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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
yes

I don't know what this proves,but I see faint horizontal lines.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Nothing really, Just wanted to know if its normal for the SAMOLED HD to do this as the old SAMOLED and SAMOLED+ also had this on grey backgrounds and some shades of color.. Do you also notice it on some other colors?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredreve:
vidéo problem

I had another Note in exchange and I have no problem with the new. The rom is KJ4. Even the gradient of the calculator is perfect !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
Great to hear that, can you please tell me if your new phone's date of manufacture is October or November?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
How do i check that? And where do i find the manufacturer info?

---------- Post added at 08:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:17 PM ----------

Mine was built Friday Nov 11, 14:51
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
Thanks for confirming, do u see any horizontal lines or grey smudge marks or blemishes on grey color at 0% brightness in very low light or complete darkness or its all good. Just trying to figure out if only the initial batches had major problems and maybe Samsung improved upon something later on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I think thats normal for every SAMOLED based device, the Galaxy S1 and S2 had, even the Samsung Wave1 and Wave3 exhibits the same issue. The grey rendering is not as good as even on a cheap TN monitor and the visible horizontal lines are very obvious in certain shades of grey or other colors as well. I believe its a technology limitation for OLED or at least SAMOLED.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
If you read my previous posts, I have bought and returned 3 notes, and on my last note the lines were very evident, but in the other 2 I just couldn't see them, even in complete darkness and or grey color, just seems to be QC issues with Samsung. If your Nov batch phone also has it then I guess it's purely your luck when buying a Samsung product. Also I now feel its better to have long term satisfaction of lcd or s-lcd than short term thrills of super amoleds.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I havent seen a SAMOLED device yet that never had visible lines when rendering greys, you were pretty lucky to get 2 of those but then again it had other screen related problem. Samsung is still doing the panel lottery again because people accept things like this as "normal" hence samsung will just lower the quality control since people are accepting it. Altho I dont have major problems with my G-Note yet unlike the S2.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fredreve:
video problem

it's October !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
The grey is gray, but it looks more like paper :p It's not 100% solid if you know what i mean. This is only visible in the Market when it loads so apart from that the screen is very nice.

It has a slight green tint if i tilt the phone, but it's not noticeable if you don't know about it (thanks to this and other threads here i did notice it. Death to you all)

The blacks are deeeeep black and white is clear as snow. So overall i got no problems with the screen. :)

But where do i check where it's manufactured? Is it on the device itself or the box?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ankydu:
Its on a sticker on the box.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Hmm, doesn't say on my box.. Well! the mystery continues :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Do you have a galaxy S1 or S2 to compare the black levels?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Nope, but when i'm in a completely dark room with the Note and turn the lockscreen on (see the screenshot), i can't see the where the screen begins, and the "dark begins". It's black as night.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
Looking at this in a dark room, brightness set to the minimum, the blak is deep, but after a few seconds, I can see the limits of the screen. The black is way deeper than an lcd backlit tho.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
The screen on the note has good blacks but its not deeper compared to the S1 or S2, probably the note has about 40% of the blacks the S1/S2 has but is not a deal breaker, I just got used to not seeing any lit black from my S1 and S2.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xford:
Just to confirm what others see

I received a Galaxy Notes yesterday, and overall I loved it, great screen, still fit in pockets, etc, etc.. However, when the time came to play back some videos (after having done a lot of configuration unfortunately :-( ) it was clear after just a few seconds that something was wrong: In a scene set in a bar all the background looked almost as if it was inverted, and in lighter scenes anything black would be badly pixelated.

Did all the test that people in this thread have done, to no avail: change different display settings, switch between different media players, all show same problem (even the youtube player), and when compared with the Galaxy S 2 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 (both with much lower pixel density then the Note) the result was really shocking.

So back it goes, hope it gets sorted at some point...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Whats strange though if you do the Gamma Test image on the S2, you can only see #'s 11 to 20
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
This confirms that Samsungs pushed the gamma to the limit and lower grays (almost blacks) are too bright.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I have to say that the blacks on the Note are really brighter ( more lit ) than on the S2, this provides a little advantage though.. no crushed details with shadows. Hopefully a dev can modify this in the future.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Yup, it's still a software problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
We'll see

I was fed up so one hour ago I went to the shop and exchanged my Note.

