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[General Questions and Answers] DarkMaster3960:
I don't know how to see which apps support the cloud services but if I where you I would root my device and use Titanium backup. It is the easiest way to create backups of you apps and data.
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
Yeah I've been doing that for a while, but I'm wondering about everyone else, who doesn't hack. how are they supposed to do it?

To be clear, I think this is going to be a very serious problem for the Android platform soon. here's a rundown:

1. most people (not users of this site, but actual average people) don't upgrade to a new phone until at or near their contract expiration, and they're up for the discount. at this point, many Android users will look at the process, notice that they can't transfer their saved data from games, and other apps (again, most people do not know of or understand hacking) and will say to themselves, "well, why not get an iPhone or windows phone? either way I have to start all over. and if I get an iPhone, at least I can back up with iTunes and not have this problem again." many will learn this from the workers in the cell store, btw, not going onto boards like these.

2. now, consider that the bulk of Android users started getting their phones on two year contracts beginning about a year and a half ago (look at some stats of phone activations to find this) which means those contracts are about to be eligible for upgrades.

3. many of those old phones will be still running old versions of Android, which if there is a cloud backup system I just don't know how to use, won't be able to use it.

which means there's about to be a sudden migration migration of many of those users towards the iPhone. this prediction can be backed up, too: I saw a poll a couple months ago showing that around 30% of Android users want to upgrade to an iPhone for their next phone. Google needs to get it in gear soon. with the trouble they have getting upgrades to phones to add new features, I'm thinking they need to bundle a new feature in an update to the Market app, or otherwise release a desktop application of some kind that can read the app save data from phones (especially older phones) and upload it to Google's servers, which newer phones will be able to download to the device, or through the desktop app. Android File Transfer seems like a good candidate for this, maybe combine it with the Google music uploader.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DaveC1964:
I made a test image to test how close to black your screen displays before clipping/cutting off. Display in any image viewer just make sure any brightness settings etc are all off/default/flat. Do the test in a dark room.

The numbers correspond to actual RGB values ie: 10 is R 10, G 10, B 10.

This is really effected mostly by firmware gamma curve settings not hardware.

The Note goes to 4 before cutting off, my Infuse goes dark at around 9! What crap gamma settings!

Theoretically you should be able to see number 1 (I could just make it out on my PC if I looked at an angle to the LCD).

How low can you go?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/gammatest.png/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Spartan2x:
2 on my LCD

Freaking 5 on my iphone 4!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DaveC1964:
The Note cuts out COMPLETELY at 4, I mean nothing at all displays lower than that. It should gradually ramp to zero, not just cut out.

This explains the blocky tiles while displaying dark video. If there are shades 3,2,1 to smoothly blend they are not shown giving a stark defined tile.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Spartan2x:
The very dark shade should be explained by the encoding since Samsung uses a 24-bit display rather then a 16 or 32.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Braxos:
If you see the pic on the ImageShack site from your browser it goes to 1 if you DL the file and open then it stopes to 4 on the DL file it dissent scale as in the browser it prompt goes from light dark at 4 to black
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vcespon:
I can see the 2 and almost the 1 in my note at minimum brightness. If you raise the brightness lower numbers become less visible as the border around them gets brighter. This display is very bright, I find minimum brightness more than enough for interior (home/office/metro/train).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Chillz88:
I can see it till one
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] garytube:
same.

But i got some problems with gradients. They look sometimes very choppy..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kromosto:
2 on my samsung led monitor 2 on my samsung led tv 2 on my note maybe my eye is only capable of 2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] george66gr:
Same behavior with my note also, as Braxos noticed.

Can someone explain why the differences?

1. why through browser we can see until 1 and if we open the downloaded .png file we can see only until 4?

2. why the differences between galaxy notes? (some people here mentioned that they can see until 1 or 2 and some others until 4).

Thank you
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DaveC1964:
Maybe the browser is changing the gamma slightly?

I would only trust the actual downloaded file viewed through an image viewer with no enhancements.

I am curious too as to why some can see down to 1 or 2. On mine there is a definate complete cut off below 4. Maybe different firmware versions are set different?

Mine is the Polish version.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kromosto:
use good image viewer this is the trick
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Braxos:
Stock image bower isn't good ???? And browsers one Is better ??? Or.us it because browser has colors management on it?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kromosto:
actually never compared default viewer vs browser but i know default viewer is crap so i am not suprised browser shows better
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Bcroc:
I can see 1 in browser, and 4 in gallery. Below 4 it simply cuts off.

