[Q] Yellowish tint near bottom of the screen - Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A

I just picked up a 2013 Nexus 7 this weekend as an upgrade for my 2012 model. Seems like a solid upgrade so far but I'm bothered by one item and it's the yellowish gradient toward the bottom one or two inches of the screen. I need to tilt the device maybe 15 degrees away from me to get a more consistent color. If I rotate the device 90 degrees counter-clockwise (camera now on the left), I can still see the yellowish darkening on light screens on the right. My 2012 model has consistent color throughout. I found a number of posts regarding people complaining of about a warmer color to the 2013 screen but haven't seen anything describing the gradient I see. It's rather annoying when reading webpages or ebooks with a light background.
Anyone else see this on their Nexus? Did it improve with time?
I tried to take a couple of photos but my camera doesn't seem to be doing a good job of picking up the colors.

Common issue
I returned mine (because of it) and got a new one which had exactly the same thing.
I also checked out a friend's N7 and had the same thing.
So I guess it is a normal thing. It is hardly noticeable and only on white background.
(Most panels have some kind of uniformity issues. I checked an iPad 3 and had some other issues...)

antypas said:
I returned mine (because of it) and got a new one which had exactly the same thing.
I also checked out a friend's N7 and had the same thing.
So I guess it is a normal thing. It is hardly noticeable and only on white background.
(Most panels have some kind of uniformity issues. I checked an iPad 3 and had some other issues...)
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Thanks for the feedback. This is actually driving me nuts and I'm going to take it back to see if I can get one with at least less of the effect. Mine seems to be worse than the display model in the store I saw today. If they can't give me something that's equivalent in color consistency to my 2012 Nexus 7 then I'll return it and just stick with that.

If I were you I wouldn't bother.
In the store there are other ambient factors that may trick you in believing the store's sample is batter. But it will not.
3 samples I checked are exactly the same...

My device have yellow tint to. How to fix? "Screen adjuster" and other not helped for me.
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I don't believe that this is correctable with software. I ended up getting a different tablet altogether and even this 10" one has the same issue. Guessing these panels are all coming from the same manufacturer....

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What are your color control settings

Can you please share your settings
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Every screen is different.
Mine might look like crap to you...yours might look like crap to me.
But -10 1 10 for me.
Default multipliers.
Gamma 6.
Mine =]
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can anybody confirm whether color control settings resolve the following issues:
- black clipping (blacks in videos showing pixels and artifacts).
- tint on half of the screen.
- color banding.
- grainny screen.
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can anybody confirm whether color control settings resolve the following issues:
- black clipping (blacks in videos showing pixels and artifacts).
- tint on half of the screen.
- color banding.
- grainny screen.
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No they don't, at least in my experience. I have the same screen issues as you do and have tried millions of kernels and color control combinations imaginable. I have had 2 replacements thinking it's a hardware malfunction but still the same screen issue. I believe it's because of the Pentile display. Definitely looking forward to upgrade in October.
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nowetdio said:
No they don't, at least in my experience. I have the same screen issues as you do and have tried millions of kernels and color control combinations imaginable. I have had 2 replacements thinking it's a hardware malfunction but still the same screen issue. I believe it's because of the Pentile display. Definitely looking forward to upgrade in October.
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thanks for the confirmation.
i'm on my 3rd GNex. it has no "yellowish tint on half of the screen" but black clipping. the 1st GNex had no black clipping, but a severe yellowish tint on half of the screen. this is obnoxious.
i can't even watch youtube on my $450 phone.
it shouldn't be a pentile issue. the galaxy S had a pentile display, right? the upcoming galaxy SIII uses pentile too. also, what can justify the perfect screens in some GNex? it is poor quality control, nothing else.
i'll go for 4th replacement. after which, i'd be done with this nexus curse.

Would you keep or return a replacement phone if it took pictures like this?

The scene is a picture, at night, with a single compact florescent light bulb in the background, which has a warm tint to it, and the object is a black on white bed sheet. This is my second e4gt replacement. In daylight, I don't notice any color artifacts yet. Here's an example of no flash, flash and daylight cloud. Would you return it, hoping for a "perfect" replacement or say to hell with it and keep it? It must be a hardware issue because it does the same thing with FL24 and GB27. I never noticed this from my original, bought brand new, e4gt. The first replacement, the external speaker went out. The second, the camera is making a greenish tinge, always in the center of the picture, in low light but no scene setting. When I go outside at night and put the camera into night mode, I don't notice anything abnormal so far.
Something I just noticed while playing with the settings and modes. If I leave white balance in auto or incandescent, I get the discoloration in the camera. It is less pronounced in camcorder mode. It does it in all resolutions in the camera. If I switch the white balance to florescent, everything balances out, even though it's the wrong shade. It's more orange-ish than what my eyes see. Can anyone test this and see if your original, bought new, phone does this? I tried taking the same picture with a different smartphone, all with auto settings, and it didn't experience this issue. I'm sure it could be that it's because it's a different sensor. Here's my examples.
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Try turning on Auto contrast, it fixed some odd discoloration problems for me, might work for you:beer:
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Can anyone test this and see if your original, bought new, phone does this?
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My E4GT does not do this, I tried in all different resolutions and settings and everything came out perfectly normal and as it should be. No discoloration or artifacts... I'd wager to say that you should exchange it or return it and get another one. Something is definitely not right about that first picture. Hopefully that helps. Cheers!
Did a little homework and found the camera module is replaceable. I don't remember if I read if the camera's firmware was on the mother board or on the module itself. The post I read had to do with s2's in general. I'll go Monday and see if the service center will order me a new camera module.

