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

Hello all ,

Today I put some time in finding HD Video in 1080p and 720p. Some of them mkv ,mp4 or mov.I reencoded them all to mp4 files with a bitrate of 15000 bk.

Except of the known audio problem with some mkv files , I didn't notice any flaw in the video nor with the stock player , mx player , act video or rockplayer.

In fact the result was pretty spectacular with very crisp rendering.

So this poses I think two big problems :

1/those kind of files are massive ( between 1.5 to 3 gb for an hour of film ).

2/You will not find easily playable movies.

So i probably will cope with the not perfect image to see all my favorite tv series and keep on my sd card some 1080p video to impress my friends.

I've read that 64sdx cards could be compatible with our GNOTE , can someone confirm this and where can we find them ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
I've got one in mine, it's perfect. Info here.

You can only get them from Sandisk online stores directly as far as I'm aware (although I've not checked in a while).

Glad to see you have confirmed my assertion that video playback is fine with good enough source material.

In the shots you provide the Note is preserving a lot more detail than the two beneath it - thats part of the reason the blacks look deeper in the other two - black is just replacing detail (check the lapels in that guys jacket for example).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seepage:
Thanks for your help.

I have good news. I have found a device which plays these poor quality files flawlessly. It is called, Everything I have tried other than my Galaxy Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballfire:
more samples

here s2 vs note : the river why movie 720p video .2.15gb file.bit rate 2500kbps, h264, high@L4.1. time : 1:30:25

the blockyness, tearing, pixellation is horrendous in low light areas. in other bright areas video is fine.

here is a screenshot from my pc to compare

for people blasting about bitrates. what bitrate is adequate to avoid this ? the movie is 1hr:44 in this case and is 2.15gb in size. with a rate of 2500kbps.

which is fine imo as it displays great already on any other device BUT the note. higher bitrates will most likely hit the 4gb file limitation on the device and would require the media to be recoded or split to 4gb limit which is way too time consuming.

went to test the same scene above but this time with the note hooked to the samsung mhl cable to my 55in tv. the image is actually displayed correctly on the tv, but glancing over to phone it is not. so definitely a note display problem

if anyone wants to test their note, look for the file with x264 mxmg ;). and fast forward to my time stamp from above as the movie was boring

i just want to chuck files on here and get it displayed decently. hopefully there is a software fix to this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockysiccion:
guys i have same problem too.

i have download the dc universe online trailer 6:10 min via tubemate 720p

and the note have a pixel screen when playing the 1st part.

it is suppose to be smoke and fire. but it was like box on top of each other.

i have replace my note after 3 days. still have the same problem.

hope it just need software update because i cant let go of my note.

here is other treads that i read with problems on screen

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19290078
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
bitrate vs sensor

Reading the tread mentioned above , it seems that the blacks aren't displayed properly not only in the videos . This is most noticable in a dark environement and with light sensor set on automatic.It seems also to be a generic problem that could eventually only be fixed by a software update .

I don't know and even I'm not sure this is the same problem I encountered with the Black Pixelation but tonight I will try it out and post my remarks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xaddict:
Well you're probably right.

To my knowledge, there are few devices with 24bit displays.

Everything else will therefore play crap and make it look relatively good,

but won't play good quality video and make it look excellent.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koniakki:
I believe that it probably needs some codec/hardware optimizations.

If anyone else can elaborate more on this please I would love to know also about this.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
Looks like a gamma problem to me, try the "Screen Filter" app.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
Back after testing.

I've tried Screen Filter but it didn't help.

I've found a trailer with a lot of dark scenes in 1080 p quality and encoded it with a lot of different bitrates going form 600 kb up to 15000 kb.

And then watched them in different places with a lot of light to very dark , also looked at them with auto brightness on and off.

And what is a constant in every kind of scenario low or high bitrate , auto brightness on or off " Blacks are awfully greish/pink in poor light condition and even worse in complete darkness". Blacks seem ok even with a very low bitrate ( from 750 on ) in decent light condition .

So now we have to find if it is a hardware ( poor assembling of the screen ) or a software problem . Hopefully the last one so that it can be adressed with an update or eventually a custom ROM.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazzi76:
Guys/Girls it's one of 2 things...!

