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[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
I will openly admit that as a fan of AMOLED displays, I love the "oversaturated" colors and "better than life" images they facilitate. Of course there are people who prefer LCDs and people who are color-accuracy purists, and I respect their differing preferences. With that said, I want to offer some comments about the Galaxy Note 7's display, and see if other people are having the same thoughts. For reference, mine arrived on Tuesday of this week so I've had it for roughly two days now.

The sAMOLED panel on the phone, or at least the phone I have, is a horrid disappointment. The first thing I do when getting a new Samsung phone (which for various reasons is basically every time a new one releases) is turn the Display Mode to "AMOLED Cinema". Until the Note 7, it had been the most intense, color saturated setting option. With the Note 7, it looks awful. The colors are washed out and "dull" to the point where I almost wondered if there is a calibration issue. Oddly, the Automatic mode seems to be the only way to get colors remotely saturated to the point of which I prefer.

Along with the Note 7, I am currently using a Nexus 6P. The display on the 6P is, for my personal preferences, far better than that on the Note 7. I have the same wallpaper on both, the same icon set up, and yet the 6P's colors look way more intense.

Has anyone else noticed this? In particular, people who have owned the Galaxy S7 Edge, the Galaxy Note 5, and the Galaxy S6 Edge+? Could it be that my device has a problem with the panel?

I used the S7 Edge for about 4 months and at no point did it have the color "problems" that I am experiencing with the Note 7. Mind you the smaller, standard Galaxy S7 looked more vibrant, but this was attributed to the display being that much smaller.

Yes, I get the idea that Samsung is trying to make the displays more color accurate and whatnot, but in all honesty, should the ultimate goal be to make them as close to LCD color calibration as possible? Is that what people would want?

If this is where Samsung is going with future products, I must admit I'm not happy at all. Part of the reason I like the Galaxy series has always been their super saturated situation. The Note 7 is now the first product where I have, from the very first minutes with the phone, been unhappy with the display.

Any thoughts?
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] apprentice:
I also heard about this lowered saturation on a YouTube review video recently, so it looks like Samsung has responded to the stupid complaints about the over saturation. I am on your side here as I love the over saturation, it is fundamentally why I go for Samsung phones overall. Those that complain are too dumb or too lazy to go and change the levels in settings. So Samsung has helped quell the moaners.

I am waiting for mine to arrive on Tuesday and I will report back here. I hope it isn't too noticeable as I will be bitterly disappointed.

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[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
I am in the 'other' camp and much prefer a more natural picture, close to SRGB. Even then I use SCREEN BALANCE (app store) to very slightly change screen tint to a more blue'ish hue to get white whites.

My gf has a 3 series samsung and the colours are imho truly awful with their over emphasised vibrancy.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] apprentice:
I think the S3 is not the best phone to compare it to. Back then the displays were really off balance. But I respect your preference for a more natural look but surely we need the options for either. Can the SCREEN BALANCE app you mentioned be used to saturate the colours at all? And does it interfere with the screen overlay issue when setting permissions for other apps?

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[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
I suspect you will be disappointed. I am literally, at this point, going back to the Nexus 6P constantly for web browsing and YouTube.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nitemare3219:
You are insane. Yes, Samsung changed the screen modes for the BETTER.

Basic = sRGB = most consumer content.

Photo = Adobe RGB = pro photos

Cinema = DCI-P3 = film making standard

Adaptive = oversaturated, cold white point that some people like yourself prefer.

Cinema used to be the oversaturated setting. Now it is adaptive display. If that isn't saturated enough for you, get your eyes checked dude. Beyond that point, you are absllutely making everything completely unrealistic. I don't like "washed out" aka accurate colors either, but I don't like colors that destroy the image. The 6P out of the box is too saturated. I have to tone that down slightly to match the Cinema mode from Samsung.

And people... STOP SAYING LCDS ARE FOR COLOR ELITISTS AND OLED IS OVERSATURATED. That is a crock of ****. The only reason Samsung made their first OLEDs oversaturated were to get people's attention. When using a calibrated setting, OLED is superior to LCD in EVERY WAY. Infinite contrast is A HUGE factor for image quality. LCDs suck. Period. The only advantage they have is brightness in TVs, which could change as tech matures (but Samsung has brighter OLED phone panels than any LCD competitor), and producing a deeper red color with quantum dot. That's it.

