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[Q] Faulty Screen? (large images)

Can anyone with a Nexus S have a look at these photos and compare against their own? I want to be sure my screen is faulty before taking it back. Thanks.
Left: Galaxy S i9000 Right: Nexus S. Both with auto-brightness on.
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Nice sharp clear text on the i9000:
The same text on the Nexus S:
Looking from an angle, the screen turns even more green/yellow:
Then with brightness turned up full on both:
Now looking from an angle the screen has a very blue tint on the NS, where the i9000 doesn't discolour at all:
The screen starts to look much better after about 50% brightness. Auto-brightness makes it look awful which makes me think the colour profile for the panel is wrong as if the brightness is set to full it's overly bright and has a blue tint.
Does anyone else see this behaviour?

I do have a vibrant so I can compare in the same way... but again there's also differences among Vibrant panels. Anyway, my Vibrant is a bit more blue tinted than my Nexus S, and overall the Nexus S display seems nicer. However, as for viewing angle, the Vibrant doesn't distort at all, while the Nexus S changes color slightly, which I think is due to the gorilla glass in the Vibrant and lack of it in the Nexus S.
Your first pictures... I don't know if it's because of your camera's white balance, but the Nexus S is way too green. If anything, the Nexus S should be warmer (redder/yellower) than the Vibrant, which is what I see and was also reported by many reviewers. Also it should have exactly the same sharpness, so I think your display is kind of messed up... exchange if you can.

It's faulty. I have 3 Vibrant's in my hands right now due to my internal speaker stop working and getting warranty replacements. The warrant replacements both have blue tinted screen, so I asked for yet another. The original Vibrant I had has no blue tint and is gorgeous, but the Nexus S is even more vibrant and gorgeous.
You got a SAMOLED dud exchange it!

Yeah, your nexus S needs to be exchanged.
My S Screen looks even better than your i9000 phone. The colors on the i9000 look a little washed out, or not as vibrant. Of course that could just be the camera your using

Samsung QC appears to be utterly awful.

dirk1978 said:
Samsung QC appears to be utterly awful.
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For the amount of phones they put out in what seemed like a rush, I think they did a decent job.

dirk1978 said:
Can anyone with a Nexus S have a look at these photos and compare against their own? I want to be sure my screen is faulty before taking it back. Thanks.
Left: Galaxy S i9000 Right: Nexus S. Both with auto-brightness on.
Nice sharp clear text on the i9000:
The same text on the Nexus S:
Looking from an angle, the screen turns even more green/yellow:
Then with brightness turned up full on both:
Now looking from an angle the screen has a very blue tint on the NS, where the i9000 doesn't discolour at all:
The screen starts to look much better after about 50% brightness. Auto-brightness makes it look awful which makes me think the colour profile for the panel is wrong as if the brightness is set to full it's overly bright and has a blue tint.
Does anyone else see this behaviour?
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to be honest i am kinda tired of going on repeat about this. but there are many bad screens. check my post history. you will find your aswers.
what i can say is there is warm yellow white " defective screen " and cool blue white " good screen "
one of your phones is defective.

Ok I'd say your screen is defective. Funny I placed my nexus one next to the S at the store, and the store unit had exact same issue as yours. My nexus one whites blew it away, it wasn't even close it was that bad. It's screen had some weird tint color like yours. Must have been a bad unit as well.

ll_l_x_l_ll said:
to be honest i am kinda tired of going on repeat about this. but there are many bad screens. check my post history. you will find your aswers.
what i can say is there is warm yellow white " defective screen " and cool blue white " good screen "
one of your phones is defective.
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Then don't.
My original post about the issue got lost in wrong thread so I've put in the right place. Your advice there was very much appreciated thanks. Now I know what I'm looking for.

dirk1978 said:
Then don't.
My original post about the issue got lost in wrong thread so I've put in the right place. Your advice there was very much appreciated thanks. Now I know what I'm looking for.
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sorry. i didnt mean to be rude . its just i explained it few times. and i am lil lazy so type it again but i wanted to help you out so i pointed you to my msg history. all good tho

No worries dude. Thanks for the help. Hopefully more people will know what to look for now.

