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I am creating this poll to see what screen problems people have with the one x.
Options are:
Color banding
Dead Pixels
Dust Under Screen
Light Bleed
Yellow Tinge
Multiple issues
Also Please Say what color One X you have
I have color banding and Light Bleed on a White one x.
too bright in general lol
Gray ATT version. I have banding and one very small dust spec just on the edge of the screen on the bottom right corner.
voluptuary said:
Gray ATT version. I have banding and one very small dust spec just on the edge of the screen on the bottom right corner.
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Oh god, dust and dead pixels are my ocd's worst nightmares. I get so depressed when I see them Color Banding will soon be joining them too
You should add a no issue selection.
how?
Wheres the "no problems" option?
Mine has very minor light bleed, but thats it. Its only noticeable if I'm looking at a pitch black screen in a dark room.. so its pretty much no problem
Only issue I'm having is that the screen is too bright for the auto brightness.
Other than that it's perfect
No issues. But there's no option for that in the poll.
Gradient banding and light bleed (bottom right corner).
I have a yellow screen. But for me, I am getting intermittent screen flickering, specifically in Chrome and Messages.
Furthermore, I already have tons of micro scratches on my screen. Have no idea how they got there. Glad I picked up a screen protector for $3 on amazon and Ordered a Seidio Active Case also. Don;t want this beautiful screen to get a jacked up.
No issues here either.
No problem at all here! Gray one X.
Maroon Mushroom said:
Only issue I'm having is that the screen is too bright for the auto brightness.
Other than that it's perfect
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You could try Juice defender. It has an option to change the auto brightness, both the maximum light, and the average light (and minimum)
Only thing I miss there is an option to disable it while charging or in the car.
My only issue is banding. For those who DON'T have banding, I would appreciate if you'd check out my thread on the issue, especially if you're able to post a photo of your phone's screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646446
Thanks!
no issues for me either .
banding sometimes but minor , and isnt that software related anyways?
aimetti said:
banding sometimes but minor , and isnt that software related anyways?
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I don't think so. Take a screenshot when you see banding, then look at the screenshot on your computer or on another phone. When I tried that, I saw less banding on the computer and on my old Captivate than on my One X, viewing the exact same image.
I have banding, but it seems more like a software bit-depth issue than a physical problem with the screen.
KitF said:
I have banding, but it seems more like a software bit-depth issue than a physical problem with the screen.
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Guys, I wish it were this simple, but it doesn't appear to be. I can use Paint.NET to make a gradient, and view that same image file on many screens, and my One X shows more banding than the others. It still doesn't look as bad as the One X's app-uninstall screen, which is likely because my gradient is linear and theirs isn't, and so on top of there being bands, they're also unevenly spaced! But there's no denying that the bands are there (at least on mine), and they're more apparent than on the other displays I have access to (another phone, a laptop, and a TV).
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Guys, I wish it were this simple, but it doesn't appear to be. I can use Paint.NET to make a gradient, and view that same image file on many screens, and my One X shows more banding than the others. It still doesn't look as bad as the One X's app-uninstall screen, which is likely because my gradient is linear and theirs isn't, and so on top of there being bands, they're also unevenly spaced! But there's no denying that the bands are there (at least on mine), and they're more apparent than on the other displays I have access to (another phone, a laptop, and a TV).
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I meant a driver-level firmware issue. When I had the Nook Color, there was a kernel that enabled lower bit-depth to speed up the boot, but it introduced banding like this. There was another kernel that could show full 24-bit color and had no banding.
So just loading an image onto the phone isn't proving that is a hardware issue. This just makes my argument stronger with the uneven banding being related to bit-depth and not hardware.
I have no screen issues! @TinyBoss I saw your other post and I have to say your banding does look bad. I was leaning toward software until I compared mine to yours and I'm thinking you have a bad display...
To those who have no banding: Have you tried this? If you have, and still see no banding, can you post a photo of it?
How to see the color banding: go to Settings, then Apps, then tap on an app and choose "Uninstall" (you can still cancel, don't worry). This screen has a gray gradient that shows severe banding on my One X, especially near the bottom of the screen. And not just banding where you see the transition between one shade and the next, but there are (many) places where the stripes go dark-light-dark.
