Windows 10: Color Banding

I have recently bought a Zebronics NBC 4S laptop with 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, i5 1235u with iris xe 80eu graphics adapter. I am seeing color banding all over my screen. I am a web developer and so whenever I select a dark color gradient, color banding appears. Please help. Its driving me crazy. It also stays at 6-bit while all over the internet it is said that ips display support 8-bit. Please help

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S2716DG color banding.

I've been using S2716DG for 19 months now, and while I love this monitor so much color banding has always been an issue for me, and many users reported it as well. It is most prominently visible in videos, and I watch a ton of them every day on youtube. I tried everything ppl say should alleviate the problem:
-custom icc profiles
-adjusting with contrast/brightness/colors in OSD
-adjusting gamma and vibrance in nvcp
and while they did help a little with color reproduction, the banding issue was still very pronounced.
Then,just today,I stumbled upon a trick that apparently works, don't know how and why, but the banding in videos in almost gone like with a snap of a finger. My monitor brightness was at 40% in OSD, and the brigtness setting in nvcp is default 50%. Terrible banding in some videos. Now just today,totally by chance, I discovered that putting the brightness in nvcp at 22% eliminates 99% of the banding for me, to the extent I can't see it anymore unless I squint and try to pick up very tiny details. Then I used the monitor's OSD to raise the brightness and the brightess is back to the same level it used to be before and banding is gone. This puzzles me a lot. Why does adjusting brightness in OSD not remove it, but adjusting it in nvcp works wonders?

Like in this video,before the brightness adjustments in nvcp, banding on the black backround and around the red album cover was clearly visible from 2 metes away, now it's almost completely gone even if I'm sitting close.


Not only banding on colors is greatly reduced, white looks a lot less "dirty" than it used to be before,colors are more vibrant. Quite frankly I'm stunned, the the monitor has never looked that good..... It's been 19 months I've been using it with banding and sort of greyish white color....

 

the latest Win 10 update for Lumia appears to have stopped the phone communicating to Band 2

Hello Wyke,

We regret for the inconvenience. Let me assist you to resolve the issue.

Before we proceed further, let us know the model name of the Lumia Device you are using.

Follow the below methods and check if it helps to resolve the issue.

Method 1

For the calls and emails/text messages notification issue please check under settings that the Bluetooth is turned On. The tile for the notification on the Band should be On too. Please see this

link for assistance.

Method 2

If it still does not help, I suggest you to unregister, remove the Band device from the pairing list and re-add it.

• Step 1: Unregister your Microsoft Band from your phone
• Step 2: Remove your Microsoft Band from your phone’s list of paired Bluetooth devices
• Step 3: Reset your Microsoft Band
• Step 4: Set up your Microsoft Band again

Write to us with the updated status and the required information related to call and email functionality of the Lumia device with the Band device, for us to be able to assist you further.

Thank You.

 

Unable to see MS Band 2 on Lumia 950

I have the latest update but found the answer when I looked at this link:-

Redirecting

It looks as though the MS Band doesn't de-register the existing band and as a result doesn't show up in the phones Bluetooth list. I'm not sure what step in the linked list I'd taken when the phone/band appeared and sorted itself out - but it did, so if
anyone else has the problem it's worth repeating the steps in the link.

Because the band was out of sync with the Steps recorded on the phone and I couldn't find a way of making the steps = the phone. However, next day when the band reset itself they were all in sync again. Microsoft should probably sort this out - especially
as changing bands/phones is quite common - but it's working now which was my main concern.