Sorry for bumping.
My Nexus S has same bluish display when screen brightness is low, exactly same with the pictures in the first post.
When I dim the screen in Clock Application, I can see the purple buttons instead of gray.
When I compare with HD2's LCD screen, HD2 looks even better :S
Should I exchange it? My friend bought it from Bestbuy for me, and I'm not living in US. So it's really hard for me to exchange it :/
Does it really worth to exchange it?

Some real life S4 GT-i9500 pics + infos!

Hi folks,
I had a change handon S4. Here are some pics for you first
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Another pic of screen/display: S4 vs Note 2:
100% Brightness
Sleep now and I will update about next 8hours

noticed how the sensors, LED and speaker are much closer to the bezel compared to them being centered across on the S3. looks a bit weird, cosmetically speaking..

Zanr Zij said:
Another pic of screen/display: S4 vs Note 2:
100% Brightness
Sleep now and I will update about next 8hours
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Wow that is tiny compared to the note2.

tft said:
noticed how the sensors, LED and speaker are much closer to the bezel compared to them being centered across on the S3. looks a bit weird, cosmetically speaking..
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1. Look sexier with me
2. Maybe cause of narrower bezel and for more accuracy eyes tracking
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Zanr Zij said:
1. Look more sexy with me
2. Maybe cause of narrower bezel and for more accuracy eyes tracking
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Just a copy of the S3 but with better specs.
Samsung must change it looks with metal like the iphone (i am not a iphone fan but the look of the Iphone4 is just nice)

bountgunner said:
Just a copy of the S3 but with better specs.
Samsung must change it looks with metal like the iphone (i am not a iphone fan but the look of the Iphone4 is just nice)
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In term of material, 100% I agree with you about metal bezel.
Before I saw S4 pics on web/pic I though like you: S3s but in real life S4 much more different than S3: sexier, better build, minutely. Totally S4 has good looking.
The worst: small/slim bezel next to screen can not be replace without replace screen.
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Is it me or does the note 2 has better whites? S4 white looks pinkish

MohJee said:
Is it me or does the note 2 has better whites? S4 white looks pinkish
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It's not technically better whites. It's just better brightness.
People confuse brightness with quality of white. GN2 is brighter than GS4. White is more closer to color temperature rather than brightness.
Here's a good example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40311908&postcount=226

CLARiiON said:
It's not technically better whites. It's just better brightness.
People confuse brightness with quality of white. GN2 is brighter than GS4. White is more closer to color temperature rather than brightness.
Here's a good example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40311908&postcount=226
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But none of them look white. N2 is grey and SGS4 is red...

shox22 said:
But none of them look white. N2 is grey and SGS4 is red...
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Movie mode

MohJee said:
Is it me or does the note 2 has better whites? S4 white looks pinkish
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I don't care much about technical more than real life .
Cause of limited of my camera tech, Note 2 has blue tint but S4 reduce it much, no pink tint.
But when compare to IPS LCD, S4 white still is not good as.
"Photo Professional" screen mode = very good mode, a balance between standard and natural mode
CLARiiON said:
It's not technically better whites. It's just better brightness.
People confuse brightness with quality of white. GN2 is brighter than GS4. White is more closer to color temperature rather than brightness.
Here's a good example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40311908&postcount=226
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CLARiiON said:
Movie mode
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Yes! Movie mode look a little bit better Photo Pro mode but hard to determine it. SS has done a very good job!
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Can you give us some stills in dark rooms (both normal and night mode) and compare them with Note 2?
Really wanna see how it is improved.

hung2900 said:
Can you give us some stills in dark rooms (both normal and night mode) and compare them with Note 2?
Really wanna see how it is improved.
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I will do today. It is Samsung sample for local media .
As I tried, S4 is noticable better Note 2
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Here are other angles of screen
s4 vs Note 2
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please can u install this GPU benchmark and post the results
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mdXR1cmVtYXJrLmRtYW5kcm9pZC5hcHBsaWNhdGlvbiJd

Zanr Zij said:
Here are other angles of screen
s4 vs Note 2
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Oh great. I'm so sick about the color shifting on Note 2 when the viewing angle sightly changes (maybe due to the strange subpixel stripes layout).
I can see that on S4 it's much better now.
It's sunny in Hanoi now, so can yoou give us same photos (and comments also) about sunlight legitibility of S4 compared to Note 2? Thanks.