I took a picture of my One X on that screen (using my Captivate, handheld--not the best result, but it does show the banding). I also attached a screenshot for comparison (it'll only show whatever banding your computer display has).
Since I have two smartphones, a laptop, and an HDTV here, I decided to compare the banding on the four displays. Here are my findings:
Captivate (SAMOLED) - banding is almost undetectable at all viewing angles.
Laptop screen (Dell Studio XPS 13, LCD) - banding is somewhat noticeable, slightly worse depending on viewing angle.
HDTV via HDMI (Sharp LCD, low end) - banding is slight to severe, viewing angle matters a lot.
One X - Noticeable banding from all angles (viewing angle seems to be irrelevant to this screen, which is great).
The One X's screen is still the best I've ever seen on a phone. Let's not lose perspective here! I'm just trying to investigate this particular minor issue.
Edit: In case it's not clear, I compared the banding by viewing the same screenshot on all four displays.
That looks more like how they are displaying that particular screen than anything hardware related. Otherwise we would see those bands everywhere.
AvengerBB said:
That looks more like how they are displaying that particular screen than anything hardware related. Otherwise we would see those bands everywhere.
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This.
AvengerBB said:
That looks more like how they are displaying that particular screen than anything hardware related. Otherwise we would see those bands everywhere.
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It has to do with that particular screen because
It's a linear gradient--stripes are easier to notice,
the start and end colors are not very different,
the gradient is large.
Points 2 and 3 mean there are fewer intermediate shades, and they're stretched out over a larger area. So, yes, that screen is a challenging image for a display to render, but that's exactly what "color banding" refers to--how well does a display cope with such gradients?
If you think it's not hardware related, just take a screenshot, and view that image file on your computer or another phone. The bands are less noticeable.
And again, I feel like I need to repeat that this is the best screen I've ever used, and I love it. I'm just trying to get a handle on this one issue.
Tinyboss said:
To those who have no banding: Have you tried this? If you have, and still see no banding, can you post a photo of it?
How to see the color banding: go to Settings, then Apps, then tap on an app and choose "Uninstall" (you can still cancel, don't worry). This screen has a gray gradient that shows severe banding on my One X, especially near the bottom of the screen. And not just banding where you see the transition between one shade and the next, but there are (many) places where the stripes go dark-light-dark.
I took a picture of my One X on that screen (using my Captivate, handheld--not the best result, but it does show the banding). I also attached a screenshot for comparison (it'll only show whatever banding your computer display has).
Since I have two smartphones, a laptop, and an HDTV here, I decided to compare the banding on the four displays. Here are my findings:
Captivate (SAMOLED) - banding is almost undetectable at all viewing angles.
Laptop screen (Dell Studio XPS 13, LCD) - banding is somewhat noticeable, slightly worse depending on viewing angle.
HDTV via HDMI (Sharp LCD, low end) - banding is slight to severe, viewing angle matters a lot.
One X - Noticeable banding from all angles (viewing angle seems to be irrelevant to this screen, which is great).
The One X's screen is still the best I've ever seen on a phone. Let's not lose perspective here! I'm just trying to investigate this particular minor issue.
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My understanding of color banding is that it is not so much a function of hardware, but one of software. It depends on the number of shade of a color available. The fewer bits available to display different shades, the worse the banding would be. I'm not very good at explaining it, see wikipedia for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding
My point is that I don't think that it's a defect of any sort. I think that what we're seeing (I checked mine in the uninstall screen and there's some slight banding) is that gradient from light gray to darker gray is probably a low resolution and low color resolution graphic.
For another example, go to this page:
http://tomobriendc.net/images/Green_Gradient_to_black.png
That's a higher resolution image that gradients from green to black. When viewed at the default browser resolution, I see absolutely no banding. When I zoom in to have the image fill the screen, which puts it stretched, I can see very slight banding in the green end. Further zooming increases the banding, but by then I'm zoomed far past the full size image.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think this is a non-issue. The amount of banding visible (if any) has at least as much to do with the image you're trying to view as it has to do with the display. If you don't get color banding in pictures that you take, or in the UI that you use every day, then I wouldn't worry about it in the slightest.
Alright guys, I know what color banding is, and I think I was very clear in my first post that I took a screenshot, and viewed the same screenshot on four different displays. This is not about software, bit depth, or image resolution. It's about whether this display shows more color banding than other displays.
