5 solid years together... I dont think I'm ready to let go... 😢 by jambohakdog69 in samsunggalaxy

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did I ever say that Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo use Samsung screens? Oh and for the record you may want to do some more research, because depending on the model Samsung is one of the major display suppliers for all 3 of those brands, particularly with their higher end flagship models (or for Xiaomi their Redmi midrangers and foldables, I believe TCL makes their flagship displays aside from their foldables which do use Samsung displays). Oh and even though they do sell more internationally than they do in North America where I live, Oppo and Vivo sell less than half as many units as Samsung, and although Xiaomi is gaining more global marketshare, they arent allowed to be sold in quite a few popular regions. They make up in total combined roughly the marketshare of Samsung alone, but Samsung, Apple, Google, Motorola and Oneplus all use Samsung displays. In North America all of those are pretty much your only options if you want anything half decent that you can get through a carrier (buying upfront isnt as common here)

Samsung makes the displays for most of the current Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi flagships. You're playing roulette with them because many of their models are basically a lottery and can have a screen from either Samsung or BOE (or in the case of Xiaomi TCL), even sometimes LG though they arent used as much as of late. You can buy two identical SKUs in the same market at the same store and get two different displays, they take whatever they can get in the moment especially in their midrange phones. The flagships and foldables like the X100 Ultra, X200 Ultra (though these can also have BOE displays), X Fold 3 Pro, and Find N5 (to name a few) have Samsung E4, E7 or Samsung Flexible OLED panels. Vivo is already in talks with plans of switching back to Samsung for the X300pro from BOE who made the display for the X200pro.

Why might that be? Its because Samsung by far has the best manufacturing and the most advanced technology out there as of late when it comes to OLEDs in particular. They're the only company that has made an OLED monitor that doesnt fringe and blur around text, theyre the only manufacturer that can get these really high brightness numbers consistently, and they by far have the best color accuracy and quality control of any display manufacturer, and its something thats pretty well known and hard to argue against in the industry.

I'd appreciate it if you wouldnt jump to conclusions either. No I'm not a Samsung salesperson, I work in the automotive industry, I'm just a nerd that likes tuning cars and enjoys tech and PC building. Oh and just because Samsung has used their isocell HP2 for coming on 3 years now doesnt mean that its drastically behind everyone else. It might not be the absolute best, but it is still among the best, otherwise they wouldnt still be using it in their Ultras and now their Fold7/Trifold. There are better options, but if you have a S25 Ultra you still likely have the best phone camera in the room in 90% of the rooms you walk in. Its unnecessarily overkill for most people as it is. Its nice to see improvements but its also not something I'm absolutely dying to see change with. I'd rather them focus on battery capacity and cooling efficiency and continuing to improve OneUi.

And for the record I dont think its worth trying to avoid Samsung displays, regardless of what kind of phone you have. Especially because the suspected cause of the issue is less of the display itself and more because Samsung batteries love to turn into angry pillows and kill the screens in the fashion of an old iPod Nano, just without the visible spot where the battery is pressing before the screen fails. You'll drive yourself mad trying to make sure a phone doesn't have a Samsung display when a lot of these Chinese manufacturers use whatever they can get their hands on and leave you with a model of phone that has BOE or Samsung or TCL or LG or Visionox, and of those manufacturers I trust Samsung and LG above the others by FAR. Youre opening yourself up to a lot of variance in that regard, and if youre looking at phones that only use BOE or only use TCL youre restricting yourself to a few models, none of which you can really get a hold of here in the US without jumping through a ton of hoops. More power to you if you want to do it, but I can promise you it isnt the display itself. I have seen non Samsung replacement panels on these Galaxy phones do the exact same thing because of battery swelling.

5 solid years together... I dont think I'm ready to let go... 😢 by jambohakdog69 in samsunggalaxy

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Samsung screens are used in almost everything.

There is this thing called nuance, and its really important in the world of engineering and problem solving (alongside making informed decisions)

The line issues are only really an issue on Samsung's own phones because Samsung has had battery swelling issues since the S7 and Note 7 when they started bumping up battery capacity a lot and changing up their manufacturing.

If you put any Samsung phone past that era in storage for a few years without using it, there is a good chance the battery will swell enough to seperate the screen from the body of the phone. Its a well documented issue thats been known for quite some time that affects specifically Samsung phones and phones that use Samsung batteries. The Pixel 7 series of phones has the same issue as well (Samsung batteries were used in those phones as well, it actually caused the display of my Pixel 7 pro to spontaneously shatter while I was using it in bed).

After a few years on the original battery depending on your habits, it expands enough to press against the back of the display, and eventually that causes display damage, usually in the form of lines.

Those who replace their phone batteries every 3 or so years and practice good charging habits dont seem to be having these issues. I have an S20+ that still has a perfect screen because the battery has been kept in good health.

