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[Desire General] Lothaen:
ICS is running fairly decently on Desire and Nexus One I'd say - still bugs but there's massive progress :)
[Desire General] ryanraven:
we all cant wait until ICS is 100% working :) will be the day we all fall in love with our Desire again :)
[Desire General] skifreund:
I am amazed how smooth the ICS ASOP Rom is. But I'm back to Gingerbread and I don't think I'll update to 5.0 any time. I bought the Desire nearly two years ago right at the beginning and the development during this time was great.

IMHO it isn't necessary to update a two year old device to the newest os version.
[Desire General] Ha_Ha Shoes:
I want ICS to work on the Desire. HTC still love it. They're just too lazy to get working software on older hardware. :D
[Desire General] andee84:
Why not, why not. One reason more to work on 3.x kernel.
[Desire General] Lothaen:
I showed someone who moved to WinPho the other day my desire running ICS and he said it was like a whole new phone.... :)
[Desire General] erklat:
But we all know it is not.

The car embodiment is it's engine, not how good you are able to refine wood and plastics.
[Desire General] paolo-red1:
erklat it's like a new terepin
[Desire General] erklat:
Really? How so? We were together then, now he's gone but I'm still here :)

You have an issue with how I am rationalizing things?
[Desire General] danarama:
Yeah its amazing it runs at all. But if you try ics then go back to a good GB rom, you're amazed in retrospect, just how slow ICS was.
[Desire General] yeahman45:
u realise that we may never get a stable camera in ICS?
[Desire General] noonamer:
if we made kernel 3.0 for Bravo our device can work in 4.0 and 5.0
[Desire General] danarama:
Theres a huge chasm between "work" and "perform".
[Desire General] yeahman45:
exactly!....
[Desire General] palito1980:
So 4.1 Jelly Bean has arrived. Is it really possible to port it to Desire?
[Desire General] Lothaen:
AOSP probably
[Desire General] Ramone360:
Jelly bean, seriously lol
[Desire General] Lothaen:
4.0 is running pretty darn smooth and almost feature perfect so if the changes aren't massive I can see it running on a Desire :)
[Desire General] panpjp:
r u jk about dual core? Seriously?:what::what::eek:
[Desire General] stankyou:
U have a brain. Use it and think if im serious with what i said or i am just doing a good job being sarcastic.

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[Desire General] tihimasmo:
Dual core! Awesome! When?
[Desire General] scwt917:
I want, why not.:p
[Desire General] MrUrgit:
Surely for dual core all we need to do is add some lines to build.prop like:

ro.product.cpu.cores=2

ro.product.cpu.dualcore=enabled

:rolleyes:

/end sarcasm
[Desire General] Slowhandasg:
lol - Nice try!
[Desire General] BMelz:
Can't tell if this is troll thread or not. either way, I'll bite. Jelly Bean = 4.1 NOT 5.0.
[Desire General] pimpyoass:
:laugh: If only that was easy like that... :p

There's people in here where the sun is too strong on their heads
[Desire General] Sheiji:
You could always try the code, add a little voodo to it, water the desire, make a wish under a star and it will sprout another core :D

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[Desire General] topgeardave:
Has anyone looked at the source code?
[Desire General] panpjp:
Yea that's what I'm thinking to.:rolleyes:
[Desire General] Sheiji:
It's being looked upon by many devs atm, including Desire's Like LaidBackNickez

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[Nook Touch General] coolparty:
After unsuccefull rooting I can't restore my NST. In partition table I look only 1 - 240MB. "AlfaFormatter" and "n2t-recovery" can't help. May be anyone know more methods?

Thank you
[Nook Touch General] feliksas.laukys:
Sounds like you didn't use "Noogie" before you backed up. "Noogie" reveals all the partitions of your Nook, so you can back all of it up. If you back up without using "Noggie," you will only backup the ~250mb of data that are, by default, on the partition titled "NOOK."