This is absolutely the best phone display ever made. Period.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] teegunn:
Seems like people can find something to complain about. Now if someone has a truly faulty display, then that is reasonable to gripe about. But I can say my N7 has BY FAR the best display of any mobile device I have ever owned (Owned note's for 4 years now). This display is light years better than what my N4 has. The whites are far whiter, the colors are far better. It is saturated perfectly (I am using adaptive) and the brightness is awesome. The N7's display has already been shown to be by far the best display on any mobile device to date, and by a fairly wide margin in many of the different testing criteria. IDK what to say to someone who actually doesn't like the N7's display. Except maybe you have a faulty display. Each to their own, but it is pretty clear cut after extensive testing by displaymate (I think that's the site) that the N7 has the worlds best smartphone display. Second best was the S7 edge. I will say that I am not overly fond of the curved edges, but that would be my only gripe and has nothing to do with the actual display/brightness/colors/sharpness etc.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] aznmode:
I noticed this the other day when comparing to my note 4 watching 4k videos. Videos were a little washed out and it didn't pop on my note 7. Details and contrast were missing. So I start looking in to the settings and in the Advanced features I find "Video enhancer" all the way on the bottom. I saw that it was ON and it makes the sample image brighter. OFF caused it to get darker. So I decided to turn it off and watched the same 4k video. Now my note 7 is exactly like my note 4. Colors popped, more contrast, more details. I assume because turning it off did not allow darker colors to get brighter and blended less with lighter colors of the same shade? Anyway, try it out yourself when you get your phone. I am leaving this setting off.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ace Ryan:
I agree about it being the best display. I absolutely have ZERO complaints about the colors. I recently upgraded from the Galaxy S5, and lets just say... the difference is mind-blowing. However, this boils down to preference, and there's nothing wrong with the OP's wish for more saturation, as that is just what he prefers. However, I find the most saturation comes with Adaptive Display also, while Cinema Mode seems a tad more dull. The difference in modes is hardly even noticeable though. To the OP: Just roll with adaptive, my friend.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
Well, I don't know if "insane" is the proper word though. People have different preferences. I'd be willing to bet that a wide segment of the general population would also agree with me, and probably associate AMOLED with those exact "over the top" colors as some allege. Indeed it comes down to personal preference. Like how for some they simply can't use a point-and-shoot camera because the images are "terrible" but for the masses they would never notice most of the minutia of detail differences between a DSLR and point-and-shoot upon a quick glance.

Indeed I keep going back to the 6P now because the colors are so much more saturated. Which is ironic because when it launched last year IIRC, I felt it was too "subdued".

As for the generalization, I think it's become that way because many of the LCD-enthusiasts use that as their mantra. It's better because of X,Y,Z, basically the points you raised above. Perhaps when AMOLED becomes more common people will start to be more aware of the details and whatnot.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
For me at least, the display saturation has been one of the primary reasons I will come back to Samsung. For example I loved the LG V10 last year but ended up getting rid of it in favor of another Galaxy S6 Edge+ simply because of the color situation.

I don't think the display on mine is faulty, just that I'm not so happy with the changes Samsung has made to its display setting profiles. As for the Display Mate issue, I've heard about it for a relative while now, but at least from my personal preferences it's a strike against the phone. It would be interesting to see what a large segment of Note 7 users feel about the display, though I'm willing to bet that (1) 99% don't even know you can change the display settings, and (2) the phone is already set to Adaptive thus people won't even be aware to begin with.

Just as a side note, I found the Sony Xperia X to have a stunning display in terms of color saturation. They have calibrated it almost to the point of being an "old school" sAMOLED.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] apprentice:
I understand what you are saying. I do not disagree with you that the display has been praised highly by the likes of Display Mate, I don't even dispute that this is the best display ever on any phone. I welcome the better whites and brightness and all that you point out and I also despair at some of the negativity posted on XDA about the Note 7 in general.

But I can't help the fact that I love over saturated colours on a phone (not necessarily for photo's and videos but certainly the UI) and up until now this has been a predominant feature of AMOLED. What I am complaining about is that the option to have a natural look or a vivid look that has always been a built into the settings for the display are no longer adequate. From what I gather, the CINEMA mode which was always the most vivid, makes little difference now. How hard would it be to allow users more control over saturation? The issue therefore is not with the display, but the software settings.

If as you say the ADAPTIVE mode is sufficient then I will be happy with that. Until I get my phone I won't know for sure.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
I guess you could. Why not try it?

Yes it works by way of screen overlays. Certain application, like my mobile banking app require SB to be switched off. No biggie.

