Dark areas have horrible pixelation (screenshots inside)

[Punker1234]

I found similar complaints (from 2012) about the Galaxy Nexus. Like the gamma is set to low or something:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23862

Great....now I'm going to be bothered by it.

Haha sorry, was not my intention.

 

[rohail7]

Hey everyone! I know it's kinda late to post in this thread. But this might help others, I had exactly the same issue as punker1234 on my Galaxy S4, the dark areas are horribly pixelated, both in images and videos, I searched and ended up to this thread, as some guy here suggested to adjust the contrast and stuff, so I went to settings > display > screen mode, which was adjusted to "Auto-adopt", I changed it to different modes and test on the same image (with pixelated dark areas) and holla! the "dynamic mode" reduced it upto 90% and it's hardly noticeable anymore! (like other devices). I suggest nexus and other users having same issue to play with all available screen options and open the same image in gallery to match it with every new adjustment, this manual calibration could resolve the issue dramatically!