[Q] Display modes - which to use? - Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all!
I am wondering which display mode delivers the best experience.. basic or adaptive or something else.
I don't mind the 'punchy' AMOLED screen. I have read many reviews saying the modes have gotten better with Tab S..
Could the people with note 4 try out which mode actually suits all the daily needs like gaming, videos and browsing the best ( I don't want to change modes based on what I'm doing again and again. Just want it to be a single time setup for optimal experience). I will leave the tweaking to when custom roms are available. Not on touchwiz
PS: Screenshots with different modes can help people in their discussion here..
Can't wait for my note. This wait is killing me. Oh well another 4-5 days

On Tab S 8.4 i am using adaptive, it's the best because it changes the colors and everything else based on what you are doing/viewing.

??? Why can't you just try it when you get it?
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Screenshots won't provide people with the colour accuracy since the modes are software filters. Basic mode will look the same as video mode in a screen shot.

*Emix* said:
On Tab S 8.4 i am using adaptive, it's the best because it changes the colors and everything else based on what you are doing/viewing.
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Yes, it does a great job. But Adaptive Mode only supports on Samsung's stock apps, not for 3rd party apps. So, for myself, I use Photo Mode (a bit brighter) or juz Basic Mode (looks original and soft).
maksharma231 said:
Hi all!
I am wondering which display mode delivers the best experience.. basic or adaptive or something else.
I don't mind the 'punchy' AMOLED screen. I have read many reviews saying the modes have gotten better with Tab S..
Could the people with note 4 try out which mode actually suits all the daily needs like gaming, videos and browsing the best ( I don't want to change modes based on what I'm doing again and again. Just want it to be a single time setup for optimal experience). I will leave the tweaking to when custom roms are available. Not on touchwiz
PS: Screenshots with different modes can help people in their discussion here..
Can't wait for my note. This wait is killing me. Oh well another 4-5 days
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Only 4-5 days, u can try it when u get the phone since our opinions and perspectives may not same as u do. :good:

Thanks
Thanks guys. and about trying myself.. that I shall. Just wanted to get a head start... I have all Samsungs yet none of my devices is amoled. That's why I thought about asking for the general perception

Warren.D said:
Screenshots won't provide people with the colour accuracy since the modes are software filters. Basic mode will look the same as video mode in a screen shot.
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My bad. Forgot about that in my excitement lol

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[Q] Is this the best phone for 400€?