Please post again if this explanation was not clear.

-Feliks.
[Nook Touch General] ros87:
Yep, this is a common mistake.

The worst part is that restoring a invalid backup image like that, also overwrites your /rom partition and the rom partition backup zip that resides on partition 3 :(

If this is what happened, then you're out of luck, there's no method that can recover the device.
[Nook Touch General] feliksas.laukys:
Ouch! I also, almost, did this, but it seemed too strange to me that the backup should be so small.

On this note--can an admin start to make a few, forum, stickies? I'm surprised that there aren't any already. It would be good for old hands and n00bs alike to have a few, key, threads posted and pinned to the top.

My 2 cents.

-F...
[Nook Touch General] AlexandriaMC:
So, question:

I just bought a refurb. Started it up and I only have 240MB space so I came here looking for help. Can I assume from this that I should just not even bother with it and should try to get my money back?

Not happy.
[Nook Touch General] Googie2149:
That's normal for it to be like that. B&N only gives you a (relatively) small amount of space for side loaded content. I think there's some way to give yourself some more space, but I don't know. Either way, it doesn't affect the rooting process.
[Nook Touch General] AlexandriaMC:
Yeah, I know, but thanks. The unit has a lot of issues. I can't successfully get it working. The WiFi won't work either, doesn't have MAC address. I won't call it a brick, but how it got to me as a "factory certified" refurb in this state is beyond me and not worth the trouble. I already got it swapped for a new unit.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Hirudin:
Please prove me wrong!

Anyone have any links to videos showing a Note rendering dark grays correctly?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gnomedroid:
watch the demovideo on your note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
The dozens of reviews which acknowledge how good the screen is proves you wrong.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Inuit:
Pfffff. Tests with Samsung handselected devices. Or do you think that Samsung will send defectiv devices to the testers?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sarius24:
The note I got from bell has no screen issues at all.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TML1504:
you can see down to one in gammatest??

no black clipping??

no banding??

and: no dark blotches on a complete black picture in a dark room? (you have to see whole screen lightly lit (amoled cant go completely black), and let your eyes accommodate to the darkness!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Arrancamos:
SGN sucks on screen quality, its own spen scratch the "good" screen... really disappointed.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Sarius24:
I dunno looks find like all my other phones.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] MrDSL:
I honestly havent went out of my way to find any issues with the screen.

The videos I have watched all look awesome..I did notice on some dark images there was some banding or whatever its called but thats all I can tell..

I'm not that great with colors so I may not notice as much but it looks great to me so far.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] jeromepearce:
Mine is fine with some tweaks. Primarily -40% contrast. I can see down to '2' on that test image. I also notice little or no blotchiness in dark videos any more, although I did before adjustment.

It's a software issue IMO.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
I share the same sentiment as no one with a 'perfect screen' has shared it. The best I've seen is one w/o any black clipping what so ever since his gamma test result is similar to a Galaxy S2 but I do see a few visible horizontal lines on a grey screen. Its not perfect but its with in specifications aside from the lines.

To the unwise it may seem incorrect since they are only looking at the smaller picture and dont really have a clue on what this 'objective' test is for, let me give a real life example:

Using the Kindle application for reading ebooks gives you the option to use a black background now some screens have very visible blotches even if there is a text on the screen and they are become unoticeable when there is a text above them, this of course matters to someone who reads ebooks in their bedrooms w/o any external light source or to someone who watches movies like me. You see if we ask someone to open kindle and load up something and do this and do that, it makes the 'testing' more subjective rather than just test it in a pitch black room with a black image displayed.

These tests may sound silly to others but its the best way to get an objective result, remember people theres a difference between 'its not there' and 'i dont notice it with normal usage'.

here is an example that hopefully may enlighten you people with self proclaimed perfect screens so you may understand why its so difficult for others to accept such screen exists because with several replacements they havent seen one yet and people always claim that defects are the extreme minority, if its true then no one should need more than 2 replacements to get these perfect screens, correct?

