This isn't a complete fix, but seems to reduce the washed out image/over exposed home screen from watching videos in full screen mode.
Settings -> Developer options -> Checkmark Disable HW overlays -> Checkmark Force GPU rendering
See if this helps because either I'm loosing my mind or this actually helps - a bit. :angel:
I tried it and it didn't make any difference to me.
Enable he overlay will cause G movie play not rendering just fyi
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So this doesn't work? I am getting tired of Netflix and other videos washing out on me. This isn't a hardware problem, is it?
Yes it breaks Google Movies. It seems to reduce the gamma overkill from watching full screen videos, but it is still there. It doesn't hurt you at all to try it and if it doesn't work just disable it again. Personally it seems to have helped slightly.
I'm having an issue when I am watching a movie or youtube in landscape mode the screen starts to darken until it shuts off the screen. I went into developer mode and disable HW overlays, it made it go away. What are your thoughts? Sorry if I'm deviating from topic.
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Hi all,
I could not sleep thinking of using chrooted linux on my 47" 1080p LCD, fine, but we a re limited to the hdmi mirroring, which is 800x480 stretched to fill the screen.
Thinking about the video player, which does proper 1080p output I tried to fool the system somehow with video playing and task switching, menus, back btn presses, and found something:
Using temasek´s kang + ironkrnl #251 32mb hack, qemu lcd density 210
You start playing a video, can be through native video player or mxplayer, HW or SW mode, then you press menu once or twice to show the options, the video freezes for a moment. then you press back twice rapdly, VOILA, you have a working gallery (works until you flip the phone to portrait, this resets the display to normally scaled screen) in 1080p in the lower half of the screen.
If you were using mxplayer, the top half of the screen will have the player controls as they were on the phones screen during video playback. everything is repeated side by side almos three times (I think it´s the difference in resolution being compensated in the framebuffer or some sort of scaling bug).
All in all, does someone have any idea on how to invoke a mirrorless 1080p picture on hdmi? (or mirrored and downscaled/croppped on the phones screen), apparently only gallery is capable of displaying in 1080, any other app works in the phones screen but the image keeps frozen on hdmi with sound ok.
Imagine chrooted linux in 1080 with BT mouse and KB!
Pictures attached:
edit: tried with 1202221503-ETaNa_48 kernel and could not reproduce it, later will try with etana 64 and other ironkrnl
What a great little bug. It would be nice to have it actually run at 1080p for the Android screen and things like the word processor. Would make using the phone as a mini computer so much better.
Great find dude...!!
Sent from my LG-P990
Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
bollux78 said:
Sould I post this at Development section? Can some mod move this thread to dev? I think it will be more useful there.
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Not development. Moving to general.
I can only say that I wish I had the same amount of spare time as you
This phone puts a contrast filter on every video that's played back, making all dark colours look black, at a normal backlight level. This is not a defect of the panel itself, since the filter gets disabled for a split second, after the multitasking button is pressed. Is there a way of disabling it completely and permanently? If not, I might just take this phone back to the shop.
Also, the filter can be captured via screenshots. Here's a demonstration: video on Honor 9 lite, the same video on an iPhone 6s.
I've tried other videos, other players, and there's always a filter. I've tried the video on all my other devices (calibrated monitor, TV, shield tablet, moto E, xperia X) and it looks like it does on the iPhone.
Hello, who knows how to get rid of automatic color popping mode when playing videos, i ve noticed it on youtube.
Possibly by going into Setting>Display>Color mode & Temperature and change your color settings through there.
Yes despite activating normal colors setting, the color turns satured automatically when playing a video. That is a huge limitation. Weird from huawei
ketman5001 said:
Yes despite activating normal colors setting, the color turns satured automatically when playing a video. That is a huge limitation. Weird from huawei
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Looks fine to me, but I would blame the app writers.
Seems like the Video Enhance mode on Samsung S8/9.
Jonathan-H said:
Looks fine to me, but I would blame the app writers.
Seems like the Video Enhance mode on Samsung S8/9.
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Why dont they simply add an option to disable that. I like natural colors
I've noticed that my display's brightness automatically increases and gets oversaturated when viewing videos on the youtube and twitch app in fullscreen. When the videos are playing in portrait mode, display is normal but once the video is switched to landscape mode the oversaturation happens and this doesn't disappear even if you switch back to portrait mode...Display reverts back to normal only after exiting the video.
This effect seems to be subtle in lifelike videos but becomes really apparent in gameplay and other animated videos. The twitch streams look so cartoonish that it is impossible to enjoy gameplay streams on my mobile. Fullscreen videos from Chrome browser dont seem to be affected by this.
Is anyone else affected by this? Is there any solution?
Two things I recommend disabling if you encounter this:
- Under display, go to "screen colors/pallet" and change it to whichever color temperature you prefer (automatic is enabled by default)
- Check if you have "reading mode" enabled
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Two things I recommend disabling if you encounter this:
- Under display, go to "screen colors/pallet" and change it to whichever color temperature you prefer (automatic is enabled by default)
- Check if you have "reading mode" enabled
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I've already turn off the reading mode and choose screen colors to automatic but its still seems so oversaturated or its just software bug?. But if iam watching it on 1080p its just like hdr video
I was recommending you to disable automatic colors, that's why I believe colors are too saturated, you can change temperature too if you want. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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I was recommending you to disable automatic colors, that's why I believe colors are too saturated, you can change temperature too if you want. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
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Thanks man it work
It seems like there's some bug either with the app itself or with the phone's color management. When a video on Netflix is playing something happens to the contrast settings and it becomes too washed-out, and that decontrasting thing is visibly disabled when I swipe the phone's menu down during playback. You can actually see when swiping away the menu (to the point it's actually not on the screen any longer) the point where the contrast suddenly jumps between low and (too/black-crushed) high settings.
Changing the MIUI color scheme doesn't correct the problem.
EDIT: I should note that the Netflix app uses its own brightness setting which overrides the system's when content is played, and it along with the contrast thing get disabled whenever a phone GUI element is displayed (even when adjusting the volume the contrast and brightness jump momentarily).
I have same issue with YouTube. I was able to fix it by enabling Disable HW overlays in Developer options. I don't know if it will work for Netflix though.
KBK909 said:
I have same issue with YouTube. I was able to fix it by enabling Disable HW overlays in Developer options. I don't know if it will work for Netflix though.
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That worked! Although the contrast like this is, as I mentioned, maybe a bit too much.
Does this setting affect battery life? Because on some XDA article this was written:
"Disable HW overlays: Hardware overlays allow apps that display something on the screen to use less processing power. Without the overlay, an app shares the video memory and has to constantly check for collision and clipping to render a proper image. Don't mess with this option unless you have a good reason to."
What hardware is disabled? Because it says "always use GPU" when I thought using non-hardware processing it means "software executed by the CPU".