As the topic title says, i'm looking for a new phone to replace my boring xperia s (bootloader loocked...) and the maximum i wanna spend is 400€. So,for this money the oppo find 5 is the best option? The feature that i most apreciate is taking photos, and my xperia s do it very well...
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The camera is OK but nothing amazing in my experience which is fine for me and Faux kernel has done wonders my battery life (+30-40%). Not sure the camera can compare to the Xperia.
Despite those niggles, I'd recommend the F5 above others to friends if asked but it depends on your needs. I certainly prefer it over the Note 2 and Nexus 4. For me is the sweet spot between size, screen, performance and design.
What else is on your short list?
-- From my Find 5
Exactly the switch I made XS->Find5. I thought about getting the HTC One or the S4, but since I planned on running a custom ROM, I didn't want to pay for features I wouldn't use anyway.
Regrets? No. The Find5 has a Sony Sensor as camera, AFAIK the same as in the XZ. On stock ROM, the cam is pretty good, not so much on custom ROMs, though, usual closed source binary blob problems.
vitorugo-8 said:
As the topic title says, i'm looking for a new phone to replace my boring xperia s (bootloader loocked...) and the maximum i wanna spend is 400€. So,for this money the oppo find 5 is the best option? The feature that i most apreciate is taking photos, and my xperia s do it very well...
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Hi!
If you are looking a brand new one, maybe this is the one with best camera for this price (I dont know anything about Nokia and WP) you can buy for that amount.
If you dont mind, maybe you can take a Xperia Z (same sensor, but better app) in the second market.
P.S: Yes, this is my first post in about 3 years LOL! (I prefer reading)
Regards from sPAIN
kinghu said:
The camera is OK but nothing amazing in my experience which is fine for me and Faux kernel has done wonders my battery life (+30-40%). Not sure the camera can compare to the Xperia.
Despite those niggles, I'd recommend the F5 above others to friends if asked but it depends on your needs. I certainly prefer it over the Note 2 and Nexus 4. For me is the sweet spot between size, screen, performance and design.
What else is on your short list?
-- From my Find 5
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at the beggining i was thinking about xperia z (i'm a huge fan of the xperia line) or htc one (i don't like the samsung plastic), but i reconsidered that ... 550€ or more for a phone? i think it´s to much, so i stablished the 400€ limit, and for that money, and new phones (not used) i'm in between nexus 4 or the oppo find 5 ( i believe they are the only with superb specs and not so expensive phones ). But the nexus 4 is 4.7 inch screen, and an 8mp camera ( but i guess the 8mp i just a number).
3 things that i consider in a phone : camera; battery; development.
So, what you guys say?
If camera is a priority then you may be better looking elsewhere.
The Find 5 camera is OK in good light but struggles otherwise. My wife has a Nexus 4 and I don't rate that camera either.
-- From my Find 5
I agree the Oppo is nothing to get mad excited about. The camera is very noisy. Actually in HDR mode my pictures on the Nexus 4 turned out way better!
CodeX86 said:
I agree the Oppo is nothing to get mad excited about. The camera is very noisy. Actually in HDR mode my pictures on the Nexus 4 turned out way better!
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so the camera is worst than an xperia s?
vitorugo-8 said:
so the camera is worst than an xperia s?
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Never had the chance to compare to a Xperia S.
But for the claims made by their commercial it doesn't live up to the promise.
Gesendet von meinem Find 5 mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
kinghu said:
The camera is OK but nothing amazing in my experience which is fine for me and Faux kernel has done wonders my battery life (+30-40%). Not sure the camera can compare to the Xperia.
Despite those niggles, I'd recommend the F5 above others to friends if asked but it depends on your needs. I certainly prefer it over the Note 2 and Nexus 4. For me is the sweet spot between size, screen, performance and design.
What else is on your short list?
-- From my Find 5
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I too am interested in this phone, one of my main concerns is battery life.
When you say you have about 30-40% more battery life, how many screen on time are you talking about? 5-6 hours?
Thank you.
Elwood_It said:
I too am interested in this phone, one of my main concerns is battery life.
When you say you have about 30-40% more battery life, how many screen on time are you talking about? 5-6 hours?
Thank you.
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Well you can forget the Stock firmware even with fauxes Kernel it will suck you dry. The best experience as far as battery life i had so far was with Cyanogenmod. Even so it is not running an optimized Kernel it seems to handle power mangement way better!
5-6 hours screen on is way over what you will be able to achieve with normal day 2 day use. For sure you will max out at the moment at 4 hours screen on time.