And I do agree that in typical use it's a non-issue.
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That looks more like how they are displaying that particular screen than anything hardware related. Otherwise we would see those bands everywhere.
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Every single new phone section had to have at least 4 of these topics. I swear I see them anytime a new phone pops out. My money is on software.
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robstunner said:
Every single new phone section had to have at least 4 of these topics. I swear I see them anytime a new phone pops out.
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Of course you do. People just got their brand new gadget that they've been looking forward to for months, and will be living with every day for a year or two. Naturally they want to poke around and check out every little detail. At least some of us do anyway, and we're probably over-represented on forums dedicated to phones!
The second photo looks like a screen capture and I see banding.
Wouldn't that mean it's software related?
wrxdrunkie said:
The second photo looks like a screen capture and I see banding.
Wouldn't that mean it's software related?
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It is a screen capture, and it just means the display you're viewing it on also has some banding. I see it on my computer display, too, just not nearly as much as on my One X.
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It is a screen capture, and it just means the display you're viewing it on also has some banding. I see it on my computer display, too, just not nearly as much as on my One X.
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I don't know if this helps but my One X, computer, and new iPad all show banding on the screen capture.
wrxdrunkie said:
The second photo looks like a screen capture and I see banding.
Wouldn't that mean it's software related?
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This issue is completely software related. Pointless thread.
Tinyboss said:
Alright guys, I know what color banding is, and I think I was very clear in my first post that I took a screenshot, and viewed the same screenshot on four different displays. This is not about software, bit depth, or image resolution. It's about whether this display shows more color banding than other displays.
And I do agree that in typical use it's a non-issue.
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Nowhere in OP does it say you used the same picture across all displays.
Regardless, this is a software/image dependent "issue." You can see banding on any display, regardless of whether it's a 20 year old CRT or Samsung's brand new $9000 OLED TV. It's a NON-ISSUE.
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I also think this is a software issue. However, the screen shot the OP posted of his One X looks way worse than mine does. Mine barely has any of the banding and is mostly black all the way through other than at the very bottom. It just doesn't progress upwards like is does. However, if you dont always see the banding on a black screen then its in the software. Take a picture of something that is completely black or do a screen shot of something black and view it in the gallery and if you don't see the banding then this is obviously just the particular uninstall app causing this.
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It is a screen capture, and it just means the display you're viewing it on also has some banding. I see it on my computer display, too, just not nearly as much as on my One X.
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lol SOOOO wrong. Unless you've got your computer display set to 16-bit color or less, it's got NOTHING to do with the display on your computer.
It's 100% software related. It'll likely get fixed. When we got ICS ports onto the DHD there was banding, far worse than these pics, and it was fixed with an update.
Yes, different display types can ACCENTUATE the issue to various levels, but if the software were rendering everything right, you wouldn't see banding, no matter what display your device has.
It's all about the pixels. If the pic has less pixels then the actual screen resolution you will see that the banding is greater, because ICS is made to stretch to all phones that's why it's more noticeable on larger devices.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
belyle said:
Nowhere in OP does it say you used the same picture across all displays.
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Oops, you're correct...I rewrote that first post many times as I tried various things and added/removed information, and I must have left that part out. I edited it for clarity. Thanks.
Regardless, this is a software/image dependent "issue." You can see banding on any display, regardless of whether it's a 20 year old CRT or Samsung's brand new $9000 OLED TV. It's a NON-ISSUE.
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Yes and no. It's image-dependent only in the sense that certain images are more challenging to render correctly without banding. I realize other displays have banding (I know I was clear about that in the FP), but I'm just saying this one seems to have it worse than most.
Look, all I'm trying to do is investigate this one, minor area where my phone's screen seems to have poor performance. If it's only mine, then I'll exchange it. If they're all this way, then fine, it's still the best phone display I've ever seen, and I won't worry about it. My Captivate's display has almost no banding, but I'd be retarded to prefer it over my One's.
All I've been trying to do is determine whether there's something wrong with my screen, or if it's just how they are. And I'm pretty sure it's the latter. And that's fine.
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Oops, you're correct...I rewrote that first post many times as I tried various things and added/removed information, and I must have left that part out. I edited it for clarity. Thanks.
