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By good, I mean, free of faults ?
I bought a SGS2 online and waiting for receiving it. But considering the large amount of users having a yellow tinted screen on the left, I'll probably get one of those faulty devices too.
In that case, I'll get it replaced and go for the SGS1, but, as a SGS1, can you tell me if the S1 has the same issue ?
Thanks.
No nothing like that on SGS1 or even i am using SGS2 its also quite fine and no screen tinted issuse.
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The wifes sgs2 has tint.
My 1.5 yo sgs1 has had no screen protector ever and is still scratch free and all pixels working like new.
My experience anyway.
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sgs1 screen is brilliant i think.
scratch free and you can see it outside when sun is shinning really well.
I had two different HTC phones. And they where both useless outside. could not see a thing.
SGS1 display is nothing less than a benchmark for all the mobile displays out there in the market. First device ever to have such an awesome, vibrant and Gorilla resistant screen. I'm in love with SGS just for its display.
Other not being really sharp up close due to pentile the display is perfect. Bright, great colours and takes a beating.
There are kernels with integrated functionality to correct for any colour tint. To be honest, AMOLED ages really ugly. Contrast is great, colors too, but after a few months of moderate usage, when the screen displays a grey image, the color is not uniform. It has signs of burn-in from place to place. This is the biggest disadvantage of this tipe of screen. I have it since March and sometimes I wish it had SLCD instead. I always have to be carefull not to keep the display on for too long or with the same image and icon layout on the screen.
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Not on my phone. Nearly 1.5 yo and no such problems. Greys look fine. I'm always on it too.
Like stated before. Its the benchmark. Slcd sux in daylight.
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There are kernels with integrated functionality to correct for any colour tint. To be honest, AMOLED ages really ugly. Contrast is great, colors too, but after a few months of moderate usage, when the screen displays a grey image, the color is not uniform. It has signs of burn-in from place to place. This is the biggest disadvantage of this tipe of screen. I have it since March and sometimes I wish it had SLCD instead. I always have to be carefull not to keep the display on for too long or with the same image and icon layout on the screen.
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Not my experience at all. Well over a year old, no screen tint, burn in, loss of colour or missing pixels. Best screen I have seen.
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I'm 1 year in and can barely see the 'M' from AM/PM before I started using 24-hour clock along with a bit of 'smudges' around the time, and only on a bright solid blue screen.
I could see issues if you set the screen to stay on while plugged in all day and put 10+ hours a day on it (I did that a few times and I think that's where my bit of burnout came from) but for the typical few hours of use a day there doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
Hands down the SGS is the best display I have ever used on a phone!
I also have an Atrix with double the power (including ram) and I still keep uning my SGS. The screen is just way to good...
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I agree, on higher brightness and a more vivid color you can't tell if the screen is burned-in. But try this. Get these 2 apps from the market OI Flashlight and OI Color Chooser, open OI Flashlight, press left softkey, Colour and select a very close to dark color and tell me if it's uniform. Maybe there is something wrong only with my screen.
I'm not saying it's the worst screen ever, I'm just suggesting someone should take this minor downside into account when choosing this type of screen, because once you go AMOLED you never go back ;-). You may have second thoughts when some wear will start to appear on the pixels.
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Has anyone noticed that the digitizer (or what I think is the digitizer) in the Nexus 7 is actually visible? I noticed this yesterday when I was at a Christmas party and the room was brightly lit. I was looking at the screen while it was off, and noticed a grid of small dots covering the entire screen. I checked on my phone (Nexus S 4G) and no such grid was visible. I thought the digitizer was only visible (and even then, only sometimes) on resistive touch screens. Hmm...
i tried to replicate it and couldnt, maybe the light wasnt bright enough. Would be intreresting tho
this is true of a HUGE number of phones. It has a lot to do with the digitizer technology used as well as how close the digi is to the lcd and the light in the room and several other minor factors. look at an HD2 and youll see it too.
I can see the digitiser on my HOX too. I've not noticed it so much on my other devices. Maybe its more obvious when the glass is bonded to the screen as it is in both of these? How about the newer devices with the touch layer integrated with the screen? It's certainly not an issue in use for me thorough (the fact that the screen gets so sticky with use on my n7 is fairly annoying though. Sector Strike is much easier on the HOX, the oleophobic coating must be pretty effective, even if the screen still looks greasy after use)
Yeah its common. My inspire has it as well. Think its called the pentile matrix.
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Yeah, shine a lamp on it with the screen off if you want to see it. Same on the Transformer Infinity, though a it's different pattern.
