Hi all, I'm currently running a Google Edition ROM on my AT&T Galaxy S4 and overall its great, but the pumped-up colors (I'm coming from an iPhone) are driving me nuts.
The Samsung ROM includes more Display settings for the screen, including color options (Vibrant, Standard, Pro Photo, and Movie) and an option to disable the automatic screentone feature (which dims the whites when there is a lot of white on the screen).
I would like to set my color from "Standard" to "Movie" (which is the most natural. It also saves battery life). I also would like to disable the automatic screentone, to keep the screen brightness from fluctuating based on content.
Does anybody know if there is a way to adjust these in the Google Edition ROM?
Thanks!
P.S. I doubt that it matters but I'm using this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341026&highlight=color
Because it is an AT&T phone I had to flash Loki Doki after flashing the ROM.
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I know there are several ways to tweak the color settings on the Nexus 4 if you use certain kernels, including the RGB 0-255 values and contrast settings through apps such as the paid version of the Franco.kernel updater. I've fooled around with these a bit, and I like the contrast settings but usually roll back to defaults because they are noticeably dimmer than defaults, which is likely to make me turn up the brightness and use more battery. What I'm wondering is if there's a way to remove all color from the display and use a black and white rendering instead? It isn't out of any necessity, I'm just curious and sometimes like reading certain things in B&W because unnecessary colors in ads or UI elements can be distracting. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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.
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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.
Is there a way, on my Samsung S4 Stock ROM 4.3, to change, under settings, the colour for the background from white on black to black on white?
Thank you
Saulo
Using Settings > Accessiility > Negative Colors would in theorysolve my problem...but then this new settings applies to everywhere, to each screen, NOT ONLY to settings...this makes making pictures and movies horrible (pics have reversed colors)...
Any idea?
I have vision issues, so having a black blackground and white characters causes me not to clearly see...
Thanks for any suggestions
I would easily switch to a cooked ROM which has the background colour for settings inverted...By the way, it seems that HTC, iPhone and most major provider choose black characters on white background.. Why then Samsung has choose the oppostite?
saulo866 said:
I would easily switch to a cooked ROM which has the background colour for settings inverted...By the way, it seems that HTC, iPhone and most major provider choose black characters on white background.. Why then Samsung has choose the oppostite?
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Probably because of the s4 screen type... Its amoled, so when it shows black, it actually has the pixel off, thus saving power.
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bennyboy78 said:
Probably because of the s4 screen type... Its amoled, so when it shows black, it actually has the pixel off, thus saving power.
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Dear Benny
Yes, probably,. However how is it possible in the world nobody else has the glaring problem that I do experience? I do not want to give up Samsung and return to iPhone just because the apple device have white background, right? there must be a workout...
Thank you
S
saulo866 said:
Dear Benny
Yes, probably,. However how is it possible in the world nobody else has the glaring problem that I do experience? I do not want to give up Samsung and return to iPhone just because the apple device have white background, right? there must be a workout...
Thank you
S
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You can blame samsung all you want but in actuality its the carrier you bought the device from, AT&T uses white background setting in most of their roms while Rogers uses Black.
Don't like the background colour, switch to a custom rom/different carriers rom and get white settings.
You can easily find out what colour the settings menus are in various roms by looking at screen shots of the rom prior to installing it.
Thank you so much for your info...
Unfortunately I use a S4: it is UNLOCKED, but it is i9502 (dual SIM), and there is ONLY one cooked ROM available (from SVA, ROM 5.5). Which is excellent by the way.
It has black background.
I am very happy about the ROM. I would not want to change to another cooked ROM. And even if I want, there it NO alternative English ROM to support dual SIM i9502 Samsung S4.
Is there a way that a NON-Tech-sawy like me can accomplish the change of background from black to white or clear? Yes, I cannot do programming, but I am able to fully implement rooting procedures and I know basic Unix commands and terminal operations..
thanks
Saulo
I'm one of those lucky people who gets chronic migraines. The primary trigger for me is bright light... especially looking at bright, white screens with black text. Consequently, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to invert screen color... which is fine unless you are looking at pictures or video.
I know that I can change my Note 4 settings to invert the colors, but that simply isn't practical. I've been able to get some of the modifications I need by swapping out applications. For instance, I use Chomp SMS and have found a great plug-in for firefox that inverts the color without inverting the images. I've also been able to make some system mods through Xposed using Wanam's module. But these are only bandaids. I'm really looking for something that will work system-wide, for light text and dark background.
