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[Galaxy Note II General] PierreTech:
I compared colors note 2 vs note 1 and note 2 vs s3. I can say note 2 is the best. How can this be possible?
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
if the note 2 screen is not much better than the s3 screen....then it should be a GREAT screen. I love my wife's s3 screen. :)
[Galaxy Note II General] Viper2005:
I prefer pinkish (warm) to the cool blue-green of the note1 screen!

Nonetheless, the new note is closer to true white than the note1.
[Galaxy Note II General] jameslfc5:
This is what you're talking about I think, it is in display settings
[Galaxy Note II General] ChodTheWacko:
Speaking of screen tests, anyone want to report on black crush and/or grey blobs?

- Frank
[Galaxy Note II General] Rhino-2-Horny:
think the op is winding people up in favour of ip5 or something other than note 2.

i only say that as i have seen over dozen videos online in 720p viz sites or youtube and no way is the screen that dim its very bright admitadly not as bright as ips like one-X which has now been tested on 2 review sitesas being better than iphone 5 especially on brightness :)

hes obviously got :-

1/fake

2/dud

3/sme settingts not set correctly.

if it was that dim out the box youd struggle to read text in a dark room :P
[Galaxy Note II General] ChodTheWacko:
Actually, no.

If the room is that dark, then I want the brightness that low. It's far more comfortable to read, and it uses far less battery power. I really like a very low auto brightness setting.

Again, the question is - what exactly is being tested here?
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
This is the second time I hand on Note 2. 1st time at Samsung event for tinhte.vn community, the screen better this time :)
[Galaxy Note II General] Rhino-2-Horny:
**** ignore just noticed that ciscostud had already written some of what i had :P oh well i tried ****

an copy from a review site ...just to clarify the opening poster

"Because of this new HD Super AMOLED, one would argue that the 1280x720 (267 ppi) resolution of the Note II is actually higher on a subpixel level than the 1280x800 (285 ppi) one on the Note, yet you can’t really see much difference with the naked eye. What you can see, however, that the cold colors typical for Super AMOLED are almost gone now, and when displaying white the Note II is pretty close to a good LCD display, as it has largely disposed with the typical cold blueish tint."

"More important than the geeky PenTile vs RGB argument is that the screen is also much brighter now, and might easily be the brightest AMOLED on a Samsung device yet, which, coupled with the low screen reflectance, makes for an excellent outdoor visibility, and the automatic brightness adjustment works like a charm."

hope that helps with the brightness question.

i think he got a fake or its faulty for the screen to be that dim.

no hate mail please :P
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Might be an apple fanboy.. :p
[Galaxy Note II General] Tuffcheez:
Gullibility?
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
Sorry, If have to call me like a fan: I'm Android and BB fanboy :)
[Galaxy Note II General] kojaraty:
Blackberry! oh jeez
[Galaxy Note II General] Jcossack88:
Google translate....download it
[Galaxy Note II General] on2a:
No need to attack the OP guys. It looks like the new note2 screen is nicer than Note 1 etc. It's probably a bit far fetched to expect it to do pure white like an LCD screen. Even the S2 with its super amoled plus display couldn't produce pure whites.

Anyway I hope it's a non issue. Still I'd like to see more pictures from users - I've read all the major reviews for what it's worth
[Galaxy Note II General] paul2834:
So I watched the OP's video and it looks like iPhone 4 is much brighter than the Note II even on the brightest setting. I have my brightness turned all the way down anyways to conserve battery life. Anybody know if the max brightness fares really well outside?
[Galaxy Note II General] gr4ndm4st3r_bl4ck:
you can't test sh*t on a browser, because no matter what, note 2 will always dim it on white pages, when using the browser

and your test means nothing...

load up a blank white image on both phones , open it up on the gallery , and then take a pic, you'll easily notice the difference

and btw, im not saying iPhone's screen does not have brighter whites ( it indeed has ) , i'm just saying Note II is nowhere as nearly bad as shown in your photo, it's actually the closest AMOLED to IPS till now, in terms of white colors...
[Galaxy Note II General] ChodTheWacko:
There are a few more things:

gsmarena's review says this:

If auto brightness is turned on, then that 'slider' you are sliding may actually be a 'fine tune'

to make it a bit brighter/darker than the current auto-brightness level.