Have Screen Burn In? Warranty It, Get a New One

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If you had Android Wear 1.0 through about 1.2 on your phone, your Moto 360 had a much brighter charging watch face. That much brighter charging screen was actually causing burn-in on your OLED.
You can see if yours is affected by opening the Settings app. If you can see a ring of the charging halo in the background, your phone was damaged by this.
Fortunately, Motorola is honoring this as a warranty issue - you just have to claim it before your one year warranty is up. I now have a brand new first-gen Moto 360 - with an improved watch band clasp too.
Hi, where did you submit request for service?
I got mine warranty replaced (for this issue) by calling Motorola technical support. Despite being clearly outsourced, they seemed to be well aware of this issue - and processed it without too much futile troubleshooting.
moto 360 has an LCD Display , not an OLED!
I have burn-in too. It's most noticeable on white backgrounds as a yellowish ring. I only noticed it recently but I think my warranty might be up. Didn't think an LCD could have burn in, but there it is...
Could someone post a picture of the burn-in? I want to see how bad it actually is.
I took these with my watch at max brightness. Normally, it's more subtle. It's a yellow ring that's strongest at the 3 o'clock position, and decreases clockwise -- exactly where the charging ring would start.
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In person, the white backgrounds actually look the worst. I have a nice white watch face that I simply won't use because of this.
I mostly use dark watch faces though so I don't notice it. It's invisible on black and most of the Moto stock faces (e.g. Dials).
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how can LCD get burn-in? that's so weird

Does anyone has a pixel C without purple Blur when scrolling?

Hello I have received my third pixel c.
I had to RMA the forst two, because the on/off button was broken, and the second one becase the sensons wre not working as expècted.
The three devices had a thing in common, a terrible purple blur when srolling, for example white text over a black background. I've wrote in this forum and it semms thta are devices that do not have this issue. Now i'm not sure if there is any pixel c arround the world without this screen issue.
Attached two pictures from a médium quality screen (galaxy tab A, 200 €) and the pixel C (500€). The pictures has been taken from testufo.com/#test=stutter&demo=smooth&foreground=FFFFFF&background=000000&max=12&pps=1920, with an LG G3,
where the purple Blur is obvious.
Could anyone test the link provided above and tell me if you could see the white/gray line instead of a white/purple?
I dont know if i should RMA the third pixel C or this is something bad with this screen.
Pixel C
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The pixel c I ordered about 3 weeks ago had the same problem with the screen. I RMAed it and the replacement has the problem too. I've requested a replacement for that one too. My Nexus 10 is fine. The rep I talked with (John?) said he had not dealt with any other customer besides me that had the problem and assured me that it was indeed a defect. I'm not convinced...
I'm using the stutters and tearing test (I believe that's the one you're using, right?) and while the bars do look purple while moving, screenshots show that they are in fact white.
So I tried that test and I do see a very slight purple tint, I recorded the screen with the 240fps slo-mo mode on my Nexus 6P and I see it there too.
It's so slight that I honestly don't care if it's actually a problem or not. Everything else about this screen impresses me enough.
Thanks for answering. I have talked again with google and they are going to send me another one. As i could not test the device in the first 15 days they are not going to give my money back. Again they answer me also that this issue was new for them and has never been reported by any customer.
Could anybody post an photo showing that a pixel c screen without this defect exists?
The is also a test i am doing and is the vsynctester dot com. The VSYNC letters should be grey and this screen shows them as light pink.
Regards
brando56894 said:
[] look purple while moving, screenshots show that they are in fact white.
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Because it's a screen related issue and not the gpu. You can only capture it, if you take a photo from the screen with another device
Termynat0r said:
Because it's a screen related issue and not the gpu. You can only capture it, if you take a photo from the screen with another device
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Makes sense, then I guess mine has it too but I never notice it in daily usage. I just assumed it was an optical illusion.

After images? (for lack of a better term to use)

Anyone else experiencing this red after image thingy on the sides of the screen? It is most noticable when looking at a dark image or completely black. See image below and notice the sides.
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I mentioned after images because the icons on the status bar sometimes shows an "after image" when for example I toggle the wifi off thereby the wifi icon disappearing, an after image is left behind but not that noticeable.
Any thoughts as to what it is and possible remedy?
I've noticed this also on mine. If I'm right , I get this red tint on the right side of my screen, after I play that football game on Messenger. It seems to go away after a while. It's noticeable on grey colours.
thats called burn in and thats a hardware issue.
That's a screen burn if I'm not wrong. Even I had experienced the same and the device was under warranty so got the screen changed and it was all fine until now, 10 months after the change, that it's back again. I'm thinking of switching to Nexus 6P now.
cozykb said:
That's a screen burn if I'm not wrong. Even I had experienced the same and the device was under warranty so got the screen changed and it was all fine until now, 10 months after the change, that it's back again. I'm thinking of switching to Nexus 6P now.
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I was thinking of having it replaced since it is still under warranty but after reading your post, should I still go for it?
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I was thinking of having it replaced since it is still under warranty but after reading your post, should I still go for it?
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Here what happens with my device : When I shoot up the brightness to the fullest, those "red after images" kind of dissappear. But then again when the auto brightness is switched on it returns back (pssst... LG G4's are haunted! ?). I don't know what exactly the problem is, whether with the digitizer or screen. I would still suggest to get the screen changed as it's still in the warranty or if you don't want to take the pain switch to some better phone.

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