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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
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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.
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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.
I Just bought a Galaxy Nexus yesterday and like the phone, the only problem i have is that whenever i am on a website with a white background at full brightness... The whites on the phone look washed out kinda with a grey or green hue to it, this only happens when I'm looking at a white background... I tried to see if there was any additional brightness settings for the web browser and there is not.
Anybody else experience this?
Any help or feedback would be great.
Thank You!
Yes. This phone can't produce true white but can produce true black. If you tilt the phone, everything turns green. Pentile sucks, but I love the true black.
I also have a Rezound and the two displays are compete polar opposites. The Rezound definately can't display true black because its backlit, but the screen is so much brighter and white is like non-yellow snow. With both screens side by side, the rezound is the clear winner when not displaying a lot of black. But the GN looks like whats on the screen is floating in mid air when in a dark room. The GN also looks much greener and I don't believe it displays many colors accurately. With both phones on full bright, the Rezound seems twice as bright.
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Hello there, could you notice the display of 5x is yellow? From the unboxing and review videos, i can see all of them seems quite yellow when compared to other phones.
Could you give your comments on this? If there are photos provided would be appreciated.
That's just an illusion caused by the camera as mentioned in the Pocket Now review, my display looks fine.
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I have two 5Xs one in quartz and one on carbon. My quartz has a much cooler screen than the carbon. My carbon's whites looks more of an off white and overall the screen appears more dull and not as bright as the quartz. Colors are not as saturated in my carbon as on my quartz one. My quartz one was made in Oct 2015 and my carbon in September
Here are my two Nexus 5x side by side http://m.imgur.com/a/k2STt
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graffixnyc said:
I have two 5Xs one in quartz and one on carbon. My quartz has a much cooler screen than the carbon. My carbon's whites looks more of an off white and overall the screen appears more dull and not as bright as the quartz. Colors are not as saturated in my carbon as on my quartz one. My quartz one was made in Oct 2015 and my carbon in September
Here are my two Nexus 5x side by side http://m.imgur.com/a/k2STt
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my first instinct upon powering up my phone and looking at the screen was "damn, this looks really yellow". at this point, I think it's combination of two things: the first being the different in color temperature between this screen and my HTC M8, and the second being tha tthe screen is just flat out a bit warm. After a couple days of use (i got my 5x on friday night), it doesnt feel nearly as yellow as at first, and i really being it's just a matter of what your eyes are used to, but it certianly does have a warmth to it that i was not expecting. there's also been a bit of chatter on teh tint to the screen, so it seems this just varies slightly from phone to phone. I'll say this, I certainly didnt buy this phone because of my faith in LG's build quality or QC. That (and, sadly, Sense) will be the two things I struggle most to move on from when leaving my M8 behind.
fitchpuckman said:
my first instinct upon powering up my phone and looking at the screen was "damn, this looks really yellow". at this point, I think it's combination of two things: the first being the different in color temperature between this screen and my HTC M8, and the second being tha tthe screen is just flat out a bit warm. After a couple days of use (i got my 5x on friday night), it doesnt feel nearly as yellow as at first, and i really being it's just a matter of what your eyes are used to, but it certianly does have a warmth to it that i was not expecting. there's also been a bit of chatter on teh tint to the screen, so it seems this just varies slightly from phone to phone. I'll say this, I certainly didnt buy this phone because of my faith in LG's build quality or QC. That (and, sadly, Sense) will be the two things I struggle most to move on from when leaving my M8 behind.
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If you've ever had an lcd screen calibrated for color accuracy, you'd see that warmer colors are actually more "natural" and realistic than the cool/blue tones you're accustomed to seeing on most lcd's
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If you've ever had an lcd screen calibrated for color accuracy, you'd see that warmer colors are actually more "natural" and realistic than the cool/blue tones you're accustomed to seeing on most lcd's
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Yeah you're right. I've had LCDs calibrated (TV, monitors, etc), but never a phone. Know of any good ways to do that? I know of apps that let you tweak the color temps and such, but never to truly calibrate it.
And I just realized I forgot to mention that now when I look back at my M8's screen, it looks quite blueish and sterile. I have no qualms with the 5X screen as I see it now.
It looks much better for the quartz one. It provides a little evident that the latter one produced in Oct is better. The unboxing videos are the first batch devices. Keep an eye on this to see if they really improved for the latest produced devices. Thanks for the sharing!
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I just compared my N5X with an iPhone 6. The iPhone screen looked so bright and white/blue(cool). It hurts my eyes. But N5X is very warm. White and balance setting in cameras probably, making it a lot worse. It's much calmer to my eyes.
I have read that a higher kelvin white will keep you up at night, some are saying these new LED bulbs with the whiter whites are not good for the brain/sleeping. I noticed the whites are not as blue as another device, but compared to my Moto X it is not as yellow as the Moto X. When using the 5X and not looking at another device the whites seem very white to me.
