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[Q] Yellow screen tint?

Hi all,
Has anybody else noticed a yellowish tint to their screen, especially when displaying lighter colours, white, light blue etc?
This only seems to be the case when looking directly at the screen. If I look at it from any sort of angle the yellow tint is not there.
Any info or confirmation that others are experiencing this too would be much appreciated. If this is a hardware issue then I will return my phone.
Thanks all
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Sorry to bump this, but I assume the lack of replies means I'm alone with this issue?
Should I get my unit replaced or is this a software issue?
Thanks

Mine is quite yellow too against my S2. Decided it must be faulty and it's going back.
Going to stick to my S2 with Cyanogen as it's much better...

When I go into my settings screen it has a yellowish tint in the bottom half of the screen where the top half is black.
When I go into my app drawer the background is black as it should be.
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seakins said:
When I go into my settings screen it has a yellowish tint in the bottom half of the screen where the top half is black.
When I go into my app drawer the background is black as it should be.
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The gradient in the settings background is a feature.
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I have not noticed any yellow screen in the settings menu myself.
I have been reading that the Galaxy SII had similar yellow tint problems when released and that it was corrected with a software fix?
I'm more worried that this isn't a hardware fault more than anything, software faults don't worry me too much as I'm happy to wait for a fix...comes with the territory when owning a smartphone

Think I will be returning my handset, the yellow tint combined with the volume problem is doing my head in!

I have been watching a few you tube clips and i don't see much yellowish tint on theirs but then again it does go completely black in the app drawer.
It really doesnt faze me as much as the volume issue though.

is it a problem or a feature?

I don't really know what to say, but let me give you my 2 cents.
First, AMOLED screens are all different for some reason, and I can vouch for this as I replaced my Nexus one 9 times for power button and various other issues, and each time the color temperature was different. Some were warmer (with a red tint) while others were cooler (blue tint). If you swap it, you might get a better tint, maybe even white if you're lucky.
Second, the Nexus S also had a tint problem (yellow tint) just like yours. The two display models at my BestBuy both are VERY YELLOW compared to my HTC Sensation and look really bad, but it might be because their screens were ruined from being on for so long. There was a post on XDA in the Nexus S forums who said he swapped until he got a "white tint" but then Google actually updated the Nexus S with different Color Settings and totally washed out his screen, while yellow tinted ones actually got better. If Google releases a color patch, you might not like it, but I don't think they will after the backlash from the Nexus S one.
tl;dr Get it swapped, it's a hardware issue. Swap until you get one you like, you paid for it, you deserve it.

Oh geez here go again, i thought the yellow tint was going to die with the galaxy s ii, guess not, it's alive again on the galaxy nexus , i swapped my galaxy s ii because the yellow tint was too distracting, in low "backlight" the white looked yellow , the one i got is less yellow but the colors dont pop as much as on the first galaxys ii i had

Chad_Petree said:
Oh geez here go again, i thought the yellow tint was going to die with the galaxy s ii, guess not, it's alive again on the galaxy nexus , i swapped my galaxy s ii because the yellow tint was too distracting, in low "backlight" the white looked yellow , the one i got is less yellow but the colors dont pop as much as on the first galaxys ii i had
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You're going to want LCD if you want perfection, but you'll give up great blacks and thinness+battery life, not to mention the phone entirely.
Keep swapping, took my 9 tries but it was worth it for my Nexus One

seakins said:
When I go into my settings screen it has a yellowish tint in the bottom half of the screen where the top half is black.
When I go into my app drawer the background is black as it should be.
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I've got the same 'issue'. While I understand it is a feature, it really looks odd/very greyish, especially on auto brightness.
BTW I'm starting to like that yellow tint. It really is helpful when browsing the Internet, because it's more pleasant for the eye.
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Got mine today. The yellow tint was the first thing I noticed. I know it's fixable, but it's annoying.
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OMG, is it really as bad as in this video?
The Galaxy Nexus screen looks so yellow compared to iPhone 4S display

It looks like he has auto-brightness enabled on the Galaxy Nexus.. it looks yellower unless you turn up the brightness.

