Huge screen issue with i9505 - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I bought an i9505 today. I noticed very bad scrolling artifacts especially on a black background. This can be best seen when scrolling up and down in a menue in the preferences. The white letters on black background smear alot. This effect gets worse when turning brightness down. The responsiveness of the s4 display seem quite bad. The s3, which i also own does a whole lot better in this regard.
Can other S4 owners confirm this problem? Has the octa the same problem? Main reason i bought this phone was the oled display. I am quite dissapointed.
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something is definitely wrong with it. exchange it immediately in case something is wrong with the second one.

Mine does it too. Most noticeable scrolling through contacts.
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So if I am not the only one experiencing this it seems to be an inherent problem of the new amoled. In theory amoled has a very fast response time. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the s4 displays true black i.e. the screen is absolutely black in black areas of the screen. The s3 does not turn the pixels completely off, it has blacker blacks than lcd but no absolute blacks like the s4. I am sure Samsung did this for a reason in th s3, maybe to avoid the problem we are experiencing with the s4. I wonder why none of the reviews reports about this issue.
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Mine doesn't smear when scrolling unless you mean if you scroll fast it looks smeared? I put that down to scrolling quicker than my eyes can focus if yours is smearing when moving slowly then I'd swap it!
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The effect can be best seen on black background with brightness set to low. For example when scrolling in preferences watch the horizontal grey sepparation lines. When scrolling slowly the almost dissapear on my phone. So maybe one should not call it smearing but there clearly visible moving arifacts on my phone.
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I have the same problem. It is annoying in black backgrounds whith grey letters.

I noticed this straight away and started a thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252445 (5 pages long already)
My S3 does not suffer with this problem at all.
The screen is a step down apart from the blacks which are much deeper.

My issue: the red subpixels stay on, this is the SGS4 and SGS2 viewing the same 100% black image.
The effect is a bit more dramatic on these pics than real life, to get a proper exposure. The red pixels are only at low intensity, but it's still easily noticeable.

Hi.
I had the same problem with I9505OXAAMDE firmware. I update firmware to I9505OXAAMDM and subpixels are ok. Now my screen is black, but now i have smearing in setup menu and contact.
I hope that in the future fix this problem.
regards

Xander123 said:
Hi.
I had the same problem with I9505OXAAMDE firmware. I update firmware to I9505OXAAMDM and subpixels are ok. Now my screen is black, but now i have smearing in setup menu and contact.
I hope that in the future fix this problem.
regards
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Interesting. You did not have the 'smearing' before? Because I do see some of that also. On i9505-XXUAMDF.

In the previous firmware did not have smearing.

Here is the fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259775

bsch3r said:
I bought an i9505 today. I noticed very bad scrolling artifacts especially on a black background. This can be best seen when scrolling up and down in a menue in the preferences. The white letters on black background smear alot. This effect gets worse when turning brightness down. The responsiveness of the s4 display seem quite bad. The s3, which i also own does a whole lot better in this regard.
Can other S4 owners confirm this problem? Has the octa the same problem? Main reason i bought this phone was the oled display. I am quite dissapointed.
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Here is a temporary fix

Mine dose it too
I9500
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Old post but mine dose it too!! Galaxy s5

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Screen marks only noticeable on low brightness dark screen

I have a relatively new (1w) sgs3 and have notice that in the dark room when screen has a darkish grey too off-black background solid colour (even on the stock notification background) and with tge brightness on lowest setting,then there many blob marks in the screen.
I ran a pixel checker which is fine but this appears like a defect in the glass itself. I'm not using a screen protector yet.
Can anyone else notice these blobs, some of which are as big as 3-4mm diameters?
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Its completely normal on Super Amoled screens. I have them but it doesn't bother me since it only occurs on black screens. FYI, there was already a lot of topics about this already...
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AbuYahya said:
I have a relatively new (1w) sgs3 and have notice that in the dark room when screen has a darkish grey too off-black background solid colour (even on the stock notification background) and with tge brightness on lowest setting,then there many blob marks in the screen.
I ran a pixel checker which is fine but this appears like a defect in the glass itself. I'm not using a screen protector yet.
Can anyone else notice these blobs, some of which are as big as 3-4mm diameters?
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Haven't seen it on the SIII, but on the SII I have, this would happen with screen filter on lower brightness. I think that it has something to do with the level at which the pixels fire optimally. If they are under fed, essentially, the inherent flaws in the screen matrix (as in any manufactured item) become visible where they otherwise wouldn't.
I know this has been beaten to death, but it varies from phone to phone. My i9300 had a lot of blobs. My second one only really has one noticeable one. My i747 is almost perfect. It has little dots, but they are spread out and pretty much near the border of the screen. I wish it would have been the other way around...
please search before posting this topic has been discussed in great detail in another thread.
common on super amoled hd panels.
Same issue too. Checked with Samsung and they said it's common for the screen. Only occurs in black pictures low back light and dark room and it doesn't bother me
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GT i950x screen issue, please read

