Today I got my hands on a second x8 bought roughly two months after I got my one (almost a year ago) they have the exact same ROM as i used a backup off my original and restored it on the newer x8, however the screen on the newer one has a slight yellow tint. (its really noticeable when both phones have just a white screen)
There identical software wise and I believe hardware wise? There both synaptic touch screens ( I did have to check ) so whys there the difference is it just poor build quality or is something wrong with it?
What was the stock ROM of the newer one? 1.6 or 2.1?
Both were officially updated to the lastest 2.1 my backup wouldn't work otherwise. (Floyo)
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Hi,
I already asked this question at Darkys forum thinking that it was related to the ROM. Well I did not get a useful answer and maybe it is not ROM related.
Anyway a friend of mine got a S2 some weeks ago and I was curious about the difference in screens.
We turned our screens to 100% and to our surprise his was undoubtly brighter and had more contrast.
I remember reading a test about the two screens and the result was that there is no big difference...
After that I compared my SGS with Darky 10.1 RE with a stock SGS. The screen from the stock SGS is also brighter and has more contrast than mine. How can this be?
My phone is ~8 months old and his is ~4 months. But I sent in my phone for repair ~2-3 months ago because my screen randomly got horizontal/vertical lines. I got the name and adress from the company where I sent my phone to from Amazon(I bought my phone there). So it was not Samsung who repaired my phone.
Nevertheless my screen should not be less brighter or contrast than the screen from my friends phone.
Does someone know the cause of this?
Maybe because of different kernel? Thinking of vodoo kernel handling the amoled settings different than stock kernel? Have u tried the vodoo control app to adjust screen brightness?
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I downloaded the newest vodoo app but I can only change sound settings.
And I am using Dark Core 2.6 which is, as far as I know only based on vodoo kernel.
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no ideas?
I'm fustrated with N1's touchscreen, it is sometimes a pain to use. Most of the time it works just fine, on other times, either touch input is not registering or the X/Y coordinates is off! Playing touch intensive games sometimes "hang" the touchscreen. Turning off the screen and back on always fix the problem.
Is it possible to replace the touch screen sensor with from a recent phone of the same screen size? E.g. desire S?
It's impossible, because a different touchscreen requires a different drivers
look into the desire forum i hear the two phones have very simular hardware.or buy the latest model nexus1 touchscreen. my n1 was brought new recently and the only problem i recieve is multi touch with games at times.
kuljit55 said:
look into the desire forum i hear the two phones have very simular hardware.or buy the latest model nexus1 touchscreen. my n1 was brought new recently and the only problem i recieve is multi touch with games at times.
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i did look into that, HTC Desire uses the same crappy clearpad 2000 touchscreen.
The only solution is a new phone, nothing you can do about it.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, you should be able to buy the new Super LCD in the Nexus One after Google stopped selling them. I'm not sure how to obtain one, but I bet you could easily modify your N1 with the screen of the newer N1. Or hell, just buy the new Nexus One altogether, and you'll be okay. Though I don't know how well it works (Or if it works at all) in the US.
Panel != Digitizer
SLCD and AMOLED both have faulty digitzers so the problems are the same for both.
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Panel != Digitizer
SLCD and AMOLED both have faulty digitzers so the problems are the same for both.
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I've seed third party digitizer parts for nexus one on the net, are these any better? Would love to hear from people who had replaced their digitizer.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=digitizer+nexus+one
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Well, if I'm not mistaken, you should be able to buy the new Super LCD in the Nexus One after Google stopped selling them. I'm not sure how to obtain one, but I bet you could easily modify your N1 with the screen of the newer N1. Or hell, just buy the new Nexus One altogether, and you'll be okay. Though I don't know how well it works (Or if it works at all) in the US.
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I think that doesn't make any difference, both the SLCD and AMOLED screen uses the same clearpad 2000 digitizers
I can confirm that the SLCD doesn't do sh!t to fix the digitizer problem. I have an SLCD model and have to fight frequent urges to destroy the phone against a hard object.
