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[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
This is very obvious the first few hours using the phone. Horrible sharpening halos around texts most noticeable on gray and non white backgrounds. It kills the black contrast of the text as well making it look gray and not to mention a pain to read. You can spot it easily in browser forums here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2250376 and here: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/hardware-clinic-2/

It looks even worse in than that in actual use.

Am I the only one bothered by this?
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
I used to feel that aswell on my Acer GD245HQ when i was like 2 cm from it, then i got glasses and standed at a normal distance and they disapear :D
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
Supercurio is busy working his magic for the display ;) a few of his tweets:

"with tuned sharpening, perceived sharpness can be nicely improved, sans visible artefacts"

"image processor from GS3 is from a newer generation than any existing devices, adding finer controls over useful parameters"

"settings are clearly over-cooked (not the first time and no preset is reasonable /accurate) it's perfect for Display Expert"

He's also addressing black crush etc...

Sent from my CM9 TouchPad
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
i agree. unless it is norm to put your phone very near your eyes,use a magnifying lens or microscope when using your phone daily.

:D
[Galaxy S III General] jonathanyong:
I just viewed the linked pages on my gs3 and I'm having a very hard time seeing what you're talking about. How does the text look remotely grey? And what halos? Text is sharp and easy to read even when zoomed out a fair bit. As you'd expect since it's a 300+ ppi screen.

Are you talking about the anti-aliasing? You don't want the font to be anti-aliased or something? Even in your magnified photo, I can't see what the problem is?
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
It isn't the anti alisaing. I increased the contrast a little to show the problem more clearly.

Notice the halos around the characters? Still dont know what is wrong? In browser tap menu, brightness and colors, select level 1 power saving. This makes the display color a little bluish but also eliminates the sharpening and makes the text much better looking as it should. Compare it to default and see if you notice a difference.
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
I dont need a magnifying glass or bring the my device close to see the effect. Its perfectly visible at my normal reading distance.
[Galaxy S III General] B3311:
Yes, I see it. Doesn't bother me at all.
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
After a while you dont even notice it anymore, seems natural, but as said above, supercurio is working on some tools to help out :)
[Galaxy S III General] jonathanyong:
Ok I see it now. I can't really see that without the magnified and enhanced pic though. I think I can see a slight difference when using level 1 power saving but it's really difficult to know for sure. My eyes must be terrible!
[Galaxy S III General] SiNJiN76:
Maybe this phone needs to be used with Google Glasses? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
SGS3D ?
[Galaxy S III General] bloodrain954:
Let's complain about everything! Anyone else notice the white isn't really white? It's more of a off white! Wtf Samsung!
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Please keep this thread related to the original topic, if you want to discuss if your screen is white or something else go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1658601

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] doronster195:
He was making a joke..........
[Galaxy S III General] LeviathanPT:
Ah sorry im too sensitive today .. :(
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
I think this is a legitimate issue. I can see the poor text rendering in all lighting conditions unlike complains about imperfect blacks that can only be seem in pitch dark conditions. Joking aside the poor whites are also an issue.
[Galaxy S III General] Guancho:
I am also really annoyed by the over sharpening. I hope displayexpert is released soon and takes care of the issue..
[Galaxy S III General] Toss3:
Me too. Really, really annoying, but let's just wait for supercurio to do his magic. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Just another HOX buyers remorse thread. Move along.
[Galaxy S III General] jhericurls:
I came from a Galaxy Nexus to this and it stands out like a sore thumb to me. The Nexus and S3 pretty much have the same screen. Yet the text on the Nexus is silky smooth :(
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
Glad I was not the only one. I am now using level 1 power save mode in browser which disables the sharpening. Text looks much better but at the expense of a blue tint.
[Galaxy S III General] GoldenTiger:
Just another sad forum troll named SlimJ87D, move along.
[Galaxy S III General] tremblingwater:
It is clearly noticeable. I hope some magic will be available soon to fix this.