Try going into settings-> 'display' and make sure auto brightness is turned off.

Then adjust the slider.

Also of course, make sure

display -> auto adjust screen tone is off and

power -> screen power saving is off AND

power -> background color is off (?) (this affects the browser's brightness).

- Frank
[Galaxy Note II General] hung2900:
The same problem of AMOLED screen as Galaxy S3:

- always looks a little pinkier than normal under the night (no light)

- illusion effect when comparing to a super bright white screen like iPhone 4. It;s about 560 nits while the max brightness of Note 2 is only ~460 nits.

If bringing two devices to the sunlight and reduce the brightness of iPhone 4 a little bit (for equivalent to Note 2), we will see it's not like that.
[Galaxy Note II General] ChodTheWacko:
Yea, as long as it's brighter than the Note, then we don't have much to complain about.
[Galaxy Note II General] iakovidis:
This thead do not deserve so many replies.

I have the NOTEII and an S3 and yesterday i was with a friend having the iphone5

You really need a lab to determinate whis screen is better imho.

White and brightness is very good on noteII , nothing like the "photo compare" on the OP
[Galaxy Note II General] ithehappy:
Least OP provided couple of photos and a video, where is yours? ;)

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy Note II General] DubelBoom:
On the video, till you showed both of the screen next to each other, I didn't saw anything wrong with the Note 2's screen.

So its fine for me :D
[Galaxy Note II General] system.img:
There is a different setting in the browser for brightness just like the one on S3.

You can set a different brightness setting for the web browser.

Make sure it is also full or compare both with a white image from the gallery. .
[Galaxy Note II General] chconser:
Wow, you're right OP, the Note 2 is waaaaay bigger than the iPhone, lol. :p
[Galaxy Note II General] Masterface7:
Man this picture just makes me sad Samsung decided to put a 16:9 screen instead of a 16:10 screen.
[Galaxy Note II General] pikulu:
Yaa me too disappointed with the aspect ratio because the thing i loved the most of note 1 was its aspect ratio.But as far as i know the real screen width of the note 2 is 6.9 cm and the original note's is 7.1,its almost minimallll.Lets see how it does look in real hands on.. .. ..

http://translate.google.com/transla...erfahrungsbericht-nach-einem-tag-nutzung.html
[Galaxy Note II General] rockky:
I like reading threads like these (finding faults w/Note2) cause it makes the wait easier for mine for some reason

---------- Post added at 11:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:02 AM ----------

Good for YOU. This is a f o r u m.....folks with experiences different than yours actually are allowed to post....and allowed to have replies too!! Go figure..

QUOTE=iakovidis;32277350]This thead do not deserve so many replies.

I have the NOTEII and an S3 and yesterday i was with a friend having the iphone5

You really need a lab to determinate whis screen is better imho.

White and brightness is very good on noteII , nothing like the "photo compare" on the OP[/QUOTE]
[Galaxy Note II General] mi7chy:
Suspicious. Try loading the same web page on both and show the brightness settings. Suspect this is showing worst case on Note II.
[Galaxy Note II General] lowandbehold:
http://www.androidcentral.com/quick-screen-comparison-galaxy-note-2-versus-galaxy-s3

I'm not worried...If the Note 2 is as dark as the OP's picture, then the S3 screen as compared here would be virtually unusable...the note in the OP has messed up settings, or it is defective.
[Galaxy Note II General] ciscostud:
Study: Galaxy S3 Display Superior to the iPhone 5

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57524291-37/color-me-prettier-galaxy-s3-display-outdoes-iphone-5s/

The Galaxy S3's display is just 1.1 millimeters thick and offers the full color gamut of the NTSC standard. In comparison, the iPhone 5's display is 1.5 millimeters thick and offers 72 percent of the standard color gamut.

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The note 2 even has a better display then S3
[Galaxy Note II General] AjunNg:
Wow that was actually the way to display true brightness. I thought the pull down menu was the way to go. I was also disappointed at how dim the screen seemed. But now after setting it in the actual settings, it's alot brighter!

I would suggest op to try it as well and do another comparison.
[Galaxy Note II General] MrPhilo:
They do not look like max brightness at all, not to mention the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 can achieve 480 nits, which should be alot brighter than the iPhone 4 screen.

