yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Very important. I forgot to mention above that if you are doing this via mobile, it is impt to save the pic and to not view the pic through xda. The reason is that when you view it through xda, there are options displayed in white text that exposes light on the picture which makes it harder to see the black dots. **it is extremely important that you view this picture through the picture gallery on your note 2's OS.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Why would I want to go through all these steps to see this? This is not normal phone usage!

Enjoy your phone and stop looking for things that may or may not be there! :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
It takes about 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes max. Your mind perceives this to be a tedious task, because you saw 5 steps. Although, if one actually read these steps, he or she will realise the simplicity of this task lol. As for being noticable, if you watch movies on your phine, trust me, their noticable. I just thought that if you own a device priced at $729.99, a customer should know about it's manufacturer defect, it would be unfair to not surface this information to my fellow note 2 owners (as I hope another forum user would do if they knew about an undisclosed defect).

And I already do love and enjoy my device, tx.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
I can be pretty ocd about my gadgets and I am constantly on my phone doing various tasks and have never noticed these spots and I have no intention of looking for them either. Unless you see the spots doing 'normal' things on your phone I do not see what the problem is? Therefore no reason to follow your steps.

The 'spots' have been discussed over several years on various forums, and it is a common 'thing' with amoled displays anyway.

Unfortunately some people do see them doing normal things and some people like to look for them by following steps which is not a normal thing to do with your phone.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Well thats why the steps are there. Because the spots are only visible in certain scenarios, if you have alot of lines/spots, then youll notice them doing more things. I noticed these spots while watching a movie in my room. Also, when turning on and off my phone. Also, anytime a greyish screen would appear. I constitute those as normal things, but we dont always do them. I provided the steps to inform consumers, because this 30 second procedure is a sire thing, and will let the user see the spots or lines. Also, the user has a right to know about an issue with their smartphone especially when paying $729.99 for the device. If you cant appreciate that, I dont have anything left to say. These are the kinds of things that help consumers make purchase decisions to invest trust and commotment into a brand, and determine customer value for a product.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
But I don't understand why anyone would want to search for these things if you don't see them in everyday normal usage? It just doesn't make sense to me. I could be really anal about all of my gadgets and find something 'wrong' with each and everyone of them if I look close enough.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppn7:
Hi there are results.

I really have to be concentrated and near the screen about 10cm to see spots black (4 for me)

I also see black lines at any distances.

My note 2 has some problems with the display ???

Thank you
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
They are only problems if they bother you :)

This is also a common occurrence with amoled displays since they were first created. If you google it you will see many discussions about this over the years about different gadgets that use amoled displays.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
You dont constitue watching a movie normal usage? What about using your smartphone in a dark area. How about using anything on your smartphone that produces a grey area? I made this post so that if a user had an extremely defective one, eg., with lines and big bloches, I would want them to catch it before its too late. I myself have tiny dots so it doesnt phase me. On my first device I had big lines. Also, if you took the time to read my posts, I rewrote those steps so people can follow them carefully. I knew they werent the first time because about 60% of the people on this thread reported 0 dots. And I know that cant be the case because ive tested this on 4 note 2s and each one has them.

But your right, I was wrong to advocate this, and wrong to inform the users on this community about a manufacter's defect on their device, pffft lol. I just want to make sure that consumers know what they are paying for, no matter how discomforting it can be for you to find them, I think you still have the right to know about it. When we surface these defects, at least maybe samsung could consider things like this for their next device (btw 3-4 different samsung service reps told me they never heard of this issue). There is alot more to posting about an unknown manufacturer's defect than you think.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
I have used my phone in all the examples you have given many times and do not see the spots or blotches you go on about therefore I do not need to anally look for them whether they are there or not.

As I said before this is a common anomaly with amoled displays since they were created.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
You dont need to remind me of that issue. I clearly stated that this black spot thing was from quite some time ago, but a good percentage of users do not know that, which is why I created this thread.

You are so against spending about a minute of your time to see if your screen has these (which it does, I gurantee you). This is vital information that you should know about your device, because it can affect your perception of samsung galaxy series. It can also affect your next purchase when choosing brand or product.

I think you are not willing to go on with this 1 minute 5 step procedure because you will be extremely upset if you do find black dots. I am sorry you feel that way.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Why are you so insistent on spoiling people's pleasure of this device, who haven't seen any of what you are going on about?

