Screen Brightness/Color issue? - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

So I've noticed that when I hold my GS3 next to my sisters hers looks brighter than mine, hers isn't rooted it's running stock TW. I'm not sure if it really is a brightness thing or if her colors are just more vibrant, I can't really tell. Also the bottom of my screen is oddly brighter when viewing blacks than the rest of the screen. Anyone know what this is or if it's fixable? I read somewhere that morfic's kernels make the colors more accurate or something like that but I'm not sure if it's true.
Info:
Rom: Frosty JB v3.0
Kernel: Stock
Modem: LI7

Gotta replace it.... My old one was yellowish. Now my new one makes a popping sound when playing music, you can't win them all.... My first one had a broken power button
Samsung quality control is ****
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Are you using automatic or manual brightness when comparing? Auto brightness on a lot of JB roms are somewhat broken.

Manual for both, I flashed higher brightness levels that Wanam made and that sort of fixed the brightness thing. When comparing on lowest brightness hers is still noticeably brighter but on max it's about even. Mine actually looks a little brighter but the whites on her screen are more accurate or "crisp" so it appears that they are about even when mine is most likely brighter. This didn't fix the black screen issue unfortunately, I think it's also important to note that she has a white GS3 and I have a blue one, I looked on the internet and in some comparison videos where they do a side by side of both with a blank white screen the white S3 is noticeably brighter so that may be why.

theboss23 said:
Manual for both, I flashed higher brightness levels that Wanam made and that sort of fixed the brightness thing. When comparing on lowest brightness hers is still noticeably brighter but on max it's about even. Mine actually looks a little brighter but the whites on her screen are more accurate or "crisp" so it appears that they are about even when mine is most likely brighter. This didn't fix the black screen issue unfortunately, I think it's also important to note that she has a white GS3 and I have a blue one, I looked on the internet and in some comparison videos where they do a side by side of both with a blank white screen the white S3 is noticeably brighter so that may be why.
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Not saying that there isn't a problem but it could all be an illusion. With a white phone the color probably makes the screen look whiter or "brighter" as compared to a darker colored border on ur blue phone
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That's what I thought at first but I all my friends and others said hers looked brighter as well and it's pretty noticeable with low brightness that hers is brighter.

theboss23 said:
That's what I thought at first but I all my friends and others said hers looked brighter as well and it's pretty noticeable with low brightness that hers is brighter.
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Might as well contact Samsung and ask for a replacement for a faulty screen
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Are you using any sort of screen protector, could affect screen. Just a thought
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Two things to consider.
Toghle the display setting for Auto Adjust Screen Tone.
Also, unless you are both on the same rom you wont be doing apples to apples. DJ' Frosty roms include the Bravia Engine i believe. This alone could cause the differences you are seeing. Odin back to stock, same build as the other phone. Make sure the settings are all identical. (Not just display, but all settings. Dev options, battery saver, etc)
If youre still having different results then you may have hardware issues.
One very Important question to ask yourself....would you even notice that your display might be sub par if you didnt have the side by side comparison?
Consider that before thinking about sending it in. Often you will get a refurb in return which can have much more annoying issues.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Two things to consider.
Toghle the display setting for Auto Adjust Screen Tone.
Also, unless you are both on the same rom you wont be doing apples to apples. DJ' Frosty roms include the Bravia Engine i believe. This alone could cause the differences you are seeing. Odin back to stock, same build as the other phone. Make sure the settings are all identical. (Not just display, but all settings. Dev options, battery saver, etc)
If youre still having different results then you may have hardware issues.
One very Important question to ask yourself....would you even notice that your display might be sub par if you didnt have the side by side comparison?
Consider that before thinking about sending it in. Often you will get a refurb in return which can have much more annoying issues.
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Yeah, I didn't really plan on sending it in, it's not that big a problem with higher brightness levels by Wanam so it's not really worth it. I was just wondering if something caused it or if it was a defect but as you said above the bravia engine could cause it so I'm okay with it, I'd rather have my rooted, less bright, boss of a phone running frosty JB v3.0 than stock TW with a slightly brighter screen. :laugh:

I've never really understood why ppl make mods for higher brightness or sound can't that hurt ur hardware I mean isn't there a reason why the max volume or brightness is set at that level
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otariq said:
I've never really understood why ppl make mods for higher brightness or sound can't that hurt ur hardware I mean isn't there a reason why the max volume or brightness is set at that level
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Often the levels are set with battery savings in mind. Also i doubt any manufacturer will set ranges to include true maximum as it could shorten device life and some components may have different tollerances from one batch to the next.
Yes setting levels too high can cause damage if you are not careful. People still make mods for this stuff for the same reason they mod every other part of android, to get more out of their device! Just about everything you see here on xda comes with some level of risk.
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I had this problem when I was using the power-saving feature.
Even after disabling powersaving my screen was all dark and messed up just like yours.
To fix it I had to enable powersaving, then go to power saving options and uncheck all four of the powersaving methods, then finally disable powersaving.
Only after that did my auto-brightness start functioning correctly again.

Tellymon said:
I had this problem when I was using the power-saving feature.
Even after disabling powersaving my screen was all dark and messed up just like yours.
To fix it I had to enable powersaving, then go to power saving options and uncheck all four of the powersaving methods, then finally disable powersaving.
Only after that did my auto-brightness start functioning correctly again.
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Thanks! I'm not sure why it didn't effect her screen since she also has power saving on but after doing this my screens back to normal now.

Does anyone have the brightness mod? I went to the original link and unable to download it. Thanks in advance.
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[Q] Just got my nexus, the screen dimming is annoying. help please.

I just got my Galaxy nexus (an hour ago), and I'm getting around using it pretty well except for one thing which is annoying me big time.
The screen seems to dim or change its color balance when viewing certain things. Whites are usually dimmed at most times, but when I view other things, the dimness goes away and whites become very radiant.
It seems like the phone is adjusting automatically to things on the screen for the sake of energy saving. How do i disable this!?
Yes, I have my Brightness on manual and set to full. That is not the issue.
okay wow this is getting annoying... Two more issues:
1-The thing won't transfer files while im using windows 7 "the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected". When using OSX Lion, it isn't even detected.
2-There is chinese text here and there no matter what I do for language settings.
This is my first android phone ever, and I'm not liking the experience so far...
Look, I've tried searching for these two issues, and I did not find any threads with them resolved. Maybe I'm computer illiterate. Maybe I have a very low IQ, but can you just help me resolve these issues IF you know how to resolve them without just going into my thread and be like "Oh look, another noob", and proceed with leaving?
PS: I AM A NOOB.
Protip 1. Read up on amoled technology a little. And then read some of the issues some phones like galaxy s2 had. Your dimming is normal. It sounds like you're just more sensitive to it.
Protip 2. Download the appropriate drivers. In device manager, you want it to say android adb interface when you're phone is plugged in.
Protip 3. Take a chill pill. It is okay to be a noob. It happens. Your attitude comes off as annoying or you're freaking out over nothing. Solving problems take time and we are not sorry xda can solve them instantly for you. Patience, amigo.
My grandma beat me down and took my nexus. Sent from a jitterbug with beats by dre.
You might try turning of Auto Brightness and set it somewhere you feel comfortable... I just decided when I got this phone that I'd make myself get used to the adjustments and it's worked out well.
IMHO the adjustments going from white to black are less noticeable on 4.0.3
As far as the dimming, you have Auto Brightness on. Go to settings, screen and set the brightness to something else.
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Is_907 said:
You might try turning of Auto Brightness and set it somewhere you feel comfortable... I just decided when I got this phone that I'd make myself get used to the adjustments and it's worked out well.
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GinoSylum said:
As far as the dimming, you have Auto Brightness on. Go to settings, screen and set the brightness to something else.
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I take it you missed the part where the op said his brightness is set on manual?
samsung drivers
for the drivers use this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20311264
PDAnet installs the drivers for you nice and easy, then you can remove from your phone and pc and the drivers will stay behind.
at this time there is no way to disable the screen dimming function. samsung's other phones have this feature as well, with an option to disable it in settings. its a power saving feature. for whatever reason google did not give any option to turn this on or off. so for now we have to wait if maybe a ROM can disable it.
For OSX you need to download Android file transfer for it to be seen.
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Thank you everyone ...Sorry for the attitude earlier.
It seems like I got one of the GNexus phones which have a really good screen (The colors are just mind blowing), its only the dimming thing which is getting in the way. Also, I've tried to update to 4.0.3 and checked out the developer's section of the GNexus forum, but the steps are kind of overwhelming and I'm having my final exams at university right now, so I'll have to wait for a week to just sit back and read everything slowly and correctly.
One more thing, is there a download link to the official 4.0.3 mod ? It seems like everyone here prefers modded images one way or another.
lol. the dimming you are referring to is probably from current draw or a trait inherent to amoled. some people have mentioned they notice "dimming" like on white background browser and you pop up your keyboard. the white will get dimmer or yellower, or black more grayish. this is what you're talking about?
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lol. the dimming you are referring to is probably from current draw or a trait inherent to amoled. some people have mentioned they notice "dimming" like on white background browser and you pop up your keyboard. the white will get dimmer or yellower, or black more grayish. this is what you're talking about?
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Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
Firstly, welcome to Android. Once you get used to it you'll love it. I gave the same problem Windows 7 sometimes usually large video files and need to say that the adb drivers are not required to transfer files to the phone - I don't have them installed and I can still transfer data.
I have to say this is my first amoled device and I haven't noticed any dimming unless I have auto brightness on of course which I understand you don't.
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BLL00 said:
Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
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ah yes. you're correct. i had it backwards.
I have the same issue with transferring large amounts of data using Windows 7. Looking for a fix too.
Investing the time to learn how to setup the SDK and using ADB will be well worth it.
BLL00 said:
Its the opposite. When you draw the keyboard out, the whites get brighter and stronger. I don't have yellowing on my phone (thank god), but I do have dimming.
top make it simple:
The more the blacks = The brighter/stronger the whites.
Clearly a voltage issue for power consumption's sake. As the phone physically switches of diodes to achieve true blacks, more energy flows to lit diodes and they in turn become brighter.
Isn't there some sort of tweak deep enough to give full power to all diodes at all times regardless of what's on the screen (Full power even if the entire screen is white) ?
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Out of the three results I found searching for this topic, I'm glad I checked this thread.
The exact thing I was wondering was:
Is there any way to disable the screen from getting brighter when my keyboard comes up on the screen?
From reading your response, it seems that the screen getting brighter is a result of the design of the screen, suggesting that there is no way to stop it from happening. The only thing I've been able to do to make the screen remain at the brightness I set it is to change the theme of my keyboard to a brighter or lighter color based theme.
I'm using Swiftkey with the Neon keyboard, it looks great and I love it!
I had a Samsung Vibrant previously to the Galaxy Nexus, and there indeed was a "Power Saving Option" in the settings and if I remember correctly that stopped the screen from getting brighter with the keyboard on screen. Has any fix / ability to change this on a stock Galaxy Nexus running JB been found? It's just barely annoying enough for me to notice it, plus I'm a stickler for more battery life and I can feel my battery dying the brighter the screen gets. ( I know this last part may be a mental thing, but still. Haha. )