If you are looking for a new phone with lot's of battery life i would hold of another 1-2 month and see what others have to offer because Oppo didn't even release 4.2 yet but they are planning on in early August. Until then don't bother!
so, in conclusion, despite the problems with the camera ( which i think it's a software problem, not hardware ) for 400€, and with a custom rom, the oppo it's the best phone on the market?
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Well you can forget the Stock firmware even with fauxes Kernel it will suck you dry. The best experience as far as battery life i had so far was with Cyanogenmod. Even so it is not running an optimized Kernel it seems to handle power mangement way better!
5-6 hours screen on is way over what you will be able to achieve with normal day 2 day use. For sure you will max out at the moment at 4 hours screen on time.
If you are looking for a new phone with lot's of battery life i would hold of another 1-2 month and see what others have to offer because Oppo didn't even release 4.2 yet but they are planning on in early August. Until then don't bother!
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Thank you very much for the answer!
camera is far from bad.. not the best in low light and yes noise can be a problem but i walked out in garden snapped some pics
nothing wrong with it IMO, i actually think its quite good! a lot better than my s2 was.
grudas said:
camera is far from bad.. not the best in low light and yes noise can be a problem but i walked out in garden snapped some pics
nothing wrong with it IMO, i actually think its quite good! a lot better than my s2 was.
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uou those pictures are amazing ... i'm not any expert, but i think the picture quality are far from bad ... are you using any tweak or something? or it's the stock camera app?
vitorugo-8 said:
uou those pictures are amazing ... i'm not any expert, but i think the picture quality are far from bad ... are you using any tweak or something? or it's the stock camera app?
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stock camera and stock rom only thing i've done is root and kill the stock launcher, thats it no editing on those either straight out of the phone in full res.
Elwood_It said:
I too am interested in this phone, one of my main concerns is battery life.
When you say you have about 30-40% more battery life, how many screen on time are you talking about? 5-6 hours?
Thank you.
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Sorry just saw this... I've tried most of the stock/beta ROMs and as a light to moderate user, it lasts me about 24-36 hours. Without faux kernel I would get around 3 to 3.5 hours screen on (email, twitter, browser, Tapatalk, watching a TV show, taking pics/video and a few calls).
With faux setup for battery life, I can get 4.5 to 5 hours doing the same stuff and there isn't really a performance hit as I'm not doing much needing the phone to run at full speed for long.
It was really the idle drain that was killing it at around ~1.5%-2% per hour rather than ~0.8% with faux. Usually, I'm on wifi and have GPS on and leave them on when sleeping so it was overnight that saw a big improvement.
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stock camera and stock rom only thing i've done is root and kill the stock launcher, thats it no editing on those either straight out of the phone in full res.
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Yeah I used Stock to for a while and when you do close ups the camera makes some pretty nice pictures. But as soon as contrasts aren't really there anymore it gets potentially noisy.
I mean how much can you really expect from a smartphone camera sensor without any optics to adjust depth.
Your pictures are nice. I made some nice ones myself but they don't measure up to HTC One's Ultrapixel contrast and light condition abilities.
Funny part about all of this is probably that drivers neither on Stock or Custom are really optimized.
I do though still think the state the phone is in right now it is not worth it. Neither Stock Software nor Custom give you a really great experience with the device right now.
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I do though still think the state the phone is in right now it is not worth it. Neither Stock Software nor Custom give you a really great experience with the device right now.
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After trying numerous stock and custom ROM/kernel combinations, I have to disagree. Last week's Chinese Firefly is, IMO, very usable in terms of performance, battery life, and reliability.
I posted some findings here:
http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/project-firefly-v1-0-0_3186b.2016/page-19#post-53441
kinghu said:
After trying numerous stock and custom ROM/kernel combinations, I have to disagree. Last week's Chinese Firefly is, IMO, very usable in terms of performance, battery life, and reliability.
I posted some findings here:
http://www.oppoforums.com/threads/project-firefly-v1-0-0_3186b.2016/page-19#post-53441
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Yeah and you will have to lay a little more weight on chinese open beta...