I don't need to follow your anal steps as I know this already exists, but as I don't see the spots or blotches, it doesn't bother me!

It exists in all amoled devices, not just the galaxy series. I knew about this before I made my purchase as it's a common thing with amoled devices (as I keep repeating)!

I suggest you buy a product with an lcd screen in future. Then again you will most probably find something else wrong that hardly anyone else notices with everyday usage!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Okay so 1, you have absolutely no right to accuse me of attempting to spoild peoples experience on their device. Like I said earlier, this is strictly a troubleshooting procedure to raise awareness to the manufacturer defect issue.

2) im not sure why you keep on telling me that it exists in all amoled devices. I stated that on my very first post of this thread. I was just trying to raose awareness to 90% of note 2 users who werent aware.

3) Even though these black dots arent noticable, as an advocate of customer value, and putting my trust into smartphone brands, I think that all customers should know about any defects. I originally posted this thread to compare mine to others. If you cant comrehend my intentions of this thread (which clearly arent to ruins people experience with their phone, rather attempt to educate users and my self), kindly please stop responding to this thread.

4) anal steps? It takes 30 seconds to do... if you dont want to do them, dont, but they couldnt be more idiot proof. If you are having trouble following them, let me know and ill try my best to dumb them down. As for everybody else who followed the procedure, and posted their response, I sincerely thank you btw :).

Unless you have a response other than one that attempts to draw this fabricated, dark image of me pls dont respond. I really dont appreciate you accusing me of this and that and telling me what my intentions are for this post. My intentions were to simply troubleshoot, and learn more about our devices.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Craleb:
Hmm I have one little line that's like a centimeter long. But i can only see it on 0 brightness in the complete dark.. Thankfully is not noticeable with regular use.

Thanks for the awareness i had no idea.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note ²
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Yes they are very anal and so are you for wanting people to follow these steps if they haven't noticed them before. Zzzzzzzzz..

No I don't need your anal steps dumbing down thanks as I have no need to follow them.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Glad it isnt noticable during regular use. One of mine had 3 lines and a few dots that were noticable. Tx for your input.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luka2858:
2 dots,2 by 2mm. I could hardy see them.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppn7:
hi.

I have a better solution for seeing these spots.

Go on stock Web browser. Put in the accessibility option the mode "reversed" which change white in black/grey.

Now go on google home page and then zoom in max. You will see 2 thing:

First black are not really black because of the contrast of the browser?

Secondly you will see spots. They are more visible than the first solution.

Enjoy...

PS: how to get real black like said the amoled display??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxonhtc:
"Enjoy"? Enjoy what, the ink blotches? FFS. Everyone who's done some research before buying knows that AMOLEDs have this "issue".

As for true blacks, I don't think it's a 100% off pixels, they are "barely" on probably, hence the faint grey tint. Not much of a problem since it's still infinitely better than any LCD screen could offer. The fact that you could only notice the tint in a pitch dark room is telling, isn't it?

There's a lot of threads around on the same, I don't think anyone's managed to find a satisfactory answer for that though.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
It seems as if you and another user do not understand the point of this thread. This thread is here to simply raise awareness to this issue for people who werent aware of black spot issues on amoled devices. And by my general sampling through conversations, there has not been one person I have asked about this and knew about it.

We are not here to ruin anyone's experience, I just believe that people should know these things when dishing out $750 + tax, or committing to a 3 year contract and paying a reduced amount (even if it isnt noticable in normal situations, although at times I do notice them when watching movies). I am a firm believer in customer value and and brand loyalty, thus I would hope that people appreciate me and other users that tested this issue, and posted about. Just as I would appreciate anyone else taking the time and effort who would surface and test any troubleshooting issue as well.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxonhtc:
well you can educate them all on the blotches then. We have plenty of threads here on XDA regarding the same, try searching. Almost any reasonably advanced users, who are the ones that use XDA, would have weighed their pros and cons before buying a device. And almost all of its went for it since positives by far outweighs the negatives. If that wasn't obvious.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
It is funny how out of the 47 posts on this thread, you and simaaca are the only ones who dont understand the reason for this thread (also funny that s/he is thanking you instantaneously right after you post). About you mentioning advanced users. Why did you bring that up? Do you think that if you are one you are better off than other ppl? You understand that androids customer base is so wide spread that advanced users are not the only segment right? You sound like a wannabe android techy from mars or something. Also, I should mention that I am an advanced user (ive replaced screens, replaced microusb ports, prty much know everything about UI's and roms, etc). However, as a responsible samsung brand advocate, and one who understands the importance of consumer expedinture, I think it is extremely important to surface this. And I dont think its fair to call ppl who arent aware of this black spot issue unadvanced.