The whites on the iPhone 4 are ridiculously clean and white, no phone compares to it. The blacks on the Nexus are also ridiculous and no phone (except other Super AMOLED phones) compare to it.
Take your pick, better whites, better blacks. The iPhone screen is still tops, but it's small. I have an iPhone 4 and a Nexus (just sold a GS2).
If I compare the screens side by side, then yeah, the utter blinding white of the iPhone 4 makes the Nexus white look kind of eggshell white, just not as bright or crisp. But using the Nexus on it's own and it's fine, white looks white enough when not being compared to the iPhone. The colors on the nexus are much more vivid and true to life than on the iPhone.
Nexus also has crisper text than on the iPhone 4 believe it or not. There is no perfect screen, all have +'s and -'s, you just have to pick which +'s you like best. For me it was the insane resolution, size and color accuracy of the Nexus. It's plenty bright, just not plenty white when compared to the ifruit.

ferris2375 said:
Nexus also has crisper text than on the iPhone 4 believe it or not.
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iPhone doesn't have Roboto

definately noticed the yellow tinge... bloody Samsung!

actually the yellow issue on the GN appears to be because of the colour profiles that have been set in a similar way to how google updated the nexus S and altered the colors.
in AMOLED screens overtime the colours actually fade and become less vibrant now blue usually goes first and is at a much faster rate than the other colours.
considering that this fading occurs perhaps they deliberatly make the colours a bit 'warmer' to offset the blue fade time.
this was also interesting:
"Color balance issues
Additionally, as the OLED material used to produce blue light degrades significantly more rapidly than the materials that produce other colors, blue light output will decrease relative to the other colors of light. This variation in the differential color output will change the color balance of the display and is much more noticeable than a decrease in overall luminance.[63] This can be partially avoided by adjusting colour balance but this may require advanced control circuits and interaction with the user, which is unacceptable for some users. In order to delay the problem, manufacturers bias the colour balance towards blue so that the display initially has an artificially blue tint, leading to complaints of artificial-looking, over-saturated colors. More commonly, though, manufacturers optimize the size of the R, G and B subpixels to reduce the current density through the subpixel in order to equalize lifetime at full luminance. For example, a blue subpixel may be 100% larger than the green subpixel. The red subpixel may be 10% smaller than the green."
its quite possible that the tints that are experienced on oled devices are probably deliberate to offset the problems with oled technology.

[Q] Does ANYTHING near-black look purple on your gnex at ANY brightness?

Some people are saying that my purple screen issues documented here:
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So I am on my second Galaxy Nexus, and I'm on my way to a third tomorrow.
My first one was absolutely awful, with blacks looking bright purple (Phone 1: http://i.imgur.com/2bjUZ.jpg ) and now OTHER elements looking purple (Phone 2: http://i.imgur.com/1EI0V.jpg ). That's not all. My first one was somewhat free of screen banding, but this one is riddled with it in every menu: http://i.imgur.com/j2oxB.jpg
How common are these issues? I'm getting kinda fed up here.
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Are nothing more than standard AMOLED behaviour. They are saying that terrible colors like I am experiencing are normal if the phone is dim.
Is this true? Does anyone have ANY color issues at ANY brightness?

Well... I don't have ANY issues at ANY brightness fyi.

anton2009 said:
Well... I don't have ANY issues at ANY brightness fyi.
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Good to know there are some phones out there that look great all the time
I'm not leaving the store tomorrow until I am certain the screen is perfect!

When you look at the phone in the store tomorrow, and you go to settings, don't get scared away by what appears to be "banding" in the background image. It' just a poor quality image google has chosen to use as the background. See?

anton2009 said:
When you look at the phone in the store tomorrow, and you go to settings, don't get scared away by what appears to be "banding" in the background image. It' just a poor quality image google has chosen to use as the background. See?
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Wow, why the hell would they use that AWFUL image?
Tomorrow I'll mostly just be looking for purple colors on low brightness.
EDIT: Here's a new picture showing that the screen is still purple http://i.imgur.com/uaRwP.jpg

Wauw that looks bad. I'm currently struggling with a grainy (gray) screen, but looking at other nexuses that seems normal. On light i can however see darker spots and lines on black screens (including boots and black images) but seeing other topics crawled with the same issue I don't put much trust in a device without it...
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amonfog said:
Wauw that looks bad. I'm currently struggling with a grainy (gray) screen, but looking at other nexuses that seems normal. On light i can however see darker spots and lines on black screens (including boots and black images) but seeing other topics crawled with the same issue I don't put much trust in a device without it...
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Oddly enough, neither of my Nexus' have had the grainy screen problem, just this discoloration

I received my 2nd Nexus today after the firsts' volume buttons stopped working. The new one has purple where black used to be, like yours, but doesn't make the experience any worse. However, when I pull the notifications area down on low brightness, the screen dims further - does this happen on yours? It's quite annoying...

Mine is okay. Not perfect but okay. There is still a little bit of purple (not that extreme like uours) but after a few days you barely notice it
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3ddyz said:
I received my 2nd Nexus today after the firsts' volume buttons stopped working. The new one has purple where black used to be, like yours, but doesn't make the experience any worse. However, when I pull the notifications area down on low brightness, the screen dims further - does this happen on yours? It's quite annoying...
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on low brightness the notification tray is almost an opaque black

Same here but top bar gets even darker when notifications area is pulled down, even when brightness is set to 0. Whites are a LOT better tho.
Edit: just noticed that when taking photos, the brightness of whats being photographed affects the screens brightness. Also, top half of pages on tapatalk are a lot brighter than the bottom halves, it's strange and quite annoying once you notice it...
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Screen of GN

Hello, I intend to buy the Galaxy Nexus but the problem of the screen burn-in scares me. When I buy a phone, it's for two years, does the problem still exists in the new series?