It may be of interest to you that NOUGAT has built in colour sliders and white balance adjustments which work at root level. Well at least the development version had it. Whether this makes it into the final version is another question. I can imagine that some manufacturers which have spent some effort to get their displays calibrated as close as poss to approved standards may object to see their work compromised that way.

We have to see.

I think nougat has been rolled out on Nexus so may be worth looking there too.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
An excellent point: why doesn't Samsung allow manual tinkering of the color saturation? Why not add a "Custom" mode? It has one for the music equalizer for example.

Rival products such as Asus hardware (though the Zenfone 3 crashed every time I tried) and even the BlackBerry Priv have manual color saturation sliders. If Samsung is so interested in changing the settings to inevitably upset any number of people, why not also have an option to tailor the display to the user's liking?
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] EarlZ:
In theory you are correct about that but if you put maybe 5 note 7's side by side and set them all with the same color mode. probably 4 out of the 5 devices will have different color temperatures and saturation.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nitemare3219:
Yes, there is a margin of difference in each screen - no calibration setting is likely to produce the same result in a different screen. But unless Display Mate received a cherry picked device, or got extremely lucky, their testing shows these color modes are very accurate.

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That is a great point and something that really should have been incorporated. OEMs are hesitant to allow users to customize things, which is stupid... Samsung wants locked bootloaders. Apple locks damn near everything down. I think the reasoning behind this is because most people don't have a damn clue what they're doing, and it would lead to devices with really bad configurations either by accident or by ignorance. The owner would think something is wrong with their device, other people would see this and think poorly of that OEM, there'd be improper repair/warranty claims attempted, etc.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] BarryH_GEG:
One. You're pitting your subjective preferences against a PhD holding expert that tested the display using a battery of standardized tests using sophisticated equipment.

Absolute Color Accuracy for Each of the Screen Modes

For each of the Screen Modes we carefully measure the Absolute Color Accuracy using an advanced series of spectroradiometer measurements with 41 Reference Colors that provide a detailed map of the Color Accuracy throughout the entire Color Gamut for each Screen Mode.

Absolute Color Accuracy is measured in terms of Just Noticeable Color Differences, JNCD. See this Figure for an explanation and visual definition of JNCD and the detailed Color Accuracy Plots showing the measured Color Errors for the 41 Reference Colors for each Color Gamut. For all of the calibrated Screen Modes,

the Galaxy Note7 has uniformly Very Good to Excellent Absolute Color Accuracy

. See our detailed Absolute Color Accuracy Plots with 41 Reference Colors for the 3 calibrated screen Modes and also this regarding Bogus Color Accuracy Measurements.

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note7_ShootOut_1.htm​

So you not liking what you're seeing doesn't mean what you're seeing isn't accurate.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TokyoGuy:
Wait a sec I think you might have misread or misinterpreted my original comments. I never claimed the display was in any way inaccurate, in fact IIRC a point was even raised about my having seen the analysis reports and such. My comment was purely a subjective one, that I don't like the new calibration in light of a personal preference towards truer-than-life color reproduction on a display. My asking for comments was not to challenge the accuracy of reports stating the Note 7 is properly calibrated, rather it was just to reach out and see if anyone also preferred the "old style" color tendencies.

IIRC someone in this topic mentioned about how Samsung might not want users to play with the calibration settings (thus no manual control) as it would potentially lead to creating a bad impression for anyone who saw any given user's device and didn't like the color reproduction. But I would argue that this is the inherent problem of Android, and OEM skins to boot. Just looking at some of the people here in Japan, and the phone(s) they are using with absolutely grotesque levels of carrier bloatware and skins (NTT docomo is by far the worst), I often feel Android is being misrepresented both to the user and to the market itself.

Many times people have said how "my phone is so slow" or "I don't like all these apps on it" and I've tried to explain how that's entirely the result of (1) the Docomo skin, or (2) the fact that it's a carrier model. Now adays more people are starting to at least know OF factory unlocked products though actually buying them is another issue entirely. I'd wager anyone not actively interested in tech around the world really has no interest in spending the better part of 1K on a top-end flagship sold factory unlocked. Thus people take what they can get for as low as they can get it for.

Anyway, going back to the original topic of the display, Samsung really shouldn't worry about how users might "sully" the beauty of AMOLED given that carriers already do enough to cause even the best phone(s) to be "broken" and that shapes someone's impressions just as much.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] apprentice:
Now I actually have the Note 7 my anxiety over the colour saturation and screen modes has been eradicated! The display does not disappoint in any way and adaptive mode is surprisingly. . perfect!