Find it so funny how people get hung up on **** they don't notice unless it's being compared to another phone. When do you ever get the current top smart phones and compare them all in real life? When you're using the phone on it's own your brain thinks that is pure white and it is what you see it as. I have never used a phone and thought "that has a red tint" or whatever, no because you do not notice it in every day use.
Instead of going by the numbers and what not, lets just see how it looks in everyday use.

If it does have a slight red tint it actually will save power as red is the next best thing to black on an AMOLED in order to to use less screen power. Not saying its good or bad for visuals, just elaborating there may be more a reason for it. What type of gamma do they use, is it more oriented to fluorescent or incandescent lighting?

Disadvantages of Galaxy S5 and request for future phones

Samsung please make in the future smartphones:
OIS
Remove modulation at medium and low brightness, as it did in the Fly IQ444 Diamond 2 Quattro, Motorola Razr HD (XT925) and LG G Flex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=amuHUv6hGiM
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Remove Dynamic and Standard modes. These modes are as bone that samsung threw for some reviewers and haters. Benefit from them is no, only cons. Because at testers gray is blue, red is orange, they specially put this modes, they have very cold tone (6500-6700K - Cinema and pro photo mode, 7500-8000K - Dynamic and Standard). Anyway all image are designed for SRGB standard, and enhanced range is color distortion, red hues (at normal color temperature) and oversaturation.
Сomplete yet color gamut to 100% SRGB, the unnecessary 6-7% still sometimes make themselves known. (but 106% instead of 122% in S4 is a good job).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7PP8mgv0eCY#t=798 (This is Cinema Mode)
Metal Body (antennas should be behind the plastic, glass or other material, but not metal, so did HTC, Apple and Sony, otherwise the connection will be very bad).
Thanks
It would be ideal. Isocell, improved super amoled (brightness, viewing angles, color reproduction in cinema and pro photo mode, anti-glare), waterproof, interface speed and battery life is awesome.

Who are close to the developers of samsung, please show them this post

I'd think there are many more important issues with phones nowadays than screen calibration. If you want to edit photos, get a good monitor and calibrate it. If you want to watch movies, get a 65" plasma or OLED and stop complaining about stuff that has little relevance in smartphones.

Szadzik said:
I'd think there are many more important issues with phones nowadays than screen calibration. If you want to edit photos, get a good monitor and calibrate it. If you want to watch movies, get a 65" plasma or OLED and stop complaining about stuff that has little relevance in smartphones.
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It is much more important than unnecessary megapixels, megahertz, cores and ppi's.
It's about quality of display, which can be much better,
about the impact on eyes and eye fatigue,
about shooting in low light,
about solid and feeling that you hold the thing for ages
about "vulnerabilities", which can fault reviewers and haters

sonyfan12 said:
It is much more important than unnecessary megapixels, megahertz, cores and ppi's.
It's about quality of display, which can be much better,
about the impact on eyes and eye fatigue,
about shooting in low light,
about solid and feeling that you hold the thing for ages
about "vulnerabilities", which can fault reviewers and haters
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I prefer a fast phone with a perfect screen, than a slow phone with a good screen.
We already have good screens and if Samsung devotes loads of hours to making the screen much better, they will either need to make the phone super expensive to pay for those extra hours or they will have to cut corners in other areas to save money.
The law of diminishing returns - you spend 10% of time to achieve 90% of what you want and 90% for the rest 10%.

