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Display has yellowish tint to it. Help!!

So my excitement kinda came to an early end last night. I got my second replacement mt4g due to a bad screen. This one is perfect...except that when I was reading some text on a page with a white background, I noticed that from bottom to top, the white gradually goes from white to this yellowish tint. I will post a picture of it later on tonight.
My question is, do you have/had this problem and did you end up returning it or did it go away kind of like when this was happening to the iphone 4? I really hope this really doesn't become a full-blown issue like with the washed colors, because then I would have to request a 3rd replacement and make sure that it doesn't have dead pixels, dust under the screen, washed out colors, yellow tint, crooked ffc, creaky buttons, and gaps around the bezel. Thanks.
Here is an example of what i'm talking about except my display is white at the bottom and gradually goes to the color of the phone that is on the right, at the top.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856792

Here you go guys:
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(sorry for the link, I haven't posted 8+ times yet)

My bosses phone has looked like that since day 1
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ESKIMOn00b said:
My bosses phone has looked like that since day 1
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Do you think that the problem is improper screen calibration and all I have to do is wait for a software update?

225 views and one reply?? Really guys?? Not trying to sound like I'm whining, but this is a serious problem and I think i'm not the only one. I just received my replacement, and it too has this yellowish tint towards the top of the screen. This will be my 4th time that I will be requesting a replacement, so in total so far, 4 defective phones.

ur phone has a bad screen. when black looks more light greyish and when white doesn't quite look white, bad screen.
return it, these are things u wanna check within the first few days!
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I'm sorry, but it's really difficult to tell based on the picture you linked. Is there any way you can take a comparison photo with a good screen?

I can't see anything wrong from that photo. It will take something more than this to let others know if you have a problem.

smirkis said:
ur phone has a bad screen. when black looks more light greyish and when white doesn't quite look white, bad screen.
return it, these are things u wanna check within the first few days!
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The blacks never looked grayish, the colors were bright, crisp and vibrant, it was when looking at something with a white background. This issue has nothing to do with the washed screens that people are getting.
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I can't see anything wrong from that photo. It will take something more than this to let others know if you have a problem.
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I figured it out based on a chat I had with a friend. I think that the backlight was improperly calibrated or something. Sorry that I can't take a better picture as I have already received my exchange which is much much better, the light is just more distributed evenly then the previous phone. Plus it doesn't creak, the ffc is dead centered, and light doesn't leak through between the bezel and the screen at the top of the phone. After 4 exchanges(5 phones total), I finally got a "perfect" device.
Here is a side-by-side shot sort of(I returned the defective device before I could think of take a pic of them together due to my excitement!)
You can easily tell that the screen of the phone on the right has way more light at the bottom of it and the top doesn't which results in a more obvious yellowish tint. The phone on the left (good one) doesn't have it as bad, the light is distributed evenly. Both were on auto brightness. The good display's(right) brightness is down a bit more but it doesn't matter since I tried to increase and decrease the brightness on the defective one(left) and it made no difference.
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Display: SuperAmoled Plus vs NOVA (LG)

This is a little test that I've made with Optimus Black and Samsung Galaxy S II
Hope you like it
http://en.androidworld.it/2011/05/2...oled-plus-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-our-comparison/

Seems to me like you forgot to change the browser brightness?
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MaBlo said:
Seems to me like you forgot to change the browser brightness?
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YUP 100% the browser brightness is very low hence why its darker lol

yup, either browser brightness is low or you enabled "auto power savings" in display which displays darker whites to save energy...either way my whites are proper white even on low brightness so you must be doing something wrong in your test.

That, or the camera under exposed the amoled screen because of the brightness of the nova display. Keep in mind that good LCD screens like Retina display or the blackberry ones are about twice as bright as a super AMOLED screen, so the Nova display might be even better than that (but on the other hand the blacks are infinitely darker on amoled, which makes the contrast ratio infinitely better).

sorry but that looked so biased towards the optimus in the last 2 tests, if you had the SGSII at full brightness in the web browser test it clearly would of won by miles. Aswell as in the sun light test.
Edit: I retract most of that to make it in all of the tests xD.
In most of the pictures the LG Nova screen has very washed out colours especially the first one. Samsung Galaxy S II also hasn't been put on full brightness for this as the other phone obviously has. If you were trying to get away with thinking your LG Optimus Black screen was better than Super Amoled Plus then you've failed.

