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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] rancidm:
Ooooh aahhhhh

and evrybody is waiting for oficial ics...

screw ics i want this stuff..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aranurea:
And here I was smiling at my v6 Supercharged T989 running Darkside ICS...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] SupaKid:
Imagine V6 Supercharger..... + Linaro......
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zander145:
I'm at a lack of words to describe how exciting that news is. I'm on build 607_02 now, gonna be on it a while because my girl likes to play Fruit Ninja on my phone and everytime I flash a new AOKP build I don't like restoring app data so she has to unlock all that stuff again and I get a ear full... Was gonna just wait it out until the build he does with official source when he gets back, but if he can get this out too, Imma flash away!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] GorillaPimp:
Can't wait for this to come out in some T989 ROM.

Great work by the Linaro folks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aranurea:
Lulz at crApple.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] alleyezondisromo:
http://goo.im/devs/Whitehawkx/hercules/aokp_hercules_selfkang_0610-linaro.zip

LINARO AOKP
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pb3000:
i just saw that, its been a very nice good morning
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Adamkopo:
anyone else having trouble downloading?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] carandcar:
+1 Can't get the site to open.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] regime2008:
sadly, seems that the link is in fact, down =/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] keda51:
Use goo manager app from Play Store :thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bikrame:
Goo.im is down and also app is.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Locksmith81:
Early bird gets the worm.... been running this for almost 3 hours
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] droid75:
Mirror mirror:

http://www.droid75.com/files/aokp_hercules_selfkang_0610-linaro.zip
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] carandcar:
How is it performing? Speed, lag, etc?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jovy23:
When you flash that whitehawkx new Linaro AOKP update does it erase any of the external storage or internal storage? and is there any mirror or gapps because it seems to be down...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Agera:
Saw the video love the fact that this soon to be a reality for us, but there was no mention to if this will use more battery over stock 4.0.4.. Don't get me wrong im all for this I just want to know will battery life be compromised?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] -greenboy-:
can someone post screenshots.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] defconoi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1371044

No real improvement
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sigloiv:
The "100% improvement" is more than a little misleading. In this demo, vsync is enabled, so anything below 60fps is rounded down to 30 (hence the reason that the left demo is almost exactly 30fps and the right almost exactly 60fps). Without a doubt, there's definitely a speed increase here (both O3 and strict-aliasing are unambiguously faster), but it's almost certainly not 2x, which is probably the reason people aren't seeing such an amazing real world increase. Not to mention this is just a benchmark.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] baonguyen312:
That's awesome work!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] darkamikaze:
Video was posted June 1. Thread you link started Dec 1, 2011. Perhaps it has changed since then? Message Ez and see if he wants to run more benches.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] HTCMDA:
great...now it will be fast and full of bugs :rolleyes: looooooooool
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Charlie Brown:
Hmm very interesting.

Rahaha the long haired guy in the video is hilarious! He looks like a hippie older version of Cartman. And his overly pronounced S lol !!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blchff04:
Actually its a huge improvement just because one thread states this doesnt mean its true smh

liliputing.com/2012/06/android-is-about-to-get-a-lot-faster-thanks-to-linaro.html
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] anomy13:
Lol in the article it says one developer already made his own build in nexus.. did they mean whitehawkx?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tjbiker031:
I don't think Linaro would need V6 or it would even do anything. The way he made it sound in the videos he took care of everything pretty much at the CPU
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] harley1rocker:
Its probably been ask 100,000 times but I cant seem to find a str8 answer. Is ics stable,if so,wich one is the best? Im currently on blazer. I want to move to ics but want one thats as stable as blazer
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rwright64:
At this point they are all pretty stable. Once source comes out it will be even better. The one clicks seem to be the most stable but what fun is that! I've been running cm9, no name, aokp, stock ics. All awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] harley1rocker:
Do they have recovery? Do I have to use odin?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krazy_smokezalot:
The one click use Odin.