Less screen modes? More accurate? It will be a cold day in hell when Samsung stops emphasizing the saturated colors that only come from AMOLED. There's a reason why they use it on all flagships.
Lots of people prefer that saturated profile.
I would be always against taking choice away from customer.
Cinema is quite good Btw. Not perfect but it's close to accurate.
First thing I did when I bought this phone was changing the screen mode. That's Android strength: let me choose.
OIS: yes please.
Metal body: only if it's not form over function.
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drakester09 said:
Less screen modes? More accurate? It will be a cold day in hell when Samsung stops emphasizing the saturated colors that only come from AMOLED. There's a reason why they use it on all flagships.
Lots of people prefer that saturated profile.
I would be always against taking choice away from customer.
Cinema is quite good Btw. Not perfect but it's close to accurate.
First thing I did when I bought this phone was changing the screen mode. That's Android strength: let me choose.
OIS: yes please.
Metal body: only if it's not form over function.
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Gotta agree with this post.
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Szadzik said:
I prefer a fast phone with a perfect screen, than a slow phone with a good screen.
We already have good screens and if Samsung devotes loads of hours to making the screen much better, they will either need to make the phone super expensive to pay for those extra hours or they will have to cut corners in other areas to save money.
The law of diminishing returns - you spend 10% of time to achieve 90% of what you want and 90% for the rest 10%.
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To the speed these improvements have absolutely no affected. And make them easy as shelling pears

drakester09 said:
Less screen modes? More accurate? It will be a cold day in hell when Samsung stops emphasizing the saturated colors that only come from AMOLED. There's a reason why they use it on all flagships.
Lots of people prefer that saturated profile.
I would be always against taking choice away from customer.
Cinema is quite good Btw. Not perfect but it's close to accurate.
First thing I did when I bought this phone was changing the screen mode. That's Android strength: let me choose.
OIS: yes please.
Metal body: only if it's not form over function.
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The main advantages of amoled is not oversaturation and distortion. The main advantages is ideal black color, ideal contrast, ideal viewing angle, ideal response speed, all much better than lcd

That's true, S5 doesn't look like a 2014 flagship.

bfg425 said:
That's true, S5 doesn't look like a 2014 flagship.
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Then don't buy it and you're all good. :thumbup:
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Then don't buy it and you're all good. :thumbup:
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Yellow tint on bottom of screen

Hello guys,
I am coming from HTC 10 and just bought a Huawei P20.
Unfortunately I am not fully satisfied because of the screen. Even with highest brightness set, the bottom of the screen seems to have a yellow tint..
It is noticeable on app with white background (for example Gmail).
I tried changing the white balance in settings, but the display is not homogeneous, and still has a yellow tint at the bottom / or maybe a lower brightness.
This is rather poor with respect to the price in Europe (650 euros)
Does any owner notice the same issue ?
Thank you for your feedback.

htcuser007 said:
Hello guys,
I am coming from HTC 10 and just bought a Huawei P20.
Unfortunately I am not fully satisfied because of the screen. Even with highest brightness set, the bottom of the screen seems to have a yellow tint..
It is noticeable on app with white background (for example Gmail).
I tried changing the white balance in settings, but the display is not homogeneous, and still has a yellow tint at the bottom / or maybe a lower brightness.
This is rather poor with respect to the price in Europe (650 euros)
Does any owner notice the same issue ?
Thank you for your feedback.
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Yes this is exactly what I am getting on my device and I am thinking of changing under 30 days policy, I bought from 1st day of release from Carphonewarehouse UK , also camera has waves coming through when taking pics of monitors or TV screen

As I bough it directly in store they would keep fees for exchange / refund...
And if they accept it is a defect, they will probably send it to their repair center.
The best option would be the issue is acknoledged by Huawei directly if lots of users are concerned, followed by replacement process.

no yellow tint on my p20 eml-l29

actupsp said:
no yellow tint on my p20 eml-l29
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Do you have the black or blue one?
I came to the store and it seems blue one is better regarding screen uniformity
Moreover did you keep the out-of-box screen protector?
Thanks

i have the blue and i keep the original protection screen

Thanks for your answer, @onlinejobwork, which color did you buy?
Maybe there were poor screen batches for black edition...

htcuser007 said:
Thanks for your answer, @onlinejobwork, which color did you buy?
Maybe there were poor screen batches for black edition...
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Blue one, single SIM , UK version , EML- L09, screen protector attached

EML-L29 C432 Black with natural tone on: No yellow tint, or at least I cannot notice it because I have a slight problem with colors

I dont have yellow tint. Black version. Screen protector on

No yellow tint on my P20 Blue on all screen settings.
With original screen protector.
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I just got a black P20 yesterday ( EML-L29 ). I didn't notice it, until I saw this topic here. It's subtle, but there definitely is a yellowish darker tint on the bottom of the screen, mostly in the bottom right corner. I wonder what they'll say if I go back to the shop with it...
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This issue seems to be a bit less noticeable, if you change the screen temperature to something a little colder, than the default setting.

