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Image burn on lovely Epic 4g Touch screen...

So after reading that the reason that the super amoled screen was used in the GS3 was for "longevity".. I read somewhere in the comments that the SAMOLED+ screens suffer from some image burn... but wait... my phone has one of those....
Then I recalled that over the past few days I noticed that the top of the screen of my phone has been "shaded" a bit... so i whipped it out.. found a white picture and and sure enough. right at the top where the status bar is... it's shaded a bit. it's very faint right now... but it's definitely darker than the rest of the screen...
thoughts? anyone else experiencing this?

I don't have that problem (yet) but I was wondering if its covered under warranty?

btate0121 said:
So after reading that the reason that the super amoled screen was used in the GS3 was for "longevity".. I read somewhere in the comments that the SAMOLED+ screens suffer from some image burn... but wait... my phone has one of those....
Then I recalled that over the past few days I noticed that the top of the screen of my phone has been "shaded" a bit... so i whipped it out.. found a white picture and and sure enough. right at the top where the status bar is... it's shaded a bit. it's very faint right now... but it's definitely darker than the rest of the screen...
thoughts? anyone else experiencing this?
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Yup. It happens. The pixel inactivity seems to be the culprit.
Happened on my nexus s sporting an amoled display and I figured it was bound to happen to the gs2. And of course, it has.
Its one of those things you don't really notice unless youre looking for it, though. So just don't think about it and enjoy the phone.
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barnacles10 said:
Yup. It happens. The pixel inactivity seems to be the culprit.
Happened on my nexus s sporting an amoled display and I figured it was bound to happen to the gs2. And of course, it has.
Its one of those things you don't really notice unless youre looking for it, though. So just don't think about it and enjoy the phone.
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If he's anything like me, once its there that's all hell see, like a scratch on the screen or a bad ding on the phone. Once I noticed the crooked screen on my evo3d, it drove me nuts. Actually I just checked and I also have a slight discoloration along the top of the screen.
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Happened to the status bar of my og epic.
Since I've had my et4g, I have made sure to go full screen mode whenever possible (go launcher settings). So far haven't noticed any burn in.
This is also the reason why I still prefer GB over ics's designated onscreen buttons(maybe I'm just paranoid). Not to mention, more screen estate for viewing pleasure.

OLED technology from day 1 was a burn in technology. Unlike LCD's (and LED-LCD's, LED TV's are used in billboards not your house) with a black light shining through colored pixels which are darkened by liquid crystal which are subject to total backlight failure, age. The component of OLED has a lifespan on a per pixel basis.
Blues over all the various OLED tech's have the shortest lifespan. My laptop has an OLED display on it for information its a Teal color and its rather toasty

Yeah it's real simple to see if you want into any store with some smartphones on display that use OLED... those screens are destroyed most of the time

Cant you put up a pure white image fullscreen for extended time period to reduce the effects of image burn, or does this only work on other types of screens?

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Cant you put up a pure white image fullscreen for extended time period to reduce the effects of image burn, or does this only work on other types of screens?
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On OLED you actually want to display an inverse image of whatever is burned in. You need to burn the rest of the pixels to match the current state. White would probably still have a decent effect but I am not 100% certain. I have a really cruddy LCD that I have to do that for its really weird.

Rich3077 said:
I don't have that problem (yet) but I was wondering if its covered under warranty?
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I have that problem now, and i wonder if it is covered by warranty...

Unequal pixel degradation. Lol
This happened really badly on my first epic 4g. They gave me a new on. For it too. Here is the thread where it was discussed, as well as pictures.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/sprint-epic-4g/135478-anybody-wanna-see-image-burnt-my-screen.html
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Happened to me. I can see the outline of my keyboard after I send a message and the keyboard goes down. It kinda makes me sad but that's normal I guess.