That is pretty much the only major complaint so far.
[Galaxy S III General] onslaught86:
Bothers me too. Suspect it'll be fixed when Supercurio releases his display tuner. Doesn't seem as obvious on the less saturated screen modes - natural & movie.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
Can't see anything wrong. Lucky for me I guess. :)
[Galaxy S III General] rovex:
We could do with a bit of sharpening tweaking, thats true, but i have no black crush. Using Supercurios Voodoo screen test i tested my phones greyscale with a calibrator, the same i used on my Plasma and it was VERY near perfect. It could detect a change at every IRE value the app threw out, all the way from 0 in increments or 2 up to 100. That mighty impressive. One or two had a colour cast, mostly blue at the top end, but it was remarkably good, better than my ISF calibrated plasma actually.

The problem is its difficult to see on a small screen and i wonder if the videoplayers are the ones crushing the black for people, not the screen itself. Im going to be testing a friends HOX and iP4s later to see how they perform.
[Galaxy S III General] mark.m.moran:
Exact same here man, came from a Galaxy Nexus as well and it just plain looked weird and not right at all at all compared to the Nexus......seems a few people here are seeing it too with the AOKP ROM - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1716001&page=25

Cheers,

M
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
The effect is not unlike looking at the image from a cheap digital camera. It also makes the pentile pixelation much more noticeable. Can't wait for supercurio's display fix.
[Galaxy S III General] mark.m.moran:
Here here!!
[Galaxy S III General] jhericurls:
I get a feeling that not everyone is having this problem, as this thread would of been a lot longer by now.

Also from numerous reviews they praised how good the screen was.
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
Not everyone had this problem because everyone's usage is different. If you not doing alot of web reading and not picky about text rendering then you won't be bother by this at all. But I am pretty sure this effect happens on all GS3 as it's a software setting.
[Galaxy S III General] mark.m.moran:
The screen is AMAZING on stock ROM and many others I have tried but for some reason CM9 and AOKP look weird on my phone.....and some others too feel the same by the looks of it.
[Galaxy S III General] omersak:
I saw the sharpening artifacts. but then i took an arrow to the knee.

Honestly, one needn't worry as it's a software issue that can be fixed - and will be soon, thanks to supercurio.

And it's actually a much better screen than the Gnex and it's horrible mess of blotchy/grainy grays screen. It's the least 'pentile' looking pentile screen i've used, too.

Can't quite match the wonderfully bright and sharp screen of the note, though. not yet, anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] decampo:
Last night I flashed CM9 on to my SGS3 and also noticed how blurry text and images are. In comparison, the screen looks incredible on the stock Samsung ROM.

Any ideas what the cause of this is? In addition, could anyone recommend SGS3 ROMs that do not have this screen issue.

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] mark.m.moran:
I have tried nearly all the ROM's that are up here and they are all fine and have no blurry text etc. except the AOKP and CM9 ones......

Cheers,

M
[Galaxy S III General] mark.m.moran:
Any update on a fix for this guys??
[Galaxy S III General] Tomatoes8:
I actually like the whites better on the GS3 than my new iPad, One X, and Xperia S. The warm yellow tints just click something in my brain that tells me dirty or stained. The cool whites of the GS3 and AMOLED looks like a super high resolution white. Kind of like how a white background would look on your HDTV if you crank up the contrast and brightness to the maximum.
[Galaxy S III General] rlorange:
Agreed! I don't like the whole mode of LCD. Filtering primary colours from a white back light just never looks quite right to me. AMOLED has it's weakneses but nothing beats self illuminated pixels on a jet black background. Pastels look painted and deep colours electric.
[Galaxy S III General] matttye:
Never noticed it. I'm not anal about such things.
[Galaxy S III General] jhericurls:
Both SpeedMod and Franco Kernels, now have a MDNIE screen mod and this fixes the artifacting some what.
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
Great news. Thanks
[Android General] SWFlyerUK:
I hope this is the correct forum, I understand that it would have been discussed before, but after a search was unable to find what I was looking for.

