yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hospital349:
Hey Moles (thanks for the 'party' invite). Looks as if it's winding down already.

I just want to explain my feelings towards your creative processes and your latest colours before going to bed.

I admire your patience and determination in an attempt to perfect colour calibrations. I'm sure it wasn't easy, especially as you're using the most difficult, yet most precise/accurate methods. I know you're not a kernel guy. I remembered you mentioning that it's not really your 'thing' and that you don't really tamper with the hardware side of devices. Unlike CyanogenMod - who love that kinda stuff. ;)

However, it's astonishing that you was able to correct the mistake that Google made. After browsing numerous threads over the past few days, it's clear that you are the talk of the town. You've made a lot of people happy and despite not being able to please everybody (because colour calibration is kinda subjective and is of personal taste), you have satisfied the majority.

I definitely think there's a cut-off point with these colours and I think it'll be when you personally feel you've hit the mark and have no doubts about your implementations. I, personally think that kernel No.3's colours are as good as they're going to get - especially when I compare my friends washed out N4 screen to mine. The 2 are like night & day and you have outdone anything Google ever did in this department.

I know PA 3.0 is still in the works and I'm sure it's quite taxing working on it, along side mini side projects such as kernel colours. I just want to extend my gratitude and show my appreciation towards your philosophy as a developer/artist. Some might passively under-appreciate what it is that you're trying to 'get done', but for many, it's a godsend.

Thanks.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rskyline:
I'm just shocked withe the 3rd review, is just amaizing the colors moles get lol. He's getting close!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milin_im:
I just want to also thank you moles for the great work. My N4 looks really good with No. 3.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
you can tone down the rgb afterwards via trickstermod. this step is individual as every panel differs slightly. mine could tend be blue whereas yours is redish maybe. thats calibration. the base set should allow for such things as color spectrum, where blacks begin and whites end, how much saturation, etc. i do supply rgb, mostly toned down, but its clear that you must finetune these as with any other kernel.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
theres no risk. if you make a nandroid. yes this works on cm aswell. i guess.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kennynguyen20:
Hi,

Sorry to bother you with this question but how do i access these folders? i tried file manager but i could not find anywhere, is there any special tools i need to access those files? Sorry, i am very new to the android world :D

Thanks for your help :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rskyline:
I tried directly the 3rd kernel and it worked perfectly, now running on CM10.1 without issues! :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
i posted the one i am working on. its color incorrect, but unfortunately only a little. i once had a setting that made whites literally glow, it looked like alien technology. but the whites used to be pink/green - and from trying around i have since lost the settings and couldnt replicate it. my goal is bluish highlights. this ones far from it but if you crank brightness levels and visit facebook youre still in for a "woa!", either in pure disgust or joy.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocchiararo:
may i ask, again, why are you aming to bluish stuff, insted of the direction the 2nd rev, contrasty version you were going for before ?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] efan3719:
tried both the 2nd rev, brighter and contrast. both look good. but i notice i have to turn my screen brightness up higher. that is really the only thing keeping me from using them full time. i feel like that would waste a lot more power.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Exidrion:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Trying holo blue, but it's just too blue for my tastes. 2nd rev contrasty is still my favorite. :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkamal23:
WOAHH! is correct my friend. Im digging the new levels.

So i was thinking about how Moles has pretty much made our Nexus 4 into a whole different phone. I mean come on, we all have to admit that the phone has a much better screen now. We need to understand that we are all lucky to have someone who is willing to change the color values and try making everyone happy... If you really think about it, this screen calibration did not have to be done since many people with their nexus 4 were content with their phone and did not even know that this could be done. But Moles and other people here are trying to make our phones better. So I think people who are bashing on how the screen looks need to just chill out. I mean go ahead and put your input for recommendations but please try not killing the work that has been done. If you dont like it... flash back to a stock kernel or the other previous ones that are up. Anyways... i cant wait for the final release and whatever values are on the screen, understand that moles has used those settings because its what he believes would benefit us all.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itpromike:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

