Color & Contrast

[samefly]

Hello all. I just got my G4 today and I'm disappointed with the display. I'm coming from the galaxy s4 and s5. The colors were more accurate and had better contrast. With the G4, the blacks aren't as rich and the color hue isn't quite right. This is important to me.

I went into the screen color adjustment option (accessibility>vision) and that's frustrating in of itself. They picked a poor sample image (wish you could choose different images) and instead of having a seperate slider to control hue, saturation, and contrast, you drag your finger around and it changes all them when you only want to change one. So far whenever I fix one color it messes up something else. The reds are either too pink or too orange, fix that and then the yellows or greens get messed up. Skin tones look wrong. Try fixing the contrast and everything gets grossly oversaturated or weird looking.

Are there any presets to choose from? Any tips? Do I just have a bad unit or are others experiencing this?

 

[TriBeard92]

Mine looks phenominal. It could be that years with a samsung device has skewed your idea of what "right" is seeing as how they're all over saturated. Without some pics of the phone screen or something it's hard to say.

 

[samefly]

I'm a photographer so I have a pretty good idea of what "right" is. It seems like things look cooler (light that should have a warm golden glow look white or blue), the highlights are much brighter, certain blacks look slightly faded, and the reds are too magenta. The images are crazy sharp but the colors and contrast are off.

A screen shot wouldn't do much if you're not actually seeing the screen as it's displayed (colors on yours could show one way but look another on mine).

 

[DrewRasmus]

Also a photographer. The colors on my g4 are the most accurate I've seen on a smartphone. Agree with the poster above who said Sammy always over saturates their screens. Hope you find a fix.

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[samefly]

I found this review on phonearena /reviews/LG-G4-Review_id3995 (can't post pics or links yet)

The writer mentions that the display is a lot colder and they bumped the saturation and brightness. That explains most of what I'm seeing. My main problem is the shift in hues and how the blacks are handled. The reds/oranges/yellows are definitely off (which makes sense since they messed the color temp up) and the highlights are bumped way high. I wish I could warm the display.

 

[rdt595]

Hello all. I just got my G4 today and I'm disappointed with the display. I'm coming from the galaxy s4 and s5. The colors were more accurate and had better contrast. With the G4, the blacks aren't as rich and the color hue isn't quite right. This is important to me.

I went into the screen color adjustment option (accessibility>vision) and that's frustrating in of itself. They picked a poor sample image (wish you could choose different images) and instead of having a seperate slider to control hue, saturation, and contrast, you drag your finger around and it changes all them when you only want to change one. So far whenever I fix one color it messes up something else. The reds are either too pink or too orange, fix that and then the yellows or greens get messed up. Skin tones look wrong. Try fixing the contrast and everything gets grossly oversaturated or weird looking.

Are there any presets to choose from? Any tips? Do I just have a bad unit or are others experiencing this?

I have G4, and S6 and G4 is way closer to "right", although the S series is getting better. This is the preset I use. Also you can try the Screen Balance app for white balance adjustment to get the Galaxy look.

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[belodion]

I can't say that there's anything about the G4 display, judging from my own specimen at least, that strikes me as obviously unbalanced, although you may be talking about subtleties of which I am simply unaware. To me, the colours seem rich, the colour balance neutral, and the blacks not far from what you see on OLED displays.

Welcome to the G4 forum at least. (I very much like your avatar pic.)

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[Duncan1982]

I can't say that there's anything about the G4 display, judging from my own specimen at least, that strikes me as obviously unbalanced, although you may be talking about subtleties of which I am simply unaware. To me, the colours seem rich, the colour balance neutral, and the blacks not far from what you see on OLED displays.

Welcome to the G4 forum at least. (I very much like your avatar pic.)

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Ditto to this, i think screen tech has really advanced and what we have now is truly spectacular for a mobile device.

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[lostchild]

Most of my family have iPhones. Whenever they look at a picture on my Galaxy Note 2, they would say that my colors are off, too saturated. Now that they saw my G4, non of them said anything the color being "wrong". I guess the G4 colors are closer to the iPhone's.

 

[AndroidHabit]

Hello all. I just got my G4 today and I'm disappointed with the display. I'm coming from the galaxy s4 and s5. The colors were more accurate and had better contrast. With the G4, the blacks aren't as rich and the color hue isn't quite right. This is important to me.

