Nice find!
I downloaded that *.icm file and the xfce Color profiles tool accepted it right in. It definitely changed the color of the screen but I don’t think it’s actually much better. … yeah, when I enable/disable the profile I can tell it does add a little more green, which is moving in the right direction, just not far enough.
I think you can’t see any difference from these pics, but I can see a change happen right when I apply the profile. Guess I’d have to video that to see it.
stock, no icc profile:
boecq icc profile:
I bet my phone camera is modifying everything too trying to auto white balance, so no two pics are probably reliable to compare to each other. But at least see the red by relative difference between different things within a given pic.
Your best bet at this point is to get it professionally calibrated or reach out to support to see if they will replace the panel
Or you could try using test pages to fix it yourself at home if the drift isn’t too bad
Funny joke. I don’t have that. No They’re not calibrated, I’ve never calibrated a display in my life because until now, no matter how off they were, they were never off enough that I consciously noticed of cared. That is the entire point, is that this is so pink it’s unavoidable.
Here is whitedisplay.com on all 3 (instead of a text editor that might have some slightly off desktop theme color that isn’t white) and a stack of 10 or 15 sheets of printer paper. This is with no icc profile loaded. Regardless the offset applied by my camera and the room lights (warm tone and not super bright leds), at least that offset is the same for everything in the same pic.
Turns out the monitors actually are set on a color they call “warm”. So this thing is pink compared to something that already calls itself warm.
Just thought of something, is night mode turned on in your settings? It red shifts your display to “filter” blue light
I don’t think so. As far as I can tell, the way that would be done on xubuntu (xfce) is with a night-mode plugin that I don’t seem to have installed. The settings editor should have a night-mode option if the plugin were installed, and it’s not there. I’m still looking to make sure it’s not being done some other way without me realizing it.
But then again, such a setting would affect all 3 monitors not just the built-in one. So, I guess we already don’t have to wonder.
I’m going to make a little bootable usb to remove all doubt about the installed os settings for things like this.
I’m out of ideas besides using test pages to adjust the various saturation levels yourself, messaging support to see if they will swap the screen, or paying to have it calibrated yourself
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help
It’s fine. I think all we need is an icc profile. Unless the panels are coming out highly variable where everyone is going to need to adjust their own. That seems unlikely.
https://tftcentral.co.uk/icc_profiles/hp_omen_x35_user.icm
This icm profile seems to help. The colors look much more balanced.
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After loading all these different icc profiles I think that boecq one is the least red so far.
I think I have some reading to do. Several years ago I got an x-rite i1 display pro and lumagen radiance 2144 to calibrate my tv and get the best possible analog input for laserdiscs, but never did the calibration yet (figured I’d get serious and do everything proper after we moved into a nice house, and never found a house I liked yet)
Anyway, from the little reading I just did, it looks like I have quite a bit more reading to do, and maybe I can use this thing or some other piece of hardware and do this right. I thought that there must be some way to just twiddle some values and make a “better if still not right” icc profile, but it sounds like it doesn’t work that way.
And the more I stare at 50 shades of white, it’s ruining my perception to where every white now looks red and green and then red again from one second to the next. Useless.
I didn’t just get this meter itself, it was some $1000 kit with some windows software that I never looked at or tried to use yet. I was actually expecting to just pay a home theater installer to come calibrate the panel, when I had a viewing room worth bothering. The settings in the radiance video processor are no joke. I was NOT trying to get into this crazy level with a laptop screen. It was just way too pink. I thought there would be the equivalent of an old one-dimensional tint control somewhere in a config file.
Are there any tools allow me to manually adjust the color in Linux like the display color management software on Windows? The screen looks OK when I use it alone. But putting it next to a MacBook, the screen looks way to pink.
Good news! I found a simple program called redshift solved the problem very well!!
If you use linux, try redshift and it allows you to manually set the color temperature. I set the temperature to 7200K and the screen now looks much better!
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Here’s a icm profile for the BOE screen:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/BOE_CQ_______NE135FBM_N41.icm
Changing extension from icm to icc and copying it into /usr/share/color/icc/colord/ will make it show up in the relevant KDE Plasma settings (probably similar on other DEs using colord).
Does anyone have their updated ICM profile from this more recent review?
There is a link in the article. Just in case: https://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/BOE_CQ_______NE135FBM_N41_01.icm
Not perfect but it does improve things considerably, at least in the 12th gen model, and more so than the profile from the first review.
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On my 11th Gen it is an improvement but not as good as it could be but then again not bad at all, thanks for the link.
Some of the comments on that review article make me laugh. People are so full of themselves. “Framework is a non-starter until <dumb idea I don’t know is dumb, or trivial thing I happen to want>”
yeah, so non-starter… I’ll take 5 more of these non-starter garbage laptops please.
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Found a way that works better for me. With gnome desktop, you can use gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.color night-light-temperature 9000 to adjust the color temperature easier. I found 9000K a good fit with this color profile
Here’s a comparison between 6500K(default) and the 9000K.
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Uwe in the post here: Display accuracy and calibration - #4 by Uwe
Had his own color calibrated ICM profile too.
Notebookcheck one works on mine but his would hang up my Settings app on PopOS, thought I share if anyone is interested.