Fleonar said:
I just got a black P20 yesterday ( EML-L29 ). I didn't notice it, until I saw this topic here. It's subtle, but there definitely is a yellowish darker tint on the bottom of the screen, mostly in the bottom right corner. I wonder what they'll say if I go back to the shop with it...
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Thanks, this is exactly the issue! In a global manner the screen is rather yellow but you can change the settings to set "cold color" to improve the situation.
Hower there is still a darker/more yellow area at the bottom as shown on your picture...

Could this be just a problem with the viewing angle? It's a rather tall display, and kinda seems like when you hold the phone and tilt it backward and forward it improves / gets worse. Or am I imagining things?

Fleonar said:
Could this be just a problem with the viewing angle? It's a rather tall display, and kinda seems like when you hold the phone and tilt it backward and forward it improves / gets worse. Or am I imagining things?
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I do not think so. If you display a white screen and flip the phone (fingerprint scanner on top), you will see the concerned area remains darker.
Maybe this could be the screen protector but rather seems related to the screen itself

Yellow screen on the bottom
htcuser007 said:
Hello guys,
I am coming from HTC 10 and just bought a Huawei P20.
Unfortunately I am not fully satisfied because of the screen. Even with highest brightness set, the bottom of the screen seems to have a yellow tint..
It is noticeable on app with white background (for example Gmail).
I tried changing the white balance in settings, but the display is not homogeneous, and still has a yellow tint at the bottom / or maybe a lower brightness.
This is rather poor with respect to the price in Europe (650 euros)
Does any owner notice the same issue ?
Thank you for your feedback.
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I really got the same problem, went to some stores they were also affected. I got a replaced device yesterday but the same problem( I thought nobody would notice it but i see there are more people who has the problem. Bad QC control of huawei...)

Hello,
I do not dare removing the screen protector to ensure it is not the culprit (as I think I will get the phone back to the shop...).
Has anyone tried?
What seems bad is that as mentionned by Ieozt38 and as I saw by meself, lots (if not all) of units seem affected in the shops I visited. Thus an exchange would just be lost time..
Maybe we have to wait for the next batches which may have better screen?
Can those participating to this thread share the first digits of their serial number?
Maybe those after a given number are not concerned or something like that.
Mine: UBV02183100.....
Thank you

Just got mine yesterday after a trade in from the Sony ZX2, I put on a white screen and the tone of the white is inconsistent, but not much, some parts of the white is ok, whiles some has a slight black tint/or slight tone in the white, I think it's a characteristic of a LCD and how the back light is lit, so yes, you may get a soft tint of variable colors include yellow, black white and so on. It's also how your eyes see it. I think it's normal, but everyone one has their opinion on this.
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htcuser007 said:
Hello,
I do not dare removing the screen protector to ensure it is not the culprit (as I think I will get the phone back to the shop...).
Has anyone tried?
What seems bad is that as mentionned by Ieozt38 and as I saw by meself, lots (if not all) of units seem affected in the shops I visited. Thus an exchange would just be lost time..
Maybe we have to wait for the next batches which may have better screen?
Can those participating to this thread share the first digits of their serial number?
Maybe those after a given number are not concerned or something like that.
Mine: UBV02183100.....
Thank you
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Mine came with a protective film with a pull tab, then a preinstalled screen protector under it, I removed both to check for scratches, as there is no exchange if found with scratches, i'm going to put on a glass screen protector anyway, so removing them is a matter of time.
My first unit wasn't about a tint on the screen, but the brightness is ultra low, compared this with my P10 and the shops unit, had a second unit out, and compared the first and second one, probably something with the LCD or back lit light, some people on this forum will probably have this problem, but you must have two unit to see it.