Ya. Mine was the samsung home dock apps and clock.
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Reading all this makes me sad.
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TEP
If you have TEP, this is a defect covered by TEP. Therefore you should be able to walk in to a repair shop and show it to a manager. Now I am afraid it is going to do it to me. Somehow, as I use the official rom, the auto brightness setting begins to get set so low that I cant read it. So I would have to go manually set it all the way up and then turn on the automatic brightness.

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Now I am afraid it is going to do it to me.
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If you don't leave the screen on for unnecessary periods of time showing one thing you will be better off. I don't know if the guy with the dock or the dock itself has the screen not turning off. But having it display a static menu especially on high brightness for very long periods of time will destroy it quick.
Watching video for example is very random on wear and would not show up like a menu. Would average in wear like any other use.

I downloaded this and it works. Touch your screen to change the colors. Fortunately, my screen is good to go.
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If you don't leave the screen on for unnecessary periods of time showing one thing you will be better off. I don't know if the guy with the dock or the dock itself has the screen not turning off. But having it display a static menu especially on high brightness for very long periods of time will destroy it quick.
Watching video for example is very random on wear and would not show up like a menu. Would average in wear like any other use.
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The samsung dock app didn't let the screen turn off while it was docked.
I'm not sure if that is still going on with it, but I switched to alarn clock plus app. It dims and then moves around the clock a little bit every few minutes to avoid having the image in the same place causing burn in.
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I just noticed this today on mine. I am too lazy to go in and try to get a sprint guy to see what I see and get a replacement. Kind of alarming though because my phone is only 6 months old...

My girlfriends old fascinate had this issue. Was pretty annoying but my epic touch seems fine for now. I heard not turning up the brightness real high helps.
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Does your Note 8 have backlight bleeding?

I suspected that my Note 8 had some backlight bleeding and I just confirmed it using the "Backlight Bleed Test" app from the Play Store.
For those who want to test their own units, simply download and run that app. It will display a black background and also boost the brightness level to 100%. If you do this in a dark room then you may see the white backlight of your tablet shining through some of the edges or corners of your unit. If you do see this, then your tablet has backlight bleed.
When I tested my Note 8, I found some bleeding on two corners and also a faint glow down the left side of my screen (I tried taking a picture of it but couldn't get the lighting right). In my case the backlight bleed is not too severe, but it bothers me to know that it's there in the first place. I'm wondering if all our units have this issue, or if some are better than others...
So...does your Note 8 have any backlight bleed? If so, how bad is it?

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I'll test this when I get my unit....

Just tested mine , the bleeding was negligible , very slightly on the bottom and left side.Hope that helps.

ktmman said:
Just tested mine , the bleeding was negligible , very slightly on the bottom and left side.Hope that helps.
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That sounds just like what I have on mine, good to know. Thanks for your report, if others all have the same experience than at least we know the frequency and extent of the issue. Curious to see if others end up with the same results. XDA, please keep those reports coming

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Just wanted to put my two cents in. I have a HTC amaze and the backlight bleed on that device is horrible. I have not tested mine, but I can tell you that I have not noticed any. So that means there is either very negligible or no backlight bleed on mine. In any case, I don't think it's anything to worry/complain about.
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Mine is okay even at the maximum light level.

mingkee said:
Mine is okay even at the maximum light level.
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I tested another unit at Best Buy and it was slightly worse then mine. It looks like almost all units have some backlight bleeding, although nothing too bad when compared with other devices. Going to keep mine because I only notice it in extreme conditions (i.e. high brightness setting, dark background, dark room), and even then the effect is minimal. Thanks for the reports xda. Feel free to send in more reports if you have different test results with your Note 8.0.

sefrcoko said:
Going to keep mine because I only notice it in extreme conditions (i.e. high brightness setting, dark background, dark room), and even then the effect is minimal.
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I think that is the right play. This sounds like the kind of thing that will only bother you, if you go looking for it. Unless the bleed is excessive (which its not). I usually have my brightness at 40 or 50% in a bright room, and turn it down much lower than that in a dark room. I can maybe notice some slight bleed on the boot screen, but never noticed it any other time. So I'm going to do myself a favor, and not even go looking for a problem (by running the suggested app).

