while i was watching a video on Youtube on my Nexus 7, my connection was lagging so i paused the video to let it load, and the video had a bright white background while someone's in foreground talking. I noticed the brightness went down, and i freaked out thinking it might be my screen. But then i went back to the Android home menu, and i have a live wallpaper called "Rays of Light" which displays different colored lights moving on a dark/black background with little circles floating. I didn't noticed any brightness change, nor during browsing on websites, Google Play, or games...
Now i know Jelly Bean have auto-brightness enabled by default in the system settings, but i turned this off.
I do use MX Player as well, with the brightness set to go slightly up when watching a video, but i know i can turn this off (i just might, as i hate sudden brightness changes)
What i want to know is, does the Youtube app feature auto-brightness? and we just cannot disable it? I did noticed some brightness changes in other videos as well, like when watching a game preview.
For the record, i use Glazed Jelly Bean v2.1
thanks for your replies.
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Is it possible to change somehow the tint of luminescence display? Make it more warm or cold. Display in my SGS has a very cold shade, a lot of blue. I would like to add a little red to align white.
It's a characteristic of AMOLED screen. As you use it longer, the blue tint will start reducing.
Though that doesn't change the fact that the possibility to change or affect white point and/or gamma of the display would sometimes come quite handy. The color temperature of Galaxy's display is indeed quite high, yet it is so good picture-wise that this becomes an issue (ie. when viewing photos).
Just open any movie with the stock video player. Go to Settings and then Colour Tone. It will affect the whole system.you have 3 options warmer, normal and colder. Hope this will help
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That's a great tip, thanks! Even though it's most likely just a bug
So you obviously can alter the display's color temperature system wide somehow. I wonder if this could be made into an app with customizable warmth settings... Too bad I'm not a programmer...
And speaking of the devil...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745248
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That's a great tip, thanks! Even though it's most likely just a bug
So you obviously can alter the display's color temperature system wide somehow. I wonder if this could be made into an app with customizable warmth settings... Too bad I'm not a programmer...
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Where did i you find it? When I play video created by camera in default player I don't see there any setting or color tone setup...
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Where did i you find it? When I play video created by camera in default player I don't see there any setting or color tone setup...
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Menu - settings - 3ยบ option
It appears blank on my phone, but leads you to temperature settings
The screen has a blue reflection when off. I also tested it playing the same video on the phone and on my laptop (300 nits LED screen) and the video on the phone was defintely more green-blue.
This is more noticeable on low brightness setting, try it on Kindle app, test settings, you have a slider for brightness. You'll see how low brightness leads to a blue-green tint, not neutral gray.
if some one could could develop an app for the sgs that does this i would pay.
settings menu is only available if you start the videoplayer app and select a video to play within.
if you start a video from the gallery, there is no option
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Just open any movie with the stock video player. Go to Settings and then Colour Tone. It will affect the whole system.you have 3 options warmer, normal and colder. Hope this will help
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Is the galaxy s i9000 different in this respect from the samsung vibrant. My vibrant does allow me to adjust color tone in the video player, but IT DOES NOT change the color tone of the WHOLE SYSTEM. Once I exit out of the player, everything is back to blue. Also the warm tone in the video player looks fake, just applies red on top of the blue, looks weird.
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.
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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).
flashing gingerbread to galaxy tab p1000 is a nice idea. It opens many app compatiblity to the tab. But its full of issues compared to froyo. I'll share my issues.
first the goodies
Those who still having odin flashing doubts quote here i can give you a beginners guide.
I am going through every aspects. Some are previously discussed but some are not mentioned in any other threads or forums i think. Please share yours too if any.
I flashed gingerbread european version xxjq1.
The best thing i noticed was booting time. of tab went down to less than half on froyo. Very fast booting. Also booting sound changed to a nice music though its not a big deal.
Lock screen is the same as froyo as i expected something like galaxy s2.
But you can set different wallpapers for your home screen and lock screen which was not in froyo.
Home screen is looking same but its samsung home 2.3.3 version. Icons on the home screen dock is changed. Browser icon changed to green. Except that nothing looks changed on home screen from froyo.
Now comes surprise. The notification bar became extremely smooth compared to froyo. Flawless. But not as smooth as galaxy s2 or better devices like that.
Over theme color changed so the notification bar icons color also changed to a more dark green. Best other thing about notification bar is, if you have an ongoing call minimized the bar
looks crystal green lighted. Its awesome to see which is missing on froyo.
Another thing which i think very handy is music player got integrated into notification bar.
When music player is running you can play/pause, previous/next, fast forward/backward straight from notification bar. Big improvement.
now technical
Task manager got updated. There is one more tab named downloaded.
Your newly installed programs are listed here. So dont have to go to settings applications.
Ram manager changed. There is no stage 1 stage 2 option. Only one button clear memory. I think it is good.
Stock browser's change should be admitted. Its like wow. I assure you no other browser you installed comes even close to its user interface. I am writing this now in it. It bacame buttery smooth to navigate. Not a small lag when scrolling on a big content rich page and switching to new tabs. There was no lag to scroll even when youtube was playing in desktop mode with flash. Even my desktop firefox lags a little to scroll when playing hq youtube but our tab aced.
Also there is a memo button and phone button integrated into browser menu bar which is very handy. Overall browser is awesome.
I forgot to mention before there is no new stock wallpapers.
Now about music player the onboard virtual 5.1 improvement is incredible.its like wow compared to froyo. Plug in your headphone and you will notice.
