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Blueish tint?

I have a ever so slight blueish tint to my screen noticeably on the whites unless I turn the brightness up. Anyone else have that? I heard it goes away within a few months.
EDIT: I notice the tint the most when I have it on auto brightness with KB5.

Strange, I have never had that issue. In fact one of my favorite things about this phone is the kickass screen. Mine has been flawless with amazing clarity. Maybe you got a defective phone. Bring it back and exchange it if it's that noticeable.
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Well I got it refurbished for 50$ so I cant complain. I heard it goes away with time even. I dont even think I am on contract because I am on flexpay too.

It's your screen. It should go away after a bit of use, mine did the same thing when I bought it. I run on max brightness most of the time though, might have something to do with it going away, I don't know.
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Max brightness? And I need a way to turn this damn 4g off it kills my frickin battery. Can you test it out on the auto brightness to see if the blueish tint is still there?

This is normal super amoled screens have an ever so slight blue tint to them, the thing is that i cant even notice it at all while using it unless im using another phone like my iphone side by side with it so i was wondering just how noticible is it?
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Someone who doesn't own the phone probably wouldn't notice. I can't see it right now.
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I do own the phone...sorry if thats not what you meant
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maybe that's the reason amoled screens look better in bright sun light.

simeezee said:
maybe that's the reason amoled screens look better in bright sun light.
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You are correct!!!
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Screen problem ignorance

It is pretty crazy how people who have the skyrocket ignore that the screen looks awful when dim. Its even worse that Samsung has not stopped production to fix the problem either. You would think the white one would come with a fixed screen. Usually by this time you have people writing reviews and ranting about phone defects on YouTube, yet with this phone nothing. Just hoping someone agrees with me and maybe we can stick these problem up samsungs behind.
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Dont think anyone cares that much
Why use the screen dimmed? Kinda defeats the purpose of having a super amoled

silver03wrx said:
Dont think anyone cares that much
Why use the screen dimmed? Kinda defeats the purpose of having a super amoled
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Agreed.
I have mine set at 50% and its bright enough for me all the time.
I never go lower than that though, so I personally never experience poor screen quality.
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I've never notice the problems mentioned throughout the forum regarding dim settings and colors/lines. I'm sure that to a good eye mine is too afflicted.
One a side note, took my screen protector off today, and man! is that screen gorgeous. It's gonna be hard to put it back on, but I learned that lesson with the Atrix when I took it's protection off and it hit the ground.

You see, and that is the problem. You are ignoring to issue. So when your in a dark room you have your screen full brightness? I don't so it does bother me.
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I agree my screen sucks at low brightness. I mainly run my low to save power only turn it up when outside. I wrote a review on Samsung site and did give a bad review on the screen.
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I just picked up a white skyrocket yesterday and I've got the screen issues / lines. Looks like a "brushed metal" overlay on top of everything.
I'm going to be getting it exchanged for a new one tomorrow.
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Maybe I got lucky... I've had my I727-SR for about 4wks now and haven't experienced the screen lines / screen problems others are posting.... I consistently run at low brightness with a screen protector and screen looks perfect.... no lines, blobs or other anomalies.
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Mine has it. So does the white one I looked at. It bothers me and I notice it often. But its the only phone on AT&T that I want and LTE just went live a week ago. I will sadly have to live with it :-(
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Guess I got a new batch, because my phone has no problems.
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I feel bad for anyone having screen problems, but as I type this, I turned the brightness almost all the way down... No problems at all!
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shaggyskunk said:
I feel bad for anyone having screen problems, but as I type this, I turned the brightness almost all the way down... No problems at all!
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I got lucky on my new white one. the screen is much better. hoping our second white one is just as nice.
Planning on taking pics to compare to those of the black unit that I posted earlier this week.
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SMH ! Get over it! A few slightly lines which is only visible when phone is up your nose an on a dark grey background on 0% brightness, is the end of the world run!!!
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My screen is great. No lines or any of that kind of stuff.
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just picked one up today. white one.
i see the lines below 50% brightness. above, they are gone.
I believe this is just a simple issue of having the same pixel density of the galaxy S2 but with a larger screen.
this should be device wide.......i dont see why people should have different results....
edit: i have it only above 30% brightness actually....

