Blacks not completely dark - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey guys I got the S4 on launch and after comparing the screen to my S3 I noticed on the S4 the blacks were as if the screen was off while the S3s blacks were lit up. What gives? I thought on the s3 the blacks should also look off ? I never noticed it before.
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geoldr said:
Hey guys I got the S4 on launch and after comparing the screen to my S3 I noticed on the S4 the blacks were as if the screen was off while the S3s blacks were lit up. What gives? I thought on the s3 the blacks should also look off ? I never noticed it before.
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Well the s3 and the s4 have very different screens in general. I have noticed this as well. Loving the s4 screen though!
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I literally can't tell a difference on my s3 between black and screen off
But it would make sense that oled screen technology has change some what in the last year...

dima470 said:
Well the s3 and the s4 have very different screens in general. I have noticed this as well. Loving the s4 screen though!
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Well I know they use a different pixel arrangement but I think that's it. Its still amoled. I wonder if after a year of use something burned in that's why the blacks still light up
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Our screens ?

So are our screens any good? I've had a vibrant before and a nexus s and now that I think about it the vibrants screen seems the best out of these 3 but the reason I was thinking about it is this girl I work with has a Samsung stratosphere and I put her phone up to mime both display on brightest and her colors were popping and more bright . I though these were all the same screens but I'm disappointed in this screen personally. Love the phone absolutely but what do you guys think.
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The colors pop because the colors are over saturated like crazy.
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joshnichols189 said:
The colors pop because the colors are over saturated like crazy.
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This ^^.. For a while I thought I had a bad display because my colors didn't pop that much but then I realized some GN devices are over saturated...which is not necessarily a good thing.
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Chilled26 said:
This ^^.. For a while I thought I had a bad display because my colors didn't pop that much but then I realized some GN devices are over saturated...which is not necessarily a good thing.
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So can you elaborate more? If it looks better I don't see why it matters why , it still looks better...
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C-4Nati said:
So can you elaborate more? If it looks better I don't see why it matters why , it still looks better...
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Our HD Super Amoled displays have more of a neutral color than say a Super Amoled + display where colors pop a tad more because the displays are over saturated. Our displays seem to deliver more natural colors but I've come to notice some GN devices are over saturated and just don't look natural. It's always a matter of preference...so yea it doesn't really matter.
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C-4Nati said:
So can you elaborate more? If it looks better I don't see why it matters why , it still looks better...
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It might look better in some situations but when you over saturate colors there are always negative impacts
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joshnichols189 said:
It might look better in some situations but when you over saturate colors there are always negative impacts
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This is the 4 time I've heard that but no one can say how or why lol...
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I turned on my Sensation yesterday (with its SLCD screen) and it's nothing compared to the Nexus. It's like night and day
Seriously
I believe the Franco kernel has the option to modify that color saturation. A lot of what you are perceiving too varies wildly with the brightness level. Seems more muted at low brightness and more oversaturated at max brightness
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This is the 4 time I've heard that but no one can say how or why lol...
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So you think that inaccurate colors are inherently as good as accurate colors? Oversaturation is a negative effect, period. You're not seeing the image as its creator intended you to see it. It's that simple.

Screen problem

Hi. This is going to be really hard to explain but lets just say im at the homescreen for a couple of seconds and then i hit the app drawer/menu button to go to my apps,then go to settings or anything with a dark background i can see the app drawer button imprinted on the screen .is this screen burn in .. It dissapears after a while .its like the screen take its time to adjust colours ..
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I've heard that these phones have screen issues, but these are LED screens, not CRT. As far as I know, its not a burn-in issue.
It could just be a slow draw time on your ROM which causes an overlapping image. Try doing a nand backup and then install another rom. Then from there we could determine if its a physical issue
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So try a different romm
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[email protected] said:
So try a different romm
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Yes, try a different one.
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Nevermind
Think it helped lol
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I have the same effect, shouldn't be anything to worry about.
What rom u on?
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Display washed out?

I just bought the tmobile note. Ive noticed that the display isnt as sharp or vibrant as the intl version (I have both). Anyone else notice this? Or is it just my imagination?
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can you post pictures?
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This...compared both side by side and in all display modes. Identical.
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One thing I have noticed