On my unit the bleed is not noticeable on auto brightness - which in low light it's ok for reading but too dim for watching pictures well. Becomes visible, but still not overly distracting, in low light on a black background when brightness is raised to a comfortable level for picture viewing. It's obvious with the combination of low light, black background, max brightness, as seen in the picture.
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How does this compare with your experience?

fabiovolta said:
On my unit the bleed is not noticeable on auto brightness - which in low light it's ok for reading but too dim for watching pictures well. Becomes visible, but still not overly distracting, in low light on a black background when brightness is raised to a comfortable level for picture viewing. It's obvious with the combination of low light, black background, max brightness, as seen in the picture.
How does this compare with your experience?
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That's the same pattern as me, but a little more noticeable on yours. On my unit I can't see the bleeding on auto-brightness, and I only notice it in the lower-left corner and a bit at the bottom when it's a darker background/image and the brightness is turned up over 50%. After nearly two weeks of use it's fine for me, although I did try other units that had more noticeable bleed in different patterns that I would not have kept.

Got mine today and have some light bleed on bottom left corner and on the top side center. I wish it wasn't there, but it's not noticeable in normal usage. I have zero dead pixels, so I will just keep this one rather than try the exchange lottery.

I checked about 5 pieces of Note 8.0 today and all had some bleeding - some less than others. So I think this is an issue with all Note 8.0's. Some I tested before (and one today) also suffered from stuck pixel's... Anyway, I was able to find my self one without stuck pixels and not too bad bleeding

No I don't have any
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I have light bleed on the left side. I dont see it in normal use but with dark videos it shows pretty badly. It's not a deal breaker but it's a bit disapointing. Guess I'll have to try to avoid thinking about it.
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Mine has some near the bottom mostly

eyecon82 said:
Mine has some near the bottom mostly
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That was just a screenshot and it didn't show it well
The picture from the phone over exaggerates it, but it is only noticeable with a dark background, on high brightness in a dark room
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LEDs show through top edge above forward facing camera
A real problem is what my son has with his phone. This is being treated by Verizon as an actual defect.
Essentially we can see green LED's shinning through the top edge of the screen just above the forward facing camera.
please inspect your phone, we are getting this one replace on Thursday when they come out in stores officially.

[Q] Are stuck pixels and minor light bleed common issues in FHD Nexus 7?

Are stuck pixels and minor light bleed common issues in FHD Nexus 7?
I heard N7's Q/C sucks a bit.

csm121295 said:
Are stuck pixels and minor light bleed common issues in FHD Nexus 7?
I heard N7's Q/C sucks a bit.
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I'm on my 5th unit at it has light bleed and dead pixels. All 5 of the units I've bought had atleast 1 dead pixel. Only 1 had light bleed.

Obveron said:
I'm on my 5th unit at it has light bleed and dead pixels. All 5 of the units I've bought had atleast 1 dead pixel. Only 1 had light bleed.
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Really ?
I just bought a N7 32GB , no multitouch issues , light bleeds , just one dead pixel on the bottom of the screen (just on the navigation bar) , I decided to RMA it as they said that the devices will be checked , and maybe replaced , now I am afraid that if they replace it ,I will get a device with other problems ..or a dead pixel in the middle of the screen which is so much worse then the current location of the pixel ...
And its a september build device..

iamezio said:
Really ?
I just bought a N7 32GB , no multitouch issues , light bleeds , just one dead pixel on the bottom of the screen (just on the navigation bar) , I decided to RMA it as they said that the devices will be checked , and maybe replaced , now I am afraid that if they replace it ,I will get a device with other problems ..or a dead pixel in the middle of the screen which is so much worse then the current location of the pixel ...
And its a september build device..
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I'm not sure why so many are having problems with their N7. I bought mine on the release date and have had no problems with it. No touch issues. No GPS issues. No screen issues.