Yes and no. It's image-dependent only in the sense that certain images are more challenging to render correctly without banding. I realize other displays have banding (I know I was clear about that in the FP), but I'm just saying this one seems to have it worse than most.
Look, all I'm trying to do is investigate this one, minor area where my phone's screen seems to have poor performance. If it's only mine, then I'll exchange it. If they're all this way, then fine, it's still the best phone display I've ever seen, and I won't worry about it. My Captivate's display has almost no banding, but I'd be retarded to prefer it over my One's.
All I've been trying to do is determine whether there's something wrong with my screen, or if it's just how they are. And I'm pretty sure it's the latter. And that's fine.
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You do realize the reason that your Captivate shows little to no banding is that the black pixels of the display aren't even on, right? So the Captivates blacks are truer than the One X's, but our white is more true than the Captivate's white(blue). No display is perfect, other than the ones on your face, so why bother stressing over it? If you never had any device to compare to, then you wouldn't have a single thing to have a fit about. There are going to be discrepancies and every display is going to have trouble doing at least one thing or another, nothing's perfect.
On top of that it has to do with the grade of the gradient and how quickly it's changing shades of colors. Say you're making a black to white gradient in 20-30 passes, 20-30 changes basically, it's going to be choppier than one with 100 or whatever. If you don't give it adequate time to make the change, then of course it's going to band. It's just like animating. You can't expect a 15 frame animation to display a full action scene in any bit of smoothness. It takes 100+ frames to do 3 seconds of visually smooth animation.
The banding is LITERAL BANDS of color on the screen.
The galaxy nexus does this as well on settings and a dev fixed it by updating the image used within the settings app. I'll see if I can find it.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588613
I have a reasonably simple solution to this issue ...
Maybe I'm wrong, or I don't quite understand the issue, but I think I have a simple solution to determine if banding is really an issue in this regard.
I'm preparing four images, which I will upload in a ZIP file along with instructions.
Give me about 10-15 minutes.
Peter
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Clicking on the link below will download a ZIP file called Banding. Extract the four images and place them anywhere on your device.
http://www.sierrabeyer.com/TempImages/Banding.zip
Now look at each image on your device and decide whether or not you see banding. If you do, then the unit DOES suffer from banding. If not, then it's simply an issue relating to the image used by the developer for the background image of the screen your looking at, in this case, the uninstall screen.
Why can I make this conclusion? Well, all four images are simply 1280x720 pixels, the exact resolution of the ONE X screen. Also, all four images display but ONE colour. Okay, maybe not a colour since one is black (0,0,0), and the other three are shades of grey (32,32,32 and 64,64,64 and 128,128,128).
Here are full size images:
I don't see ANY banding on my HTC ONE X screen. Each image is pure black or grey.
Let me know what you think. Does this test resolve the issue, or am I completely off base?
Peter
Addendum: I have since learned that my reasoning is flawed. If I could remove this post, I would. My apologies to everyone.
Hello fellow XDA members,
In the past I started some threads regarding Samsung AMOLED display quality, especially for the Note devices.
Please see here if you are interessted:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note4-amoled-screen-quality-t2906365
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463786
Now, with the S8+ (and the S8, the problem is the same), even the media recognized the display problems, known as "red tint", just google for it!
Samsung tells the people that this is due to wrong settings, and/or the adaptive display setting turned on! THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!!
I got 2 pieces of S8+ today, and both displays are not OK. One screen has the red tint issue, but only on the upper half of the screen.
The other device has no red tint, but is generally darker and looks more "washed out" and has a slight yellow tint.
So again the display lottery is back, it is only "luck of the draw" if you get a decent screen or not!!!
If you do not believe me just compare a few devices beneath each other with the exact same display settings. Turn adaptive display off, then go into the dialer and type *#0*#, with this you ensure the brightness settings are the same and you have the same sceen content on both devices. You will notice that every single device has a different screen quality (tint, evenness, ...)
What do you say? Acceptable or not?
