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FYI : Supercurio has joined the league: update new audioboost

https://twitter.com/#!/supercurio/status/144589639410384897
Update: Supercurio has tweeted that he is working on new audioboost application.

OMG, Nice!
Hopefully he can have a color tune for the G-Note.. really need to fix the gamma levels on the black and on the greys.

Awesome news

Sounds like a new era for our toys
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Indeed awesome news!
Yeah, it has few flaws... Cant wait to see what this guy will be doing! Hope he will do something with the color - hue shift that happens every so often (that can be seen on low brightness on white background ,mostly at night...)

zsolti256 said:
Indeed awesome news!
Yeah, it has few flaws... Cant wait to see what this guy will be doing! Hope he will do something with the color - hue shift that happens every so often (that can be seen on low brightness on white background ,mostly at night...)
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He will have to work on color calibration and gamma settings... Wish him good luck!
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sibere said:
He wil have to work on color calibration and gamma settings... Wish him good luck!
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Probably its the only thing im looking forward to.

Yes !

Welcome abroad,is the captain post still free?!!

This is awesome.. awesome news!
I'm having a hard time deciding if the note is just to large for me and I need a nexus.. this makes my decision even more complicated as I was getting the feeling no major dev support was going to be around.

The Note is brand new. Support will come. Especially when it gets released in the states.

BazookaAce said:
The Note is brand new. Support will come. Especially when it gets released in the states.
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The mans a legend made me galaxy s a great audio device shame he cant with this one but his screen tuning app for the tab was amazing even at alpha stage
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awesome news! looking forward to future developments!

Sound quality?
As an iPhone and Westone UM3x i'm having a hard time avoiding the purchase of a Note fearing that it could sound as bad as the Galaxy S2 (RF & CPU noise bleeding and sky high output impedance) thus if somebody with multidriver iems and discernimg ear could chime in it would help me an awful lot since the screen of the Note is so damn tempting that the iPhone looks like a cheap toy when i see them side by side at the store.

elfary said:
As an iPhone and Westone UM3x i'm having a hard time avoiding the purchase of a Note fearing that it could sound as bad as the Galaxy S2 (RF & CPU noise bleeding and sky high output impedance) thus if somebody with multidriver iems and discernimg ear could chime in it would help me an awful lot since the screen of the Note is so damn tempting that the iPhone looks like a cheap toy when i see them side by side at the store.
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Commented on another audio discussion thread already (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1323764 - after page 7 approx, since the 1st few pages were just speculation and drivel), but I'm fairly happy with the Note, Neutron MP and a pair of Earsonics SM3's (v1). No RF/CPU noise with the Note at all. Not as detailed/rounded vs Galaxy Tab with Voodoo and Neutron MP, but overall quite good imo. As someone mentioned in the other Note audio discussion thread, audio output is tight and clean.

sportedwood said:
This is awesome.. awesome news!
I'm having a hard time deciding if the note is just to large for me and I need a nexus.. this makes my decision even more complicated as I was getting the feeling no major dev support was going to be around.
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That's cos most of us believed all the blather about this being a niche phone cos it's so different. It's beginning to look pretty mainstream to me though that might just be the case in India..

sibere said:
He will have to work on color calibration and gamma settings... Wish him good luck!
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Yes that certainly needs work. On that test image I made the shades below 4 just cut off completely, no ramp. This causes black blotches in shadow detail in video. I don't know what the hell Samsung was thinking there, so dumb.
Also there needs to be an RGB slider color adjust tool. As we know some screens are greenish, some reddish etc. The screen needs to be calibrated. I know I would bump down the green on mine a few notches to get accurate grayscales.

