Does anyone else have a yellowish tint on their sgsii? When I tilt the phone a little bit the display seems to be more white. Anyone experiencing this?
I have it too and have tried 3 different ones
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I can see what you mean, didn't notice until you said something. It's very slight (at least for me). I don't know of any apps that can change the color output of the screen, but this is something I would think a root would allow us to change considering you can see a "whiter" color when you tilt the phone, we should be able to reproduce the color balance (I would think).
Okay, thanks for feedback I thought it was just my phone. Cause my friend has the epic 4g touch and he doesnt have this issue. Hopefully this will be "fixed" when we have root.
lookitzjohnny said:
Okay, thanks for feedback I thought it was just my phone. Cause my friend has the epic 4g touch and he doesnt have this issue. Hopefully this will be "fixed" when we have root.
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I hope so too but honestly I'd rather have this than too much "white" and end up with a blue-ish tint.
is it very noticeable?
or does it only seem like that from some angles?
mziol said:
I hope so too but honestly I'd rather have this than too much "white" and end up with a blue-ish tint.
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It looks like its white-white and not blueish white when you angle it.
AllGamer said:
is it very noticeable?
or does it only seem like that from some angles?
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You can see the difference in colors and its from any angle
I have the yellow tint as well. Ironically it's only when looking straight on the screen. Tilt slightly to any other direction and whites look perfect. I recall the Nexus S I played with had some tint issues with white as well.
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x-ravin said:
I have the yellow tint as well. Ironically it's only when looking straight on the screen. Tilt slightly to any other direction and whites look perfect. I recall the Nexus S I played with had some tint issues with white as well.
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Man im on epic touch and have same problem.I went to sprint store and their epic touch is perfect white-its deffinetly a defect.
Funny thing is I bought mine on amazon and exchanged it and my second phone got it too but not as bad now im on my third exchange.
I want be happy untill my gs2 looks like the one at sprint store.
Mine is white
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Mine has a yellowish blue-green tint that shifts when I move the phone. It bugged me at first but I barely notice it now.
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I'm on my 2nd phone 1st one had screen issues bad the yellowish tint and not only vertical lines but swirls as well...this one still has yellowish tint but the lines are less noticeable..yellow tint must just be how it is
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Just bought the galaxy s 2. Seems to have a blue hue. White backgrounds seem to be bluish white. Thought this phone was suppose to have wonderful screen?
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Tbh, All SAMOLED screens have this effect at least my old captivate did.
Wait until supercurio messes with our phones He fixed that issue for me on the Captivate. I'm pretty sure he's going to able to work his magic on our phones as well.
90teggy said:
Just bought the galaxy s 2. Seems to have a blue hue. White backgrounds seem to be bluish white. Thought this phone was suppose to have wonderful screen?
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Turn off autobrightness and set it to 40% and it should be less obvious.
yup it's a common side effect of all the SAMOLED displays
it's less obvious when you have the brightness at around 30%
the only phone that doesnt is the nexus s.. because google made the color a little yellowish in an update. Maybe its the rom, or maybe i dont notice it anymore, but beastmod v3.6 seems to have white whites
Welcome to the club.
That's why we have this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345099
I apologize if my attempt at search terms didn't yet yield an answer that has already been posted.
On my Droid Charge if I tilted the phone up or down in portrait mode it would cause the screen to take on a blue hue. It turns out it was because of the screen protector I was using. Took it off, no problem.
However, I have no screen protector on my Galaxy Nexus, and I'm seeing the same thing occur. Since the screens are hardly the same (AMOLED+ vs AMOLED, different resolution, different size) I can't really tell if its normal. The demo model at my store was out of commission.
Anybody else notice this or is there something wrong with my screen? My friend said his doesn't do it, but I haven't seen it myself (he lives an hour away) and its possible he just isn't as picky as me
Thanks in advance.
I got the same thing on mines. Blue tint when not looking at screen straight.
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when my buddy first got the Samsung Facinate, I remember noticing that weird blue tint. maybe it's a Samsung thing?
Voodoo color should come soon to fix that!
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GinNjoose said:
when my buddy first got the Samsung Facinate, I remember noticing that weird blue tint. maybe it's a Samsung thing?
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Jasonhunterx said:
Voodoo color should come soon to fix that!
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A blue tint of some sort, or cool colors in general are a product of the Super AMOLED screens, yes.
I don't think Voodoo Color would fix it in this respect, because I think it either has to do with the coating on the screen itself, or the way the light is refracting based on viewing angle.
I could be wrong...
New Galaxy Nexus owner with Sprint. Well late last night I dim my screen cause it so freaking bright Noticed a lot of the greys turned purple and the white (stock messaging app) go a lot of grain in it. Looked like I had dust all in the screen. Is this normal? Looked similar to this picture
I play with my phone on minimum brightness all the time and have not noticed this.