I think is the orientation. But, yes, I have too a yellow tint screen at the bottom.
Black, in Spain. Glass Protector.

Hello,
I finally returned the phone to the shop, and lost some money...
For the next phone I will check screen quality before buying.
I noted the screen of Honor 9 lite looks better and more homogeneous, whereas it is 3 times less expensive .

1+6 AMOLED light bleed or what?

I'm struggling with this and am about to return phone. I run a solid black wallpaper on lock screen and home screen and have for years on many different devices. I've never seen the behavior in the pics. The screen is either turning on a shade gradient of some kind or I have massive light bleed.
First pic is lock screen with notifications themed black with substratum.
Second and third pics after reset and before theming, just black wallpaper, and swiping up to unlock. Nearly entire screen lighting up as I swipe, then goes back to solid black as I enter home screen.
Fourth pic home screen with notification shade pulled down with themed black notifications, notice light bleed below solid black shade?
Is anybody else seeing this? Reaching out on XDA because we are here are more likely to tweak and mod our devices, right?
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redeyss said:
I'm struggling with this and am about to return phone. I run a solid black wallpaper on lock screen and home screen and have for years on many different devices. I've never seen the behavior in the pics. The screen is either turning on a shade gradient of some kind or I have massive light bleed.
First pic is lock screen with notifications themed black with substratum.
Second and third pics after reset and before theming, just black wallpaper, and swiping up to unlock. Nearly entire screen lighting up as I swipe, then goes back to solid black as I enter home screen.
Fourth pic home screen with notification shade pulled down with themed black notifications, notice light bleed below solid black shade?
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Light bleed comes from screens that are backlit by an LCD . The onep6 uses an AMOLED screen, which does not use a backlight. Instead each pixel (of the screen) produces it's own light. Therefore, there can be no light bleed.
must just be a dud screen

strikerdj2011 said:
Light bleed comes from screens that are backlit by an LCD . The onep6 uses an AMOLED screen, which does not use a backlight. Instead each pixel (of the screen) produces it's own light. Therefore, there can be no light bleed.
must just be a dud screen
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Yup, been using AMOLED for years and had 1+3/5/5t, also Nexus, Pixel and Samsung OLED panels and have never seen this screen behaviour. If it's a dud it's an epic failure of a dud!!
I've read that Android 8.1 introduces a screen gradient on lock screen and home screen while swiping to unlock and to bring down noti shade. Doesn't explain the static lock screen pic #1 tho.
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redeyss said:
Yup, been using AMOLED for years and had 1+3/5/5t, also Nexus, Pixel and Samsung OLED panels and have never seen this screen behaviour. If it's a dud it's an epic failure of a dud!!
I've read that Android 8.1 introduces a screen gradient on lock screen and home screen while swiping to unlock and to bring down noti shade. Doesn't explain the static lock screen pic #1 tho.
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there was another guy with simlar problems other day but if it was me i would rma it as its not a wide spread thing by looks of it

Already submitted a return ticket, just trying to decide if I want to give it another shot and reorder a second 6. Oneplus doesn't pay return shipping so I'm on the hook for that. Don't want to try and exchange either, sounds like it could turn into a nightmare easily.
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there was another guy with simlar problems other day but if it was me i would rma it as its not a wide spread thing by looks of it
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There is a very slight grey to black gradient visible in the lock screen and a similar overlay when you pull down the notifications tab. This is by design.
I suspect your screen is fine, but perhaps someone else can verify?

You're acting like someone ran an M1 Abrams over your first born child... it's a phone dude relax. Your life isn't over because your screen isn't pitch black 24/7.
Pixels turning fully off (or not) on AMOLED is a firmware issue that they can fix in software updates, try a support ticket and it'll probably appear in a future update.

