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Netflix brightness

Has anyone else noticed that Netflix was a little dim???? I have my brightness set to maximum (manual) and when the show starts playing it is a little dim IMO. Anyone else feel the same way?
It isn't the show.

Yes. I have noticed the same thing. Basically what happens is that when you increase the screen brightness, the Netflix app itself gets a lot brighter, and the pause/play slider bar gets brighter too. But the video itself, not so bright.
strange.

I haven't used the app a lot on my phone, but I left the brightness all the way down with no problems.
I do have the Genocide 2.0 kernel, so I don't know if Voodoo Color is helping or not...

I would still LOVE real video adjustments for the Epic... now that we actually have video to stream to it. Im using it on lowest brightness, and loving the blacks in it, reminds me of my CRT projector... cant wait for OLED TVs.

maybe it's the picture examination and optimization feature thats in the display section in the settings menu, I see that if I uncheck that option it looks more brighter.

megabiteg said:
maybe it's the picture examination and optimization feature thats in the display section in the settings menu, I see that if I uncheck that option it looks more brighter.
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Just about to say the same thing.

Mine was disabled already. Picture still looks a bit dim with a bit of a contrast issue. Yet if I look at Netflix via my Roku via my Slingbox via my Slingplayer it looks fine on the Droid (I know, what a trip).

[Q] When in settings, setting drop down - weird background

Hi,
When selecting settings from the settings menu in system or apps, background for it is very weird. At first i though that my screen is bad, but after quick test i saw that its not the case.
Has everyone seen this before?

It's a new bug. All the menus that use this exact grey background have it on JB 4.2. Same on the N7.

Any developments on a fix for this bug?

Valynor said:
It's a new bug. All the menus that use this exact grey background have it on JB 4.2. Same on the N7.
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What do you guys mean, I don't see what he is referring to in the picture or on my N10

Look at the right side of the picture (not in low res, otherwise you wont see it)...... it almost looks like mountains or a graph. discoloration....

[Screen Tune Settings] for Balanced Color and Saturation!

Possibly the largest complaint I have with the Galaxy S2 is the screen color balance.
Im guessing they did this for the wow pop factor that is so common when you're shopping for TVs. Yeah, looks cool when you first see it, but after a while, its bugs you. Well, it bugs me. The AMOLED screen has insane contrast ratio.
So after some mucking about, I got the color balance the best I could get on my phone while still keeping the contrast ratio the same. I avoided filter apps such as Screen Adjuster. Its not perfectly balanced, but Its Waaaay better from how it is stock. My settings may not work for you, but will give you a starting point to tune yourself.
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Requirements:
1. Touchwiz Rom or AOSP like CM10.1/CM10.2 (Pretty much any ROM will work I think. I did this on CM10.1)
2. Dorimanx Kernel (Important, will allow you to do some fine tuning) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1617219
3. STweaks. This is to access the kernel features. On the latest kernel 9.37, this app wasnt included in the kernel. You can find it in the play store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gokhanmoral.stweaks.app&hl=en
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How to: CM10.1/ CM10.2 (AOSP)
1. Go to "Settings"
2. Click "Advanced"
3. Go to "Screen" tab
4. Click on 'Mode"
5. Set the mDNIe Mode to "Natural"
6. Now open the "STweaks" app
7. Go to "Screen" tab
8. Uncheck "LCD REDUCE POWER"
8. Set "Blue Color scale" to 132
9. Set "Red Color scale" to 132
10. Restart Phone
11. Profit?
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How to: Touchwiz
1. Go to "Settings"
2. Go to "Display"
3. Change the mDNIe Mode to "Natural". I don't know exactly how to get there; I haven't used a touchwiz ROM for over a year... I forgot. But its under Display... somewhere lol (if anyone can tell me how to get there, ill update the post)
4. Now open the "STweaks" app
5. Go to "Screen" tab
6. Uncheck "LCD REDUCE POWER"
7. Set "Blue Color scale" to 132
8. Set "Red Color scale" to 132
9. Check "mDNIe Sharpness Tweaks"
10. Restart Phone
11. Done.
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Now the screen settings may not be perfect for everyone. But you can tune it using the color scale. The goal is to make the grays too look actually gray. Tune it so there is no shade of yellow, blue, green or red.
I tried to match the gray present in the Messaging app on CM10.1. Worked for me.
All credits go to the Devs who made this possible.