No problems here... at 0 it still looks great, no lines or weird issues
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I have personally seen this vary from device to device. what may not be that bad on yours could be 20x's worse on another. others of us are in fact picky and expect more for what we paid for this device.
To each their own
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SMH ! Get over it! A few slightly lines which is only visible when phone is up your nose an on a dark grey background on 0% brightness, is the end of the world run!!!
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playing video
When I play video ie Netflix YouTube etc I notice that the picture quality is not.what I expect.from a 250$ phone. I love this phone and that is.my only complaint. I have tried.adjusting.the brightness but it doesn't seem to help. Is this a problem that all are having?

I just got the Skyrocket today and just now turned the brightness all the way down and did not see any issues with screen clarity. Looks pretty good to me.
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Mine has the same issues. However, they are ignorable if you customize the look of your phone. I changed the screen density and customized my phone with a dark bg and modified system apks.
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Notification bar colour

Hi all,
Just wanting to confirm what colour everyone's notification bar is running stock sense 4.0?
I've just started setting up my replacement S and one thing that keeps catching my eye is the colour of the bar coming out of aps. One the home screen its transparent, but whilst using aps it's solid black.
Can't remember it catching my eye as much on my 1st handset and just wondering if there's a setting somewhere to change it.
Cheers.
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Mines the same. I think it's normal lol
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Ok, so think the colours are okay. Now I think I may have another issue that may be causing it to catch my eye.
When using an ap the bar is black as I said. When I hit the home button the bar stays black on the home screen for approx 0.5 of a second before it changes back to transparent. Enough as I say for it to catch my eye.
Would really appreciate it if someone else could do a wee test and see if they're phone is the same.
Thanks.
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mitchgixer6 said:
Ok, so think the colours are okay. Now I think I may have another issue that may be causing it to catch my eye.
When using an ap the bar is black as I said. When I hit the home button the bar stays black on the home screen for approx 0.5 of a second before it changes back to transparent. Enough as I say for it to catch my eye.
Would really appreciate it if someone else could do a wee test and see if they're phone is the same.
Thanks.
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Normal behaviour, nothing to be worried about.
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raikesy said:
Normal behaviour, nothing to be worried about.
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Thanks bud. Would be nice if they just made the bar black I reckon.
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Smearing is not just in pure black background

I found smearing also happens not only in pure black background.
For example in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327389
The first post of the thread smears if I read with xda app using "xda free" display style (dark theme) setting. The first post has dark blue text in dark grey background.
I tried to capture a video but the phenomena cannot be seen in video.
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Still, there are people here who keep on repeating smearing is fixed.
It's not and won't be due to its hardware nature. /working theory /
"Congratulations" to all the reviewers who missed such an easily to notice problem. I noticed it 5 minutes after launching this phone for the first time...
Couldn't believe my own eyes, almost cried after spending so much money on this device.
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Might sound silly, I have tried to replicate this issue on my s4, I honestly cannot see the problem. Am I the only one? Normally I am the first to notice things like this, making me think that the issue is either sporadic or that samsung changed something in more recent units, (mine is about 3 weeks old)
Steve
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Make a paint document and fill it with pure black. Then delete a white space in the middle. Open it from the phone and move the white dot around. If you get no smearing then - you have a normal phone and we have deffective units, which is not nice, but can be repared; or your brightness is very high. Lower brightness exaggerates the problem.
However, since MEA Samsung changed Settings' background to grey from black, which for me is a sign that they know about it and that's a hardware limitation. Pixels "lag", because it's the first time since Galaxy S that black actually is "turned off".

It's worse with grey on black than it is with white on black and also it gets worse the lower you have the screen brightness. grey on black at minimum brightness is an absolute mess on my phone. But i should stress you dont really see the problem in normal usage at all.

Hi, on firmware mdm so not the newest. I'll do further testing tomorrow
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The darker the screen is, the more noticeable the smearing becomes.Touchwiz menus were black and now are grey, thats how samsung thought of to fix this but in certain apps with real black background it all comes alive again so i think this is a hardware issue as many agree also and its a bit of a let down to Samsung Quality Standards when we pay so much for a flaship device like this. Definitely there is room for improvment with this amoled screens.

rosebud said:
Might sound silly, I have tried to replicate this issue on my s4, I honestly cannot see the problem. Am I the only one? Normally I am the first to notice things like this, making me think that the issue is either sporadic or that samsung changed something in more recent units, (mine is about 3 weeks old)
Steve
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I have not noticed any screen smearing till now.

