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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D_Magic:
You can reduce it a lot by downloading screen adjuster in the playstore and set contrast to - 10 to - 15 and then press activate
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
This happen to every set? Or some only?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipkryss:
I tried with the picture someone attached, zoomed in with lowest brightness and moved the picture around. I was not able to see anything weird.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NZtechfreak:
Definitely has it on mine at lower brightnesses, got it yesterday. VERY easily noticed in Tweetings where mentions are in a grey-ish colour. Only does it on text at basically minimum brightness, so I can live with it. Really bugged me on my S4 on text as it was apparent at slightly higher brightnesses.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] born4trance:
Why Samsung, Why... just went to see if i could replace my S4 for the Note 3, but then found this!

The GT-N7100 Note 2 was fine, GT-I9300 S3 was fine, then you changed to "Diamond (sub)Pixel(s)" layout and now u've made us :mad: ...

I really don't get it why they sell devices like this. The smearing/ghosting is SO obvious... well, not under all situations but you notice it fairly quickly when playing with the settings.

What do you people think of this?

Can we have a poll about it?

Does the smearing/ghosting bother you?

- Yes! I'll @#%% return my device ASAP! >:^(

- Yeah, but you can eliminate most of it by using a screen-adjuster

- It doesn't bother me that much...

- I don't notice it...?

- What is smearing/ghosting?

And yet then:

DisplayMate finds no flaw with the Galaxy Note 3's new OLED display, which is incredibly bright and pixel dense.

:eek:

---------- Post added at 03:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:52 AM ----------

So first you say the smearing is completely gone and now you're selling it again? :(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
Anyone tried to bring it to claim warranty?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killa12222:
Can confirm the "issue" on my N3 too. However its really only noticeable in a dark room at minimum screen brightness. I can live with that.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randpost:
It is there for me too, but I rarely use my phone at a brightness where I notice it. Almost a non issue for me.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masikamasi:
Can confirm too. l first thought this was a joke especially when I Saw the picture but its true

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Onemoa:
Anyone notice any lag or stuttering? I've read that people are saying it's worse then the S4. I don't own a Note 3 though so I'm just wondering.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
You guys are not worry that this small problem will grow and become a big problem? :confused:

And spending so much to buy a problem phone. It is flagship some more. -.-
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheRealFelix0212:
The Note 3 just doesnt like Apple.. Thats the reason haha ?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siraltus:
SM-900T here on T-Mobile in the US. Zero smearing, zero purple haze. From what I'm gathering across different threads is that the displays in the European N3s are different from the American models and, unfortunately, of worse quality.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
I'll find out whether mine got this issue or not when I get on Monday. I'm from Malaysia.

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedeadletters:
UPDATE:

I made a mistake regarding what the smearing/ghosting was. Though my device does have this, I'm pretty sure it's just the way it is.

What I was referring to is actually a slight grid appearing throughout the entire screen. This is not to be confused as the regular pixel "screen door effect", but is a bit similar. If you look at a gray or off-white screen, a grid of horizontal and vertical lines is visible throughout the entirety of the screen. It's definitely noticeable on the Steve Jobs silhouette picture posted at the beginning of this thread. Just zoom in a bit and start scrolling back and forth. You'll notice that the picture moves, but there's a grid that's stationary. This is the issue I noticed on the devices at the Sprint Store and on mine. Aside from problems with color uniformity, I'd say this is my worst concern with the phone.

Original Message below:

Definitely noticeable on the Sprint Note 3. I got mine from Best Buy, then checked 2 display models at a Sprint Store to find that they all have it (even checked both colors, just to be thorough). It's really apparent on gray or off-white tones.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersh:
9005 here, 0 purple, less lag and ghosting than note 2.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
Which country you from?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheRealFelix0212:
Should it be fixable by an update?

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kersh:
Just tried again with the jobs photo and yes, I have smearing, sorry for the confusion, but the ghosting under normal conditions is less than the note 2.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XtremeAt:
Yes.. Because of Knox.. Samsungs UI is ugly.. i sold my Note 3.. Keep my Note2.. This will be my last Samsung Smartphone..
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
So not all units are affected?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] born4trance:
I believe all units are affected. Just not every person happens to notice it (until you lower the screen's brightness).

With the S4/Note 3, Samsung went into a different direction to improve the black levels (which have become noticebly better than its predecessors).