With all of us over at the tmobile shipping thread we've been waiting and crying and hoping that we get our devices early....and then when we finally got our devices ****ty things like red tint leaves a sour taste in our mouths..sad really, samsung already made this device feel rushed with all the Bixby and fingerprint scanner awkward positioning and what did we do after the note 7 debacle? We forgave these fools...and now this?....i do feel bad for those that actually paid full retail price for these expensive devices and to unbox and realize the screen is pink...that right there is not how to say forgive us for our mistakes instead a huge f u to all the customers who were unlucky enough to get such a horrible display color....but I will say I won the lottery because out of the box my s8plus came out nice no red pinkish tint whites are white...but why am I still pissed? Because my note 4 was the same whites were white and then after a year or so my eyes were fixed on a strange color that was taking up half of the screen that came out of nowhere...so yes I will be forever paranoid with sammys displays now....if my s8plus came in like that I don't think I would've came back....but then again I'm here lol
Settle down guys, this will likely be fixed with a future fw given the attention its gotten, this is pretty simple for samsung to fix actually, all samsung needs to do is what video games have been doing for years; offer the user an option to calibrate based a sample image. Once thats in, the presets can be established based off of those generated values from the user selection.
It seems like they will indeed need to implement a fix of this sorts, because it does seem the displays hue varys from device to device.
Anyways, for the most part, I hardly notice it and it seems even, and the more I look at it, the more i can't make sense out of it? Seems to play tricks on my eyes... lol.
Beautiful phone and display though!
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Settle down guys, this will likely be fixed with a future fw given the attention its gotten, this is pretty simple for samsung to fix actually, all samsung needs to do is what video games have been doing for years, offer the user an option to calibrate based on a sample image provided, once thats in the presets can be established based off of those generated values.
It seems they will need to implement thia because the displays vary so from device to device.
Anyways, for the most part, I hardly notice it, it seems even, and the more look at it the more i can make sense out of it, seems to llay tricks on my eyes, lol.
Beautiful phone and display though!
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This is a hardware problem, a real software fix IS NOT POSSIBLE!!!
Samsung can only try to cammo the problem with increasing the range of the color-sliders in the display settings, so that you can turn down red more then now. But this wont fix that the red tint is NOT EVEN ACROSS THE DISPLAY!!
What else proves that this is a hardware error is that if you put 5 devices next to each other (with the exact same settings), each of them will look different in regard to screen quality! Believe me, I know what I'm talking about, see my previous threads regarding that!
I agree that it should be even otherwise you may have a hardware problem but my concern is your criticism has more to do with amoled in gerneral and what we are observing is a consequence of the tech used. Samsung is also pushing the boundries here too with the display tech so the norms for amoled to compare to may not even apply anymore. And your comment to my comment regarding masking the problem, there is a reason why every display on the planet has picture settings.. right? No 2 displays are exactly the same...
I just went through the crap with my Surface Pro 4 too, trust me, they are a good example of no 2 displays alike, must have went though at least 11 Surface Pro 4 on my mission for perfection display and I had to give up in the end because truth is, its still an awesome device!
that happens when you get the early batches of s8+
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that happens when you get the early batches of s8+
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Absolutely unacceptable reasoning. They shouldn't be putting out a product if the "early batches" are DEFECTIVE
Obviously it's a QC problem, which they seem to have some fairly big issues with, over and over.. They will lose customer faith if they keep doing this ****
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Absolutely unacceptable reasoning. They shouldn't be putting out a product if the "early batches" are DEFECTIVE
Obviously it's a QC problem, which they seem to have some fairly big issues with, over and over.. They will lose customer faith if they keep doing this ****
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Perhaps but then again why did you buy a phone from samsung in the first place?.....
I was in the Samsung store yesterday for the launch party. They had 3 S8+ on display next to eachother. Each was running the exact same retail mode, showing the exact same content at the exact same time.
One display was white, one was red hued, and one was pee yellow.
(No, it wasn't display calibration settings, I checked).
There are definitely quality control issues.
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I was in the Samsung store yesterday for the launch party. They had 3 S8+ on display next to eachother. Each was running the exact same retail mode, showing the exact same content at the exact same time.
One display was white, one was red hued, and one was pee yellow.
(No, it wasn't display calibration settings, I checked).
There are definitely quality control issues.
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And which of the 3 do you have?
I noticed a slight pinkish tint when the shipping screen protector was on, but looks ok without it.
