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Not as bright as my s3 fault or needs tweeking

Love the note it is fantastic , I have one minor complaint the brightness is no where near as bright as the s3
I'm not sure if this is normal , is a fault or something needs tweaking
I'm in full brightness , auto brightness is off and so is adjust screen tone
Is it just me ?
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Mines much brighter than my s3 .
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Interesting...is anyone having a similar experience.?
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Did you change the brightness in the drop down menu only?
That slider is just a fine tune for the actual setting.
Go into settings and display, and there is a REAL brightness slider there.

Note 2 is supposed to be brighter 450nit vs 350nit $3
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Interesting. Could this be due to lack of consistency in manufacturing? GSMArena said that their review unit is less bright than the one they previewed.

My device is bright enough.No problem at all under sunny conditions.

Hey guys, I think we all confused about what the real question is, i mean my NOTE 2 is bright enough too. but I think what he means is, the quality not the brightness. Honestly I have the same problem, when I compare my s3 to my note2, the s3 the color is more alive, for example, when you look at the icons in your desktop is not NEAT as the s3. When I had my s3 I faced the same problem, what i did was change my ROM but in this case, we have to wait until they release more rom for the note2.

Blaster1984 said:
Hey guys, I think we all confused about what the real question is, i mean my NOTE 2 is bright enough too. but I think what he means is, the quality not the brightness. Honestly I have the same problem, when I compare my s3 to my note2, the s3 the color is more alive, for example, when you look at the icons in your desktop is not NEAT as the s3. When I had my s3 I faced the same problem, what i did was change my ROM but in this case, we have to wait until they release more rom for the note2.
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Bob on its bright enough for use but seems to be less vibrant than expected
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mine have less bright than my old note 1

mancuk29 said:
Bob on its bright enough for use but seems to be less vibrant than expected
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So you may change the title of the thread and retype your first post?

afilopou said:
So you may change the title of the thread and retype your first post?
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Why ? It isnt as bright as my s3 and all advertising shows bright vivid screen so my question was correct is it a fault or needs tweaking
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allmine1976 said:
Mines much brighter than my s3 .
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Can you check screen type?
Dial this code *#*#5238973#*#*

The code does nothing when I dial it on phone ?
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mancuk29 said:
The code does nothing when I dial it on phone ?
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Maybe doesn't work on Note 2 or JB?
I checked this on my Note N7000 (ICS 4.0.4)
Can you try this on your S3 or N7000?

Defo doesnt work on s3
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Nexus 4 display and speaker

I usually keep my phones on full brightness. I'll deal with the battery draining because I love how it looks with full brightness. Has anyone noticed the display on the n4 kind of adjusting sometimes. I have noticed sometimes it changes to a little darker or a little brighter while using the phone.
I also noticed when I am talking on the phone with the speaker on sometimes it shuts when opening an application or sometimes even without opening an app and switches to regular ear piece. Sometimes it will stay on speaker but go lower.
Anyone having these issues? Its not a deal breaker or anything I still love it. I know phones will always have their issues, I've had ever nexus and the g1. I just want to know if other people are having this issue.
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Da Faq?

Bump
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turn off auto brightness... lol
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smirkis said:
turn off auto brightness... lol
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Its not auto brightness, my phone does the same thing. Its hardly noticeable but I find it strange too
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My guess is glitch hardware. Lg is known for making inconsistent quality. Terrible QA. Just because its made in Korea doesn't means its better than in China.

toZeMTL said:
Its not auto brightness, my phone does the same thing. Its hardly noticeable but I find it strange too
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Same here, not on auto
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I don't know how you can use this display on full brightness it's too damn bright! Strains my eyes. lol I tend to keep mine around the 25% mark

It's adaptive contrast, runs independent of your brightness settings and there's not an option to disable it. You probably notice it most when moving from a largely black screen to a white one.
I think I remember first hearing about it's use in a Galaxy S2 review, my TV does the same thing on its dynamic setting.
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chrondroid said:
I don't know how you can use this display on full brightness it's too damn bright! Strains my eyes. lol I tend to keep mine around the 25% mark
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I've always done this, I can't settle for less loll
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khaidottk said:
It's adaptive contrast, runs independent of your brightness settings and there's not an option to disable it. You probably notice it most when moving from a largely black screen to a white one.
I think I remember first hearing about it's use in a Galaxy S2 review, my TV does the same thing on its dynamic setting.
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I didn't know this. Can you show me somewhere, where this is stated about the phone? It makes sense.
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Moto active display

So I just found out that the reason why Moto active display is so amazing is because it doesn't consume hardly any battery due to the amoled display only waking a few pixels. Is there any way we will see this on our phones since they use an amoled or is it dependant on the Motorola framework?
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Ghstudent said:
So I just found out that the reason why Moto active display is so amazing is because it doesn't consume hardly any battery due to the amoled display only waking a few pixels. Is there any way we will see this on our phones since they use an amoled or is it dependant on the Motorola framework?
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I think it's also dependent on the low power cores designed specifically for that feature.