WARNING, stick to the defaults you see LG and Google using. Don't burn your device please.[/QUOTE]

Moles, just some clarification on this. Is the newest revision not meant to be used as a daily driver? I'm using your ROM and I'd like to have good colors without having to use extra apps like faux clock etc... Also which one are using now, which do you recommend?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albundy2010:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Those are directories in the source code. Not on the device.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocchiararo:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Moles, just some clarification on this. Is the newest revision not meant to be used as a daily driver? I'm using your ROM and I'd like to have good colors without having to use extra apps like faux clock etc... Also which one are using now, which do you recommend?

The warning is for people using scripts, trying values by themselves, the kernels he posted are safe, and the recommended one is whatever you like after trying them

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 usando Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frontalot:
Phenomenal work. This mod really makes the screen come to life.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nory82688:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Wow, Rev2's colors are amazing. Much more punchy . keep it up Moles, cant wait to see how far this goes :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalel86:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Moles:

So the rev2 2nd can damage the screen? Or why u suggest use the brigther better? Any problem with the contrast one?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeyinid:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Where are these lines at? In source I mean. Its not on your git.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the1onewolf:
+1

Same question from me as well
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prfndhatrdofman:
Is anyone having weird hang ups/ slow wakes with these kernels? I came from Franco's kernel, and for some reason when i wake the device, there's a slight delay visible on screen. Like the CPU is taking a long time for bump from 340 to 1.5 again. I flashed back to Franco and have had no trouble for the last few hours. Anyone'?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brolic925t:
Due to the massive boner received from rev2... Is there anywayyyyyy i can just add those factors to faux's latest kernel? Ive had something really close to these settings but this is perfection.

If so how would i do so?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meangreenie:
well i reckon looking at the values of the now 9 settings and having a loose understanding of what some of them do, thx to 'molesarecoming', that the only dangerous settings are 'google's' own ones.. look at just a few of them on the main old amp1 and amp0 settings afair..

r 4 and 0

g 0 and 0

b 31 and 16 <------

WTF

as you can see, massively unbalanced, can't be good for the screen
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imperticus:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

2nd rev is just perfect , not too contrasty and the colours are still vivid .
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
the has nothing to do with the kernel. your rom is configured to compensate for the cranked gamma. the rom must tweak these levels to normal lux values again. dont use auto brightness for now, just choose a level and youre good. thats not my fault and theres no solution unless your rom maker adjusts it. i will for pa, when i figure out how.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
Moles, just some clarification on this. Is the newest revision not meant to be used as a daily driver? I'm using your ROM and I'd like to have good colors without having to use extra apps like faux clock etc... Also which one are using now, which do you recommend?

thats for those that want to help getting values. mine are always within the levels i see google and lg using. so i can assume they are fine, i dont risk going beyond that.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
no...... why would it damage the screen??? where'd i say that. :laugh:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
i dont suggest anything. but people will try the darker one and go to that silly playstore app and see it does not reach "2.2" so therefore it must be wrong, even if it looks great. so i made them one that gets the same brightness as the google kernel. i use the dark one of course, but the brighter kernel is ready for mass use. i have not gotten one complaint about it in my rom topic, thats something ...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danslecarton:
"Don't burn your device" sounds like damaging it to me :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
it does. but that was meant for those that fool around with these numbers. everything linked above is safe.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robs898:
Great work moles!

Im enjoying the brighter rev2 atm.

The latest holoblue is crazy though. The colours may be slightly off but its just like trinity colours were on the GNex!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrZim4:
I have a converted LG Optimus G, and I tried the v2 and have to say that it looked better than my screen ever has. Sadly I can't use the kernel or I'll lose my external sd, nfc, capacative keys, etc. So anyone talking about the LGOG, just know that these kernels are better than stock on there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cocchiararo:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

There was a script in faux's thread for getting the colors, I think

You can't use fauxclock tho

Ps; moles, you are ignoring me when I question you on your quest for blue :p

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 usando Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
good to hear man. pass these values to your developers and they can do the same on your optimus. its the same kernel i think. it makes sense btw, lgs factory config is better than googles but still has many flaws.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
i read, but what to say - its made for those that prefer colder presets and eyepopping blues.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crisisx1:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Okay so before I got my nexus 4 last night I was reading and researching about it...and seen a lot of people complain about the colors.

