Color saturation & accuracy

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XDA_RealLifeReview

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If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Xiaomi Mi 9's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
 

grumpyg4

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Color saturation and contrast is terrible, it is as if the screen is a knockoff. Can not get accurate warm colors like the mi 8 or the 1+ 6t that compare side by side. The display colors are horrible. Is there something I'm missing ?
 

tom-plouder

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Apr 19, 2019
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Same here with my GFs Mi 9. She started crying when she compared with my oneplus 6t... Am really curious if there is any fix to the really terrible display calibration.
 

skamus

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Jul 20, 2010
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It works fine... Just make sure you set the "contrast" to "standard" (strange name for color profiles. But whatever, it works)

The colors seem pretty natural to me when using that profile. But what I didn't like, is that when playing back an HDR video, the auto-brightness can still dim down the screen... This isn't supposed to happen, or at the very least there should be an option to turn that off.

Also interesting, is that given enough ambient light, YouTube HDR playback will in fact boost the brightness to max (but it won't on a pitch black environment) But if you are playing an HDR video from another source, the brightness won't be boosted at all, and you will have to do it manually.

And while I'm on the topic of HDR video, there doesn't appear to be any tone mapping going on, so some highlights will be blown. But it does seem to properly track the HDR EOTF until that point, and the color gamut does appear to be wider than when viewing SDR content.

So to summarize, this is a great display, and I think Xiaomi did include color profiles, but there's more work to be done... I'm hoping this HDR brightness issue can be addressed on a custom ROM, and hopefully an option to add tone mapping.
 

Avamander

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Jul 2, 2012
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Given that GSMArena measured the display's colors to be really accurate any claims of "x" or "y" to be too "dull" or "faded" is just baseless. It's most likely you're accustomed to displays actually being wrong and want to reproduce that.
 

ManuBBXX

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May 18, 2013
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Do you set : raise contrast mode, or dynamic contrast ?

For me, colors are more saturated in increased contrast mode, it's quite beautiful and flashy, but maybe exagerated saturation

Dynamic contrast with warm colors looks fine, quite less satutared

Your thoughts ?
 

omgomg

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Mar 3, 2008
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Yeah, people complaining here came from very unbalanced screens and when they meet a really good one, think it is trash. Sigh.
 

Riichard63

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Jan 23, 2013
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By my side I have a defective display that has too hot colors, wite are yellowish I had :
- Red : 62 %
- Green : 62 %
- Blue : 100 %

And with these seetings wites are just wite, you can imagine how yellowish it is...
 

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    Miui default display setting always have bad color saturation, no matter the phone has ips or amoled panel. I always change the contrast setting to increased contrast. Now My Mi 9 display almost look like Samsung's one.
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    The greens are dull and faded, reds are too dark.
    Can not get the right colors !
    is there any display calibration app that can change all this ?
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    Given that GSMArena measured the display's colors to be really accurate any claims of "x" or "y" to be too "dull" or "faded" is just baseless. It's most likely you're accustomed to displays actually being wrong and want to reproduce that.