Maybe it's the same thing, as you set a black lockscreen wallpaper and desktop wallpaper, and the desktop looks good, while the lockscreen bad?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] abirsharda:
Cuts out at 4 in image viewer and 1 in the browser...

I'm guessing some people just saw it the browser and posted that they can see till 1...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ltrulsse:
The image gallery only displays 16-bit while the browser supports 24-bit. I believe that is why this happens.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxh:
I can see 1 in the stock browser but only 4 in opera. I didn't bother downloading and testing the stock image viewer but I suspect the results would be the same as everyone else (cut off below 4.)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Xaddict:
Exactly

Google: Android 2.1 Downgrades Image Quality

And clearly, Android 2.3.6 still has a 16bit gallery.

At least we know it is not due to the display.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Mine also shows upto 4 on the default gallery and upto 1 using the stock browser, but with the stock browser the greys seem to be reddish.

What I noticed though is that my screen does not have really deep blacks, I can see it as a lit black like and LCD.. not major deal breaker or anything but wish I got one of those screens with deeper blacks. Also I see some speckles of darker area's when displaying the all black screen test.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
I can see down to 1 with stock browser and 4 only with dolphin browser HD.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] DaveC1964:
It is because the browser is doing something to the images.

You can tell if the displayer is doing 24 bit, if you see each numbered band separate it is 24 bit. If some are combined like for example 20 and 21 look the same and on down then it is not 24 bit.

Don't do the test with the browser! The idea is to test the gamma, not the image viewing software.

Also why is everyone still using gallery? It is crap. There are much better FREE viewers out there such as QuickPic.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
I just tried quickpic and forced the 24/32bit color rendering, it still does not show 1-2-3 on my end.

EDIT:

Been watching some movies and series on the G-Note and I noticed that this gamma issue is also affecting the player, I now see a LOT of blocky blacks that were supposed to be smooth on the Galaxy S1 and S2, hope this can be sorted out soon!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
Use MX video Player or Mobo Player and set the software rendering mode. It will improve things.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mihaig:
On Galaxy note:

screen setting: film

1 in stock browser

3 in dolphin HD

3 in image viewer

screen setting -standard

1 in stock browser

4 in dolphin HD

4 in image viewer

screen setting - dynamic

1 in stock browser

4 in dolphin HD

4 in image viewer
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
Same here. It goes to 3 in film mode, but 3 and 4 seems to be at the same level.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] BerreZ:
Probably the same problem

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1344714

This thread is probably about the same problem .

Is there a way to join them ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] ariboi:
are you sure about the 5 on the iphone 4? i am hardly able to go upto 9! :(

4 on the Galaxy Note...

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I hope so too! Just trying to wait patiently!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] S_X:
The default browser shows 1, gallery - 4.

If i set this pic as a wallpaper - 1! (and at the same time the youtube widget being placed above the wallpaper has its gradient corrupt). If place this gammatest.png as a picture widget - it shows 4 too.

If set it as lock screen background - 1(sic!), though it is really very dirty. Maybe the screen firm-\software has different profiles for 24/16bit apps?

and our buggy Notes have 16bit profile messed up?

In conclusion - the default browser and wallpaper diplay correct images.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] darkinners:
My note at lowest brightness setting can see as low as 1
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
More infos would be appreciated like ROM and software used to see the image.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Yeah setting it as a wallpaper does show upto 1, but the correct gamma should show upto 11 only though.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] darkinners:
Just stock rom , no root and stock browser.

Lowest brightness setting and did tick the "auto adjust screen power" (not sure its called like this "
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
Thanks For the report.

It has been reported many times that the browser shows up (or down to I should say) to 1.

But actually those very low values should be so close to black that we should NOT be able to see them. Lower blacks are too bright with the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] S_X:
Using Screen Adjuster app with -10 contrast setting makes gallery display the gammatest.png down to 1. (playing with the contrast controls makes video blacks-blocks problem disappear)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] sibere:
I set it to -5 and I see level 1. Screen set to video mode and picture viewed with quickpic. Anything above -6 turns the black background into grey.

The issue still remains though. Lowest levels are way too bright!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
From a local forum, the user got this result after having his screen replaced. Stock gallery, standard screen mode no other extra settings.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeromepearce:
Very interesting.