The rest you flash in recovery I suggest being on stock rooted el29 with el26 cwm stock recovery!!!

I can't stress this enough ONLY USE EL26 Stock CWM RECOVERY only please for your sake not mines!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] harley1rocker:
I know this is a dumb noob question but how do I know if im on stck rooted el29? And cwm el26.. Ive flashed blazer and I beleive im using gunslinger kernel. Do I need to be back stock rooted?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PopeJupiter:
Go to Settings>About Phone. Look at the Kernel.

View attachment 1120796

I'm on the FF02 Kernel. Look for EL29 there.

Sent from my SGSIIE4GT. Wickedly Sensational!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
I know you said you have searched and everything but honestly this is a place of research. To ask is ICS stable and say you have not gotten a definite answer is because so many people in here have different opinions of what stable really is. So many people in here post bugs that are not really bugs and honestly do not do their homework prior to posting. I am on CM9 and someone said they cant wait to get on CM9 when GPS is fixed but gps has never been an issue for me or a host of others. Also if it is there is a simple fix for it which has been around since GB.

If you do not know how to check your rom at this point to see what you version you are running which I understand is a noob issue. I would seriously read up on a few threads before moving forward to ICS. Its not for a noob at all unless you are prepared to possibly use your insurance. Not trying to scare but trying to make you aware...

Check out these links

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1525495

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1587607

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1703292

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1391959

Hope they help and honestly do your homework before trying anything crazy and always always always follow the OP

If you want to try an ICS rom try CM9 or one of sfhubs latest tar files... For ease and safety reasons I would go with sfhubs one click odin
[General Questions and Answers] matasz:
Hey guys, my EVO 3D is stuck on a boot loop, what should i do?

I can access bootloader, HBOOT 1.49.0007, S-ON.
[General Questions and Answers] leecavturbo:
I don't know how to fix but I do know that you will and can 100%

Some one will be along shortly
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] G_uillaume_S:
Hi,

Someone stepped on my USB cable when it was charging and bent/broke the USB end of the cable (not the end connected directly to my prime), the wires are loose and i'm trying to solder the wires to another USB cable that was lying around.

However i have not succeeded in making this work, probably because im connecting the cables wrong.

Can anyone tell me which wires are supposed to connect to what colours of the usb cable? They're 5 wires in a ASUS USB cable, but 4 in a regular USB cable and not all colours are the same...

Thank you!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] lamboboy732:
Well the Asus cable is a USB 3.0 I believe since it uses up to 15 volts, which means you need another USB 3.0 end to connect to. Other than that I am unsure about the matching of the wires.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
Comming from a Galaxy Note.. Which had the famous black crush issue..

I cannot believe they didn't fix it..

It's a effect under low lighting conditions. All the darker background would appear as blocks in videos..

so sad:(

The purpose of this thread is to inform those who are wanting to upgrade to the S3 to rethink twice. I for one wanted to get the s3 because my Gnote had this issue..

Edit: For those who understand this issue, does it happen on your S3?
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
Already discussed many times, no need to make a new thread

Galaxy S3 Display Problem! Pink tint + ink marks confirmed

It's a known problem for AMOLED screens including VITA as well
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
that thread concentrates on the pink tint&ink marks, while black crush is a completely different issue.
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
ink marks are the same as the black crush effect that you're talking about. Those are visible blocks of inks under low light conditions on black background
[Galaxy S III General] Minoza:
I don't think it is the same issue... I saw black crush, it's a different issue.
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
well I might be wrong but these vary. they may be spots or blocks. can you try to reproduce the same effect on photoshop?
[Galaxy S III General] Minoza:
It's really simple, famous "ink blotches/spots" are static and always appear in same place while crushed black appear in different places depending on what you're viewing, you can easily spot it in movies.
[Galaxy S III General] SirCanealot:
Please Google for black and white crushing. It's a video term that has nothing to do with the ink block thingies :)
[Galaxy S III General] jongilluley:
Having watched tron (very dark black scenes throughout) ihavent seen any crushing or ink spots on my sg3 so am I just lucky or will it happen at some point?
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
oh i see what you guys meant my bad :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Galaxy S III General] QAM:
Hola

I have a Galaxy Note and yes the black crush issue is a bloody mess. It is a primary reason why I would move away to the S3. I was only hoping that this issue was surely fixed in the S3, very very sad to hear this!!!

