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[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] Tjecing:
After flashing and reboot it takes too long to get in on the main screen as well as phone becomes frozen so I had to remove the battery to turn on again and replacing it with another animation.. But it seems Rudolf animations is no different from fold animations??
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] fauzi_91:
Weird, mine dont have any error..yeah,it should take a longer time to boot coz it will auto wipe ur cache&dalvik..lol u oso realized that one?i think i'll dlete rudolf animation..:p:D
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] Tjecing:
Lol :D:D:D No need to delete if u can fix it otherwise it's yours to decide..
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] fauzi_91:
That one i got it from uot kitchen..like i said, i jz make it for flashable zip so that people can use it easily..heheh :D
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] meboy:
How to completely remove transition Animations?

This could be done through Settings Display on GB.

Now with ICS there is no option in settings anywhere that I can see.
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] fauzi_91:
Wow..donno about this b4..r u using g or non g?n i really dont know if this works on ics..coz g dont have ics yet..
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] meboy:
Using LP7. stock ICS with toucwiz.

In GB the option was in settings/display.

Since going to lp7 there is no option to manage animations/transitions. Not sure if that goes for fully stock ICS or not.

Typically I would have turned them off to save battery.
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] fauzi_91:
actually i made it for i9100G..thx for sharing the info about the stock ics doesnt have the option to enable animations like gb..our g model dont have ics yet..:rolleyes::)
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] Jamirobe:
Lockscreen Failure

When i Lock the screen i see my Homescreen or opened App in the background?
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] fauzi_91:
Did u mean the lockscreen is transparent or what?:confused:
[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] Nd_SII:
test
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dvd7000:
Mine was purchased a little over a week ago at a local AT&T store in the USA. It is the SGH-I717 and is mfg. in Korea.

When I play Netflix or You Tube (HQ streams) of B&W movies with dark scenes and/or fade ins/outs, the picture becomes pixelated and blocky. As if there was no gray scale, just blotchy blobs. My older Captivate plays these scenes perfectly.

I made a video showing this problem. It shows a comparison of my Samsung Captivate, and my new Galaxy Note. Here is the You Tube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg

I have tried to post about this issue to the AT&T reviews forum several times, but they will not accept the post. I wonder why?..... [NOT!]

There is a test pattern in this forum in another thread. Here is the link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559800

It has a 22 rectangular block grid of different gray scale gradations, from white to black. Does your Note reproduce this test correctly (a gradual darkening of all the blocks until the numbers from 7 to 0 are difficult to see), or does it look like mine (all the numbers from 21 to 1 are visible, and 0 is completely black?

I LOVE this phone but for this one irritating problem. I truly hope that a fix is forthcoming from Samsung.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cgibsong002:
There was a huge thread dedicated to this with sample patterns, pics, etc, that just got deleted. Seems some members are requesting mods revive it, so just wait and see if that comes back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] andrawer:
Nice try. New member?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cgibsong002:
clearly he is..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
No, this person already posted these videos and mentioned that their posts are getting revoked on the AT&T site. And in the old thread, so they knew it existed. Why the new account??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
It's not a new account. I remember him having 9 posts in my black clipping thread. But since it got deleted, so did all of his posts. That's why he's showing 1 post.

Edit: Since no one has helped him post a link yet, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
Ahhhhh, thanks. My tin foil hat has been on since that thread was deleted :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
Has the clipping problem improved on the Seraphim ROM? I haven't had time to flash yet, but someone posted a photo last night right before the thread got deleted, and it showed improvement.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
Exact same as ICS leak for me, major clip between 6 and 7.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
Hmm, okay - thanks. schrochem posted a picture, supposedly from the Seraphim ROM last night that showed all numbers visible, but substantial improvement in terms of clipping. He posted another picture originally from April 3rd (before the ICS leak) that showed major clipping between 0 and 1.

It's weird that one user would show substantially improved clipping with 1 visible, while another still has major clipping between 6 and 7 on the same ROM. Clipping point is clearly a software setting, so I'm a bit confused. Same ROM = same software, right?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
Well to be fair, if he posted last night, he had a pre-release of seraphim, whereas I flashed the official one this morning. Though it is hard to imagine there would be any difference. schrochem could tells us for sure though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] SayWhat10:
why was the original post deleted? was there even a fix yet before it got the boot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] schrochem:
Yep that was me.

It's taken even a more bizarre twist.

Left - stock GB

Middle - Seraphim ICS pre release

Right - Seraphim ICS official

Weird huh?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] schrochem:
Holy crap this damn image thing is busted...

