Do you guys do it by eye from the default android interface (94%-42% pictured below), or is there some other method/app you use?
If by eye, what would you say the screen on time was on my attached screenshot?
At the screen before that one (with the small graph at top, and listing of apps and usage percentages on the rest of the screen), click on the Display line, and it'll show the "Time on".
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Hi,
I just thought I’d start a thread for hidden tips. As I’m sure there are many things people are not yet aware of that the phone can do.
Here’s mine for the HTC Album. When zooming in using an clockwise circle, the size of the circle drawn dictates the amount you zoom in. A large circle covering half the screen will only zoom a small amount to the area encompassed within the circle.
However, a small circle covering a tiny section of the screen will give you a far greater zoom into the section just circled.
Give it a go...
imranbashir_uk said:
Hi,
I just thought I’d start a thread for hidden tips. As I’m sure there are many things people are not yet aware of that the phone can do.
Here’s mine for the HTC Album. When zooming in using an clockwise circle, the size of the circle drawn dictates the amount you zoom in. A large circle covering half the screen will only zoom a small amount to the area encompassed within the circle.
However, a small circle covering a tiny section of the screen will give you a far greater zoom into the section just circled.
Give it a go...
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Have you seen this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398265
No need for a new thread, sorry to say that.
Probably not a hidden featuere, but was new for me:
When the phone rings and you turn it around onto the display, it mutes the ring. Very useful in meetings to quickly turn off the phone.
SamLowrie111 said:
Probably not a hidden featuere, but was new for me:
When the phone rings and you turn it around onto the display, it mutes the ring. Very useful in meetings to quickly turn off the phone.
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LOL
In the weather tab, tap on the left and right side of the 'weather' text to cycle true all the weather pictures...
Not a big secret
or my screen have problem.
download display color test from market or any other aplication
set your display light to manual and lower one possible.now open display color test, or any other picture and you whil see.... some orizontal lines like gradients.
(for me i can use a lower light to 40 %).
tell me your experience.
please.
Light lowered as low as possible... no probleme here
With some less intensive colors I could make out some kind of lines but I had to watch pretty closely to notice them. If I hadn't been searching for them, I probably wouldn't even have noticed. So it's nothing I would worry about, unless they are more pronounced for you.
CazeW said:
With some less intensive colors I could make out some kind of lines but I had to watch pretty closely to notice them. If I hadn't been searching for them, I probably wouldn't even have noticed. So it's nothing I would worry about, unless they are more pronounced for you.
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for me are pronunced with lover ligt
same here, especially for grey colors, i noticed this first in the application "Programm Manager" (German TV guide) at the home screen.
I have a question about the screen on the SGS, i just got one and when i look closely on the screen I see small dots. Kind of like a chessboard feeling, I noted it first when I looked closely at the "Application" ikon in the bottom right corner. The four white fields look almost like small chessboards except that the "black" squares are more grayish and not black as in a real chessboard .
I'm wondering if my screen is somehow faulty or if it is supposed to look like that?
Jac_83 said:
I have a question about the screen on the SGS, i just got one and when i look closely on the screen I see small dots. Kind of like a chessboard feeling, I noted it first when I looked closely at the "Application" ikon in the bottom right corner. The four white fields look almost like small chessboards except that the "black" squares are more grayish and not black as in a real chessboard .
I'm wondering if my screen is somehow faulty or if it is supposed to look like that?
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Try to do a screen test. Type in the phone (*#0*#)
okey, what am I looking for in the screentest, I have done that before, as I recall there are just at series of color test, the pattern im speaking of is on the whole screen, almost as if it was low resolution or something, I saw some information on a thread about this, but I cant find it anymore.
Bring it to a service center/phone shop, compare it to whatever display models they have? If you see a difference, you can turn it in on the spot
Jac_83 said:
okey, what am I looking for in the screentest, I have done that before, as I recall there are just at series of color test, the pattern im speaking of is on the whole screen, almost as if it was low resolution or something, I saw some information on a thread about this, but I cant find it anymore.
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Can you do a pic of it?...
Jac_83 said:
I have a question about the screen on the SGS, i just got one and when i look closely on the screen I see small dots. Kind of like a chessboard feeling, I noted it first when I looked closely at the "Application" ikon in the bottom right corner. The four white fields look almost like small chessboards except that the "black" squares are more grayish and not black as in a real chessboard .