I worrying stumbed across this article this afternoon and it got me very worried.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/android-apps-can-steal-your-photos-too-1068135

Are there infact any known apps that have or are doing this at the moment, this could even be a put off for me buying another android device come October when my contract updates.

What app's are available which could ensure my devices security is as safe as possible?

Thanks - concerned android user.
[Android General] mistermentality:
Its a problem the iphone also has but afaik no apps have been shown to actually do it even though they can.

Dave

( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
[Android General] SWFlyerUK:
Its says in the srticle thst one google develop did it, on boot the images on the sd card wnere uploaded to a photo sharing site.
[Android General] mistermentality:
It says they had a developer make an app specifically just to test it was possible, no app was available that did it so they wanted to verify it could be done.

Iphone has same problem except it can also take your contacts data too so while no android app is known to have utilised the exploit the only way to guarantee safety is use a less hackable os such as wp7 or Blackberry.

Dave

( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s4shyam95:
Can kernel dev be done using virtualbox on windows ?

coz when i connect usb to set up adb, it gets detected in windows and not ubunt,

please help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhine.bryu:
What's the reply from adb on Ubuntu?? You need to add permissions in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules and in $HOME create .android/android_usb.ini and put there the VendorID of your device starting with "0x". Check it with lsusb. Also please check is your USB enabled in VirtualBox.

BR,

RhineBryu
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] johnp453:
I'm running ICS on my 3d and just want to know if its worth using a upgrade to get the 4g Lte..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jsonger121:
in my opinion its night and day difference. my phone is great so far its just got a problem with getting warm on the back when using it so idk if i should get a new one or not but other than that the phone is a strait beast. i paid retail and im happy as hell with it. if ya got the cesh then do it for sure.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] jvs60:
It's way better in just about every way. I would've upgraded for just the battery life improvement alone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mildlydisturbed:
Camera = slightly better... still has a lot of the video blrups that smartphones have that people don't see.

Battery life = much better - can go 24 hours on my usage... your usage may vary.

Phone call quality - significantly better

Quadrants:

E3D = 4500 max rooted, overclocked, etc.

e4glte = 4830min / 5600 max I saw.

Backup times (TWRP)

e3D: 340 seconds

4glte: 60 seconds (going by someone else's report on this, not rooting for a few days to get stock memorized)

Although the signal bars aren't really an indicator of anything, there seem to be more bars in more places ;)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] slayer69:
Just the weight and thinness of the phone is so much better then the 3d...plus all the other stuff listed.....
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sand1303:
I love my 3d. But after playing with the lte in the store I can't wait till my line opens up for upgrade. If we don't get the early upgrade option in December that we got last year I'm gonna have to do the buyout for the last few months
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TheDoctor1971:
I still have my Evo 3D and the new LTE. Holding them side by side you can see a significant difference in display quality. The LTE is so much crisper.

The LTE is kind of slippery without a case (at least for me). I almost dropped it in the store and its fallen out of my pocket twice because I can't find a leather belt clip case that I like. Its survived without a ding.

Battery life is excellent. I usually stream music with Audiogalaxy to my bluetooth speakers for 2-4 hours every night at work. The 3D would be at 20% by the end of the night while the LTE was at 64% last night.

There's some quirks like it not recognizing the car dock most of the time. The car dock is nice though when it works.

Its a bit too large for one handed use but I expected this. Its great for my aging eyes.

The camera is f'ing amazing. I'd buy it for the camera alone (in fact that was my justification for buying it). Shutter speed is snappy as hell and it'll take multiple pics in a row as fast as my DSLR will.

