue sense launcher-so maybe use that? Or maybe something with a Slate/espresso style launcher...
Well,this is really thoughtful of you m8,tnx
But what users want is max customization,i.o.w. different options,not just 1 totally re-done (red,for example) theme.The options for the user to choose what he wants from a number of options (like a built in mini-kitchen into the ROM)? would that even be possible.? ...cuz that would be amazing!
Definitely get rid of green . Blue and more blue plzzzz
i would like a black flip clock with animation carbon style, simple black, something like that...
get rid of the green is also a good idea hehe
also make the dialer pad dark
fly-in animations, circle battery, coloured icons... i like that
my favourite theme is this one for insertCoinHD, would like to see something out of it in a 2.1 theme: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12021611&postcount=6680
@esk02k
Can you make minimalistic theme? Something like LUCID for CM7 but for LeeDroid 3.0.2
Ok ill be working on it today. Ill get rid of the green
And see how the dialer looks. Was just finishing work
Yesterday when I made those buttons but should have a
Good bit of time today. Ill keep you posted and upload
Bits and bobs for you to try.
The dialer, feedbacks please :
Cool i like it
OO i like! sadly I've gone back to CM7 as i experienced too many bugs in the ROM for my preference. I'll use it again once i feel things are ironed out...
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OO i like! sadly I've gone back to CM7 as i experienced too many bugs in the ROM for my preference. I'll use it again once i feel things are ironed out...
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Yea i know. doesnt seem quick enough for prime time, maybe as
a secondary rom. ive started theming it now so id better finish the
job.
Hmm, IMHO at least numbers should be blue also. They are not visible enough as they are now.
KotDroid said:
Hmm, IMHO at least numbers should be blue also. They are not visible enough as they are now.
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+1 for blue numbers.
KotDroid said:
Hmm, IMHO at least numbers should be blue also. They are not visible enough as they are now.
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Ok ill try and put blue numbers. Need to find the
Code in an xml somewhere. Its not set up how it was
In froyo.
Make a honeycomb theme
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i still need to make a new dock/lockscreen and do a lot of house cleaning(to the theme ).

strange pixelation on my x8 (screen shots) please help :(

hi guys i just noticed something strange on my x8 , there is some strange form of pixelation on my phone screen it appearsin some cases and it's most clear on this screen shot taken from dungeon hunter !
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screen shot from my device with strange dots (take a closer look) :
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you see this dot like pixelation on the screen shot !
screen shot from the internet showing the same place you can notice that image is more clear and ain't got these strange dots :
wat is wrong ? is it normal ? maybe a similar screen shot from the same area could make me sure please some one do it and take a screen shot from the same area in dungeon hunter please i use an app called shootme from the market it's free ! thanks
to be honest i don't see any problem right there
wujekandrzej said:
to be honest i don't see any problem right there
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take a closer look lol
what is here strange??
It will be good to mark that pixels.
That's an HD game, maybe that's why your screen gets pixelated...
CaptainZap said:
That's an HD game, maybe that's why your screen gets pixelated...
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Yeah...that was my first thought X8 wasn't meant for hd
CaptainZap said:
That's an HD game, maybe that's why your screen gets pixelated...
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no i don't think so because i notice this in other places too not just in hd games...
anyways if you look closely you will see strange lookinf dots all over the screen can't be marked cause they are all over the pic but just needs a closer look
Are you using the Stock ROM or a custom one? If you are using a CM6 or CM7 based ROM, go in the cyanogenmod settings -> Performance settings and enable surface dithering. After a reboot, the quality of the display should increase.
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Are you using the Stock ROM or a custom one? If you are using a CM6 or CM7 based ROM, go in the cyanogenmod settings -> Performance settings and enable surface dithering. After a reboot, the quality of the display should increase.
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i'm using cm6 1.0.0
tried this and still the same , could this be a faulty screen ? but if it was a faulty screen i guess it won't show up in the screen shots !
bogdan_mihai554 said:
Yeah...that was my first thought X8 wasn't meant for hd
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could u post a screen shot taken from the same game and same place so i can make sure if this normal or not ?!
I'm also suffering of this when i installed Gingerfroyo rom on my x8. Could be a rendering mode for this rom, or something like that. It's kind of annoying, but i noticed it only does when rendering 3D graphics (live wallpapers, games). Anyone know how to get rid of this?
Kurtido said:
I'm also suffering of this when i installed Gingerfroyo rom on my x8. Could be a rendering mode for this rom, or something like that. It's kind of annoying, but i noticed it only does when rendering 3D graphics (live wallpapers, games). Anyone know how to get rid of this?
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maybe our phone is normal like this
skyboyextreme said:
maybe our phone is normal like this
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yes, it is.
i was switching 3 roms (stock, flyoy & minicm) because of same problem in fruitninja just to find out that game dithered background on all of them...
...I see it too on my HD dolphin browser
But my phone never show the .jpg files write. Colors are mess up and the quality sims horible.
Same here, i never noticed this in stock 2.1 SE ROM, i think ill try again in 2.1
In that Screenshot I am using FroyoBread v012, is this a problem to all custom ROM? it is visible even in Gallery.
i Hope theres a Fix for this

Screen sharpening? Maybe it's just...

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.
scy1192 said:
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.
Semantics said:
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?
leomd333 said:
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.

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