So after charging and configuration I can confirm nothing changed , so either the two Notes I've got have the same display problem or they have the same software problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
Now that Supercurio joined the league, let's hope that this will be sorted out soon :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hobs0n:
Ey dear peeps! I just found this thread and i thought id ask some questions :)

Why does my Note have such lousy colors? It's like it's on 12bit colors or on a really old crappy lcd tv :/ its in everything, pics, websites, movies, wallpapers. May my Note be faulty?

I've only read through page 1 of this thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Continue reading, the answer is here.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dt33:
How about some pictures, that shows that it works perfectly on yours phone and can compare with others?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Datosss:
It is sad to disappoint you people, but I it is 90% for sure that this is hardware issue rather than minor software problem... Let me explain:

- I bought 2 Notes yesterday

- Both are for Germany

- Both have the same firmware (KKA, 2.3.6)

One is showing off early clipping on blacks in either program on the lowest backlight setting (gallery, youtube, opera, etc) and more over - it has strong greenish glow when you look at the screen filled with white at certain angles.

The other - is 99% free of such clipping and greenish glow with the same content (same pictures, movies, photos, etc). It is setup completely identical to the first phone.

It reminds me of the same issue that occurred with Galaxy TAB 7" screens - that were from different suppliers and had minor changes in matrix-production technologies. They also looked differently on two devices laying next to each other.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dt33:
Cant say if its hardware or software issues by that. Can be bad or good calibrated ones too from manufacture.

I looked at youtube sample for Galaxy Nexus and looks it having same problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGfCCtJc10Y

At around 48sek-50sek and at the end. Im trying to find that clip, to try on mine Note, but cant find same clip to try it out.

Galaxy Nexus using different hardware, but same SAMOLED HD screen as Note. So if its hardware related, then its the screen or bad calibrated from manufacture.

I only watch streaming videos at very low bitrates, it looks very good at light scenes and very bad at dark scenes sometimes, same as it been said here.

Also I watch NHL LIVE streams every night, with NHL Gamecenter app, that streams at 640kbits and the "white ice" have alot of "bandings", showing it in different colors. :(

Dont have this problem in mine HTC Desire.

Hopes someone will get an answer to this and if can be fixed or not.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Datosss:
Again, for those who didn't get it:

If I have 2 same phones with the SAME firmware, same settings and same content and they show different colors - it means that this problem cannot be fixed with software update or newer firmware because the low-profile binary for the LCD controller that might be poorly calibrated is not included in the firmware. Such binary is already factory preloaded... and in order to change anything in it - either there should be special binary update through some program (same as it has happened with Camera firmware update for Galaxy S2) or it could be fixed only by service people.

But all of stated above works only if the problem is not a hardware issue... for example - poor controllers or just different suppliers... And I am 90% sure that it's really so... How you can explain significantly different level of greenish tilt on two phones which is mostly a prerogative of hardware technology physics rather than software driver...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Maybe you can take pictures so we can get a glimpse?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dt33:
One way to try it, if someone have MHL cable that working connected to LCD TV or Plasma TV. Play a video file and see if any different, if it looks like crap on the Note and no problem on LCD TV. Then we know if its hardware or software or whatever problem its.

Anyone that can try it?

I remember someone had same problem, dark scenes looks crap on the phone but not on LCD TV connected with MHL cable. But I cant remember what phone it was.

edit:

I used the AllShare to stream videos frpm phone to mine PC and all videos looks perfect on pc with Media Player 12. So does this means the phone have faulty screen/hardware or what?

Is the phone doing all decoding/codecs when streams media to PC?

Here is a video to test the black problem: (from supercurio tweets) http://www.multiupload.com/P9F6BYX3CK
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elenkis:
I have a different video problem that I've not seen mentioned.

In the "lightness & stillness" Samsung video that comes with the device, in the section with water bubbles and white background that begins at around 00:15 I get a pulsating/flashing halo effect in the white background, most noticable at about 00:20. Does anyone else get the same thing?

I've seen it a couple of other times in videos with white backgrounds.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Yes its pulsing, I wonder why recorded reviews on youtube dont show it pulsing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seepage:
Funny. I never noticed that before.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Probably the same reason why others cant tell the screen is displaying black or turned off :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
Latest Update

Hello ,

I sometimes can be resilliant in trying to find a solution.