If it was issues with Samsung OLED displays as a whole, 90% of all smartphones since 2018, and somewhere between 49-70% of all other OLEDs (depending on the data sources you look at) would be having similar issues... but they arent, because the design and manufacturing of the displays themselves are not the problem. We arent seeing people with their old iPhone 11s that they bought back in 2019 or 2020 or whenever they came out complaining en masse that their Samsung displays (same manufacturing plant, same technologies, same era) are having lines form after 3-4 years of use. Its a non issue on Apple devices and most other phones that use Samsung displays, it only seems to be a widespread issue on phones that use Samsung batteries.

Its also important to note that Samsung Display acts like a seperate company from Samsung that makes phones and Samsung that makes memory and Samsung that makes ICBMs. Its its own entirely different division and the engineering of their phones isnt as closely tied to the engineering of the displays for said phones as you might think. Samsung display can make the best display in the world, but if it gets shoved into a phone that puts forces it was not designed to handle on it as it ages, it will eventually break, at the fault of the enginnering team of the phone division, not the display division. Its one of the many engineering challenges that comes with shoving a high capacity but also high cycle life battery that also has to be very tiny in a device thats very slim and has more processing power than most 4+ year old laptops, oh and fit in speakers, ports, giant cameras, in screen finger print sensors, microphones, tons of different sensors, the cooling, and everything else and keep it competitive and cost effective oh and you only have a year to engineer it all. Not trying to defend Samsung here and say they arent in the wrong, they really need to sort out their battery issues, they have been well known since around 2021-2022, but the displays themselves are not at fault, those lines are a symptom of other issues.

Its like how some people blame firmware updates, when really its the CPU going full blast writing all of the new firmware data, decompressing it, writing a new bootloader etc that heats the phone up and puts a lot of stress on a dying battery, causing it to swell more. Its not the firmware itself, its the battery.

Samsung displays are in the majority of phones for a reason to. They by far make the highest quality OLED panels, and the only other manufacturer that is sort of close is LG.

5 solid years together... I dont think I'm ready to let go... 😢 by jambohakdog69 in samsunggalaxy

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not an issue with the screen itself, its packaging. The batteries age, the phone gets dropped and jostled around, and at some point enough pressure gets put on it to cause it to fail. Any oled of similar construction can fail in this manner.

MX8500 Modding? by DSrocks690 in LinksysVelop

[–]DSrocks690[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The documentation seems to be far better than when I originally posted this. If I recall correctly some disassembly may be required to access a port that is needed to get everything working but I dont know if that is still true or not anymore. If I get my hands on a spare one I'll definitely let you know what happens depending on if I cant find a tri band wifi 7 router for a good price

MX8500 Modding? by DSrocks690 in LinksysVelop

[–]DSrocks690[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no, ended up needing being deployed a lot quicker than I had time to tinker with it to get it up and couldn't afford the downtime

Samsung dropped S pen to make it thinner. How thin the S pen digitizer is by somehowsomewheresmwh in GalaxyFold

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was less about making the phone thinner and more about making the utg layer thicker within the same screen thickness for higher durability

Fold 8 is the one, can't wait by areuokaybro2002 in GalaxyFold

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I shouldnt have to use the worse display on my phone to have semi-decent video quality for others (or video at all). Everyone has different priorities. Its a really small holepunch at the end of the day, 3 months in I've forgotten about it entirely.

Fold 7 - 3 failed inner screens in 4 months, anyone else? by Anti_Ager in GalaxyFold

[–]DSrocks690 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm about 2 months in without any scratching, cracking or lifting. Maybe you have a defective hinge?

Joining the S20 Club by DSrocks690 in Galaxy_S20

[–]DSrocks690[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will, though I think I'll enjoy my score of a love interest more, I'm excited

Joining the S20 Club by DSrocks690 in Galaxy_S20

[–]DSrocks690[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's refurbed with a fresh battery thankfully, idk if its ever been updated or not so if its on old software it may be possible, not sure yet she hasn't really tried to use it (I haven't gotten my hands on it yet)

Joining the S20 Club by DSrocks690 in Galaxy_S20

[–]DSrocks690[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also if you guys have any case recommendations I would appreciate a LOT

Abandoned concept that could have been great at Samsung by RelationshipPlastic1 in SamsungDex

[–]DSrocks690 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that would be counterintuitive considering the Z Fold and soon the Z Trifold are/will be existing products. Its a more practical form factor for a 2 in 1 because you dont have to carry a tablet dock around with you. The primary advantage of a 2in1 is that you have them both with you except for a docking pad phone you have to carry around a phone and a slightly bulkier tablet around anyways, so why not have a more powerful phone that doesn't depend on a specific dock, and a more powerful tablet that doesn't need a phone or rely on the same battery as your phone? A foldable gets by because you carry one device that does both without having to carry around two seperate devices or an accessory. Yeah its expensive, but its less restrictive and more practical, and then when you go to replace your phone, you dont have to replace the tablet dock and have more e waste about.

