Colors are washed on Nexus 4 - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Just received my Nexus 4 today and the color are definitely washed (not so popping) on the phone. I actually think they are sub-standard than other lcd screens. Anyone agree? Can a custom rom saturate the colors more? Is there a way to saturate the colors without a custom rom?

milkisgood123 said:
Just received my Nexus 4 today and the color are definitely washed (not so popping) on the phone. I actually think they are sub-standard than other lcd screens. Anyone agree? Can a custom rom saturate the colors more? Is there a way to saturate the colors without a custom rom?
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I don't agree. I think the colors look great. Color reproduction is just more accurate. AMOLED colors pop because colors are oversaturated. It's unrealistic and I prefer the colors on an IPS display. In any case, you'll probably get used to it shortly.

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milkisgood123 said:
Just received my Nexus 4 today and the color are definitely washed (not so popping) on the phone. I actually think they are sub-standard than other lcd screens. Anyone agree? Can a custom rom saturate the colors more? Is there a way to saturate the colors without a custom rom?
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I think you have bad eyes

I've been dieing to get mine so I can compare to the Lumia 920 screen (which is absolutely gorgeous)

Yes Colors are washed out on Nexus 4 compared to Xperia S. And I'm not talking about Mobile Bravia Engine.

richteralan said:
Yes Colors are washed out on Nexus 4 compared to Xperia S. And I'm not talking about Mobile Bravia Engine.
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The colors on my device are not washed out what so ever. They seem to be pretty accurate, but not eye popping like amoled. If i try to view the phone at an angle, there is a yellow hue but that's it. Very happy with the screen

mchimney said:
The colors on my device are not washed out what so ever. They seem to be pretty accurate, but not eye popping like amoled. If i try to view the phone at an angle, there is a yellow hue but that's it. Very happy with the screen
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Well the Xperia S has just a LED-backlit LCD screen, not even IPS. I never liked AMOLED in any way.
Sony does have something that is superior to Korean companies.

The screen looks fine to me on my Nexus, although I find the one X's screen a tad bit better. No biggie tho
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milkisgood123 said:
Just received my Nexus 4 today and the color are definitely washed (not so popping) on the phone. I actually think they are sub-standard than other lcd screens. Anyone agree? Can a custom rom saturate the colors more? Is there a way to saturate the colors without a custom rom?
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Your too use to Amoled displays bro, I thought the same thing at first, coming from a sgs 2 then 3.
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milkisgood123 said:
Just received my Nexus 4 today and the color are definitely washed (not so popping) on the phone. I actually think they are sub-standard than other lcd screens. Anyone agree? Can a custom rom saturate the colors more? Is there a way to saturate the colors without a custom rom?
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I won't call washed out but colors on my Xperia TL look better. I checked videos and lot of pictures from smugmug and flickr. While I liked colors on Xperia better I thought Nexus displayed more accurate colors.

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Here is a picture of app drawer. S3/N4/XperiaT
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Judging by the chrome icon. Thats how green red yellow suppose to look like. The dynamic and standard option on the galaxy s3 make the colors over saturated. So naturally. Your eyes are use to seeing stronger colors. But thats not how they are like in real life.
I do lots of editing and photography.
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Ha those darn Amoled eyes, Coming from S3 i thought the same, but my eyes adjusted. and I prefer the sharpness of ips

I find the nexus 4 display to be fantastic. Not a single complain.
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I've had nothing but amoled too and thought the same thing. You'll get used to it after a few days, now I like the display on my N4 better.
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OP is used to amoled. This panel is absolutely gorgeous.

I have a Dell Ultrasharp for work and use the same wallpaper from Jellybean, the colors are definitely undersaturated on the phone.
Realistic colors mean wide color gamut, which means being able to do both unsaturated and saturated. The phone cannot do saturated colors well, which means it has a narrow color gamut and only looks realistic when its not showing an image with high saturation in it.

Wait for these kernel devs cook something up like on the GNEX, edit the contrast and things will be popping!

Yeah I'm used too amoled also and noticed the difference, the colors seem very similar to the Nexus 7 which makes me wonder if it's a color profile or something that can be IMPROVED (ie not 'fixed') with software updates, mods and kernels.
After a few days though, I definitely noticed the difference in terms of usability.. this phone is much nicer to use than the S3 was, and I'm not automatically rushing to the night mode settings whenever possible.