Anyways, you have to let the screen set in, then later the pink-ish colour will start to go. This is the same for all other Amoled screen at first, you just got it, so wait a week or two :)
[Galaxy Note II General] bullet2300:
Did the OP not respond saying he tried the Note 2 again and the screen was much better? :P I thought that was like 1-2 pages back yet people still saying stuff about his OP.

I would guess that something was not working right with the brightness as stated before or it was faulty in some way hehe. Looks amazing in every video/hands on that I've seen.
[Galaxy Note II General] kastafela:
Amazing hardware. But software must be developed.
[Galaxy Note II General] bigco504:
Here's a bit of a better picture,note 2 on the left
[Galaxy Note II General] Tomatoes8:
From my experience, OLED displays looks really bad in pictures and videos for some reason. They look fine in person though, even the whites IMO.
[Galaxy Note II General] iakovidis:
As i see it , you can either provide an opinion ( without any kind of evidence ) like i did or compare with video and photos.

But if you do the second, you need to keep all the details on.

Video that show screen settings on both handsets , same web pages e.t.c.

That i can call evidence.

And i am sorry , i don't have the time nor the will to do all this.
[Galaxy Note II General] pikulu:
Guys look at this video and watch how the white does look on note .. ..I am totallyy impresseddd :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...&feature=iv&src_vid=xculyWqTYMw&v=t9uJKD2ETlA
[Galaxy Note II General] kersh:
I think that the screens are going to have random problems like the note 1 with black pixels.

Some note 2 have super bright screens, and others like mine have less bright than the original note.
[Galaxy Note II General] Hirudin:
I wanted to see for myself the difference so I took a couple pictures. I'm not a photography expert, but I did what I could to make this "test" accurate. First, I set all the devices to their maximum brightness*, then I installed the same app on all of them (Flashlight), then I set the white balance on my camera to "sunlight". I have a pretty decent camera (a Panasonic GH2) so I imagine the colors are pretty accurate. To be thorough: the room in which I took the pictures was indirectly lit with sunlight.

The first picture shows three devices side-by-side (N7000 - N7100 - Nexus 7).

The second picture is 100% scale but cropped to show the three screen colors right next to each other.

The third is a macro shot of the Note 2 (N7100) screen - that's an interesting pixel pattern. I should note (since we're on the subject of pure, bright white) this shot was taken while it was displaying an unknown light color at an unknown brightness.

Hope this helps and stuff...

*For the...

Nexus 7 (stock) - I went into Settings > Display > Brightness and slid the slider all the way up

Note (Paranoid Android 2.16 (Utacka) - I tapped the display brightness toggle until it was on the brightest setting

Note 2 (stock, rooted) - I went into Settings > Display...

1. > Screen mode and confirmed that it was set to "Standard"

2. > Brightness and unchecked "Automatic brightness" then slid the slider all the way up.

3. and confirmed "Automatic adjust screen tone" was unchecked

I also confirmed that Settings > Power saving was in the "off" position

I also have a Note (N7000) and the black crush drove me crazy! I have not detected even a hint of black crush with the Note 2 (N7100). I can now use my favorite live wallpaper, Particle Storm, again without it looking like ****!
[Galaxy Note II General] omersak:
thats nice but unfortunately i'm getting a healthy dose of black crush on dark areas of slightly low-res video files :(
[Galaxy Note II General] EmptyArea:
Hi all,

Hopefully I haven't overlooked a previous answer to this question.

In my experience the s3 is bright enough to use on a sunny day, and as such so will I assume the ip5 and n2. And that's as far as a discussion about maximum brightness needs to go. Quality, or vividness, is another matter entirely.

But on the topic brightness, I have found my s3's minimum brightness far too high to use in a dark room. My concern is that this issue will be worse on the n2.

Can someone kindly compare the s3 and n2 side-by-side on minimum brightness? I find the s3 will hurt my eyes within 20 minutes of use, in fact I use my HTC dhd in bed for this reason.

I hope people will agree this is worth serious consideration, after all too low maximum brightness will prevent use in bright conditions and may lower the overall sensation, but too high minimum brightness will damage your retinas - I know which I think is more important.
[Galaxy Note II General] micro17:
Just noticed something very... stupid actually...

when the brightness slider is completely turned to the right without auto mode... this should be the max brightness?

