I've seen several threads talking about how prone the Note 9's AMOLED screen is to burn-in. I wish to use the default light theme for once as it complements my phone's new background and style. Since the day I updated to Android 9 I have used the dark theme and have some concerns about burn-in, especially in the navbar area. Has anybody here who has used light theme regularly noticed any form of burn-in?
Burn-in only happens if you have a bright picture displayed on your device's display constantly for a prolong period of time. However if you use a dark theme, it will preserve your battery.
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I am waiting to receive my N6 and doing some research. Is there a built in Dark theme for material design or just that color inversion setting?
For once I don't want to mod the phone other than getting the tether for free.
Would like the dark theme for better battery though.
Only color inversion.
There is a dark material keyboard but that is about it.
You will most likely need to root to tether properly.. or at least with tmobile that is the case.
If you go that route, you might as well install the black theme that is floating in the themes and apps section.
Definitely no dark theme in stock
Thanks guys. Looks like I need to mod then.
I suggest blisspop comes with deep darkness theme
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
zephiK said:
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
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I am interested in anything promoting unlit pixels instead of the heavily lit lollipop theme.
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I am interested in anything promoting unlit pixels instead of the heavily lit lollipop theme.
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Unlit would have to be 100.00% black. Gray doesn't count towards as "unlit" pixels.
There is a dark theme in stock BUT it has not been fully "activated" by google yet. The best theming options in my opinion, is to install an AOSP ROM with RRO enabled. This exposes and uses the native theme switching capabilities that google hasn't activated. You can install theme apks that theme different apps and components using teh Layers app. It's in it's infancy but very imtersting so far..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/official-layers-bitsyko-apps-rro-t3012172
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/themes/0-themes-official-mega-rro-themes-t3011075
zephiK said:
Just so you know, having a dark background doesn't conserve battery. It only conserves battery if it has a black background. "Dark" doesn't preserve battery
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If that were the case, then turning down the brightness would have no impact at all on battery life.
Fact is, the DARKER the pixel is set for, the lower the power consumption. And while the step from "off" to "minimum" may be a big one, it is still much less than the step from "off" to "maximum". The subpixels also can activate individually, which means that if you have a pixel that is all green, only the green subpixels will come on, the red and blue will remain off and saving power.
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If that were the case, then turning down the brightness would have no impact at all on battery life.
Fact is, the DARKER the pixel is set for, the lower the power consumption. And while the step from "off" to "minimum" may be a big one, it is still much less than the step from "off" to "maximum". The subpixels also can activate individually, which means that if you have a pixel that is all green, only the green subpixels will come on, the red and blue will remain off and saving power.
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Interesting stuff
Anyone knows how to make the bright collor Lolipop become totaly black?
I think makes sense for a OLED powered phonne like my Note 4 to have most of its display in black to improve the horrible battery life
Take a photo in darkness (no flash) and make it wallpaper etc
Hello,
first of all, many thanks to those who develop themes and makes our phones, tablets more prettier. They really do a nice and useful job.
Studying and using several themes, I noticed that a few of them are developed without taking a look on a major thing, namely readability.
In my opinion, a theme should not only look good, but it should be visible (aka readable) in all lighting conditions, especially the main applications, like the Dialer or the Settings etc. and so on.
The bigger, darker and bold fonts on a light backround will always be more readable in direct sunlight, on a weaker phone screen.
What do you think?
Regards...
(PS. Correctly: thoughts...)
I thought my screen was great, even after seeing this thread on Android Central. Received a new one today and the banding is highly visible and shocking.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...953-screen-brightness-uneven-anyone-else.html
If you put up a solid white wallpaper it's very visible and remains visible on virtually all plain colors applied. The text of my last post follows:
["You are all 100% right about the dark bands. After a bit of testing, I realized which launcher you use will also affect the depth of the color of the top and bottom banding. With TouchWiz the top is dark, though not as dark as Apex, and the bottom is somewhat lighter. The same applies to Nova for the top and bottom banding. On Apex the banding is very dark and really bad.
