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[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
I see it on the wallpaper when using the blue sky with clouds, or on the black top in youtube.
[Galaxy S II General] yoohoo:
u may dial *#0*# to test the RGB colors. If there is a dead or stuck pixel, u'll see it.
[Galaxy S II General] hirak99:
Dead pixels still, bought 2/10/11

Bought last week and found a dead pixel. Right at the center of the Google search box that comes in the main home screen by default.

Found it after 2 days since I purchased, don't know how I missed it initially.

Spoke to service center, they are willing to replace the AMOLED display but not the entire handset since apparently they have a 4-day replacement policy now, so if you take it to the service center after 4 days they won't replace. However replacing before is apparently easy - you just submit the phone with all accessories, they issue a certificate, you show the certificate to where you bought it and get a new set immediately. Since I did report the issue to customer care on 4th (2 days after purchase), and they did not tell me anything about 4-day policy, I still have a chance to fight it out and get a full handset replacement.

Is the dead pixel problem really rampant? Does anyone know what percent of the current GS2 phones may have a dead pixel?

Should I go for repairing and replacing the display, or should I try and get a full set replacement? Getting a full replacement will require effort, and I will not know if the other parts of the phone (camera, speakers etc.) are in working condition if I do that.

Arnab
[Galaxy S II General] cseegran:
I have 1 dead pixel, send it to Samsung service center on the 7th Oct, they will replace the Super AMOLED plus screen. Got it today morning (10th)with replaced screen, tested so far so good. Did asked them if I noticed any dead pixel which i have overlooked today. Assured me that they have tested and checked, however it is still under warranty no need to worry about it. So far so good.
[Galaxy S II General] hirak99:
Good to know. So even though they replaced the display, the phone looks as good as new? No scratches/other malfunctions?

I was little worried about it, since I had a bad experience with another manufacturer. So far though Samsung seems better than them - the service center even told me that they will get it done on the same day itself if they have the parts, and they could order the parts if I give them a notice.
[Galaxy S II General] kyle5:
Today I took my SGS2 for display replacement for the same reason - one bright blue stuck pixel. At the beginning they claimed that 1 pixel is not the reason for warranty repair, but I still was with my opinion and told about samsung 0 pixel policy. So probably they will replace my screen.

I'm still afraid, that after this fix my phone will not be "fresh from factory" and I too wonder what are the risks after replacing the screen even though it's qualified customer center ?
[Galaxy S II General] hirak99:
I got my phone replaced finally. I told them that replacing and repairing are not the same - and that factory repairing always leaves a mark, I as a customer will be very unhappy about it. @kyle5, you should also say the same.

When they pulled out another new phone, first thing I did was to check for dead pixel. Guess what, there was another again - this time though only on color blue! I guess it was from the same lot, as it was from the same dealer. What are the chances that the first two phones I see both have dead pixels?! This cannot happen by coincidence, if the chances of a dead pixel is like 1 in a 100. There has to be some bad quality control.

The third phone seemed to be ok and without dead pixels.
[Galaxy S II General] donmarkon:
If someone have time please test this i want to know what you see . First download this app

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.yota.screentest

you need to be at dark room totaly isolated from light , turn on ap tap once its white color tap second time its black color ( 0 0 1) pixels will emit dark light . Watch at screen and when your eyes adapt you gonna see something . Allready tested on 2 units all have same "thing" please check on yours for confirmation . Thank you
[Galaxy S II General] hirak99:
What worked for me is to dial *#0*# from your Galaxy S2. (This should work for other Samsung mobiles as well.) An advantage is that you can do this on brand new phones without having to install sim to install an application.

It has options for dead pixel checking and much more.

Dead pixels could be either red, green or blue - it could happen for example that a pixel is dark when the screen is blue, but working properly with red or green. You should check these three colors thoroughly.
[Galaxy S II General] donmarkon:
Its not about dead pixels its something else test it.
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
Anyway, the screen of this phone is so faulty. I'm waiting for my last replaceMENT, if not perfect, then refund.
[Galaxy S II General] donmarkon:
Can someone try this ?
[Galaxy S II General] Eddiedk:
Well, you mean that the screen isn't off when black, but omits a bit of light. That's normal... All my phones does that, in that screen test.