Let's figure out how to remove the sharpening.

So I saw this in the build prop
"qualcomm sensors enable
#
# LGE CHANGE_S, 2013-10-29, [email protected]
# below sensor is default true by HAL source.
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.qmd=true
#ro.qc.sdk.sensors.gestures=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.pedometer=true
#ro.qc.sensors.step_detector=true
#ro.qc.sensors.step_counter=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.pam=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.scrn_ortn=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.smd=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.game_rv=true
#ro.qualcomm.sensors.georv=true
# LGE CHANGE_E, 2013-10-29, [email protected]"
Not sure if anything there can help, but I know that the sharpening is applied when there's something light on a dark background or vice versa and also if you have any type of floating menu it'll sharpen everything in the background.
Samsung does this as well but as far as I know only in multi window mode.
Its not a screen issue as its not always apparent. And as far as I know the oppo find 7 has the same panel and doesn't exhibit these effects.
So anyone have any ideas?
Kernel related ?
Display drivers?
Maybe we should all email lg and ask them for an option to remove it.
Just fyi oppo use japan display inc panel while lg use their own panel
I think the only way to defeat the sharpening is with a custom kernel and possibly an app to tweak the display unless LG of course turn this 'feature' off in the future themselves via an OTA update.
daleski75 said:
I think the only way to defeat the sharpening is with a custom kernel and possibly an app to tweak the display unless LG of course turn this 'feature' off in the future themselves via an OTA update.
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Hope they do. Its pointless.
So anyways I came across another thing.
If you tune the display with a kernel app as in colors. If you tune all the colors down and make the colors darker and such, everything will have the sharpening applied. So it seems like the software sees that and applies it to everything.
Hoping it's just kernel
Lostatsea23 said:
Hope they do. Its pointless.
So anyways I came across another thing.
If you tune the display with a kernel app as in colors. If you tune all the colors down and make the colors darker and such, everything will have the sharpening applied. So it seems like the software sees that and applies it to everything.
Hoping it's just kernel
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I am just guessing as I am not a developer by any shape of the imagination but this sounds like it's built into the OS so possibly a tweak to prevent this behaviour from getting triggered which will turn off the sharpening effect.
daleski75 said:
I am just guessing as I am not a developer by any shape of the imagination but this sounds like it's built into the OS so possibly a tweak to prevent this behaviour from getting triggered which will turn off the sharpening effect.
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Yes I think so. If someone can baksmali the ROM maybe they can find something. Id get in touch with a Dev but as this time it seems like no one owns the device.
Lostatsea23 said:
Yes I think so. If someone can baksmali the ROM maybe they can find something. Id get in touch with a Dev but as this time it seems like no one owns the device.
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When it finally rolls out to the USA then I think it will get better dev support.
I'll have the device soon, but I'm not sure we're able to turn it off since it may be the part of the driver. Haven't done it yet, but if we can debug the running code and binary patch the trigger effect into not signaling, we may fix it. If it IS a trigger at all; e.g. we should find when it does signal the driver/gpu to apply sharpening and just switch code from JE to JNE or similar to kill the trigger and never apply it.
Theoretically.
Hopefully LG can turn it off and not a hardware combo issue with the 801 and this particular display tech.
It can be turned off. They purposely added it
Lostatsea23 said:
It can be turned off. They purposely added it
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I wonder if anyone knows the purpose. Because any sane person would turn it off after seeing it in action.
toncij said:
I wonder if anyone knows the purpose. Because any sane person would turn it off after seeing it in action.
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The purpose is either, they want to emphasize the need for it so they make things extra sharp over 1080p not realizing it actually looks worse when its sharpened. Or its because the contrast ratio is low so to do that they sharpened it in areas where it would be more noticeable to make it more legible. Again, doesn't really help.
On the galaxy phones it would produce this on multi window mode as stated and when putting a cm ROM on it you wouldn't get any of that since there's no window mode. But... If you go into screen settings and change the screen aliasing type or whatever, if you change from standard to reading mode it would make the display sharp exactly like we see on this one. So once we get kernel support for screen modes (cm adds modes such as movie mode and sharpness ect) then we should be fine.
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The purpose is either, they want to emphasize the need for it so they make things extra sharp over 1080p not realizing it actually looks worse when its sharpened. Or its because the contrast ratio is low so to do that they sharpened it in areas where it would be more noticeable to make it more legible. Again, doesn't really help.
On the galaxy phones it would produce this on multi window mode as stated and when putting a cm ROM on it you wouldn't get any of that since there's no window mode. But... If you go into screen settings and change the screen aliasing type or whatever, if you change from standard to reading mode it would make the display sharp exactly like we see on this one. So once we get kernel support for screen modes (cm adds modes such as movie mode and sharpness ect) then we should be fine.
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Well, I don't believe a whole bunch of smart engineers, designers and such in dev and QA would not notice it sucks...
And for screen modes, after so much hassle, I hope and expect LG is preparing us a "turn bloody thing off" setting...
Well once it comes out in the states I will be contacting some devs about it. We need a boot loader unlock as well though
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I wonder if anyone knows the purpose. Because any sane person would turn it off after seeing it in action.
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Without seeing it in person, it probably was added to make their simple UI have more of a pop to it. They were probably trying to make it stand out more in stores, like how tvs usually have horrible settings when on display at a store.
flaring afro said:
Without seeing it in person, it probably was added to make their simple UI have more of a pop to it. They were probably trying to make it stand out more in stores, like how tvs usually have horrible settings when on display at a store.
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They're dumb because it makes it look worse. In almost positive a fix will be found. If anything maybe the carrier releases will have this fixed already.
Guess what...
I installed bravia engine v3 from Android Tweaker 2 and...
I think my display is more clear and the sharpening is slightly gone!
You guys better try it and tell your impression
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haris182 said:
Guess what...
I installed bravia engine v3 from Android Tweaker 2 and...
I think my display is more clear and the sharpening is slightly gone!
You guys better try it and tell your impression
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Nope. Exactly the same. Placebo
Sugar pills taste so good
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Sugar pills taste so good
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Lol. If an update to remove this isn't out in the next couple weeks. Bye bye G3