It is also common for others to be dismissive of any screen related issues, you can be dismissive all you want provided you show an objective result. till then your screen is just as flawed as everyone else.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] O_G:
Mod Warning​

XDA Developers is about free exchange of information, everybody has there own opinion. Calling each other names is not acceptable, if you are unable to respond in a polite manner, then please dont post! This is the only warning you will get!

I have cleaned the thread!​
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Are those dark rings one of the issues that everyone is complaining about? If so, I'll have to look at my unit, but I suppose I've just been extremely lucky. I have yet to notice any issues. That's not to say there aren't any issues with my device (possibly), if I look really hard, in very specific conditions :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] gamedok:
I do not have any black blotches or whatever.

One of the issue I have is the gray screen. It has somesort of texture on it but it's tolerable since it looks like a texturized wallpaper. No problems with playing videos at all, everything looks crisp and clear. So far I am enjoying it.

Also, another issue is the camera. When I am around those long florescent lights, there seems to be some wavy things on my screen. Even on video. I guess I got to avoid those lights in taking pictures. Haha.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
That Image i used came from the Tab7.7 forums which shows the issue and practical scenario at the same time. Its an example of the darker blotches in blacks, not really the main issue on the Galaxy Note but one of the many possible yet rare issue.

On my end, my first screen had some blotches but they were not visible when I watch a movie or read an ebook from the kindle app, the 2nd screen I had did have a home button sized like blotch at the bottom which was visible when reading ebooks unless a text is close to it, in movies/shows it is only visible when the entire screen goes black.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] madbird:
after seeing your picture, i want to test my note. i use a small chamber without a window and close the door, so its absolute dark in there. i take a picture from the screen of my note while using kindle with background set to black. i use my lumix dmc-fx01 digicam to take the picture. am i just lucky with the screen of my note, or did i something worng while testing?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Jade Eyed Wolf:
Once again, I guess I have been extremely lucky with both my Note and my 7.7, because I have yet to notice any of these issues with either :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] PoisonWolf:
Black clipping and banding = software. Therefore, irrelevant from a hardware perspective.

The splotches that you see in the most dark of conditions are the artifacts of the manufacturing process. Under normal 0% brightness (without using additional apps like screen adjuster) you will not be able to see these things assuming you've got a good screen.

The only things you need to look out for is color unevenness and brightness unevenness and in some cases, the manufacturing process is so prominent that it seeps into the normal brightness (0% and up range) and it is visible.

The fastest way to tell if there is something wrong is to turn off all auto-lcd power management, set the brightness to 0%, and to simply pull down the notification menu and view it in a dark place. That'll reveal most of the problems that you might find in a day to day situation. If you see nothing there and the screen looks crisp, don't bother looking for more. They will not appear in normal real-world situations.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Blue1k:
No blotches on mine. Very happy with the quality. The color profile seems nicer than on my i9100. The only screen I had with noticeable blotches (only seen at full darkness) was on my T989.

So ya, very happy with my Note's screen. White International N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] intruda119:
The witch hunt started with the original sgs and continues with the note.

Im on my second note plus a screen replacement and screens are flawless. Yes there is somme banding on all of amoled screens. Its partially software because running ics alpha build, most of the banding is gone.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Your picture is a classic example of why people ask for 'specific conditions' to avoid repeating them selves. From what I said above, the circle marks are visible when there is not text above them, hence an all black image would make testing faster and more conclusive, Im not saying your doing it wrong but I think you get the idea.

I'll take your word for it but it doesnt help me or anyone else researching if there really is a Tab 7.7 that has no circle marks unless a photo is posted with the correct settings. If you could take the trouble and post a photo on the other side, please do.

For the black clipping, some people had better,same,worse results after a screen replacement so its both hardware+software.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] shiunmaru:
Mine is good. This is currently the nicest screen i've ever had. :thumbup:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] friedje:
because you all go and sit in your dark room to watch night shots in dark movies.....