Well .. i looked at the display(when off) with a flash light from my phone.. and its not a dead pixel , but a dark dot between the panel and the glass..

how do you check the built date?
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on the box , there is a sticker ,at the bottom there should be a year and a month .

When I'm looking at a black background on my Nexus I see theses red smears and I have to say it's annoying. This thing should be perfect! Anyone else have that problem?
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Obveron said:
I'm on my 5th unit at it has light bleed and dead pixels. All 5 of the units I've bought had atleast 1 dead pixel. Only 1 had light bleed.
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Can someone post a photo of the light bleed and one without for comparison.

Bought LTE version on day 1, no problems.

treyweez11 said:
When I'm looking at a black background on my Nexus I see theses red smears and I have to say it's annoying. This thing should be perfect! Anyone else have that problem?
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I have a dark blue smear when on a black background, the smear is about 5mm diameter, but it didn't bother me too much since it doesn't show up while on lighter backgrounds, can't be bothered to go through all the replacement process and have a risk of getting a worse replacement with touch issues.

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Can someone post a photo of the light bleed and one without for comparison.
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I will post a photo of my light bleed this evening.

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Obveron said:
I will post a photo of my light bleed this evening.
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Wow, I see what you mean. Looks bad. Thanks for posting the pic.

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See the attachment for the full resolution photo.
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The first couple days after buying mine I had no light bleed, but after about a week I have light bleed in the same area and of approximately the same magnitude as you. Has anyone else experience the light bleed problem increasing over time?

Did you put a case on it before it started ?
My mom bought herself Galaxy Note 10.1 ,and a cheap case for it, when i checked the screen i noticed really bad light bleeds , i mean REALLY bad , so i removed the case and immediately it became much better , after a few days we got an original Samsung case for it which didn't make the same effect as the cheap case.. but this Samsung regular quality , cheap plastic that bends and makes noises to the touch , the N7 build quality is so much better so maybe its not the case .

No light bleed for me but one dead pixel. The screen is so dense you can hardly see it, only when you look for it is it visible. Great device other than that
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iamezio said:
Did you put a case on it before it started ?
My mom bought herself Galaxy Note 10.1 ,and a cheap case for it, when i checked the screen i noticed really bad light bleeds , i mean REALLY bad , so i removed the case and immediately it became much better , after a few days we got an original Samsung case for it which didn't make the same effect as the cheap case.. but this Samsung regular quality , cheap plastic that bends and makes noises to the touch , the N7 build quality is so much better so maybe its not the case .
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I have noticed that applying pressure on the screen makes the light bleed worse. So you may be on to something.

Hello
I am the person who started this thread.
I posted this thread since I found 3 blue big stuck pixels, 1 tiny white stuck pixel, and minor light bleeds with a significant but little leakage at the back button spot. All of these were found under dark room when displaying black. Sorry I got no camera good enough to shoot under the dark condition.
The tiny white stuck pixel is nearly invisible. About 3pixels big.
Light bleed bothers me a bit but it is almost unrecognizable.
Blue stuck pixels are the weird ones. Even though they are relatively big, they can be only seen when displaying black. Cannot be seen in any other colors. What would these be?
Also I bought my nexus7 in the eBay. This means that I have to pay for shipping back if I want a refund. Also there is no guarantee that I am not getting a worse one. Should I ask for an exchange?
Sorry my words may sound like a total gibberish. This happens to be a lot whenever I am writing with a mobile device
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When I first used my N7, I checked the screen very carefully for light bleed and found none. Now, 4 days later light bleed is starting to appear along the top of the screen. Is this common? Should I expect the light bleed to continue to increase?

Color saturation & accuracy

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Samsung Galaxy S7's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.
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KoRoZIV said:
Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.
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I aggree with you about the blue tint . In my phone is also visible but not that strong.
But in general it has the best display i ever saw in a phone!

