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Last time I used an Android (Galaxy) phone, to have a solid pitch-black background (which I thought made sense for modern phone displays energy-wise, besides lo
by myfonj 1y ago
Last time I used an Android (Galaxy) phone, to have a solid pitch-black background (which I thought made sense for modern phone displays energy-wise, besides looking pretty swell), I had to download — yes, D-O-W-N-L-O-A-D — some black image from some "Galaxy Store" thing or whatnot to achieve that. It was free, but it seemed like an exception there.
Something that should be a default option, or a single-tap switch in settings, turned into a chore consisting of a period of agonising disbelief, doubt, denial, search, and eventually bitter acceptance.
- whynotmaybe 1y agoI had to take a picture with my finger on the camera to have a black image to use as background.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoI don’t know if that would do it or just return your dark current image. The best thing to do is just take a file same as your screen resolution into your favorite image editor and fill it with actual true black. Save as png and send to phone.
- myfonj 1y agoWas not sure if sensor in pitch dark would catch some other radiation and output some pixel "grain" seen from high ISO or not, but from what I tried, visually the photo seems pretty black, so the method seems to be surprisingly usable. As for "same image as your screen resolution": screenshot sounds like the exact fitting thing here. As a challenge, tried making screenshot black using stock Samsung "Gallery" and it seems that repeated Edit - Brightness: -100 - Save as copy, then open the copy and goto back to Edit can do the trick as well, after four or so copies. (Copies, because there is no way to re-apply same effect on the same photo, apparently.)
- drewolbrich 1y agoAnother way is to do a Google image search for "black".
- whynotmaybe 1y agoIt should enter the competition of the most convoluted ways to have a black background on your phone.
- Scarblac 1y agoThat's actually hilarious, so much high tech involved to get a dark background.
- graemep 1y agoI use an alternative home screen app to deal with stuff like this.
- gymbeaux 1y agoA black background on an AMOLED display (something Samsung Galaxy phones tended to have) would use less energy because “pitch black” on AMOLED is literally turning the underlying pixels off- with LED displays, that’s not possible.
- layer8 1y agoIt’s proportional to brightness on OLED. You save a lot with a dark background/dark mode already, it doesn’t need to be specifically black.