[G935F] ROM, kernel, ultra-noob questions

Hello droidsmiths,
S7 Edge is my first ever smartphone (yep, late to the party). I was looking forward to trying new ROMs and kernels, to get more customisation and have proper (admin) control of my device.
First I tried RR, whose customisations are excellent, but averaged ≈3 hours "normal"-use battery life (stock @ ≈8 hours). AOD/USB stopped working, and the phone was always warm to the touch, even in standby. Is that normal?
I then tried Helios, then SuperMan (and their respective kernels) but I can't find anything different. The included apps/fonts are handy though. All Settings customisations/options seem identical to stock except a new icon here and there, is that correct?
I would like to customise appearance / UI settings (e.g. no animation, white-on-black as default) and have CPU/GPU/RAM/network control. Ideally, battery life at maybe >75% of stock. My expectations might be too high, sorry about that, I am new to all this. I'm a Windows developer, so not too bad with those OSes but totally lost in Android. (Can't even find a way to set the wallpaper to be just black, yikes!)
Is there a TW-based ROM that allows in-depth customisation like RR, or a non-TW ROM with working AOD and fingerprint scanner?
Thanks for any advice/help you can provide, and to the developers for their work.
hejra said:
Hello droidsmiths,
S7 Edge is my first ever smartphone (yep, late to the party). I was looking forward to trying new ROMs and kernels, to get more customisation and have proper (admin) control of my device.
First I tried RR, whose customisations are excellent, but averaged ≈3 hours "normal"-use battery life (stock @ ≈8 hours). AOD/USB stopped working, and the phone was always warm to the touch, even in standby. Is that normal?
I then tried Helios, then SuperMan (and their respective kernels) but I can't find anything different. The included apps/fonts are handy though. All Settings customisations/options seem identical to stock except a new icon here and there, is that correct?
I would like to customise appearance / UI settings (e.g. no animation, white-on-black as default) and have CPU/GPU/RAM/network control. Ideally, battery life at maybe >75% of stock. My expectations might be too high, sorry about that, I am new to all this. I'm a Windows developer, so not too bad with those OSes but totally lost in Android. (Can't even find a way to set the wallpaper to be just black, yikes!)
Is there a TW-based ROM that allows in-depth customisation like RR, or a non-TW ROM with working AOD and fingerprint scanner?
Thanks for any advice/help you can provide, and to the developers for their work.
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Welcome to the world of android!
Big advocater for touchwiz ROMs here. Never understood AOSP based ROMs like RR on Samsung phone - nothing improved really (worse battery life, camera, lost features, mild if any performance gain) + I reckon you bought the wrong phone for yourself if you use AOSP ROM on a samsung. Just my opinion though.
Theming - Superman has quite a few things you can change in the superman settings app. most notably for me notification appearance and blur effect on notification pulldown. If you simply want to change appearance, you can use samsung themes. There are plenty of black and white themes there. If it's still not enough, you can use Nova Launcher?
Kernel control - use superkernel with the ROM if you like to tweak. synapse is buggy but will let you tweak heaps. Kernel adiutor has less tweaking ,but more stable.
Performance, battery life - I'm on superman ROM with Superstock Kernel, better battery life than stock for sure. 2% drain overnight (6-8 hrs), ~12-20% drain in 24hr on an average day for me, pretty much default superstock kernel settings (changed IO scheduler and TCP algorithm). Greenify / forcedoze helps with battery too. Performance is pretty much the same as stock in my experience.
Havent tried helios, but I believe it comes with Xposed which offers heaps of customisation. Kernel is pretty much stock here I believe, but you can flash a kernel over it. For tweaking use Superkernel, Notorious or TGP kernel. You can still theme store here too.
I hope this helps. Any questions, let us know
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Welcome to the world of android!