- Gamma settings (possible)

or

- 16bit non-dithered rendering of a 24bit image (most likely)

see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1350695

The link above proves that full 24bit colour is possible on the note screen.

I am positive this will be resolved with a software update.

It's also possible we may be able to fixit by having a look at the system files build.prop, et al and comparing to gs2 system files...

Either way something is very awry about the rendering...

BUT - this imho means there is no point in sending the the notes back to where you bought them as the replacement will have the same issue.

On another note - if news of this reaches places like engadget, theregister, reddit etc Sammy may make an update available to address it quickly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noteworthy:
Let's not get carried away.I agree the display has issues but most phones are not as bad as Earl's and most people don't watch dark movies in a dark room as the primary use for the phone.

The display is great for general use and websurfing.Even when watching videos,most play fine 99% of the time if they don't feature a lot of dark scenes with shadows,so it's not like the issue is in your face 50% of the time.

If you do get a really bad one,I am sure Samsung will replace or refund you and there is always hope that an update or an app will fix the problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
Although I agree somewhat but I like to believe if I paid for a top line phone that claims to be hd I expect that. But your saying is similar to if I buy a car (that can't turn properly) its ok because 99% of the road is straight so its ok but lets not hope and turn comes ahead. I didn't buy this just for phone calls or i could have paid £10.99 for one. I bought a multimedia smartphone but falls short on quality.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I like to believe that most will not have very same horrible results that I have since others have proven it with pictures but the last 6 brand new phones I've seen exhibit the very same issue as mine, so your statistics don't match up with my experience. If it gets fixed by samsung then that's great news but I won't sit by and wait for it to happen it makes the device unsuable for me and I'm tired of the screen lottery.. with a refund I have the option to get another device or repurchase later on if it gets fixed.

EDIT: But I agree that most people wont watch movies, Im sure 99.95% of the Note users dont even know the phone can play a movie.. and my some of the youtube video's also suffer from this screen.. I've been watching a lot of mine craft vids and when the game time is at night, the clipping happens :( and yes the issue is not in my face 50% of the time.. its more like 95% of the time.. fade out transitions are affected, my black and white images are ugly. Previous screen only affected movies.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
I doubt they will fix this issues when ICS releases unless "we all" bring it to the company's awareness. i wouldn't bother repurchasing, :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Knowing the nexus suffers the same issue also tells me that it wont get fixed until its given the correct exposure.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
Exactly, and that proves everything, Nexus and Note are almost the same resolution. Given that the Nexus Display fails with ICS doesn't give the slightest hope for the Note. Face it, the Note deserves to be recycled. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejoya:
I improving the black clipping and pixelating effect by using sstuner in movie mode then put sharpness to max
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labuharry:
what troubles me is..someone reply my in local forum said that not all GN user have this issue and suggest me to send to samsung center to repair while still under warranty and that's what i do atm. the weirdest thing is until now i cant see any GN with the issue uploaded on youtube. :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejoya:
sorry.. but from testing it only improved when I used movie mode.. sstuner didn't help
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Yes not all, those who are lucky enough to get a screen with the proper gamma curve dont suffer this issue, those screens are quite rare based on XDA posts.. I've only seen 2 so far 1 here and 1 in a local forum.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
True to that, I haven't seen a single Indian Galaxy Note without this issue, :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tintin1042:
same here.i have used 8 Gnote and not a single one is free from this issue.:(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martcerv:
My screen does suffer from the black levels issue but apart from that it doesnt have any other issues.

Here is a video test i made showing how it plays back my own captured videos in multiple resolutions up to 20,000kbps

This was filmed in minimum brightnes as the camera used didnt work great with the brighter screen levels

[YOUTUBE]VB3WhB_Hb8Q&[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkc120:
No offense, but that's not even remotely close to a dark room, and why are you comparing videos of something with a bunch of bright/vibrant (non-dark/non-black) colors?

Can you repeat this experiment for a dark video in a darker room (not sure how possible that is with a camcorder, honestly)? I appreciate your time in doing this, but wish you would have picked the proper environmental conditions and the proper kind of movie (dark/black). Or were you trying to show that your video doesn't have the nasty bad gamma?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martcerv:
No offence taken this video wasnt made particularly for this thread, it was more to show video performance playing back the gopro raw files.

As the thread is titled video on note i thought id post this here. To show how it can play hd high bitrate videos and even plays 120fps even though this is the only mode thats not smooth.