Screen brightness

My wife and I both have month old gs3's. Both are stock, have brightness set to auto, and power saving mode on. However, hers is much brighter than mine.
She has a white phone and I have a blue one. Am I missing another setting that could be different on our phones?
Have you tried manually going through each of the brightness settings to see if they are different when not set on auto?
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Yup. They're the same. It's only with auto.
In my experience auto brightness has never really worked properly for me on any Android I've had.. I personally always have my screen as low as possible, it's pretty bright even like that.
I have heard that its not uncommon for inconsistencies in screen brightness on some phones. May be a quality control issue
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If the brightness of the phones are working manually then i would just chalk it up to minor inconsistencies in the photo cell's on each device, which is to be expected.
Check if "auto adjust screen tone" is checked in Settings -> Display.
EDIT: If it's only with auto, maybe the brightness sensor is a little wack. You could try the Lux brightness app in the play store, as you can manually set the outdoor brightness/screen brightness ratios.
slicetwo said:
My wife and I both have month old gs3's. Both are stock, have brightness set to auto, and power saving mode on. However, hers is much brighter than mine.
She has a white phone and I have a blue one. Am I missing another setting that could be different on our phones?
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Sorry for bumping this but I have the exact same issue. Mine is blue, my wife's is white. Her phone is way brighter set to auto than mine. It's the same if auto is turned off, her phone is way brighter.
Google searches don't reveal any suggestions...
So this is definitely not a blue vs. white phone issue. In my office, four other people have Galaxy S3s. Three are blue like mine and one is white. I compared all of their phones to mine and mine is way dimmer and a slightly different color temperature than theirs are. I did a factory reset on my phone and it made no difference. The phone is only 12 days old so I am going to take it back up to Best Buy today and see if they can swap it out.
**Update**
Best Buy swapped the phone for me and the issue is resolved for me. In fact, the new phone is a little brighter than some of the phones I had compared to before.

