I hate the qHD screen, if an AMOLED screen of the same size and resolution was made, would it even be possible to replace this screen?
Generally, no. It is highly unlikely that an AMOLED screen will be used on the D4, and if it is, the screens would likely not be swappable. They are generally proprietary, being that power consumption is different.
The HTC Incredible had two screens released because they ran out of stock, and they were not swappable. I know this is Motorola, but don't count on it. I was disappointed with the screen brightness, then I found out its because the default setting is too dim. You may want to try adjusting it or getting a wisget to adjust it (I use Power Control Plus).
it's not the brightness i have a problem with, it's the poor quality and the ghosting, i mostly bought this phone because of the 4G and physical keyboard
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Hi,
I Got another Tilt From warranty department. They gave me a brand new one.
When I look at my old tilt, the screen is much brighter, both are set to the brightness setting. If you go to programs or setting the white in the background is much white, as apposed to a creamy white.
Is there some other setting that i played with ??
Any help would be really nice.
I think HTC have been using two different screens, mines a really bright screen and a mates is much duller on the same brightness setting.
the brighter screen ones seem to be much easier to read in sunlight etc.
damn... HTC must have a huge quality control/inconsistencies with each model made. I tested out 3 different Tilts at fry's and each one's usb connector felt completely different. one was so tight it looked like it might rip out. they all 3 had very different feeling keyboards.. but, all 3 screens had the same brightness. So I'd assume some of the first production tilts didn't have as bright a screen as the newer ones.
Noticed the same thing with the Touch phone, my first one the screen was lovely and bright with a perfect white colour, then my replacement one at max brightness was slightly dimmer with a creamy white colour, over time I got used to it
Once I received my HTC Tytn 2 and compared it to the Touch it was like night and day, the Tytn 2 screen is lovely and bright and the white is perfect .
Wonder what's happening with these screens
I'm sure somebody else can explain it better, but there are in fact two variations of screen (I forget the terminology). Both have advantages and disadvantages (ie: one looks better indoors than outside).
There's a fellow on the forums here that sells both kinds as a replacement if I recall.
If there are two variations why did HTC decide to use two drastically different screens without telling anyone
I would guess supply is the factor. HTC contracts out sub-components like screens. Company X makes them several thousand transreflective screens....then Company Z makes them several thousand that are non-transreflective (excuse my tossing around what may be the wrong term there).
That's the right term, but the TyTN II spec never listed transreflective screens (for best outside viewing). There have been reports of different looking screens, probably batch differences from different display suppliers, but so far none are transreflective (easily checked by turning the backlight to minimum and walking outside or shining a bright light right on the screen. Transreflective will be easier to see as the light gets brighter and non-transreflective will be impossible to see under very bright light.
Disable the phone screen dimmer
Question?
There are situations that you must during a call and after a while use the key pad again, but the screen has turned to black. Its annoying to press the power button to alight the screen again. Does anybody know if there is a setting to change the time interval of the screen dimmer? (I do not mean the timer from battery saver).
Hi, yes i found the answer myself. Edit the Registry with Registry Explorer from SK-Tools www.s-k-tools.com en change the following key:
1 Modifying the DWORD stored in:
2 \HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\EnableFastDormantDisplay DuringCall
3 from "1" to "0" will leave the screen on and falling back to the backlight/power settings)
Found the answer on Dutch site http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1260492
Thanks anyway Ekw
Kaiser tweak has that option to enable screen on during a phonecall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on an OMLED screen with such high pixel density, lots of power could be saved by turning some pixels off.
For example, turn off every second pixel. Save 50% screen power.
Is 1/2 pixel density still good enough for quickly checking email, maybe it's even better for low light use?
Hypothetically speaking, it doesn't quite work like that. Just because you can shut off half the pixel density, doesn't mean that everything is readable because you're then stuck with a 6in phone with a ~250ppi. I can only imagine how pixelated that's going to be.
For reference, you'd need to shrink that 6in screen down to 4.3in (~250ppi) in order to be readable.
It's not worth it, why not just use a new kernel with some tweaks?
Black backgrounds and themes. . . black backgrounds and themes.
