I noticed on my phone that there is a small pixel anomaly at the bottom of the Gmail app. It always stays at the bottom no matter the orientation of the phone
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The new replacement Galaxy Music has the SAME problem. Probably due to the low quality screen.
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Oki, now im sure that all these video black clipping is software rendering issues and i experienced yesterday, a perfect playback of all videos, without any black clipping. I experience same as many othersm at first day I got mine Note and with same issues all having at Video on Note thread. With all these black clipping issues on dark scenes and suddenly yesterday for first time ever, I could watch videos without any issues at all.
What happened:
I watch a eps of Chuck and as usual, the black clipping are all over the screen, make it unwatchable at dark scenes, for first time I watch it and with the Note video app.
I changed to MX Videoplayer and same video, suddenly all black clipping WAS GONE and a perfect playback without any more clipping. This is first time ever i watch all videos, without any black clipping and i was totally surprised. I tried play it again on Notes video player and NO black clipping at all.
Then I tried with youtube app, that can see clearly on most videos there and still NO BLACK CLIPPING!
This is totally weird for me, I just dont know what happened and why suddenly all these black clipping at dark scenes that I had with the phone suddenly are gone?
Today I watched the same video and the black clipps are back!
Anyone have experienced this weird behaviour before and why black clippings gone one day and comes back another day? Simpel is, what the heck is going on?
Its a strange issue. With my note it seems to depend on how the video is encoded. Some 720p files play fine, others I get the black block effect. But I am now pretty sure the screen is fine as some videos with lots of black / dark scenes play perfect. No one seems to be able yo lock down what is causing it, me included.
Encoding can definitely affect the banding. H.264 is usually fine, but DivX is nearly unwatchable at equal bitrate.
Hi, just tried this. I have tried sevral HD videos that I have on the SD card and some movies from Youtube and other webs. I can no longer see black level clipping. Rendering looks a little more blocky on some flat areas, like it was 16 and not 32 bits. But hell, black clipping was much more visible.
So if this is just a video driver or decoder issue, I hope Samsung puts the fix on the final ICS ROM. A clearly visible bug with an easy software fix cannot be left unsolved.
I am really going to sell my Gnote and go back to SGS2 because of this BLACK CLIPPING
Just proves its not a screen issue but something else.
Was obvious thought because black clipping was not truly everywhere
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nuramohammed26 said:
I am really going to sell my Gnote and go back to SGS2 because of this BLACK CLIPPING
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Try higher quality movies and another movieplayer
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I think the Nexus 4 is an awesome device, but I have a few issues with it that I haven't seen mentioned.
Screen artefacts: On a grey background if I turn the brightness up to maximum I have two strips running vertically down the screen. They are barely visible unless at full brightness, even then you can hardly see them. The best place to see them is in the notification area, I can see them best in a dark room.
Audio (this one is by far the most annoying): If I plug in head phones and listen to music there is a very slight hiss sound, when the music is quiet or at a silent interval. What's strange is if I pause the music the hiss sound is there for like 5 seconds then disappears. It happens with every track, including YouTube and it happens on different pairs of headphones. The hiss sound only appears if I play music, and as I said it's still there when I stop the track for a few seconds.
Image retention: If I'm on Chrome browsing the web, after about 5 minutes, if I swipe the tab away revealing the grey page with the Chrome logo, and then turn the brightness up fully the URL bar and the URL itself are often visible and even readable. It goes away after like 2 minutes but I'm worried it will eventually remain.
Could anyone try out those steps and see if they also have any similar issues? I don't think I would mind if everyone else had them, but I would be disappointed if mine was a lemon.
Thanks for the help!
EDIT: Sorry I should have made the poll multiple choice lol, I voted for the headphone hiss since it was the most annoying.
Concerning "screen artefacts": I got these, but I'm afraid they're worse, because I can barely see them at the minimum brightness when in a dark room (my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052338).
Audio: don't worry about that because I've heard that on many devices (like mp3's or my previous LG Swift); the hiss just stops after few seconds from stopping playback. Maybe it's worse than I imagine that...
To respond to the Chrome issue (ghosting): I haven't seen anything like this so far... maybe my eyes are just not as sensitive as yours
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Concerning "screen artefacts": I got these, but I'm afraid they're worse, because I can barely see them at the minimum brightness when in a dark room (my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052338).
Audio: don't worry about that because I've heard that on many devices (like mp3's or my previous LG Swift); the hiss just stops after few seconds form stopping playback. Maybe it's worse than I imagine that...
To respond to the Chrome issue (ghosting): I haven't seen anything like this so far... maybe my eyes are just not as sensitive as yours
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Thanks very much for your reply!
I looked at the picture you posted, and yeah that's exactly like mine I double checked and if I look really carefully I actually can see them at minima brightness, though it's definitely more visible at higher brightness.
Do you have the hiss on your device?
Have the lines, so faint I couldn't careless about them. No hiss or ghosting on mine. I think this is a case of if you want a problem with the device you will find one. Everyone has such high standards lol.
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Have the lines, so faint I couldn't careless about them. No hiss or ghosting on mine. I think this is a case of if you want a problem with the device you will find one. Everyone has such high standards lol.