You will not get Moto X branded features on your Galaxy 4. Period.
The only way it will happen is if someone other than youself makes it happen, on AOSP.
Cheers

I like the Google now always on feature where you can just talk and it responds. Any app that's going to be like that for the s4?
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I was reading there's a app or for it but you need 4.3 to run it. Check it out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
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Could someone with a Note 3 check this

Thinking of buying the Note 3 but really wanna know how bad the smearing issue is cause i bought the Galaxy s4 on launch day and couldn't live with the smearing issue ( my girlfriend also bought a Galaxy s4 on launch day and still has it..she didn't think the smearing was annoying..i hated it )
Could someone with a Note 3 try both things explained below on low brightness
1. Download zedge and search for black wallpapers..then while scrolling thru the wallpapers..do you so smearing..purple glow on the grey background in zedge between the wallpapers?
2. Choose a black wallpaper as background and install nova launcher...then on the homescreen set a widget with some grey in it like the stock music player widget and scroll between the homescreens...and also with some icons on the homescreens?
On the Galaxy s4 doing the above there was a lot of smearing..purple glow visible even after the fix from samsung cause they only fixt it in the samsung framework
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I tested Zedge.. Yes there is smearing.
But when you uncheck Auto Brightness Smearing is much much better.
Auto Mode is very dark. In a dark room it gets darker again..I recommend manual Brightness 30 - 50%. Then its really fine.
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The purple smearing effect is probably just because the greys blur when moving and they appear purple. Entirely normal and probably same on all phones.
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Jep. Black = Pixels are off
When you Scroll the Pixels need Time to activate. Thats the Price for real Black
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danieljamie said:
The purple smearing effect is probably just because the greys blur when moving and they appear purple. Entirely normal and probably same on all phones.
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^^ Ditto, I don't find it annoying, I didn't even know about it until the OP mentioned it.

Ive seen it in Tapatalk 2 with blue dark theme..
Black background and gray Text..The complete Text smeared..
Now i use the classic dark theme (dark grey background) and all is fine
Dont think about Smearing.. i think you will just see it in darker rooms.

Thanks a lot guys...you saved me 750 bucks, some people don't find it that big of a issue like my girlfriend who still has the Galaxy s4...for me it is an issue cause i like to have a black background and while using a black background with nova launcher..on my Galaxy s4 the smearing issue was visible on the icons switching thru the homescreens..don't want that on my next phone
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danieljamie said:
The purple smearing effect is probably just because the greys blur when moving and they appear purple. Entirely normal and probably same on all phones.
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Had the Note 2 and there the smearing was not present cause while displaying black the lights where still active. Bought the Galaxy s4 on launch day and that was the first time i had the smearing issue cause when displaying black the amoled screen is really off so when switching to another color like grey the lights need to become active witch creates the smearing. Sold the Galaxy s4 and bought the htc One that has no smearing but wanted a larger screen so bought a Note 2 again witch has no smearing issues cause the screen doesn't turn of like the Galaxy s4 when displaying black and hoped the Note 3 wouldn't have it but seems it does unfortunatly
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D_Magic said:
Had the Note 2 and there the smearing was not present cause while displaying black the lights where still active. Bought the Galaxy s4 on launch day and that was the first time i had the smearing issue cause when displaying black the amoled screen is really off so when switching to another color like grey the lights need to become active witch creates the smearing. Sold the Galaxy s4 and bought the htc One that has no smearing but wanted a larger screen so bought a Note 2 again witch has no smearing issues cause the screen doesn't turn of like the Galaxy s4 when displaying black and hoped the Note 3 wouldn't have it but seems it does unfortunatly
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OR you could've installed one simple app that would've fixed your smearing issue on your S4. Your blacks will not turn off completely and will remove smearing 100%.
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plasmastate said:
OR you could've installed one simple app that would've fixed your smearing issue on your S4. Your blacks will not turn off completely and will remove smearing 100%.
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Tried all the apps and settings and didn't work
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D_Magic said:
Tried all the apps and settings and didn't work
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install Screen Adjuster from Play Store..
Set Contrast to -10 or -15. Activate.
No more Smearing

XtremeAt said:
install Screen Adjuster from Play Store..
Set Contrast to -10 or -15. Activate.
No more Smearing
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Tried it 2 minutes ago on my girlfriends Galaxy s4 and it does reduce it for the most part but at a very low brightness there is still smearing unfortunatly
No problem though cause after the galaxy s1..s2..s3..s4 and note 1 and 2 it's time to give someone else a try
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[Q] Digitizer pen does notwork on the lower middle of the screen

Writing with the pen does not work in the lower middle of the note 3 screen. All over the Screen you get a easy writing experience but in the lower middle of the Screen you have to impose very high pressure to get any Response from the Screen. In my opinion the note 3 is not usable for People which like to use the pen Funktion I tested now 3 Note3 in different Shops. All of them had the same problem. Is anybody of you affected by this Problem too????:crying:

No mine works fine
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No problems here, sounds like a hardware problem.
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jetbruceli said:
No mine works fine
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mine works fine too, had also 3 devices so far, s-pen was ok on all three!