I gotta say though that whole advanced bit cracked me up for 5 mins before work. Thanks for the chuckle. Also do not respond unless you have technical or troubleshooting related query. This is not meant for you to surface your hate on other peoples posts.

Peace.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mstickland:
I think your all crazy. I use my phone every way possible including true 720p movies and about anything else you could display and just let me say this. I have NEVER noticed anything like the problem you people are describing. Perhaps I have the only good Note II, or perhaps you guys look at your phone differently. My eye sight is phenomenal, as I notice the one and only minuscule scratch on my screen. Either way, I just dont see it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Aww. Not getting upset are we. Maybe you need a hug.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Nope but it sounded like u were earlier. U were so scared to test your device bc u know u would find some bloches. U probably jizz on your device b4 you go to sleep hahah.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Omg! I didn't realise it was a child who started this thread. That explains a lot!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxonhtc:
Haha, OMG. This guy is hilarious.

Again, if this wasn't clear - what I said was most XDA members are REASONABLY advanced (which apparently you missed) - as in are not total dummies who are unable to do any research before buying their product. And if you seriously think people who failed to read the countless thread around XDA about the same would become suddenly enlightened with your thread, good luck to you.

And what "troubleshooting" are we talking about here? It's an "issue" that are inherent to AMOLEDs. Every single AMOLED. Not just Samsung - pick any, Nokia, HTC, or any brand of your choice. You can't troubleshoot it away. So why would you feel the need to post this on the Note II forum, which has been discussed to death here on XDA? Use the search function.

I have no issues with discussing actual Note II related issues - as in if you have stuck or dead pixels, poor battery life, etc. Those are ISSUES with Note II which is indicative of a defective device. Entirely different from what you're doing here.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone:
I had black spots on my screen when I was using a flip cover with a magnet beside the phone.

Stopped using it and the spots are gone now.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ujustjelly:
Me a child? U were the one crying about doing a procedure that took 30 seconds to do. All bevause you were scared about seeing black spots on your note II. Like I said earlier, pls stop posting in this thread if you dont have anything to contribute to the topic of this thread, or accusing me of ruining peoples experiences with their devices. Also, I think it is childish that you and this other user keep on posting the same things in this thread, and constantly trade thanks with eachother. If I educated users about this issue that wasnt known to them, then I feel good about my self.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simacca:
Zzzzzzzzz....
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scote:
Nothing to see here move on...

Install perseus kernel. Use calibrated screen. Much better. Not surprsed artifacts exist in the over saturated stock profile
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Simone:
Really now? I'm already on the same profile as you but I still have black spots.

You're Note 2 must be like, super awesome.

You're on a different page.
[HTC One S] theNOOBuser:
As the title states, I'm just wondering if there is any way to add Arabic to the international keyboard settings for the default HTC keyboard.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] KannibalKorp:
Im trying to flash Crumble ICS, the Aroma installer froze after picking the different accessories.... now what?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] markymark567:
Probably gonna have to do a full recovery/flash stock. If you can boot it back to recovery you could try to flash crumble again, but I would just restore stock and start over
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tropazr:
Hmmm...you did say you were planning something.

Sweeeet. Looking forward to this!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
what do you mean by that? like what i said in the cm10.1 thread?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tropazr:
Yep. You said you had something that was getting pretty good battery life...must've been this right?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sropedia:
Any bugs that you know of? Screen tearing?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
correct. im getting 18+ underclocked to 1134 and 192. no other mods im about to post the link, i got things all figured out :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
ive been running for about 4 days with no screen tearing, or any bugs at all :good:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tropazr:
Wow. Bold claim!!! Can't wait to flash.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
I did just reflash to verify, there is a small annoyance but not a bug. When you first flash the status bar resolution might be a little fuzzy, as it was for me. But a theme change quickly fixed it
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] s1l3nt:
Looks like a great rom. It was something worth bragging about then lol. I really liked liquidsmooth so im definitely going to like this one too. will give a try soon :)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] tropazr:
Flashing now...will report back.

