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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afhum:
Oh I see. That I didn't know. But I think if u play a 1920x1040 video, I hardly see any clipping and etc. To me it looked perfect. I was watching Despicable Me btw and still makes me laugh :D

But yeah I was impressed that this 1280x800 resolution phone can play a 1920x1040 movie. The 1st phone (that I know) that can play such resolution. Gotta try it ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Since you are using a different content to test with then your results will vary from ours.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afhum:
But yeah I do get ugly black clippings when watching some youtube videos for example.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Then any plan on getting another phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Another galaxy note in the future? Probably not. Galaxy Note 2 maybe.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
Sorry for the off-topic but:

Before you returned it, how did you restore it to original state and the right firmware, without getting the triangle (flash count)?

Mobile Odin?

I am messing a lot with my Note disregarding all my plans to go easy on the modding and patiently wait for that ICS upgrade....

It is almost about time I perform a fresh firmware install :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I've never gotten the yellow triangle because I never flashed anything with Odin aside from official firmwares and modems, I just restored it with the base firmware it came "DXKJ3" and used Kies to update it to "DXLA1" and returned the device.

I havent used Mobile Odin on my Note yet been using CWM-Mod or the RevoNote Kitchen App to flash kernels.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Yes.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1455465
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TML1504:
just noticed something when playing around with different DPI settings:

320 DPI setting has much more "banding" in some apps then 240 DPI, for example in "brilliant quote": with 320 it has medium banding in the background, with 240 almost no banding visible!

this leads to the assumed conclusion that banding is really only a software issue, and should be fixable! :)

another maybe interessting fact: the real hardware DPI of our screen is 318*307, and not a plain 320 as most of us believe... ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
Man ...these news are so...OLD

This thread is starting new cycles all the time :D :
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Email from Samsung

Not sure if anybody has mentioned about contacting Samsung before but I emailed Samsung regarding this thread, and about the screen issues on many posts. I did this when I placed an order for my Note and found this thread after, so I was worried that I was going to get the same issues on mine.

I got an email back:

When I got my Note, I didn't notice any issue with my screen. I checked with the screen test apps, so perhaps there was a batch issue with the Note.

Hopes this helps with anybody purchasing the Galaxy Note.

Regards

Ryan_G
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TML1504:
you have

.) no banding

.) no black level clipping (did you do the gammatest??)

.) no unevenness (darker and lighter spots, sides or stripes esp. with grey backgrounds)

.) no tinting or tinting only on one side ("darker" side of the screen)

are you sure?

:p

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sorry, but i didn't found info on different effect on different DPI nor that our screen has NOT 320 DPI hardware-wise...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
Well I returned my Note..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Yes truefully no banding,

not sure what you mean by black level clipping,

no uneveness (tested it at both lowest brightness and highest) especially on grey (not tried all the shades of greyness)

and no tinting on the sides.

I remember on my SG2 I noticed smudges when it displayed grey so that was why I had initial worries about the Note having similar issues but it is all good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Reference please? :-)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Clipping means this

Check out the iron man video, see if it's the same as shown in the picture on your device.

Another thing to my concern is this. See if you have these nasty lines in Screen Test app and maybe even Google Homepage.

If none of these above, I'd like to know where you got your galaxy note and maybe even pay a good amount of commission to you for importing me one:p

p.s., aside from these issues, banding is not a big concern to me, because i think there's a least a good 50% of chance that it can be solved software-wise. I can also treat those halo in the calculator as a rainbow ;p. BUT, I'm pretty sure the visible lines on the screen can't be solved whatsoever, like Earlz said, it's QC fail.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
All Galxaxy Note's have banding, just look at angry birds start up screen compared to the ones on the Nexus.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Yeah I did the test on that too.

It's not what we all have that scares me, it's what mine (or some of us) has while others' don't that scares me, which is an indicator of hardware issue I think.

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I sincerely hope that this rep is telling the truth instead of playing customer service tricks with us...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Anyone who says that they have no banding does not know what banding is. This is a fact.