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I know the ones at the store have this problem, but thats because they are full brightness all the time. I make it a point to use my phone in landscape clockwise, i.e. with pogo pins down, so the on screen buttons are on the opposite side as they usually are, and i haven't noticed any burn in. In low brightness conditions, you'll occasionally see some ghosting, but its not a big deal. They gave you extra blue pixels (rbgb), since those are the ones that are the weakest, to make sure your screen lasts 2 years.

had gnex since release date and had no problems with it what so ever, however, when bough had issues with screen itself e.g uneven colouring and banding (quite visible grey bars), replaced it and the model i got is fine so far...

I use most of the time my phone with middle brightness or minimum+screen filter during the night, as i don't use it at maximum, i will not get burn-in ?

Never had this issue with any phone.

Don't wanna open a new thread since this is a similar topic.
I've noticed a very faint light blue-ish stripe on my screen (where the notification bar is) while reading text on a white background (in fullscreen).
Is that burn-in? If so, is it covered under warranty?

Puck24 said:
Don't wanna open a new thread since this is a similar topic.
I've noticed a very faint light blue-ish stripe on my screen (where the notification bar is) while reading text on a white background (in fullscreen).
Is that burn-in? If so, is it covered under warranty?
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People say it is not burn in but uneven wear of the pixels. I know if read about people running a white background I think it was overnight on high and it will start to remove the marks. The idea is to run other colors to wear in the spot evenly as the top bar usually is only running black.
If you do some searching around in these threads you will read what others have done and what has worked.

Puck24 said:
Don't wanna open a new thread since this is a similar topic.
I've noticed a very faint light blue-ish stripe on my screen (where the notification bar is) while reading text on a white background (in fullscreen).
Is that burn-in? If so, is it covered under warranty?
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I have this too, but calling it burn-in is wrong I think. Those pixels are black (i.e. turned off) most of the time, so they couldn't possibly be "burned into" the screen. Rather, the issue seems to be that they are getting used too little, so they are not worn in as much as the rest of the screen. Since all screens of this type change slightly over time as they get used, there is a small but noticeable difference in how these different areas of the screen display certain colors.
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People say it is not burn in but uneven wear of the pixels. I know if read about people running a white background I think it was overnight on high and it will start to remove the marks. The idea is to run other colors to wear in the spot evenly as the top bar usually is only running black.
If you do some searching around in these threads you will read what others have done and what has worked.
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I haven't tried this, but it certainly seems like it could work.

Thx. Will try that
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The app "Display Tester" has a burn-in removal function that some people have found useful.
galaxy nexus (gsm) / cm9 / trinity @ 1.4GHz

How is the burn in factor any different than the great of the screens out there the gs3 epic vibrant you get the point aren't they all s amoled or amoled plus screens how would this phone differer with the burn in factor on the other devices
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GN got a nav bar present all the time, and it will get burned in, most people don't realize though they have it.
Same goes for notification bar.
They need to be semi transparent to fix the issue which we don't have.
Even the browser doesn't remove the nav bar.
Only YouTube and full screen movies will show you that issue.

Black line on screen

Hello,
When i have a wallpaper whit black on top of the screen, then i have a small black line on top were normally the status bar ends, so thats a half centimeter from the top screen.
Its really difficult to see and its only when i have a really black background,
When there are other collors then the black line is gone so its only with really black.
Maybe that its normall
Thank you
Best regards
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I can only see it when its darker in my room, so on a clear day i dont see it.
I have the screen setting on standard and the brightness on 25%
So its about 1cm below the samsung sign from left to right
Further than that the screen is really perfect
Sorry for my bad english
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Sorry i cant edit my posts.
When i have a black wallpaper with the grey status bar then there is no black line, so its only when i have a black wallpaper or picture and i watch it in gallery without the status bar so you see the full screen picture
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gofwar said:
Sorry i cant edit my posts.
When i have a black wallpaper with the grey status bar then there is no black line, so its only when i have a black wallpaper or picture and i watch it in gallery without the status bar so you see the full screen picture
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I don't have one yet but it doesn't sound like a faulty screen. A faulty display may have pixels or a row that is all black regardless of what's on the screen or always white etc.
You can try downloading a screen checking app, it will display all black, white, red, green and blue to try and identify faulty pixels.
Daniel

Hello,
I have checked it with the app screen test.
I only see the small black line when the screen is full black in the test and i must be in a darker room, the rest of the test is perfect from dark grey to every collor
Maybe someone else can test it to with the app screen test, i would appreciate it
Thank you
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If that is the case something may be wrong. While it isn't a typical problem it should not be occurring. Consider getting a replacement.