This, unfortunately with the expense of increased purple-smearing/ghosting/trailing.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airyras:
So you have to jump in a bunch of loops to get smearing...how is thos an issue. Who turns down their brigntness set their wallpaper to black and zoooms and scrolls?????????
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
Mine is affected :(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuck:
It is hardware problem or firmware problem? :confused:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naimmkassim:
Its hardware problem..:(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harold5249:
So we can bring back to service centre and claim warranty?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XtremeAt:
Nope..because its a general screen Problem

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naimmkassim:
Better to just consider its as special effect of screen amoled bg samy..haha
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocujos:
Some people reported there was no smearing. I'd say this is a quality control issue. I've also dl that image to test my Note 1. There was no smearing or ghosting.

My Note 1 is now 2yr old. I replaced 4 of them to get the one with "perfect" display.

In Australia Note 3 costs around $US800. I expect a perfect phone for that price. Here Samsung offers Early Life Failure policy for 30 days. If anything goes wrong within this period, seller has to replace the phone, including Smearing/Ghosting/non uniform color/loose home button/gap at the bezel of the screen/bezel chipping/bad speaker. Phew.... Now that I've listed all known Note 3 defects I'm having second thoughts about buying it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XtremeAt:
Trust me.. every Note3 has this problem.. some people see it, some not.. if you use very low brightness you can see it in special Situations.

Thats no quality issue.. its a known fact that its display related.. black color = Pixels are completely off. (On note 1,2, s1,s2,s3 pixels were always on.. open black picture or use screen test and look in a dark room.. black turns into gray)

The Problem is that the note 3 and s4 Displays are too slow..

The pixels need time to switch on.. and thats not a quality problem. Its the way it is

Sorry for my bad bad english

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] system.img:
I went to a Samsung store and compared the Galaxy S4 and Note 3 side by side(using settings menu).

In S4, smearing was visible but in the Note 3 it was not visible at all. I couldn't notice any smearing, etc.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhuck:
yesterday i go to samsung service center, and i'm complain about this problem.

but customer service give me 3 note3 for comparing

and finally i'm found this problem is also in it
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imoseyon:
Someone pointed me to this thread and I think I implemented a workaround in my kernel. If you want to give it a try send me a PM.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canadoc:
Any chance you cab implement things to fix other screen issues like a screen temperature that is to cool or pink or yellow tint issues
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naimmkassim:
I think there is some screen adjuster app..but the problem is its adjust the hall screen area..not part by part...most of us having 3rd below screen problm only..not the hall screen...:(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imoseyon:
definitely. That will come in a future version of my kernel.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viniciusrsouza:
I'm from Brazil and my device also has this issue. First noticed it when just woke up and was scrolling a lot of notifications. Though it was my eyes and even washed my face... hahaha

At least it only happens when the brightness is on lowest level!

Could you please post here the link of your kernel's thread?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imoseyon:
here you go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47011523
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonkhoo87:
This only happen on my device on certain application. So far I test on 3g watchdog. The problem is there. But so far all app and tapatalk didn't show the same issue.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doenkerz:
im a note3 user from indonesia

and i can say, that 75-90% note 3 here have this problem...

i checked all the store and samsung center, all of them have it...

maybe some of us noticed it, but some of us dont...

so i think, its not a problem at all...

sorry for my bad english :eek:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naimmkassim:
Your quote just make me feel much better...:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cald:
Phew... I thought I was the only one that had this problem. The issue is that any service centre or warranty replacement agency will just say, "meh, it's hardly noticeable." It too happens for me only on the darkest brightness. I must also note that the darkest brightness is much darker than usual; other phones such as the S3 and the Xperia Z don't have such dark levels of brightness available.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcaser:
Probably they made the darkest level even darker to save battery...

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xuanbao:
Didn't noticed until I read about this. And yep I have it also :(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Guys, I hate to break this to you, but everybody has this. Some don't notice it, but it's an inherent design issue and it's a hardware level issue. Software updates by Samsung have only masked it (to an extent) by taking away the true "off" black state (off pixels in amoled are black) and replacing it with a low level gray.

There's an app called Screen Adjuster that does the same thing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netmanslab.sa

The smearing/tearing is the inherent pixel latency. The system cannot shift from an off (black) to on (not black) state fast enough for the eye to not notice it, so what Samsung and/or Screen Adjuster does is take away the true off/black state and replace it with an approximately black state that doesn't result in latency.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radicalisto:
Maybe I am just too trustworthy, but I don't think I have ever studied my screen to check for anything. yeah I glance at it in certain angles to check if there is any scratches or damage. -- I think of my screen like my TV, unless something stands out on it I won't give it a second look.

