Not sure if this in the right place (if not, mods please move), but I recently bought a T-Mobile variant Samsung Galaxy S III (T999L). Target was having a sale on their Brightspot Mobile devices, and $150 for a Galaxy S III was too good to pass up. I've had the phone for a week and a half, and it's a really nice device. The screen at any brightness is amazing. I've used a few AMOLED and SLCD screens over time, but my main device for the past year has been a Nexus 5. Nothing that I've owned compared to this AMOLED screen.
One thing that I've noticed, however, with the screen is that it has some inconsistent splotches on it. What are these splotches you may ask? They only are noticeable on very dark backgrounds with the very dimmest brightness setting. When viewing something dark in a dark room with auto-brightness turned on is how I first noticed it. There are some dark lines and spots on the screen.
Here is the screen with a black background in a dark room, on auto-brightness:
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Look at all of those marks. They're hardly noticeable, but they're there. In fact, the only way I could pick them up on camera was to set my DSLR up on a tripod and shoot a 60-second exposure.
Anybody seen anything like this before? Should I be worried about the longevity of the screen? It's almost a non-issue for me, but I thought I'd bring it up. Thanks!
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Anyone have a green spot on their pictures when they take a pic on a white background? My nexus one had a similar issue but it was a red spot (I think my HD2 had it too) here's a sample
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dirt spot
get some windex and clean it up with a nice dustless wipe
Yes I do but not so obvious on my S2 and its yellow , its a defect present on many phones, google for galaxy s 4g tmobile yellow spot. Supposedly Samsung was going to fix it in gingerbread update but they never did!!!
I think cleaning it solved it. I'm not sure because it doesn't always happen (depends what the cameras looking at). thank you
Now I see a SLIGHT pinkish tint. It doesn't bother since I've dealt with it before and its not that big of a deal but that's my experience.
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Count me in. I have the same problem. Only on the 8meg cam. The 2 meg is fine. I wonder if different ROM's may effect this.
I have the same issue,it's a pink spot though and turns green at night !
Definitely a camera issue, I clean the lense a it still there. Sometimes pink, sometimes green depend on the light condition.
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So I just just got my second Galaxy Nexus as my work phone. I also have one for personal use. My wife has one also, plus I returned my personal Gnex twice for screen problems.
I'm bored and I figured I would post the differences between the 3 we have at home, and the 2 I returned.
All 5 phones have been perfectly identical in 4g and 3g connecting, hardware performance etc. The only thing that has been different between all 5 phones are the screens. None of the screens have been equal to any of the others. Some have banding, some have purplish grays, while one had an issue with max brightness. Out of the three we currently have now, I would say that only one is near perfect, while the other 2 are adequate enough to keep (one produces banding on grays, and the other has purple tones associated with grey colors).
Why are all the screens so different? is it amoled? Is it just the GNEX? I have had plenty of LED, LCD, and CRT's monitors in the past, and a few amoled screens, but I haven't experienced anything like this before. I'm currently sitting in front of three identical LED monitors and they all produce the same effect on the same settings.
Picture of my 2 phones ( sorry not good detail. Using another phone to take pictures)
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When I view light images, like the list of threads in tapatalk, the bottom of the screen has a different tint than the top. This isn't my first amoled device, and I know that whites aren't usually as good as an lcd, but this seems really bad to me. It's much more noticeable in low light when the screen isn't as bright. I don't have a way of taking a picture now, maybe I can take one tomorrow.
Not sure what I want to do, but maybe I'll wait a little while and then do a warranty exchange to get one from a different batch compared to this one.
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I have owned almost every high end phone out there and this phones screen still impresses me every single time I turn it on
You can sort of see the difference in color on the bottom of the screen compared to the top.
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Switch it out with at&t... this screen is flawless. Anything less is a defect.
I got a new one. It's much better, plus my bluetooth works better
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I have bought an SM-T800 last November 2015 and today i discovered something unusual.
When i turned on the screen i've noticed some odd lines in my display. First i thought it was a burned in amoled display but this could not be the issue since i hadn't got it on for no more than 20 days and not with full brightness (about an hour a day).
When i googled SM-T800 disassembly there where those perfect illustrated hardware parts that matched the lines in the display.
Since it is not a burned in amoled display, is this a warranty issue?
I am seriously interested what to do next, because i am not accepting this problem with visible hardware parts in my display.
Can you get a pic, no idea how you can see the internals under 3 layers of screen.
From a photo its hard to see but i'll do my best to explain.
In the example photo u see the circuit just above the home button. Notice behind the circuit there is a salmon sort of colour substrate.
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My tablet has that same form visible in the screen. Especially the 45 degree salmon colour steep edge at the right of the example photo. I looked just now again and it seems less visible but it's still there.
On the photo its hard too see but at the right side u see a line appear just 1/2 inch from the bezel all across the display.
I didn't had it charged so no heat could cause this issue, but what else?
Btw it's best visible on a dark grey background.
I could be the touchscreen matrix, I have seen it on other tablets but not on my T800.
John.
Has anybody else noticed that the screen on the Desire 530 is massively over-sharpened and over-saturated? It bugged me the first time I used it, and reminds me of the over-sharpening on the LG G3.
It almost seems like a filter has been applied to the entire screen. Oddly, the over-sharpening/saturation is turned off whenever the camera is used, or whenever a video is played, and it remains this way until the screen goes to sleep, the over-sharpening/saturation then returns when waking the phone up. The screen looks great without the over-sharpening/saturation IMO, small text is much easier to read because there are no sharpening artefacts and it's generally much easier on my eyes.
Does anybody know how to disable it permanently? It's not a massive deal, as I can always start up the camera to get rid of the ugliness, but I'd like the screen to look natural all the time.
I've tried to capture it in the photos below, the normal screen (over-sharpened/saturated) is on the left, and the more natural screen (after using the camera) is on the right.
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not only before camer , in video reproduce its happen, i have same problem htc 530latam
I just changed the color temperature
don't know if that will help you