So first you have to know that I'm surelly not a technician and that I heard for the first time of banding, gamma video and so on on this forum. But I did have owned a lot of smartphones ( my count until today is 23 ) and the fact is that a long time ago I also had problems with pixelated video , but at that time the cpu were slower than 500 mhz , could it be that out Notes can't cope with the video because his cpu is not powerfull enough ?

Secondly I never had a problem with color banding ( XDA developers start screen for instance ) not on my first Note not on my second osne.On the other hand blacks are pixelated and poorely rendered in pictures and video , especially noticable under dark viewing conditions , and then it's realy annoying , especially for a phone of this price.

So this morning I went back to shop where I already exchanged my fist Note and asked some explanations and did some testing.

The explanations : The fist Note had come back from Samsung Belgium with following remarks " They could not find any default and if there was any it was well within the range of quality control Samsung could provide " , so what the .... and what is sure now is that Samsung Belgium won't be able to find a solution or even will try .The technician at the shop did see the problem but is convinced that it is a specification of the amoled screen ( he would not call it a problem !!!!) . When I ask him if that was the case how could he explain to me why The Nexus Galaxy or the Galaxy II or even the HTC Desire first generation with amoled screen did not have that kind of specification (?) he could not answer me and I clearly viewed that I was irritating him.

The testing : At the shop we tried to look at video and pictures with the problem of black rendering on my Note , on my first Note that was returned on a Note that was in the showroom and on a fourth one . On all the phones we could notice the same grey halo and pixelations.

Conclusion : I can't make any . It is possible that the 4 tested phones had the same fhardware defect , not likely tough.

It is possible that it is a software problem that can be adressed by some genius or by Samsung themself but I would not count to much on the last one.

Or it is a combination of hardware ( big amoled screen , cpu and pentile matrix ) and software (16 bits rendering pictures and video software).

Who knows ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Datosss:
First of all, following my past message (having halos on 1 Note and not having it on another):

Today, I've been to the shop where I bought mine. I asked sellers to give me 5 pieces and all of them were for Polish market. I took the Note of my friend that didn't have any problems with screen as a masterpiece for checking.

I've tried all 5 of those new Notes and only ONE had perfect screen that matched my masterpiece. All the rest had halos and gray instead of black on the same picture. (Despite the fact that all pieces were from the same shipment and for the same market)...

Finally, I took this perfect one :-) But later, when I have done all setup, rooting, firmware upgrade (up to 2.3.6 KKA) - I have noticed another HORRIBLE sh...t with my new screen - sometimes (trying to figure it out right now) and in some circumstances (probably only at lowest brightness setting) I can see how white|gray suddenly changes a bit to green.... and back again to gray|white. It is mostly seen when you pull down notification panel and look at it for a minute. The pattern of tint change from green to gray goes like for a 5 seconds each 5-10 seconds. And it is noticeable. Especially when you read the web page that is evenly lit with the light color. It distracts a lot from reading... Like your eyes suddenly find an obstacle and jump over it and all because of slight change in gray point tint.

Does anybody see the same sh..t happenin'?

Moreover, it seems that the effect is gone while charging....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I've seen that happen on the demo unit from the store, I sent a copy of the gamma test image and some of the blocks become green, but they go away after a few seconds.. never happened on minewhich is KK9, store formware is KK1.

EDIT:

View at 720 or 1080 this is the opening cimematic of D3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nas1rJpm7wY

The shadows are horrible!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ym901s:
For goodness sake this is just a phone ... return it and have your money back ... no point wasting your life over some imperfection :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] supercurio:
LOL its a bit... massive for "just a phone" :)

By that I mean screen quality is much more important because it's born to be a media player.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
Its really poor rendering of the blacks, and its unusable for me this way.

Just look at this picture in the gallery...its quite embarrassing.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I cant get a refund because of this :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
What do you mean? Should i check out that image in the gallery on my phone? I just did it, and it looks just fine. How does it look like on yours?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
I made some new pics with explanation:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
@MartijnMM

Thats what I've observed, the black levels are not as deep as the Galaxy S1 or S2, I've made a thread about it and its the same thing what people observed, just yesterday a store owner friend of mine also confirmed it after checking out 3 of his stocks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
Then again, it wouldn't be a problem for me if i could

find a way to recode video so it won't show.