Previously I had an Incredible, but recently switched to the N1 because it was cheap and easy to obtain them fully unlocked and I'll be spending the next couple of years on the road in GSM countries. The Incredible's keyboard was not even comparable to the N1 keyboard -- though with Sense ROMs it had its own share of annoying issues.
Ironically, it seems that the N1 keyboard runs OK if using HTC software for it (search for HTC_IME), particularly when compared to the native keyboard in Gingerbread. On the Incredible side of things, it was the opposite -- ran like butt on Sense ROMs, but very smoothly on AOSP Gingerbread. Go figure.
With the variety of device manufacturers out there using different hardware components, a big part of me wishes that Google recreated Android as a display manager sitting atop a standard Linux install. That way we could just drop into a shell, mess with some driver source code, and watch it fail miserably when we tried to compile it.
Hello, I bought my I9000 about one year ago. My brother has an older I9000 and many friends have newer devices. I just noticed that my I9000's colors are weaker and un healthier compared to other devices.
The colors on the screen are weaker, especially the blue colors. I don't 100% sure but I think that more colors are weaker. I took a shot of my galaxy near my friend's galaxy when they both running the same facebook application.
My galaxy is the device on the left.
It's very noticable and very annoying since it has to be exactly the same. I'm not sure, but I think that the problem was since the first day I bought it. I just noticed it few days ago when I used my friend's galaxy.
Any advice?
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Hello, I bought my I9000 about one year ago. My brother has an older I9000 and many friends have newer devices. I just noticed that my I9000's colors are weaker and un healthier compared to other devices.
The colors on the screen are weaker, especially the blue colors. I don't 100% sure but I think that more colors are weaker. I took a shot of my galaxy near my friend's galaxy when they both running the same facebook application.
My galaxy is the device on the left.
It's very noticable and very annoying since it has to be exactly the same. I'm not sure, but I think that the problem was since the first day I bought it. I just noticed it few days ago when I used my friend's galaxy.
Any advice?
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check your brightness level
Settings - Display - Brightness
or if your phone was rooted, and the rom/kernel has voodoo controls, you can make your phone twice the brighter as normal. my lowest brightness in settings (with voodoo controls RGB multiplifier and gamma hack) is just as bright as the iphone's MAXIMUM BRIGHTNESS. or i think mine is more brighter. (WHAT MORE IF I SET MY BRIGHTNESS IN MAX? LOL)
First of all, thank you for your answer.
I'm using full-brightness all the time. I do have darky rom, your voodoo suggest is very interesting, I'll check it. But any way I'm pretty sure that it's not the problem. He's using the same rom I used a few days ago (DamianGTO) and still he had better colors when I used it.
I have pictures of the two phones but I can't upload them to the forum because I'm new.. I'll upload them after I'll get the permission.
sarkise said:
First of all, thank you for your answer.
I'm using full-brightness all the time. I do have darky rom, your voodoo suggest is very interesting, I'll check it. But any way I'm pretty sure that it's not the problem. He's using the same rom I used a few days ago (DamianGTO) and still he had better colors when I used it.
I have pictures of the two phones but I can't upload them to the forum because I'm new.. I'll upload them after I'll get the permission.
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SGS has two kind. the Super AMOLED and the Super Clear LCD. the amoled has brighter color compare to the clear LCD, and cost higher than the super clear LCD.
the super clear lcd is just like the iphone4's retina display
sarkise said:
Hello, I bought my I9000 about one year ago. My brother has an older I9000 and many friends have newer devices. I just noticed that my I9000's colors are weaker and un healthier compared to other devices.
The colors on the screen are weaker, especially the blue colors. I don't 100% sure but I think that more colors are weaker. I took a shot of my galaxy near my friend's galaxy when they both running the same facebook application.
My galaxy is the device on the left.