My phone is a Sprint Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop 5.1.1. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading to Marshmallow help? Or how about changing out the ROM?
If nothing that would work systemwide, does anyone have a suggestion for an email app that will invert the text color? The stock Samsung email app is really tough for me.
Any help will be much appreciated.
jmalmberg said:
I'm one of those lucky people who gets chronic migraines. The primary trigger for me is bright light... especially looking at bright, white screens with black text. Consequently, I've spent quite a bit of time trying to invert screen color... which is fine unless you are looking at pictures or video.
I know that I can change my Note 4 settings to invert the colors, but that simply isn't practical. I've been able to get some of the modifications I need by swapping out applications. For instance, I use Chomp SMS and have found a great plug-in for firefox that inverts the color without inverting the images. I've also been able to make some system mods through Xposed using Wanam's module. But these are only bandaids. I'm really looking for something that will work system-wide, for light text and dark background.
My phone is a Sprint Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop 5.1.1. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would upgrading to Marshmallow help? Or how about changing out the ROM?
If nothing that would work systemwide, does anyone have a suggestion for an email app that will invert the text color? The stock Samsung email app is really tough for me.
Any help will be much appreciated.
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Try infamous rom or bobcat rom from N910T thread this roms is fully dark black themed with all built-in apps it will work on n910p but not sure LTE/WIFI CALLING will work on N910P.
I believe bobcat rom is available for N910P too.
Watch rom review.infamous rom
https://youtu.be/JNVtlr84d3g
Bobcat rom
https://youtu.be/hU8sJvb9H2k.
I came across a weird issue: No matter what App I'm trying, all screen recordings have an orange hue. I've tested with DU Recorder, AZ Screen Recorder and Game Screen Recorder. The results I'm getting are all like this (recorded the play store - you know, that should be white and green):
https://streamable.com/2spod
Is there a solution for this issue?
Is there an app that does not record with an orange hue on the Axon 7?
(Apart from that, even when recording in fixed portrait mode, the videos always end up being horizontal. I'm looking for a solution for that as well.)
EDIT: The issue was not the color settings of the screen in "Screen effect" as I was assuming. Turns out the "Night Light" setting (set on always on) was the culprit.
I hope this info helps others running into the same issue.
When you're not recording can you see the orange hue? If yes, then it might be LiveDisplay or some other screen filtering app that reduces blue color. If not then I'm not sure.
No, I can't see the orange hue when not recording - but I found the solution. See original post.
Eiion said:
EDIT: The issue was not the color settings of the screen in "Screen effect" as I was assuming. Turns out the "Night Light" setting (set on always on) was the culprit.
I hope this info helps others running into the same issue.
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What ROM are you on? It's odd as Night Light should be adjusting the colour of the display rather than the system interface. At least you could turn it off and use a third party custom kernel KCAL based colour mod like CF.lumen, Lux Auto Brightness or F.lux to name a few.
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What ROM are you on? It's odd as Night Light should be adjusting the colour of the display rather than the system interface. At least you could turn it off and use a third party custom kernel KCAL based colour mod like CF.lumen, Lux Auto Brightness or F.lux to name a few.
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I'm on standard "ZTA A2017GV1.2.0B10".
Well, it's also odd that the recordings were a lot more orange than what to me still looked pretty white on the original screen. Anyways... I just turn it off before recording now and back on afterwards.
Thanks for the list of alternatives though - it might come in handy in the future with other ROMs or phones.
Eiion said:
I'm on standard "ZTA A2017GV1.2.0B10".
Well, it's also odd that the recordings were a lot more orange than what to me still looked pretty white on the original screen. Anyways... I just turn it off before recording now and back on afterwards.
Thanks for the list of alternatives though - it might come in handy in the future with other ROMs or phones.
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maybe a bug on stock. Perhaps doubly orange as you recorded the orange and played it back with another layer of orange on top. Actually CF.lumen and F.lux don't require kernel KCAL but can rely on root as an alternative effect.
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Infy_AsiX said:
maybe a bug on stock. Perhaps doubly orange as you recorded the orange and played it back with another layer of orange on top. Actually CF.lumen and F.lux don't require kernel KCAL but can rely on root as an alternative effect.
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No - I even moved the file to the PC and it was the same intensity there, too... though it would have made sense considering it was recorded in the first place.
I'm not planning to root the device - as long as there's hope for an update from ZTE (which hopefully will come soon).