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Do digitizers go out on these phones?

if you look at the bottom under my dock icons it started doing thus a couple days ago. Not sure if my digitizer is going but if i reboot it goes away.
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that looks to be a row of funky lookin pixels, which would be the screen, not the digitizer... the digitizer just registers touch input and does not actually display anything, it just is an overlay over the screen.... as to how to troubleshoot the problem I would grab LCD test from the market and go from there
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gilbydakid said:
if you look at the bottom under my dock icons it started doing thus a couple days ago. Not sure if my digitizer is going but if i reboot it goes away.
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Playing Sherlock Holmes here... but of it was a problem with the physical screen, I'd imagine it wouldn't show in a screen shot, which implies its something the app can actually capture. I'd try a different rom and see how it goes.
Just an idea
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Wizard Knight said:
Playing Sherlock Holmes here... but of it was a problem with the physical screen, I'd imagine it wouldn't show in a screen shot, which implies its something the app can actually capture. I'd try a different rom and see how it goes.
Just an idea
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Dude crazy good logic, I was thinking he had a row of stuck pixels or something but you're 100% right, that'd not show up at all in the screencap, I also didn't notice it went away on reboot, I'm thinking that was an edit of the op
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HD Netflix?

Is there an HD Netflix app for our phone?
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If you go to the website under your settings you can change the quality level.
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I don't see a difference in the app

donsh00tmesanta said:
I don't see a difference in the app
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Quality is usually adjusted on the fly but being a phone that in portrait only has 480 lines of resolution I wouldn't expect it to offer streaming 720P plus anyways. Watching on Wifi or good 4G should come up great but bad connections and 3g it will come out overly compressed.
Resolution is one issue and bitrate is another. The bitrate is adjusted based on connection speed to prevent buffering.

donsh00tmesanta said:
I don't see a difference in the app
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You probably won't on such a small screen but its the only solution that I can give to the question. Our screens aren't even HD anyway.
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Using tubemate I can notice the difference between 480 all the way to 1080 easily and even on he fastest wifi there's no difference between the settings in android app
A big difference in ps3 app tho
I wish ps3 and android Alps had very own settings for quality like hulu plus apps do

GiantJay said:
You probably won't on such a small screen but its the only solution that I can give to the question. Our screens aren't even HD anyway.
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Agreed. I think that netflix looks great on our screen considering the size. Definitely have to stream over wifi, sprint just isn't fast enough otherwise. Perhaps going over 3g is leading to poor display quality

Pixel density mod?

Is there any mod or ROM besides liquidsmoothes that has the capability to change the pixel density for the GSIII?
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spdrasr3 said:
Is there any mod or ROM besides liquidsmoothes that has the capability to change the pixel density for the GSIII?
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Per app or overall??
Open build.prop with R/W
Edit line ro.sf.lcd.density= 320 to a higher number. Will change it.. (just remember 320 is stock)

milky1112 said:
Per app or overall??
Open build.prop with R/W
Edit line ro.sf.lcd.density= 320 to a higher number. Will change it.. (just remember 320 is stock)
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I've never done any build prop mods how do I get to the edit line? I thought 306 was the density. Thanks!
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spdrasr3 said:
I've never done any build prop mods how do I get to the edit line? I thought 306 was the density. Thanks!
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Rom i am running (The Peoples Rom, has that one set to 320, So going off it)
I use root explorer... So your steps may differ a bit
Open Root explorer, Go to SYSTEM, Build.prop... Long press and edit in text editor.. scroll down till you see that line in the build prop, Edit number , Save, Reboot phone. Now your density will change to set number. (I used to run higher on my OG epic) Hope it helps..
Just remember original setting if you don't like what it's changed to. You can also edit build.prop and add the soft keys (Nexus style) as well.
If i'm wrong somoene chime in.

milky1112 said:
Rom i am running (The Peoples Rom, has that one set to 320, So going off it)
I use root explorer... So your steps may differ a bit
Open Root explorer, Go to SYSTEM, Build.prop... Long press and edit in text editor.. scroll down till you see that line in the build prop, Edit number , Save, Reboot phone. Now your density will change to set number. (I used to run higher on my OG epic) Hope it helps..
Just remember original setting if you don't like what it's changed to. You can also edit build.prop and add the soft keys (Nexus style) as well.
If i'm wrong somoene chime in.
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Can't seem to get the change to stick. Any suggestions?
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spdrasr3 said:
Can't seem to get the change to stick. Any suggestions?
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Edit on computer, then safe in zip.. Reflash.
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Can't seem to get the change to stick. Any suggestions?
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Are you saving after edit? which File explorer you using?

