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bad Pixel or WHAT ??? Weird !!!

When I chose calendar, i got a black pixel on the calendar bar (gray bar, just under the black start bar)...and when I choose Excel or contact, it's gone...but they are same gray background...
Doesnt make sense...my display passed all colors on PocketLCD ???!!!
and my two "stucked pixel" at Contacts are exatcly the same spot as the ones in the GSMARENA screenshot review...this is weird !!!
Anyone care to explain ? Do u have the same behaviour too?

sectorlord said:
When I chose calendar, i got a black pixel on the calendar bar (gray bar, just under the black start bar)...and when I choose Excel or contact, it's gone...but they are same gray background...
Doesnt make sense...my display passed all colors on PocketLCD ???!!!
and my two "stucked pixel" at Contacts are exatcly the same spot as the ones in the GSMARENA screenshot review...this is weird !!!
Anyone care to explain ? Do u have the same behaviour too?
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I can at least confirm this. Same pixels occur on my device. No explanation to this here.
Eriol

Same here on the contacts screen.

I've got the same, and looking at screenshots on the web, it seems specific to the HD.
ie this diamond shot seems OK:
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/htc-diamond-vs-samsung-omnia/sshot/gsmarena_s049.jpg
but HD not:
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/htc-touch-hd/sshots/extra/gsmarena_004.jpg

Yep, got this on my HD too, weird. Perhaps a quirk of the HTC customisations?

i have a dead pixel too when i start my camera. it's strange because the same dead pixel does not appear when doing something else.

i can also confirme the 2 stuck pixels in contacts manager.
strage ....

I'm not going to look for it - if I see it once, it will annoy me every time I look up a contact.
Sounds a curious little feature though.

Yup had this problem once when i installed GSEN had to delete it because it cause my screen to display a dead pixel when their was none. so try uninstalling programs which might be causing it.

Regarding GSen, that is their way of showing the GSen app is running, small white pixel top dead center of the screen. If you soft reset you'll notice its gone until you re-launch GSen again.

Mark One said:
I'm not going to look for it - if I see it once, it will annoy me every time I look up a contact.
Sounds a curious little feature though.
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Then, we need a new ROM to fix this issue... I wont be bother since it's a SW issue not HW one...

I have the same dots in contacts, doesn't look like dead pixels, otherwise it would have shown on the snowpicture on fullscreen.

its just some lame graphics issues when they made it.. dont worry

I've got the same thing, but it doesn't look like a pixel problem. I hadn't noticed it before, now I can't ignore it anymore

Pixel
Hi,
i just recognized a blue pixel on the screen when i start the cam .
So i downloaded a tool called "smartUDPixel" to check the screen for dead pixels BUT everything looks fine.
What`s going on? Why`s the blue pixel only shown by using the cam? Any reason for that?
Thx for your feedback.
Stefan

I have one white pixel that shows up in while in camera mode and shooting a dark scene. Strange however as its not visible in any other programs.

Same here too addition to one black pixel dead appears when the screen on blue color :S

If you can capture it, it won't be dead pixel on LCD.

Hi
The pixels as per the original poster is something to do with the WVGA resolution I think as I see the same thing on the Topaz, but not on other devices.
Regards
Phil

WOW............are you all talking about those tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny teeeeeeeeeeeeeeny little dots that can barely be seen?
Man my eyes must be **** lol I have them but I had to put my glasses on (there for reading and even then I could barely see them)
Whats the big deal? Flash a new ROM with a different contact UI
And I thought I had OCD lol

Video , Photos and media quality looks washed out.

I came from an S7 EDGE and I just got my OP5 and there's something I hate about my new phone. Every photos videos on YouTube, Reddit , internet in general looks washed out. The colors are good but when you pay attention, you can see the same artefacts you see on a highly compressed video/photo. In other words, the screen looks like it's not even a 8 bit color panel. Do you guys know a solution about this? I never saw this problem on any phone ( I'm a cellphone seller in Canada ), not even on my S7 EDGE, Alcatel IDOL 3, Nexus 5

Maybe it's because it's pentile or something

You might want to change the screen calibration method under settings / display and see if that helps at all.

Unfortunately the problem is still existent. Look at the uploaded screenshot with your phone The colors on the dialer supposed to be gradient but it's not. That my problem .

yungboss22 said:
Unfortunately the problem is still existent. Look at the uploaded screenshot with your phone The colors on the dialer supposed to be gradient but it's not. That my problem .
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The dialer looks lighter at the top and darker at the bottom--are you saying there isn't enough transition between the two or that the colors in the screenshot are inaccurate? You might want to do a search for gradient android dialers (which should have screenshots) to verify the problem is with the phone rather than with the specific app you are using. All of the gradient screenshots I pulled up looked fine on my phone but the color changes were a lot more subtle than the one you provided. It's possible you have a bad display or that it's calibrated incorrectly for some reason. I've never noticed any problems with the colors on my OP5 and never read a complaint similar to yours.
You might want to make sure Night Mode or Reading Mode aren't on in settings because both would affect the colors.
Also make sure ambient display is off to verify that isn't doing anything screwy.
Have you rooted your phone or installed a custom kernel or anything like that? Do the colors look exactly the same when you boot into safe mode?

I see the banding in the dialer (the background where the dialpad is). Given that it's a screenshot though, that part is likely to be how OnePlus designed the dialer app (screen issues wouldn't show up in a screenshot).
Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk

[Q] Advanced Always On Display

Hey guys,
I was wondering if it was possible to modify the existing AOD for more options.
For example: I couldn't care less about the clock, I'm wearing and using a watch anyway.
It would be nice if one could lay his smartphone onto the table with it beeing completly black except when you have notifications.
Something like in the picture I've quickly put together.
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4959/6ckdllab_png.htm
Are there any roms which support this? Is it even possible to modify the Samsung AOD in that way or would one have to write a new app?
For now im using a black screen with the LED but that's suboptimal.
Thank you very much,
Chilz0r
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There are some themes available from Samsung Store but anything like you posted is currently not seen. Moreover, you should post questions in question/answer section. This section is not for question or discussion purpose.