Right, I have tested using the white dot in the middle of a true black image.
I can confirm the issue does occur, but only when the screen is set to or just above minimum and not to the extent I see it as a problem, I still cannot seem to replicate the issue on settings window even at minimum brightness.
For me, this is a none issue however If the issue is more prominent on some screens I can understand how it would be annoying.
Cheers
Steve
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I may be one of the few to not actually give a rat's ass. I didn't care about it when the settings window was truly black and I don't care now when it's LCD-ish black (greyish-black).

Theshawty said:
I may be one of the few to not actually give a rat's ass. I didn't care about it when the settings window was truly black and I don't care now when it's LCD-ish black (greyish-black).
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Yep..it is not an issue for me...i have none of those probs while playing games or watching movies or wherever screen needs to show off itself..so y shud i care if my settings looks grey or there is smearing on some xda post..its not like m gonna read it while scrolling or anything..
I wud still prefer amoled over lcd anyday..
Again its just my opinion..everybody has a different view and i respect it..
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You will notice if you play game "piggy drop"
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with high brightness you will not notice the smearing problem. With low brightness is when you can notice it

Just try to read articles in Pocket app or in feedly using black themes.
I switched to ligtht/white themes killing battery life but avoiding smearing. Now my device lasts 3h screen time at best. F... great.
Amoled screen that's not really compatible with true black! The most advertised benefit of amoled is gone with this flawed screen.
What a shame.
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Bottomline..smearing is still there.
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The smearing is also on the s3 with the 4.2.2 leaked firmware
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Guys, the news here is that it happens in dark grey background (with dark blue text). Plz try the first post, use autobrightness.
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dragon135 said:
Guys, the news here is that it happens in dark grey background (with dark blue text). Plz try the first post, use autobrightness.
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I did the test myself and I can confirm that.
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galaxysduane said:
The smearing is also on the s3 with the 4.2.2 leaked firmware
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Are you 100% sure about that? If that's really the case, it's probably some feature in the kernel that actually turns off pixels completely.

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Are you 100% sure about that? If that's really the case, it's probably some feature in the kernel that actually turns off pixels completely.
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Yes im sure just double checked on my friends s3 with the leaked 4.2.2
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[Discussion] Galaxy S4 another screen problem

Hello
I noticed that the colors in the notification bar are a little bit different than the rest of the screen, I notice that after a while since I updated to the official KitKat.
I don't know if this a Manufacturer defect or its not
The problem can be seen more clearly in gray colors.
I hope you check if this problem is on your device or not
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I can't understand what you mean. Maybe a photo of your problem would be useful.

iPixelsBoy said:
Hello
I noticed that the colors in the notification bar are a little bit different than the rest of the screen, I notice that after a while since I updated to the official KitKat.
I don't know if this a Manufacturer defect or its not
The problem can be seen more clearly in gray colors.
I hope you check if this problem is on your device or not
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amoled burn in
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When in chrome in the grey colour of open new tab, I can see vertical black lines :S or in any grey background.
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xtrustkillx said:
amoled burn in
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mezo91 said:
When in chrome in the grey colour of open new tab, I can see vertical black lines :S or in any grey background.
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So it's normal?
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iPixelsBoy said:
So it's normal?
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And when you scroll down right or left in black you find some purple smudges.
Some say it is normal bcuz samsung used some low quality equipment. And most of people have this.
Where is ur flipboard icon. Concentrate on it while u scroll between pages. You will find a black trace behind it.
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mezo91 said:
And when you scroll down right or left in black you find some purple smudges.
Some say it is normal bcuz samsung used some low quality equipment. And most of people have this.
Where is ur flipboard icon. Concentrate on it while u scroll between pages. You will find a black trace behind it.
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Yeah I noticed the back trace behind flipboard app
I'm really disappointed by Samsung
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iPixelsBoy said:
Yeah I noticed the back trace behind flipboard app
I'm really disappointed by Samsung
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Very low quality for a high end device of 2013.
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i would not say low quality.. rather high end tech but not quite ready for mass production. apart from ****ing burn in.. i cant imagine the joy of the owner if that happens on 6000€ oled tv
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take screenshot
copy it to your computer
compare between your screen and your truly phone screen
and write here back

This is just an issue of uneven aging of the individual LED's. Statusbar stays black most of the time so the pixels do not age as fast as other pixels on the screen.
Within time this makes statusbar appear more bright than the rest of the screen.
My 4 year old and still kicking strong Galaxy S1 (I9000) has this noticeable on any evenly colored image.
Now that I know of this, I use Tinted statusbar mod (requires Xposed) to keep statusbar from being black all the time. This means the LED's in statusbar will also age faster = more so with the rest of the screen.