It is possible I'm not observant enough though.
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It's normal.
I don't get the purple hues...but I'm using custom color values.
Which have also reduced the grain. But it's still there.
I may be in the minority here...
But I hate this screen tech. It's my only complaint with this phone.
Nav-bar/Status-bar burn-in potential scares the **** out of me. (Although I don't have any yet...I have to assume it's because I'm so compulsive about hiding the nav bar and using apps that remove the status bar.) And the screen looks like complete crap when it's dimmed.
I mean, it looks GREAT at 30%+ brightness...but browsing in bed and such (low brightness scenarios) always makes me cringe a bit.
I currently have my old fascinate and nexus on hands.
I need to say that Samsung pretty much dropped the ball... :-(
Fascinate screen is so much better looking, though partially because custom ICS rom, which I guess incorporates voodoo tweaks.
I will happily wait while GN ICS gets to that state, but I afraid that it is hardware/ manufacturing process issue and I doubt if anybody will be able to fix it grammatically. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I heard something about gradient fix, but do not completely understand what was fixed and how.
My phone has a slight vertical tint on the right side. I pensive it as pink vertical stripe, followed by green one. Not extremely saturated, but noticeable at any brightness level. I've stopped by Verizon store to see if other phones have it. Out of two checked phones one had noticeable green stripe, another was OK to my eyes.
I got a deal on wirefly and now I'm kind of on the verge - exchange or not. I afraid to get one which will be even worse.
Well I just went back to Sprint and explain it to them. Well since the GN is new that Sprint has no tickets for the purple Screen. So the asshole tells me that it is a software issue and that the next ics update will fix the purpleish colors. I was like WTF it is a hardware issue hahah. I do thank you guys for responding. cant wait to get some Sprint roms avaialble. What do you guys think software issue?
No. its a hardware issue. My GSM doesn't have the purple tint at all. My fiance's first Verizon GNex was the same. One day it died and they sent her a new one and it's screen was very purple tinted. She sent it back and got a new one which didn't have the tint at all.
I would return it.
Thats exactly what I told them and they said to wait for an update. this pisses me off cause they wont let me exchange it at all.
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Well I just went back to Sprint and explain it to them. Well since the GN is new that Sprint has no tickets for the purple Screen. So the asshole tells me that it is a software issue and that the next ics update will fix the purpleish colors. I was like WTF it is a hardware issue hahah. I do thank you guys for responding. cant wait to get some Sprint roms avaialble. What do you guys think software issue?
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i dont know if its hardware or software but you can try this. its supercurio's display expert and might help. it did get rid of most of the purple for me, still can see it with certain grays. as for the grainy white, my first galaxy nexus had that problem at low light too. its almost like a transparent cheese cloth over the screen and some lines running down it. i returned that one.
just keep trying with a different rep. the first one i talked to pretended not to see anything wrong with my phone so i talked to the manager and got the exchange after about 15mins. they were still very hesitant. try to call their call center first i find their call center reps are usually more understanding.
El Daddy said:
No. its a hardware issue. My GSM doesn't have the purple tint at all. My fiance's first Verizon GNex was the same. One day it died and they sent her a new one and it's screen was very purple tinted. She sent it back and got a new one which didn't have the tint at all.
I would return it.
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I have a purple tint, but only at brightness levels going below 15 (setting custom brightness with aokp), but the default brightness was at 19 so I never noticed until I started to mess with the settings. I think its normal, or at least I hope it is. Well now I want to ask, is it normal to have purple tints at really low brightness?
Three strikes and I am out. This is my first amoled screen so I am not really sure if it is supposed to be like it. I will try that apk and see if that works. Thanks buddy. I am honestly afraid to get another one and then it is fully a retarded phone so I will stick with it.
I'm unable to use that apk. Error says "There is a problem parsing the package"
Do you have link to thread or other location, please?
i dont know the exact post but its in this thread towards the end.
forgot to mention that you have to use a kernel that supports color calibration, im using franco's.
neotekz said:
i dont know the exact post but its in this thread towards the end.
forgot to mention that you have to use a kernel that supports color calibration, im using franco's.
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I have tried this, and under stock, cold and warm I still get a purple tint to my screen at low brightness (from 1-10) above 10 is usually when it stops. Any ideas?
Cptsamir said:
I have tried this, and under stock, cold and warm I still get a purple tint to my screen at low brightness (from 1-10) above 10 is usually when it stops. Any ideas?
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You will have too root phone and use the Franco kernel. Doing that tomorrow
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marcusva79 said:
You will have too root phone and use the Franco kernel. Doing that tomorrow
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Let me know how it goes, cuz I am rooted and running Franco kernel and still getting the purple tint.
the purple tint is still there for me too but the cold setting in that app helped a lot.