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Haven't dug too deep but I must say...this is good. No tearing/stutter (or very very little if any). Did notice that turn screen on when charger plugged in/out did not work....that's a sweet feature never understood why that isn't default on android.

Having a little bit of trouble with WiFi and signal drops but it will probably stabilize once its been running awhile longer.

Good work!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
i agree with the screen on did not work for me either but did not even know it was sopossed to *facepalm to myself*

hah im still trying to read all about carbon and its features so yeah..

and regarding the wifi and signal issues i havent had any. make sure your on the att lte apn if your in a lte area, but i just have the att apn selected and doing fine
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] InflatedTitan:
I've been running this since I ported and must say this is one of the smoothest 4.2 ROMs... Part of it is due to the awesome carbon dev team, a big part is rohans kernel. I'll be maintaining updates and hopefully adding in my own tweaks and mods to it.. Hope you guys like. Thanks to kole for finally peeling this rom off my sdcard :rolleyes:
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
No problem dude! It was killing me!

And everyone! about the battery life, the first thing I did was under clock to 1134 and 192 and this was the first day!

By the way. I flashed it at ~70-75% :)

Note the screen on time:) and it lasted until 11 something at night
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] KayxGee1:
NVM
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] rohan32:
P.S. you should add this to the OP as per GPL, kernel source is required:

https://github.com/AOKP/kernel_htc_msm8960

I believe thats the kernel being used in this ROM, anyway :P lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
I'm on hboot 1.09, I don't need s-off or to flash boot.img right?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
Correct, but I'd advise soff makes things so much easier. But remember if you choose to do soff if you break it. Don't come crying to me saying you should of because I'm saying I'm not responsible:)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] sropedia:
Can't seem to find evita in the device list? Probably missing something obvious here
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
Its an unofficial port. Go to the very bottom of the op
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] XNine:
Pft, your loss. :b
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] taomun:
I'm having an issue with this ROM and I hope someone in this thread can help me figure this out.

I installed this ROM about 2 days ago, coming over to this from Paranoid Android. I basically have been looking for a 4.2.2 ROM and this looked like it could work. Anyway, I installed the ROM and was just in the early stages of setting up for the past couple of days. I had to go somewhere and shut off my phone, but when I went back to turn it on later on, it won't boot up past the Baked BOOT animation, and now I'm stuck.

I could boot to the recovery (TWRP), and I tried wiping the cache and the dalvik cache a few times and rebooting, but I'm still getting stuck at the Baked BOOT animation.

Has anyone experienced this, and/or can anyone please provide some insight to what the issue could be or how can I go about fixing it.

Thanks in advance!

My Mistake, this should have been in the BAKED Black Bean 8 Thread :( I'm going to post it over there.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] skulldreamz:
Try wiping cache using fastboot. Adb reboot to bootloader and choose fastboot and type in terminal "fastboot erase cache" without the " . I had that issue and above worked for me
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] xxBrun0xx:
Just tried flashing this after wiping everything. Didn't flash anything after the Rom, not even Google apps. Browser force closed, home button didn't work (hardware or software). Cell also didn't seem to connect (icon stayed grey but I could get into gooimg, although I couldn't download anything, not sure what that means).
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pikul:
You have to flash google apps for everything to work, is a must with this rom

Sent from my HTC One X or GT-I9300
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] pside15:
Well, that's your problem right there.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chrisb906:
Bug:

Clicking home key isn't responsive. Just thought I'd let ya know.

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P.s. I did flash the gapps, did wipe and all of that jazz too. Lol
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Bhogan123:
What Scozzar said. And unofficial build thread of a ROM that is bow officially supported and maintained by Carbondev himself pretty Mich makes this thread redundant and outdated. No offense or anything intended of course.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] chrisb906:
I understand. Just thought I'd let him know. His ROMs are awesome.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
I don't think there's any need for me to go s-off at the moment as I'm on an early hboot so it doesn't really affect me. But thanks for the answer.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Cryosx:
Hardware key settings havent been implemented yet as far as I can tell, so don't jump onto this if that's important to you.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Kole_Ackerson:
Look closer. Settings-carbonrom-navigation-hardware keys