aussiebum said:
Commented on another audio discussion thread already (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1323764 - after page 7 approx, since the 1st few pages were just speculation and drivel), but I'm fairly happy with the Note, Neutron MP and a pair of Earsonics SM3's (v1). No RF/CPU noise with the Note at all. Not as detailed/rounded vs Galaxy Tab with Voodoo and Neutron MP, but overall quite good imo. As someone mentioned in the other Note audio discussion thread, audio output is tight and clean.
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Knowing that no RF/CPU noise bleeds is a great relief.
What i still fear though is that the output impedance is as high as it is in the Galaxy S II. You can try to offset the tonal skew by eqing but i hate equalizers or any DSP. I run all my audio hardware flat. If it's good it will stand but i'm not so sure that the Note will stand. I tried on store a couple of Samsung preloaded tunes with my UM3x and i noticed the sound was not as full and detailed as it's on my iPhone. But to assess the sound quality loss i'm afraid i'd need to buy one and try out a couple of good sounding albums (Steely Dan, Wilco or Sheryl Crow stuff).
Anyway i guess that i could always carry around my 7G 240 Gb modded iPod (and whenever i feel the need to visit audio nirvana amp it with the awesome ibasso T3).
But i'd end up carrying around two devices instead of just an iPhone.
It seems that i must choose whether to please my ears (iPhone) or my eyes (Note).

after just 2days of careful inspection, Note is marginally better than S2 in terms of SQ... not to brag but i have serious gears and ears to backup my findings...
(you can view my profile on head-fi and mobile-review)
About iPhone; its very sterile and flat; analytic per se... i prefer the more fun sound sig of the Note or N8...
and about SUPERCURIO jumping on our ship; its a breath... i wonder whats on his mind, but i prefer it to further improve the SQ... i love his screen tuning app on my S2 but i spoil more my ears than my eyes...

Sorry I am new to all this custom ROM stuff but who is this Superserio guy? Did he make some legendary rom/mod or something?

iPhone 4/4S vs. SIII Screen Brightness at Max

I still have to wait a little while here in the States before I can see the SIII screen in person.
In the meantime, I want to ask the community a favor. I'd really like to know how the SIII's screen stands up to the iPhone 4/4's screen at full brightness on both devices. (With auto-brightness disabled.) If someone has looked at the SIII and the 4/4S at full brightness side by side, could you tell me how they compare? My fear is that the SIII will not be as bright as the 4/4S at max level. If someone currently possesses an SIII and 4/4S and could snap a side by side shot of both screens at max brightness, that would be greatly appreciated too. Thanks!

blairh said:
I still have to wait a little while here in the States before I can see the SIII screen in person.
In the meantime, I want to ask the community a favor. I'd really like to know how the SIII's screen stands up to the iPhone 4/4's screen at full brightness on both devices. (With auto-brightness disabled.) If someone has looked at the SIII and the 4/4S at full brightness side by side, could you tell me how they compare? My fear is that the SIII will not be as bright as the 4/4S at max level. If someone currently possesses an SIII and 4/4S and could snap a side by side shot of both screens at max brightness, that would be greatly appreciated too. Thanks!
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Do some research... Go to GSM Arena and read up on the SGS3 articles, they have brightness test and measurements comparisons. I would post a link, but I don't want to spoon feed people here anymore. Don't mean to sound like a **** but we all have google at our disposal.

SlimJ87D said:
Do some research... Go to GSM Arena and read up on the SGS3 articles, they have brightness test and measurements comparisons. I would post a link, but I don't want to spoon feed people here anymore. Don't mean to sound like a **** but we all have google at our disposal.
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Nicely said.
Fwiw: I've got both phones and I can't make out any difference though. However in bright sunlight iphone looks more clearer/bright.
Can't post pictures cuz I don't have a camera
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Why compare with 3.5inc iphone? Pointless and waste time.
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The brightest screen I have ever seen in direct sunlight is the LG Optimus Black. It claims to have the brightness of 700 candles? I laughed when I heard that. But honestly direct sunlight is no big deal to that phone. The Galaxy S III isn't that good in direct sunlight. But don't let that put you off. Everything else I am in love with.
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SlimJ87D said:
Do some research... Go to GSM Arena and read up on the SGS3 articles, they have brightness test and measurements comparisons. I would post a link, but I don't want to spoon feed people here anymore. Don't mean to sound like a **** but we all have google at our disposal.
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I did read the SIII articles on GSM Arena. I'd like some personal XDA takes versus just what GSM Arena has to say. I know you aren't trying to be rude, but to say my answers are a Google search away is pushing it. Clearly I want to hear from this community regarding the matter. If I was asking a question that can be answered on a spec page, then you'd be right, but I want to hear from others regarding the matter.