It's very noticable and very annoying since it has to be exactly the same. I'm not sure, but I think that the problem was since the first day I bought it. I just noticed it few days ago when I used my friend's galaxy.
Any advice?
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Same here, My SGS from is one year old and I just got my girlfriend a brand new SGS, hers is stunishing bright and crips, mine looks decolored next to hers.
This is "normal" behaviour on AMOLED screens, they bright so much that they deteriorate in time, you must have noticed some burning in your screen, specially in the clock area when having an all white screen. Our screens are just simply more burnt, that's why don't look so bright as a new phone
Well, as I said, my brother's older I9000 had better colors, so it's not about the age of the phone. Any way, I flashed a kernel that supports the voodoo colors change, and I changed the colors. Now the screen's colors are way better, and even better than my friend's I9000... So it's all about the colors settings. Now I'm happy with my screen
Recently upgraded from a black S2 to a black note (which i love) then learnt of the whole screen issue (black clipping/crush)
ive trailed through soooooo many pages and seems very little evidence of anyone who has done the gamma test pattern and had a good screen
My gamma result is that i can see all the way to the number 4 and then it turns black (i have blocky grey squares for example when there is a scene change during a video and the screen darkens)
my question is is there anyone in the UK with a good screen? i am within the 28 days so i guess they would swap for a brand new note but dont want to go through the process if there doesn't seem to be any good screen units in country!
(i realise there is a member supercurio working to correct this in ics but some people saying it might be a hardware issue since other solutions are simply shifting the values in the gamma test to 6-7 so i would rather have a good screen if possible)
I think its a software and not a hardware problem, but I read the threads on this long ago. In day to day use I can't even tell about the black leveling off, so it doesn't matter to me. If I were you id just stop looking for problems in this amazing device because if you look you'll always find something wrong.
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I think its a software and not a hardware problem, but I read the threads on this long ago. In day to day use I can't even tell about the black leveling off, so it doesn't matter to me. If I were you id just stop looking for problems in this amazing device because if you look you'll always find something wrong.
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i'm with you on what you said at the end...but the blacks on my phone are more grey and if i watch videos/youtube etc its obvious (actually prefer watching stuff on the s2 and that goes against why i wanted i bigger screen)
i did specifically want to know if there are phones without the issue in the uk as i'm still within 28 days and eligable to swap the unit
regarding if it is software - people still saying the problem is there who have flashed ics though?
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i'm with you on what you said at the end...but the blacks on my phone are more grey and if i watch videos/youtube etc its obvious (actually prefer watching stuff on the s2 and that goes against why i wanted i bigger screen)
i did specifically want to know if there are phones without the issue in the uk as i'm still within 28 days and eligable to swap the unit
regarding if it is software - people still saying the problem is there who have flashed ics though?
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Samsung may just not care about it with ICS and things like that, exactly why a XDA member is working on it instead. But since you just got it you might as well swap it quickly and see if it's better. Personally on my note (it's not from the UK) I don't notice this at all, just a yellow tinge sometimes (Damn you pentile!)
Hey,
I've got the Samsung Galaxy S (classic version, distributed to Europe) just like my brother or my friend. When I look at my and at someone else's SGS, I can clearly see the quality difference of the displays. My phone looks much better, the colors are more natural. We're using the same fresh ROM, even the same kernel, and everything. Can someone tell me how it is possible? Did Samsung released more "versions" of i9000s with improved displays or something like that?
Thank you.
They didn't release 'new' versions, its just some are wierd. My friends i9000 has a pixelated and washed out display. Just happens i guess. I got a good one, its going strong like yours.
With mine being a couple years old the screen has a nasty green tint to it, or I should say used to, until I ran the colour calibration. Looks perfect with a little tweak. Big tweak actually
GT-I9000 / SEMA / SLIMBEAN2.3
AMOLED Displays lose brightness and colour over time. I really noticed it when my display was replaced by Samsung. Now the colours are bright again.
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