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Xperia's color gradients smoother than on other devices

There are always complaints on this forum about color banding on the Xperia's 65k display, so I thought that on my new Galaxy Tablet which boasts '16 million' colors in its specs this issue would not be present.
To my surprise, Xperia's color gradients are a lot smoother.
One example would be the XDA app welcome screen which is very smooth on the Xperia's screen, but shows coarse banding on the Galaxy Tab.
The dithering technique on the Xperia seems a lot more sophisticated and I came to question if Android OS is even capable of displaying over 65536 colors at all.
Any insights into the issue?
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SE changed it to look better becouse normally it would should look worser with 65k and they didnt implented 16m Colors so they changed this to look better.
Samsung always fudge their numbers.
I remember buying a samsung monitor, which was the most expensive at the time, advertised as 16+ million colours and the thing done some horrible dithering - Everything had dithering on it! EVERYTHING.
The older LCD 16bit monitor it replaced had no noticeable dithering at all and gradient changes were subtle.
I've never bought a Samsuck product again.
The samsung galaxy S is also doing some weird stuff with its colours, it's blacks are fantastic but everything else is bleh!! and the pixels are about 10X bigger than the X10s.
The color from 1.6 were noticeably garbage....alot of my favorite wallpapers looked like **** with lines all over....I couldn't even use them. Then SE announced they would not be giving us 16M colors in 2.1 so I was pissed! BUT! I didn't know they were going to do something with the colors...because whatever they did they most certainly did a damn good job because the colors in 2.1 are phenominal! ALL the wallpapers I choose look AWESOME! As for Samsung....I think there super amoled screen is overated...I just sold my Galaxy S to return to the X10...the screen is really nice on the Galaxy, but like I said before the higher resolution on the X10 makes it a very VERY close match IMO.
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I just sold my Galaxy S to return to the X10...
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Applause!!!
Mr Patchy Patch said:
...I just sold my Galaxy S to return to the X10....
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Good call!
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Good call!
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Yes...now next time someone tries to brag about having a galaxy....i can laugh in there face lol.
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cytokine said:
There are always complaints on this forum about color banding on the Xperia's 65k display, so I thought that on my new Galaxy Tablet which boasts '16 million' colors in its specs this issue would not be present.
To my surprise, Xperia's color gradients are a lot smoother.
One example would be the XDA app welcome screen which is very smooth on the Xperia's screen, but shows coarse banding on the Galaxy Tab.
The dithering technique on the Xperia seems a lot more sophisticated and I came to question if Android OS is even capable of displaying over 65536 colors at all.
Any insights into the issue?
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a bit off topic....can you post a pic of your X10 next to the galaxy tab.Want to see the size comparison
Yes....dark blacks aside, the colors in the SGS are too oversaturated and a pain on the eye. Also, all the AMOLED screens have a strange greenish-blue tint to the colours - I have nticed this in all AMOLEDs, right from the Nokia N86 to the Samsung Wave to the SGS...
bbsrailfan said:
Yes....dark blacks aside, the colors in the SGS are too oversaturated and a pain on the eye. Also, all the AMOLED screens have a strange greenish-blue tint to the colours - I have nticed this in all AMOLEDs, right from the Nokia N86 to the Samsung Wave to the SGS...
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Lol I thought it was just me that saw that weird tint to the colors. It is really noticeable when you compare it to our screens.
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a bit off topic....can you post a pic of your X10 next to the galaxy tab.Want to see the size comparison
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Don't have much in terms of a proper photo equipment, but there you go.
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One of the worst screens I have seen on a high end device...