That's my 2 cents.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Mdobble:
I find this true as well, so much so that I've only used it to make calls and text[OG Evo for the rest] until my case arrives. This phone is like a suicidal supermodel :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TheDoctor1971:
Regarding slipperiness, ghost-armor.com finally has the LTE on their site but not available to order just yet. Its been my screen/body protector of choice for years. I'm thinking it'll give my some tactile grip without sacrificing looks by sticking a case on it since its transparent (unless you get the matte or other finishes).
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmorephotos:
I put off the upgrade in the hope the UK stock update would come but eventually changed my mind as all posts seemed to say ICS was alot better.

Have a few things I would like people to comment on.

Used the LAIOT tool which made it relativly straight forward. Few hiccups but got there.

1) Part of the process was to ROOT.

ICS installed Titanium Backup it says its not ROOTED.

2) I'm surprised at how stripped down the US stock ROM is in terms of bloat (which is good).

No stock file manager.

3) I must say I don't see any real benefit on the ICS upgrade and would be happy to be pointed to what they are.

4) Still unable to delete files from memory card.

5) I used Astro to backup my Pre-ICS xoom and hoped to be able to restore APPS but I assume this was just if the upgrade failed and I went back to HONEYCOMB as Astro doesn't see the files.

6) I read that boot-up speed was almost instant, but it seems to be the same albeit with a fancy video splash before screen up.

7) not sure if I need to relock bootloader or if I have already as part of LAIOT process. Too many threads and info.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wesamothman:
Hi there. Without doubt. Ics is a lot better.

I am not sure your rooting we t well with custom ics rom. Here is the best rom with procedure for your xoom wifi.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400958
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmorephotos:
Hi

Sorry don't understand second line of your reply.

That ROM procedure assumes you have knowledge of recovery such as CWM which I don't unless with full instructions.

That thread is way to long to go through but glancing it seems some aspects are still reliant on info that Google hasn't released so the ROMs are incomplete.

My post says that with the stock from I really can't see change from Honey to ICS.

That being said then why would I then go to the TeamEOS ROM, I ask so as to be convinced not to disrespect.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daley stephenson:
hey

if your looking for a decent ics experience id suggest flashing official cm9 details found here http://goo.gl/UmT44

also check this link http://goo.gl/yveok its a basic introduction on ics features - might help

p.s you dont need to relock the bootloader either - you dont want to go down that road - leave it unlocked for now
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
How to fix? Im on paranoid android and trying to flash ff02 modem.zip through the el29 cwm recovery and keep getting a status 7 error. Everytime i search it pulls threads from entire xda and nothing i saw was close to what i needed using xda app

Edit: didnt like el29.. flashed through el26cwm.tar and worked flawless..
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] xdarkstar178x:
does anybody else get fuzzy pictures? i just noticed it happening. espically when i zoom in. and the focus seems to be louder than before. but im not sure if thats just me worrying about it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kleeman7:
When you zoom its digital zoom essentially cropping it to look bigger, and the camera noise its a sound played by the speaker. So if your ringtone volume is louder the sound will be louder.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] xdarkstar178x:
even without zooming its seems that it is really fuzzy. and its the sound of the actual camera, not the noise coming from the speaker. i have the volume all the way down and when it is focusing it makes a lot of noise. i think that the focus may be broken.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kleeman7:
Oh ok, mineakes no noise, other than the artificial sound, you most likely have bad hardware, take it back to where you got.it and show them the issue to get a replacement if possible.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] veliksam:
Maybe there's oil or nostril mucus on your lense? Maybe moisture?

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
Pretty sure its normal for the camera to make a faint "click" as it auto focuses. Try pointing the camera at different distances (to subject being photographed), or slide the zoom all the way from one extreme to another. Its pretty faint, so you have to listen closely, and if there is any background noise you may not hear it at all. It also doesn't seem to make the noise all the time. Sometimes it also clicks when you exit the camera app.