Banding is a software issue and is independent of the other screen issues that might be hardware related.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
Dam so all Notes have this issue?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
@pachi72

So far yes, unless your gammatest shows similar to the S2. I havent seen anyone else post images to disprove it yet.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
Dam now I am stuck on ordering another Note.. Gonna have to swallow the Att Note when it comes out here.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
It could be possible that the ATT galaxy note might use a different gamma profile.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onetonnoodle:
@pachi

Black banding/clipping is indeed on almost every note, BUT you shouldn't worry too much since it's fixable through software.

I have probably one of the worst black banding on my note and it looks similar to the screenshots above on videos with dark scenes such as that iron man clip, but after applying supercurio's Beta version of his gamma correction app, results were astoundingly relieving. I no longer see those hideous blocks/gray artifacts that I used to see. It's not yet perfect, but it's almost as good as perfect.

I'd say, you only have to worry about your screen if it has obvious tingy blotches, or persistent vertical/horizontal bands, which by the way are somehow rare and can easily be accounted for a replacement once detected.

HTH on your decision :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
OMG. My note shows much better image than this!! I have some black cliping in the darkest images, but I don t have those rainbow colors!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
The Wtf is Samsung taking long to fix the problem?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Because there is no fix, I believe not enough people are reporting this issue for samsung to even bother looking at this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
And that's why Apple always win fixing customer problems.. If it was iPhone problems would of been fixed in a week.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Why this issue slipped past product testing is beyond me, speaking of apple they even accepted phone replacements on those initial batches that had glue issue on the screen and considering it dries out in 2-3 days and it was barely noticeable unless you looked for it. Lets not turn this into a comparison thread. My stand is, waiting for a fix on this in a timely manner might be fruitless.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Silly me, so banding and clipping is the same thing and terms can be used interchangeably?

Not when they merely released a firmware update to hide the faulty design of antenna on iPhone 4... I think that was the dumbest thing a company can do, which is to treat its customers like a 5-year-old child.

"Oh, my phone is dropping calls and call quality became crap, yet it still displays 5 shiny bars! AT&T is garbage!"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahidhussain:
Did anybody try some other ROM??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Pretty much... at least according to the way most people use it here, I think.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aditya_reds:
Well, i am looking to get the SGN for myself may be in a months time, after going through this thread i believe the banding and clipping issue is still not fixed..

I wanted to know is this issue just for certain apps specially with regards to what i saw with the xda app or calculator or is it for every app that we see images are banding? so for eg: i might see the banding issue when i launch the xda app but when i launch a facebook or twitter app banding might not come...

I hope u get the question that i am trying to ask..

With ICS update right around the corner, officially coming from Samsung, i am hoping they would have fixed this issue if they really care, specially considering its a software based issue and not a hardware one..

Regardless, i think i might still get this SGN as it is one of the best devices out there, yes the problems are there and as for now its not going anywhere but hopefully with ICS it might just make things better..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
This reply is all crap. I got my 6th replacement note from the Jan 2012 batch and it still has those lines and also reddish top. That reply is just to fool unsuspecting customers. :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Ive tested with the iron man movie and i have the same colour/clipping issues, but I can confirm again that I have no lines on my screen just a solid colour. If it helps ive checked when my Note was on the production line which was December 2011. It will be interesting if anybody else can check their production date and see if they have the line issues on anything beyond the December period to see if it is really a early batch problem. You can check by going on Sammobile and entering your serial number http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Generalblight:
Noob Alert!

Whilst checking the difference between the oled of my old desire(not slcd) and that of my new galaxy note, i noticed that when viewing the gamma test in htc gallery the gamma test had perfect graduation from 20 to 0 (absolute pure black) however when using the native android gallery(gingerbread) on my desire the separation was awful and could only read to 8 and on my note it was no separation(all flat grey) but could be read to 2. would to indicate that htc have coded the app/software better for oled?

i also noticed when searching google images, in desktop mode, using different browsers (samsung vs dolphin hd) when zooming in and out etc,of various gamma test images, the same image would look different on each browser... got to be software related surely?

sorry xda rules forbid me to upload the images until ive posted 8 times
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Man, please keep in mind that when you quote my post, the quote in my post doesn't get quoted in your post, so it looks like you're actually saying my "reply is all crap", which kinda hurts the feeling:p

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Mine returned the following results:

Production month: October 2011

Factory Warranty till: 31-12-2013

And mine has massive lines that I could not stand. Wondering if I should buy from another seller.