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Hey there. Thank you for the detailed response, very much appreciated!
Big advocater for touchwiz ROMs here. Never understood AOSP based ROMs like RR on Samsung phone - nothing improved really (worse battery life, camera, lost features, mild if any performance gain) + I reckon you bought the wrong phone for yourself if you use AOSP ROM on a samsung. Just my opinion though.
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I'm coming to the same conclusion (wrong phone), unfortunately. Wish I knew beforehand about Samsung locking things down so hard before I purchased; was never mentioned in reviews though. It's only been a couple of days and I still have accessories being shipped, so won't sell it just yet. In the meantime I'll see if I can tailor it to be workable.
TBH any ROM is fine, so long as I can do two main things: default to black background/white text (e.g. my Win 10 laptop), and CPU/GPU control. White-on-black is more important, I have a mild optical disorder. The colour-inversion accessibility option is excellent, but as it applies to e.g. photos (unlike Windows' high-contrast accessibility themes) it's overkill... and because it's global, some things are actually harder to discern.
Theming - Superman has quite a few things you can change in the superman settings app. most notably for me notification appearance and blur effect on notification pulldown. If you simply want to change appearance, you can use samsung themes. There are plenty of black and white themes there. If it's still not enough, you can use Nova Launcher?
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I jumped the gun installling non-TW ROMs, so haven't tried any of Samsung's themes yet... I'll check them out tonight. With LineageOS, I purchased the Sungtratum Substratum addon and Swift Black theme, which worked very well, but as you say the performance issues and missing features seem to defeat the purpose of owning decent hardware. [EDIT: I'm sorry, that's very rude! I don't mean it so bluntly: I probably won't use e.g. the camera much so can understand that many features are not a priority for users, including myself. Now that I've had a better look around (and still only seen maybe 5% of what's on offer) in the ROMs, all have excelled in different areas and the work that goes into them is incredible, especially for FREE!]
Kernel control - use superkernel with the ROM if you like to tweak. synapse is buggy but will let you tweak heaps. Kernel adiutor has less tweaking ,but more stable.
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Ah, I noticed Adiutor included in a couple of ROMs and see that it does all I need—just basic tweaking in discrete profiles like ThrottleStop/Afterburner for Windows, triggered with events via AutoHotkey (Tasker looks like a the best equivalent).
Performance, battery life - I'm on superman ROM with Superstock Kernel, better battery life than stock for sure. 2% drain overnight (6-8 hrs), ~12-20% drain in 24hr on an average day for me, pretty much default superstock kernel settings (changed IO scheduler and TCP algorithm). Greenify / forcedoze helps with battery too. Performance is pretty much the same as stock in my experience.
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Okay, glad to hear. I'll give SuperMan or Helios another go and see what I can work out with Samsung Themes/Adiutor/Xposed/Greenify/Tasker.
Havent tried helios, but I believe it comes with Xposed which offers heaps of customisation. Kernel is pretty much stock here I believe, but you can flash a kernel over it. For tweaking use Superkernel, Notorious or TGP kernel. You can still theme store here too.
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Cool, well I have a lot of options to explore—hopefully I'll be able to tailor things enough to avoid selling it.
I hope this helps. Any questions, let us know
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I'll probably have more nooboid questions, but I've learned a lot already—thanks again!
hejra said:
I'm coming to the same conclusion (wrong phone), unfortunately. Wish I knew beforehand about Samsung locking things down so hard before I purchased; was never mentioned in reviews though. It's only been a couple of days and I still have accessories being shipped, so won't sell it just yet. In the meantime I'll see if I can tailor it to be workable.
