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Bad/Poor Screen Images

I am having a problem with my screen, this has been a ongoing thing for a while now. I am running cm6 extremely blue from the 19th of Oct, no kernel mod. When I do a clean install my screen displays all images just fine. After a few days some images start looking really bad, instead of the colors blending they become bands of different colors. Its really hard to explain so I attached a screenie of the XDA app, the brown looks horrible. I know thats not the way it is as I have seen the colors blend together, no thick color lines. I ant figure it out for the life of me, is this happening on everyones phones? I dont recall it runnng Fresh rom, and like I said it takes a couple days for it to start happening on cm6. I found a few things in awd launcher that I can disable to help the situation, like wallpaper hack, scrolling widget support, turning these off and or on will help it look better on desktop, but on apps I found nothing to help improve. Could something need editing in the XML files? Or are we all seeing these lines and just dealing with them? Any feedback is appreciated
Oh, and once it starts this even a nandroid back to when it was fine doesnt help. Only a clean install does.
and happens with both apps2sd and internal storage.
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Nobody?
This is not occurring on my pictures, gallery. My home screen is fine, as well as calendar widget. Thoroughly in handcent the gray bar up top has the color lines, slacker also has it toward the bottom where it get brighter. Could it be something in framework, maybe I can edit some sort if default setting to use 16 bit, because it looks like 8 bit graphics
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cordell12 said:
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This is not occurring on my pictures, gallery. My home screen is fine, as well as calendar widget. Thoroughly in handcent the gray bar up top has the color lines, slacker also has it toward the bottom where it get brighter. Could it be something in framework, maybe I can edit some sort if default setting to use 16 bit, because it looks like 8 bit graphics
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I sound like your talking about dithering, like instead of something that should be a gradient it is instead broken up and where you would normally see a smooth transition from a color to color its broken with lines.
Heres some suggestions
cm settings > performance settings : enable surface dithering (which improves image quality but slows the phone some what).
reboot you phone at least once a day.
your screen density might be to high (or low) in your build.prop file.

Updated to extremely blue Oct 25 and problem is gone. Chances are in 2 or 3 days it will be back though
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I had set build prop to 150 on all three, the 3rd being default. This has been a issue for some time now. I will leave build prop alone and see what happens. You are exactly right about what I am trying to explain the issue is. Can I set to 150, and what else can or can not be changed? Changing the default density to 150 was something I had never done before, screen would do this at the default 160 as well.
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I had set build prop to 150 on all three, the 3rd being default. This has been a issue for some time now. I will leave build prop alone and see what happens. You are exactly right about what I am trying to explain the issue is. Can I set to 150, and what else can or can not be changed? Changing the default density to 150 was something I had never done before, screen would do this at the default 160 as well.
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Are you saying your phone is running for a couple of days and then it does it, cause I daily reboot is highly recommended. The phone just doesn't have the internal memory to render the graphics on images with alot of colors.
I would try a 140 on the density.

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Are you saying your phone is running for a couple of days and then it does it, cause I daily reboot is highly recommended. The phone just doesn't have the internal memory to render the graphics on images with alot of colors.
I would try a 140 on the density.
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Well yes and no, it will happen after a few days but I do reboot daily, sometimes a few reboots per day. When I edit build prop I am using Root Explorer, it saves the old file. Should I delete this file, maybe it us confusing the system? Also can I edit the default setting to 140? Thank you for your help and concern
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Build prop it is! I tried 140 and still messed up so I tried changing the default to 140 also. That did not help I took all three settings back to 160 and my screen went back to clean and clear. Why can others change the dpi, am I needing to changes something else along with the 2 numbers?
Thank You!
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MyWater Live Wallpaper from Transformer working on Gtab!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048959
Download from there and copy to /system/app, change permission to match the others, reboot.
Working ok, it seems to get confused when you rotate to portrait. The water switches to portrait but then switches back to landscape.
Haven't tried the other apps yet.

how do you change permissions?