When I put my nexus to charge, screen flickers like it needs more power. But when I increase the brightness it goes away or I can't see it. Tried a different power outlet as well. And I'm using the turbo charger.
Anyone experiencing this?
I just received my Nexus 6 and I notice a lot of screen flickering if I have the brightness set to low or up to 25% ...I see more flickering when I have the ambient lighting option enabled in settings. If I put the brightness to 50% or more it kind of eliminated the flickering...I am worried because I'm starting to question if this might be considered a defective display. Thanks
Yep, I got mine on launch day with T-Mobile. The screen flickers at lower brightness levels, at first I thought it was my eyes or I was just going crazy.
But it definitely is flickering, kinda similar to filming a fat old CRT TV with your video camera for your Halo 2 Super Bounce Montages (too a much lesser extent).
I'm a bit worried that it might burn out one day...
Also, my display is uneven.
I haven't looked into it yet, but maybe someone here could tell me -- should I contact Motorola or T-Mobile for a replacement? I have a feeling T-Mobile will charge me for it.
I get this too. Is it something we just have to live with?
I've recently bought the 9.7" version of the Tab S2. I was aware of how unrealistic and oversaturated the AMOLED display is on default setting, but luckily this can be turned off, so it was the very first thing i did (though now the white balance is off, but at least it is not oversaturated).
Unfortunately i wasn't aware the fact that the display at below ~75% brigthtness flickers. The lower the brightness the more disturbing it is. And it drives me crazy. I hate the flickering cheap cr*p LED light bulbs, i hate that most notebook screens with LED backlight are non PWM free, and are flickering And after having this tablet for three days, i am hating it too. I frankly believe these products should be banned, because it hurts your eye, and your brain. I thought when we said good bye to CRT monitors, flickering screens will never be an issue again. Unfortunately they are :/
After googling the internet i found this article gs5.wonderhowto.com/how-to/eliminate-screen-flicker-lower-minimum-brightness-android-0157760 but the solution unfortunately requires a rooted device, wich would trip the knox and void the warranty, so it's a no no for me. Then I found several other apps on the play store which are doing the same without requiring root access: drawing a black overlay over the screen and you can set the transparency of it, so you can get a lower brightness without the flickering, because your screen brightness is around maximum, the lowered transparcy of the black overlay makes it less bright. Unfortunately none of these apps work like the one for the rooted devices, wich has a second slider at status bar, so instead of the brightness you can change the transparency at the notification screen. The non rooted apps i found do not work this way, they don't have the extra slider, you need to tap them, so you can get to where you can change the trasnparency and that's very uncomfortable. I tried so far Darker and three other Screen Filter apps, but none of them works with a second slider :/ Also using the Screen Filter apps when there is a smooth color transition on the dipslay (default background picture for example) gives ugly end result. Using a Screen filter app might reduce battery life so i might need to charge it more often (i don't care), but since the display is not flickering, it is always on, it might will burn in faster (i do care, i intend to use this tablet for 3+ years) So i am currently in debate wether i should return this product and get my money back or not. It is a really great device, but this terrible flickering of the AMOLED screen makes me super unhappy, wish it had an IPS display :/
If this is an issue for you too, and you found a Screen Filter app with a second slider at the notification area (without requiring root permissions) please let me know.
Is this just an s2 thing, nothing of the sort on my tab s?
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It's not an S2 issue, I've seen several other phones and tablets in low light conditions set to a low brightness flickering like mine.. But you can test it, set a low brightness and start waving your finger in front of the screen like crazy. If you see ~10 seperate fingers -like in the picture attached- instead of one blurry (what you should see if there was a constant backlight), than yours is flickering too.
asdfh said:
It's not an S2 issue, I've seen several other phones and tablets in low light conditions set to a low brightness flickering like mine.. But you can test it, set a low brightness and start waving your finger in front of the screen like crazy. If you see ~10 seperate fingers -like in the picture attached- instead of one blurry (what you should see if there was a constant backlight), than yours is flickering too.
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I see what you mean, but it doesn't bother me as there is no perceivable flickering at all and it only happens when the brightness is below a certain level.