In Opera, it goes to 4. In the Gallery, same, and every picture viewer I can see.

In the stock browser, however, it goes to 1.

The browser, however, has this feature that dims the screen. I have it on Level 3, which dims it the most.

BTW if I use the 'screen filter' app, which does something similar for night viewing, Opera only goes to 8, yet the stock browser still goes to 1.

It appears that the hardware is willing, but the software is weak, perhaps?

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Agreed. From my tests when the stock browser lowers levels still further itself, it works well.

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Thanks for that tip. It works quite well.

I have also set the brightness to 75%. It makes the widget settings meaningful again instead of "readable & very bright" being the only possibilities :) .

It must save some battery from that energy hogging screen, surely? I am considering 50% to help save even more battery, as I can always turn it off when I want to see in sunlight.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diament:
Wow EarlZ, its beautiful. I hope they will replace mine like that. But here is Poland, so they probably won't do anythig but harm ;] It seems like a looong weeks or even months of battle awaits me, Samsung and local seller. Beautiful.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rhn:
Weird. Goes all the way to 2 in gallery, 1 in the browser. On my iPad, i can only see till 14 :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] labuharry:
guys...actually how to know our Note is in perfect view condition. i mean until which number we need to see and can't see :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Reference picture just a page back are you really serious in asking this question ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] labuharry:
sorry i just want to make sure. thank you for the answer :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] fl4r3:
So whats the consensus? If a screen replacement is solvong this problem are people taking that route?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
mine goes to 4 and then black, down to 1 on stock browser, gonna contact Samsung regarding screen replacement. This is so ****!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rlaw:
4 in Opera and gallery.

1 in stock browser. Definitely software issue.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
U reckon? Even with the pic of the replaced screen on the previous page?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rlaw:
Yeah. We don't know what that user's set-up is (in regards to ROM and such) and what hardware/software Samsung actually made (replacing screen, updating firmware etc).

I'd be interested to see what the image would appear like under ICS. I'd wager it would look fine in any/most image viewers, browsers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
Here is a pic of my Note next to my wifes Galaxy s 2 which plays back the same videos I have problems with perfect, stock picture gallery, full brightness in a dark room, you can clearly see the problem our device has.

How could Samsung make such an error? :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kcube989:
Mine like all others here shows up to 4 only. 3 with movie mode and upto 1 with a little added contrast using screen adjuster.

Edit: talking about the stock gallery
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] maxld:
On autobrightness I see up to 1 on stock browser, didn't try any other. No problems with gradient, I guess my note's screen is pretty good. It all just look like the picture posted 2 pages earlier (Note bought week ago, stock rom, stock kernel, no extra settings - perfect gradient).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rezz:
Mine goes to 3, wich is grey, then it goes to complete black.

Getting a replacement, hope it will solve this mess.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
Can everyone who has the screen replaced please keep us updated as to if it has fixed the issue for you, I am still waiting for Samsung to get back to me. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mfractal:
On Cyanogenmod 9 from dolphin browser I cuts off at 4 completely. If I download the picture and open in gallery I see all the numbers starting from 1
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rocswe:
I can see all the way down to number 1, but isn´t the problem that it is not a smooth greyscale all the way down to 1, the grey scale on my screen is smooth until 4 after that I can clearly see edges between the numbers. But it is still much better since tha last update. I'm on the nordic version, nee I think.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] knightnz:
Can see the entire spectrum on my HP Touchpad, my Note only goes to 4, and taking a screenshot gives an identical image, so it's not the rendering.

Put the display into "Movie" mode and suddenly I can see down to 3, so presumably that mode shifts the gamma high enough for it to register.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] M3TALLICA:
Its got to be something with 16/32bit rendering.

On GNote I did not get different results than others. But on my Netbook, after changing to 16 bit I can hardly see above 13.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] :
On my Gnote I can't see below 4 via the browser(Dolphin) or the gallery.

Stock Rom 2.3.6 I might add.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Rezz:
It looks more like a gamma issue, try upping the gamma on your netbook and you'll probably get similar results as on your note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MonkY:
I wonder... is Samsung really aware of these screen problems? Are they doing anything to fix this, or... they will just release another Galaxy Note instead of releasing a simple fix?

