JohnNathanShoppe
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Soooo, KitKat...
First the obvious things. Solid Explorer remains fundamentally broken, being unable to write or even delete content on the microSD card. Thanks, Google. MyFiles works correctly, making the situation other than intolerable. ES did not work for me either. (Still no rootless workaround, right?)
Netflix has now blocked screencaps. I wouldn't really care, except that Netflix has also blocked screencaps on both browser and app versions on Windows 8.1 and my Note 12.2 can't take screenshots of Netflix either. But I expected that problem too.
But...
The screen's color processing looks completely different now, and not obviously in a good way. While the original settings are a little cold/bluish, now the whole thing looks artificially sepia-toned. It makes some of my photographs and backgrounds look too yellow, and I have the sense that the gray scale is crunching some shades by oversaturating, and thereby losing some detail.
Also, the screen modes appear...incorrect, in that "Standard" and "Cinema" appear to be exactly the same, and "Professional photo" is now the heir to Cinema with an overhyped sepia-yellow tone. However, old Reading Mode was yellowish, while it's now almost a dirty pink.
"Dynamic" mode seems a little better now in that the grayscale appears to have a brighter gamma, bu I still consider it unusuable with its oversaturated colors pretending to be an AMOLED. Fine, red is a little stronger, but green is too weak to keep up, and the whole thing looks fiery.
Anybody else notice these color changes, and have an opinion on the new color processing?
And yeah, is there any workaround for Netflix screenshots and solid explorer?
First the obvious things. Solid Explorer remains fundamentally broken, being unable to write or even delete content on the microSD card. Thanks, Google. MyFiles works correctly, making the situation other than intolerable. ES did not work for me either. (Still no rootless workaround, right?)
Netflix has now blocked screencaps. I wouldn't really care, except that Netflix has also blocked screencaps on both browser and app versions on Windows 8.1 and my Note 12.2 can't take screenshots of Netflix either. But I expected that problem too.
But...
The screen's color processing looks completely different now, and not obviously in a good way. While the original settings are a little cold/bluish, now the whole thing looks artificially sepia-toned. It makes some of my photographs and backgrounds look too yellow, and I have the sense that the gray scale is crunching some shades by oversaturating, and thereby losing some detail.
Also, the screen modes appear...incorrect, in that "Standard" and "Cinema" appear to be exactly the same, and "Professional photo" is now the heir to Cinema with an overhyped sepia-yellow tone. However, old Reading Mode was yellowish, while it's now almost a dirty pink.
"Dynamic" mode seems a little better now in that the grayscale appears to have a brighter gamma, bu I still consider it unusuable with its oversaturated colors pretending to be an AMOLED. Fine, red is a little stronger, but green is too weak to keep up, and the whole thing looks fiery.
Anybody else notice these color changes, and have an opinion on the new color processing?
And yeah, is there any workaround for Netflix screenshots and solid explorer?