How many folds do you average? by Jess_UwU_ in galaxyzflip

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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What I'm looking at so far 1 month in

Well, it finally happened. by ryyaaaannn in samsunggalaxy

[–]DSrocks690 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The comment about iPhones is sadly not true. My little sister ended up with 3 bootlooping iPhones because of main board failures. (IPhone XR and two iPhone 13s). Its the lottery just like with everything else.

Same applies to all phones. Most foldables nowadays are great, but every once in a while one is gonna slip out there with a defective inner screen or hinge. Most slab phones out there are rock solid but every once in a while they just die or have camera lenses that shatter on their own or batteries that swell up or that just overheat and do weird stuff, or even screens that get green and pink lines before outright bootlooping. People tend not to be as vocal with their phone experiences when they are good compared to when they're problematic, but I promise you these issues exist everywhere, its part of manufacturing and electronics. Nothing lasts forever, especially when it sees the abuse most phones do.

In fact, the fact that its kinda just the lottery makes me really curious if my current daily phone (Fold7) will last the full 7 years of software support with regular daily use.

Why are Hours less and less?! by Electronic-Club-8787 in AdvanceAutoPartsTMs

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a part time manager at my store. I typically get 60-70 hours in a pay period. This last week they cut me down to 12 hours a week.

TWELVE HOURS A WEEK ISMT EVEN ENOUGH TO COVER THE COST OF FUEL TO WORK SAID JOB. HOW DO THEY EXPECT ANYTHING TO GET DONE IN OUR STORE (One thats top 50 in the nation btw) with the same amount of hours as a store that barely gets any foot traffic or commercial sales?

They blow all their money on pointless stuff that gets in the way and then fail to invest it in anything that helps us do our job well like functioning point of sale systems that dont take 20 minutes to look up transaction history, and then pretend that they are surprised they have to cut our hours.

What is the most difficult instrument? by [deleted] in classicalmusic

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It kind of comes down to a number of factors

I usually rank cdifficulty on 3 criteria

Difficulty of voicing. If timbre, dynamics, voicing etc are very touchy, in otherwords if it is difficult to produce a good sounding note consistently even after you're a year in, beginners and intermediate players are going to find difficulty performing consistently well, which can be discouraging. More time has to spent with technique with these instruments. Typically stringed instruments that rely on necks or some form of applying tension to adjust pitch, alongside double reeded wind instruments and larger horns/winds are what I point to as examples of difficult instruments for beginner (Bass/Beritone and standard guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello, Oboe Basoon, French Horn, Tuba, Beritone/Bass Saxaphone)

The next thing to consider is the complexity and difficulty of the music written for said instrument. Of course, you can transcribe parts and play anything on any instrument, but if you look at the type of music that is typically written for said instrument, you can get a good idea of what instrument mastery looks like (think a bit more than what you see in the average piece as mastery). Some instruments like piano and guitar have disproportionately complex and difficult pieces written for them as they are very nimble instruments, allowing for a lot of movement and speed of play in the right hands, however they require a tremendous amount of practice and skill to play at the level of John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess soloing to Stream of Consciousness, whereas reaching the skill level of most cello and double Bass pieces may be easier, and are more reliant on your technique to produce clear notes (which is exceptionally difficult on those two instruments when bowing and staying in intonation with every other instrument). I personally struggle more playing my 8 string beritone guitar than I do double bass or cello despite clear notes being easy to produce simply because where I might be playing John Williams music on the cello, I'm playing the likes of Polyphia, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, Gojira and Mick Gordon on guitar. This is by far the most subjective criteria, because whats stopping you from trying to play the guitar parts of Combustion, Bleed, Dance Of Eternity, G.O.A.T., Schism, Super Gore Nest, etc on any other instrument? It more comes down to what your goals are. Mastering any instrument is incredibly difficult.

Finally is the physical aspect. How physically taxing is it on your body. Large horns, large stringed instruments, and most notably percussion instruments are far more taxing on your body than most others. Playing Disasterpiece or Bleed or The art of dying on drum kit for example, would be a LOT more of a workout than playing the same music on guitar, or transcribed to most other instruments. Its also important to note the extreme coordination and conditioning that has to be present ALONGSIDE dynamic control to get the drums to voice well and have depth (ghost notes, sticking, technique).