As stated there is bound to be some flaws, thats how manufacturing works. Quality control cannot be done for millions of devices rushing out of production lines. On closer inspection I just don't see it on my device or I am not looking hard enough, again I put this back to I don't study my device to find flaws. I admire it like the beautiful thing that it is. :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
Sorry, but I don't think you are really understanding the point. This issue is not something that's limited to just a few devices. Literally all, and I mean, A-L-L of the recent flagship 1080P devices based on Samsung's AMOLED technology have this inherent pixel latency problem. It's not a manufacturing defect. It's a design choice that Samsung later partially masked by taking away one of the key features of the AMOLED design: the pure black/off pixel state, and in the process, they took away a zero power state.

It's not as noticeable to some as it is to others, but it's there in literally every single one of the devices, no matter what.

A black pixel on an AMOLED display is totally off. Any other color state requires the pixel to fire up, and the inherent latency from totally off to on is what you are seeing as smearing or ghosting.

Samsung's "solution" to the complaint was to simply take away "off" completely, but this fix really works best in Samsung's native apps. Third party apps still show the pixel latency to some extent, but again, not everyone notices it.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radicalisto:
Tis why I said

I wasn't arguing against your reasoning :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BR_Impulse:
Just noticed this on the Note 3 too... it's really annoying... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikGOqdBGUDY. Is it this intense with your devices?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killberty:
What the F

Can u upload this image for me to test?

(Hipe this was the video and not my device whatching it in the app :p )

hit 'thanks' if i helped you

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BR_Impulse:
Yeah sure. Here it is:
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killberty:
Full or lowest brightness, no purple

hit 'thanks' if i helped you

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BR_Impulse:
Thanks for testing it for me. Interesting... this was on Auto, but it doesn't matter what setting because the purple is still present. Auto does make it more noticeable though. Did you use something other than the gallery app btw? Doesn't matter which app here either, but just wondering.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Killberty:
Had a dark grey to light grey image on full brightness and it was there but almost unnoticable

I would go for an exchange if i were you

hit 'thanks' if i helped you

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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BR_Impulse:
Thanks. Hopefully better luck with the replacement...
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcaser:
You may see the purple color also from another side: if you see it you can be sure to save maximum battery life, since all black pixels are deactivated. If you see it this way you may live with the technology

Sent from my Note 3
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3scue:
I can see that purple color when am on 1 to -5 brightness setting but not visible on 2 above.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcaser:
Yep, the devices differ slightly in minimum brightness. Some people do not see the purple color at all (regardless which brightness setting they choose) since the minimum brightness of their device is a little brighter. Nevertheless, there are apps out there (like screen adjuster or screen filter) which can lower the brightness even further and then the purple color suddenly appears on every device...

Sent from my Note 3
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dangminh_dds:
Do many people have the same error??
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] topcaser:
No, all devices have the same feature. It's not a bug but a display technology feature

Sent from my Note 3
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingKuba13:
Don't see the smearing yet but ghosting is pretty bad, whatever it is, it is rather visible/noticible.

first Samsung product for me, was great overall but seriously this pentile amoled crap needs to go away.

I don't even like the "white" notification icons of new android, like my old 2.2 better...:confused:

Is there an app to change my gmail/yahoo to "colorful" ones again?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mfractal:
bought 2 SM-N9005, one has the issue, one doesn't.

Annoying as hell but screen Adjuster @ -15 Contrast helps quite a lot.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Luthien1:
just came from beast kernel; however this kernel is a tad quicker.....great job
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chief:
this kernel fixes this issue? can you please give me link to this kernel? or any other which fixes that?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimzweb1:
Watched the vid, and copied the image posted at the bottom. I have no purple smear at all? Tried to zoom in on the image, to see better. Still no purple smear/ghosting. Tried dropping screen brightness to min, still no smear? Running SM900P stock rooted KK 4.4.2 NC5. Now you are just running your finger over the image posted to the screen from the gallery, right?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimzweb1:
Yes, Lean Kernel says it fixes problem right on the features list. Here is the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2488082
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan1980:
I have smearing on note3 from korea oct 13 and another from japan july14.

I saw purple on jobs face from that picture when moving left right up down on the margins. Never seen that till this thread. This thread must be closed

Edit On chess picture Zero smearing, only on Jobs picture.