Will this work on Apollo Kernel 4.9? stweaks descriptions says it's for siyah kernel only? I'm running Neatrom lite.

EDIT:
Using the Screen Adjuster filter, install button on application installation panel doesn't work. Hence not recommended.

I use check. Lcd reduce, and set blue to 123 in stweaks.
Screen set to standard. Natural look awful
Galaxy S2 powered by Dorimanx!

pulak.bhatnagar said:
Will this work on Apollo Kernel 4.9? stweaks descriptions says it's for siyah kernel only? I'm running Neatrom lite.
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I havent tried that kernel. STweak works with any SII kernel that allows you to make some kernel tweaks. Its a frontend app.
mughalgxt said:
For those not geeky, staying away from rooting may try an app on playstore SCREEN ADJUSTER apk. Worth trying though the adjustments required in my case were very minimal, increased marginally blue, red, reduce brightness a bit and lower contrast.
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I mentioned screen adjuster in my OP. Although it allows you do tune color somewhat, the major downside is that it decreases contrast and lights up black pixels. this can decrease battery life. But I agree, If you are staying away from Kernels, than it works okay.
bogdan1980 said:
I use check. Lcd reduce, and set blue to 123 in stweaks.
Screen set to standard. Natural look awful
Galaxy S2 powered by Dorimanx!
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Nice. I Tuned the screen as close I can get to my Nexus 7 (2013). The i9100's screen is way supersaturated. But, I understand, to each their own

So, settings from first post is tuned to look like an nexus 7. Colors seems to pale forme then !!? I will try to set my s2 according to my Optimus g.
Galaxy S2 powered by Dorimanx!

Good post, but one problem with this is that although it fixes the greyscale, the whites still look awful at anything other than full brightness perhaps. There is still way too much green, and I suspect Samsung made it that way due to OLED degradation issues with the S2 having a RGB pixel layout.I managed to fix the whites by modifying the excellent Galactic Night app made by arpruss, however I had some SOD issues that I suspected had to do with the app so I gave up on it.

If someone is interested I've developed an App called "ColorModeChanger" to change saturation and color mode of AMOLED screens. You can visit this XDA thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3154845

Here is my settings.. RR 5.5.2 rom. This setting is for cm12 based ROMs and looks great.

Solved: High brightness mode getting disabled in Ex Kernel manager... on Frankenclark

I have flashed Frankenclark kernel then dled Ex kernel manager.
I don't know what to tweak in this kernel.
When i enable High brightness mode it enables but sometime after when i open it is Disabled... let me know if its not supported or i have to check something to get it permanently enabled.
Also i want to increase blue tint little bit but i am not getting proper settings in advanced color control.
Somebody please let me know how to use the settings and tweaks

desiaddict said:
I have flashed Frankenclark kernel then dled Ex kernel manager.
I don't know what to tweak in this kernel.
When i enable High brightness mode it enables but sometime after when i open it is Disabled... let me know if its not supported or i have to check something to get it permanently enabled.
Also i want to increase blue tint little bit but i am not getting proper settings in advanced color control.
Somebody please let me know how to use the settings and tweaks
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It turns off when you turn off the screen. It's shouldn't be on all the time, it's way too bright. Check out the widget in my signature if you really want it to stay on all the time.

flar2 said:
It turns off when you turn off the screen. It's shouldn't be on all the time, it's way too bright. Check out the widget in my signature if you really want it to stay on all the time.
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It got fixed now and is enabled and working even after reboot, i just ticked on right icon and reboot... loving it so much now and screen is looking more awesome and brighter than before and i don't even have to set it to 50%... its on 30% now and is way better than many other screens.
If i even increased it to 50% for movies and games it looks perfect awesome :good:
Anyway thanks for the reply.