I went into the screen color adjustment option (accessibility>vision) and that's frustrating in of itself. They picked a poor sample image (wish you could choose different images) and instead of having a seperate slider to control hue, saturation, and contrast, you drag your finger around and it changes all them when you only want to change one. So far whenever I fix one color it messes up something else. The reds are either too pink or too orange, fix that and then the yellows or greens get messed up. Skin tones look wrong. Try fixing the contrast and everything gets grossly oversaturated or weird looking.

Are there any presets to choose from? Any tips? Do I just have a bad unit or are others experiencing this?

I see this on my phone, not pictures I take but the app icons themselves.
The youtube icon is not exactly red anymore and any other icon that is supposed to be red isn't.
Pictures I take though are pretty much spot on.

 

[Sooks]

Honestly, I came from the Note 4 and the screen colors are terrible in comparison. Also the reason the blacks suck and the hue is because of the screen type. We are so used to AMOLED and the inky black, that the contrast between that inkyness and color makes it pop that much more... I am also pretty disappointed in the "IPS" panel as the viewing angle is terrible!

Other than that and the slow response time for touch registration, I like the phone.

 

[gottria]

Sooks hit the nail on the head, don't care what "True colors" is, compared to the N4 it looks like shat.

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[H_Wordsmythe]

Give it time, guys. Chances are that in a month or so, the Note 4 will look ridiculous to you. Take it from a former AMOLED devotee. Once I got used to IPS, I simply could not stand the "colors" provided by AMOLED.

 

[samefly]

Thanks for the replies.

AndroidHabit, the icons are what made me first investigate. The reds are definitely weird. I thought it was just their style until I looked at some of my photographs and saw the same thing. I compared this screen with colors from different phones and a calibrated computer monitor... Definitely off. The review really did explain a lot.

Belodion, thanks for the compliment. It's actually a picture from a series of photos I have (facebook & instagram: daruphotos)

Rdt595, for some reason I'm not able to see your attachment at the moment.

I haven't really tested the camera out yet but I hear it's great. Hopefully this phone will grow on me but so far I'm not overly excited about it. The battery life definitely does not seem to be as advertised and there's a bit of lag too (Verizon version). Maybe a solid update would make everything better for me.

 

[artdeguzman]

Give it time, guys. Chances are that in a month or so, the Note 4 will look ridiculous to you. Take it from a former AMOLED devotee. Once I got used to IPS, I simply could not stand the "colors" provided by AMOLED.

Yup. All of my Samsung phones look too saturated now. I am in the process of untraining my eyes.



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[MDMcAtee]

Try screen adjuster free on the play store.. It might help you

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[ndonnine]

Samsung oversaturates everything in their LCD panels to make colors more "lively" it's a Gross over estimation to make them stand out in stores for side by side,comparisons. Its a tactic they use mainly on their TV's but transferred to their phones. Get used to what colors should actually look like by moving away from Samsung.

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[MDMcAtee]

Samsung oversaturates everything in their LCD panels to make colors more "lively" it's a Gross over estimation to make them stand out in stores for side by side,comparisons. Its a tactic they use mainly on their TV's but transferred to their phones. Get used to what colors should actually look like by moving away from Samsung.

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Sorry but for their phones you have 4 different choices of the screen mode to choose from that gives a wide range of how the screen looks.

Adaptive
Amoled cinema
Amoled photo
Basic

Each is very different and gives a lot of different contrast and hues,and saturation...

They have had this since the Galaxy series has been out.

No one has to run it in torch mode if they don't want to.

Posted from my Samsung S6 Active

 

[samefly]

I was hoping that, similar to the s series, there would be different screen modes as well (when I asked if there were presets). It sucks that I have to get a 3rd party app to fix this. The G4 is disappointing me on a few different levels.

 

[MichaelRS]

Can someone tell me how I can use that screen color adjustment feature? I look at the manual and there's not even a section for it.
I guess I'm 95% satisfied with the display on my LG G4 because maybe on some shows I don't know any better.
But i'm currently on Netflix, rewatching various Star Trek series, and the blue of the blue uniforms and the red of the red uniforms is a little off. Trending toward green and maroon/purple respectively. Not overly annoying, but if I can make some minor adjustment to fix it I'd like to.
However, if the cure is worse than the disease, so to speak, I won't bother.