OP can you please post a pic of it if possible, their may be many others on the S3 that do not yet understand this problem. I'll see if I can find any decent pix on the Note forums on this issue.

Thanks for this info.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
This is very hard to capture on a camera.. Given this only happens on low lighting conditions. If you find a pic of it, i would gladly put it in OP
[Galaxy S III General] avocco:
I had the Galaxy Note and am very familiar with the black crush problem. The first thing I did when I got my S3 was to replay all the videos I had a problem with.

I didnt have any issues at all, There is no black crush problem on the Galaxy S3. Well not on mine anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] avocco:
You sure your talking about the black crush problem. That was visible on all light conditions. Whenever a video with dark scenes would run you could see blocks everywhere and that was annoying has hell. The Galaxy S3 does not have that problem in my experience while using it.

Edit: I just went to YouTube and played back the same videos I had the problems with on the Galaxy Note, again eveything was perfect. Pure deep blacks. No disgusting blocks everywhere.

The OP of this tread is most likely referring to ink splotches that can be seen on very low light conditions.
[Galaxy S III General] htc9420:
OMG. Antennagate for HXO, coding for Samsung. Well, it's the zillion cores working hard to please the eye, some got lazy:D
[Galaxy S III General] erahk64:
Here are some examples of black crush.

The picture quality is bad but it's still possible to see the black crush.

The upper screen is Galaxy S II and the lower screen is Galaxy S III.

In this pic there is black crush on the roof on S III.

In this pic there is black crush on the audience on the left side.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
I am indeed talking about the black crush. Not the ink marks.

The ink marks does not effect normal use of the phone, while the black crush issue effects my normal use of the phone very much. Will be contacting Expansys for an exchange, As this is a hardware issue, not software.
[Galaxy S III General] Doughnut:
Mine suffers from this, a black patch that appears under grey colours and dark backgrounds it's in the middle of my screen...

Can other S3 users check theirs?

I don't see them unless it's a dark image.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
I see them, but it's alot worse in my case..
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
There's definitely black crush on the default screen settings but power saving level 1 in browser is surprisingly good in terms of black detail and also improves text appearance by reducing sharpening artifacts. Use this to test:

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

Now if only power save level 1 doesn't make the colors bluish.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
if more people confirm this i'll add it in the OP
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
They won't. Most people here deny having any black crush. But I am pretty sure most are unable to see the squares on the first row with the default mode.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
sigh, im getting my exchange, hopefully it's better
[Galaxy S III General] Xsannz:
i will confirm the issue,

i posted in the NZ users thread about my issues.

i am on my third one (this one has the least black crush) but still has it in the form of small blotches and lines.

the telco store i got mine tested all 26 in their stock and confirmed all 26 had the issue the first 2 had it realy really badly blotches the size if my thumbnail.

currently i am wihtout my unit as the samsung rep is going to visit the telco i purchased mine from and go through their stock with th manager.

they couldnt see it at fist, but then i showed them how to view it and it become really obvious.

quick and easy way to test

dark room

turn auto brightness off

set screen to lowest brightness setting

go to phoen dial *#0*#

run the vibrate test which displays a blakc screen.

you will notice any dark splodges under the screen.
[Galaxy S III General] tian105:
thats good customer service right there. here in the U.S. they woukd have told me to gtfo.. lol
[Galaxy S III General] kulzboy:
indeed Samsung required me to pay for a gps repair for my vibrant 1 month after purchase. Isn't that like like giving me a finger?

tey need to be like apple where you can just walk in and exchange hassle free
[Galaxy S III General] nnotis:
I still get the sense there are two separate problems people are referring to in this thread. The splotch problem is new to me. As a Note owner, black crush is not.