I notice the difference between my Note 7 and my Galaxy Tab S, they look different but the Note 7 is equally good.

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[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] winol:
tokyoguy, Really, I dont know what device you are talking about, or got yourself a really, really defective one, my screen is the best I have ever had, I hat 4 other samsung models, 2 sony, etc, this one the note7 is the best for me
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] PunishedSnake:
A staple of samsung amoled screens
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] THS1989:
Go to settings then display and chance screen mode from adaptive to something else. Basic is sRGB. Photo is Adobe RGB. Cinema is the new DCI-P3 standard which is what I use.
[Note 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] htcplussony:
Nothing really prevents lcd from having the kind of colors the OP wants except for manufacturers are just not calibrating them this way. Choices will be very limiting if Android ever gets color management.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ulxerker:
hi all, since I'm on N I don't see the value of remeining battery percentage anymore on taskbar. also, this option isn't available anymore in UI tuner settings.

I updated from stock 6.0.1 to N per OTA image via adb sideload and everything else works fine.

any thoughts? is it the same for you?
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enzo_cz:
I am on the final N and it is in UI Tuner Settings
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codfx:
System UI Tuner > Battery
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckempo:
As of N, it's moved to System UI Tuner > Status Bar > Battery (at least for me) - not immediately obvious.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ulxerker:
thanks guys, got it!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] krabban:
I havet å problem in twrp. I cant restore my rom, says Read only?

Whats wrong . Do i only have to Mount in root explorer ?

Galaxy s7 exynos
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
Hi mate

At step 9 of TWRP did you swipe right to allow modification to the system?

At this point, you will reach the screen asking you if you want to allow system modifications.

By swiping right, you will trigger dm-verity, and if you don't follow step 11 you will be unable to boot!

If you are going to root your device and follow the rest of these steps, then it is safe to swipe right and enable modifications.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] krabban:
Yes i did. I have restored rom before but now om not enable to do it anymore ? Do i have to re root it with super su and dm - verity?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
Yes , if you are not SU you do not have access to the system

you should follow all steps described on the thread
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] krabban:
Ok but i am rooted no ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
One question what bootloader version you have , there has been lots of issues with aug security patch ( G930FXXU1BPH6) affecting SU and TWRP

BTW did you wiped your data when installing TWRP?

Only if you want internal storage or data to work in TWRP:

Go to [Wipe] -> [Format Data] (not advanced wipe) -> type "yes".

WARNING: This will wipe your internal storage, disable encryption, and factory reset your phone!

Go to [Reboot] -> [Recovery].
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] krabban:
Yes i did exactly as the guide sad. If it doesnt work i will do all the steps again. I think that "swipe right to allow modifications" showed up a secons time and then i did not format data. I ll try your tip
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] MAX 404:
Hi

You need to swipe right and format data if you do not format you will have a read only system (encrypted)

let us know
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] krabban:
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[General Questions and Answers] _SDC_:
Hi all, i'm new to this forum, but i'm starting out with a big question.

I'm having a discussion with a support engineer and i would like to counter some of his arguments with some insights from people that have actually made some android apps.

so the situation:

SIP phone app provided by PBX developer

you take a call on your phone, precense on the app stays "available" because the app is on standby/sleep/doze

you then receive a second call, this time on the SIP app, you can't answer it and can't park it cause you are already in a normal phonecall.

What we/our client wants:

you take a call on your phone, the precense on the SIP app changes to "in a call" or "busy" so that no calls can be made to his SIP app

This has been realised by some SIP apps but these are not compatible with the PBX installed

What support said:

This is not possible, because the app is in sleep and uses push to take the calls.

Is this really that impossible? i know you can get the call state of your phone but i have no idea you can actually push this to an app that is on standby/sleep/doze.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mab71:
Hi all! I'm using an a5 2016 a510fd XME which is a Malaysian firmware.

I recently flashed the KSA marshmallow firmware on my phone with odin and it's working pretty well.

One thing I noticed is that the secret codes are not working... Such as *#0*#, *#06# etc.

Anyone having the same issue and are there any solutions?

Thanks
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MoshPuiu:
It works on A500FU marshmallow.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mab71:
Did update via OTA or odin?
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] MoshPuiu:
Via Smart Switch.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mab71:
Plz explain.. I'm not familiar with smart switch. Thanks
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] mab71:
Solved. Flashed a different country's firmware.
[Galaxy A3, A5, A7, A8, A9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Nickelo:
Same problem!

Hello Mab7? Please kindly explain to me the solution that worked for you...I'm having same problem here. Thank you.