Vinegar Joe said:
There is a very slight grey to black gradient visible in the lock screen and a similar overlay when you pull down the notifications tab. This is by design.
I suspect your screen is fine, but perhaps someone else can verify?
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This this this this this.
Stupid 8.1 Oreo change that google made to AOSP as well as it's own Pixel ROM. They made the whole notification shade shadow thing as ugly as possible, and the lock screen ghastly hues of whatever background you have, which will all be fixed in Android P.
OP "light bleed" looks exactly like this shadow, as he is using a black backround like me. There is no way to remove this nasty effect that is built into Android sadly. The only thing you can do is either pretend it doesn't exist or get a lighter background.
If you REALLY want to be anal/OCD about checking your screen, open Chrome without any tabs, and use that grey it has to detect abnormal brightness shifts.
Bear in mind that any severe brightness change will be visible on any normal white screen too, usually what people acknowledge as a pink/green hue on one or more sides of the screen.
If you end up hating everything because of it, I feel you, I was there at one point too. Then I decided to do something with my life beyond staring at a phone screen all day.
Failing that, avoid all AMOLED screens, as they will all have an uneven brightness under specific un-natural conditions.
The OP6 actually has a very good AMOLED panel, and the recent XDA analysis confirms this. It absolutely destroys the QHD panel used by the Pixel 2 XL and its little brother. Infact I prefer it to my old iPhone X screen simply due to the better viewing angles. Only the S9/Note 8 beat it imo, but you really can't complain at this price.

TheNetwork said:
You're acting like someone ran an M1 Abrams over your first born child... it's a phone dude relax. Your life isn't over because your screen isn't pitch black 24/7.
Pixels turning fully off (or not) on AMOLED is a firmware issue that they can fix in software updates, try a support ticket and it'll probably appear in a future update.
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Here's the obligatory "you're over reacting dude!" comment, thanks. Just trying to figure out if it's my black background and 8.1 gradient or the $600 phone is defective, please read my OP again and imagine I'm actually not freaking out because I'm not. It's a great time to be an Android fan, so many phones to choose from. Just want one that works for me which is the whole point of Android and XDA
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Yep I suspect (I don't know for certain obviously ) that it is oreo doing some weird colour gradient stuff.
Try setting e.g. a blue background with other colours on it. Then look at it from the lock screen - you will see the entire photo has got a blue tint from it. Similarly, on your homescreen if you pull down the notification shade, the whole screen below the shade will get a blue tint.
That looks like exactly the same symptoms you have (except yours is like a grey tint on a black background).
Also try turning on the lift up display in ambient display. Then lock your screen so the screen is off and lift up your phone so the ambient display is activated and see whether there is any light bleed then

istrikerx said:
This this this this this.
Stupid 8.1 Oreo change that google made to AOSP as well as it's own Pixel ROM. They made the whole notification shade shadow thing as ugly as possible, and the lock screen ghastly hues of whatever background you have, which will all be fixed in Android P.
OP "light bleed" looks exactly like this shadow, as he is using a black backround like me. There is no way to remove this nasty effect that is built into Android sadly. The only thing you can do is either pretend it doesn't exist or get a lighter background.
If you REALLY want to be anal/OCD about checking your screen, open Chrome without any tabs, and use that grey it has to detect abnormal brightness shifts.
Bear in mind that any severe brightness change will be visible on any normal white screen too, usually what people acknowledge as a pink/green hue on one or more sides of the screen.
If you end up hating everything because of it, I feel you, I was there at one point too. Then I decided to do something with my life beyond staring at a phone screen all day.
Failing that, avoid all AMOLED screens, as they will all have an uneven brightness under specific un-natural conditions.
The OP6 actually has a very good AMOLED panel, and the recent XDA analysis confirms this. It absolutely destroys the QHD panel used by the Pixel 2 XL and its little brother. Infact I prefer it to my old iPhone X screen simply due to the better viewing angles. Only the S9/Note 8 beat it imo, but you really can't complain at this price.
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Thanks for the reply! I was using a pixel 2 and didn't notice this gradient crap.
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redeyss said:
Thanks for the reply! I was using a pixel 2 and didn't notice this gradient crap.
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Strangely enough, the Pixel 2 is incapable of displaying darker shades of grey, it simply renders them as black, so that may be why?
My 2XL has this gradient on normal brightness levels but not in a dark room. Both the 2 and 2XL struggle equally with dark greys.