I set the same (maximum) brightness
It's how BlueScreenJunky said. I tried to set the brightness setting also on the camera but the result was the same

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I set the same (maximum) brightness
It's how BlueScreenJunky said. I tried to set the brightness setting also on the camera but the result was the same
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I really don't want to have to take pictures in all seperate conditions to show you what a real SGS II on 100% brightness looks like. -.-

cisoprogressivo said:
I set the same (maximum) brightness
It's how BlueScreenJunky said. I tried to set the brightness setting also on the camera but the result was the same
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what he meant was that there is a second setting related to power that affects screen brightness
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I don't care if the NOVA screen can wash dishes, it still comes attached to an LG phone. After my experience with the G2X and reading the O2X boards, I can't believe people are still buying LG high-end phones. LG should stick to TVs.

cisoprogressivo said:
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It's how BlueScreenJunky said. I tried to set the brightness setting also on the camera but the result was the same
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did u check that the browser brightness is set to maximum as well? Hmm I just turned mine up all the way and the whites were so bright I thought the rapture was happening after all!

Pictures don't mean a thing unless they're taken with the same camera and the same manual settings? here are 3 pictures of my SGS2 at 100% brightness with the same camera, same shutter speed (1/400 sec), same iso (400 iso), I only changed the aperture (f/1.8, f/2 and f/8):
Doesn't look that bright to me in the last picture...

New Galaxy S2 Batch Better Screen

I have bought 2 Galaxy S From the first batch for me and my.
Now I just purchased one for my father.
And his screen is much better, may be it is just the calibration
But the color seem more bright, vivid and white.
the color of mine is more yellow.
Just a thought
May be Samy improve for the last batch

No pictures and it didnt happen..
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mine is very white as well, I have seen the ones with yellowing and mine doesn't have it.

May be is only that i don't have chance and the 2 first i get is like that.
In fact i don't see a band like other thread mention, it just like calibration thing.
But it is ok, if i haven't see my dad's one i would never notice
i don't think picture would reveal that small details, and will send his phone to the dad day.
Thx

Have you checked the Settings>display> Background Effects to verify both are on the same setting, and yours isn't on movie?

I read somewhere that some specific models have a yellowish colour problem on the screen..
This really shouldn't be normal, so my best answer is to send it in for repair

No yellowing on mine all looks good.

Are both phones using the same brightness settings?
On my phone, when the brightness is low, whites have a yellow cast, but on full brightness, they look very good.

Mine is white as well. No yellowish color or pink spots on camera shots.
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Stonos said:
Are both phones using the same brightness settings?
On my phone, when the brightness is low, whites have a yellow cast, but on full brightness, they look very good.
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I'm sorry to tell you, but you have the problem
Engadget: "Affected users are reporting that the left side of their Super AMOLED Plus displays have a yellow discoloration, viewable mainly with low brightness -- especially on white and grey backgrounds."
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bruflot said:
I'm sorry to tell you, but you have the problem
Engadget: "Affected users are reporting that the left side of their Super AMOLED Plus displays have a yellow discoloration, viewable mainly with low brightness -- especially on white and grey backgrounds."
Source: http://mobile.engadget.com/2011/05/30/is-your-galaxy-s-iis-display-yellow-on-the-left/
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What he described is not the problem that people are facing.
BTW Engadget are simply repeating what people are saying here. They have no information of their own and it was people here mailing them that alerted them to the problem in the first place.

Blue1k said:
Mine is white as well. No yellowish color or pink spots on camera shots.
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Photos?
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I've noticed on mine that the colour temperature gets warmer at lower brightnesses. Also dark grey takes on a brown cast. On full brightness it's perfect though. No left hand side yellow cast either that I can see.

