Screen not as "Vibrant" as it used to be... - Vibrant General

When I compare my GF's Epic's screen to my year plus old Vibrant, her screen definitely looks brighter and the colors just pop a little more. Both have the same settings. It's the same screen. The only difference is the amount of hours that the screen has been on. Do these screens just wear out over time?

It all depends on voodoo color can make it look better an if your on CM Gama really affects it a lot and yea I could just be your screen is dying do to it being oled
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Find a rom that use the latest voodoo10 enhanced kernel. It truly is like night and day.
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will check it out. Been on Asgard GB original version since it came out

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Cool color temperature

Compared to the Evo, my Epic hasa really cool color temperature. Screen is really blue. Is this normal for this phone or is mine off? This is driving me baddy.
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Half way normal, download a rom with voodoo
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Kcarpenter said:
Half way normal, download a rom with voodoo
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Does me no good, Voodoo works only at 100% brightness...
Mine is like that too. Slight blueish tint compared to my wife's Evo.
I saw a thread about this about a month ago or so... from the sounds of it not all epics were like this. I never noticed it on mine but again, a lot of others have.
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Before the Epic came out, I looked at the Tmobile Galaxy S phone and was mortified at the bluish tint of its screen. A portion of a web page which was supposed to appear white would appear very very pale baby blue. It was definitely noticeable. If you are experiencing that on your Epic. . . . sorry. My Epic does not have that problem.

Tell me about the Nexus S

I'm mulling a switch to Sprint basically and I'm considering a Nexus S 4G when I come across, anything special I need to know? Tell me some pros and cons, just wanting to make a good purchase.
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Pros: stock gingerbread, samoled is amazing, sexy formfactor body, easy to root.
If your going to root we have a pretty good section of roms, mostly aosp. Go check out the dev section if you wanna get the down low.
Cons: some users have issues with signal reception but mine is rather good, some people don't like the plastic body, samoled sucks up battery if is up too high for too long.
But the only opinion that matters is your own, btw if you don't like it you can return it and get an evo if you like that better.
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How common is the signal issue and I've heard wifi has issues?
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I haven't ever noticed problems with reception during calls or on WiFi
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chewbz said:
samoled sucks up battery if is up too high for too long.
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I agree with everything except this. Samoled uses a good bit less power than LCD technology does.
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And blacks on the samoled screen are the blackest you'll ever get on any screen. It's as if its not even there....
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fraspas said:
And blacks on the samoled screen are the blackest you'll ever get on any screen. It's as if its not even there....
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Because that's how it works. The pixels are almost in the off state for black.
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I've never kept my phone the higtest setting for the whole day, I'm always on auto, I just guessed that it would suck up more battery than in normal use. Never tested aganist an LCD screen so ..... lol but I've heard different stories about battery life between LCD vs samoled screen so hmmm I don't know >.<
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Yes, samoled does use less power then an lcd if you avoid white color

Pixelated screen normal?

Just got a nexus s 4g yesterday. Like it so far. Bit when I woke up this morning the screen looked like it was a much lower resolution. Looks like little dots on every line etc.
Grabbed my wife's evo and her icons look much smoother as I can not see this on hers at all.
Anyone else see anything similiar? It kind of looks like stipulation if that makes any sense (using colored dots to make a picture).
Any comments ate appreciated.
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If you look very close at the screen it looks pixilated but from a decent distance it should look great, I had an evo before the nexus and IMO the nexus screen is worlds better than the evo.
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scoobdude said:
Just got a nexus s 4g yesterday. Like it so far. Bit when I woke up this morning the screen looked like it was a much lower resolution. Looks like little dots on every line etc.
Grabbed my wife's evo and her icons look much smoother as I can not see this on hers at all.
Anyone else see anything similiar? It kind of looks like stipulation if that makes any sense (using colored dots to make a picture).
Any comments ate appreciated.
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That's how amoled screens are. Read up a little on the difference between LCD and amoled and you'll see that the amoled has less pixels, making it less clear than LCD.
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I am new to this type of screen so just wanted to make sure my phone was OK. Thanks for the input guys and if you have any links to send please do.
P.s. I read the previous AOMLED screens were worse due to sub pixel layout.
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scoobdude said:
I am new to this type of screen so just wanted to make sure my phone was OK. Thanks for the input guys and if you have any links to send please do.
P.s. I read the previous AOMLED screens were worse due to sub pixel layout.
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Ours does use the worse pentile matrix sub pixel layout. Its the newer SAMOLED Plus that doesn't.
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Sad about my super amoled :(