Sent from my korean dual-core beast
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Troy89:
Troy's Blue Slate Theme for SkyRaider 4.0

This is a theme that is based off of CLeDInc's Slate Matte Green Theme that I changed around from files I got from ACD168, and eugene.an's slate theme for the desire and a lot of files from jabbawalkee's matted blues theme for the Evo. There might be one more person I'll check and see and edit if there is :p If anybody has any problems with me using there stuff please let me know or if I did something wrong and I'll take it down and work it out.

Slate Screenshot by Troy-89, on Flickr

*The Music app in this theme is from the nothing special rom that I themed, it can not be controlled under notifications

*I'm in school right now and have finals coming up so while there is stuff that I know needs to be further themed or what else people may mention, it will not be undated super fast

*One more thing I'm still very very new at this so if there is something I missed let me know. Also I know it still says thanks for installing CLeDInc's Slate Matte Green Theme

Download Link

http://db.tt/7SDkXC9
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Troy89:
Reserved:

Change Log/To do List
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] -Michael_:
Downloading now, looks nice I'm eager to try it thanks for posting. would there be any way you could incorporate the original mattedblues status bar or battery icon more specifically? The gingerbread one is uglyness, its better blue btw..

Anyway....

Regards
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Troy89:
I'll have to ask around for help but if its possible I'll try to get it done and make it available as an add on.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] trevsky9:
very nice! Thanks
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] cjcarter1254:
Dude the slate theme was my favorite from the HTC hub. Only suggestion I have is change the pulldown Droid to blue instead of green to match the rest of the theme. Looking good thanks for your hard work
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] Troy89:
Thanks :) I'll add that to the list
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] OSully:
Gorgeous. Well done Troy.
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
Well, I am NOT releasing the theme until I get approval from B-reezy and the original MattedBlues theme creator, but I am stumbling often with what I've worked on already.

I will supply screenshots but I literally changed all of the framework-res.apk files, so I need help finding which ones to restore. :P

Now, what looks good. :D

Now onto the problems....:o

After pressing menu, I got this problem. :(

Anyone know which images they are so I can restore???

Then the next problem, with pop ups...I turned on WiFi (yes, my WiFi network is named after my dog...haha). Then finally text boxes have problems. Teehee

Please please let me know the images I need to work on, the sooner I fix these, the sooner I can release. :D
[Epic 4G General] jkrough0728:
Looks great! Can't wait to see finished project! I see you got the color figured out ;)!
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
*eek*! Is that a matted reds! Yayyyyy
[Epic 4G General] theimpaler747:
The problems I see right off the bat stem from corrupt/incomplete .9pngs.
[Epic 4G General] MysteryEmotionz:
That's what I jyst told him in pm
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Personally, I'd make smaller signal bars, add the quicksettings in the notication bar, and don't make the menu in the launcher (that says "add, "settings", "wallpaper") have a transparent background; it's too hard to see.

Otherwise, I really like the idea so far. Maybe get rid of the AM/PM in the notification bar too :P

Edit: Oh, I see you're having problems with the transparent background thing and quicksettings; Nevermind about that!

But I'd recommend still making the signal bars smaller/getting rid of the AM/PM :P That's one of the view reasons I don't like mattedblues
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I'll chat with B-reezy later this week and he'll help me out with removing the AM/PM in the status bar. This is built completely off the ported MattedBlues and since I'm new to theming, it may be a bit before this is added to the themes board. Otherwise, I'd say I'm very excited to get this done and hopefully I'll move onto ROMs when I have the experience necessary.
[Epic 4G General] || Acer ||:
Awesome; nice to see another developer =D

I'm looking forward to your work!
[General Accessories] Dj_Frost:
Anyone seen this? Hope its not like the Sony LiveView and how that turned out... :P

http://www.metawatch.org/

WATCH SPECIFICATIONS:

Two Platforms:

Analog / digital with two 16x80 white OLED displays

Digital with 96x96 reflective / always on display technology

Features:

Bluetooth© wireless technology

3 ATM water resistance

Accelerometer

Ambient light sensor

Rechargeable battery

Stainless steel case & leather strap
[General Accessories] snakeman65:
Well i've got one on order so i'll let you know once it gets here!
[General Accessories] tonym001:
coincidentally, what's your "shipdate"? mine has dropped back to the 8th of July for some reason (not an issue) but they're not, yet marked as instock with TI? Hopefully not last minute build issues..
[General Accessories] trevolutionary:
Anmyone have their hands on this yet? I am more than intrigued and was in the market for a new watch anyway :)
[General Accessories] hausman:
According to their facebook page they won't be shipping until August now.
[General Accessories] travelrobrob:
That is really too bad...was hoping to start playing....they are still showing the 8th ship date...ah well
[General Accessories] hausman:
My order status doesn't even show a ship date and I never got a confirmation email. It just perpetually says "processing". Was hoping to start playing soon too. They put a couple of dev docs up on the metawatch.org development page, so you can start reading.
[General Accessories] hausman:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/07/20/metawatch-prototype-review/
[General Accessories] tehsam:
these are supposed to ship today- has anyone gotten a confirmation yet?
[General Accessories] hausman:
They've had 2 delays. The latest was announced just a couple of days ago; the analog isn't shipping until late September now. The digital one may ship sooner, but last I heard it was "end of August". You can find them on Facebook and Twitter, occasionally you'll see an update.
[General Accessories] tehsam:
thanks for the info- I'm following their twitter now. I would have thought they would put this info up on the TI store page where I bought it lol.

bummed about the delay but hopefully it will be worth the wait. if I really get 4-7 days uptime with the watch I will be pretty happy.
[General Accessories] neuropolis:
Anyone get theirs yet? How is it?
[General Accessories] GPMvdB:
New date of shipping: sept 29 2011
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
September 29th came early :D
[General Accessories] pacebedo:
Metawatch and Openwatch

Got mine yesterday, too. However, it won't work with openwatch. Or does it?
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
No it doesn't, u need to download the metawatch software. Look in the metawatch twitter account.
[General Accessories] pacebedo:
metawatch and openwatch

I'm sorry, but I just can't find it. Do you have the link?
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
They had a email posted earlier but it appears to have been removed. I would

direct message then on twitter. That or u can wait for the website to be posted soon.
[General Accessories] tehsam:
to those who have received their watch- did you get an email confirming shipment or anything like that? very anxious to get mine, and I pre-ordered, but I haven't heard anything from them.

also- for those who are looking for the .apk, it looks like they have a link at http://www.metawatch.org/developers/
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
Yes i got a email with tracking the day i got it. I ordered on 6/28 fyi.
[General Accessories] tehsam:
cool. you ordered a little earlier than I did so hopefully mine is on the way soon.

seems like the shipping was pretty quick?

also, how are you finding it so far? does battery life seem to be as advertised? any performance issues?
[General Accessories] Antartica:
Just received my metawatch

Hi!

Just to say hello and say that I've received my metawatch. I ordered it on the 16th of May. I received an e-mail of shipping status last friday (now is tuesday), with a fedex tracking number. Relieved, as I was wary of it being stopped by customs.

Right now is charging. Anyone want photos or any more information?

P.S.: It seems that the forums at metawatch.org are not working.
[General Accessories] zman519:
Pics are always nice :-) post a few where u get time

Sent from the Drivers Seat of my Suby txting and Driving doing 100MPH+ in a school zone! Ha.
[General Accessories] tonym001:
They've done a stellar job on the hardware, but I'm a bit disappointed to note that the metawatch app is no-longer just openwatch, and is missing a chunk of the openwatch functionality. That said, the default app is just a stepping stone, after all..

Now I just need to find the time to play with the device properly.
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
are you having trouble with the metawatch manager constantly crashing? idk if its specific to my rom/phone but its very annoying. I am hoping they release the source for it.
[General Accessories] tonym001:
Yeah, I've had it hang and restart a couple of times on me today. It also gets pretty unhappy if it loses connection to the watch while still running.