Something slightly different this year is there seems to be a pink tinge on all four sides of the display (top, bottom, left and right). It's a very consistent along the sides of the screen and very noticeable, a few people here have also noticed it: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s8/help/red-tint-screen-t3592335
So it's not just another pink/yellow/blue/green spotty tinge problem, theres now uniformity with the example i've provided.
I've got the S8+ and the screen is not red at all. The left and right edges if anything have a slight blueish tone to them but I believe this to be the effect of the screen curving to the sides distorting the colour (Colour shift?).
Unless you have bought one and have the problem with it, you have no right to complain.
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And which of the 3 do you have?
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Mine had a very slight pink tinge when I got it, at the very top and bottom (maybe half the status bar thickness), and it's since gone way.
The over all display color was a little too warm for my liking, so I knocked the red slider down to half, and now it's fine.
Got me and the wife one yesterday from At&t. No red tint and best phone yet. I love it.
My display is freaking beautiful and I love the fingerprint location. I never had any trouble. My finger finds it very naturally
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TML1504 said:
Hello fellow XDA members,
In the past I started some threads regarding Samsung AMOLED display quality, especially for the Note devices.
Please see here if you are interessted:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note4-amoled-screen-quality-t2906365
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463786
Now, with the S8+ (and the S8, the problem is the same), even the media recognized the display problems, known as "red tint", just google for it!
Samsung tells the people that this is due to wrong settings, and/or the adaptive display setting turned on! THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!!
I got 2 pieces of S8+ today, and both displays are not OK. One screen has the red tint issue, but only on the upper half of the screen.
The other device has no red tint, but is generally darker and looks more "washed out" and has a slight yellow tint.
So again the display lottery is back, it is only "luck of the draw" if you get a decent screen or not!!!
If you do not believe me just compare a few devices beneath each other with the exact same display settings. Turn adaptive display off, then go into the dialer and type *#0*#, with this you ensure the brightness settings are the same and you have the same sceen content on both devices. You will notice that every single device has a different screen quality (tint, evenness, ...)
What do you say? Acceptable or not?
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im not tying to be a jerk but just curious what happens when you cycle the --blue light filter-- button in the pull down menu with the wifi, Airplane mode ect.
reason i ask my displays is perfect but with the blue light filter on which is to reduce eyestrain ..then the display is very red
Really did not know they had this till i play around with it
Jonathan-H said:
I've got the S8+ and the screen is not red at all. The left and right edges if anything have a slight blueish tone to them but I believe this to be the effect of the screen curving to the sides distorting the colour (Colour shift?).
Unless you have bought one and have the problem with it, you have no right to complain.
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I have an S8+ as per my posts in the other thread, so I have a right to complain.
Firstly, it could well be fixed by software, even if its uneven, HTC had issues with the camera doing this a number of years ago (big red spot in all pictures). It was fixed with software
Secondly, it might disappear with time. AMOLED, OLED and other self lighting technologies (like Plasma in TVs) have a bed in time, where some colour ranges need to burn in. I would suggest a full red screen using a screen tester app for a few hours, to see if it beds in the red.
Guys, I would like to take this device, there is a possibility of having a faded display?
Its still there right out of the box. $800+ for a gorgeous Midnight black T-Mobile Galaxy S8. I swipe down the notification shade to mess with settings and I can't help, but notice the subtle, but very existent, yellowish tint on the top right 1/3rd of my display compared to the slightly reddish bottom 2/3rds.
The white background on the notification is not all white. Any solid color white or grey background and you can notice that there is a yellowish and pinkish hue in certain areas of the display. This is extremely distracting and almost nauseating when reading an article and as you read the white background starts shifting color from yellowish white to a pinkish white.
We had same issues with GS6 and GS7. PANEL LOTTERY! I had to exchange my S7 about 4-5 times in order to get a unit without Screen defects. its 2017 and the S8 has the same damn issue that we've been reporting to Samsung, they don't care because some average consumers don't notice it or assume thats just how the phone is. Well I don't take lightly to defects and anomalies when I'm paying this much. Its very annoying that this SUPER AMOLED display attached to a near $1k price tag lacks the quality assurance it should have. it can't even display a full even white or grey screen.
Time to exchange and make a youtube video about it I suppose. I'll post pictures when I get home from work.