If that certain level would be around 20% brightness i wouldn't care. I haven't tested out yet, but that certain level is somewhere below 70% So -for me- it would flicker all the time.
Eh, there is no screen flickering but your finger is flickering over a light source aka *screen*. It's an optical illusion you are referring to.
I am also very sensitive to pwm on displays, it takes me less than a minute to feel sick from the display having pwm.
Any further solutions to this? Thank you.
I'm using the the app 'Night Screen' it does the job on Android 7.0 on my LG G6 which uses pwm under 35% of brightness even though this is an ips screen. Hope it helps.
asdfh said:
I've recently bought the 9.7" version of the Tab S2. I was aware of how unrealistic and oversaturated the AMOLED display is on default setting, but luckily this can be turned off, so it was the very first thing i did (though now the white balance is off, but at least it is not oversaturated).
Unfortunately i wasn't aware the fact that the display at below ~75% brigthtness flickers. The lower the brightness the more disturbing it is. And it drives me crazy. I hate the flickering cheap cr*p LED light bulbs, i hate that most notebook screens with LED backlight are non PWM free, and are flickering And after having this tablet for three days, i am hating it too. I frankly believe these products should be banned, because it hurts your eye, and your brain. I thought when we said good bye to CRT monitors, flickering screens will never be an issue again. Unfortunately they are :/
After googling the internet i found this article gs5.****************/how-to/eliminate-screen-flicker-lower-minimum-brightness-android-0157760 but the solution unfortunately requires a rooted device, wich would trip the knox and void the warranty, so it's a no no for me. Then I found several other apps on the play store which are doing the same without requiring root access: drawing a black overlay over the screen and you can set the transparency of it, so you can get a lower brightness without the flickering, because your screen brightness is around maximum, the lowered transparcy of the black overlay makes it less bright. Unfortunately none of these apps work like the one for the rooted devices, wich has a second slider at status bar, so instead of the brightness you can change the transparency at the notification screen. The non rooted apps i found do not work this way, they don't have the extra slider, you need to tap them, so you can get to where you can change the trasnparency and that's very uncomfortable. I tried so far Darker and three other Screen Filter apps, but none of them works with a second slider :/ Also using the Screen Filter apps when there is a smooth color transition on the dipslay (default background picture for example) gives ugly end result. Using a Screen filter app might reduce battery life so i might need to charge it more often (i don't care), but since the display is not flickering, it is always on, it might will burn in faster (i do care, i intend to use this tablet for 3+ years) So i am currently in debate wether i should return this product and get my money back or not. It is a really great device, but this terrible flickering of the AMOLED screen makes me super unhappy, wish it had an IPS display :/
If this is an issue for you too, and you found a Screen Filter app with a second slider at the notification area (without requiring root permissions) please let me know.
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So here is the app( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.js.oledsaver ) to avoid pwm & use the phone with low brightness.
App name is OLED SAVER
It's simple. You install it & follow the instructions & use it. Enjoy! ?
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Babakkardan said:
I am also very sensitive to pwm on displays, it takes me less than a minute to feel sick from the display having pwm.
Any further solutions to this? Thank you.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.js.oledsaver
harigavara said:
So here is the app( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.js.oledsaver ) to avoid pwm & use the phone with low brightness.
App name is OLED SAVER
It's simple. You install it & follow the instructions & use it. Enjoy!
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.js.oledsaver
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Thanks for answering this 3 years old post I used Darker in the last three years to eliminate the flckering and was happy with it. I checked OLED Saver now, but it's permissions says to me it's a big no no.
Unfortunately, since Android 8 apps cannot draw a an overlay over system areas (notification bar etc., thanks google! ), so i guess i'll never have an OLED screen phone/tablet again.
So last time I used an AMOLED screen there were some possible issues with burn in. In a few of the blue light filters I've used, I've also noticed some fine print about AMOLED screens.
Are there some precautions that need to be taken? have they generally speaking improved so these aren't issues anymore?
If you want to use the phone as a desk clock or apply pixel filter to reduce battery usage, remember that they should move. This way i burned screen with digits on my old Galaxy S2.
Granted I don't use the onscreen buttons, but I haven't experienced any burn in for the last 4 months.