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I’ve reset my phone and now trying to find the Samsung theme I had. I’m sure it was mrk who linked to it earlier in the thread but ican’t find it. It was a dark theme and it changed the AOD clock to a colour fade.

Bit vague but I’m sure one someone will know what I’m on about?


Thanks
 
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mrk said:
Material Dark (Android 7+) was the theme name I'd been using the longest from the Samsung theme store, maybe that one?



No issues here on beta.
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Wasn’t that one no but it’s similar. I’ve looked maybe it’s been taken off the theme store.
 
There was a Pixel UI Grey that I used as well, like Material dark, but more grey. Could have been that. Those were the only two I used back then though.
 
mrk said:
Material Dark (Android 7+) was the theme name I'd been using the longest from the Samsung theme store, maybe that one?



No issues here on beta.
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Strange. Using the samsung wireless fast charger it starts, then stops a few seconds later. If I reposition it does the same. Wonder if an app or something is interfering
 
Are you using the Samsung wall adapter? If so, then the wireless charger could be dying. I've had two Samsung ones die the same way.
 
Dropped my S8 yesterday from about 18 inches off the ground, landed badly and the power button is now stuck in.

Phone still functions, but battery is running down extremely fast as the screen never makes it into standby mode. Any ideas what I can do as a short term fix until I can get it sent off?

Cheers
 
The other day on Oreo beta 4 had a bit of a moment. Out of the blue when I touched the power button to turn display on all it displayed was part of the clock from AOD (only have AOD display whilst charging) . It didn't display the clock hands. Couldn't turn off or reboot the phone by holding power button. Was kind of stuck. Eventually after holding power button for an age the lock screen appeared. Rebooted to be safe and been fine since. Now on beta 5. Only issue I've had and otherwise has run faultlessly.
 
I've switched from basic screen mode to amoled cinema now, basic was nice and accurate but a bit too dull in the end, nothing popped out.

And I still use FHD Res.
 
Use AMOLED Photo.

Photo will dynamically adjust the white balance to account for the ambient lighting based on the rgb light sensor readings. It should technically be more accurate. Adaptive is always more saturated by nature. Photo will look weird at first, but give it a bit to monitor and adjust and it will look really neutral and accurate.
 
mrk said:
Use AMOLED Photo.

Photo will dynamically adjust the white balance to account for the ambient lighting based on the rgb light sensor readings. It should technically be more accurate. Adaptive is always more saturated by nature. Photo will look weird at first, but give it a bit to monitor and adjust and it will look really neutral and accurate.
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Ah ok didn't know that it automatically adjusted for photo mode, I thought that white balance etc. auto adjustments only applied to adaptive mode?

Did try photo for bit but found the reds to look a bit of, will give it another chance though.
 
Adaptive is auto adjusting too, but it's a bit pointless given that it's oversaturated anyway if all you want is neutral colour balance. Photo is the closes to AdobeRGB.
 
mrk said:
Adaptive is auto adjusting too, but it's a bit pointless given that it's oversaturated anyway if all you want is neutral colour balance. Photo is the closes to AdobeRGB.
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Yup adaptive is terrible looking, rather stick needles in my eyes than use it :p
 
mrk said:
Use AMOLED Photo.

Photo will dynamically adjust the white balance to account for the ambient lighting based on the rgb light sensor readings.
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That's the first ive heard of that! Covering both the sensors on my s8 does nothing to any of the modes. As far as i know, adaptive is the only mode that actively adjusts gamma etc and that's only based on the the contents it's displaying, the ambient sensors arent used at all AFAIK?
 
Adaptive adjusts the screen for the content being displayed along with the rgb sensor readings base don ambient lightyeah, AMOLED Photo does the same thing just without the over-saturation, and adjusts to be in-line with 98% of the AdobeRGB gamut as opposed to Adaptive's sRGB focus. Basic mode is the closest to sRGB, so better suited to the majority of content, but it does look "dull" in general.

The links were posted on the r/galaxys8 subreddit some months back where the readings were measured. Displaymate did their initial tests but another place went into further detail.
 
mrk said:
Adaptive adjusts the screen for the content being displayed along with the rgb sensor readings base don ambient lightyeah, AMOLED Photo does the same thing just without the over-saturation, and adjusts to be in-line with 98% of the AdobeRGB gamut as opposed to Adaptive's sRGB focus. Basic mode is the closest to sRGB, so better suited to the majority of content, but it does look "dull" in general.

The links were posted on the r/galaxys8 subreddit some months back where the readings were measured. Displaymate did their initial tests but another place went into further detail.
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I've found the reddit thread and the youtube video, it doesnt add up at all. My s8 doesnt do this at all. Does anybody elses?



reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/comments/6hxqr5/pro_tip_if_you_like_the_true_tone_display_that/
 
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