Change perms with root explorer.
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or download the one labeled "signed" in the name....and just install it like any other app.

Got the my water working, but can't get either weather apps to work. Keep getting parsing error. It appears to effect tablet as it feels bit sluggish to flip through tablet when live wallpaper is running. I suppose lack of hardware accelerator.

rob_z11 said:
Got the my water working, but can't get either weather apps to work. Keep getting parsing error. It appears to effect tablet as it feels bit sluggish to flip through tablet when live wallpaper is running. I suppose lack of hardware accelerator.
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Does it get confused when you go from landscape to portrait back to landscape??? Or is it just me?

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Does it get confused when you go from landscape to portrait back to landscape??? Or is it just me?
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Mine works fine switching back and forth between landscape and portrait.
It appears to "refill" from the new "bottom of screen" to current battery level when I switch landscape/portrait but that's about it.

tcrews said:
Mine works fine switching back and forth between landscape and portrait.
It appears to "refill" from the new "bottom of screen" to current battery level when I switch landscape/portrait but that's about it.
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Mine is ok when switch from back and forth between landscape and portrait, but good observation if it is directly linked to battery level
Wish we can get the hardware acceleration going for gtab..

For those curious on how it looks on the Gtab here is a screenshot.
Just install the 'signed' water apk.
The water level descend as the battery drains. Pretty cool.

anyone get that weather app working?

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anyone get that weather app working?
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No.
Figured out why my water level was getting messed up, had to go into the settings for the wallpaper and uncheck the change water orientation option.

works great!
Thanks for this, works great on the stock rom including battery level indication and changing orientation!

Sweet! Works nicely with CM7S.
Thanks!
Ya know what would be cool?
If the ice would start to melt when the battery reaches 20% - 15%.. hehe

Not sure about others but this wallpaper destroyed my battery
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Agreed it drains out my battey too

Mine gets confused when I switch it to portrait and back to landscape. It's like the sensor is rotated 90 degrees and stays on the side I rotated too. Rebooting is the only way to reset it back.
Anyone else see this?

waterline not level
Is it just me that sees that the sensor that sets the angle of the waterline is struggling?. When I prop the gTab up on my CLIP case I notice the water line is a little off level like it's a bit tilted to one side. and when I Disable the water rotation setting I notice the water line will "twitch" every second or so like it's struggling and getting some conflicting data.

It would be nice to have a gyroscope sensor in the gtab. But were stuck with the accelerometer, not quite as accurate.

Works on Vegan Ginger ROM, using the signed apk.
The angle is a little off with the tablet propped up and I have also noticed that it will occasionally "twitch".
Could not get the weather widget to work.

jschmier over on the Asus Transfomer forum has enhanced the work done by Ruvort and others and has come up with some great live wallpapers based on MyWater check them out at :-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116105
My favourites are beer and lime and Rubber Duckie v1.1
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They all work for me on Roebeet's BOS 5.02 alpha.
BTW the signed weather widget is also working on BOS.

Brightness issue after .257 update

After updating to 14.1.G.2.257, I have noticed a drop in the brightness to an extent that the screen is not viewable in sunlight. The "Adapt to lighting conditions" is on. I was able to view the screen comfortable outside before the update on the same settings.
Has anyone else encountered this same problem?

pkolas said:
After updating to 14.1.G.2.257, I have noticed a drop in the brightness to an extent that the screen is not viewable in sunlight. The "Adapt to lighting conditions" is on. I was able to view the screen comfortable outside before the update on the same settings.
Has anyone else encountered this same problem?
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yes same here, brightness too low, more dim in this update.
In sunlight i tried today it was even lower than my xsl

pkolas said:
After updating to 14.1.G.2.257, I have noticed a drop in the brightness to an extent that the screen is not viewable in sunlight. The "Adapt to lighting conditions" is on. I was able to view the screen comfortable outside before the update on the same settings.
Has anyone else encountered this same problem?
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I experienced that the "Adapt to lighting conditions" function isn't as good. When I turn it of, it's as bright as before. I like to manage that manually anyway so... You don't give much information so I'm not sure if you've tried this, but I guess that's the first thing people do.

