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Can the G3 screen be made as saturated as Note 3

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andrewsc

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Based on reviews, I was ready to buy a G3. As a last minute check, I played with a G3 in a shop. My hands loved it. But much as I struggled, my eyes had a hard time with it. The colours may be more natural on G3, but I found it easier to navigate through the artficially saturated colours on the Samsung Note 3.

This is a shame, because I fell in love with the idea of having a G3 for sleek one handed operation. But even on a photo of both screens, I can't read the text on a G3 with the same ease I'm reading on Note 3

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You don't have to agree. Must be my eyes getting older and weaker. Paradoxically, I get a lot of eye strsin on the faded, natural looking colours of G3.

My question is this: how much of the difference is due to IPS vs AMOLED, and how much is due to the different skins used by LG and Samsung?

If I found a way to make text stand out on G3 as much as it stands out on Note 3, then I will be happy with the G3. Otherwise, I will be forced to carry a heavier, larger Note 3.
 
Probably the over sharpeness issue that some notice more than others. Especially if reading different content.

I find the Note 3 display much better, but not a one hander.

Note 4 display apparently has an even better display and same two hour better battery life than the G3. Even taller than the Note 3, so by default not a one hander either.
 
Your best bet is to try adjusting the screen settings in Settings > Accessibility > Color Adjustment to see if you can get what you want.

For stock that is about the best you can do.

If you are able to root there are other tools that can probably get it to where you want it to be.
 
 
Love the LG3. The ONLY thing I miss from my S5 is the colors are more vibrant and pop with Samsung. I played with the color options under Accessibility, but that did not help. Any suggestions?
 
WHY?! if you wanted the unrealistic oversaturated retina-burning look of an AMOLED screen you should just buy a Samsung. seriously....one thing I appreciate about my G3 is that the screen is so much more accurate and no longer harming my eyes. trying the Note 4 demo (which has its retail mode on and that causes the screen to be at full supernova brightness) I had a permenant image of the UI burned into my vision like a camera flash after using it for 15 minutes. it's something I won't miss.

Samsung 'colors that pop' are just ways to hide the fact that the colors are completely unnatural and overblown up to make up for lousy screen tech. it's one of the most annoying things about a SAMOLED display. the Samsung Galaxy S2 curbed that a lot with Super AMOLED Plus with a proper matrix but for reasons unknown that was no longer used in later models. now they use the pentile matrix and oversaturate the colors to very unrealistic levels. When people complain about TouchWiz looking 'like a cartoon' it's not really TouchWiz's fault but the fault of the display itself overdoing the colors.
 
I can see both sides of the argument. When I was in my 20s, I preferred faded colours. Even 20 years ago, ehen we were hoing through VGA displays, the saturated, crude colours were a sign of poor quality. Now, at 63, my eyes favour the Samsung colours. I just couldn't cope with the G3 colours, no matter how hard I tried.
If a person can have different preferences in various periods of life, then there is no chance for a single colour scheme to please everyone. We need choice. Either a single device to be customisable, or have different devices marketed for different tastes.
On the other hand, the ergonomic improvements of the G3 one-handed mode have won universal appeal. I hope other manufacturers will take note.
 
I have no real issue with the G3 display, but there's no question the current SAMOLED screens from Samsung are much easier to read in bright sunlight. The get brighter, and are less reflective. They also have a much wider viewing angle than the G3's LCD panel. Heck, even my old Galaxy S3 has a wider viewing angle.
 
of course SAMOLED screens are better outdoors. they are so bright (even at the dimmest setting) to burn your vision. they're too bright. the oversaturated unrealistic pentile matrix only makes a bad problem much, much worse. you won't notice the problem with pentile until you spend a couple hours reading text on the screen and realize you just got a huge headache. i was getting 'Sunday Migraines' that i had no idea the cause until i realized that every Sunday i was reading ebooks on my Galaxy Note 3.

Reading white text on a black background on a SAMOLED will also burn the text into your vision for a few minutes after you stop looking at it if you stare at it too long. that's just not healthy.
 
