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I bought my gnex a few weeks ago and since have gotten 3 replacements and none have had good screens. Are they just sending me refurbished phones PR what? Because they are all coming from Texas as opposed to Kentucky when I ordered from play
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nmp591 said:
I bought my gnex a few weeks ago and since have gotten 3 replacements and none have had good screens. Are they just sending me refurbished phones PR what? Because they are all coming from Texas as opposed to Kentucky when I ordered from play
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May be all screens are the same and your expectations are different?
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No some have been worse than others with purple and one had super fading from one side to the other. I have a very sharp eye for these things
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No some have been worse than others with purple and one had super fading from one side to the other. I have a very sharp eye for these things
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The nexus display just isn't that good. It has a lot of color issues, for example anandtech did point those out in their review. The GN is a great phone, but in no way perfect.
IMA be on my 4th nexus its coming tomorrow. The purple tint makes the phone look horrible very pixelated. My 1st nexus was good but had data problems
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Well would be better and less frustrating to just flash a custom kernel and fix the colors at your likes? Lol and you are sure your phone its new
Why you even bother to come xda DEVELOPERS if you won't dare to do some mods here and there..
My screen was yellowish and now it's perfect with francos kernel color calibration
None of us can help you with Samsung replace policy but we can help you get your phone works properly
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My phone had data problems and it took me 7 replacements to finally get one that didn't have data problems and also has a perfect screen. Not a hint of purple on the screen.
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nmp591 said:
I bought my gnex a few weeks ago and since have gotten 3 replacements and none have had good screens. Are they just sending me refurbished phones PR what? Because they are all coming from Texas as opposed to Kentucky when I ordered from play
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Yes, they are sending refurbs.
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Well would be better and less frustrating to just flash a custom kernel and fix the colors at your likes? Lol and you are sure your phone its new
Why you even bother to come xda DEVELOPERS if you won't dare to do some mods here and there..
My screen was yellowish and now it's perfect with francos kernel color calibration
None of us can help you with Samsung replace policy but we can help you get your phone works properly
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If I buy a defective product, Im gonna return it- not mod it and pretend.
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I think the people complaining about issues with their Nexus have "user error" issues themselves. These phones pass Quality Control for a reason. They don't magically "go bad" in transit to the stores or warehouses. There are no moving parts in them to wear out.
msedek said:
Well would be better and less frustrating to just flash a custom kernel and fix the colors at your likes? Lol and you are sure your phone its new
Why you even bother to come xda DEVELOPERS if you won't dare to do some mods here and there..
My screen was yellowish and now it's perfect with francos kernel color calibration
None of us can help you with Samsung replace policy but we can help you get your phone works properly
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Dude ur dumb. I have flashed plenty of Roms and kernels and done all the color tweaks. Yellow is an easy fix, fading and extreme purple is another story bud
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Yes, they are sending refurbs.
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Thanks that's just all I wanted to know. The guy on the phone was telling me that I was going to get a brand new phone because it was less than 14 days. Think there is any way i can get them to just send me a brand new one
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akira02rex said:
I think the people complaining about issues with their Nexus have "user error" issues themselves. These phones pass Quality Control for a reason. They don't magically "go bad" in transit to the stores or warehouses. There are no moving parts in them to wear out.
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Are you freaking serious? So everything Samsung lets out of the factory is OK and everybody should be happy with the product they ship? Apple people and their fanboyism is starting to seem almost healthy compared to this. The phone costs a premium (at least in here) and I'd like to see premium production quality for my money. Unfortunately that is not the case. Samsung did address the issues in the GIII, but that doesn't fix it for the GN
"The problems that I talked about in the Galaxy Nexus display are basically completely absent in the SGS3. There’s no longer any mura (luminance variance which looks like noise) or a weird purple cast in the greys, two things that are still present on the Galaxy Nexus." (Source)
akira02rex said:
I think the people complaining about issues with their Nexus have "user error" issues themselves. These phones pass Quality Control for a reason. They don't magically "go bad" in transit to the stores or warehouses. There are no moving parts in them to wear out.
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You need to move to earth and teach them over here. Here, because of greed and misjudgement, even companies make many mistakes in their favor.
Last night, I thought someone was stealing my stuff, until I realized that he couldn't have. The stuff must have been his from the beginning. I must have paid for stuff throughout the years that was actually his
Silly me
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Cmmts said:
Are you freaking serious? So everything Samsung lets out of the factory is OK and everybody should be happy with the product they ship? Apple people and their fanboyism is starting to seem almost healthy compared to this. The phone costs a premium (at least in here) and I'd like to see premium production quality for my money. Unfortunately that is not the case. Samsung did address the issues in the GIII, but that doesn't fix it for the GN
"The problems that I talked about in the Galaxy Nexus display are basically completely absent in the SGS3. There’s no longer any mura (luminance variance which looks like noise) or a weird purple cast in the greys, two things that are still present on the Galaxy Nexus." (Source)
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Well cmon dude people are complaining about screen issues on refurb phones. The fact is, is that the nature of this amoled screen is that it loses its ability to display color over time. In some areas its more prominent because of the nav bar and keyboard being dark/black. Over time though this effect should even out across the screen. So, to the people *****ing about wanting a brand new one, guess what?? You're brand new one will look just like that refurb one!
