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Poor image quality

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...

UPDATE!!!!!!! Xperia S Cosmic Flow Wallpaper

OK so I finally got the wallpapers!
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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 ?

phil18 said:
Maybe this forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472073 ?
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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

n1kolaa said:
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
Sent from my E15i

_Sparks said:
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...

phil18 said:
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.

_Sparks said:
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.

phil18 said:
I made one more with 640x480 resolution, you can take this one if you have more than 1 homescreen...
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phil18 said:
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

andre_DC said:
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?

_Sparks said:
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

andre_DC said:
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

_Sparks said:
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

Display readable in sunlight

Hi, when I'm outside the display is not readable in sunlight, even if I check the ultrabrightness. Is that a common problem or there's a way to get it readable? There are different options in Cyanogen, maybe there's something I can do? :fingers-crossed:

Please provide complete details of which ROM you are using, and reporting it to its specified ROM thread will answer your query faster

Tommolo said:
Hi, when I'm outside the display is not readable in sunlight, even if I check the ultrabrightness. Is that a common problem or there's a way to get it readable? There are different options in Cyanogen, maybe there's something I can do? :fingers-crossed:
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Go inside

vanillaLVL said:
Go inside
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Hi vanilla I wonder what you feel if you have query and people answer you the same way as you did on this noob? Hmm i dont find it funny

deedii said:
Please provide complete details of which ROM you are using, and reporting it to its specified ROM thread will answer your query faster
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I'm using Prime HD 9. Thanks, I'll ask in its thread

Yes that should be a good practice rather than creating new thread, coz most likely bugs and fixes are posted there Btw I noticed you are new, maybe you could introduce yourself a bit and take sometime to read forum rules Enjoy..

Tommolo said:
Hi, when I'm outside the display is not readable in sunlight, even if I check the ultrabrightness. Is that a common problem or there's a way to get it readable? There are different options in Cyanogen, maybe there's something I can do? :fingers-crossed:
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I think you can use custom modded roms as they provide very high brightness.
Roms like Ixperia, HTX MIUI..etc have very high brightness option.

Sorry ..double post..

Tommolo said:
Hi, when I'm outside the display is not readable in sunlight, even if I check the ultrabrightness. Is that a common problem or there's a way to get it readable? There are different options in Cyanogen, maybe there's something I can do? :fingers-crossed:
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nah generaly our X8 screen has bad luminance. There is nothing you can do about it. The best you can do is to use ultrabrightness as u said u did... But this will drain battery quicker.

Xmaster8 said:
nah generaly our X8 screen has bad luminance. There is nothing you can do about it. The best you can do is to use ultrabrightness as u said u did... But this will drain battery quicker.
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Hmm.. x8..sometimes I hate it ..

Xmaster8 said:
nah generaly our X8 screen has bad luminance. There is nothing you can do about it. The best you can do is to use ultrabrightness as u said u did... But this will drain battery quicker.
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I'm not sure that x8 screen has bad luminance. If you use gingerdx v22,there is autobrightness work very good and on sun display became very light and you can normally see on it!
Or use stock rom and set to full brightness,because on cm roms full brightness isn't same as on stock!

deedii said:
Hi vanilla I wonder what you feel if you have query and people answer you the same way as you did on this noob? Hmm i dont find it funny
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Fullbrightness dose trick for me on froyobread.
Maybe you sgould first go to display and give it a full brightens and then go to cmsettings for ultra brightness.
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Until now i still use Ahmad.H patch in Shins LeWa for better brightness under sun.Maybe u should try on PrimeHD too

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I think all displays have the sunlight problem. Maybe excluding the kindle display and the HTC one x display.

Yellow tint issue on S4's screen

I have this annoying yellow tint on my S4's screen, but disappears when the phone is tilted over 45 degrees. Is this faulty ? Shall I return it ? Or is there a way I can fix the gamma through an app without rooting the phone ?
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Mine doesn't look like that, sorry. But I have lag. ):

Is it just in Chrome?
Try Chrome Settings ---> Developer Tools ---> Uncheck 'Enable Tilt Scrolling'

@raqball nope this is found everywhere, even instagram and facebook.

Ah, no clue then sorry..

@raqball can you do a quick check with yours, similar to the one I did and let me know what you get ?

Go to settings display screenmode and use something else other than adapt display. Im currently using dynamic and my tint is gone.
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I had it on standard all this time (including screenshot) .. Putting it on dynamic gives the same result :

Damn I was hoping it was that because it fixed it for me. Maybe a hardware issue?
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@stevehkim I'm not sure tbh .. thanks for the suggestion though. It's quite annoying after I realised that it exists ... Didn't bother me before I noticed it :\

I found an app called Screen Adjuster but its not really efficient.

I had this with my S3 and got used to it. I was told in those forums that this is just how these AMOLED screens are made.

My display is perfectly white though... Side by side comparisons between the Note II, Microsoft Surface RT (perfect white display), and a Sony HDTV. My S4 beats or meets them all.
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Bjray said:
My display is perfectly white though... Side by side comparisons between the Note II, Microsoft Surface RT (perfect white display), and a Sony HDTV. My S4 beats or meets them all.
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Can you post a picture comparing your screen to a laptop's screen ? I just want to see how different it looks. Also, do you suggest I return it to the store and get another one ?

geoldr said:
I had this with my S3 and got used to it. I was told in those forums that this is just how these AMOLED screens are made.
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It didn't bother you ?

I would return it rather than regretting it later. It defiantly doesn't look right.

ZaZu90 said:
Can you post a picture comparing your screen to a laptop's screen ? I just want to see how different it looks. Also, do you suggest I return it to the store and get another one ?
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Acer 24" LCD Monitor vs S4
I'll do one of my Surface or TV later.
I made a Pure White image to use for testing on the S4, use it instead of Chrome which uses a grey color in it's UI and for some reason the S4 screen brightness dims on Chrome automatically (and you can't change it). Download it if you want to do comparisons again.
Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0r4KgQ9UmZjNEJTUV9aMjZURUE/edit?usp=sharing

Bjray said:
Acer 24" LCD Monitor vs S4
I'll do one of my Surface or TV later.
I made a Pure White image to use for testing on the S4, use it instead of Chrome which uses a grey color in it's UI and for some reason the S4 screen brightness dims on Chrome automatically (and you can't change it). Download it if you want to do comparisons again.
Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0r4KgQ9UmZjNEJTUV9aMjZURUE/edit?usp=sharing
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Thanks for doing this, do you notice any yellowish tint or is yours bright white ? ...Yeah I tried a white BG not in chrome and this is what I got :
It's pretty annoying the more I realise it tbh ...

Anyone else having this issue ?

ZaZu90 said:
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No, but just exchange it out asap.
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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?

leomd333 said:
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!

Semantics said:
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.

LBTaylor1984 said:
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.