FWIW, I'm running an N1 with Rc1 of CM7.

Oh, and I'm sure I saw mention of the embedded sdk & apk going up on github "by the end of the week".
[General Accessories] andyh123:
I've got mine

Opened the box, pulled out the watch; it's big. Pulled out the instructio... wha? No instructions? OK, I'll check their website. Cool, a forum (do a google, won't let me post a link here . Registered, OK, sign in, go to Newbie Corner. 2 posts. Wow. OK, log in (again?). Click on Metawatch Forums. Newbie Corner (still 2 posts). Wants me to log in, OK...wait a minute, I've logged in 3 times now.

So, a $200 watch with no instructions and a support forum that doesn't work. Guess I won't be using it for a while.

Edit: Aha! Found the instructions on the Developers page of the website.

Edit: The display is practically invisible - is that because it is not fully charged? The digits look 'mirrored' on a grey background. I'll see if I can send a photo.

Edit: *sigh* it only looks that way when there isn't enough light. When I move it into the light it's OK. I'll be quiet now.
[General Accessories] tonym001:
No, you've got a $200 development device. I see you've found the instructions at least.

The display is like that by design - they were aiming for it being readable in broad daylight. You can invert the display.

And they've admitted the forums are hosed at the moment.
[General Accessories] Antartica:
Have done basically nothing with it yet (only paired it with an android phone). Here are the pics.

Certainly the watch is a lot more stylish than the aging onhand (the one at the left in the comparison photo), although not so powerful.

BTW, the screen is not very helpful indoors (I've been using the light to be able to read the screen...).
[General Accessories] DeepEmissions:
Where is it getting the 104* temp from? do u live in AZ? lol just thought I'd point that out...
[General Accessories] jug6ernaut:
Should have seen mine yesterday. ..showed 107 lol
[General Accessories] JerryPi:
Hello does anybody have any experiences with the watch yet?
[General Accessories] hausman:
Not a particularly good one yet, LOL

I have analog plus HTC Evo Shift 4G. Battery life on the watch is under 24h even when not connected to the phone (compared to 10-14 days with SonyEricsson MBW-150), various issues of notifications failing to work, display cut off when they do work, and watch constantly resetting itself.

On the forums it sounds like HTC owners are mostly out of luck; other phone owners have more success (some significantly so, as people are clearly developing for and having fun with this device). With a Nexus S you might have a good experience - check the forums to see what other Nexus S owners are reporting.

On the plus side the analog is actually a pretty nice looking piece of hardware. Doesn't beat the MBW-150 in my opinion, but still pretty good considering all the capabilities it has. I'd have preferred something slightly thinner, and simpler buttons (i.e., without the black ring and maybe not sticking out so much), but all in all it doesn't look too bad. I'm used to large watches though.

I hope the issues are resolved - I know there are various people working on things but it's unclear at this point whether the issues with HTC phones (relating to BT stack?) will ever be resolved or if MW will require a certain adherence to BT protocols. I had problems with my MBW-150 and the Shift as well, so it may just be that you need the right phone; time will tell.
[General Accessories] gsgflash:
Has anyone else bought the MetaWatch(more specifically, the analog version)? And if so, what are your impressions of it?