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akira02rex said:
Well cmon dude people are complaining about screen issues on refurb phones. The fact is, is that the nature of this amoled screen is that it loses its ability to display color over time. In some areas its more prominent because of the nav bar and keyboard being dark/black. Over time though this effect should even out across the screen. So, to the people *****ing about wanting a brand new one, guess what?? You're brand new one will look just like that refurb one!
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We perhaps need to agree to disagree.
akira02rex said:
I think the people complaining about issues with their Nexus have "user error" issues themselves. These phones pass Quality Control for a reason. They don't magically "go bad" in transit to the stores or warehouses. There are no moving parts in them to wear out.
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maybe you're just a freaking stuck up crybaby.
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nmp591 said:
Dude ur dumb. I have flashed plenty of Roms and kernels and done all the color tweaks. Yellow is an easy fix, fading and extreme purple is another story bud
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no it's not, it's called turn your brightness up a notch.
I went through 5 referb phones from Verizon before they had Samsung send me one. This phone was perfect and says that it is new in the data not refurbished... don't know if it was a Verizon issue or Samsung, but eventually I got a good replacement.
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Just bought my galaxy nexus off of somebody on craigslist, and I absolutely love it coming from an htc amaze 4g. This phone is lightning quick and extremely responsive. I can see grain because of the pentile, and also have the purple issue when brightness is low as well as incredibly low speaker. I'm kinda worried about the limited 16Gb internal memory. Other than that, I prefer this phone over my friends S3!! I love this phone!!!!! My first Samsung! Nice to meet you all! Any suggestions and apps u guys would recommend? I
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Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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davidc23 said:
Jellllyyybeeeeaaan!!!
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I really didn't believe reviewers when they said it made a huge difference lol
Its incredible!!!
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Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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Absolutely the best os for any electronic device. It's that good.
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
Check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803761
and say hello there too!
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Got mine not too long ago too... Jellybean is awesome!
Check out this thread --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803761
and say hello there too!
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Sorry I didn't see it. Was too excited to check
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fuego77 said:
Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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Only 1 hour?? Most people here get 3 to 4 hours screen on time, some I've seen even 5. You should go ahead and root it and install a custom kernel so you can adjust the color settings to fix that purple tint issue
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Hopefully battery isn't too bad on jellybean. My amaze on ics would last about 8 hours of light to intermediate usage and about 1 hour and 15 minutes of screen on time. Anything better than then I'll be happy lol
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You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
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You should be able to get longer than that with the screen on. Are you switching everything on at the same time? e.g. GPS, wireless, LTE (perhaps?), or perhaps having emails sync every minute... Even if it's heavy gaming you're doing you should get longer than that.
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Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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Lol no guys. If anything I would probably get 90 minutes maximum screen on time on my HTC amaze. the battery life on that phone was the worst I've seen in my life. Auto sync off, brightness at 10% , mobile data off, and just some texting.
Also I was thinking of flashing a either kernel, but the phone is perfect the way it is lol. What are other benefits from custom kernel?
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You can change the color profile with a custom kernel to get rid of the purple tint. You can also undervolt and underclock for better battery life. You can overclock too, but the CPU is more than enough @stock for most tasks
First thing I'd check out is Jubakuba's sticky in the Q&A forum, all about unlocking boot loader, rooting, flashing ROMs, etc. Big timesaver is just flash bigxie's 4.1.1 ROM which is rooted, with busybox, gapps, and deodexed. Trinity kernel will let you adjust color, boost volume, and overclock (or underclock to save battery). People also like Franco's kernel. Another good flashable mod is Thyrus's Nav bar w/menu button, which also gives you expanded power-off menu with reboot and recovery options. (Does require deodexed ROM so won't work on stock). And you might want to try a replacement launcher like Nova or Apex.
Or you might just want to enjoy the stock Jellybean experience for a while before modding. Have fun.
Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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fuego77 said:
Thanks for the responses guys!! I read around and I see I have to use Odin? I'm more of a fast boot command prompt type of guy lol . I'm scared to mess up nexus :/ is performance better with custom kernels? Oh boy I'm going to have do tons of reading!!! Lol.
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fastboot works great with the GNex. I have had this phone for 4 months and I have never ever used Odin
i have already search it on google & xda and i haven't found any solution yet, i haven't bought the gnex yet, but i will, and the purple tint issue is really bothering me, how to fix it ? i have heard some custom kernel (franco.trinity) and they said you can remove the purple tint by calibrating the color of the screen, isn't purple tint a hardware problem ? how can it be repaired with a software ? in fact, the folks over "galaxy nexus screen, what's normal, what's not" thread said "just turn of the screen and you will never see the purple tint", I'm kidding, though.
thanks...
Trinity took care of it completely for me.
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Only way is to flash a kernel? :/
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god is the creation of people with nowhere left to turn
Trinity also did it for me too..took about 2 days to get used to. But I will NEVER go back..EVER...
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Okay so the title is misleading but please continue reading.