It is a hardware issue even though some software tweaks will help a little bit. My GSM gnex has this issue while my friend's gnex does not have it at all. I can't exchange mine because it is from Poland and I do not know anybody there. I just set the brightness to 50% and the issue is almost nonexistent. So my advice is to exchange it; try another store or speak to the manager. Good luck.
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the purple tint is still there for me too but the cold setting in that app helped a lot.
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Ya for some reason for me thought it only happens are really low brightness. How about you?
I tried playing around with color calibration on one of my previous purple Galaxy Nexus phones. Got rid of the purple, but then things started looking too green or something.
Not sure how you can calibrate to fix colors at low brightness levels where purples become a problem and not screw up the colors when you increase the brightness levels. Doesn't seem like this would be a good solution.
I have just kept exchanging my phones. And I hate AMOLED, it's great when you get a good one, but it seems like Samsung can't make very many good ones.
Lol. If you're going below stock's lowest setting the purple graininess is normal. Get a grip people. Its a mobile screen and it has tolerances. If you get purple just lowest stock setting, I would say it is not normal but chances are Samsung will say it is within tolerance. I played with root dim the other day my screen got purple and grainy at 4/255 and below. Slightly grainy at 5/255 and 12/255. 13 and higher it was fine. 15/255 I believe is stock's lowest setting.
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I cant tell if im being picky or not. I ordered the Gn from the Playstore, GSM version, I got the phone and loved it, but there were a few bad pixels. I called Samsung, they sent me another one. I got the second phone, this one has a red hue on the entire right side of the screen, enough to be annoying on brighter pages/apps. So, i called Samsung again, and they sent me another. The 3rd one... well it also has a part of the screen i don't like. It seems normal throughout, but the bottom right of the screen is brighter than the rest. Its noticeable, but especially when the keyboard is open, the left side is dark grey, the right side is light grey.
Am i being picky? Should I call Samsung for a 4th? Could it get any better? Should I just settle? No phone is perfect. I cant wait to root the damn thing and start flashing, and calling it my own.
I love the phone so much, other than the screen problem.
Thoughts/Comments please.....
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I cant tell if im being picky or not. I ordered the Gn from the Playstore, GSM version, I got the phone and loved it, but there were a few bad pixels. I called Samsung, they sent me another one. I got the second phone, this one has a red hue on the entire right side of the screen, enough to be annoying on brighter pages/apps. So, i called Samsung again, and they sent me another. The 3rd one... well it also has a part of the screen i don't like. It seems normal throughout, but the bottom right of the screen is brighter than the rest. Its noticeable, but especially when the keyboard is open, the left side is dark grey, the right side is light grey.
Am i being picky? Should I call Samsung for a 4th? Could it get any better? Should I just settle? No phone is perfect. I cant wait to root the damn thing and start flashing, and calling it my own.
I love the phone so much, other than the screen problem.
Thoughts/Comments please.....
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call them again!!! also look for tiny black dots!
you can only see them when the screen is black and in a low light area.
so set a fully black photo in your gallery, open it and go to a low light area and look closely for any black dots you can see.
Try trinity kernel
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Honestly man you're gonna have problems whatever is going on with these screens. I have the same problem (not as bad) but I can notice slight color variation when the screen dims and when my keyboard is up. It is a known problem and I would just stick out to be quiet honest. I downloaded a pixel fixer (dont know the exact name of the app), but run the color fixer for 20 minutes multiple times and see if that does anything. When I notice a big difference I'm gonna get a new one, but honestly I wouldn't sweat it, even though that does sound pretty sh****.
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Yeah, I can see mine is yellow on the left side of the screen now that I pretty much endulged in it. I'm probably gonna call tomorrow, but I don't want to have a damn phone that has the same exact problem.... ugh.
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Try trinity kernel
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This won't fix the issue. My screen has a heavy yellow tint and tons of black dots. I've just said **** it cause I have a feeling the screen is just made this way..
I just stay stock color as opposed the messing with the colors, because mixing them makes the tints different colors or multi colored which really drives me nuts.
I also have on my left side a blueish tint and right side red tint. Probably defective but whatever, doesn't sound like you can get a better screen so..
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Yeah thanks. Honestly, the first one with the dead pixels is the best quality so far.
Otherwise you guys love the phone? I do, and I hope the devs stick around for a good while. Even if other nexus devices emerge.
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Oh dude I'm used to the tint already lol. Whatever man after a few days it will feel normal. Like I said try that pixel fixer app it is supposed to be good for fixing colors.
I will definitely be sticking with a Nexus line phone for sure. I am truly happy with it compared to all of the software/bloat ware phones like touchwiz and sense. It could always be worse man.