At least I hope its normal, as my phone does it! :-O

Agree that if the noise has gotten louder, and the camera is not focusing, the camera hardware may have failed.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kleeman7:
It's very faint I should have said.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] joshuaadude:
A lot of my photos come out blurry as well, but thats because my hand shakes and whatnot. While the HOX takes beautiful photos, it is VERY easy to blur them if your hands arent steady enough.

On the other hand, my video keeps freezing up every time I hit the record button. I have to reset the phone to solve the issue. This problem didn't come up until after I rooted my phone. Perhaps theres a correlation there..?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] xdarkstar178x:
now that you mentioned it i didnt notice it until after i was rooted. i just updated to the newest ruu (which is annoying me with my contacts) and im gunna see if it still happens. thank you for the responses everyone.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] equlizer:
This is probably the 10th thread about this subject. Its normal and its coming from the lens itself.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] joshuaadude:
How is unable to record video "normal?"
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] desiregeek:
My HTC One XL pictures also look pretty shabby. Take any picture and zoom in after to see just how fuzzy and blurry they are. With the iPhone 4S they are much better. Not nearly as much blur or fuzz in pictures taken by iPhone 4s.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sultanzaino:
Hi All,

i hope you can help with this, i made the setup of exchange email account to my gt-n7000, same as i did to my previous iPhone, however, everything is synced and the email i send from the device shows in all connected devices, except the incoming emails, my device failed to receive any eamils although all the settings are correct, if it possible to access advanced settings were to set the in coming emails.

please help,

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krypton_the_slayer:
I see that the NOTE uses ogg files for the camera sounds, but the stock music player and winamp says the phone doesn't play them.:(

Glad that they will play FLAC but why no OGG? If someone can confirm a player that works, perferably free or not £3+ I'll be happy.

I can't get my head around why they won't play!

Thanks in Advance ppl!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p107r0:
Not sure about other ROM versions, but on my LQ2 the stock music player handles ogg files without problems
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] swogg:
my phone is a hardware rev # 9. i have heard this is the version with problems. i am experiencing alot of dropped calls.

does anyone know what the latest hardware revision is?

and share some of your phone problems along with hardware revision #'s(you can find your # in recovery screen)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vnbrusov:
Hello!

I bought new lumia 610 in finland, without Russian language.

How can I change it?

Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dapana:
No problems with my Serendipity 7 ROM aside from a few occasional crashes/freezes, on my i897... but then last night, out of no where, my screen wasn't coming on. I thought it had froze again, so I did the Vol up/down+power reboot.

Came back up, then when I tried to turn the screen on again, it wasn't working. I put the cable in for power/USB, and the screen came up no problem. I thought maybe the power button wasn't working, but it reboots with all three buttons down... not sure why. Then I tested just holding the two Vol buttons and no power, but it still rebooted...

Looks like the power button is acting stuck down even though I can clearly hear the button working. Ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] studacris:
Mobile tech videos has a fairly affordable power button replacement service.

sent mine you him, got it back in perfectly working order within a week.
[General Questions and Answers] alex.cph:
I want to add an APP to my SGS2, At which stage you add an APP and How when Rooting?

Thanks

ALex Cph
[General Questions and Answers] TheRomMistress:
Que?

You can add apps at anytime? I am not sure what you are asking....
[General Questions and Answers] muralikrishna72003:
You want to add or install the app? for installing the app below are the steps to be followed

Option1: (If you have apk file)

1. Place the apk file in /system/app folder using root explorer or es file explorer

2. give permissions to the app from file explorer

3. click on the app it starts installing

Option2: (if you have the zip file for app)

1. boot into recovery

2. install the zip from sdcard

3. Fix Permissions

4. Reboot now
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamvanner:
are there any ROMS (or other means!) of getting tablet mode or that kind of smaller fonts and smaller screen real estate on the stock ICS rom? (I already have the font set to smallest) Ive not found any decent rom which doesnt support MHL, which is not something I'd like to loose.

cheers