I notice this in opera, and today in the facebook app too, and was really baffled. The effect is quite subtle, but repeatable. When moving my finger around the screen, eg on the bbc news website panning to the top left, my screen dims. It stays dim when I remove my finger, and brightens again when I pan back down to the right.
Weird, huh?
So far it's just a curiosity and not an annoyance. Has anyone else seen this?
So I am not the only one who noticed this. I sometimes find this behaviour a bit annoying, especially in low light.
The phone has an ambient light sensor. It is adjusting because you are causing a shadow over it.
You can probably turn it off
Under the power settings/backlight - auto adjust backlight. Just uncheck it.
Any idea where the sensor is located?
Do you really think it is the ambient/light sensor? I sure don't. Scrolling through different websites I can easily reproduce this:
You scroll from one point to another, this just has to be a couple of pixels, and the screen adjusts the brightness. That is within a room with a fixed source of light and I am keeping my body as constant as possible to avoid the shadowing.
Scrolling from point A to point B makes the backlight adjust itself, even without casting any shadows or similar. Scrolling back from B to A makes the backlight instantly adjust itself back.
It's your finger causing the shadow, not your body. If you introduce an object into an ambient light source, you will find that said object will reduce the ambient light by a percentage due to partial or total obstruction. The light sensor is detecting this percentage and adjusting the screen accordingly.
The sensor itself is somewhere near the speaker.
I'm pretty sure this doen't have anything to do with the light sensor UNLESS it's cause by the screen itself becoming brighter and this registering on the light sensor, eg internal light leak.
My best guess is that it's connected to the presence/absence of certain colours on the screen, and is related to the video driver. Next time I get it I'll see if I can reproduce when scrolling via the kbd, to eliminate the theories about casting shadows on the screen.
This is not FINGER SHADOW!!!
You can notice this same thing when you plaing Solitare cards and using Stylus.
I'm sure i did't do any shadows and anyway when i pick up any card and moving aroud screen u can notice screen brighting up and down.
Using Opera 9.5, on this site http://game-board.blogspot.com/2008/05/alternative-monopoly-rules-and-game.html zoom in with double-click, scroll about half way down to the paragraph beginning "property has too much pollution on it", then scroll up and down and notice the change in screen brightness. please post if you can repeat. it does not work with the keyboard.
btw, does anyone know monopoly "bloodbath" alternative rules?
I've noticed my screen doing this without causing any shadows & without even touching the screen at all, like a 'breathing effect' when it is completely idle. I think it has something to do with light sensor polling interval which is editable via the registry, advance config and HD tweak...but since I flashed NRGZ ROM (21/08/09 build) this issue has gone anyway.
Just got my hands on the Epic Touch 4g about two hours ago, and in playing with it I notice the apparent brightness/contrast of the screen changes slightly based on the content currently being displayed.
This is most apparent when scrolling through the home screens-- on the default screen the bottom icons are nice and bright-- but when panning over to the empty calendar (which I'm guessing is supposed to be white, i'm guessing, but looks more grey than anything) the icons at the bottom are dimmer and less contrast-y (yes, I know that's not really a word).
I noticed in the Display settings you can adjust the "Screen Mode"-- but it exhibited this behavior no matter when setting I chose (Dynamic, Standard, and Movie).
The effect almost reminds me of lower end flat Plasma TVs with cheap circuitry that can't handle certain currents when an all-white (or mostly white) screen is being displayed-- it limits the current, so the end result is a light grey screen instead of a bright white display.
Is this considered one of the features of the phone (perhaps to save batter life or screen life)? Anyone else notice similar behavior? Don't want to freak out if this is normal, but at the same time it's a little disconcerting to see something whose major claim to fame is it's "brilliant display" exhibit such behavior.
Go back to the display options, scroll down to "auto adjust screen power" and turn that off and see if that helps...
That was exactly it... thanks.
Nice to know this is a software feature and not something glitchy with the hardware.
So I've had my phone for about a month, and something I've begin to notice is what appears to be an oddly-shaped splotch on the left hand side of the screen when holding it horizontally. This weird splotch only occures when I'm watching a video in the gallary or when the screen is black when a Youtube video is loading. It's really only noticable when my room is dark, and even then it's barely noticable. When a Youtube video is loading and the screen is black for an instance, or then I'm watching an uploaded video from someone on Facebook, and the video doesn't take up the whole screen, AND it is dark in the room I am in, I notice a splotch on the screen which is not very big, and sort of a deformed circle. It's black, a darker black that the screen. Again, I only notice this in the described conditions. It does not appear to be on any other application. It's only noticed in the gallary or when watching a Youtube video. Anyone know what this is? It really isn't bothersome at all, as it's not very noticable, and hardly shows itself. I'm just really curious as to what's causing this.
I have a note 10+
When I take picture over Whatsapp, picture becomes zoomed out and shifts a bit left.
I attached 2 pictures. Right one is what I see on the screen before shot (I try to fit it into screen) and, left one is the result.
It happens in both WA & W.Business.
I uninstall both and reinstalled. Same problem.
What to do?
Hi!
I have received my Red Magic 8 Pro and immediately noticed something. The selfie camera is visible if the background behind it is simple. For example just a simple white or gray background. Depending on movie sometimes it also becomes visible under cartoons like Rick and Morty, however during normal movie I cant see it.
Is this normal for this phone?
Also, the software which handles the pixels in front of the camera sometimes can become bugged and a visible line is displayed. I can reproduce this issue by pulling down the notification bar and holding it at 1 spot.
Does everyone experience these issues ?
That's normal, especially if the screen is on 120Hz, and at low brightness. It's the so-called green tint issue.