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am i the only one that is noticing this? while its not as apparent as it was on t989, this phone seems to have blobs, vertical lines and other screen defects
link to the issue thread for t989
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300133
ive went through 2 phones(one had physical defect) and both had this issue, so im going to guess its probably pretty widespread.
anyone wanna check their phones for these as well?
since blobs, lines are not acceptable on a 600dollar phone like this
To find the blobs/lines, look at grey background at night with no other lightsource than the phone itself.
Mine has a small line but it's like dead in the middle of the screen.
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RTFOP said:
Mine has a small line but it's like dead in the middle of the screen.
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mine too, only 3 small blobs, and a line
the thing with these screens is that the oleds are controlled by a voltage regulator, and when you turn the brightness down the voltage regulator can't neccearily provide enough voltage to the screen, which causes the issue we have
i was hoping samsung would have fixed this issue by now..its a surprise that they havnt
just to add
this is the kind of technology samsung needs;
http://www.ignisinnovation.com/technology/ignis-technology-overview/ignis-maxlife-technology
and
http://www.ignisinnovation.com/technology/ignis-technology-overview/intelligent-pixel
AznDud333 said:
am i the only one that is noticing this? while its not as apparent as it was on t989, this phone seems to have blobs, vertical lines and other screen defects
link to the issue thread for t989
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300133
ive went through 2 phones(one had physical defect) and both had this issue, so im going to guess its probably pretty widespread.
anyone wanna check their phones for these as well?
since blobs, lines are not acceptable on a 600dollar phone like this
To find the blobs/lines, look at grey background at night with no other lightsource than the phone itself.
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People call it black crush it's known for anoled screens https://www.google.com/search?hl=en....0.89.255.3.3.0.les;..0.0...1ac.1.sJaoi5a2zrQ
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People call it black crush it's known for anoled screens https://www.google.com/search?hl=en....0.89.255.3.3.0.les;..0.0...1ac.1.sJaoi5a2zrQ
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No, this is not black crush, the blobs and vertical lines are something else.
blackcrush does exist for these phones, but mura and vertical lines exists as well.
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To find the blobs/lines, look at grey background at night with no other lightsource than the phone itself.
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Real life you sit around in a dark closet looking at a grey screen? Maybe your being a little too critical? Just enjoy the damn phone. It rocks!
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danr238 said:
Real life you sit around in a dark closet looking at a grey screen? Maybe your being a little too critical? Just enjoy the damn phone. It rocks!
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i wish i could
having had an T989(tmo gs2)
initially the screen looks like what we have now
just look again in a year, the lines will become so apparent that youd want to smash your phone
in either case, it would bother a lot of people when they us their phone at night.
not to mention that this is a 600dollar device, it needs to be flawless!
AznDud333 said:
i wish i could
having had an T989(tmo gs2)
initially the screen looks like what we have now
just look again in a year, the lines will become so apparent that youd want to smash your phone
in either case, it would bother a lot of people when they us their phone at night.
not to mention that this is a 600dollar device, it needs to be flawless!
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Nothing lasts forever. Get that through your head and you'll live a happier life.
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llustig said:
Nothing lasts forever. Get that through your head and you'll live a happier life.
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nothing does indeed, which is why im glad my credit card gave me a 2 year warranty on this phone
in either case, ive posted this so people are aware that this issue exists, should they take action against samsung
The 1st unit I had were free of dark lines; but I am confident that it had the mura effect as well but was much harder to find since the dots were concentrated on the edges (near the bezel) of the display; if you look carefully at all the T-Mobile note 2's, they all have the AMOLED issue. I did notice on my first unit extremely faint stains throughout the display just like in the demo unit (in black background), but the lines were not there and hardly any dots. However, the whites on my 1st unit were somewhat dull, not as bright as the demo unit at the store, and had a yellow tint on the 2nd half of the display, and a light pinkish hue to some extent at the center of the display in a full white background, and also had faint horizontal lines (only when looked carefully) at lowest brightness in a white background (which became worse and more prominent over time).
My 2nd unit, though it does have a 1cm black line in the middle of the display, with 3 or 4 dots on the top and bottom left of the display, the whites are true whites, and the display is much brighter than the 1st unit I had. No yellow tint to be found, no pinkish hue, and no faint horizontal lines at low brightness and white background! Surprisingly, the color and brightness uniformity are flawless on my 2nd Note 2 (throughout the display, white is white, even brightness) , compared to the '3' Galaxy S2's, '1' Note 1, and 1st Note 2 I owned in the past. Best of all, the build quality on my 2nd unit is also better, no squeaking bezel or back cover, and hardly any blemishes on the bezel. The light which was leaking through the home button is almost gone after a couple of weeks of use.
So far, it seems like my 2nd Note 2 is a safe and clear winner; really hard to find a unitform AMOLED display these days and my 2nd Note 2 just so has one.
Why send something back as a result of finding the slightest chance of a mura effect when you might get something worse in return.
Like many say on the forum, "I guess you can't get it all."