Any way to make the notification font/icons larger without root?

Did a quick search and couldn't find anything.

Try Settings > Display > Text/font size

Quaresma_7 said:
Try Settings > Display > Text/font size
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That's just for the phone in general. Doesn't adjust notification font or icon size.

DelphinusMinor said:
That's just for the phone in general. Doesn't adjust notification font or icon size.
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I just tried it and it made everything grotesquely huge. Icons, notification text, everything. In older versions of Android it didn't use to.

Quaresma_7 said:
I just tried it and it made everything grotesquely huge. Icons, notification text, everything. In older versions of Android it didn't use to.
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Yea, I mean that's a basic feature. You would think MIUI would have it since it's big time into customization.

I've just told you that MIUI does have it. Try it

Quaresma_7 said:
I've just told you that MIUI does have it. Try it
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Oh right. I just assumed you tried to do it with something else. I'll look for the setting. If you mean accessibility I already have that adjusted.

Now what exactly do you mean by the notification font/icons? Do you mean only the top row of the phone with the mini icons for battery, signal level etc.? If that's what you meant, then yeah, without rooting I don't think you can do anything with that. However, the setting that I mentioned really enlarges almost everything in the system. What remains the same size is the top row and the size of toggles in the notification shade.
To enlarge the status bar you could probably use some on-demand zooming after setting it up in accessibility settings.

Quaresma_7 said:
Now what exactly do you mean by the notification font/icons? Do you mean only the top row of the phone with the mini icons for battery, signal level etc.? If that's what you meant, then yeah, without rooting I don't think you can do anything with that. However, the setting that I mentioned really enlarges almost everything in the system. What remains the same size is the top row and the size of toggles in the notification shade.
To enlarge the status bar you could probably use some on-demand zooming after setting it up in accessibility settings.
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Yes, the top. Nothing can be done really to it without root. I tried all accessibility settings and none affect that.

DelphinusMinor said:
Yes, the top. Nothing can be done really to it without root. I tried all accessibility settings and none affect that.
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how about changing your dpi in developer setting, in samsung it worked for me. idk abt xiaomi though. i changed my rom to crDroid so i couldn't help you test it

Zontos said:
how about changing your dpi in developer setting, in samsung it worked for me. idk abt xiaomi though. i changed my rom to crDroid so i couldn't help you test it
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I used to use "Status" in the Play store for those settings but it won't work on Pie. Didn't need root either.

I tried pushing the Display size in Accessibility settings to the max (Larger), and it increases the size of everything, but the top row only slightly.
Another setting that might be useful, but not so much if you need it larger all the time, is turning on "magnify with triple-tap". Then you can triple tap the notification row to enlarge it temporarily.

Quaresma_7 said:
I tried pushing the Display size in Accessibility settings to the max (Larger), and it increases the size of everything, but the top row only slightly.
Another setting that might be useful, but not so much if you need it larger all the time, is turning on "magnify with triple-tap". Then you can triple tap the notification row to enlarge it temporarily.
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I mean I can see the entirety of the phone with settings set to large, but the notification bar is even more tiny than what I would have been comfortable with before I needed glasses. Thanks for trying tho, I appreciate it. I may root after all but I do like the MUIU set up.

NotchTest
I use Notch Test to fix the current problem of notifications not showing/staying in the notification bar. There is a setting within it to set the icon size. Mine is currently set at 60 which matches clock etc but it could be set larger if wanted. Would not affect the clock or network icons etc though..........

I ended up rooting my Redmi Note 7. All is well now with my Metallica vision issues and the phone.