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:confused:Bad resolution_blurry icons and wallpaper HELP!!!!!!

okay guys i did extensive searching amongst these forums and have yet to stumble across the answer to my problem...I recently flashed enerygy may 31st rom cookies home tab..everything was going amazing speed,res,audio video...BUT THEN!!! today my wallpapers have all become blurry icon and text edges are nowhere near smooth in face when the weather app shows the sun rays on my screen it looks almost as if i had been swimming in a chlorine pool all day with my eyes open then tried to look at a street light lol you know like that weird aura...so basically overall what im trying to say is the resolution has gone from brilliant to absolute horror in a matter of a few seconds.....BTW... i had not messed with any settings or tweaks PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!

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Do you think if i just task29 and re-flash shipped rom ill be good??? cause when i flashed the rom my phone was still super vivid high res super sharp and now the screen looks like im using a blackberry

Someone please help

Another issue

ok fellows I admire s3 is monstrous awesome smart-ass phone but I came across to an issue which is that upon putting full black wallpaper as lock screen you will see buggy whiteness on right side and my phone also has black spots upon judging in darkness black ink spots are there and they are hurting too much being in there it feels retard that Samsung hadn't stated anything about this issue sadly...:crying:

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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ok i've attached the picture...:fingers-crossed:

If you disable the lock screen ripple effect, the white wash will dissapear. Nobody in samsung tested ripple with black background.
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Well at least you know it's not the screen itself. The problem is showing up in a screenshot, which means it's being rendered that way within the software. Are you sure the image you're using is 100% black?
Edit: looks like sams_only answered the question.

Yes
Yeah it apparently solved the issue of screen be de-selecting ripple effect and fellows how to cure pinkish effect and black ink spots any suggestion or idea...
Thanks:good:

Faint White/Grey Lines

My second S4 in a row has 1 or 2 very faint lines that span vertically across the screen. They are more noticeable when auto-brightness is enabled but the more I pay attention to them the more environments I can see them in. I took a few pictures of it but the lines are hard to make out in the photos.
The easiest way to see it is on the stock messenger app with auto-brightness enabled in a dark environment. If you delete all your text threads you are left with just a dim white background and in my case, can see a few straight faint white/grey lines spanning the screen vertically. With full brightness it is near impossible to see but with a trained eye I can still make them out.
I've looked all over the web and the only community who seems to relate to this is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus community. There are quite a few threads about it saying it's inherent to OLED technology but I have not seen any threads involving the Galaxy S4. I have had three phones side by side and was able to see these lines on two of them. I would be interested to see if anybody can replicate this or has noticed this. Thanks in advance.

I can see the very same thing on my AT&T Galaxy S4. I actually returned my first unit for this reason and the replacement was the same. I can really only notice the line on a light gray back ground and wallpaper like the stock blue Galaxy wallpaper (the one without balloons or airplane wings).
I recall my Galaxy Nexus actually being quite a bit worse. It's annoying but I'm learning to live with it. I do think that this is just one of the downsides of amoled screens. Some are worse than others.
At the end of the day I honestly don't notice it unless I'm trying to see it...so I've stopped looking for it!!
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RSC10 said:
I can see the very same thing on my AT&T Galaxy S4. I actually returned my first unit for this reason and the replacement was the same. I can really only notice the line on a light gray back ground and wallpaper like the stock blue Galaxy wallpaper (the one without balloons or airplane wings).
I recall my Galaxy Nexus actually being quite a bit worse. It's annoying but I'm learning to live with it. I do think that this is just one of the downsides of amoled screens. Some are worse than others.
At the end of the day I honestly don't notice it unless I'm trying to see it...so I've stopped looking for it!!
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Exactly, I don't notice it when I'm actually using my phone to do something important. But if I'm just goofing around I immediately go to it like "damn, why are you on my screen!!!" And yes I can easily see it on the stock blue wallpaper as well. I really only notice one line but sometimes if I'm looking hard enough I think I can see other faint ones, might just be my eyes playing tricks with me though.

s5 grainy screen

Hi everyone.
i dont know if anyone felt the same way like me.
i feel that my s5 is having kinda grainy screen... its like a thin layer of grainy.. so u can see it when u scroll up/down. it stays. its not really crystal clear.. the feel is like putting anti-oil screen protector.
yes, text and everything is crisp.. but a thin grainy layer is annoying.. checked another phone at samsung experience store showing the same
its actually mentioned by s5 review Erica Griffin
do guys feel the same way or it's just my over-obsessive eye? lol i hope i was wrong...
sorry for my bad english...

Coming from an LCD screen, if I look close enough I can see it, but it really doesn't bother me lol

I had that on my Note 2 before. I had it exchanged and the new phone did not have the issue.