I have a sprint galaxy nexus and love it. The one thing is that when I have the brightness on half full or full I run into an issue. If I open an app like play store and for the quick second it loads on a gray screen I can see outlines of my home screen. When I ran kernels it was more visible but on stock I can still see the 4.2 clock widget outline. Its like a ghost image or bleed image.
Is this normal? Does anyone have any information of what this could be and solutions?
I tried searching but I don't know the correct term so its difficult.
Thanks.
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Your screen has a burnt in image. Its fairly common with phones with OLED displays so don't worry.
this thread may help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1394358
even though it says that image retention is "not OK" i would say that if the retention doesnt last for more than 5 seconds you should be ok, i sometimes get a bit of it too but it goes away fast
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Your screen has a burnt in image. Its fairly common with phones with OLED displays so don't worry.
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This. Image ghosting is just part of the SAMOLED display.
such gost image is mostly because of software issue but as u said u have tried custom rom as well as stock rom even though the problem is der...
so mostly its a hardware issue to be more specific, the ghost image is formed when ur processor is overheated..
have u tried overclocking ur processor ? dat might be the main reason..
if your phone is under warrenty den solution for that is flash the official stock firmware and go to service centre.
or else u r out of warrenty den just ignore it...but be sure not to overclock it ..
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I flashed Franco kernel over rasbean and left it untouched and the colors were more vivid but the burnt image was much more visible. But on stock its just the clock because its bright white and the faded image is less than 1 second.
I bought the phone off eBay. I got the original box with serial but idk if I can claim warranty.
I haven't over clocked the device because the 1.2 g dual core is blazing fast when coming from a 1 g single core.
Any other inputs? Im just confused if this is normal, hardware, software.
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Update: on half full and dim it shows the ghost but on full brightness nothing. Its beautiful on full but my battery?
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robogoflow said:
Update: on half full and dim it shows the ghost but on full brightness nothing. Its beautiful on full but my battery?
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That seems normal as long as its not showing when above like 30% brightness.
Sometimes vertical lines show up to some degree (banding) some of the custom ROMs including CyanogenMod have a feature that reduces the issue.
I myself have an issue with horizontal lines burned into the screen at any brightness. I think it was from turning the color values up to the max even though I didn't keep it high for that long. I've considered sending it into Samsung service center to get the screen replaced, except doesn't the repair process take weeks?
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such gost image is mostly because of software issue but as u said u have tried custom rom as well as stock rom even though the problem is der...
so mostly its a hardware issue to be more specific, the ghost image is formed when ur processor is overheated..
have u tried overclocking ur processor ? dat might be the main reason..
if your phone is under warrenty den solution for that is flash the official stock firmware and go to service centre.
or else u r out of warrenty den just ignore it...but be sure not to overclock it ..
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It has nothing to do with the processor lol..
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It has nothing to do with the processor lol..
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talk and laugh when u know the things...
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Utkarsh-ezzo said:
talk and laugh when u know the things...
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DAMNNN!!!!
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talk and laugh when u know the things...
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Please enlighten us? I've owned 4 SAMOLED devices and they have all displayed signs of image ghosting. I NEVER OC my headsets, so please tell us how exactly an "overheated" ARM processor will drastically affect the display.
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I Have had the galaxy s4 for a week now
And noticed from day one that the whites look kinda beige or let's say ofwhite
I turned off the auto brightness ,auto screen adjasment, brightness to the max
But still the same, I compare it to my Laptop screen, and my older galaxy s2 , where the white are Def pronounced And clear
Is this a normal thing in the s4?
Or is it a flaw? If so, is it common?
What do you guys suggest?
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I'd take it back to tmobile and exchange it. That is not normal
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Screen issues seem to be really common with the S4. I have an issue with the bottom half of the screen having the yellowish tint you're talking about, but the top half is fine. It's too late for me to take it back to t-mo unfortunately, but I may try contacting Samsung and seeing if they'll do a screen replacement under warranty.
It's a shame because I love everything else about the phone.
That sounds horrible. Hopefully you can exchange it.
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I Have had the galaxy s4 for a week now
And noticed from day one that the whites look kinda beige or let's say ofwhite
I turned off the auto brightness ,auto screen adjasment, brightness to the max
But still the same, I compare it to my Laptop screen, and my older galaxy s2 , where the white are Def pronounced And clear
Is this a normal thing in the s4?
Or is it a flaw? If so, is it common?
What do you guys suggest?
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It's normal. I compare my S4 screen to the screen on a few of my friends S4's who arent rooted and their whites dont look quite as white as mine, but that's because i use Trinity Colours to enable the cool colour settings. Used it on my S3 and my S4, and ever since then i just notice that off-white tint as small of a tint as it is unless im running Trinity Colours on cool settings.
You can always call customer service .And they will send a replacement. However you would need to send your damaged s4 back .as soon as you receive the replacement. and you should be good to go after that. Good luck.
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Did you put the screen mode to professional photo or movie mode? Standard and above are more yellowish.
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try this
There is an option called "reading mode" . Keep it off.
Even i use a s4 and had the same problem.
Then i tried this. And thankfully it worked hope it works for you and other people