Finally got to play with an Atrix yesterday. Simply put, I was shocked at how terrible the qHD screen looked.
Banding was visible from arm length, edges are extremely jagged, colors (particularly green on black) look absolutely abysmal.
Personally, I would much rather have a traditional 800x480 panel than a 960x540 pentile panel. In a side by side comparison the screen on my SLCD Incredible is miles ahead. I guess Motorola was more interested in having numbers that looked good on paper than real world performance.
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This WRGB subpixel arrangement goes a long way in explaining the issues I saw... Actually, If I'm looking at this correctly each pixel does NOT have 5 subpixels, but 4. Quadrile anyone?
Ditto! I thought I was going crazy, hearing everyone talk about how good they thought the screen looked....it looks horrible imo....
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Same here
I was horrified how bad the colors were. Just install angry birds and check the colors. It looks all washed out and dull. The same is the case with NFS shift installed.
The text in the browser does look sharp though, i have to admit. But overall pretty disappointing.
Samsung S2 , please give us some hope here in the US, and soon!
Really? The worst screen that I saw was the Nexus S SAMOLED with its unnatural exaggerated colors and the lack of sharpness..
Having owned (for a short bit) an iPhone 4, a Nexus One (for 11 months) and having played around with a Nexus S for a week, I gotta tell you I really like the Atrix screen. I will admit that viewing it from the side blows...but how often do you do that?
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Having owned (for a short bit) an iPhone 4, a Nexus One (for 11 months) and having played around with a Nexus S for a week, I gotta tell you I really like the Atrix screen. I will admit that viewing it from the side blows...but how often do you do that?
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As far as I know I don't see people using cellphones sideways.
While I'll definitely agree that it's far from the best screen ever, I don't think it's nearly bad enough to justify the number of complaints people have about it. Is it because it's the easiest flaw to point out?
Is the side view bad? I can actually see things fairly clear almost to the point of having the screen at an angle that I can't actually see the screen itself. Reading text gets impossible a fair bit before that I guess. If the viewing angle is limited on this phone, then I guess I don't often test the limits of viewing angles on other screens lol.
I don't know about you guys but I like the screen...lol, you guys must have better eyes our higher standards
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The brightness outweighs the lack in accurate color representation imo.
My iPhone 4 does a slightly better job of showing colors, but the Atrix is definitely brighter. I don't have any issues with the screen
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The brightness outweighs the lack in accurate color representation imo.
My iPhone 4 does a slightly better job of showing colors, but the Atrix is definitely brighter. I don't have any issues with the screen
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I used my phone last night walking the dog and it was almost TOO bright in the dark.
The screen is far from perfect, but text looks fantastic on white. Black text on white is probably the most common usage of a cell ...
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complain complain complain....the screen is great
everyone should refrain from biting on the next screen baiting post...
once again,
the biggest misconception of the atrix's screen is that its washed out. This is NOT TRUE. the screen is extremely neutral in colors. SLCD and SAMOLED all have extremely exaggerated colors and contrasts. Some people like it, some dont...its like arguing which is better..plasma or lcd.....
I'm pretty sure if you do some research almost all video enthusiasts would recommend plasma over LCD. But that's not only because of the colors but also the response rate differences.
SAMOLED has perfect blacks so of course the contrast will be higher (infinite) but the colors can also be tweaked to not be so saturated. So at least you have the option to change it, rather than having an unsaturated display that you can't increase.
MarcMaiden said:
once again,
the biggest misconception of the atrix's screen is that its washed out. This is NOT TRUE. the screen is extremely neutral in colors. SLCD and SAMOLED all have extremely exaggerated colors and contrasts. Some people like it, some dont...its like arguing which is better..plasma or lcd.....
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Add me to the list.....it is UNIMPRESSING @ best!!!!
i like plasma better......lmao
I think a lot of the issues with the display are due to lack of support for the resolution.
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turn the screen up to 75% brightness and tell me its no good i have had all phones and this is up there or the best
i like the screen just fine
I run mine around 70% and it's fantastic. I'll take this "washed out" display over the one on my Captivate any day.