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(Just bolded points that I saw for easy reference) Samsung doesnt lock things down that bad, most stock ROMs regardless of manufacturer are a little inflexible for various reasons, think of it like an iphone treatment. The custom ones are very flexible IMO.
As for accessories, I know you didnt ask, but screen protectors are hard to come by due to the curved screen - glass ones have poor fit and never have sticky surface the whole way = dust can come underneath + poor sensitivity, film ones tend to lift up on the edges . and once you do find a reasonable one, normally cases cause the screen protector to lift. I highly recommend a film screen protector and a case that is friendly on one. I personally use an unbranded film protector from a street shop haha BUT I would highly recommend the supcase unicorn beetle case as it has a part that comes from the front (rather than most cases that only come from behind) meaning that it keeps the protector on very well, even an unbranded one such as mine.
hejra said:
TBH any ROM is fine, so long as I can do two main things: default to black background/white text (e.g. my Win 10 laptop), and CPU/GPU control. White-on-black is more important.
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Both boxes are quite easily ticked. Theme store sounds like the solution for you - like i said earlier, plenty of black and white themes. Superman ROM also lets you change the colours for notifications as theme store wont change that. Attached some screenshots of my phone's UI just to show you that it can be done with touchwiz.
hejra said:
I jumped the gun installling non-TW ROMs, so haven't tried any of Samsung's themes yet... I'll check them out tonight. With LineageOS, I purchased the Sungtratum Substratum addon and Swift Black theme, which worked very well, but as you say the performance issues and missing features seem to defeat the purpose of owning decent hardware. EDIT: I'm sorry, that's very rude! I don't mean it so bluntly: I probably won't use e.g. the camera much so can understand that many features are not a priority for users, including myself. Now that I've had a better look around (and still only seen maybe 5% of what's on offer) in the ROMs, all have excelled in different areas and the work that goes into them is incredible, especially for FREE!]
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Yeah, I reckon you sorta did too haha. It's a little bit of overkill if you simply just want those two modifications. Give touchwiz another chance I reckon. I dont think you'll regret it, given what I've read.
hejra said:
Ah, I noticed Adiutor included in a couple of ROMs and see that it does all I need—just basic tweaking in discrete profiles like ThrottleStop/Afterburner for Windows, triggered with events via AutoHotkey (Tasker looks like a the best equivalent).
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Adiutor is not bad and is is very stable. If it does all you need, then dont even try synapse lol. Synapse was hugely frustrating to me - unstable AF, not something I needed controlling my kernel.
hejra said:
Okay, glad to hear. I'll give SuperMan or Helios another go and see what I can work out with Samsung Themes/Adiutor/Xposed/Greenify/Tasker.
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My stats are also all while connected to android wear, location always on and sometimes bluetooth audio in car, so you may get even better. If you need any battery saving tips, I can help out as well. Alot of tricks are simply just changing settings. There are apps that can help too.
hejra said:
Cool, well I have a lot of options to explore—hopefully I'll be able to tailor things enough to avoid selling it.
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hejra said:
I'll probably have more nooboid questions, but I've learned a lot already—thanks again!
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No worries happy to help. I'm in the chillest year of my degree, so I got plenty of time. I wrote a lot this time as well I think haha. So TLDR - give touchwiz another go, it sounds like you wont regret it by reading your posts.