P.S. Maybe we should do a Galaxy Note petition online and show Samsung we are many!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PoisonWolf:
Movie mode, 0% brightness that is available via Settings menu, disabled auto-lcd power.

I'm seeing no lower than 3. After 3, it's just pitch black. :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Kiongku:
I can see up to 2 with the stock browser on the gnote. I have autobrightness on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nightfox11:
Mine goes all the way up to 1 with no problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
There is already a facebook page up regarding Note screen issues...lol

I called Samsung today, they advised that my device is faulty and that I should return it and ask for a new one from a different batch, which I have done.

They said that if movies and images are displaying correctly on other devices eg: my pc and my wife galaxy s 2, then there is something wrong.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MonkY:
Can you post the link to that page? Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] psun786:
I have read all posts in this thread & still couldn't figure out why is everyone raging about SGN's screen?

My result is exact the same as everyone else, 4 on stock gallery and 1 on browser. Obviously, the problem is in software (color depth maybe?) instead of a defective screen.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] knightnz:
Why "obviously"?

Color depth has nothing to do with this sort of issue. It's a level cutoff, which judging by evidence in this thread is caused by the screen.

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I just went onto FaceBook and searched for "samsung note screen" and it popped up.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] rlaw:
I don't know how anyone can say this is a screen issue when it obviously works differently depending on software (stock browser).

For what it's worth, on GB, I used to be able to see down til 1 on stock browser.

No longer the case now that I'm on AlBa.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] psun786:
By "obviously" I mean that there is nothing wrong with SGN's screen since image is displayed properly in browser (1) but not gallery app (4). If the screen is defective, the effect would exist in both brower and gallery app. Not being able to display anything below 4 in gallery could simply mean the app is not coded to utilize full color depth. Ppl who RMA their phone due to this are not going to be happy when replacement arrive. Their new SGN will have the same problem.

Now, those ppl who are complaining about black pixelization during video play back... I ripped Matrix 1999 (Bluray -> H265+AAC 4000kbps) and it played fine without any negative effect. However, the same title I downloaded from internet, despite being h264/avc 2000kbps is full of artifacts. I guess all depend on your source video.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TempusFudgeIt:
Good points! I have found that some TV shows on h264 don't display greys properly (get greenish washed out effect), but others are fine. A properly converted HDTV image has no problems. So I agree - as much as every phone is unique - if the images are fine in browser and not in gallery then it is not a screen issue.

Regarding pixelation - I have been using a cheap 32GB Class 6 Micro SD and it has been getting worse at showing video. Other forums have mentioned that non-genuine SD cards incorrectly report size as 32GB when they are really 16GB which causes problems with overwriting - I have had some amazing instances where a video starts with part of another then reverts to the video I was watching. Why tell you about this? Because I think it is another piece of the pixel puzzle. Try running the video on the internal SD and see if there are pixelation issues.

Just my two bob's worth!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] CONTACTMC:
Just got my new device, it is a uk one this time, my previous one was set to german as default, this one has the exact same issue, this is so crap!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] giatros:
Use a program called h2testw to test the memory. http://flashfakecentral.wordpress.com/testing-flash-memory-chips/h2testw-english/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] himuslg123:
any fix for this issue ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kitrax59:
Reviving a year old thread? Obviously, no..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] himuslg123:
lol thanks for your reply :)
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[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] egyptshun:
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[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] alamatnitotoy:
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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R3coniz3:
Hey, long time reader first time poster!

I have an issue where I cannot factory restore through the menus or via a hard reset. Every time it goes into android recovery, it says "failed to boot 2". The phone has been rooted with the "one click method". Bootloader has never been unlocked.

I am currently

- running OS 2.3.4

- system version 45.217.MB860.Bell Mobility.en.ca

- baseband N_01.77.33p

- kernel 2.632.9-00002-gd5bf03a wmb050@zbr05Inxdroid10#2

- build number4.5.2!-51_OLL-17

I was wondering if I were to flash a sbf would it fix my current issue?

If so, I understand that there is no bell sbf so would it be ok to flash to a 2.3.4 AT&T sbf or any other country specific version (ie. Orange UK)?

Also, flashing a sbf doesn't require you to have the bootloader unlocked correct?

And if I were to successfully flash, I wouldn't lose my sim-free capabilities?

If someone could shed some light on this matter that be greatly appreciated ! =)

Cheers