I don't know what you all are talking about because when I was shooting a video outside the colors on my screen were so close to the actual colors of the things I was recording that it was crazy. Closer then any other phone I have ever used. Period. Not commenting on the rest of the stuff, but I was impressed with that

Just open Google page in your browser then look at it perpendicular and increase the angle slowly. Mine is getting blue tint pretty fast.
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Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.

It varies from phone to phone so it isn't something that is going to be standardized across all phones.

Jairus24 said:
Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.
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Does your white get a blue tint at angles ? I see it on mine everywhere, on icons, text, etc. It's uniform but annoying.
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I tried to capture how are my colours. Photos taken with an nexus 5. Look at that orange... That was supposed to be red. That is how I see the red when I look perpendicular on the phone. Photo is taken at an angle because perpendicular shots show both phones red, not true.
The white is blue tinted at angle on s7, less intense white / grey on angle ( not pink ) on g4.
The s7 is in the box, I'll exchange it tomorow. I found one on display in another store and it had perfect collors at all angles, to bad it's not my store. If the next one has issues I'll ask for the money and buy from that other place.
Everything else was perfect on this phone, damn amoled lottery
9h sot, perfect Wi-Fi and gsm signal; the audio is mediocre at best, but I could live with that.
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The blue tint is a byproduct of having amoled screen.

Not like it is on mine. I compared it with other s7's, one was about as bad and the other was perfect. On mine it's impossible to use the phone 5 minutes and not notice. Just tilting the phone a little (<5°) and the blue is visible. Normally the blue appears at much bigger angles, and I'm ok with that.
Anyways, no excuse for that " red. "
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On white screens my s7 has a warm tint when looking directly at it, but If I pan to the side or something it'll look crisp white.

I got the new one today. It has the same bright orange for red but the white is a little better. I still see the blue tint but not as strong as the other one and starts at a bigger angle.
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Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).
There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):
About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.
I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.
(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).

RisinT96 said:
Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).
There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):
About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.
I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.
(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).
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All I'm going to say is good luck getting one that's perfect. I was part of the s6 thread. People ended up getting worse units.

Samsung's AMOLED has come a long way since the first generation and it is now really comparable to IPS (or even better)

I would actually prefer the blue tint if ever, however mine has a yellowish tint (only on white) and it kind of annoys me.

I find the LightManager app useful to adjust tint.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&hl=en_GB

mine actually got very warm display, especially with 'basic' setup. Adaptive is much better, but the screen looks oversaturated.

It has quite a strong pink tint when viewing perpendicular. The slightest tilt in any direction turns it into a light green tint.
The red test screen, seen from a 45deg angle shows orange as in the picture some posts before mine.
Looks like the red OLEDs are quite unreliable. They seem to have a narrower angle than the blue and green ones. Compensation of this effect turns the units either into pink or blue tinted items.
Difficult to deal with this behaviour as a sensitive photographers eye. Just ordered a second unit to compare it with.
Kind of longing back to my 4 year old lovely yellow warm tinted S4.

Screen Colors Washed out???

Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.

I've compared all three devices side by side and I can safely conclude that... it's just you.

me thinks i have a bad unit!!! but even the one in the store looks washed out. go figure

Maybe you want to change the screen mode to AMOLED ciname or adaptive.

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Maybe you want to change the screen mode to AMOLED ciname or adaptive.
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Thats what I was thinking.

daraj said:
Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.
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My color on my note 7 look washed out compared to my note 4.

Same here when comparing to my note 5 & s7e
I heard that they toned down the saturation to be more accurate. Waiting for Erica Griffins review

I have my screen set to basic on note 4 and note 7.