Well I can't get the third one to show up, even after trying four times...

Here is the official seraphim from this morning.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
Ugh...so it looks like whatever they unintentionally fixed in the pre release got unfixed in the official release. Is the pre-release the ROM found on post 501 of the Unofficial ROM thread? If not, let me know where I can get it, because I want to try it to see if it makes a difference. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] schrochem:
It was on post 501 but they took it down because the server traffic was too much. You might contact them and see if they could put it back up.

That would be very interesting to see.

I have the zip...its 500Mb but my upload speeds are slooooooow
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] borijess:
I am on official seraphim and it doesn't clip at 6 anymore I can see all the way up to 1 then black. Just like gingerbread.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] cgibsong002:
I think it was said that the 501 post was technically still gingerbread faked to look like ICS.. unless I misunderstood what they said.

Either way there's the same clipping in each of those photos.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
There was a pre-release of Seraphim up for about 20 minutes yesterday in post 501. It was for sure an ICS build. Those guys are swamped, so I won't bug them now, but I would like to get a copy of this to see if it has any effect. It is very curious the variety of results.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] schrochem:
OK the weirdness continues. Now my official release looks like the one in the middle. That's the one from the pre release.

I can say that flashing the pre release went without error and the other did have a hiccup. Yesterday I had cleared caches to see if that was the reason but the third pic stayed the same.

Today I cleared them again and also cleared Google play data cache. Now it looks like the pre release photo above. I can't think of anything else I altered today or last night.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
I can confirm this. Didn't want to post because it makes no sense. I didn't even clear my cache or change anything with my ROM. Yesterday I had a hard clip between 6-7. Now today, EXACT same image, viewing in the same app (Quickpic on 32-bit) and same brightness, mine looks just like your middle image. :confused:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nm3th:
Do you guys have a link to the grayscale pic you are using to test this? Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
Post 1 here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559800
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nm3th:
Thanks, I checked out that post prior to posting here, but it was giving me an error when dl from my phone. I'll try again on my pc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
All I can say is this has to do with Quickpic. The clipping is obvious in Gallery, Dropbox, any other image viewer. But with Quickpic, it shows the hard clipping for a split second, then flashes to a decent transition across the numbers. I thought it was the 32-bit mode, but turning that off and on has no effect. No real changes honestly, just strange the Quickpic is showing something completely different today over yesterday.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] borijess:
Your right

Sent from the TermiNOTEr! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] schrochem:
I'd agree with that because I see that quick flash too. Didn't quickpic update last night? Hmmm
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
I can confirm this as well, with the latest update of QuickPic. I am still on DAGr8's Alpha 2. Same exact behavior.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Dark Sol:
Looks like crap, almost as mine. Mine is even worse. 2.3.6.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dvd7000:
I was wondering if the "fix" of moving the cut off to just below the #4 rectangle (mine is just below #1) results in a more pleasing (albeit still not correct) viewing experience.

A recent post (deleted?) by Stang70Fastback had a link to the Glee demo video played back on a Note that displayed much less crushing effect.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dAoremXgY

Although I'm not able to clearly see what his gamma test pattern looked like, I'm guessing that it might be similar to yours.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] borijess:
You should be viewing this on qikpic on u r phone and not on your web page.

Sent from the TermiNOTEr! ;)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Dark Sol:
I wish i knew. This is all so confusing. All i know is that the screen issue is there. And it has something to do with both the bit depth, palette and maybe the screen itself.

If i use Voodoo adjuster and pull it to the left then the whole screen turns into total BLACK CRUSH. If i move it at about 80% left then i get 0-8 completely black in pattern as opposed to 0-4 in normal lighting.

Also = the pattern looks COMPLETELY black in full rgb on my Philips Full hd TV.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Sammy631:
I have the same problem as OP! Good job on your thread. Please make a sticky untill it's fixed.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
Yeah right, the mods will just lock it like the last one with 500 posts:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559800
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
This issue is honestly the only reason I'm even considering a SGS3. I watch A LOT of videos on my Note, and the crush is there in practically all of them -- which is especially embarrassing if you're trying to show someone else a video. I've even had several people ask me what is wrong with my screen!