I can understand ppl with real issues that annoy in normal use whining, but some here are just ridiculous....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] WereCatf:
I don't know what all the ruckus is about. I just got my Note today and I've checked several kinds of videos, pictures and websites and I'm not getting any kinds of issues with the screen; the picture is always top-notch.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] avetny:
we all got this issues !

And SGS2 also.

those people who do not see, will soon see....it is a matter of time
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] dk_iceman:
Actually My Galaxy Note is the first phone in a long time, where i've been really happy with the screen..

LOVE IT, The best phone in a long time... coming from Galaxy NEXUS, Galaxy 2, Lumia 800,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] inertiax3:
Damn and I thought my screen was perfect...

Try this:

Take a photo in a dark room (or at night) with the camera lens covered with your finger. Then open up the image in the gallery, zoom in to get the noise out of the way (and wait for the buttons backlight to turn off) and look for smudges - areas of the screen that are more black than the black picture. I have 2 line smudges on mine plus numerous dots - it's not the noise from the black image because moving the black image doesen't affect the location of the smudges.. and they are present also at highest brightness and auto screen power adjustment option turned on.. (although less visible)

However...I never noticed this in my normal usage so I doubt I will have it replaced...

Try it out people and report, just for info...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TML1504:
that's exactly the issue i'm talking about!

VERY annoying when you read something in darkness and night-mode (red and dimmed screen) on. then you easily see this blotches at all times!

have seen about 15 notes from different batches, EVERY SINGLE UNIT HAD THIS TO SOME EXTENT!

the funny thing is: although the screen of the note i own ATM has almost the most blotches of all units i've seen i choose this screen because otherwise it's really good in terms of evenness and "white stability"!

90% OF ALL SCREENS I'VE SEEN ARE INFERIOR!

THE GOOD THING IS: IN MOST CASES YOU WILL NOT NOTICE IT UNTIL YOU SEE A NOTE WITH A REAL GOOD SCREEN! HAD THIS A FEW TIMES (!!) FOR NOW...

IF YOU BOTHER - DO NOT COMPARE!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] xAnimal5:
1) The S-pen does not scratch the screen. I have used it every day since it's release in November

2) You have 4 posts and you joined this month. I highly doubt you even own a note, you probably just came here to troll.

3) Learn Grammar. I lost IQ from reading: "its own spen scratch the "good" screen"

4) Reported for being a troll.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] O_G:
I posted a warning a few posts back here Dont worry i will act when necessary;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] k1ng617:
My screen is not perfect, but I still love it.

First off I do have shadow lines on gray backgrounds w/ low brightness, but acceptable for me. Here's my take; I think with any technology there will be strengths & shortcomings and clearly these AMOLEDS are not fond of gray. But IMO it has MANY incredible strengths e.g. the sharpness of the screen, the exceptional blacks, excellent day time visibility, the size, and the eye popping colors. With that said, I don't think my phone exhibits the dark circles you were talking about.

Initially, I wanted to shoot just the black screen, but it kept just showing as pitch black.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] golfinggino:
the screen on the note is very good, i really like the phone i have it rooted with rocket rom v22 and abyss kernel 3.9 and it is super smooth with great battery life, i picked up a galaxy tab 7.7 a few days ago and the screen on this is fantastic, after using the 7.7 for a few days i cannot go back to the note, the galaxy 7.7 is that much better - just posting my comments in case anyone else is thinking of the 7,7 over the note i say go for it you will not be disapointed

i just hope the 7.7 gets as many custom roms / kernels as the note !!!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
The note is not really known to have visible circle marks if there are any I believe its quite rare, whats common on the note is the spots but they are not visible even with my own ebook reading unless its an all black screen.