dellhem said:
I experienced that the "Adapt to lighting conditions" function isn't as good. When I turn it of, it's as bright as before. I like to manage that manually anyway so... You don't give much information so I'm not sure if you've tried this, but I guess that's the first thing people do.
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What I notice, as a new owner as of latest version (so cannot tell about prev version), is that the auto brightness range is almost null.
I tested the light sensor in service menu and it is working, but the brightness of the screen does not chnage much from DARK to FULL LIGHT.
Also, if auto brightness is enabled, why the brightness slider in the quick controls?

thegios said:
What I notice, as a new owner as of latest version (so cannot tell about prev version), is that the auto brightness range is almost null.
I tested the light sensor in service menu and it is working, but the brightness of the screen does not chnage much from DARK to FULL LIGHT.
Also, if auto brightness is enabled, why the brightness slider in the quick controls?
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Sony have advised me to do a repair using PCC and see if that makes a difference. I will try that over the weekend and report back.

This is how bright it is compared to Note
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Battery Saving
I guess they didn't want too much battery drain. So what are the benefits of this update? Do they outweigh the need for the firmware upgrade? We'll as soon as it's rooted and flashed with custom then all this will be fine. It's just a waiting game now.

Sense 6 camera problem Over-aggressive white balance and saturation

I've noticed since being updated to Sense 6 the white balance on the camera goes a bit out of control in the default Auto mode. Way over aggressive. I think it goes out of control once you start tapping to focus on something, rather than letting it auto focus.
NOTE: I'm using the Omni ov ov4688 sensor. I'm not sure if this affects the other One camera sensors out there.
I've noticed the over aggressiveness in good lighting and bad lighting. I'm curious if this is only affecting us Omni sensor users. This is a bit different than the green tint on the Omni sensor as it tends to throw any color out of wack, not just green. Its almost as of someone turned the saturation all the way up.
I found a quick work around in the Sense 6 camera app. Switch your camera to the Zoe camera and take a photo. I noticed that the white balance and saturation levels are completely normal in Zoe mode. (The new Zoe camera in Sense 6 allows you to take a regular photo if you don't hold the camera button down. In Sense 6 you have to hold the button down a bit longer for Zoe to kick in.)
Below are examples of first taking a photo in the regular camera app on Auto mode, then followed by Zoe mode. The first photo in each has unusual amounts of saturation and white balance issues. The Zoe camera samples appear normal.
Sense 6 Camera - Auto
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It appears I have the same issue - and I have the same sensor ov4668. Not sure if its a issue - maybe I can just turn down the white balance or saturation and save the setting.
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It appears I have the same issue - and I have the same sensor ov4668. Not sure if its a issue - maybe I can just turn down the white balance or saturation and save the setting.
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Yeah - I tried making a custom camera app with saturation down a notch but it never comes out as good as just shooting with the Zoe camera. I don't think you can do anything with white balance.
I've also been trying to get the AWB_cal file from the M8 on my phone to see if that will make a difference, but so far no luck getting it copied over.

ST sensor here, can't reproduce your issue. Zoes and regular stills from sense 6 camera totally identical. Dev Edition running the recent sense 6 ota, totally stock unrooted.
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Must be limited to OV sensor users then. Price we pay for getting purple tint fixed!
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How is your display black crush

How is your p20 pro amoled black crush/black smearing looks like?
To reproduce the black crush/black smearing problem, you can try in two ways:
Option A
1)Change the setting menu to dark background:
Setting -> battery -> darken interface colours
2)Turn your display to the dimmest ( lowest brightness level) in a low light or dark room
3) try to have some scrolling action on the darken setting menu
4) You should see the white menu sub text has some smearing effect
Option B
1) take a picture which has a lot of dark/black spot
2) Turn your display to the dimmest ( lowest brightness level) in a low light or dark room
4) in the gallery, scroll left and right of those pic
5) you should see the black smearing effects on the dark spot of the pic
I will try to get some video on.
Mines looks pretty serious imo so do the displayed phone from the retail shop.
Not sure which vendor Huawei is using for this amoled. But I can guess for sure it wasn't Samsung amoled
Video taken:
Pay attention to the black wire of the earphone. You can see that whenever you drag there is black trail or smearing effect following the black wire of the earphone
It is very noticeable if you use your phone in the dimmest level of display and in a dark room.
iPhone doesnt really captured the smearing effects much though.