My friend has a epic 4g and his colors are super deep. Mine look more washed
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Maybe its based on the settings. Don't despair!
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Are you using custom kernel? If you do use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1401759 setting with voodoo color.
It will make your phone's color darker, deeper and so much better.
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If you have a custom kernel with voodoo and the voodoo app installed
Create a script with this text:
#!/sys/bin/sh
echo 2309122400 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/red_multiplier
echo 2309122400 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/green_multiplier
echo 2701672960 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/blue_multiplier
echo -44 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/blue_v1_offset
echo -50 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/red_v1_offset
echo -53
That will run those settings at boot (takes a bit after booting for them to apply) I have that written in a script and placed in system/etc/init.d and it runs in boot every time and looks beautiful. Make sure your brightness is not set to automatic or it will give you crazy green sometimes.
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Lol sadly even without voodoo color it still looks that way. His colors still look deep
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ryohazuki said:
Lol sadly even without voodoo color it still looks that way. His colors still look deep
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Unfortunately, the Epic 4g has a much better screen. It is brighter and the dark colors are darker. I don't know why. I've had an Epic 4g before and the screen always looked better on my Epic than my Nexus S 4g. They are both Super AMOLED and by the same company but it is obvious that they used a different screen for the Nexus S 4g. I've tried tweaking all the settings on my Nexus but it always fall short compared to the Epic, even on FULL brightness.
I even thought my Evo 4G screen looked better. I've tried various kernels and Voodoo settings, but the Evo looks much brighter and more vibrant next to my ns4g.
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Omniren said:
Unfortunately, the Epic 4g has a much better screen. It is brighter and the dark colors are darker. I don't know why. I've had an Epic 4g before and the screen always looked better on my Epic than my Nexus S 4g. They are both Super AMOLED and by the same company but it is obvious that they used a different screen for the Nexus S 4g. I've tried tweaking all the settings on my Nexus but it always fall short compared to the Epic, even on FULL brightness.
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Epic 4g is galaxy s2 right? It has a samoled+ screen, so it is better
Nexus S is only one with with normal samoled
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DarkhShadow said:
Epic 4g is galaxy s2 right? It has a samoled+ screen, so it is better
Nexus S is only one with with normal samoled
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Epic 4G is galaxy s. Epic 4G touch is galaxy s2
063_XOBX said:
Epic 4G is galaxy s. Epic 4G touch is galaxy s2
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Oh I have no idea then
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Ive had both phones the epic 4g had a better screen hands down & the camera on the Epic is way better than the Nexus plus 720 p video playback other than that the NEXUS is a better phone I like it better if the Nexus had the Epic screen & camera it would of sold even better!
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The previous script I posted was wrong, my apologies. Try this.
#!/sys/bin/sh
echo 2309122400 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/red_multiplier
echo 2309122400 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/green_multiplier
echo 2701672960 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/blue_multiplier
echo -44 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/blue_v1_offset
echo -50 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/red_v1_offset
echo -53 >/sys/class/misc/voodoo_color/green_v1_offset
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Killasmoke said:
Ive had both phones the epic 4g had a better screen hands down & the camera on the Epic is way better than the Nexus plus 720 p video playback other than that the NEXUS is a better phone I like it better if the Nexus had the Epic screen & camera it would of sold even better!
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I don't know if it's just my nexus s but by default my colors look semi washed out. they dont look very deep. until i start lowering the gamma values but once i hit the -30's then the green tint screen dim happens.
ryohazuki said:
I don't know if it's just my nexus s but by default my colors look semi washed out. they dont look very deep. until i start lowering the gamma values but once i hit the -30's then the green tint screen dim happens.
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Try to download an high refresh rate kernel like this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427352
The colours should be better!
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I'm pretty sure the kernels with higher refresh rate have more washed out colours.
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developersdevelopers said:
I'm pretty sure the kernels with higher refresh rate have more washed out colours.
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From what I know higher refresh rate = better colours!!
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I am currently using Air Kernel with Voodoo colors and it definitely looks better than normal. You might want to give it a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1469842
I also found this thread....haven't tried it though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002090&highlight=chainfire
Oogway13 said:
I also found this thread....haven't tried it though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002090&highlight=chainfire
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^^ THIS! It will make your screen look AMAZING! The colors are super deep. Just DON'T have your screen on auto-brightness. your screen will turn all sorts of funky green colors.
rocket999 said:
^^ THIS! It will make your screen look AMAZING! The colors are super deep. Just DON'T have your screen on auto-brightness. your screen will turn all sorts of funky green colors.
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You resolved my green flashing screen everytime I unlocked my phone (uncheck automatic brightness)!! Sweeet!!!