I'm returning mine for a replacement or refund not liking the yellow hint to the display I have read Google have replaced handsets if purchased from the store due to yellow screen as I got mine from cpw im within my 14 day return as only got Sunday so shouldn't have any issue I came from a Galaxy A3 and screen was much better
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Decided to take back and exchange for the Moto X pure its the same price simfree and better screen and more Ram I can live without the finger print scanner
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I have a replacement coming tomorrow. I'll compare the 3 I have (quartz that I'm returning fully that isn't really yellow at all) the carbon that is very yellow compared to the quartz and the replacement carbon
Someone reports that the later manufactured has a less yellow screen, probably the issue of first batch qc
It seems like the best time to own one is dec or jan next year
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Yes it is a tad warm when compared to my relatively high end Dell monitors that reviewers claim is about 6300k.
I'm no expert and I don't own a 5X but did any of you guys try turning off the adaptive brightness and seeing whether the screen went back to normal or not? Just a thought.
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I'm no expert and I don't own a 5X but did any of you guys try turning off the adaptive brightness and seeing whether the screen went back to normal or not? Just a thought.
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Did try that still yellow!!/ Google tech guy on live chat well the best he could come up with was to increase screen brightness even maxed there was still Singh of the yellow hue
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Yeah, sounded like there was a legit problem I just didn't see it mentioned so I thought I'd ask cause I was thinking of getting a 5X myself. Thx.
It's a good phone don't get me wrong but could of been better I think for price of the 32GB you can have a Moto X pure both are not perfect but X pure bit more bang for buck although I miss the lightness and fingerprint scanner of the 5x I do how ever love having a more premium device with decent screen and camera and turbo charging is awesome feature for me if the 5x had a better screen and extra GB of ram it would be a keeper I think
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Ok here are some comparison pictures.. My original Quartz 5x, then the yellow tinted carbon 5x, with my replacement carbon 5x and a few shots comparing both the yellow tinted carbon and the replacement carbon with the 6P. Now seeing all 3 5x's side by side my quartz seems to have a redish tint compared.. odd.. I'm happy with the screen on my replacement carbon
http://imgur.com/a/1mHv4
Mine looks just fine. It may have a slightly warmer temp than my S6 edge screen, but that one almost looks too blue. The colors on my 5X look more natural. Maybe I have a good one?
Wait for custom kernels with color adjustments options. It's simpler...
I got a brand new Pixel 2 xl today manufactured in April 2018.
My observations about the display
It definitely have some mild graininess on pure white color. You can observe it if you take it close to your eyes. I used the Display Tester app to get white background and test this.
There is a very mild blue tint when looked at off axis.
The white doesn't really appear pure white when compared to Oneplus 6T display.
I compared this with my friend's Oneplus 6T displays and 6T didn't have any of these issues.
My question is, does everyone have graininess and blue tint issues to a minor extent? Has anyone got a pixel 2 xl display without any issues?
Could you post your photos of display on a white background?
Should I return my phone and try my luck again?
I've got a barely visible blue tint off axis, but my display is soooo grainy. I've never had a display this grainy. Can't post photos. I don't think you should return it because there is always the chance of it becoming worse, and blue tint is just an oled thing.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsu...readed-green-tint-display-issue.489618.0.html
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What I'm noticing when watching videos is that blacks look grey. I don't see green though.
Beggining to love my ? display on the S7 more and more.
Perfect size and performance is really good next to my S20 Ultra (Exynos).
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What I'm noticing when watching videos is that blacks look grey. I don't see green though.
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if you're using the S7 vs the S7+ then it's not surprising, LCDs do not produce blacks like AMOLED.
Superb screen display on Tab S7 using since 2 Months. i have no issues of colors nor any degradation of screen. Being an Amoled fan . I love the perfect blacks on my Old Tab S5E although more.
lot of negative Paid marketing is done against top companies before launch of a flagship device by Rival companies
So I noticed this same green tint issue. Great on the left side and it fades into a greenish tint. I assumed it was the screen but I was playing around with it and it doesn't seem to consistently appear. If I load up the play store, at lower brightness, I see it. When I open the settings menu for the tablet, same grey background and the greenish tint isn't there. The brightness hasn't changed either. I started looking at other grey screens and I see the same thing. I'm not saying it's not an issue but I would think it would be fairly consistent across grey backgrounds at the same brightness. I see it in dark mode in Google apps but not is Samsung apps or even Nova launcher settings. Weird..
I greys are a slightly different shade but the same brightness. The playstore you can see on the right side. Nova settings and one of my live wallpapers settings are both grey and no greenish tint.
Anyone else notice this?
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if you're using the S7 vs the S7+ then it's not surprising, LCDs do not produce blacks like AMOLED.
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Also, enabling the "blue light filter" severely degrades the black level. I understand it's useful for those who experience eyestrain reading white text on a perfectly black background, hopefully either Samsung or a community member can change it for those who prefer the best blacks while still attenuating the blue colors.
Hello!
I got mine a few days ago and first thing I noticed was a color tint on grey goint to green or yellow, especially on the lower brightness levels. Especially compared with my older Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) also black ist something like anthracite, but not deep black.
So I downloaded a display test app from Playstore Display Tester, and guess what! Black is really dark black, white is bright white and grey is looking much better with almost no color tint.
Could soomebody else check it?
Btw.: Firmware is T870XXU2BUD2 (Android 11).