Sadly, since they share screen tech, I suspect the SGS3 may also suffer from at least a little black clipping... I guess we'll all find out soon enough. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jjc5891:
Is the screen on the gs3 the same pentile or whatever its called by Samsung?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] andrawer:
have you checked your eyeballs for a crush affect?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
Yes. It's supposed to be a slightly improved version, but it's still just a pentile Super AMOLED (without the "plus") like we have in our Note...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Dark Sol:
Just for reference. Here is a good black test here too:

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

my bad note shoes all like brownish grey...not even black

LCD on the contrary shows gradient from white to complete black
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] satishp:
Check out GSMArena

Guys, check out GSMArena. I've reported the matter to them and they've published it. Everyone who are affected do leave a comment for the article at gsmarena.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] SKyRocKeting727:
Give us a link

-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke

NOTE user:

"take a deep breath, make sure to get a good look at it, relax and slowly take it in, the size is overwhelming at first but you will have a happy ending afterwards".

Woman:

:O
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
"Recently discovered" my ass! But yeah, it's awesome to finally see someone bring some sort of attention to the issue.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_plagued_by_display_issues-news-4513.php
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ZacDerbyshire:
Mine goes to 4 and then becomes completely black.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] toyfreak:
First six rectangles are completely black on mine no matter what settings or viewer app I try. :(

Rest of Note and current stock ROM are great except for flaky GPS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Ahmed_PDA2K:
Yes, this happens on my Note too, it is very very annoying and kills the experience when watching anything really dark, I posted about this a while ago in some forums, but other people did not confirm the issue on their side so I thought it was only me, good thing it is confirmed now.

Add to that the poor S-pen performance (which was the main reason i got the Note in the first place), Note was a huge flop for me, I'm very disappointed, I will wait before even thinking about getting Note 2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] amolebirje1982:
For those who have this issue, atleast try to either upgrade or downgrade your firmwares or if possible try a custom rom. I watched Megamind in mkv format and there was no issue in ICS but saw gray blocks in older gingerbread rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
I've tried almost every Rom ever made for the i717, and the black clipping problem is still there on all of them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] amolebirje1982:
Mine is the international gt n7000 version and i think the problem of black crush haunts mainly the us version.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] carhigh:
My broken note had the problem but my 2 day old new one doesn't. I flashed a stock rooted fj rom soon as I got it so not sure if it had the problem on gb. I should check my wife's white note and my sons
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] crawt1:
I have the official ICS. View "2001 A Space Odysey" Opening on YouTube - it's the 1:17 one

Enough to make me puke...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
Wow, that vid is especially bad. Makes me sad... damnit! :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Aenima462:
Using cyanogenmod9 and quickpic. A test image from 1 - 20 (out of a scale of 100) appears perfect. There is absolutely no sign of black crush.

Before using other roms, the black crush would happen around 8 or 7 as many other have experienced. I'm so happy that this is fixed with cm9; and if you don't believe me, I can take pictures.

I'm so glad I decided to check today :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] dvd7000:
I would be very interested in seeing some pictures.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] FANdroid:
That Space Odyssey video is 240p and looks terrible on both of my laptops as well. Not sure what you are trying to prove here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
That video is not one of the usual tests. This problem occurs on any HD video, graphic image, or photograph that has dark transitions -- regardless of format or source.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] crawt1:
It looks great on my PC and laptops, don't know what you have. I am demonstrating a real world vid here, it's not a scientific test but it looks lousy.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] amcl:
Installed CM Nightly due to your post. I definitely see all the way from 7 to 1 using quickpic, however, checking out http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php using the included browser shows clipping at 7 again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tenderchkn:
QuickPic has been rendering dark grays correctly since the first ICS leak:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25021632&postcount=405

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25390760&postcount=454

Unfortunately, we don't know why and how to make other apps render colors the same way.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Black6spdZ:
Does everyone realize that the screen brightness level changes this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
it doesn't improve it, if that's what you're implying...?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Black6spdZ:
It makes it less apparent.. the test image looks fine on my phone.. only videos really show it but thats because of video compression
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] paleh0rse:
it's not just because of video compression. Play the same HD or HQ videos on another decent device -- iphone, laptop, ipad, desktop, tv, etc -- and you'll see that most others display the EXACT SAME video streams just fine... and no, it's not an app problem. It's the display. Period.

But you're correct, 100% brightness can kinda sorta hide or lessen the problem for some HD content... but not so much.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] McBang2023:
So.... No one has found a software fix? Have we concluded that the issue is hardware?