I upgraded to this phone about a month ago, and my spouse got the GSIII. I love the phone and wouldn't trade it for anything. However, often my spouse asks me to do stuff for her on her phone, so I get to play with the GSIII pretty often. When I use her phone it seems so much smoother in its scrolling.
Is it just because it has a smaller screen? Has anyone else noticed that? Not a big deal for me, I still don't want a GSIII, but it is just something I noticed. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Jcossack88 said:
I upgraded to this phone about a month ago, and my spouse got the GSIII. I love the phone and wouldn't trade it for anything. However, often my spouse asks me to do stuff for her on her phone, so I get to play with the GSIII pretty often. When I use her phone it seems so much smoother in its scrolling.
Is it just because it has a smaller screen? Has anyone else noticed that? Not a big deal for me, I still don't want a GSIII, but it is just something I noticed. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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the sIII have 306 PPI vs noteII's 267 PPI
Is her gs3 stock. I have a gs3 and it's not as fast as my note 2.
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Is her gs3 stock. I have a gs3 and it's not as fast as my note 2.
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Both are completely stock. I wouldn't say its faster....the gsiii is just smoother
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Jcossack88 said:
Both are completely stock. I wouldn't say its faster....the gsiii is just smoother
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How can you get smoother than perfectly smooth? I recommend another launcher like Nova.
Launcher, screen transition effects, widgets, and use of live wallpapers will affect smoothness. Compare similar setups, then decide. My Note 2 is smoother than my wifes GS3.
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same situation here. the gs3 is way "smoother" than my note 2. not faster... smoother. hard to explain...
it's almost like the frame rate is higher? but when I use the lady's gs3, it's quite noticeable.
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I have Nova Launcher prime. One home screen. No live wallpaper....or live widgets. The GSIII is just smoother when scrolling in menus...no other way to dice it. Perhaps its a Qualcomm vs. Exynos issue?
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Who gives a damn we all love this phone more than the s3. Believe me
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I think its not the note 2 being so bad but just shows how really good of a phone the s3 is. The only reason i moved on was bc iam 6 foot 4 with gorilla hands lol and i love the way the note 2 feels. I dont use the multiview or the s pen. My fiance still has the s3 and i agree its a very smooth phone.
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Do you have power saving mode on?
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I just had to do a side by side scrolling test in google and I see exactly what you mean. Im almost 100% sure its the screen size making it seem smoother. Screen brightness also seemed to make the screen more or less smooth.
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Yes, I do have power saving mode on....I will try taking it off
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Jcossack88 said:
I have Nova Launcher prime. One home screen. No live wallpaper....or live widgets. The GSIII is just smoother when scrolling in menus...no other way to dice it. Perhaps its a Qualcomm vs. Exynos issue?
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You're the only person who actually brought up the processor difference! Even tho the GS3 is a dualcore you guys have to remember it has a newer chip Snapdragon S4 Krait then the one on our Quadcore Note 2. Which is the same Exynos 4412 chip on my previous Epic Touch but with two more extra cores. In other words it's old! Still no big difference tho to be so worked up about. Unless you're going to use both phones back to back you won't notice a difference..
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I know that... the gs3 can also do net/camera send while on a call and the note 2 cannot. the gs3 is a better phone hardware wise, screen not withstanding
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wlpywd said:
I know that... the gs3 can also do net/camera send while on a call and the note 2 cannot. the gs3 is a better phone hardware wise, screen not withstanding
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That's due to the Qualcomm chip too. No 3g data over phone calls is the only thing I hate about my Note.
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wlpywd said:
I know that... the gs3 can also do net/camera send while on a call and the note 2 cannot. the gs3 is a better phone hardware wise, screen not withstanding
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The note 2 can do all of that..
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not on Sprint. the chip can't handle it on cdma. I know it does on att. txt msg comes through though, regular mms. so I appreciate the pleasures where they come
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wlpywd said:
not on Sprint. the chip can't handle it on cdma. I know it does on att. txt msg comes through though, regular mms. so I appreciate the pleasures where they come
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If you're on LTE it can send and receive mms, and browse the Web while you're on a call. It's not that the chip can't handle it. It's just that 3g and voice use the same hardware so you can't do both, but you can while on LTE.
And sprint just disabled the camera when on a call. The note is more than capable of doing it.
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not on Sprint. the chip can't handle it on cdma. I know it does on att. txt msg comes through though, regular mms. so I appreciate the pleasures where they come
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You can do 3G data on calls on the GS3, HTC EVO LTE, VIPER, and other Qualcomm based phones. I had the Sprint GS3 and had no issues using data and calls at the same time. Everybody knows that! Where you been?
Our Note can't do it because it has the Exynos chip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxBsVOy2Z4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229645
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Cracked screen!

So I dropped my S3 and cracked the screen pretty bad. I was wondering if it would be possible for me to swap out the the screen from a white S3 onto my pebble S3?
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funsack said:
So I dropped my S3 and cracked the screen pretty bad. I was wondering if it would be possible for me to swap out the the screen from a white S3 onto my pebble S3?
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Check this link out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1945494
There's also a few youtube videos out there, but it does seem pretty complicated. Hope you get it fixed!

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