I understand black crush is due to poor gamma calibration of the screens. Going from black to just barely lighter than black should be almost imperceptible. But on the Note, barely lighter than black looked very distinctly lighter and blueish. It made dark movies unwatchable. Gradients between black and dark gray became the dominant visual feature on the screen.

Thankfully, it seems to have been predominantly fixed by kernel developer Franco. So if Samsung has the S3 screen poorly calibrated in their stock kernel, hopefully someone like Franco will write one that corrects it.
[Galaxy S III General] Xsannz:
No blotch is black spots under lcd when on a dark background.

It's a bonding or glue issue with the screens
[Galaxy S III General] trellva25:
Been using my blue S3 for slightly over two weeks now...black crush is most definitely there no doubt about it...its not as easy to see as compared to the note. when watching movies black crush is seldom evident in bright scenes. to notice black crush one has to watch a video in a dimly lit room, videos with dark scenes and lots of dark back ground shadows will show the black crush.

another problem i notice is gradient banding in certain videos...even the original demo video that comes with the s3 has it, if u watch closely as the sun begins to set at the end of the clip you will notice a small amount of gradient banding. now the higher the quality of the video the less noticeable is the gradient banding and black crush. i have already tested over 6 s3 and they all have it to some extent

My previous phone the S2 had the same issue...i feel thought the s2 screen handles the black crush issue way better than the s3, as the blacks on it are darker and overall the screen colors blend well.

there will be some people that wont notice the black crush due to the types of videos they watch, or they only watch videos in well light rooms, or they just don't pay attention to whats happening to the back ground in videos
[Galaxy S III General] galarond:
Well im coming from HOX and i can say the black issue, whatever is called is there, a movie with darks plays awesome in HOX and with THE Galaxy s3 the video is awful, the only thing why i miss my HOX, didnt have this issue in my GNEX ant least not that bad-
[Galaxy S III General] snowwhite007:
I don't have this problem at all playback is awesome
[Galaxy S III General] zen0s:
No black crush issue what so ever. Screen looks amazing compare to my old galaxy note. No pink/blue tints either. I'm so happy I returned gnote and got this bad boy, best phone ever.

F#@k Apple!
[Galaxy S III General] :
it seems many gs3 has black crush issue and gradient banding wich is a result of black crush?

so did someone already send it back to samsung? and more important did they fixed it?
[Galaxy S III General] quattro_rs:
i have the same thing when playing HD videos on dark seance, but whats weird is when i play the promo video that came with S3 "forward to the last 30~40 seconds" its very dark yet it does not show the same issue !

can it be caused by the encoding of the videos ?
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
Any chance where this black crush/pixelation issue getting fixed by firmware update or do I need to root my phone to get this solved?

Although supercurio confirmed that it's a software problem and he's bringing up a fix for it, I'm still hoping that a proper firmware update would fix this as I'm un-rooted.

Any update?
[Galaxy S III General] d4fseeker:
Firmware is also just software.

I don't think the screen has any updateable firmware, so the only solution is to correct the input.

Rooting doesn't prevent you from getting updates through Kies or flashing them manually with Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
What do you mean by correcting the input? ;O
[Galaxy S III General] nnotis:
I just traded my Note for an S3. The stock calibration of the screen is vastly improved on the S3. I played my test videos in complete darkness with the brightness turned up all the way. The boundary between black and almost black was appropriately subtle.

Based on the many posts claiming the problem is still there, I'm going to check this on my sister's phone to see if it behaves any differently from mine.
[Galaxy S III General] d4fseeker:
Turn it down, not up.