My SGS3 doesn't have it, that's why I was like wtf when I noticed in on my N7.
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yeap sadly when that cracks its all over
Only newer nexus 7 model has it, my launch model didn't have them.
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Yeah its common. My inspire has it as well. Think its called the pentile matrix.
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Sorry, pentile has nothing to do with the digitizer. Pentile is a type of arrangement of the subpixels on some displays.
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Sorry, pentile has nothing to do with the digitizer. Pentile is a type of arrangement of the subpixels on some displays.
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Ahh. Never really knew for sure what that term refers to exactly. I have a know it all Co worker who called it that but never actually looked it up.
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Why other devices touch screen devices, dont have this? or have it but not obviously visible?
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Why other devices touch screen devices, dont have this? or have it but not obviously visible?
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Its only the first series. The newer nexus 7 don't have this problem. I ordered both of mine off play store a month ago and neither have that issue. Stores still have old stock.
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Only newer nexus 7 model has it, my launch model didn't have them.
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Its only the first series. The newer nexus 7 don't have this problem. I ordered both of mine off play store a month ago and neither have that issue. Stores still have old stock.
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Slightly confused here, but it seems like you got the older stock, Gizmoe?
Only got mine today, and I can see the digitizer very easily, in the right conditions. I did get mine from ebay though (BNIB), so who knows :/
Is there any other way to find out what model we have?
Those little dots are actually connected by really thin lines forming an offset square pattern (you can actually see it in the right conditions), that's what a digitizer uses to register input. Every capacitive display i've seen has that. It's more visible if you look at a slight angle from the side of the screen with the light shining from the opposite direction.
The dots are more visible because they reflect more light, but in really bright light you can see the lines also.
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Slightly confused here, but it seems like you got the older stock, Gizmoe?
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Yes I see what's confusing. I meant the other response for a different post and only realized it after you pointed it out. I was referring to the floating screen not the dots. Wrong thread. I do not see dots on mine though, although on my inspire they are very easily noticeable.
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I've noticed a pattern on every single capacitive device I've used. Palm pixi, GS3, NS4G, N7, square iPod nano, iPod Touch and iPhone all have had it. So I'm pretty sure it there on every single screen you just have to get the right angle of the screen with the light for it to be visible.
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Hey Guys. Is this the same as seeing several horizontal lines if you tilt the screen? Is that what you call a digitzer?
Bought one a couple of weeks ago and I can see it too when the screen is dark, the full pattern across the screen. Can also see a white glow on the right side of the screen when booting when the screen is dark, not sure if that's a screen problem though..
Hey, I have read many threads but none explained if this is an issue or what. I found that someone call this digitizer, but digitizer is normally a lot different. Only thread with picture was on Android Central (I added is as extension. my own picture would look the same). The position matches position where digitizer is normally, but it has just weird pattern. Thanks for answer
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Hey, I have read many threads but none explained if this is an issue or what. I found that someone call this digitizer, but digitizer is normally a lot different. Only thread with picture was on Android Central (I added is as extension. my own picture would look the same). The position matches position where digitizer is normally, but it has just weird pattern. Thanks for answer
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ALIENS ARE COMMUNICATING WITH YOU THIS WAY. They got bored with crop plants and use screens instead
Sorry, I couldn't help you as I don't know, but couldn't resist
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hehe
i myself never understood this. even my display looks same when off. and my frds say why your phone has so many boxes. And I tell them it's to store the pixels in standby mode.
Jokes apart, are all nexus screens like this? I've never seen any other phone to have such display
Mine has this too. It is the digitizer. Also read some threads that they RMA'd the device and got a new one. Bit too much hassle for something that I cant see when the screen is on.
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I have this too, I thought it was because it's normal for an IPS screen. Is it normal, do you guys have it too??
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I got this too. I thought it was normal.
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Completely normal. Carry on.
My first N4 didn't have this, but after doing an RMA the replacement did. They may have started using a different digitizer or something. Another interesting thing is that my replacement device doesn't seem to have much of an oleophobic coating either.
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On older nexus phones (without nipples on the back) dont have digitizer visible. On models with nipples and onwards its visible like hell. No idea why, different implementation or.. Conspiracy
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On older nexus phones (without nipples on the back) dont have digitizer visible. On models with nipples and onwards its visible like hell. No idea why, different implementation or.. Conspiracy
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I beg to differ. I ordered mine on release. I can see the dots and the squares. Always could.
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I beg to differ. I ordered mine on release. I can see the dots and the squares. Always could.