I did try filming in the dark but my camera didnt work too great in those conditions with even at min brightness the light was all blown out and it just didnt show too much detail due to this. I would need a better camera that works much better in those conditions to repeat this test in the dark.

One thing I notice playing back my own recorded videos, there is no real banding noticed in the colours as its not as highly compressed as most videos downloaded off the net. More compression equals detail lost so it will always reduce the video quality, the camera itself does compress to h264 mp4 format but in a way that keeps as much detail as possible.

There is no black issues with these videos either but as the camera isnt the best camera to be used in the dark i dont shoot very dark scenes with it. Shooting a black object seems to have very different results to shooting in low light so black objects in my videos are fine.

Most cameras dont do very well in the dark and black sections in in low light will more likely just be noise, whereas shooting something black in good light is a completely different.

The note does have obvious gamma issues but add this to issues cameras have shooting in the dark capturing the original image, whose faults may be more exposed with oled technology's ability to show low light better then lcd which will hide more of these capture issues.

When you view the samsung demo video the reason it may be so good is that it is either captured with a great camera such as a red epic. Which works very well in dark conditions or there may just be some computer rendered videos that dont suffer from video camera dark capture issues at all.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fabu09:
Okay so I didn't really read through the entire list but invade people have no said yet, yesterday I was watching a video on my phone and like what many people say the black part sometimes are dark greenish to gray and pixelated sometimes, and what I realsied yesterday is that this partly because of the brightness, so I increased the brightness (in the video options while your plying your video) and it did improve tremondously but some things were still gray-ish, maybe its my eyes but it did improve a lot when I increased the brightness but of course there are downsides, drains battery faster and bad for your eye sight if your watching in the dark which when I usually watch before going to bed

So I don't think its fixable but if it is I hope Samsung looks into it but until then we just gotta adjust to it and know that its not a faulty screen or anything like that

#WAITING4ICS

Composed on my Samsung Galaxy Note using XDA Premium app
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labuharry:
just got my GN back from samsung centre...the screen problem still there. looks like its software setting problem :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
i think the problem is only apparent on mkvs. on my mp4 videos the black blocks are hardly noticeable.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labuharry:
please upload a sample short movies of mp4 as u mention
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
It would be nice if you can upload a sample of the same vids with MKV and MP4 format so we can compare.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
mkv, avi, mp4 same problem (tested), here i converted your attached mkv video sample to mp4 for a 1280x720 resolution.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwar4k6wd79www0
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
Wow that sample is actually worse on mine. So many large compression blocks and worse clipping.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
maybe bec the source is mkv. pls the avi file from the link. its a scene from deathly hallows and the blocky blacks are there but minimal.

http://www.4shared.com/video/p9wJbB-F/SAMPLE.html
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
need .mkv video sample to compare, because it is hard to say is it better or no ;D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] labuharry:
wow this clip looks pretty good on my GN but the iron man one looks horrible. looks like file format/video quality related issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
ok finally the blocky blacks went away for all my movies after these (the blacks are not deep anymore but the movie is more natural looking):

- download screen adjuster from market

- setting is red +5, brightness 80, contrast -35 (courtesy of Marky)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
what display mode? standart,dynami, video? ;D

edit: yeh with those settings no blocky blacks ;D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
Even in hardware mode?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
yeh. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibere:
Weird.

On my note, screen Adjuster is doing nothing on black levels in HW mode but only in SW mode.

Those settings are just turning the deep black level into reddish/pinkinsh grey. Not acceptable for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
you can use those settings while watching videos with a lot of dark color scenes, like iron man2, after u have watched video, turn off screen adjuster and everything goes back to normal ;D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
im using mx video player and its working in HW mode. i set the power saving and auto brightness off.

---------- Post added at 02:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 AM ----------

also adjusted the colors some more and this is the best for me:

red +4, blue +11, brightness 80, contrast -35
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
I'm waiting on a call for Samsung, after sending them a letter to their head office and forwarded to their CS. I want them to guarantee my screen, when being replaced is free from all issues. I will give them until Thursday to reply.