Also, just noticed that the black clipping issue also affect my pics taken at night. :Mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
The black clipping affects everything on the screen output even games :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Get Samsung to replace it with a new batch, when i emailed them they said they will exchange the device if I had any problem with the screen on my Note. They confirmed them self that there is screen issues on some of the batches. It seems maybe anything after the December 2011 batch may not have any of the screen issues, if anybody else can also confirm this by checking their devices and their production month.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
The black clipping is only on your phone. It doesn't mean the image you took with the phone actually has the clipping.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
For checking the date of mfg. u can check it on a side sticker on the box. and like I said mine is from the Jan 2012 batch and it still has those lines.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
I think it's more location specific than date-specific.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Generalblight:
Had a quick look at the galaxy live wallpaper on a customers note today and there was no banding issues.. Mines brand new. Here's is 2 months old?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot1000:
Just checked mine and got...

Production month: February 2000

Factory Warranty till: 30-04-2002

:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Just had a thought has anybody tried installing Sony Bravia Engine mod for the S2 on the Note to see if it fixes the clipping/banding issue? I think you need your note rooted and to have CWM to install the zip.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tintin1042:
look at this video h**p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRYZ5TpP18

dark colors are playing ok!!!!:confused::confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Video needs to be shot in the dark to be very conclusive.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrl0n3ly714:
Hey guy,

my note is white bought from HongKong ( i think white is only avaialbe to Hong Kong)

i check the service and its :

Serial number: RDTBC27119D

Production month: December 2011

Factory Warranty till: 28-02-2014

i also check on the screen issues and i do noticed that.

Factory Warranty until 2014. Can i be able to return and get a new one in new batch ? And who should i contact about it ? HK samsung service or USA samssung service ?

Can i also get any confirmation about new batch from Samsung fixed the screen issue ? or its just randomize batch
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
It needs to be at 0% brightness. That is running definitely not 0% brightness.

The higher the brightness, the better it is at masking the black clipping.

Besides, with the constant wobbly camera, it means very little.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Actually the brightness doesnt matter too much, its the ambient light that matters more.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orificium:
I also got something like that:

Production month: January 2000

Factory Warranty till: 31-03-2002

Definitely considering exchanging mine now. Will bring this up on my call to expansys-usa.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Dang, i still enjoy the theme and story setup of the Avatar ;p

I'm in USA unfortunately :( Samsung USA can't find the IMEI so they can't do anything about it. This is why i get it from Amazon, and if I find the issue with the screen, I return it and get a new one. This can't last long though. A member warned me that Amazon may put me into blacklist if I constantly do this return and repurchase.

My box doesn't have anything stating Mfg date. Could only check thru S/N.

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Ye, the pic itself is good. I meant when viewing it in the Gallery there's nasty clippings.

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I decided to eat the clipping issue in hope that it can be addressed by software. But at least I'm gonna find a device that has minimum visible lines under grey color.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
You probably entered the IMEI number and not the 10 digit serial number...

Ditto
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orificium:
Can't believe you made me power down, take my case off, remove the back cover/battery and check again. :) I double/triple/quadruple checked - definitely entering the S/N (as indicated under the battery). IMEI is more than 12 digits and doesn't have letters in it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Well, I guess then it just doesn't recognize your serial number, because it looks like it reports some random default results, something it generates in case the number makes no sense to it or something like that...