@k1ng617

Auto cannot capture anything, the exposure time needs to be 10-15seconds depending on the camera. On my Note I only needed 5 seconds exposure time to be able to 'capture' the blacks it produces but 30seconds on the S2 to show the splotches.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Hagow:
I love my screen! When I watch TV shows that I have downloaded in low quality I noticed some black artifacts but when I download a 1080p video off YouTube the blacks are perfect!

Nicest screen I ever had

Sent From My Galaxy Note
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
Wish I had the same experience and expectations as you :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Xaddict:
My experience too.

I used to work in film & TV and still do it as a hobby.

I am particularly conscious of screen quality.

The Note has the highest quality of any phone screen I have seen.

It is better than any broadcast monitor you can get because of the super amoled technology, which is too expensive I guess for large screens.

I would love to be able to use this as a camera viewfinder but it can't be done because the Note doesn't accept video input.

There is no viewfinder that comes close to the quality of the Note's screen.

None of the above.

I put this issue down to witch hunting and trolls.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] acidburn89:
I think this is a somewhat valid statement. I'm not sure what percentage of the SGNs are affected by the screen issues, but my last one most definitely had problems showing colors. I didn't even have to do any visual snooping to determine that the screen was far from prefect. If I zoomed into a picture of any person, I could see terrible color saturation. Overly 'warm' display, I think. The gray and blacks were just fine. The new one, on the other hand, is quite stunning. Color saturation, no blotches, or gradient problems. :D In fact, I think the colors on the AMOLED pop out so much that it is almost borderline autostereoscopic. :D I also own a 3DS, btw. It's nothing like that. But, man, does that thing POP! :D I have included a picture from the SGN themes forum. It's quite noticeable on this, but also several other pictures. :) And try it on full brightness for best results. ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] TML1504:
no offense taken nor meant, but do you really think i'm a troll? ;)

i assure you that every single screen i've seen so far (and thats a LOT) have more or less issues. some are quite acceptable, most of them have some noticeable flaws (but people wont notice them until they compare with a really good screen, especially the pureness of "white" and the color stability when tilting the screen)!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
It is their subjective opinion and they are entitled to that, but when asked with a photo nobody is able to provide one even just to prove that they dont have banding.

Color stability when tilting the screen is probably the hardest gem to find, it may not seem practical to everyone since 99% of the time we are in direct line of sight with the screen but there are handsets with such narrow viewing angles that when web browsing in landscape mode shows a bit of a green/blue shade on the sides.

The only things I could say is that, I wish I had either their phones 'perfect' state or their expectation level. either way works.

Offtopic:

The Galaxy Tab7.7 on the other hand has a very good viewing angles only shifting at 170deg.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Arrancamos:
Too big bro
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] EarlZ:
The size is perfect.. well IMO.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] kgvico:
In the cellphone world, keep in mind, there's no AMG, no Bugatti, no perfect thing here.

You like it, take it, you don't, don't take it then.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] indie13:
Why are we feeding this troll post? Because that's what this post and the OP looks like?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] nex7er:
I've notified my local Samsung people (Norway) of the black blotches, but after switching to dynamic and setting brightness to max when watching movies, I have no blotches.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diament:
Actually it does scratches the screen. Its really potent for sratches.

My Note went for warraty claim 3 weeks ago. I'm going to take a replacement after this weekend. The Note I had got obvious black clipping problems. Visible in all conditions. Even the official wallpaper with black pen and a note looked horrible (I mean the black areas of a pen or other darker parts of a table). For me the defect was more than obvious. I tried to get used to it but after a week I defective to give it for warr. Really, in that unit all dark-black wallpapers was unusable, not mentioning videos... I am really surpirsed that some pple can't notice it. Are you blind? Well I'm not for sure... or my piece was really more defected than the others. In 3 days we will see....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] Gaugerer:
Unfortunately, negative troll posts seem to be abundant here whilst positive reviews and ICS upgrade information are confined to single threads.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] diament:
I put some "beautiful" examples of a defective unit I had. I guess im a troll because i'm always complaining. At least I'm not blind ;]