Im not too sure about the smearing vs s9. But i saw that the s9 crushes the blacks, whilst the p20 doesn't.
On black level tests my p20 can see all squares. My sisters s9 shows the first 2 or 3 as pure black which is not the case.

@ Sc00p007 youre right.
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Mine doesn't do this.
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Not sure if i'm getting old or i can't see this.

Since i'm not using my phone to grade photo's while sitting in a pitch black room i'm not really worried about this.
I'm certainly not going to take the effort to setup this artificial test. I have better things to do.

So far from I had observed the black smearing only happened on gallery app and setting menu (if you set it to darken interface)
Here is the video I took:
Pay attention to the black wire of the earphone. You can see that whenever you drag there is black trail or smearing effect following the black wire of the earphone
It is very noticeable if you use your phone in the dimmest level of display and in a dark room.
iPhone doesnt really captured the smearing effects much though.
If someone can reproduce the problem and capture in videos

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iPhone doesnt really captured the smearing effects much though.
If someone can reproduce the problem and capture in videos
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I'm going to take your word on that one
Maybe filming with another P20 Pro will help ......

bk227865 said:
I'm going to take your word on that one
Maybe filming with another P20 Pro will help ......
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For the dual wield, please do it:cyclops:
I actually have tested 2 unit from the retail shop,both of them are giving similar black smearing effects.

aseanity said:
For the dual wield, please do it:cyclops:
I actually have tested 2 unit from the retail shop,both of them are giving similar black smearing effects.
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I simply can't reproduce this problem.

subhani said:
I simply can't reproduce this problem.
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Same. No problem here. Unless my eyes are just awful and I can't see it

dladz said:
Same. No problem here. Unless my eyes are just awful and I can't see it
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Okay I think I see what they mean. So it can really only be reproduced if
1. You turn the brightness slider down to zero.
2. You have black backgrounds enabled.
3. You scroll/drag VERY slowly.
The way to catch it is to
A. Do not lift your finger off the display when dragging the list in settings app. In super slow motion. Drag ever so slowly, like your stretching the writing on the display, and
B. Lock your eye on one same icon and see it fade colour or lose its brightness as you drag it or 'stretch it' with the same poised finger, without lifting from the display.
In other words, it is very difficult and unnatural to produce. But I can confirm it exists. I think it's a non issue for nearly everyone bar a very few people. I cannot reproduce it, for example in this dark themed official XDA app. Because the background is not true black and the text is white.

subhani said:
Okay I think I see what they mean. So it can really only be reproduced if
1. You turn the brightness slider down to zero.
2. You have black backgrounds enabled.
3. You scroll/drag VERY slowly.
The way to catch it is to
A. Do not lift your finger off the display when dragging the list in settings app. In super slow motion. Drag ever so slowly, like your stretching the writing on the display, and
B. Lock your eye on one same icon and see it fade colour or lose its brightness as you drag it or 'stretch it' with the same poised finger, without lifting from the display.
In other words, it is very difficult and unnatural to produce. But I can confirm it exists. I think it's a non issue for nearly everyone bar a very few people. I cannot reproduce it, for example in this dark themed official XDA app. Because the background is not true black and the text is white.
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Lol if i have to go to these lengths to maybe see it then honestly? I don't care.
I think it's testament to this device if we have to look for problems like this.
I get it shouldn't happen, but i really wouldn't have noticed it without being advised.