I'm wondering if my screen is somehow faulty or if it is supposed to look like that?
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That's called the pentile effect. Just google pentile. Its how it is there is nothing you can be about it, although from a normal distace you can't see it. Its most visible on gray i think.
bcam117 said:
That's called the pentile effect. Just google pentile. Its how it is there is nothing you can be about it, although from a normal distace you can't see it. Its most visible on gray i think.
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Listen to this guy.
Samsung used a pentile matrix (one pixel now consists of 5 sub pixels - 2 small red, 2 small green and 1 large blue) for some strange reason. I'm only taking a guess here but I figure it has something to do with the way OLED screens degrade. Blue degrades the fastest so I guess it makes sense to have it the largest as it will then have more "say" in the colors that are made. This is the same reason people complain that their screen is blue when it's supposed to be white. It is this same layout that makes the grid pattern and text harder to read than retina displays.
Thank you for the information, I was worried that i had some "resolution" issue. And true enough at normal distance it's no issue. I only noticed it while comparing some stuff to a friends iPhone4.
I have a buddy with a SGS, gonna compare to his "just in case".
I've heard people talk about dithering so I thought I might as well ask, for example while starting the samsung app the blueish background image is indeed dithered on my device, is that normal? Also when playing a video (stock player) the menu where you can scroll consist of lines of gray instead of being smoothly gradient.
i have this gradient issue either. there are steps in color gradient, is this normal??
for example when u look at the grey parts of the battery when ure charging the phone while it's off. or the samsung apps loading screen. and many more...
For a watch i would expect the watch lcd displaying time to stay on all the time.
when look in settings there is no option to disable to screen time out.
is there anyway to disable the screen timeout and have it on all the time.
genelise said:
For a watch i would expect the watch lcd displaying time to stay on all the time.
when look in settings there is no option to disable to screen time out.
is there anyway to disable the screen timeout and have it on all the time.
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You wouldn't want to. The battery is small enough as it is. Also, AMOLED screens will burn-in with static images.
I noticed this while browsing the play store.. on light backgrounds or where the background is a single colour there is vertical greyish lines on the screen. They are spaced evenly with each line about 1/3 of the width of the space between them.
Someone posted a picture of it here which shows what I'm talking about
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...isibly-on-bright-white-background/td-p/427227
Is this how the screen is meant to be?
spix123 said:
I noticed this while browsing the play store.. on light backgrounds or where the background is a single colour there is vertical greyish lines on the screen. They are spaced evenly with each line about 1/3 of the width of the space between them.
Someone posted a picture of it here which shows what I'm talking about
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...isibly-on-bright-white-background/td-p/427227
Is this how the screen is meant to be?
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This is normal. With my XSP it's the same and I think this is caused by the display and all SP's should have that so don't worry
edit: What I mean with "this is caused by the display" is that I think that under the display is something, that has vertical stripes and because the screen is quite transparent you can see it in a special perspective
spix123 said:
I noticed this while browsing the play store.. on light backgrounds or where the background is a single colour there is vertical greyish lines on the screen. They are spaced evenly with each line about 1/3 of the width of the space between them.
Someone posted a picture of it here which shows what I'm talking about
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...isibly-on-bright-white-background/td-p/427227
Is this how the screen is meant to be?
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My phone has it too. I noticed it the first time I powered on the phone. I try very hard to ignore it everytime I see it
Good to know its normal.
I think it may be because of the glove mode feature, like some sensor under the screen that lets you use it without touch.
spix123 said:
Good to know its normal.
I think it may be because of the glove mode feature, like some sensor under the screen that lets you use it without touch.
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I don't think so. Before I had the SP i had the Xperia P without glove mode and it also had those stripes. Because it got broken I unscrewed it and the display as one had those stripes. Maybe just the touch sensors Whatever, for me it's not a problem ;D
few days ago I bought xperia sp. before buying looked at dozens reviews and non of them was pointing to this problem. I mean that there is visible vertical lines on bright backgrounds. I would never bought sp if knew that. how its possible that this phone is 12 by user rankings in gsmarena? are those users blind????