Got myself a NEWER Nexus One with SLCD

The first one I ever got was AMOLED which I sold and now I got another Nexus One with a SLCD. Wow, I gotta admit the SLCD is much more clearer than the AMOLED. As for screen response, I feel like it's a little faster. I am running Cyanogen 7.1 RC1 and so far so good.
Was anything else changed on the phone besides the screen? I feel like it's a nice revision from the first Nexus One.
i've always wanted to switch for an SLCD jsut because its clearer, sharper, and my theory is that the screen draws much less power and will be better for battery life for web browsing. i wonder how true that is.
How do you tell if it is AMOLED or SLCD?
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How do you tell if it is AMOLED or SLCD?
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It's clearly visible, just turn off lights and watch screen in the dark:
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left AMOLED - right SLCD
RogerPodacter said:
i've always wanted to switch for an SLCD jsut because its clearer, sharper, and my theory is that the screen draws much less power and will be better for battery life for web browsing. i wonder how true that is.
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I'm very happy with the switch. Its like "retina display" to me
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RogerPodacter said:
my theory is that the screen draws much less power and will be better for battery life for web browsing. i wonder how true that is.
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Debatable. LCDs draw a constant amount no matter what is displayed. OLED only draws power for pixels lit up.
Originally it was thought that OLEDs would be much less power but in the end it is so close that it is determined by content.
If you go in slickdeals.net and search the forum for "Nexus" they have one for around $249
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Debatable. LCDs draw a constant amount no matter what is displayed. OLED only draws power for pixels lit up.
Originally it was thought that OLEDs would be much less power but in the end it is so close that it is determined by content.
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exactly. i'm so sick of having to watch what type of content i'm looking at. anythign white just murders my battery and i lose 1% every 2 minutes checking stocks and whatnot. an SLCD pulls a constant current no matter the content, and i feel it would be much more manageable.
atamkaan said:
How do you tell if it is AMOLED or SLCD?
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Boot into the bootloader and look at the microp version: 0b15 = amoled, 0c15 = slcd
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easier way to tell(from an older thread):
Install a terminal emulator and type "dmesg", then scan the results for one of the following:
samsung_oled_panel = AMOLED
sony_tft_panel = SLCD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1106789.html
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easier way to tell(from an older thread):
Install a terminal emulator and type "dmesg", then scan the results for one of the following:
samsung_oled_panel = AMOLED
sony_tft_panel = SLCD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1106789.html
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Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like more effort than just rebooting and reading a letter on the screen, no?
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efrant said:
Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like more effort than just rebooting and reading a letter on the screen, no?
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No, whoever came up with the dmesg idea is a genius!!!! xD
I'm very happy with the switch. Its like "retina display" to me
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fireb33 said:
It's clearly visible, just turn off lights and watch screen in the dark:
left AMOLED - right SLCD
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hmm on my htc desire its not like in the picture i have htc desire with slcd and i have the black black the blackest black and i have a friend with amoled and the blak is blue
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hmm on my htc desire its not like in the picture i have htc desire with slcd and i have the black black the blackest black and i have a friend with amoled and the blak is blue
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that's quite lucky for u.
i got mine from amazon ago and just can't stand the blue tint in all the black area, especially when i use dark themes and color most of time to make it easy on my eye and save some battery. That can't be traded towards better text display for me.
sending it back today..
they say Nexus One's AMOLED isn't really WVGA...hope SLCT fixed it.
i have a SLCD, and the colour are fantastic... only the dark, is blue lol
i have comparized my slcd with a desire hd slcd, the my display have much better colour, but the black and the white, are better in the desire hd slcd
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they say Nexus One's AMOLED isn't really WVGA...hope SLCT fixed it.
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Due to pentile matrix, AMOLED effective resolution is 392x653, 2/3 of 480x800 of SLCD.
This is fixed on new SuperAMOLED panels.
I really like AMOLED but i can`t replace my SLCD with AMOLED. Not working...
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I really like AMOLED but i can`t replace my SLCD with AMOLED. Not working...
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818 day thread dig-up. Impressive.

Galaxy S3 Display Problem! Pink tint + ink marks confirmed ...