I mean by changing the source material the GPU renders. By changing the pixel values according to necessity it will counterbalance any hardware-related calibration issues. That's what Voodoo did for the S1.
[Galaxy S III General] Infy_AsiX:
Have you tried using an app that adjusts colour by an overlay?

Sent from my Optimus 2X using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] Halmo:
I only have this problem when I have my backlight to 0% and when it is turned up it fixes the problem. It might not even be the same problem though :)
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
Does this black crush issue cover pixelation too?

*These are on full brightness.

The first two pictures are from the glee video 0.31-0:38, it only gets ugly at brightness above 40%, any lower than that is fine.

The 3rd image is 6000x4000 resolution and you can see the transition from white to gray, gray to black or vice versa, but ugly blocks appear. When I use the app "Filter my Screen", this issue gets fixed, but I cannot use it for a long time frame because it will harm my screen as the app warned me.

Am I on the right track or this is totally normal?
[Galaxy S III General] androidified:
I think all these black crush issues are caused due to bad video encoding. I tried playing the Samsung's demo video came along S3 on my Mac, the video showed some black crush artifacts but not as bad as on my S3. Lower the brightness better the quality of the video on my S3. When I set the brightness to anything below 30% the video is fine. Someone in the previous page was talking about having lots of black crush visible while playing Tron video, so I tried playing a real high quality Tron movie and also an average quality Tron movie. In high quality video on my S3. I never saw any black crush but the average quality video was awful.

AMOLED screens are known for color banding issues. I have used S1, S2 and now S3, all phones have this issue. Though S2 handles it pretty decent. If you happen to use Nova Launcher when you go to its settings screen the background of that screen is filled with color banding. Its a very fine example of where the color banding issue can be found. This is observed more clearly in higher brightness levels, in lower brightness its barely visible. Again here too S2 handles this issue in a very decent way.
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
Thanks for the information.

Can you explain about the 3rd image then? It's not video, just a 6000x4000 jpeg. It is indeed solved if I use the Filter app no matter what brightness I'm having, no irritating blocks once I turn the app Filter on.

I need someone to confirm that it's software/kernel based issue?

Regards
[Galaxy S III General] nnotis:
How, exactly, would turning brightness down make gradients between blacks easier to see?

Regardless, blacks look properly calibrated at any brightness on my device. I recall there were a few people on the equivalent Note thread who claimed not to have the problem, and no one believed them. Maybe they were right. Maybe a subset of the units out there are actually calibrated properly.

If Google implemented the ability to modify the screen gamma setting from within Android, we could all fix this problem ourselves.

One other thing I've noticed in my 8 months of looking at these pentile AMOLED screens, is that they seem to show all gradient steps much more clearly than any other screen type I've seen. That makes everything look less smooth. But when I turn the brightness up on my LCDs, I can make out the same gradient steps. They're still there, but MUCH less apparent.
[Galaxy S III General] Swagtabulous:
Updates please?
[Galaxy S III General] Tatsuya79:
Hi, Thread resurrection!!! :cowboy:

Just bought a 2nd hand i9300.

I checked everything, I even went into a dark room to look for ink marks on black background...

Guess what?

I forgot to check for black crush and it's here. :rolleyes:

Well that's not that bad considering I got this phone cheap, and not worse than a bad tint or stuff like that you can see all the time.

I know this problem: you could say it's a software issue.

But, as there is no way to calibrate the screen with a software tool, you're screwed and could ask for a phone replacement.

It's here on video, picture, everywhere. It's just a bad configuration of the grey levels similar to what you can see on your TV screen if you push your contrast too much (like those terrible dynamic contrast thing manufacturers throw in).

I still have to test a screen filter app to see if that helps.

Other solutions are from Supercurio like voodoo colors we had on the SGS1 (even SGS2 if I'm not wrong) and CyanogenMod team color tuning adaptation they put in their rom (I'm using it on my SGS1 and it's great, a bit hard to configure at first though).

I don't know if we have it in CM10 but I saw about the problems they have with Samsung sources... perhaps not for now..?