But I'm on SkyHigh kernel, it has an setting that fix this. I also see this setting in Ael kernel, Civato kernel, Kk kernel, etc

Note 3 rooted knox 1, my last Samsuck crap. I want freedom. Stay away from Samsuck!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T4zzilo:
Same on Note 4 :(
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cdon2109:
I have the Note 4 too and it's still doing the same. I think that's really normal on amoled screens. Come to think of it, from S4 to Note 4 and they've not found a way to perfect this amazing display tech.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] PureLife90:
When I had my galaxy s3 there was a script to trick your phone into thinking that your external SD card was your internal memory. I was just curious if this is possible on the droid bionic? I don't have the script anymore, nor do I know where to locate it (yes I've Googled). I'm just so tired of memory being an issue especially when having loads of gameloft games (they are indeed memory hoggers). I would highly appreciate if somebody could help me. Thank you in advance!
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] alokbhargava:
I am wondering if the type of the SD card will affect the speed of the programs running on SX66 with WM 5, any views?

Secondly, If I need to change theSD card to 2GB in future, do I need to install WM 5 again?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlang123:
With the LG about status showing if your rooted, does that go away if you restore or if you unroot? Or once it's tripped, does it stay tripped for ever?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaben2:
Goes away if you flash back to stock, not just unrooting, or factory reset.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlang123:
So just flash to stock if you ever need to get warranty work done.. gotcha.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flyers27:
I am rooted with stock rom. I have a droid incredible 4g with foxfi installed. The phone is on the list of phones that work with foxfi and im on the verizon network with unlimited data. I have pda.net tablet installed on my N7 and i cant get it to work using wifi. The tablet detects the foxfi network but wont connect. It is also asking me to install pda.net on my phone to connect which doesnt fix the problem. I have since removed pda.net from my phone and im at a loss here. Ive read over and over with no solutions, i must be missing something... Any help with instructions would be appreciated.

thanks
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordLugard:
Have you tried WiFi Tether (requires root)? Works like a charm in my setup (Note 2 and Nexus 7 WiFi).
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flyers27:
Haven't tried that, my incredible 4g is not rooted... I have to be missing something or doing something wrong because it should work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djalka:
delete
[HTC Droid DNA] _phoey:
Since flashing crDroid, I can't send long texts anymore. Typically, if the limit of characters was exceeded, it splits it into multiple messages. But now, they won't send at all. It just give an error message. Any ideas on a fix?

Sent from my crDroid DNA
[HTC Droid DNA] jamiethemorris:
Try pulling the MMS apk from cm10.2 and pushing it to /system/app.
[HTC Droid DNA] chayos00:
I am getting this too with my CM 10.2 nightlies, but I am also using Handcent and I set my phone to split the messages for the 160 character limit. Once I did that all messages have been going through without issues.
[HTC Droid DNA] _phoey:
I use textra and I can't find this option. I'll look harder.

Edit-- I was looking at the MMS settings, not SMS. I found the option and it works. Thank you very much!

Sent from my crDroid DNA
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CantWorkAROM:
Hey xda,

So I'm on a Nexus 4 and I successfully rooted my device! Yay:good:. While that's great and all, I wanted to go for more, so I tried flashing the PAC ROM. I'll admit I didn't follow any directions. I just downloaded a zip for PAC Rom and GApps and saved it into my phone's internal storage on the computer. After that I went into recovery, wiped data and cache, then installed from sdcard while in recovery for both of them and assumed that would work, just like with SuperSU

Unfortunately, I don't like the ROM at all, especially with the fact that my keyboard does not work, the Play Store automatically shut down, and none of my apps were there. I tried deleting the rom and gapps from my phone's internal storage and installed SuperSU again but it keeps loading into PAC. How can I get back to stock? I know of the factory images on the Google Developers page but I know next to nothing about them so I would like to avoid that if I can. How can I fix my issue and how can I properly go about flashing a ROM so I can avoid this problem and not live up to my username as much.

For reference, I am using a Nexus 4 and I'm not concerned about losing anything, I have everything I need saved onto my computer
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baseballfanz:
Deleting those file will do nothing except get rid of those two files from your storage, it's not going to get rid of your ROM that's been flashed. That's why it keep booting back into PAC ROM.

You really need to read and understand what you're doing before you brick your device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2367406

You'll need to flash a the factory image to get back to stock.

Look at this threads

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010312

Also you should always do a nandroid backup before flashing anything, it will save you lot of times and headaches.

Wiping is also important when flashing ROM, especially going from one ROM to another.