The Kindles suffer from a similar issue and it has to do with the leds. Amazon got a lot of grief over their Voyage because the color differences and banding are so bad. Not everyone could see it though, which leads me to believe it also might have to do with vision differences. I always use very dark walls and so didn't notice it on my 8.0 until my 9.7 comparison tab arrived today. The banding was so bad it shocked me. I LOVE my 8.0, but I may return both and wait for a later iteration, and / or see if anything is fixed with an update. I intend to root ultimately, so I'm not liking the idea of taking any updates.
Has anyone tried using their tabs in natural light to see if the issue persists? I can't today or tomorrow. Will try it on Friday.
FWIW - this issue is visible on any plain color screen with vary degrees of visibility."]
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Have you noticed that the lock screen wallpaper - default from Samsung - doesn't have the issue?
Just a pet peeve of mine; the UI on Pixel 7 in dark mode isn't actually black, it's more like a grey or brown depending on what style you choose. Makes it look like an LCD not an OLED. I've attached 2 screenshots of app drawers to illustrate. One is from my Pixel 7 which isn't exactly black, and the other is of my Galaxy A53 which is pure black. Just looking to change that if possible.
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Just a pet peeve of mine; the UI on Pixel 7 in dark mode isn't actually black, it's more like a grey or brown depending on what style you choose. Makes it look like an LCD not an OLED. I've attached 2 screenshots of app drawers to illustrate. One is from my Pixel 7 which isn't exactly black, and the other is of my Galaxy A53 which is pure black. Just looking to change that if possible.
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the only solution is to use a third party launcher
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the only solution is to use a third party launcher
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I bought Nova Launcher Prime a couple years ago, may as well use it. But for what it's worth this option should come stock.
mewcatchew said:
I bought Nova Launcher Prime a couple years ago, may as well use it. But for what it's worth this option should come stock.
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You are welcome to try this if you are stock-rooted. Flash in magisk app.
The drawback is that upon rebooting your phone, your phone relocks itself (not reboot). When you unlock it the second time, the mod takes affect. Without that post script, the phone would bootloop. This happens everytime you reboot your phone. Because of this, this mod is incompatible with the magisk module that is a "bootloop protector" as it sees this mod as bootlooping instead of relocking and disables the mod. This mod is using cool_modules installer from here:
GitHub - jairaj08/SystemUI-Patcher: A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to SystemUI on All roms and android versions, Systemlessly.
A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to SystemUI on All roms and android versions, Systemlessly. - GitHub - jairaj08/SystemUI-Patcher: A systemUI patcher mod use for injecting Xmls to Sys...
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I tweaked it to use with Pixel Launcher.
To get your settings background black, you go to settings/ display/display theme and choose stock-black.
Might be worth a shot.
Also repainter app has this feature.
The reason why the color of the dark theme is not black but something similar to gray is because when you move white text on a completely black background, an annoying color plot is perceived due to the delay that the screen pixels have. OLED to go from completely off to on, and it is precisely here where the grays fulfill a very important task, since they generate a contrast that "hides" the phenomenon described above.
more info:
Into the Dark
Explore new color palettes, revamped contrast, and increased legibility as four Google products adopt Material’s dark theme
design.google
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The reason why the color of the dark theme is not black but something similar to gray is because when you move white text on a completely black background, an annoying color plot is perceived due to the delay that the screen pixels have. OLED to go from completely off to on, and it is precisely here where the grays fulfill a very important task, since they generate a contrast that "hides" the phenomenon described above.
more info:
Into the Dark
Explore new color palettes, revamped contrast, and increased legibility as four Google products adopt Material’s dark theme
design.google
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So Google is using inferior OLED panels? I find my A53 has a much nicer screen & no issues with text in black background scrolling.
I mean, look at the fingerprint. I don't understand how this is a "Flagship" UI. My A53 is slower for sure, but the UI has nice blur effects, pure black backgrounds, the fingerprint isn't an icon; it's a pure white translucent fingerprint. I just expected better. I don't feel like rooting it and bending over backwards to get it to look decent. I put it up for sale and no one wants it. Will trade it in at Best buy for a discount on a Samsung. The pixel 7 takes great pictures, it's fast, but the battery life is mediocre and The UI is too bland for me; it's washed out.