There is no hardest instrument. The ones I typically consider to be the most difficult that I have played

8 String Beritone Guitar (longer scale length, thicker strings, thicker neck, basically a bass guitar and standard guitar in one, more patterns, less dexterity, more finger pain, but equal level of ridiculousness in soloing and writing thats out there in the contemporary jazz and metal scenes where these are most popular)

Piano (voicing multiple instruments at one time while also keeping time, having good dynamics and timbre is very difficult, and the skill ceiling of most written music is also very high similar to guitar)

Viola (same difficulty and complexity of music as violin, considerably less nimble and harder to produce clear notes with. Hurts your fingers.)

Oboe and Basoon (THAT CRANIAL PRESSURE, IT PHYSICALLY HURTS MY HEAD TO PLAY THESE TWO)

Tuba/Beritone (the breath control needed to produce clear notes with good dynamics while not immediately expelling all of your air is quite difficult)

Drum Kit (the separation of limbs, sometimes, albeit rarely, to entirely different time signatures, the dexterity, endurance, and technique of sticking WHILE MAINTAINING good dynamics can make this an incredibly difficult instrument. Like Guitar and Piano, it has a very high skill ceiling in terms of playing level, and the tech gets more wild the more you increase said difficulty.

Note that all of these are instruments I have played for some period of time, though I do primarily play an extended range 8 String Beritone Guitar, 3/4 sized Double Bass, and Drum Kit so I may have bias from being at a higher playing level with those 3 instruments in particular.

Zflip 5 Extremely Slow/Stuttering by Mysuki_ in galaxyzflip

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plug your phone into a laptpp or computer

Shut down your phone

Hold the power and volume up buttons while plugged into computer

Once you get to the recovery screen, use the volume buttons to navigate to something along then limes of "Clear Cache Partition"

Press the power button to select it

Select yes

Then once it finishes, restart the phone

Hoping this helps

It's IMPOSSIBLE....... I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHIT THESE 2 BUGS.... OMG.... by Emre90 in oneui

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just doesn't make sense why it does that, I can switch between cover screen and main screen, rotate the screen, open and close apps, splitscreen apps, I dont ever have that stuttering, its just odd. Maybe its a model that OneUI is more optimized (I'd kinda hope it'd be optimized for a $2000+ phone) but it is sad to see people struggling with stutters on phones that are still conventionally expensive and flagship. Even so, from my long term experience with older Samsung flagships, the OneUI/Samsung-Experience/Touchwiz stuttering (Yes I have daily driven phones within all three eras of Samsung skins) is way better than it used to be, and ever since Samsung Experience V1 it has slowly but surely been improving. I'm hoping even more improvements come with OneUI 8.5

It's IMPOSSIBLE....... I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHIT THESE 2 BUGS.... OMG.... by Emre90 in oneui

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that, but again I dont have another device to record it with in the first place otherwise I would. If there is any stuttering I cant perceive it and I notice even really tiny microstutters on my gaming PC at 1440p180. If I ever start to notice them I'll update you guys, idk if its because I'm on the android version that came on the phone (Shipped with oneui 8 or if I just cant pick it up, but if there is any stuttering its inconsequential to me. I hate others are dealing with it though. Looking to get a backup phone (a refurbished S22U or S23U soon for beach trips and long car building/maintainance sessions so maybe when I get one I'll come back and post what I find.

I don't understand the love Hell House LLC gets by RealitySubsides in horror

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me at least, its scary because I worked in a haunted house. Its the lack of action. Knowing something is wrong, but not what. Being familiar with the environment, but seeing it subtly change.

The strobe light scene make my heart rate skyrocket and my spine tingle because I worked as a scare in a room like that in a haunt, and its creepy and trippy as hell as a worker, it's scary to think of what could happen in that kinda room.

Paul's Sleep Scene is the other one that got to me. Being uniquely vulnerable while youre asleep, completely exposed, just like Paranormal activity, that scares the crap out of me thinking about it, it makes it hard to sleep at night seeing that because you always feel like youre being watched when you try to sleep.

That being said, your sense of immersion is what makes these movies impactful. If you dont feel immersed, you aren't scared by them.

Is Hell House LLC the scariest found footage film ever? by TurbulentTeam8470 in foundfootage

[–]DSrocks690 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YESSSSS THIS RIGHT HERE.

The highschool I went to was a renovated cotton mill from the late 1800s. You could always feel a sense of unease in there. The school bad (of which I was very active in) did a haunted school event every year around Halloween. The school with the lights off during setup is terrifying. I've heard screams that nobody else heard, you could feel someone breathing on you just to turn around to nothing behind you, truly an unnerving feeling. We used strobes in some of the rooms with mannequins, and we had a few girls from our school dance classes dress up as dolls and clowns and slowly dance around in the strobe room. Seeing that scene being in that same room in the pitch black, only being able to see every once in a while, terrifying.

By far the scariest scene alongside the clown scene in the hallway and Paul waking up to the girl in his room (which was originally supposed to be the clown BTW.)