Download front changer from play store , it allow you to change density.
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milky1112 said:
Edit on computer, then safe in zip.. Reflash.
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Are you saving after edit? which File explorer you using?
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Root explorer...and yes I saved and exited then reboot. Does it have something to do with permissions?
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spdrasr3 said:
Root explorer...and yes I saved and exited then reboot. Does it have something to do with permissions?
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Mount it as R/W (top option) it mounts as R/O normally. if you don't mount as R/W then won't save.

pdkenji said:
Download front changer from play store , it allow you to change density.
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No such app in playstore
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milky1112 said:
Mount it as R/W (top option) it mounts as R/O normally. if you don't mount as R/W then won't save.
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Yep done that...still no go
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Try to edit on computer then flash rom.
Bout the only other way I can think of making it work. Edit build prop on the computer. Can try ES file explorer and see if it will take.
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milky1112 said:
Try to edit on computer then flash rom.
Bout the only other way I can think of making it work. Edit build prop on the computer. Can try ES file explorer and see if it will take.
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Tried ES file explorer and it must work because once the density is change it locks up at Samsung splash screen
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Shouldnt. Hmmm... not sure why it would lock up. What rom ya on?
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milky1112 said:
Shouldnt. Hmmm... not sure why it would lock up. What rom ya on?
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Stock...rooted. Tried in ROM toolkit build prop mods same result lockup. Shouldn't be this difficult. I used one click Odin to root. Could that be a problem?
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spdrasr3 said:
Stock...rooted. Tried in ROM toolkit build prop mods same result lockup. Shouldn't be this difficult. I used one click Odin to root. Could that be a problem?
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No, shouldnt be an issue with root methodm try a differnet rom (the peoples rom) lightly modded.
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Whatever you do don't just blindly change your pixel density without knowing how it works. One of the posters said change it to a higher number, yeah right, is he nuts? the higher the number the less sharp and more chance your phone won't boot up, it's actually the lower the number the sharper the better so he got all his stuff twisted, he needs to go relearn.
Changing your dpi to something higher than what your actual screen supports is a guaranteed way to get softbricked and you will have to restore with odin.
Your screens pixel density can't be increased because its hardware physical pixels that were manufactured with in the first place so by lowering the pixel density from lets say in my case 306 for my galaxy s3 down to 240 I get a much crisper display with more room and also 720p movies look very good.

Are there any disadvantages to lowering the density?

OsmanMusa said:
Whatever you do don't just blindly change your pixel density without knowing how it works. One of the posters said change it to a higher number, yeah right, is he nuts? the higher the number the less sharp and more chance your phone won't boot up, it's actually the lower the number the sharper the better so he got all his stuff twisted, he needs to go relearn.
Changing your dpi to something higher than what your actual screen supports is a guaranteed way to get softbricked and you will have to restore with odin.
Your screens pixel density can't be increased because its hardware physical pixels that were manufactured with in the first place so by lowering the pixel density from lets say in my case 306 for my galaxy s3 down to 240 I get a much crisper display with more room and also 720p movies look very good.
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If i stated to go wrong direction, thanks for the correction, I haven't messed with it on my S3, just did on my OG Epic.. No disadvantages that ive seen.. just everything is smaller on screen. Still looks good. I'm running stock 320 on my S3 for now.. Don't see a need to change it yet. Thanks again.

Lowering the dpi to 240 or even 260 has 2 benefits, one you get more room so you can fit more icons and everything and even have more dock items too and second benefit is that when you get more room for things and you see smaller icons etc that means they look more high def so everything you see becomes high def since things are not all huge and up in your face because the bigger something is the more pixellated it is get it? so i would definately go for at least 260 but 240 is even better.
I mean just think about it, you have a 4.8 inch display and huge things like widgets are taking up most of your screen so by going down to 240 you turn your screen into more tablet like with more room for you to put and do whatever you need. It's like i'm using galaxy tab 2 right now with dpi at 240.

Nexus 4 Display control

Has any of you tried this app yet? maybe its useful to get rid of the yellow tint of the nexus 4? It was made by Francisco Franco
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexus4displaycontrol

Judging by the reviews it should work. I know im getting it once i receive my N4.

It does work. I just don't know what each setting combinations look the best.
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drew_grant said:
It does work. I just don't know what each setting combinations look the best.
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To me (for the time being) whatever makes the yellow tint dissappear , can't wait to have my Nexus 4 to try it
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Chad_Petree said:
To me (for the time being) whatever makes the yellow tint dissappear , can't wait to have my Nexus 4 to try it
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Trust me that's what I'm going for!
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drew_grant said:
It does work. I just don't know what each setting combinations look the best.
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I don't notice yellowing yet. Guess if it appears, I know how to fix it now. Since it looks like software, why isn't this fixed?

Can someone post their settings for this app. Black's are too light and colors not as vibrant as when using cm calibration settings on the previous nexus'
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kyleds said:
Can someone post their settings for this app. Black's are too light and colors not as vibrant as when using cm calibration settings on the previous nexus'
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This is a different type of screen. Blacks will not be as deep nor colors will it be as saturated as super amoled. As far as settings I use 255 190 255.
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I use Fauxclock. It's got CPU/GPU clock and voltage control, in addition to color (and gamma, when ROMs/kernels begin to support it). You can also select an IO scheduler.
Basically it does all the same stuff as Voltage Control, SetCPU, Incredicontrol, and N4 Display Control, but it's in one app so it's overall cheaper.