---------- Post added at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:55 PM ----------

They just called me from their Head Office. They have clearly said there is No known issue on the Galaxy note. I even explained that all the Notes I have seen all have the same issue. I have asked them in writing to say they are not aware of any issue. They told me to book in the phone at one of their service centres which I will do on Saturday.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcreego:
When I watch movies I'm using the settings You have suggested boys and now the movies are watchable.

It is true the black becomes grey but I don't care, it is a good compromise until Supercurio will release his Voodoo screen adjuster.

I have only one question that maybe has been answered a thousend times: is it only on my Gnote or screen adjuster slows down entire system?

Thanks in advance for your kind reply

:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
Remember Supercurio will charge for his fix. If you are happy to pay that's ok but it strikes a nerve with me that I have to pay some developer to fix this issue after spending £££'s on a device that should be able to do this just fine! Samsung are ripping people off. Don't get me wrong, I love this device and it's the best phone I have ever owned. I can't go back to any other phone now but as I have said before, I will keep replacing the screen until the issue is fixed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcreego:
I understand your position but I find it a little counterproductive.

Supercurio stated that his apps will be cheap like Voodoo Louder, if it so I prefer to pay a dollor to Supercurio, that is a great developer then have to wait Samsung to get my screen replaced alot of times until it is good.

Just my 2 cents and sorry for my bad english, I hope that is at least understandable:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] indie:
Your English is great ! I think Supercurio will do a great job and take nothing away from him. But having Supercurio fix it takes all the blame and responsibility away from Samsung. Like I said whether the app is 0.10p or £10.00 I still shouldn't have to pay someone to fix something that shouldn't be broken. That is my whole point. I will stick to my guns on this point and this will cost Samsung to get the repair done correctly or admit that there is a hardware / software flaw with the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
i think samsung purposely increased the contrast and gamma too much to make the screen more vibrant and display deep blacks.

yes i noticed the slowdown too but it does not affect the movie playback. i just turn it off after watching.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcreego:
Thank for all your kind replies.

You are right it is a Samsung fault but I think that is only a matter of scrren calibration and not and hardware issue, so in my opinion it is really difficult to get a screen well calibrated from Sammy if they want the phone to have a vibrant colors at the expense of gamma curve calibration.

Screen adjuster, if I remember well, didn't slow down my galaxy s2 so it is strange that it is different on my Note.

Conclusion: I hope that Supercurio will release his app soon or that Samsung release Ics recalibrating the gamma curve.

Have a nice evening:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurayamix:
dang, have the same problem too. :/

I hope this will get fix soon... how about built-in screen mode with adjustable gamma.

I guess this problem will be fix if we have darker movie mode....

PS. I have some proof that this problem can be correct by software. just check this page with build-in browser compare with another browser

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php

You will see only default web browser display correct black level color... (buy strange color will show if you pitch to zoom)

Dolphin HD display as close as default but not better.

Firefox getting worse.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.T1990:
Same problem here

Hey guys i think i got the same problem here with my gnote.

On the pic you can see the begining of the video that was in the note ( a video by samsung with jellyfishs etc.).

I have stoped the video at 0:01 and at this point you can see that the black is not black and there are some dark black dots all over the display.

I have taken this pic in an complete dark room

What kind of issue could that be???

Sry for my bad english i hope u guys can still understand what i'm trying to say;)

Link:

imagebanana.com/view/ut48jezl/IMG_1486.jpg
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
No that is not of the same problem, what you see there is manufacturing inconsistencies on the HD Samoled.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr.T1990:
Thanks for the super fast answer :)

So, should i send it back and how can i explain this issue to them. I can only see this in a dark area and only at this dark/gray color.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Its a common issue among SAMOLED, I have a different pattern on my Gnote and on my S2.. My S1 though had perfect uniform slightly lit black.

If you dont see it in everyday use dont bother.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alrey:
yes the browser displays the correct colors. however, once you are viewing a picture or watching a movie from the file system, the "display enhancement" software kicks in to make the display more vibrant at the expense of color accuracy.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Samsung got in touch with me today that I can now claim my refund cheque and they want me to get it ASAP as the Korea headquarters wants to get hold of my phone as soon as possible. Hopefully they can find a fix after this 'sole' complaint.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurayamix:
then the question is...

How the hell we disable this "display enhancement" while browsing web/view image/watch movies or just disable it completely. :(

Is image of black level correct in your default browser?

I think you got it worse than all of us and deserve refund :X