Sorry off topic but Just curious what everyone in g3 screen brightness on? ImJust curious what everyone in g3 screen brightness on? Im on 65%
 
i usually keep it at about half. it's a nice easy on the eyes and soft screen at any brightness though. doesn't seem to impact the battery no matter the level in my experience though.

I don't use auto brightness because Android still cannot make the transition more subtle. it goes from super dim to super bright in an instant which is bad for my eyes.
 
I dont think there is anything wrong with the G3 screen in the first place. If G3 is to get more "pimped" up, it would cost more naturally and then it will lose its pricing charm.
 
I agree. The colors are far more accurate and softer. I think the UI especially the inbuilt wallpapers come off a bit lacking and make the display real dull, but that's just LG. Download a different wallpaper and it changes things a ton.

I still remain firm on the flatter UI not helping promote the screen much. It's not even semi flat, it's totally flat. If there were a way to put the G2's launcher and widget set in there you'd really see how nice Quad HD can be.
 
To make matters worse, the demo Android they have in shops for G3 doesn't even have the Adjust Colours option. With all good intentions and with all good vibes coming from my fingers, I couldn't commit to G3 when my eyes protested against it.
 
Have you bothered to try something like Nova Launcher and an icon pack? the colors tend to 'pop' a bit more with that. the default UI is indeed very monochromatic and dull, and does a horrible job of showcasing the QHD screen.
 
The software they have on the demo devices is not full Android. It's a simplified version, designed to prevent shoppers from fundamentally changing the behaviour of the device.
In principle, this sounds like good precaution. You never know who's walking in the door and what they wsnt to install. In this case, however, it backfired and the device wasn't presented to its full capabilities. There is always a Next Time.
 
it was the speed of the UI and fast launching of apps on the demo that sold it to me. as for colors they don't look bad at all if you put a different launcher on there. the default UI that LG uses is meant to mute colors and use more black and white elements (the stock icons show this a ton). this makes the screen come off as horridly dull (ironic given the capabilities you'd think LG would try harder to showcase it).

It's still more accurate and less retina-burning than a Pentile AMOLED that Samsung uses, which i still see as largely inferior since Samsung did a lot better with the Galaxy S2's Super AMOLED Plus+ (which died with that phone but produced far more accurate color) but i agree it takes an icon pack and launcher change to bring the capabilities of the Quad HD screen to the front. even regular wallpapers downloaded from the browser show properly, the resolution is amazing. most would simply blow them up to fit the dimensions but this one seems far better at scaling. Nova Launcher Prime and a colorful icon pack do wonders.

If there is a LG G2 demo, you'll see the screen showcased more nicely--it's not Quad HD but it remains the same IPS LCD tech that the G3 uses. it would at least give you a demo of what color reproduction it's capable of.
 
If you really want to make the screen pop and you do need to have Root user access to do this. go into build.prop with an editor -> look for ro.sf.lcd_density and change the property value to 560 keep the default value where it is. Then save it, by selecting "okay" and reboot the device. If you do not have a build.prop editor the easiest one to find is through ROM Toolbox Lite which has one and it is totally free.



The Screen is a lot cleaner after the reboot...

 
Thanks KaChow I suspected the G3 was capable of more. It was just a marketing decision to emphasise the natural colors, and LG neglected people like me. Or perhaps they decided from start not to compete against the Samsung phablets.
 
Actually the G3's screen has almost zero effect on battery life in my usage case. phone calls seem the worst at eating it up, as does low or no signal strength.

AMOLED screens displaying bright colors at any screen brightness setting end up not only eating the battery at a rapid pace (if you have battery percentage turned on you can actually see it fall a percent every minute or two if you're reading ebooks in Google Play Books) but also end up having shorter lifespans as a result. not all apps (and especially Google Apps) have an inverted mode to reduce AMOLED battery drain and wear.

When an AMOLED starts to die, and this can be a year or so later, it starts getting a green hue and is very noticed on white backgrounds with black text.

AMOLED screens ruin it for me for two reasons--they are retina burning brightness, and the pentile matrix sucks.
 
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