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I know, I don't really mind about the lines that much (it's not that bad compared to the artefacts on an AMOLED), the image retention is a little worrying though, but the headphone hiss is just plain annoying.
I see a few people have the hiss, how bad is it? Did your other devices have it?
I have the hiss and lines.
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I have the hiss and lines.
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Are you going to RMA it? Or does it not bother you that much? This is the first device I've owned that has the hiss. The sound quality is better than my S2, but that fuzzy hiss sound is annoying.
I just submitted my pre-order for a Note 4. I loved the Note 2 (I love the size), but I really wanted a Sprint tri-band phone about a year ago, so I sold my Note 2 online and got the Nexus 5. Here is my post mortem after about a year of owning the Nexus 5.
What I really like about the Nexus 5:
• The phone is really zippy. With some of my other phones, I felt like after about 8 months the phone would start to get really laggy. Not the Nexus 5. To this day, it is really fast. Very smooth.
• I of course love the fast Android OS updates.
• I still think the phone has a great physical design. I love the very small bezels on the side of the screen.
• I love the multi-colored LED, when used with Light Flow. I haven’t read anything about the Note 4’s LEDs. I hope it has one. If it doesn't, that might be a dealbreaker. I use those LEDs to help me keep track at a glance of SMSs, work emails, home emails, calendar reminders, and missed phone calls.
• I love the HDR camera. I got some great shots, and got many compliments. I love that the HDR is subtle – the pictures do not look fake.
• I love that it is easy to root. I am never concerned about a locked bootloader or anything like that.
• I like the fast boot up time.
• I love the “OK Google” voice hotword on any screen. I use autovoice and have several custom commands. Can other phones do that? I hope so.
• The screen is awesome. I love the accurate colors. I’m not a fan of the saturated colors on the Samsung. The Note 4 seems to look better than prior Samsung OLED screens.
What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
• I hate not having a physical home button. There have been many times when a full-screen app freezes, and I can’t access the home button for 10 seconds or so. Very annoying.
• The GPS is laggy. Sometimes when I launch Waze, it takes like 3 minutes to get a GPS lock. That seems to have gotten better after a recent update. However, I still have problems in Runkeeper. It sometimes takes about a minute to get a lock.
• The low light video recorder autofocus is terrible. This might be the most annoying problem. Most of my recordings are of my kids at home, indoors. The Nexus 5 video recorder autofocus cannot keep up. It got better after an update a few months ago, especially because now I can focus on the subject by tapping the screen before I hit record, but it is still bad. I have so many blurry recordings. I’m really hoping the Note 4 is better. I didn’t seem to notice this problem on my Note 2.
• I am not impressed with battery life. When I am not at my desk at work, and I’m at home or out, my phone goes to about 20% after only 5 or 6 hours of medium to heavy use. I bought an external battery charger and I carry that around in my laptop bag now. Obviously, my Note 4 will be much better with the much bigger battery.
• I hate not having an SD card. I record a lot of video, and like to load a lot of music on my phone. I have to be careful about what I load, and I have to regularly offload my videos to free up space. I don’t understand why Google does not want us to have an SD card.
• I miss a removable battery. With the Note 2, I had one battery always charged at home, and another always charged at the office.
• The HDR photos look great, but require the subject to be still, because it takes so long to get a shot.
• I wish the headphone volume was a little louder. When I am listening while mowing the lawn, I often cannot hear my audio books and podcasts.
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What I do not like about the Nexus 5:
• I can’t stand that the volume settings are buried in the settings menu. When I want to turn down the media volume BEFORE playing the media, I have to go into the deep volume settings to get to it. I like Samsung’s solution. When I use the volume rocker, I can press the settings button to the side of the volume meter and individually adjust the various volume settings, without having to dive deep into menus. There might be an app that fixes this. I didn't look very hard.
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There's an app that is really good for that: Noyze https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.barrasso.android.volume
Its free, but it also had IAP withe more themes, but I like it as it is. It's also very frequently updated.
Hi there,
I have recently claimed my galaxy note 9 in insurance and they sent me a replacement device. However, when i am streaming videos on YouTube or netflix or even recorded videos from camera appears distorted and pixels are visible in dark videos. I sent this device back to samsung twice but they are unable to replicate the fault. I have tried all the resolution in display settings but the problem persists. 1080p video seems SD.
Apart from that the overall display has this unusual fadeness like an instagram fillter.
Anyone having this
I have the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G. And I have noticed a strange phenomenon that occurs with the sound whenever I try to screen record using the built-in screen recorder. When playing a game the sound sounds like a normal phone... However, when I start to screen record the sound all of the sudden gets more depth and the bass is louder and the clarity is a lot better. How could a screen recorder make the speakers sound better? Are the speakers not already going at their full potential? If not, how would I go about enabling it to sound the same as when the screen recording is enabled?
As a little background, I am not new to electronics and I am a power user. I've already been up and down the sound settings and through the developers options, but to no avail. There doesn't seem to be any discussion anywhere about this particular phenomenon...
Interesting. May be the codec that's being used.
See what it is in Developer options when in those states.
Could be a firmware glitch... like those never happen in Samsungs