Nexus LED

So has anyone else LED turned blue? Mine is really, really blue.
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Iirc the n1 has a teal blue led as well as a dark blue one. What seems to be the issue?
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Its the camera flash LED. It used to be pure white. The one day I noticed it had turned blue. Pictures taken with the flash on a blue washed if you will. That's the only minor issue. It doesn't bother me much. Just curious to see if anyone else's had done the same.
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jkbhso3 said:
Its the camera flash LED. It used to be pure white. The one day I noticed it had turned blue. Pictures taken with the flash on a blue washed if you will. That's the only minor issue. It doesn't bother me much. Just curious to see if anyone else's had done the same.
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oohhh the camera flash LED i though you were talking about the led ball on the front side of the phone haha.
so when the flash activates for a picture, instead of flashing white it flashes a blue-ish light now? i havent experienced that issue personally myself, sorry
Yeah it flashes blue and in a darkish area when taking pictures it causes the pictures to come out bluish. Like I said, just curious if I'm the only one or if it is something others are experiencing. Doesn't bother me too much.
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My Desire is the same now. I blame it on me using the flashlight on Death ray mode too often. I assume its half burned out.
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Lol! That makes sense I do the same.
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Rarely use it as a flashlight; instead I use a bright screen via 'Color Flashlight' app. Mine is still white.
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Well I found it hard not to use it since it is better than any flashlight I have owned and didn't drain the battery much for the amount I was using it. Better than worrying if your flashlight battery is going to die (no gauge on them)
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350Rocket said:
Well I found it hard not to use it since it is better than any flashlight I have owned and didn't drain the battery much for the amount I was using it. Better than worrying if your flashlight battery is going to die (no gauge on them)
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Abuse the led and it will start dying, big surprise. I suspect walmart has better flashlights than the N1's led, but any decent flashlight will kill it on both flexibility (low to full output), battery life, and of course output.
Look up Fenix. Cheap, work well. Get a 10 pack of 123 batteries online for $15 and it'll last you 5 years or more.
I find the camera always worked better in well lit areas without use of the flash anyways so I don't blame the phone for the led burning out and it doesn't bother me that much. At least it still works.
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Lol yeah same here. I got me a surefire 1000 lumen led flashlight now. Brighter than anything I've ever seen. But the blue led looks cool on my Nexus lol.
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After using it for a while and after the LED gets hot, its color will distort. It is a problem with the bulb itself and not any other hardware, such as the plastic piece that covers it. It is a result of age; therefore, there is no way to 'fix' the issue other than just to finally upgrade to a new device or replace the bulb if even possible.
I use my LED flash as a flashlight at max brightness and mine still is not blue yet, wonder why mines seems to be more durable...

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