Possible "auto-brightness" glitch?

When i select auto-brightness it takes my phone to the lowest possible setting regardless of the environment lighting and it stays there
wondering if i should take the phone back if it's just my phone...anyone else experience this?
Hmm mine seems t I slwsys be low by the I like it like thst.. Have not had a chance to take it outside yet due to the hurricane
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thanks for the feedback...i compared it side by side to my gs3 and my gs3 works as it should...my Note 2 goes all the way down to the lowest setting..
BTW im in north east MD...the eye past directly over us here ..we are about 1 hour and 20 minutes from AC new Jersey...
Mine also appears to be a bit on the low side. It is not at the lowest, but auto never appears to hit the highest brightness. When i am in sunlight, i have to untick auto and move the slider to max in order to comfortably read the screen. Hopefully it will get fixed.
JD
I've always thought Samsung's auto brightness sucked regardless of phone. The note 2 is no exception.
Try some apps in the play store, they work better.
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shook187 said:
I've always thought Samsung's auto brightness sucked regardless of phone. The note 2 is no exception.
Try some apps in the play store, they work better.
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SGIII didn't have any issue with brightness at all. At least for me.
Galaxy Nexus is absolutely horrible on the other hand. And I'm too lazy to play with AOKP adjustments so I have to do it manually everytime.
My Note II does appear a little darker than it should but I thought it might be only my perception. I'll take closer look at it.
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When i select auto-brightness it takes my phone to the lowest possible setting regardless of the environment lighting and it stays there
wondering if i should take the phone back if it's just my phone...anyone else experience this?
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I thought I had the same thing. My phones brightness is all the way down with the auto box checked. I did however uncheck it and then the brightness dropped way down. I chalked it up to auto taking over and misrepresenting what the level of the brightness was on the screen. Dont know if you are seeing that or if you are seeing a true glitch.
i thanked all for your feed back...its obviously not just my phone...again my GS3 works very well...my note 2 not at all...I wonder if samsung set this up like this on purpose to save battery..either way auto-brightness is unusable for me...

Screen flicker?

I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
Turn down the screen brightness a bit
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jeffreyjicha said:
Turn down the screen brightness a bit
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caQ9nib5RhA
Even at low brightness it still kinda looks like this. I feel like there's something messed up with the screen...
Are you using a kernel with voodoo color support? If you are, that could be the culprit. I'd install the Voodoo color/sound app and try changing a few of the settings to see if that changes anything
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TeeRom said:
I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
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I may have a similar issue on my Epic, though much worse... Check and see if you get the same effects in download mode or nandroid whatever...
My screen started with a blueish flicker and then got worse and worse over the past month, now the whole screen is covered by a translucent blue, I can barely make out whats going on behind it. Though the phone still functions, the display is trashed. Perhaps a loose connection or broken flex cable.
TeeRom said:
I guess flickering is the best way to describe it. On certain gradients and colors, the screen will flicker and have some distortion. Is this normal with the phone or is there an issue with the screen?
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Have you checked your battery? My mom has this phone and had the same problem... I took her battery out and spun it on a table and you could see how warped and swollen it was. These batteries can warp and explode, causing damage to the phone and bodily harm. If your battery is misshapen, take it into Sprint- they will have to swap it out! I got my mom a new battery from them, and her screen is fine now- no flicker. Because it was intermittent (occurring seemingly at random), I was able to rule out being a screen problem. Her screen is fine, it was the battery.
I'm not saying the battery is definitely your problem here, but it is a known problem with the design of the battery/phone, and can cause a lot of damage if your battery IS bad and it is not replaced. Check your battery, it very well may resolve this issue you're having with screen flicker. Otherwise, I don't know
Thanks, I was wondering why my screen had random blotches of yellow flickering, so I swapped my battery, and voilà it's gone. All I need to do now is replace both of them.
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Just bought a V500 in the UK. AMA