There's 60 pages of discussion on this already and the points you're making have been made there a dozen times. Do we really need another 60 page thread on the exact same issue? In the other thread there's also a code to tell what version of screen you have. It would be interesting to see if the claimed "new batch" has a different version.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079444

Interresting, Once at home i will check that

Serav said:
I've noticed on mine that the colour temperature gets warmer at lower brightnesses. Also dark grey takes on a brown cast. On full brightness it's perfect though. No left hand side yellow cast either that I can see.
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May be with time the screen degrade.

My Sgs2 seems a bit too green. But i can't notice too much yellow..
Btw the samoled+ is just awesome..
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Just checked my screen first batch from handtech and no discoloration in any brightness setting, might be a bad batch?
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The main question arises....HAS THE BANDING issue been rectified...so i can FINALLY go head with my S2 purchase ? I'm hesitant to purchase such an expensive device..KNOWING it has a very obvious banding defect...and it seems samsung is unaware of its existence!

I had to ask this question, when I had my S8500 I always set the Brightness to 0, still the screen was enough bright with vivid colors and good contrast looked very sharp and there was no Bluish tint on the screen. But here with S-AMOLED+ if I set the Brightness to mid level or higher then the screen performs well and probably beat the former screen. But when it's set to Auto brightness it seems that the screen has a bluish effect and the whites are not perfectly white, the pictures are not that crisp like it was on the former one, in this case I'd easily say that former screen was better. Now is this a feature of S-AMOLED+ or problem? In low or 0 brightness it is the S-AMOLED which perform much better but not S-AMOLED+ !

Fix for black crush

Hi not sure if anyone recommended this yet but I use 2 x battery screen filter and set the filter t o white t hen set opacity to 90 percent and for youtube 80 percent and it take the black crush away hope this helps and spread it : p
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What is this "2 x battery screen filter" where do e get it and if its an app does it need root ...please help i m feeling this phone as hopeless with this black gray pixels

My dear god, half a dozen english teachers woke up from their graves today and silently began the zombie apocalypse. I didn't understand **** of what you two said.

Kids today.

Kid zz 2 da y
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this its about fixing black pixels in video playback on galaxy note...if u still didn't understand try to watch a dvd rip movie in a dark room
Tez

What is a 2x battery screen filter? Could you elaborate please?
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I have been using the free "screen adjuster" , with contrast setting of -58 , other settings default, and my video`s play great now, no black crush , when i was really bad before.
John.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
I have been using the free "screen adjuster" , with contrast setting of -58 , other settings default, and my video`s play great now, no black crush , when i was really bad before.
John.
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This drains way too much battery as it is seriously CPU intensive.

One reading this, I installed Watchdog, set to monitor all processes including system ones, I have been watching a few movies for 10-20mins and screen adjust is showing as using 0% cpu usage?
I am only adjusting the contrast not the colour, could that be the reason for my low cpu usage?
John.
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This drains way too much battery as it is seriously CPU intensive.
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just so everyone knows blacks usually use no power at all on an amoled display, however when you apply a screen filter everything black is now a slight tone of colour depending on which filter you added, this means that your screen will be using more power as every single pixel will always be on.

yeah, I know, but my video`s were really bad in dark scenes, total back areas of blotchyness, it was unwatchable, And i was really happy with my screen no yellow/green tinge or anything
John.
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just so everyone knows blacks usually use no power at all on an amoled display, however when you apply a screen filter everything black is now a slight tone of colour depending on which filter you added, this means that your screen will be using more power as every single pixel will always be on.
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Just been experimenting, Im using the trial version of 'Privacy Filter' and ive got it set to white and lowered it to just barely above the bottom of the scale, and well......OP is certainly on to something, on the gamma test image I can see every step as it should be yet ive got it set so low that it seems like black is still black as in I cant notice a difference between screen off and screen on on the black parts.
Things to note though, if you set the slider too low blacks become grey again and also the app im using gives my phone lag but as a proof of concept it deffinatley works and theres no reason why devs couldnt include something like this in there roms.
I will keep experimenting with different apps and settings, Im yet to try a paid app so that will be next, ill try and get some photos up in a bit.
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Side by side comparison, Without filter <-----------------------------------------------------> With filter.
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And the filter settings im using.
Edit: After some more experimenting 'Privacy Filter' by S-LINK SOFT for 85p is the one im going for, I set all the colours to 255 and set the alpha to 3 and it sorts my problems, also the app allows you to choose which apps you want it to activate in, obviously you should do some testing for yourself but this certainley sorted mine.
Edit: Still really bad blotches on certain parts of certain videos, not a solid fix overall.