I've got both S3 which i got last week and 4s which i am using since past 4 months .
In general i dont find much of difference , but when the the background is white you'll surely find 4s to be brighter same goes when you using the fone under direct sunlight !

The reason the iphone is un-noticably slighty brighter is because of the smaller screen & the type of display.
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boring thread ，waste time . Iphone and Galaxy s3 both are great phone.

surprise123 said:
boring thread ，waste time . Iphone and Galaxy s3 both are great phone.
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You must be joking?? Iphone a good phone?? Erm.....I think not....apart from the PPI the Galaxy S3 pisses all over the 4S
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I've played a little with both SGS3 and 4S and I can say there's not much of a difference. The iPhone's brightness is a little bit better i think but I prefer the S3 with the screen size and HD resolution.

Nexus 7 IPS screen

I don't know if its me, the device or just the screen. Cause my IPS screen on my nexus 7 is just not beating my Samsung galaxy s2,3 and my galaxy nexus's super amoled screen. The colors on the IPS just looks so washed out and plain if you compare it to a screen that has super amoled. Anyone done this yet? Compare the colors? Cause the screen just makes a huge difference lol. Unless my nexus 7 is defected.... I think it would have been a lot better if it was made by Samsung instead of Asus. Samsung super amoled just kills any other screens
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This does not have a great screen. It's a cheap tablet, lower your expectations.

lilphil240 said:
This does not have a great screen. It's a cheap tablet, lower your expectations.
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Even if it was 4-500$ I'd still buy it. I Love pure Google products
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Go watch Transformers at 40-50% brightness then come back. The screen is fine.

It isn't superb but rather alright.
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klyang88 said:
Even if it was 4-500$ I'd still buy it. I Love pure Google products
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No you wouldn't. If the N7 was sub 500....I wouldn't touch it I doubt the swarm thats attacking it would either. That's what sets it apart its price.
Its too barebones IMO to be that much. Plus build quality isn't up to par. (Glass isn't scratch resistant, Crap speakers, Flickering, At least a option for a Cell radio ect) all my opinion.
I even noticed a slight burn in too....
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Will be fix by custom rom
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It's higher resolution, but low brightness. Consider yourself a Best Buy salesman's dream customer.

Its ok for me bu not the best, but it can be fjxed with a future kernel(s). On the nexus there is franco and trinity kernel. With them i cn adjust colour
Red
Green
Blue
There is gamma adjustment
And contrast adjustment.
With all of these you can get your personal setting. It wont be long before we start to see ths kind of stuff for the n7.
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Yeah. The price is just right for a device like this. I wasn't saying I didn't like it. I love it!!!
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leelaa said:
Its ok for me bu not the best, but it can be fjxed with a future kernel(s). On the nexus there is franco and trinity kernel. With them i cn adjust colour
Red
Green
Blue
There is gamma adjustment
And contrast adjustment.
With all of these you can get your personal setting. It wont be long before we start to see ths kind of stuff for the n7.
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These kinds of adjustments are only possible on AMOLED screens.

Super amoled screens are not the best.
The HTC EVO 4G LTE has the best screen in the market now. Just saying..
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Tegra 3 has some battery saving feature called PRISIM/DIDIM which boosts colors/contrast in order to reduce backlight consumption. There doesn't appear to be a way to disable it. When I watch a movie for 30 secs or so and return to the home screen I notice that the boosted colors/contrast still remains until I power off the screen. I hope Nvidia and Google make the feature optional by way of a firmware update. Other than that the tablet is quite decent.

Am I the only one who isn't keen on the superamoledplusomgwtfbbq screens?
After using my N7 and going back to my GS2 I think it looks way too over saturated and just a little bit ridiculous. I much prefer the screen on this, amoled screens to me look like when you're photoshopping a picture and accidentally slip while adjusting the saturation and set it to max.
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The Nexus 7 uses the same beautiful, amazing screen as the 3rd generation iPad. The N7 has a lower native resolution obviously, but the underlying technology is identical between both devices.

techguy378 said:
The Nexus 7 uses the same beautiful, amazing screen as the 3rd generation iPad. The N7 has a lower native resolution obviously, but the underlying technology is identical between both devices.
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Not at all. If you compare colour contrast and saturation between the two, you'll notice that the Nexus 7 looks much less vibrant than the new iPad.

ijeff said:
Not at all. If you compare colour contrast and saturation between the two, you'll notice that the Nexus 7 looks much less vibrant than the new iPad.
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This should simply be because the new iPad has a higher pixel density than the Nexus 7. Higher pixel densities lead to higher color saturation since there's less empty space between the pixels and more colorful pixels to fill that space. The underlying screen technology should still be the same (IPS).