Not the case.

On my note 2 when you turn the brightness slider to the right AND turn auto mode on AND hold the phone in the sun:

The brightness is higher than without auto mode.

Just turn it on and off in the sun... you'll see it.

Crazy bug... or feature ?? ....

Gesendet von meinem GT-N7100 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note II General] heatfire:
i remember reading some old old thread back when i had the S2 some dev managed to turn that screen up to the brightest it could and it was pulling a huge amount of ampere for its size.

Amoled pulls more power showing whites then a LCD. im guessing thats why they have made the software act like this.

if they allowed ppl to turn brightness to the absolut maximum they would probably get alot of whining about battery time.
[Galaxy Note II General] micro17:
Thats actually a really good explanation ... so its a... feature for ehm... people... not knowing that a bright screen uses battery...

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[Galaxy Note II General] willstay:
Well my eyes are kind of sensitive to brightness that I have to use screen dimmer app. I always wished my note 1 was dimmer :)

Sent from GNote.
[Galaxy Note II General] f3w1n:
The same in all phones that i have, just a feature.

- f3w1n -
[Galaxy Note II General] Viper2005:
My black crush test that I just performed: (Note 2 on left, Note 1 on right)

I'm very impressed with the Note2 screen, the black crush is virtually non existent!
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Yeah...black crush is definitely almost not there on the note 2.

I have compared the note 2 screen with my wife's s3 I did noticed that my wife's s3 is a bit brighter and sharper than my note 2. But u guess this is the trade off of me choosing a bigger screen phone...the sharpeness is sacraficed
[Galaxy Note II General] TML1504:
on my side the screen of my note2 is little darker then my note1 screen is (which was cherry-picked out of

10 devices, each of them had a different screen quality) screen quality though is higher, although i had the

bad luck of the draw to get a device which has a dust particle between glass and panel, AND a green

dead sub-pixel. both of these flaws are hardly noticeable, but knowing they are there is enough to upset me...

gamma.png test on my screen is superb: no black crush, it goes down well to number 1. below

3 is only visible in a dark room though, but hey, that is almost how it should be.

also when displaying total black in a total dark room, and after you have let your eyes accommodate

i see still black blotches on the almost dark panel (amoled still emits little light when not displaying

anything, it has no 100% black!!), but this is better than on my note1!
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
I'm back and almost do not change my opinion: Note 2 display got same problem like S2, S3 :)

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[Galaxy Note II General] Tatsuya79:
Yeah this calibration issue is annoying, most are pinkish.

Watch this SGS3 vs Optimus G video: pink vs blue, fight!

The SGS3 has another issue on bottom of the screen for this particular model.
[Galaxy Note II General] pacc:
"also when displaying total black in a total dark room, and after you have let your eyes accommodate

i see still black blotches on the almost dark panel (amoled still emits little light when not displaying

anything, it has no 100% black!!), but this is better than on my note1! "

I must say that the SI still holds the darkest black, on the opposite is the brightest with almost perfect white.

I had SI, SII, Note (from a friend), and now have SIII, and none look as good as SI. (black and white)
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
Popular display problem: pinkish, darker, lower max brightness
[Galaxy Note II General] EmptyArea:
If you read you will find the reasons why using the browser is inappropriate, but your argument is weak because a full screen white picture would be even more white.

It is "bashing" or ignorance if a improper or weak test is used to form, reinforce or confirm a negative opinion. Much the same is true for forming positive ones too.
[Galaxy Note II General] americasteam:
There's one of these threads with every new release. No screen tech is going to be uniform or perfect for every unit made. If you don't like Samsung's screens, then move on and get something else. Something tells me that you'll find issues with any other screen tech as well. No need in beating a dead horse here. Let's move on and enjoy our devices.
[Galaxy Note II General] Lucidmike:
Having just got my Note 2 less than 24 hours ago, I was on the fence, but it is true that brightness is not as bright as everyone has been saying. At least my device seems to be that way. I compared the full brightness at the store with the Galaxy S3, and it was identical.

