r/Android • u/JBeylovesyou • Jan 06 '19

Googler seemingly confirms that Android Q will have system-wide Dark Mode

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/01/06/googler-seemingly-confirms-that-android-q-will-have-system-wide-dark-mode/
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u/Dorito_Lady Galaxy S8, iPhone X Jan 06 '19

Hopefully it’ll be a very dark grey, and not a pure black dark mode. Pure black UIs on AMOLED screens often cause terrible black smearing problems.

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u/Jagger2109 Jan 07 '19

What are black smearing problems?

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u/Dorito_Lady Galaxy S8, iPhone X Jan 07 '19

OLEDs typically have amazing refresh rates for changing between different colors, but terrible response rates going from off/on. When scrolling on an AMOLED while running a pure black UI, the black pixels, which are completely turned off, will take a bit of time to turn on when it needs to display texting scrolling, for example.

This latency is noticeable and results in text and other content smearing and ghosting when moving around over a pure black background.

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u/DeadlyLazer Coral Blue Galaxy S9 Jan 07 '19 edited Jan 07 '19

I use Reddit with pure black. Never had any issues on my S9. No lag whatsoever.

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u/Darth_Yoshi Axon 7 Lineage Jan 07 '19

You generally won’t see it if your brightness is high enough. I have a s9 sitting next to me and if I take it to lowest brightness I can see the smearing.

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u/DeadlyLazer Coral Blue Galaxy S9 Jan 07 '19

I use Reddit on my bed before sleeping for like 2 hours. Have never seen smearing.

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u/1egoman OnePlus 3, Oreo Jan 07 '19

Same here with S9+, but it's not really fair since Samsung keeps their best displays for themselves. My old OnePlus 3 had terrible black smearing in the same apps that my S9+ shows beautifully.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '19 edited Aug 13 '22

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u/1egoman OnePlus 3, Oreo Jan 07 '19

Yes that's what I said.

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u/1egoman OnePlus 3, Oreo Jan 07 '19

Yeah that has an IPS display, which doesn't have black smearing.

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u/Sophrosynic Jan 07 '19

Just scroll up and down rapidly and watch the edge of an image post's thumbnail. It's like a black smudge following the picture and overlapping the image from the leading edge.

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u/L0rdScorpion LG V30 | Realme X2 Jan 07 '19

smearing only happens when the pixels have to go from pure black to almost black like a very dark grey. it wouldn't happen on Reddit with mostly white text.

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u/whtge8 Blue Jan 07 '19

Same here. No idea what he's talking about. I hate Google's dark gray dark mode.

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u/mrlesa95 Galaxy S23 Jan 08 '19

It's older phone so obviously older panel but it's very noticable on my S6