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Its visible but not that much and other digitizers consist of dots not patterns like this
Thanks for your addins. It seems its normal for Nexus 4, but no other phone I saw out there doesn't have it. Its not that big deal as stripes on screen (AMOLED) I had on my previous phone.
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Its visible but not that much and other digitizers consist of dots not patterns like this
Thanks for your addins. It seems its normal for Nexus 4, but no other phone I saw out there doesn't have it. Its not that big deal as stripes on screen (AMOLED) I had on my previous phone.
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I can see both, the dots and this pattern on my device (on strong sunlight).
Only time I can see mine is if I lock the screen and angle it under light... even then its hard to tell...
Same here-i just received my Nexus 4 3 days ago and I immediately noticed the pattern( I used to have the Galaxy Nexus). It is most visible at sunlight in an angle with the screen off. I figured it was normal...I understand now that almost everyone has it...
My first N4 had no visible screen pattern, although in daylight I could see the dot matrix, wasn't a big deal though. However, I recently RMA'd due to a vaulty earpiece and my new N4 has the same pattern in the OP. Very annoying, visible when the phone's off but can also be seen, on occasion, when the phone's on. I don't know if my OCD will last much longer...I'm fighting the urge to RMA again.
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First things first, I freaking love this phone!
However, I've had this phone since it came out and I already have like 2 small scratches on the screen. I had my iPhone 5 for almost a year and didn't ever scratch the screen. Has anyone else had issue with the screen easily scratching? It's pretty disappointing but 100% my fault I guess. I haven't dropped it or anything.
I put a screen protector on it the same day I got it so I didn't get any scratches at all.
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Hey guys, I have a problem. I use on Gear screen protector from one of my previous phone One X (nilkin). I cut small square for the gear but after one hour I find out that the screen protector is no there .
So, I was thinking that the screen protector is maybe old and does not work, so yesterday I damaged my second original Samsung Galaxy Note3 screen protector and everything looks okay. But today the screen saver is not there anymore
Any solution? These screensaver should be really good, on my phone always work very well. I am really dissapointed because screen protector from Samsung was not cheap.
I also had the same problem, first I cut one from my old S2, shifted past a few hours. So I order two from a german suplier on ebay specific to the gear, and the same problem past few hours.
The problem is in the glass of the Gear being curved.
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I use:
http://www.liquid-kristall.com/en/home/1-0.html
may not be as effective as a plastic one, but it's invisible and it's working so far. Use ot on my note 3 as well.
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I also had the same problem, first I cut one from my old S2, shifted past a few hours. So I order two from a german suplier on ebay specific to the gear, and the same problem past few hours.
The problem is in the glass of the Gear being curved.
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So are you without screen protector like me?
For now yes, but I think I will give a try to liquid-kristal, tks for sharing Thelestat . Should give some extra protection, with the advantage of being completely invisible.
I've heard some reports of gear's whith Glass scratched on the wrist. Must be due to some clothes we wear.
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Dry screen protectors will fall off. It s meant for straight flush glass only. I just cut out any wet screen Protector and it works well for the glass and metal. Xtremeguard has 80% off their website.
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I purchased screen savers for my Gear from a company selling on Amazon.de. I have had no end of problems trying to convince this company that though the quality of the screen saver is great the point is it will not remain on the Gear, as people above have already mentioned, the body and glass are curved. What happens is the stiffness of the saver results in both ends of the saver sticking up, getting caught on clothes and coming away.
The only solution I can think of is for a manufacturer to produce a thinner protector that will bend to shape and remain stuck to the screen?
The company I purchased from requested photos and goodness knows what. I just filled a claim with Amazon.de and got my money back. I am not going to do the R&D for the company! I bought three of them as in general screen savers can, on times, be a devil to fit.
The glass will and does scratch so take care.
Kind regards.
A good screen protector thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46707863
Screen Protectors?
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thelestat said:
I use:
http://www.liquid-kristall.com/en/home/1-0.html
may not be as effective as a plastic one, but it's invisible and it's working so far. Use ot on my note 3 as well.
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Did you apply to the gear camera and the metal frame as well?
I did apply to the camera, did not think to do the metal frame.
If your cutting it out of another type, I found you need to round the edges. the corners that lift up, if the are sharp, will get caught on everything
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I did apply to the camera, did not think to do the metal frame.
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Any difference to the pictures? as in blurr or smoky? Cos the lens is plastic...not sure if it makes a difference.
I figured i'll be using the Liquid Kristall for the gear.
Since after applying you can't see a layer on the screen....makes one wonder if there is actually any protection on the screen