I'm in the market for a new watch and I would love to have an analog smart watch, and the MetaWatch seems to be the only option for that, it's not that bad of an option lookswise. However, I've heard about some bluetooth connectivity and battery life issues and whatnot(such as with the user who posted the last post). There have been a few firmware updates since the last post of this thread, so I was wondering if anyone knows whether they fixed the majority(if not all) of these bluetooth and battery issues.
[General Accessories] JerryPi:
Hy i have already gotten my digital metawatch. I have updated it to the latest 0.8.2 beta software and using moded metawatch apps from their forum with aditional functionalities. I am pleased with the performance, the battery lasts about 3 days and most important connection with the phone is stable. I have a nexus s with 2.3.7, tested it also with 4.0.3. My previous smartwatch was sonyericsson liveview where the battery lasted only a day, and if i wanted to see the time i had to use my seccond hand to activate the display. But now i get all the k9 email, sms and call notifications plus i can se what the time is at a glance:-)
[General Accessories] hausman:
Where did you get beta 0.8.2 firmware? I'm not seeing any mention of it on the MW site or the forums.
[General Accessories] apac137:
Just received the Analog MetaWatch last night, and it's been working great so far. I haven't had any bluetooth connectivity issues (0.8.0 on the watch, connecting to an HTC Thunderbolt running CM7), but I can't speak to the battery life yet. There's talk on the MW forum of 0.8.2 fixing some battery bugs, but the linked firmware file is no longer available.
[General Accessories] JerryPi:
There was firmware linked on the discussion in their forums.
[General Accessories] Lulavc:
I wish i had one. Here in Brazil, this watch would cost at least 3 times its real price.
[General Accessories] albo23:
Can android connect with this?
[General Accessories] DarkShot666:
Android is the intended mobile OS to pair with the watch, so it sure is.
[General Accessories] benjymous:
Just thought I'd drop by in case people aren't aware of the MetaWatch forums and are still running the stock Android MetaWatch Manager app

Since I got my digital MetaWatch, I've been adding lots of new features to my version of the app:

http://blog.grapefruitopia.com/tagged/metawatch

Here's a brief overview of the additional stuff it has over the original stock app

Massively overhauled UI in the Android app

Customisable idle widgets on the watch

Weather geolocation (so you don't have to manually enter your location)

Improved SMS notifications that scroll, and stay open till you dismiss them

The ability to Share text from other android apps (e.g. Springpad) and display the text on your watch - useful for things like shopping lists

Vastly improved media control mode

Caller photos on the incoming call notification

Better integration with k-9 email

And lots of other tweaks and optimisations that should help the watch battery life loads

I'll also be releasing a new build soon, which has lots more stuff (including extra widgets - next calendar appointment, moon phase, phone battery level)
[General Accessories] benjymous:
It's on their github:

https://github.com/MetaWatchOpenProjects/MetaWatch-WDS11x-IAR/tree/master/ProgrammingFiles

Click the version you want, then use the Raw link to get the actual download.
[General Accessories] benjymous:
I've just released a new version which has masses of improvements and additions

http://blog.grapefruitopia.com/post/18720658788/metawatch-manager-rm11
[General Accessories] hausman:
Thanks - I pulled the MW out of storage to try it out and didn't see much of an improvement in battery life...I was able to get most of a day out of it instead of just a few hours, but it's still not usable in a real world setting like my SonyEricsson was (10 days typical usage between charges).
[General Accessories] benjymous:
What phone do you have? (and which MWM version are you using?)

Some phones' bt stacks really don't place nicely with the metawatch, which causes crazy battery drain, sadly. Also, the "stock" MWM from their site can be a bit battery hungry - I've added loads of optimisations to my version which tries to cut down on the amount of bt data it sends (e.g. when the idle screen updates, it only resends the bits of the screen that have changed, rather than the whole screen every time)

I think it's HTC and Motorola phones that seem to be the worst offenders (using the stock phone fw, anyway - I believe people have seen huge improvements after they've switched to Cynanogen.)
[General Accessories] hausman:
Sorry for the late reply. I used it with an HTC Evo Shift 4G and a Motorola Photon 4G. Same issue with both. FW was 0.8.2 and I was using Craig's latest MWM each time (I think I got up to 0.9 - whatever the version number was as of about a month ago).

I now have a Galaxy Note so I might try it again. But it's frustrating to pull the watch out, charge it overnight, and only get a few hours of battery life with it, in addition to all the weird bugs that I've seen, like corrupted notification text, having the watch lock itself and respond to nothing but a reset using the FETPro software - something I'm unlikely to have access to on the road - and things like that. Invariably after half a day the thing goes back in the box, and I'm halfway to listing it on Ebay when I get sentimental and think maybe someday it'll actually work the way my MBW-150 did. Or even half as well.