It arrived today. Had a play and set it up as I wanted. Following the guides here, rooting took about 30 seconds (had to do it twice though) and I used flashify to flash the twrp zip. All super noob simple. No driver needed for me but I've had both LG P920 and Nexus 7 drivers installed already.
Issues so far:
Bleed - none.
Blue line - none.
Yellow hue - none.
SD card with TiBU etc - works perfectly.
Dim screen - no and in fact I set it to 60%. Full brightness is too bright.
Thin black border around screen - yes but how could it bother you?
Poor speakers - yes, they sound tinny/echoey below half volume. Fine above that. Think it's the aluminium back.
Battery drain - yes its quite fast. Set CPU to 1.1ghz and removed some bloatware its much better.
I'm sticking with the stock ROM for now. I'm familiar with the LG system and the apps are quite cool. TV remote works far better than those crappy 3-in-1 remotes from poundland.
Anyway, it seems to me that the screen issues have been resolved, at least with mine. I'm very happy with it. Any questions, fire away. Injustice is much nicer than on my phone.
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LeighR said:
Battery drain - yes its quite fast. Set CPU to 1.1ghz and removed some bloatware its much better.
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What did app/software did you use to limit the cpu and cleanse bloatware?
I used ROM toolbox and titanium backup. I like SetCPU cos you can set voltage levels with a custom kernel but I don't think one has been made for this device yet.
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LeighR said:
It arrived today. Had a play and set it up as I wanted. Following the guides here, rooting took about 30 seconds (had to do it twice though) and I used flashify to flash the twrp zip. All super noob simple. No driver needed for me but I've had both LG P920 and Nexus 7 drivers installed already.
Issues so far:
Bleed - none.
Blue line - none.
Yellow hue - none.
SD card with TiBU etc - works perfectly.
Dim screen - no and in fact I set it to 60%. Full brightness is too bright.
Thin black border around screen - yes but how could it bother you?
Poor speakers - yes, they sound tinny/echoey below half volume. Fine above that. Think it's the aluminium back.
Battery drain - yes its quite fast. Set CPU to 1.1ghz and removed some bloatware its much better.
I'm sticking with the stock ROM for now. I'm familiar with the LG system and the apps are quite cool. TV remote works far better than those crappy 3-in-1 remotes from poundland.
Anyway, it seems to me that the screen issues have been resolved, at least with mine. I'm very happy with it. Any questions, fire away. Injustice is much nicer than on my phone.
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As I mentioned in another thread for bleed there are 2 issues with this tablet. Traditional bleed which my latest tablet does not really exhibit, and edge light brightness. This is something only noticeable when brightness is at 20 and below. It is always on the bottom screen area in portrait mode and seems most visible on white background (i.e. white picture or browser page when turned into landscape to the button bar(when set to black theme) is not obscuring it. You will see about 7 bright white spots at the very bottom tablet in a row. I suspect this is a limitation of the used display technology. If you look at this video by another owner on youtube you will see what I am describing under the above conditions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmiSEC3rbHI
Am curious if you have it.
I do not
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I do not
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Hmmm now I am not sure what to do.
First one I bought was a white one. It had traditional light bleed in 2 corners and had this bottom edgelight issue at low brightness.
Returned it for a black one. This one is better in that it has no light bleed except the bottom edgelight issue. This occurs at brightness below 20-25. IT is not an issue during day time as I am needing brightness above 40 to comfortably enjoy the screen.
But for night time use I have to kepe the tablet a bit brighter than I prefer so as not to see it under some circumstances, I.e. landscape viewing.
I am trying to decide if it is worth returning as I love everything else about it. I am on vacation in the US and do not have the time to keep going back and forth to various best buy locations hoping for a better unit. Especially since seems the black model is in limited supply with nearest store 30 minutes away. However also given the exchange rate on my credit card, Returning it will likely cost me 20$ based on how the Credit card companies charge....
Where did you buy it from? And for how much?
eBay, around £220-£225. Can post link if you want.
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It would be great if you did, thanks
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=191006071077
Price has gone up £5
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what bloatware is installed on the tablet just curious ?
about to buy the tablet real soon, in regards to what you have said about battery can it last a day o more at least ?
does setting the cpu require root on this device ?
Bloatware: Well I guess that's personal preference. Stuff I won't use is some LG stuff (home launcher, LG back up etc), live wallpapers, stock browser and video player, Google books, music, movies etc.
Tablet has no chance of 1 day battery life unless you aren't using it very much. It's not horrible though, I've had 3 hours constant use this morning and I'm at 50%. Screen is under 40% for night time use though.
Not sure if you need root to underclock. I always root every device so I've never checked. I guess theoretically you do not.
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