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Moreover, you should post questions in question/answer section. This section is not for question or discussion purpose.
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You might wanna check that again.

chilz0r said:
Hey guys,
I was wondering if it was possible to modify the existing AOD for more options.
For example: I couldn't care less about the clock, I'm wearing and using a watch anyway.
It would be nice if one could lay his smartphone onto the table with it beeing completly black except when you have notifications.
Something like in the picture I've quickly put together.
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/4959/6ckdllab_png.htm
Are there any roms which support this? Is it even possible to modify the Samsung AOD in that way or would one have to write a new app?
For now im using a black screen with the LED but that's suboptimal.
Thank you very much,
Chilz0r
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how u get this black screen with white notification???
this called ambient display from nexus and it light ur phone with black screen and white notification when u get a new notification

carlitobahsoun said:
how u get this black screen with white notification???
this called ambient display from nexus and it light ur phone with black screen and white notification when u get a new notification
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Yeah I just took any picture on the internet and photoshopped it to show what I'm looking for.
This ambient display feature would be perfect if it would use the advantages of the S8 Display,
meaning lighting up particular pixels the whole time and not areas of the screen for a small time.
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There are some themes available from Samsung Store but anything like you posted is currently not seen.
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This answers my question, thank you.
But I'm curious now: would it be reasonable trying to programm such an app oneself,
or alternatively is it possible to get the Samsung AOD code to modify it?

chilz0r said:
Yeah I just took any picture on the internet and photoshopped it to show what I'm looking for.
This ambient display feature would be perfect if it would use the advantages of the S8 Display,
meaning lighting up particular pixels the whole time and not areas of the screen for a small time.
This answers my question, thank you.
But I'm curious now: would it be reasonable trying to programm such an app oneself,
or alternatively is it possible to get the Samsung AOD code to modify it?
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This isn't bad if you try to build such app but AFAIK and untill now, it is nearly impossible to build such app. You probably won't get exact source code for AOD because most things are hard-coded. Even, if you manage to get code, modify it and build your desired app it will be hard or impossible to install it over pre-installed AOD app. Kind of complicated, but you can still try, maybe you end up being Samsung hero.

Grey lines/dots on screen

Hello, I've only just started to notice these weird lines/dots on my screen, visible on most backgrounds. seems to appear once i do a screenshot. Please take a look at the attached photos to get an understanding of what it looks like. I have no clue what it could be

XtraArrow said:
Hello, I've only just started to notice these weird lines/dots on my screen, visible on most backgrounds. seems to appear once i do a screenshot. Please take a look at the attached photos to get an understanding of what it looks like. I have no clue what it could be
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I have the same problem I thought it was very weird it does not occur when I am in apps themselves but if I screen shot something or if I am on my home screen I can see it in the background it is very bothersome. If I find out a solution I will be sure to respond

nicholasw49 said:
I have the same problem I thought it was very weird it does not occur when I am in apps themselves but if I screen shot something or if I am on my home screen I can see it in the background it is very bothersome. If I find out a solution I will be sure to respond
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Appreciate it, likewise.

Hi there, I've been experiencing the same issue and cannot find any information about it on the Internet, did either of you find a solution to this problem? Thanks!

I have a similar problem, instead I have three faint lines running through the screen which can only be seen in dark backgrounds, any sort of help would be appreciated , thanks

Please Help! This is driving me nuts! Contacts and Phone colors changed on me

Ok,
This is driving me nuts. Overnight my contacts and phone colors changed by themselves. The colored tiles for each contact etc changed and they are very light colored. Almost screwed up looking. I could not find any settings to fix this. In an attempt to fix it, I updated my Essential Phone to 9.0 via OTA and the weird colors followed the update and are still there.
I tried enabling developer mode and manually putting the phone into the "dark" theme, and that still doesn't seem to fix it. What happened? Has anyone had this happen?
I can't find anything about it on google, but it looks terrible and its driving me crazy.
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material2 update, get used to it i guess, every google app and lots of mainstream 3rd party going that route

hxdrummerxc said:
Ok,
This is driving me nuts. Overnight my contacts and phone colors changed by themselves. The colored tiles for each contact etc changed and they are very light colored. Almost screwed up looking. I could not find any settings to fix this. In an attempt to fix it, I updated my Essential Phone to 9.0 via OTA and the weird colors followed the update and are still there.
I tried enabling developer mode and manually putting the phone into the "dark" theme, and that still doesn't seem to fix it. What happened? Has anyone had this happen?
I can't find anything about it on google, but it looks terrible and its driving me crazy.
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*****tard ?

ceelos218 said:
*****tard
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Haha :laugh:

I have the same issue - it looks like a Google update (without asking for a permission), but I did not find any fix for it so far
The only way how to get rid of those strange colors seems to be to add a picture to the contact, but do you want to do it for ALL contacts...?
Could you, please let me know if/when you will find a better solution?
Thanks,
Maros
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Google ask permission,lol they are updating material design. They can and do change things you know.

Turns out they can enable this server side these days, so you could have installed the requisite update a week ago.

Use substratum

There is this https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/08/27/google-teases-dark-mode-phone-app-play-store-update-notes/ but who knows when it will be available and what it will look like with the dark mode applied.

Am I the only one who likes those new colors better ?

Thordelan said:
Am I the only one who likes those new colors better ?
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it looks a bit "girly"
it seems that we will have to wait for dark mode to change it...