I went to a Best Buy today and compared my N4's screen directly to a Optimus G. I didn't actually think my screen looked yellow at all until I compared it to the Optimus G. My N4's screen looked terribly yellow, was less bright, and had worse viewing angles than both of the Optimus G's my local Best Buy had on display.
Based off the first post in this thread for the GNex, I set my Nexus 4 to settings of:
182
190
200
I haven't tinkered too much but this seems to make things a bit better.
Has anyone else experienced the screen turning very yellow, almost brown, when viewing from the corners of the device? I am pretty unhappy with the viewing angles on the phone, especially after comparing it to the Optimus G, which is supposed to have the same display.

thunderinacircle said:
I went to a Best Buy today and compared my N4's screen directly to a Optimus G. I didn't actually think my screen looked yellow at all until I compared it to the Optimus G. My N4's screen looked terribly yellow, was less bright, and had worse viewing angles than both of the Optimus G's my local Best Buy had on display.
Based off the first post in this thread for the GNex, I set my Nexus 4 to settings of:
182
190
200
I haven't tinkered too much but this seems to make things a bit better.
Has anyone else experienced the screen turning very yellow, almost brown, when viewing from the corners of the device? I am pretty unhappy with the viewing angles on the phone, especially after comparing it to the Optimus G, which is supposed to have the same display.
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Do you think there is a limit set on the brightness maybe a dev could unlock that limit to make the phone more brighter

edit: WRONG THREAD

IAmAN00bie said:
This app puts an overlay on top of your screen, so it doesn't really "change" your display colors. Also: the overlay should disappear when you try to install an app because of the security issues with having one in place when trying to install an app. I believe Lux and other similar apps do this too.
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But why you can't see it on a screenshot then?

I'm using 185,190, and 220. Looks better than default
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IAmAN00bie said:
This app puts an overlay on top of your screen, so it doesn't really "change" your display colors. Also: the overlay should disappear when you try to install an app because of the security issues with having one in place when trying to install an app. I believe Lux and other similar apps do this too.
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The screen settings definitely do not change when you attempt to install a different app.
Why do you say this is just an overlay? It is baked into the kernel.

thunderinacircle said:
The screen settings definitely do not change when you attempt to install a different app.
Why do you say this is just an overlay? It is baked into the kernel.
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Hahaha... posted in the wrong thread, sorry. I had another tab open for another Display control app that worked without custom kernel/root.

Hi,
I have tried to find the best settings with my professionnal X-Rite eye-one display 2 screen calibrator and I've ended with these settings :
238
228
240

Sebacestmoi said:
Hi,
I have tried to find the best settings with my professionnal X-Rite eye-one display 2 screen calibrator and I've ended with these settings :
238
228
240
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Thanks for these settings! I myself have a spyder 4 but applying your settings has made the screen much better! Thank you.

Everyone should check out the public spreadsheet in my sig.
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Sebacestmoi said:
Hi,
I have tried to find the best settings with my professionnal X-Rite eye-one display 2 screen calibrator and I've ended with these settings :
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did you get a chance to recalibrate it after installing franco-r14?

What is your screen resolution?

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My is showing 768x1184.why is that?becose when I Google phone spec. It should be 768x1280
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I have no idea actually. Where is it showing that?
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Nothing is wrong.
1. There's a status bar
2. There's a gigantic obnoxious navbar
These two subtract from the 768P resolution.
Two solutions:
1. Expanded desktop+PIE = No status bar + Nav = full screen real estate
2. Pie = Regain some screen space

You have to dovnload app like screen spec or device info
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Honestly though, what is the point of this? We all have the same resolution. The only thing that could change is the DPI. If maybe by some twisted chance that's what you're trying to ask, I keep my DPI at 300. I'm not trolling or flaming, just confused by this.

ZULU2189 said:
Honestly though, what is the point of this? We all have the same resolution. The only thing that could change is the DPI. If maybe by some twisted chance that's what you're trying to ask, I keep my DPI at 300. I'm not trolling or flaming, just confused by this.
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Well all Nexus 4 have same screen resolution.
Hope this helps to who ever is concerned :angel:

The navigation bar (the bar with 3 buttons on the bottom) does not count when checked with those device info apps.
Hence your 768x1184 means your navbar is taking up 96 pixels. (1280-1184)

hi and thanks to all.the reason is.I just bought my nexus from 4 from eBay uk but the box is Chinese.than I was not sure if it is not fake.than checked device info and my screen resolution 768x1184 which is different than the one which I found on the internet.same with the ram .it is shoving Max 1872mb.all I wanted was compare if other ovner of nexus for have the same device info as I have.thanks
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ricarika said:
hi and thanks to all.the reason is.I just bought my nexus from 4 from eBay uk but the box is Chinese.than I was not sure if it is not fake.than checked device info and my screen resolution 768x1184 which is different than the one which I found on the internet.same with the ram .it is shoving Max 1872mb.all I wanted was compare if other ovner of nexus for have the same device info as I have.thanks
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Like people said above, the 1184 is because the navbar and status bar use up some space.
And as for the RAM, it's fine. 1872 is alright the rest is used by system (I think)
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