I really don't like the amoled screens. Their colour accuracy is just horrible. Cracking the saturation to 11 does not make a screen good. The amoleds on S2s that I've seen have all kinds of horrible colour casting. White is a sort of blueish colour. Give me a decent IPS panel any day of the week.
I've always been a bit fussy about colour accuracy. Calibrize is a good little programme for the PC that lets you get the colours roughly right.

This thing is competing with the Kindle Fire and whatever they bring out. It's a "Play Store" device, pushing magazines and books. It's perfect for it's purpose.
Open up a book on this thing and it looks great. Crisp and sharp text, even if the home screen does look a little under saturated.

Agreed, Home screen is is not well saturated. Netflix and several other apps look very well saturated. I would say its pretty typical for IPS.
Nothing beats amoled for contrast/blacks though.
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[Q] Screen Color Tweaks?

Anyone know of a way to adjust screen colors on Nexie-7? Comparing GoogleTalk on it to GSII, colors are way, way washed out and pale. I appreciate that some of this is IPS vs. Amoled, but this is really pronounced.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!!!

There does not seem to be a way to do it yet. This question has been asked many times since release and there is nothing to even show it can be done. Its looking very unlikely that we will have such feature. Would be great though.
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I have a hard time comparing the screen to a device like that because I'm really not a fan of the over saturation of colors. Something that looks like I'm on acid at the Willy Wonka factory just doesn't appeal to me. On the other hand, it'd be nice to have color control capability on the Nexus 7, but I'm extremely doubtful any adjustment capability will be possible.
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Anyone else find this?

I I find the screen amazing, as u can see although not as good as 2012 the whites are good, but what's with the yellows, there very dark and muggy. Anyone else find this?
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No display is ever "accurate." The question is which colors of the spectrum are closest. Here's the N10.1-14 (left) against the N3 (right).
Here's my N3 displaying the same yellow background as my N10.1-14
And actually the N10.1-14 does better than the N10.1-12 on whites; at least the example Anandtech tested.

i noticed my Google Keep and IMDB icons were alot darker than on my old touchpad

Ah Ah ok just checking, not like people really look at yellow unless highlighting pages
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reubenskelly1992 said:
Ah Ah ok just checking, not like people really look at yellow unless highlighting pages
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This is from Anandtech's review of the N5. There's been lots of grumbling in their forum about "washed out" colors.
It’s interesting to hear some Nexus 5 users complain that the display seems undersaturated, since that kind of end user feedback reflects subjective comparison. It also suggests to me that a large percentage of the population doesn’t know what some colors or system elements actually should be. Even for me, looking at the green elements inside the Google Play store on the Note 3 in movie mode or Nexus 5 initially seemed slightly more muted than normal. The reality is that this is what they actually should look like. We’ve just become accustomed to their oversaturated appearance on virtually every other device.
This kind of expectation about what looks right and what doesn’t is rather telling for the state of display calibration in Android handsets, and how OEMs have used oversaturated colors to increase retail shelf appeal. Unfortunately the reality is that oversaturated colors do seem to win taste tests among shoppers, the same way that TVs in most big boxes do. We’ve been looking at them for so long that well calibrated displays like Nexus 5 initially do look noticeably different.​So I don't know if the N10.1-14's yellows are closer to "right" or not but they are certainly close to the N3's. I'll admit I like oversaturated colors even though I know they aren't real. Assuming the N10.1-14's movie mode is closer to natural like the N3's try using it for a bit. It does look washed out even though it's technically more correct. Exaggerated colors on a small display actually have an advantage via greater separation from each other making things easier to view. At least IMHO.

I I think most colours are pretty natural on this, which you find with lcd. I love the screen though
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