Like this one:

http://www.box.com/s/tbcf1tzup5cuzt281fjl
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Poor performance of the Note during video playback

IMHO The problem discussed in this thread is definetly due to the device itself. It is not due the specifics of the particular video files and not due to the Apps used for their playback, as some have suggested. The only question, again IMHO, is about either it's due to the hardware itself or the low level software used to drive that hardware. I hope it's the latter.

To convince yourself, I suggest you play the stock demo video which came with the Note... several times. Just don't look at the bubbles, baloons, orange or kiwi slices, and paper people... But look at the backgrounds. If this does not convince you then hook up your Note to a dicent HD TV via MHL adapter and compare...

If that still doesn't convince you then download a dozen of HD demos by Sony, Samsung, Sharp etc and play them on the Note, comparing to the playback on TV if needed.

Now, for the most part the Note shows great picture, but if you look for dark and bright moments/parts of the videos, I think you'll see the broken darks, the fringed bright whites etc on the Note's screen while the TV will show the brilliant high quality video played back at the same time.

Just my two cents...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seepage:
How silly do you feel now?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SrAdama:
Damn... didn't notice that until you mentioned it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blitzy78:
this problem is getting quite serious...i just bought GTAIII from android market and the beginning cut scene is almost unwatchable due to the "bad compression pixelation" of black and dark scene....major sigh...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dt33:
Here is a wireless streaming app iMediaShare: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bianor.ams&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmJpYW5vci5hbXMiXQ..

Use it to stream videos to computer/TV using DLNA and see for u self. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Looks good on my device..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blitzy78:
no dark pixelation issues mentioned in this thread at all?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
That's what you always tell, but i have a hard time believing you.

If you are right, i have a big problem with my device, because then its

less likely that it is a software problem.

I would like to look at you device so badly, but i'm from the Netherlands :-(

Maybe your device has a lower gamma setting then mine, that would even-out

the blending of the dark tones.

If i could only find an app that can adjust the gamma curve for your whole phone.
[Epic 4G General] blackdragon79:
I'm having a major problem with this app. Its starting to divide my albums in up into two. Example it would now take like 6 songs of a album making it into one even though the album have the same artist tag for every song. I tried taking all the music off my sd card and putting it back but it still do the samething. I tried clearing the media store cache that didn't work either I also checked to see if the app was store on my sc card which is not. So what do I do now to fix this problem. This is also happening with my default player as well. I could download another player but I prefer to use this one plus I paid for this already. I tried contacting the app developer but the never respond. So I'm wondering if anyone here could help me out. I tried to cover every possible fix on my end but I don't know what to do now.

Blackdragon79
[Wildfire General] Ankurcul:
iam planning to buy a new mobile and ya it will be htc...

i have two option:-

1.htc rhyme

2.htc radar

3.htc titan

so which will be a good one and there development will be continued???

should i stick to android or switchover to windows 7.5???
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
If you are looking for development, then look at the Incredible S / Desire S rather than the Rhyme. IMO, it won't pick up as much as the other 2 I listed, and development will not be that much (Eg - Check Salsa / Wildfire S, Practically Zero Dev, and Rhyme doesn't have a section of it's own yet). As for WP, I have no idea honestly. Your best bet is to visit some of the WP7 devices and check for the level of development on their respective fora.
[Wildfire General] Slymobi:
Well you can't go for 3. Because you already said you have 2 options.

Sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sent from my emmaroid infected wilderbeast
[Wildfire General] Lesicnik1:
Personaly, I don't like WP, because it's restrictive(Not as bad as iOS, but still enough), I mean to get files on it you need to use Microsoft's Zune software (iTunes anyone?)
[Wildfire General] Ankurcul:
sorry slymobi...now i have 3 options...
[Wildfire General] Slymobi:
Lol its ok.

sent from my emmaroid infected wilderbeast
[Wildfire General] Ankurcul:
give me some idea guys!!!
[Wildfire General] 3xeno:
You were already told that if development is a priority, then stick with Android, and avoid the Rhyme. If you need more specifics, your queries have to be more specific.

Anyways, read this thread for differences between WP7 and Android:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=660782

And check the HD7 WP Development Zone, among the most popular zones for WP Devices, you can't expect a vast variety of Custom ROMs/kernels like you do with Android:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=783
[Wildfire General] Ankurcul:
Thanx for reply everyone....I was looking for incredible s by I didn't like it much how about desire HD,sensation and evo 3d