Hellscythe said:
Coming from an LCD screen, if I look close enough I can see it, but it really doesn't bother me lol
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well i wish i got eyes like yours XD.. well mostly it's only showing with white background with many texts.. or plain colour.. in general photos its good. but i was annoyed why s5 got this type of LCD.. its not happened with Note 3 or s4.
xdm9mm said:
I had that on my Note 2 before. I had it exchanged and the new phone did not have the issue.
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im not sure if this is really phone issue or all s5 got this type of LCD.

E M said:
well i wish i got eyes like yours XD.. well mostly it's only showing with white background with many texts.. or plain colour.. in general photos its good. but i was annoyed why s5 got this type of LCD.. its not happened with Note 3 or s4.
im not sure if this is really phone issue or all s5 got this type of LCD.
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I am sure it is not because I already tested a few display samples from 3 different shops, Walmart and Tmobile shops. I tested them because I was considering buying one too. But not anymore, I am waiting for the LG G3.

Just had the same issue.
My sdcard was upside..... solved 4 me

[Q] Lollipop background is blinding white

Please don't jump all over me. I searched for a solution for the new blinding white background that arrived with Lollipop, but I couldn't find anything. Android Central had nothing to offer and neither did any of the other Android forums.
I am legally blind in one eye. Bright light causes great eye strain and acute pain in my eye. Because of this new blinding white screen, I have great difficulty using my phone. I run the brightness below 10% and then read the screen with my weak eye closed. It sucks and it's ridiculous that I have to do this. I emailed Samsung and they basically told me to pound sand. I will see if the American disabilities groups can help me with that but, until then, is there anything I can do to dull the teal color and blinding white background in the notification panel and settings screens? I used Nova to change the app drawer background color to gray and am using the Hackers keyboard to replace the white keyboard. Beyond that, there doesn't seem to be anything I can do. No, the vision settings under the accessibility options doesn't help because it turns that ugly bright teal into blinding neon red to contrast with the white text and black background. Good grief.
I haven't rooted my phone, but I will as soon as I do a new back up.
I thought amongst all you programming gurus, someone might be able to help me. Am I missing a setting? Samsung told me to download a theme. Great, Big help.
Thank you for your time.
tunie

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxor

Thanks. The problem with all the dimmers I've tried is that they dim everything, which of course makes it difficult to read text.
Well, I've read a lot of complaints on the web about the brightness issue, but I guess everyone in here likes it. I love my Note, but what good is it if I have difficulty using it. Imagine if every time you looked at your screen, you got an eye strain headache and your eyes watered and hurt. It's like if MS installed a blazing bright neon yellow background on your laptop that you couldn't change. I'm sure at least a few people would seek out a fix to adjust it.
Thanks anyway. I guess I'm on my own.

Custom ROM that allows for mitigating the blinding white background?
So, I found this thread http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Andro...ckground-instead-of-black-Do-people-like-that They mention custom ROM's. Are there custom ROM's in here that either dim the background of the notification panel and settings screen or allow for customization? I don't even care what else is effected, as long as I can get rid of the blinding white background.
I hope this is the right forum for this question.
Thanks.

Hmm, you could downgrade to KK ? I downgraded a few days ago too.

I know what you mean. I suffer from severe migraines.
Anything with a white screen I can't use for more than 2 minutes at a time. After that every glance feels like knives in my eyes and skull.
Even as a designer I don't understand this obsession with white backgrounds. It drains battery and white on a screen, particularly LED, has been proven time and time again to be very bad for your eyes. It is also common knowledge that light text on a dark background increases legibility. I fully blame Apple for this disgusting white trend.
And until I can choose my own background, or at least choose between white and black, I'm staying on KitKat. Maybe Android M will use its brains instead of 'look at meeeeeee I like to ruin your eyesight!'
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Your only option is to go back to KitKat for the time being, I think.
I feel you though, I had the same headache thingy when I read stuffs on a dark/black background, I guess it depends on the person, how the eyes react to a colour, some prefer the dark, some the other.
There is a PC forum site called hardforum.com, and I can't even visit that site even when that site is pretty darn good. The first time I was reading stuffs there after five minutes or so I felt like I'd vomit on the keyboard!

devilsdouble said:
There is a PC forum site called hardforum.com, and I can't even visit that site even when that site is pretty darn good. The first time I was reading stuffs there after five minutes or so I felt like I'd vomit on the keyboard!
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That's because whomever designed that forum (Is that Vbulletin/proboards? Haven't seen one of those in ages!) is obviously colourblind and 5 years old.
It's not just you, that forum's design is giving me a headache as well, a double one. One from the nauseating colourscheme and one from the painfully 2001 design.
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