In settings the battery info has greatly improved. There is a graphic demo of battery use.
And ofcourse battery consumption DECREASED much much much. I have to say that beacause i had a problem with the battery. When its about 40%-45% it suddenly dropped to 3% and shuts down in 3-5 min. But now its completely gone. Plus i assure you that you will be amazed with the battery capacity of our great tab.
When using camera the preview has been improved much. Its like flowing when scrolling through pictures. Plus quality of recorded video increased much.
now the media storage system improved much. As i mentioned tab became fast, media scanning also became much fast. Sdcard thing changed to usb storage on gingerbread. Plus there is a progress bar in notification for media scanning. Thats good beacuse we couldn't see progress before.
Call setings is having more options than before video calls voice mail etc on the first page itself.
The stock video player codec improved much. Before i had a brrip mp4 movie showing unsupported format. But now it works smooth. Plus video player became smooth overall on playing.
Anyone with more goodies please add. I'll add more when knowing. I wrote all this for those who want to know changes before trying gingerbread on their tab.
By issues, I assumed you meant problems/bugs/incompatbilities. Are you saying there are no disadvantages to doing it? I've a forgotten XEU tab. I keep hoping Samsung might officially offer GB but the longer it goes the less likely it seems.
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By issues, I assumed you meant problems/bugs/incompatbilities. Are you saying there are no disadvantages to doing it? I've a forgotten XEU tab. I keep hoping Samsung might officially offer GB but the longer it goes the less likely it seems.
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Ofcourse there are disadvantages. I was little busy two days so i cant finish. By issues i definitely mean bugs and problems.
Yeah, now comes the problems
Starting from the beginning, the power on is having little problem. On froyo you have to press power button for like 1 or 1.5 sec and release. Tab will power on after one more second. But now I have to press it until it power on. I don't know if its bug or not but for me its annoying.
after booting here comes bigger problem. The four button leds on bottom never turns off until screen goes off completely. Even if there is 1% charge the leds are on. And ofcourse it doesn't turn off when playing videos. Its really annoying like if you are watching a full length movie in a dark room you have to keep starting at these led and its really annoying.
but I have found a solution. There's a widget named buttonbacklight in market. it requires root access. But very useful. And if you turns off screen and on it again led lights again. You have to turn it off again. but that's not hard as starring at those leds all the time. Plus you can cut the led brightness to half with this widget. Great for dark environments. Thanks to the widget maker.
I forgot to mention, the light sensor now works perfectly. on froyo it takes some time to adjust the brightness on changing lighting condi tions as it has nothing to deal with hardware. but now its fine.
Now comes a big problem. The camera is having real problems on autofocusing. you can't use the camera to take shots close by two or three inches on a dark room by autofocusing and flash. You will get only a bright white picture. this was not in froyo. It was perfect. so you can't use the tabs camera to capture text in a dark room. I tried it on black surface also but no use. Its not for completely dark but with limited light also. Set the flash to auto and if flash is needed to take picture then closeups are not possible. I think this is not mentioned anywhere before. And the flash turns off after focusing. Not good on dark rooms as you can't see any
preview.
Sorry I forgot to mention before, there is a big improvement also for the camera. There's TOUCH FOCUS added now.
On froyo there was four options on USB settings. but 'ask on connection' is absent now.
Its very hard if you connect your phone for different purposes frequently as you have to go to settings and change it.
Now comes another problem for media. On froyo music or video pause when you disconnect headphone or what that is connected to 3.5 mm jack. This is good and is present in gingerbread also. But it pauses when you plugs headphone or whatever into the jack. This is annoying but not too hard to deal with.
The gallery app has not improvedand became worse than before. Its very slow and lags to load files. I expected rotation animation on switching landscape portrait modes.
although the Codec improved on video player, its user interface became hard to user.
You can't set brightness for video if your phone's brightness is set to auto. so if you're watching a movie and you want to increase or decrease brightness you'll have to exit video and change brightness. Not on user defined brightness. But very annoying when brightness is auto.
And the screen rotation animation when you switch between two landscape modes is gone. It was a little eye candy.
Another problem is also very annoying. On froyo there was different two different icons for downloaded and downloading tasks as there was a little animation for downloading ones so that you know something is downloading. But now there's no animation for downloading and both exactly same icon. There's only animation for something that is installing. So if you wanna know if something is downloading or the download is complete, you have to pull notification bar down. very annoying if you left something downloading and came to see if its complete as you have to unlock phone and pull down the bar.
Get back soon.little busy.
ram
ram usage is much high than gingerbread. I've got upto 120mb ram usage in froyo. But gingerbread usually use 190 to 200 mb all time. U have to use task manager apps to clear some apps and bring usage to 150mb. But memory management depends on apps independent offree ram. If u run an hd game with a download in some heavy browser, ur download 'll cancel because the game force close browser for resource.
Hey everyone, has anyone noticed that dailymotion (app and website) dims the screen when it's playing videos?
in the chrome website you can go out of fullscreen and move the mouse about and you get 5 more minutes of bright video but on the actual android app the moment you get out of the navigation overlay it dims again
I've been getting around this buy pumping the brightness up but i mean that's clearly not the solution. anyone have a solution?
As the title says, while I am watching a video, reddit with the black theme, feedly, youtube, even if the camera is taking pics of a dark background, the screen turns off.
I tried to set the screen brightness to manual., disabled the adaptive display feature, no go.
Anybody got any idea?