I brought it home, and realized there is a checkbox that needs to be unchecked ("Auto adjust screen tone" at the bottom of Display settings) to achieve maximum brightness. I'm going to make the assumption that the Galaxy S3 that I compared it with, had the box checked as well during the comparison because it is on by default. With that checkbox unchecked, my device is 80% brighter at maximum brightness. Still, compared to my 3 year old iPhone 3G, the iPhone was about 40% brighter at the brightest setting.

I measured this with my DSLR which is a certifiable, very accurate and highly sophisticated light measuring device.

Moral of the story, don't expect too much.

It is still an amazing screen, but don't expect you're going to be blown away by the brightness. It is as bright as the Galaxy S3. In sunlight, the screen is certainly good enough to get everything done, but imagine as if you're looking through tinted windows if you're in direct sunlight. Again, this is how my device performs. Maybe it is true that some of you have been blessed with a much brighter screen from a different AMOLED supplier.

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Check out my huge collection of 64GB Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Videos (Demos, Accessory Reviews)
[Galaxy Note II General] EmptyArea:
Would you test the minimum brightness? Compared to the min of the s3 would be invaluable consumer information for me.
[Galaxy Note II General] TheFamilyMan:
I disagree, you're basing your assumptions on what display you prefer instead fact. If II understood your comments correctly your comparing this display to a crApple phone - the trouble here is you CAN'T compare them simply because it's comparing crApples to oranges. They're not the same kind of screens.

These are two DIFFERENT technologies here, notice the key word here, different ok, that means they're not the same nor will you find one the same. If memory serves me correctly, this is the first device to receive the HD SuperAMOLED display. The Galaxy SIII doesn't even have it because it's still in it's infancy.

My current wallpaper is a pile of Jelly Beans and needless to say the colors are eye popping. And this is at half of the brightness bar, the screen gets even more eye popping when II increase the brightness to the max.

Having been a professional color matcher making everything from automotive paint to aircraft paint, inject-a-color (in-mold coloring) like land line telephones, computer notebooks with Soft-Touch, Leather-Touch, and just about anything else with color to it - so I can tell you with absolute certainty these colors are near perfect and the brightness has been tinkered with.

It takes YEARS of training to be a professional color matcher so speaking from a trained color eye and literally years of experience - you can't simply put one display up against another and proclaim the quality of the display is good, bad, worse or whatever. You have to be in a controlled atmosphere to make those kinds of judgements otherwise you're just blowing a smoke screen which is lame.

Put it this way, you're walking the walk and talking the talk but not walking the talk so FUGGEDABOUTIT.

Sent from my Galaxy Note II GT-N7100!
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Why do you have so many S3? How come every S3 screen looks different to each other in terms of brightness?
[Galaxy Note II General] Magnus3D:
I really don't see a problem with the brightness or resolution of the display on Note 2. It's fine, easily readable and pictures on it look good. Having too much contrast is never a good thing, the iPhone and iPad series of phones suffers from this problem where everything on them looks very colorful but the problem is it looks awfully unrealistic to the real world. Which is why it makes it unusuable to artists, photographers (like me), for portfolio viewing and much more. It's always better to have toned down colors than to have oversaturated colors.

/ Magnus
[Galaxy Note II General] Zanr Zij:
Some S3 from my friends :). We met and compared them.

@All: I know detail about how to compare screen:

- Set bightness and color in browser

- Set profile = standard

- Turn off Power Saving

- Turn off Auto adjust Screen power.

I'm experience user, esp Samsung flagship products: S1, Captivate, S2, Note, S3 and now Note 2. Please do not blame me if you do not have Note 2. This thread I ask you if you have. I do not confirmed all Note 2's screen look like that :)
[Galaxy Note II General] EarlZ:
I havent seen the Note 2 in person yet but so far with the Galaxy S2 and Note their whites were not as good as what I had on my Galaxy S1, How is the video playback on the Note 2, does it still exhibit the same problem with the Note ?
[Galaxy Note II General] Mad383Max:
Are you talking black crush or what video playback problem are you talking about on the note 1. Just clarifying as to what 'problem' you had.
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
No....the video play back on the note 2 is fine now...no more black crush
[Galaxy Note II General] riz157:
Im not the greatest fan of samsung screens but I do like the whites on the note 2 better then s3 and close to lcd whites.