Just hand-on and test SS Galaxy S3 final version. I got some pics for you.
I realize that Super Amoled HD on Galaxy S3 not much better than G Nexus or G Note. Something less over saturated colors, lower max bightness
Something made me impressed
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Display
- At Max brightness: Pink tint
+ S2 vs Note vs S3 vs One X
+ Note vs S3:
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+ S3 vs One X
+ Some others capture angle:
- At min brightness: Gray pink
Note: due to some reason of my camera ( or other I can not define ), S3' display appear striped but infact only light gray pink.
Update:
After change color setting for more accuracy white balance on my camera: MAX BRIGHTNESS
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Update more @ 31/05/2012
As I said, just receive my Olympus OM-D E-M5 and I'm very happy with it because it help me show the truth when I came to my friend' store and compared 3 Galaxy S3: My white S3, 2 brandnew Pebble Blue.
Here SOME EVIDENCE for you. How do you think? Do I joke? Hmm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26806795&postcount=145
Display pure black in dard inviroment: many ink marks
It looks lika a moiré-effekt this could be a reason of the subpixel setup but the pink tone isnt well, hope they will fix it...
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It looks lika a moiré-effekt this could be a reason of the subpixel setup but the pink tone isnt well, hope they will fix it...
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Colors balance = problem of all Super Amoled untill now.
I doubt they'd release a phone with this much of a problem, probably just a defective unit as I've seen pictures of the GS3 with a white background and looked fine.
The Note is using Pentile as well and that looks fine.
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I doubt they'd release a phone with this much of a problem, probably just a defective unit as I've seen pictures of the GS3 with a white background and looked fine.
The Note is using Pentile as well and that looks fine.
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I agree, probably op got a defective unit.
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Looks like its a problem with the white balance. I guess it can be easily fixed.
I got to play with a test unit yesterday and it didn't have this issue. Just a faulty unit.
Have you checked with different screen modes? There are 4 modes in GS3.
Maybe faulty like others mentioned or just a test unit made without any QC. Try comparing against another retail unit if you can find.
hey guys, here there are some photos of the galaxy s3 with almost all white screen and there isn't the problem of the pink display.
http://www.tuttoandroid.net/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s3-video-anteprima-48607/
probably, it is a defective unit
peppe.desire said:
hey guys, here there are some photos of the galaxy s3 with almost all white screen and there isn't the problem of the pink display.
http://www.tuttoandroid.net/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s3-video-anteprima-48607/
probably, it is a defective unit
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hey guy, stop spam to this site
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hey guy, stop spam to this site
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THIS SITE give all us very important informations.
peppe.desire said:
hey guys, here there are some photos of the galaxy s3 with almost all white screen and there isn't the problem of the pink display.
http://www.tuttoandroid.net/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s3-video-anteprima-48607/
probably, it is a defective unit
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Its a defective unit for sure,
But i will tell you one thing...
Samsung QC is amongst the worst for their AMOLED screen process. The tolerances they have for screens are borderline "anything goes". The Note had screen issues with "pink" and so did the galaxy nexus. The SGS2 had green/yellow issues... Its a lottery;/
You may get a great one, or it may be rubbish,
It took me 6 SGS2's to get a nice even AMOLED screen, its the big downside to AMOLED;(
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I've used galaxy nexus for 2 months, before I gave it to my niece.
One thing I noticed with the galaxy nexus display is the color banding on grey background at low brightnesses. I have checked several galaxy nexus's at local samsung store and all of them had this issue. Surprisingly there is no similar issue on galaxy note.
I wonder if this problem exists on galaxy s3?
as op have mentioned it as a final unit lets hope we wont see many such defective screens. Spending some nice money and seeing a screen with some problem will be totally annoying and frustrating.
edit: in all the videos i have seen so far i can clearly spot a blue tint in the screen. hope supercurio starts to work on his voodoo color for sgs3 soon
@ intratech
did you note any blue tint with your s3?
This S3 is not faulty. My camera has a little problem on white balance. I will update more pics from new white balance setting.
At min brightness, S3 display white color more and more gray compare to S2, Note!
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Thank you
Thank you, if this is true, I will feel so sad.
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Thank you, if this is true, I will feel so sad.
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But the Super Amoled HD still not very good eps compare to IPS LCD (2). I beleive 10 S3 has 10 difference color tint
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But the Super Amoled HD still not very good eps compare to IPS LCD (2). I beleive 10 S3 has 10 difference color tint
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How's the screen clarity (sharpness) and colors compares to Galaxy Note? 'Cause I wasn't impressed with Note's display much. Despite the higher pixel density, S2 seems to have more details in pictures when I compares Note and S2 side by side. I wonder if the same thing happens to S3.
btw: You must be the guy on tinhte, haven't seen this topic up there . Is your S3 a test unit ?
I believe the difference between the note and s2 will be to with the physical screen size. Smaller screen will be better with less pixel density.
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How's the screen clarity (sharpness) and colors compares to Galaxy Note? 'Cause I wasn't impressed with Note's display much. Despite the higher pixel density, S2 seems to have more details in pictures when I compares Note and S2 side by side. I wonder if the same thing happens to S3.
btw: You must be the guy on tinhte, haven't seen this topic up there . Is your S3 a test unit ?
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No offense to the OP but I trust these images and analysis more.
http://mobile-review.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s3-fl-en.shtml
Please take a look at this site and their comparison images. I really think the OP has a faulty device.