Burn-in on screen

I can't believe I have fricking burn-in on my screen! I have had the phone less than two weeks and have been loving it but last night noticed lines on the screen. They look to line up exactly with the thread topics list on the Tapatalk app.
I have been using the app a lot but there is no way I should have burn in happening. It's not like I have even left the screen sitting in one place when using the app. My hypothesis is that it might have happened from using the ultra brightness mode (adapt display with maximum brightness on with auto brightness turned on) in bright sunshine and using the Tapatalk app.
I have googled burn in for this screen and haven't seen anything so I wonder if I somehow have a bad screen. It did look great when I first got it. If anyone out there has heard anything about this or can check their screen on a dark grey background I would appreciate it. Thanks.
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perhaps a picture?

same here too bad.....

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perhaps a picture?
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Hard to take a good picture but you can see it a bit.
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djase said:
same here too bad.....
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You have burn-in on your s5?
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Nothing on mine. I'd go exchange it if I were you
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Does anyone else have this issue? Does anyone else use the dark theme for Tapatalk app on their S5? Just want to double check if I should try it again when I get a replacement. Thanks!
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Got a new phone and the screen is actually a little worse than the original. Has the same white lines across screen when the brightness is turned down in a dark room with a dark grey or similar color on screen. Sent the replacement back and am going to keep the first one. The lines are actually not that easy to see during normal usage and I really like the phone.
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Every AMOLED device has that....
On Tapatalk Dark it looks completely blotched on all of my 8 AMOLED devices.
Any colour other than dark grey is fine.
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ShadowLea said:
Every AMOLED device has that....
On Tapatalk Dark it looks completely blotched on all of my 8 AMOLED devices.
Any colour other than dark grey is fine.
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Yeah I have had an s2, galaxy nexus and s3 before this and have noticed some screen uniformity issues before. Never had seen the distinctive thin lines like I see on the two s5's I have examined. I was hoping to have just got a lemon but now that I have seen another new one that actually looked a little worse it has actually eased my mind a bit even though my OCD wants everything perfect.
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Reechings said:
Yeah I have had an s2, galaxy nexus and s3 before this and have noticed some screen uniformity issues before. Never had seen the distinctive thin lines like I see on the two s5's I have examined. I was hoping to have just got a lemon but now that I have seen another new one that actually looked a little worse it has actually eased my mind a bit even though my OCD wants everything perfect.
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Know the feeling. It freaks me out every time I use Tapatalk.
They also show up when you use a paint app and fill the screen with +-80% brightness with the screen brightness below 30%
However, they disappear when you turn the brightness of the screen up, (and compensate the black to 80% again) so it's just a bit of an error in the led calibration.
The area below the notification bar also has it when you run the colour tests after dialing *#0*#.
It's more predominantly visible on the S5 and Note 3 because those screens have the highest contrast ratio.
I'm horribly OCD over my devices too. There's a 0.5mm distance-to-screen difference between the edges of my screen protector... It bothers me every single day! >.<
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ShadowLea said:
Know the feeling. It freaks me out every time I use Tapatalk.
They also show up when you use a paint app and fill the screen with +-80% brightness with the screen brightness below 30%
However, they disappear when you turn the brightness of the screen up, (and compensate the black to 80% again) so it's just a bit of an error in the led calibration.
The area below the notification bar also has it when you run the colour tests after dialing *#0*#.
It's more predominantly visible on the S5 and Note 3 because those screens have the highest contrast ratio.
I'm horribly OCD over my devices too. There's a 0.5mm distance-to-screen difference between the edges of my screen protector... It bothers me every single day! >.<
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Funny you should say that I just got one of those tempered glass screen protectors and was amazed that I got it on without any dust or air bubbles. Unfortunately it is also off a fraction to one side and also doesn't quite line up perfectly around the home key. I am so tempted to try to fix it every day but I know I should just leave it alone. ?
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