Ok I picked up my new galaxy s4 today, I've owned all the galaxy s handsets and been pleased with them.
However I noticed some weird screen issue earlier, basically while scrolling dark greys on blacks smudge/smear purple.
A test for this is in settings, on anything grey if you slowly scroll up and down the grey bits go purple.
Does anyone's else phone suffer from this? I've never noticed this on previous phones, but not sure if my handset is faulty or whether it's just how the galaxy s4s are.
I know it sounds odd but I'd really appreciate if someone could test it for me, go to settings where the background is black and there are greyish bars, scroll up and down slowly and tell me if the grey bits have purple smearing/smudging.
Thanks
edit: I've added a picture and drew some arrows to point out what parts go purple/smudge when I scroll, this is just so you know what to look for. It isn't an image that shows my problem, it simply to point out what parts show the issue when I scroll
Thanks
Please report your HW Rev number at this thread and state if you do have teh smearing issue. You can do that by dialing *#12580*369# on your dialpad.
Yes!!! Happens on mine too!!!
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AMoosa said:
Yes!!! Happens on mine too!!!
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Same thing here.
So it's the issue with software right? I hope it's not intentional - given how retarded touchwiz design is, I wouldn't be shocked if it is.
Does it affect it somewhere else? Like videos or something? Or have you tried it in non stock apps? Say download poweramp, put a grey skin and try scrolling?
Thanks a lot for testing it.
Well it must just be the way it is.
I'm certain it didn't do it on the galaxy s3. I wonder if they're using a cheaper screen or something.
I was hoping it might be software related but I watched a youtube video with dark scenes and I could even see the smearing there
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced it's not a software thing, it just doesn't look right, and if you turn the brightness right down it looks even worse. And I mean really bad, honestly try turn the brightness right down and then do it.
I know some people might say "it's not a big deal" as I'm not going to spend all my time scrolling up and down in the settings menu lol, but that's just an easy test to show it. I can see smudging on dark colours in general, I'm really disappointed.
can you make a video?
this is weird
PLUG313 said:
can you make a video?
this is weird
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I can't unfortunately as I don't have another phone or camera to video it with.
Mine does this too. It's like the ghosting effects you get on cheap televisions with low refresh rates. Hope it's not a faulty screen, I'd imagine the wait for a replacement will be quite lengthy...
jbpf77 said:
Mine does this too. It's like the ghosting effects you get on cheap televisions with low refresh rates. Hope it's not a faulty screen, I'd imagine the wait for a replacement will be quite lengthy...
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I went to a few stores to test demo units and they all do the same thing.
The s3 doesn't.
I wonder if they're just using a cheaper screen.
It may be the new pixel arrangement in the device. It makes whites look different colours if you look at the phone from an angle.
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I too noticed this issue on my new SGS4 today and I´m glad I found a thread with people having the same issue. I also found another thread about the same issue: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253881
I'm gonna guess it's probably due to "adapt display"..try going into display and change to movie mode
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squshy 7 said:
I'm gonna guess it's probably due to "adapt display"..try going into display and change to movie mode
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Tried it, but no matter which mode I choose, it doesn´t change anything about the problem.
Mine does it too. It's most noticeable for me scrolling through contacts, the grey bars with the letters on seem to shrink then grow with purple edges. Very weird!
UPDATE- Seems like it only happens in TouchWiz. I have Rom Toolbox which has grey bars on dark background and it doesn't happen.
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Static I have no issues with display but scrolling in stock apps I get purple according to direct I scroll byt tge colour stays within its border. Tbh I have no issue with that, kinda seems like a theme lol
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Samsung should fix this fast via software update, this is emberassing for a 700$ phone.
so it's for sure software related?
can anyone make a video so I can see what it's like?
I am pretty sure its the software, for the screen works perfectly when watching a vid of sth white moving on a black background. The smearing only occurs inside the os and apps. I can´t upload a vid of it atm, but I will as soon as I can.
Edit: I made a vid of it with my SGS2, the quality aint that good, but you can see the ghosting on the grey setting bars: /watch?v=iNwCuufJuLM&feature=youtu.be
It does not smear in toolbox or video because the background is not absolutely black. I am pretty shure this is an inherent amoled problem. I guess its either no absolute black level like the s3 or smearing on s4.
It seams the pixels on s4 get turned off completely on black areas of the screen and react slowly when turned on again. On s3 the pixels are never completely turned off to probably avoid this artefact. Thats why s3 blackest black is deep gray.
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Titanium backup does smear... its not the software, unfortunately.
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bsch3r said:
It does not smear in toolbox or video because the background is not absolutely black. I am pretty shure this is an inherent amoled problem. I guess its either no absolute black level like the s3 or smearing on s4.
It seams the pixels on s4 get turned off completely on black areas of the screen and react slowly when turned on again. On s3 the pixels are never completely turned off to probably avoid this artefact. Thats why s3 blackest black is deep gray.
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Titanium backup does smear... its not the software, unfortunately.
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i agree with you, i've tried scrolling a page with a black background with grey text, same thing happens, its got that purple hazy ghosting issue