Sent from my Behemoth
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] katamari201:
Haha. My computer has black clipping problems too. I use an HDTV hooked up to my computer as a monitor. It cannot do full RGB. It can only do limited RGB, like most TVs. You have to fiddle with graphics settings and video player settings so that it converts all the color values to limited RGB. Most videos work fine. Flash videos have clipping, but not youtube ones. I can tell when they convert the values in the video, because the blacks are lighter, so they are just bumping the lower values up when they convert it, leaving the rest alone. Games also have black clipping, but most games have gamma controls so moving the slider up until I see the pretty provided image is all I need to do.

Haha this has nothing to do with the Note does it? Just brainstorming...

The AMOLED panel should be capable of showing those lower black values. However, from what I hear about how inconsistent it is and the different values people use in screen adjuster, it should be at least in part, hardware related, since software shouldn't be that inconsistent. Samsung should just provide a screen calibrator in the settings. Hell, even without clipping issues, they should provide a calibrator, since AMOLEDs have weird colors and temperature, etc. Every freakin phone maker should have a screen calibrator. Google should just bake it into Android. Screens are bound to have some issues. At least give users the option to mitigate it, if not completely solve it.

BTW. If you are having clipping issues, how old is your phone? Do the new ones still have clipping issues? I want a note...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] mv1luv:
None yet..
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Wintersdark:
I don't argue that some have this problem, but my i717 absolutely does not. Test screens showing low blackness levels have easily discernable graduations barring the first couple, and there is no blockiness to HD black shading in video, even when my display brightness is down - I generally leave it on automatic.

There certainly is in SD, but that is a compression issue. I spent a fair chunk of time comparing my Notes display to my HDTV and desktop, and my Note had less black crush than both (though admittedly my HDTV is pretty dated now).

Im very anal about these things, too, and am absolutely not just trying to create endless debate or cover up what is obviously a problem for many.

I suspect that it's an inconsistency in the display manufacturing processes resulting in varying quality levels (which is actually pretty normal from a manufacturing point of view)

Is there manufactured on date stamp anywhere? Or part of the serial number? I'd be interested in comparing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] khel26:
My note has had that awful black crush eversince i got it in Feb. Then i accidentally dropped my phone and cracked the screen.. Had to pay 200 to have it replaced by samsung. After i got my newly replaced screen, black crush is COMPLETELY GONE. i have to say its definitely hardware.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] JGuinan007:
Samsung admitts the existance of Black crush

I spoke to a samsung cust service the other day with ICS update issues and brought up the black crush issue I have. They offered to send me a shipping lable and to send my phone in to them for a week, but could not say for sure it would be fixed. She told me about 60% of the time they are sent in they have no repeat calls about the same issue. That leaves 40% of cust call back after sending their phone in for a week only to get it back still with black crush and that does not account for the ones that got it back with black crush and didn't bother to get back in touch to samsung. I dont won't to go without a phone for a week and get it back wiped of all my dataand still have black crush. She also said they are working on an update but she could not say when that would be released (but that does seem to suggest it is a software issue) so I guess I'll wait till that is released, perhaps with the JB update?.:eek:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] khel26:
You could wait or you could just send it in. Cust svc words are one thing but they are located on the other side of the world so they have little idea on whats really.going on.. I experienced it when i asked for info on the parts needed to be replaced and some details about the phone. They told me to just have it sent and let the real techs figure it out coz all they can do is log the call, get your credit card info and send a shipping label. And yes they would wipe out the phone and install ics 4.04. And it takes 2 weeks to get your phone back
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] VoluntaryMan:
Well there's this in h0tw1r3's CM10 builds... it seems to make it more grainy instead of blocky.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Afishl1:
I just tried that and it didn't seem to work for me, im on paranoid hybrid cm10 and still get the black crush, im guessing its hardware

Sent from the galaxy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] VoluntaryMan:
It doesn't fix the black crush completely but it helps by making the dark gradients pixelated instead of hard black lines cutting apart your picture.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Afishl1:
Maybe I didn't have a good comparison to show the difference, but I couldn't tell if it was better
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] sudarsan:
No Black Crush with desktop mode

After many search on the Black crush I came to a conclusion that my note has no hardware issues - No Black Crush with desktop mode of youtube video (any web browser) :good: - the same video has black crush on mobile mode web browser and youtube application :crying:.

Thanks,

Sudarsan.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Afishl1:
That's interesting, I'll have to give that a try... I believe that I did once hear a theory of apps only being 16bits or something and that's why it was happening idk

Update: Still got the crush with the regular browser, opera and I'm assuming the rest don't work with flash on paranoid android cm10 :(

Like I believe one of the original posters from this thread used, I look for it in the avengers assemble trailer, pretty easy to see every time it cuts to black between shots