Johno_Jan said:
Its still there right out of the box. $800+ for a gorgeous Midnight black T-Mobile Galaxy S8. I swipe down the notification shade to mess with settings and I can't help, but notice the subtle, but very existent, yellowish tint on the top right 1/3rd of my display compared to the slightly reddish bottom 2/3rds.
The white background on the notification is not all white. Any solid color white or grey background and you can notice that there is a yellowish and pinkish hue in certain areas of the display. This is extremely distracting and almost nauseating when reading an article and as you read the white background starts shifting color from yellowish white to a pinkish white.
We had same issues with GS6 and GS7. PANEL LOTTERY! I had to exchange my S7 about 4-5 times in order to get a unit without Screen defects. its 2017 and the S8 has the same damn issue that we've been reporting to Samsung, they don't care because some average consumers don't notice it or assume thats just how the phone is. Well I don't take lightly to defects and anomalies when I'm paying this much. Its very annoying that this SUPER AMOLED display attached to a near $1k price tag lacks the quality assurance it should have. it can't even display a full even white or grey screen.
Time to exchange and make a youtube video about it I suppose. I'll post pictures when I get home from work.
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As frustrating as it is its still a very new device to the market all different manufacturers be it a mobile device or something else the first run will always have a 50/50 chance of issues its bound to happen. By no means am I be littling your post all im saying is things as annoying as this is bound to happen. I read somewhere that Samsung will be possibly issuing a software fix for this display issues but I cannot confirm for sure. Today is the official release of the device I did hear that stores are not issuing replacements just yet.
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Samsung offers software update to fix red display issue
http://www.zdnet.com/video/samsung-offers-software-update-to-fix-red-display-issue/
This isn't a software issue trust me. It is a fault in the production of the OLED panels. This has been going on for nearly 3 years! They just don't care.
yes and the forthcoming software update fix ,the red color will be on zero exactly like if you do it yourself in the menu.
If the screen is uniformly red then it can be masked with a green filter applied to the entire screen. There are 3rd party apps that can do this such as ScreenEqualizer.
Non-uniformity is a different issue altogether and can't be fixed or masked. I have it on both my S6E and my S8. The S6 release dubbed the issue "pink-gate" and it attracted much more attention but ultimately nothing was done about it.
I thought that after the Note 7 flop they won't risk anything like this but i can confirm that my mighty black S8+ has this defect too. Frustrating because i was unlucky with the S4 and S5 although the replaced the screen for a great on each device and after several unsuccessfull attempt but last year the S7E was absolutely flawless so i was optimistic for the S8, especially regarding the note 7, that is MUST be a flafless, highest quality product but it failed miserably.
I had these issues on my S6, N5, and N7. You cant correct a screen if the color issue is not uniform. I had to return every single phone multiple times to get an acceptable screen.
What i find is weird is, my Pixel Xl was absolutly perfect, and im pretty sure they source their screens from samsung.
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I am wondering how are your units in regards to famous AMOLED pink shift?
Mine seems to be a bit more pink on the side making whites and darks looking uneven.
Looked at display units around shops and all units had it to some degree, also YouTube videos shows a pinkish screen nature.
How is your one?
To me pink shift implies that it turns pink when tilting the phone or viewing off angles. I don't have any problems with that however the regular OLED color uniformity is an issue on my device. Nearly ever OLED phone I've had has had some issue with this and I think some people are just more sensitive to it than others explaining why it's a non issue for most people and a huge issue for others. My Pixel 2 has a pink tink at the top 20% of the display which is minor and think most would either not notice or find acceptable. It bothers me a bit but it could be worse and I'm not sure I want to go through the trouble of RMAing the device until I get something better (OG Pixel took 3 tries and then I gave up and accepted the problem, but then my 3rd OG bricked itself and they sent me a 4th with a nearly perfect display yay!). Pink on the side or diagonally across the display is the worst I think as it's really noticeable when reading text on a white or grey background. At the top is the best case scenario for me as it's only really annoying when reading content in landscape orientation.
I spoke with a Google Tech at length today regarding the different color tints on our devices (mine is blue) and he assured me that the tinting was intended with the new screens. On a side note I notice while out in the sun when it's hard to see my screen, if I tilt slightly my device, the Blue tint actually helps me to see my screen better. Not sure if that was intended or not.....