Hello,
Do you think its faulty?
Is it not normal like the black spots on the note 1?
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If you see a black line that goes across the whole screen and it is only visible on a black screen that is defective in my opinion. It should be consistent.

No its not from top screen to home button.
The small black line is on top were the status bar ends so its a horizontal line when you hold the phone like when your calling.
Yes its only when there is full really black picture or movie
My note 1 from last year had alot of black spots over the whole screen and that was only when there was black screen
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I don't really have any experience with AMOLED screens but it still does not seem normal to me(I could be wrong). It really comes down to if it bothers you and how noticeable it is. It probably isn't too bad since its only for black.

Why don't you take a screenshot from your phone (Press the S-pen button, then tap on the screen) and then transfer the image to your computer.
Compare both images and if the black line doesn't appear on your computer, it means that your screen is faulty.

I can do that.
Is there nobody with a note 2 that can test it maybe whit the screen test app, and then go to the full black screen and look good for a black line, but with normall light its not noticable you must be in a darker room
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I had exactly the same issue with S2, sent back for replacement. It was very noticable with black backgrounds and also whilst using camera in dark situations, other than that is was very difficult to see.
Regards

Yes i have seen pictures of a s2 that was really terrible, alot of black spots and line over the whole screen.
Did your new s2 have it to?
My note 1 had black spots, almost every note 1 had them so far as i know.
Now there are no black spots just 1 small black line so its not mutch, and its only noticable if i am in a darker room with full black screen.
I have read that its a amoled thing, and almost all amoled screens have it, some worse then other

1991noway said:
I'm sorry I did not, but it does not sound like an error on the screen, how I did not pay attention to
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Did you not tested it or do you mean you have no small black line?
Thanks for the help!

What do you all think:
Is it just an amoled thing, that is what i have read on the internet
Or
Is it a defective screen?

just return it for an exchange if it bothers you.

I can do that but if its just an amoled thing then the new one will have it to or maybe worse
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It is an AMOLED thing.
All will have it to some extent, some more than others.
I can see a small 1cm line on my s3 screen in darkness with a dark wallpaper etc, but it doesn't bother me as I only see it in extreme circumstances!
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Got a black line in the center of the screen all of a sudden. I will return it tomorrow and grab a new one, mine's only 3 days old and didn't pay to look at a crappy line wich is allways visible except when its turned off

Transparent navigation buttons.

Anyone else digging the transparent navigation buttons on the Moto X? They look cool and they would reduce "burn in". I seem to remember a transparent status bar option back in the gingerbread days. Would this be possible on the gnex?
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Of course... It's all open-source.
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Try Paranoid android
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many AOKP ROM can do this too

Hah, where have you been my good man?? PA has been able to do this for a long time now. Now only can you make it transparent, you can can name it Amy color you want.
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Wish it was an option on stock android. I got my nexus on day one and there is definite burn in where the status bar and keys are at.

Nabraham said:
Wish it was an option on stock android. I got my nexus on day one and there is definite burn in where the status bar and keys are at.
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How can there be a screen burn when this is an AMOLED display and the display doesn't light up black pixels?

DroidOnRoids said:
How can there be a screen burn when this is an AMOLED display and the display doesn't light up black pixels?
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Let me try explaining better, terrible description on my part. All of the screen that isn't part of the status bar at the top and the buttons at the bottom display a yellowish tint to it when viewing any light material on the screen. Not really noticeable when looking at pictures or material where the status bar and buttons are still on screen. But if you do something like view a video where those disappear, those areas are much whiter then the rest of the screen is.

Nabraham said:
Let me try explaining better, terrible description on my part. All of the screen that isn't part of the status bar at the top and the buttons at the bottom display a yellowish tint to it when viewing any light material on the screen. Not really noticeable when looking at pictures or material where the status bar and buttons are still on screen. But if you do something like view a video where those disappear, those areas are much whiter then the rest of the screen is.
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I know what you're saying. This happens on my display too when it's full screen and I'm playing games or watching a video. Not much you can do when the display has been stressing pixels on the main display and hardly using any pixels on the navigation bar and status bar.

It not traditional burn in, that's why I put it in quotations. Amoled pixels get worn and dim over time, so the pixels that are never lit end I p brighter and often miscolored compared to the rest of the screen.
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Is there any way to fix the burn in? Because I bought a nexus and it has it on the nav and status bar
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andrewk7750 said:
Is there any way to fix the burn in? Because I bought a nexus and it has it on the nav and status bar
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You can't do much. Use transparency settings and change wallpaper more often and you can extend display life a bit. It sucks I know.

Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bengigi.screen.diagnostic
and/or this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codefortravel.amoled_screen_burn_in