For example

1234567890

Serial number: 1234567890

Production month: May 2000

Factory Warranty till: 31-07-2002

or

dummynumber

Serial number: DUMMYNUMBER

Production month: December 2006

Factory Warranty till: 28-02-2009

or

gggggggggggggggg

Serial number: GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Production month: December 1999

Factory Warranty till: 28-02-2002

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Ye, yours might be too new for the data base to have your S/N stored. Think it positively, it might be produced in Feb 12 or something lol:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robot1000:
You may be right, as when I ordered it last week, I had to wait around 5 days until they received new stock from their suppliers
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mishans:
bending and cliping in this Asphalt 6 HD test video also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5iXdhGtECo&feature=related

especially in the 15s and 1:12min
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
Damn ...now I have to install that huge game on my Note to test it myself...:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mishans:
:)

Install and confirm.

I confirm, problem is visible on my Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] betoNL:
TIP

Sorry if it's old news, but...did you guys try THIS:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1465468

I read it's solving even black clipping on those tough videos.....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I've tried that before, it doesnt really solve anything. It brightens up the blacks instead.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
I am gonna wait a month or 2 until they fix their issues.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stargator:
Me too , I am going to wait until atleast they release ICS as well for the Note and then decide,

but every time I see the note in Phone Shops my hand goes to my wallet and I have to control myself..

Let me see how much longer I can hold my self back :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pachi72:
Nevermimd I just ordered a white 32gb Galaxy Note. Well at least I got in touch with Samsung UK.. They will fix any issues with mine if I get one with a bad screen..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrl0n3ly714:
why is all of your factory warrannty is end in 2012 ? my is 2014 ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
Hm, now my new GNote just came in, and from that SamMobile's page, I got the same thing: Production month: January 2000 Factory Warranty till: 31-03-2002

My old GNote has a production date of October 2011, and the production date of its battery is also 2011-10-10, so now my new GNote's batt has production date of 2011-12-20, I'd assume that this new phone is also produced in Dec 2011 :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Most probably, I dont know why samsung removed the production date from the box sticker or at the battery compartment, my Note had it but the newer ones dont.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
my friend took his note to samsung service, after three weeks he got answered that it is impossible to fix and they gave back money for note :) btw im using chinese leak, no color banding with calculator but with videos still it exists.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryan_G:
Have you got any lines on a grey background, because I havent got any lines and my Note was produced in December 2011.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Does anyone know what causes an OLED screen to flicker, I saw this happen when displaying the green color on the LCD-test menu, rebooting or performing a factory reset didnt really help, they look like very thin lines that like 'phase in and out' at a very fast yet visible rate. I assume they are called flickering.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
I would say they exists, but at the minimum level. When compared to my old Note, they are non-existent. IDK, it might even be a psychological suggestion by myself;)

And now looking at it again in browser's google homepage, no it does not exist!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liondroid:
my note have dark lines in grey backgrounds.

does it related to hardware or some thing related to software??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Hardware. But it seems to vary quite a bit among different screens, so if it really bothers you, try to find a device where this manufacturing artifact is nominal...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Why not?

Here is mine, e.g.

Production month: October 2011

Factory Warranty till: 31-12-2013
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
Production month: December 2011

Factory Warranty till: 28-02-2014

and i got video black color blocks. Not so high visual but still it annoys :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afhum:
This may be out of topic but can be linked to. We got a Samsung Smart TV and it also has those black clippings when playing some vids. Maybe with HD Super Amoled "Plus", it would be the solution once and for all. I now have a burn-in on the status bar (status bar hidden) as well on my Note just like on my previous SGS2. I am starting to accept all of its flaws for now until a new Note comes out (N-7100?? :D) but if only I would able to get it one day, lol.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkey Slut:
This is my first post on this forum so i want to say hello :D

Now back to the topic. I have found solution which removes blocky pixels in about 80% for me, when the movie is playing they arent so visible, i have tested on 1 video titled rusty nails by moderat, previously blocky pixels were awful. im using dynamic type of the screen and mx video player with 16 bits not 32 (!!) and s/w decoder, my rom is rocket rom.i will check this configuration on more videos.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rom08:
Works for me too but i use standard video mod.