Custom AOD

Note 9 Custom AOD
I tried the S8 and Note 8 AOD's but they wont show up on my note 9.
Anybody got advice on this?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/themes/root-customise-display-updated-t3688153
https://www.**********.com/add-custom-themes-to-always-on-display-on-galaxy-note-8/
https://www.themefoxx.com/2017/10/customize-always-display-galaxy-note8-no-root.html
There is this app that does it well, the only drawback is that it could lag a bit on keeping the picture even after unlocking but that was on the s8 plus. Have t seen it do it much on the note 9. Then again have not used it much.
Also if you want your picture you have to pay. But for now thos is the only one I know that has worked. Just can't say if it will lag like it did on the s8 plus or not. As mentioned picture would stay a couple of seconds more than what you would expect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.somen.customaod
lmanlo said:
There is this app that does it well, the only drawback is that it could lag a bit on keeping the picture even after unlocking but that was on the s8 plus. Have t seen it do it much on the note 9. Then again have not used it much.
Also if you want your picture you have to pay. But for now thos is the only one I know that has worked. Just can't say if it will lag like it did on the s8 plus or not. As mentioned picture would stay a couple of seconds more than what you would expect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.somen.customaod
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Thanks for the heads up on that app. It doesn't lag on my Note 9. It has plenty of great AOD custom pics that you don't have to pay for, but even if you want the "prime" pics, the prime app is only $3.49. Not even a cup of coffee for most people.... in other words, it's a very good value.
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Thanks for the heads up on that app. It doesn't lag on my Note 9. It has plenty of great AOD custom pics that you don't have to pay for, but even if you want the "prime" pics, the prime app is only $3.49. Not even a cup of coffee for most people.... in other words, it's a very good value.
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Yes, $3.49 is not much but just wanted to mention if you wanted a particular custom picture that is not on the app that you would like to have that would be $9.99 which is still not bad for them to put up the work on getting your picture as a AOD picture. But not everyone would need it as there are plenty that it already has and this has been for quite a long time so it has accumulated several custom pictures that everyone could use which is a plus for this app.
But yes this has worked better on the Note 9 then it did on the S8+. It was a bit laggy on my S8+. This has been a good alternative and likely would be the best one for now that does Custom AOD.
The good it worked good for you and I'm glad that I did upgrade to Note 9 as well. Seems to handle everything better.
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Yes, $3.49 is not much but just wanted to mention if you wanted a particular custom picture that is not on the app that you would like to have that would be $9.99 which is still not bad for them to put up the work on getting your picture as a AOD picture. But not everyone would need it as there are plenty that it already has and this has been for quite a long time so it has accumulated several custom pictures that everyone could use which is a plus for this app.
But yes this has worked better on the Note 9 then it did on the S8+. It was a bit laggy on my S8+. This has been a good alternative and likely would be the best one for now that does Custom AOD.
The good it worked good for you and I'm glad that I did upgrade to Note 9 as well. Seems to handle everything better.
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I may end up paying the $3.49 for the prime version. Don't really need custom pics done, but there are some nice prime pics I may use.
For right now I am testing it out to see if it effects battery life differently than stock AOD. There is no lag for me and I doubt anyone with a Note 9 will have lag.
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I may end up paying the $3.49 for the prime version. Don't really need custom pics done, but there are some nice prime pics I may use.
For right now I am testing it out to see if it effects battery life differently than stock AOD. There is no lag for me and I doubt anyone with a Note 9 will have lag.
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Please follow up in here once you know if it affects battery life more or less. I'm curious.
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Please follow up in here once you know if it affects battery life more or less. I'm curious.
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I've been watching it pretty closely all day today. So far I can't see a difference from regular AOD. Watching the battery stats and seems to sip the same as stock AOD does. So far.

How is Android 10 ?

Hi folks
As I see Android 10 is already available for India region.
Anyone updated and can share the experience ?
There isn't much change besides the usual Andorid 10 features. Little change in the design here and there, Camera app is redesigned but no change in picture quality. Gesture navigation is available. You have a cool 'Sensors off' quick toggle which turns off the senors for your needs. Focus mode which helps you 'avoid distraction from your phone and keep your life in focus'. Probably the most important feature is Systemwide forced dark mode. Better one handed experience. Also little more fluid animations. Nothing else.
What about battery life ? Have they spoiled that or it is still good ?
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Hi folks
As I see Android 10 is already available for India region.
Anyone updated and can share the experience ?
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Wrong post, you must post it on "QUESTIONS & ANSWERS" group
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There isn't much change besides the usual Andorid 10 features. Little change in the design here and there, Camera app is redesigned but no change in picture quality. Gesture navigation is available. You have a cool 'Sensors off' quick toggle which turns off the senors for your needs. Focus mode which helps you 'avoid distraction from your phone and keep your life in focus'. Probably the most important feature is Systemwide forced dark mode. Better one handed experience. Also little more fluid animations. Nothing else.
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I've updated this morning and everything is good, including battery.
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What about battery life ? Have they spoiled that or it is still good ?
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Battery life is same (good). Except that systemwide dark mode would probably increase battery life.
Did someone from Germany got the Update?
And can you use good Lock Apps like navstar?
With Android 9 IT didnt Work on the m30s.
Any non indian variant who got the android 10 update?
My model number is SM-M307FN.

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