Now coming from an s3 I probably should be complaining too...but honestly my screen colors look fine. Is there any tests I can do to see what you guys are seeing that's so bad about it?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GretaLewd:
:confused: To you , your screen looks fine...so what if a "test" says it is wrong? You going to change? I don't understand your logic. :eek:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mihkohuy:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Yes..... I am not quite understand what is going on with the color.... Can someone explain this situation more simple??? Flashed the new kernel, what I think is the color is darker....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruzkay:
AW: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Well the colors are not optimal but the worst thing on a grey screen such as settings the banding is so visible that its plain ugly. The stock calibration is a joke. molesarecoming intends to improve the colors and make the banding less visible. I have installed his revision 2 version 1 kernel and I like it a lot banding visibility improved greatly.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crisisx1:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

No. Why does everyone jump to conclusion and are quick to criticize here...

I want to make a comparison. I can't do that if I don't have a reference.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hece:
can i use 2nd rev colors with motley kernel for the N4 build 57.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kocai:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

What kernel are you using now? If you're using stock, flash the 2nd variant contrasy from the OP and you will see how washed out the color setting from Google in stock kernel.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robs898:
http://i.imgur.com/3qOP8GN.jpg

This is a good example of the problem IMO. The colours on the nexus 4 (on the right) are notably washed out/grey compared to the galaxy nexus (on the left).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chochiwpg:
It's not so much the grey for me it's the whites, blacks and greens. I really didn't notice it until I flashed the Contrasty kernel (the one that says flash this one first in the OP)

After flashing that kernel my whites have never looked whiter (sounds like a fabric softener/cleaner commercial I know) and the blacks have never looked this black. All the colours just pop without being oversaturated like on AMOLED. Best of all, no more pee in the snow yellowish white screens.

It's literally night and day, I can't use other colours now, it looks that good to me after using it for a full day. I hope that other kernel dev's implement these colours into their kernels as well. I have no issues with stock, but it's nice to have kernel options. But if the other kernels don't take these colour settings and incorporate them then it will be hard for me to want to switch.

Thanks for all your hard work Moles, this is a huge step forward and finally makes this display look like it should.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jazzboyrules:
No, build 57 does not have the interface for gamma tweaking. You will have to be on the beta build b31 or b32 for the gamma tweaking scripts to work. If you are scared of running a beta kernel, don't be, it's nothing like beta. It's almost as if motley forget to label b32 as a stable build :D
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hece:
I have tried with b32 and it was great. thanks... :good:
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crisisx1:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Right now I am fully stock just got the phone yesterday.

---------- Post added at 04:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:08 PM ----------

Yeah I see a major difference in that picture. But would it make a difference if the phone on the left was set to full brightness and the one on the right to less then 20% brightness let's say?

I loaded up the same website in chrome and mine looks like the picture on the left.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
just try the kernel. there is a major difference in just about every aspect. the factory preset in your mako is not optimal, theres no debating, its technically wrong. this kernel fixes it and the difference is quite big, theres no way you see it maybe or maybe you dont.

people may react a bit pissy because we have heard for months that everythings "natural" --- this topic is for the rest of us (who have eyes). i really dont wanna debate here about colors, i just claim this will make your IPS display as it should, easy enough. :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
.............delete
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prfndhatrdofman:
Not only that, put your phone next to another IPS display like the One X or Evo 4G LTE. Their colors are significantly more vibrant. I don't mean over saturated either. True color. Hell even compare this to the Optimus G which has the same LCD. Its calibration is was more accurate. Honestly just try it and you'll see then difference. Don't like it? Then switch back. The colors are washed out by default. Period. There wouldn't be this many topics about it, if it wasn't true. Personally I think using the galaxy nexus as a reference is wrong since it's an AMOLED screen. Go look at pictures of the one x display and see what I mean.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kin24173493:
2nd rev, 2nd variant: Dark, contrasty, rich colors, brightest whites, sureal, even grays