Galaxy Note 2 vs Galaxy Note : Size Comparison

I made a fun video comparing the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Note 1 in dimensions and size!
p.s.: The Galaxy Note 1 is a NTT DoCoMo branded phone from Japan I borrowed from a friend.
Cheers
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tolisHD said:
I made a fun video comparing the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Note 1 in dimensions and size!
p.s.: The Galaxy Note 1 is a NTT DoCoMo branded phone from Japan I borrowed from a friend.
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which is better
Wow, so we get a lower pixel density AND the screen seems to be more narrow than on the Note 1
underlines said:
Wow, so we get a lower pixel density AND the screen seems to be more narrow than on the Note 1
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720P is better for watching HD videos, ALSO you get RGB matrix vs pentile
underlines said:
Wow, so we get a lower pixel density AND the screen seems to be more narrow than on the Note 1
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It's only .09 inches more narrow. Nothing to get excited about.
- Frank
underlines said:
Wow, so we get a lower pixel density AND the screen seems to be more narrow than on the Note 1
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I think its slightly taller if not mistaken.
They made the screen slightly narrow than the 1st note because:
1. they wanted the 16:9 ratio (best viewing for movies)
2. to make it more comfortable to hold in your hand.
@Sforever31 Note 2 has more features and more power!
The perceived pixel density will be higher though, so images will LOOK a lot better. And like someone mentioned, no more jagged pentile lines like I see on my GS3.
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Who said it has RGB instead of pentile? Samsung just says HD Super AMOLED no plus so I'm not sure where you got that from.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note2/spec.html?type=find
Hell Guardian said:
720P is better for watching HD videos, ALSO you get RGB matrix vs pentile
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Baldilocks said:
The perceived pixel density will be higher though, so images will LOOK a lot better. And like someone mentioned, no more jagged pentile lines like I see on my GS3.
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dannytill said:
Who said it has RGB instead of pentile? Samsung just says HD Super AMOLED no plus so I'm not sure where you got that from.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note2/spec.html?type=find
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No one said it is RGB, but it's NOT pentile. Have you even bothered to look at the screen comparisons??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31452312&postcount=9
It's RGB.
It is RGB (every pixel owns his 3 subpixel) but the arrangement of the subpixels is different from the ordinary RGB screens, thus the missing 'Plus' in the name.
Look at this stupid image that I've made with my super awesome MS Paint skills
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In the left you have a normal RGB pixel (ONE X, S 2, Lumia 920 ...) and on the right you have a Note II pixel. The blue one was made bigger because amoled blue subpixels die faster than green and red. How the screen will perform in real life remains to be seen but I bet it will be much better than pentile.
I was a bit disappointed about the screen being longer and not the same width, but reading a bit about it so far I think it will be beneficial to me to upgrade because I mainly use it for movies.
Does it fi in a pocket?
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Does it fi in a pocket?
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I know for a fact the note isn't going to be comfortable when riding a bike or going for a run , that's the only problem. And I usually want to have my phone with me at all times. Don't know if I should get the s3 just because it's more portable, the note 2 is definitely the better device though.
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juanzr1 said:
I know for a fact the note isn't going to be comfortable when riding a bike or going for a run , that's the only problem. And I usually want to have my phone with me at all times. Don't know if I should get the s3 just because it's more portable, the note 2 is definitely the better device though.
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Get a wristband?
CreepyDroid said:
It is RGB (every pixel owns his 3 subpixel) but the arrangement of the subpixels is different from the ordinary RGB screens, thus the missing 'Plus' in the name.
Look at this stupid image that I've made with my super awesome MS Paint skills
In the left you have a normal RGB pixel (ONE X, S 2, Lumia 920 ...) and on the right you have a Note II pixel. The blue one was made bigger because amoled blue subpixels die faster than green and red. How the screen will perform in real life remains to be seen but I bet it will be much better than pentile.
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I was initially skeptical about Samsung's choice in going for not only a low resolution screen but also a bigger display area. However, after I learned that they've also decided to ditch PenTile in favour of this new RGB matrix, I breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
I can't WAIT to see how nice this display looks in person!

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