First off I noticed the black blotches on the screen. Some people say they don't have them others that they do and others that this is a problem pertaining to this type of screens. What to do? Second question is there seems to be a very pronounced "half tone" effect on the screen. Tiny dots everywhere! It feels like I'm reading a comic book. Is this normal? I don't have to be super close to the screen to see them. T
hird I downloaded the facebook app and can't seem to figure out how to sync my contacts. I've read that the built in social media app from motor causes a lot of problems so that's why I don't want to she it. I watched NY first YouTube video on it and noticed the crackling sound. If I lowered it by two or so notches from 100% the crackling goes away. I hope someone can help me with these issues. Thanks!t.
Sigh...where do I start??? First, the blotches... I saw them last night for the first time. The phone was doing something and the display was on a completely black screen, and the room was completely dark (I was in bed), and after my eyes adjusted from the bright screen that I had been looking at just prior (about 10 seconds), I saw them - they look like splotches or splashes of slightly darker area which are not unlike if someone took black paint and a brush and flung it at the screen. Now, I am talking about a shade darker, maybe 1 or 2% darker than the already dark - almost black screen anyway. Did it cause me to feel like it was defective or that I just couldn't put up with it - that it was going to ruin the phone for me, a "game changer"? NO!
Second, I have not EVER seen any type of "half tone" effect on the screen. By "Tiny dots", you are implying that it looks like a photo taken with a digital camera in low light - in other words "noise" (speckles of what looks like dirt or dust specks)? Again, I have seen nothing of the sort. My whites are white, my colors are colors, and both are pure and unfettered with "Tiny dots". Now granted, I am getting older and the sight for things close up is getting worse, but I use reading glasses and with reading glasses, not only is my vision up-close sharp as a tack, but it is also magnified so it's even larger, which enables me to see pixels even better than the naked eye at the same distance. I've got to say, this display looks quite beautiful.
The crackling...OK, let's say you go to your home stereo system and turn the volume to 100%. What do you think is going to happen? I know if I did that, the speakers would begin bottoming out on the magnet structures, they would overheat, and eventually blow, but before that happens, the sound would be TERRIBLY DISTORTED. In other words, SHOULD it sound clean and crisp at 100% volume level? Well, since we're accustomed to turning the volume up to max loudness so we can hear that tiny speaker, the manufacturer actually caps the actual volume level to a number somewhere at or near maximum volume with acceptable level of distortion, but not the maximum volume that the amplifier on the motherboard is capable of producing.
Then, there's the speaker...a TINY transducer that is being asked to produce sound loud enough to be able to hear from a distance of upwards of a meter away. That's quite a task for such a small transducer to move that much air, and to also have a frequency response that produces some acceptable tonality as well. But as you said, at "two or so notches [below] 100%, "the crackling goes away". Imagine that?! Well, at less than full volume, my stereo at home won't send the speaker cones across the room either!
I'm sorry for ranting, and I want you to know I'm not ranting at you. It seems people (including me) have become desensitized to certain things, and have grown accustomed to accepting certain things as "normal" but often we find that what we consider normal is simply what the manufacturers want us to believe as being normal. Then when some other manufacturer comes along and doesn't "conform" to the quasi-normal, everyone gets all disheveled.
If I looked at myself as closely and scrutinize as strictly as people do these phones (and for that matter if everyone did the same), we'd all never show our faces in public.
Just saying...