This is the one you try first, just to see what IPS can really do. Then you try the

1st, brighter variant

that 1st, brighter variant is that mean "2nd rev, brighter, less saturation, less banding" or "First draft, Rich colors, constrasty, dark, banding issues, tint"?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Higgsy:
I wonder if one of the reasons the colours were set the way they were, was due to that configuration giving less power consumption due to it not requiring the backlight to be turned up so high, as it is a fact that Googles values don't require as much backlight for them to be viewed easily
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
dont think so. lg used completely different values and they created the device. but time will tell. :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] molesarecoming:
try them all if you like and see what you like best. im torn between the tinted blue one and the contrasty. for pa i'll make a halfbreed, or did actually. values are up on git already.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
I'm liking the contrasty one for myself :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crisisx1:
Re: Let's calibrate Mako | 08Feb: new preset HOLOBLUE

Understandable Bro. Will try once I'm rooted and unlocked. Another thing that's bothering me about the n4 is the screen touch sensitivity, Imo it's horrible. Compared to the s3
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] O.a.T.:
JPG Test Image

I use the attached JPG Test Image to check for color/gamma changes. Maybe others will find this useful?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnhany97:
Question Guys, someone told me I should edit some Gamma values to fix Auto Brightness, Could anybody tell me how ?? I use Faux's Enhanced Stock Kernel source
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moxtrom:
Another software issue, luckily XDA always find solutions to software problems

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2027476

You need root
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FSRBIKER:
Can you post a download for the Halfbreed as well?

Thanks for your work, screen colors look so much better.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prfndhatrdofman:
Bump.

ill quote this too:

"Originally Posted by efan3719

tried both the 2nd rev, brighter and contrast. both look good. but i notice i have to turn my screen brightness up higher. that is really the only thing keeping me from using them full time. i feel like that would waste a lot more power.

molesarecoming: "the has nothing to do with the kernel. your rom is configured to compensate for the cranked gamma. the rom must tweak these levels to normal lux values again. dont use auto brightness for now, just choose a level and youre good. thats not my fault and theres no solution unless your rom maker adjusts it. i will for pa, when i figure out how."
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghost_og:
Hope this is helpful

For anyone on Faux's kernel (I'm on 006b04) that wants to use this script from jazzboyrules to play around with different settings you just need to edit a few lines:

Change:

...$gr_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="Red"]kgamma_red[/COLOR]
...$gg_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="red"]kgamma_green[/COLOR]
...$gb_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="red"]kgamma_blue[/COLOR]

cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="red"]kgamma_red[/COLOR]
cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="red"]kgamma_green[/COLOR]
cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="red"]kgamma_blue[/COLOR]

to:

...$gr_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="Blue"]kgamma_r[/COLOR]
...$gg_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="blue"]kgamma_g[/COLOR]
...$gb_unknown3" > /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="blue"]kgamma_b[/COLOR]

cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="Blue"]kgamma_r[/COLOR]
cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="blue"]kgamma_g[/COLOR]
cat /sys/devices/platform/mipi_lgit.1537/[COLOR="blue"]kgamma_b[/COLOR]

Screen on/off should activate the changes. I just used Root Explorer to edit jazzboyrules scripts after extracting them. Before these edits I kept getting errors when running it in System Tuner. Now everything works perfectly.

*Edit* I did notice the RGB values in TricksterMod were all showing 255, but the script values seem to be in effect. That's one reason I like jazzboyrules' script, it shows the verfied values after running. :)

*Edit2* Here are the edited scripts for faux's kernel using mole's values (contrasty, holo, haflbreed). Just unzip and run them in a terminal.