I'm no screen expert (old eyes!) but here's what I've noticed. On all my previous Galaxy phones, Basic and Photo modes were the least saturated and had a noticeably more yellow/warmer tone. Cinema was the most saturated and had the bluest/coolest tone. Adaptive was a bit less saturated than Cinema but still a much cooler/blue tone than Photo and Basic. On the Note 7, Adaptive has, by far, the coolest tone and Cinema is much warmer and closer to Photo and Basic. Also, none of the modes come lose to the intense saturation that previous Cinema modes had. It seems to me that this is a deliberate calibration and not a product of the display hardware because when I enable "video enhancer" under Advanced settings, I get a huge bump in saturation for youtube and Netflix. Still love the phone though!

danengland said:
I'm no screen expert (old eyes!) but here's what I've noticed. On all my previous Galaxy phones, Basic and Photo modes were the least saturated and had a noticeably more yellow/warmer tone. Cinema was the most saturated and had the bluest/coolest tone. Adaptive was a bit less saturated than Cinema but still a much cooler/blue tone than Photo and Basic. On the Note 7, Adaptive has, by far, the coolest tone and Cinema is much warmer and closer to Photo and Basic. Also, none of the modes come lose to the intense saturation that previous Cinema modes had. It seems to me that this is a deliberate calibration and not a product of the display hardware because when I enable "video enhancer" under Advanced settings, I get a huge bump in saturation for youtube and Netflix. Still love the phone though!
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Completely agree with you on that, it's what I've noticed so far

So are you guys noticing like a washed out color on the bottom left of your phone? Is that normal? When looking at dark gray this part of the phone looks washed out. Almost looks like a greenish tint. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/57b846c738e7b/20160820_105400.png?
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daraj said:
Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.
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I agree.
Just got mine today and thought thr screen looked a little faded for lack of a better word.
Checked it against my S6 and note 4 on the same settings with the same images and the 7 is definitely the least pleasing of the 3.
I am very surprised at this
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force70 said:
I agree.
Just got mine today and thought thr screen looked a little faded for lack of a better word.
Checked it against my S6 and note 4 on the same settings with the same images and the 7 is definitely the least pleasing of the 3.
I am very surprised at this
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I exchanged mine today and now the screen looks just great.
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I haven't tested side by side with my Note 4 but as already mentioned, I have found that adaptive seems closer to what cinema was on Note 4. If I select cinema and raise brightness past halfway it becomes less warm and more saturated however. I feel like the lower settings make it look more washed out.
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Ok so I just tested some side by side comparisons. Definitely some major differences. Firstly, the biggest difference is that they've changed the sharpness settings on the Note 7. I always noticed that 'extra' sharpness was applied on the Note 4 and sometimes actually distracted from the image as was too much. The Note 7 is MUCH softer. On the photo's I looked at it was almost like I lost 30% of the detail.
The other major difference seems to be contrast. No matter what mode I chose I couldn't replicate the same contrast as the Note 4. Always seemed a little more washed out on the Note 7. I ran all modes at full brightness. Note 7 definitely didn't seem any brighter at all.
Borijess - So you believe your phone is now better since replacement? I'm wondering if yours was actually worse or if this difference is normal.

rickydenim said:
I haven't tested side by side with my Note 4 but as already mentioned, I have found that adaptive seems closer to what cinema was on Note 4. If I select cinema and raise brightness past halfway it becomes less warm and more saturated however. I feel like the lower settings make it look more washed out.
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Ok so I just tested some side by side comparisons. Definitely some major differences. Firstly, the biggest difference is that they've changed the sharpness settings on the Note 7. I always noticed that 'extra' sharpness was applied on the Note 4 and sometimes actually distracted from the image as was too much. The Note 7 is MUCH softer. On the photo's I looked at it was almost like I lost 30% of the detail.
The other major difference seems to be contrast. No matter what mode I chose I couldn't replicate the same contrast as the Note 4. Always seemed a little more washed out on the Note 7. I ran all modes at full brightness. Note 7 definitely didn't seem any brighter at all.
Borijess - So you believe your phone is now better since replacement? I'm wondering if yours was actually worse or if this difference is normal.
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Yes it was worse. I was very disappointed with the first note 7. Now the screen is looking sharp and even. Now washed out colors. Using the basic setting in display settings.

Mine is the same . Would love to port the screen colour adjuster over from the S7 edge so cinema makes the colours pop a bit more .