[Q]Problem White LCD S4

hi freinds
my galaxy s4 in the white background at the Bottom of LCD is wiling to violet or Gray.So that the top of the LCD seen Brighter.
Does anyone have this problem?Someone's trying to test a pure white screen?
thanks
Its an amoled and it looks like one of your screen arrays are bust. Id say the green leds. Its most likely a screen repair job.
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you can see this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252445
Its not big deal, mostly everyone has this kind of problems. You will never see perfect bright whites on AMOLED screens. Yellow/purple/pink tint.
IBraHiM.f said:
hi freinds
my galaxy s4 in the white background at the Bottom of LCD is wiling to violet or Gray.So that the top of the LCD seen Brighter.
Does anyone have this problem?Someone's trying to test a pure white screen?
thanks
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I have this exact same problem. Exact same ! This is because of the samoled displays. Alot of displays have this I guess.
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I have used several s4 phones and some have the exact problem.
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I have the same and also 2 stripes running horizontally across my screen on grey and low brightness.
The SAMOLED technology isn't perfect. You'll always find something
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In your opinion, is this abnormal at my phone?
To more clearly illustrate this problem in the lower part of the image is cut to the top.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp me:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
IBraHiM.f said:
In your opinion, is this abnormal at my phone?
To more clearly illustrate this problem in the lower part of the image is cut to the top.
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp me:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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You can't do anything, it's samoled technology... You will never have pure white. Change to an other S4 maybe...
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I also made some photo's of my S4 screen and got about the same results as TS. However, when I made some photos of my 24 inch LCD screen, I also saw the same 'issue'. A photo camera has problems photographing a computer/ smartphone screen, so I would not worry too much about your S4 screen.
As you can see in your photo, the bottom of the photo is noticably lighter than the top of the photo.

[Q] Screen Quality?

Hello all! I'm still using my Galaxy Nexus (Toro) and I'm due to upgrade next month, I'm now seriously considering the Galaxy S4, but the one thing that has me concerned is the screen quality.
As some of you may already know, the Galaxy Nexus has some odd color reproduction (especially in the greys) when the screen is anything below maximum brightness. It looks like there is almost a texture to the greys, and whites when scrolling. (See photos here)
I understand that this is the nature of the display on the GNex and I've learned to just tolerate it.
I really just want to know if the S4 suffers from the same issue at all?
Thanks in advance!
Liskrig said:
Hello all! I'm still using my Galaxy Nexus (Toro) and I'm due to upgrade next month, I'm now seriously considering the Galaxy S4, but the one thing that has me concerned is the screen quality.
As some of you may already know, the Galaxy Nexus has some odd color reproduction (especially in the greys) when the screen is anything below maximum brightness. It looks like there is almost a texture to the greys, and whites when scrolling. (See photos here)
I understand that this is the nature of the display on the GNex and I've learned to just tolerate it.
I really just want to know if the S4 suffers from the same issue at all?
Thanks in advance!
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I personally notice the same thing for the greys in my S4, but I think is less evident than on the Nexus (my sister has one and I compared the 2 displays). In any case I think that it is a "feature" of AMOLED displays! The white instead is perfect and believe me is the best white I've ever seen on an AMOLED display!
Screen issues on the Galaxy S4? Where do I start!
*Pink tint
*Light Banding across the screen on low brightness
*Purple smearing
*Hue changing when keyboard is toggled
*Screen flickering when using data on white Web pages
*Purple greys on low brightness
I'm sure there's more!
The S4 is the worst of the Galaxy devices for quality control.
It was rushed to market to compete with HTC and Sony and so suffers a lot of issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love my S4 but definitely check the screen as soon as you get it.
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Obagleyfreer said:
Screen issues on the Galaxy S4? Where do I start!
*Pink tint
*Light Banding across the screen on low brightness
*Purple smearing
*Hue changing when keyboard is toggled
*Screen flickering when using data on white Web pages
*Purple greys on low brightness
I'm sure there's more!
The S4 is the worst of the Galaxy devices for quality control.
It was rushed to market to compete with HTC and Sony and so suffers a lot of issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love my S4 but definitely check the screen as soon as you get it.
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Dont know about i9505 but the only "issue" i have on my i9500 is purple smearing that too on some 3rd party apps and barely noticable(after the update)...
And s4 has currently the best screen that u cn get in the market apart from iphone5 or note 2..but the latter phones are not full hd so s4 somewhat wins the round.
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Obagleyfreer said:
Screen issues on the Galaxy S4? Where do I start!
*Pink tint
*Light Banding across the screen on low brightness
*Purple smearing
*Hue changing when keyboard is toggled
*Screen flickering when using data on white Web pages
*Purple greys on low brightness
I'm sure there's more!
The S4 is the worst of the Galaxy devices for quality control.
It was rushed to market to compete with HTC and Sony and so suffers a lot of issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love my S4 but definitely check the screen as soon as you get it.
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Those were all the issues I was afraid of...
I may risk it though, I believe Verizon has a pretty painless return/exchange policy.
Thanks for all the continued replies, I really appreciate it!
Obagleyfreer said:
Screen issues on the Galaxy S4? Where do I start!
*Pink tint
*Light Banding across the screen on low brightness
*Purple smearing
*Hue changing when keyboard is toggled
*Screen flickering when using data on white Web pages
*Purple greys on low brightness
I'm sure there's more!
The S4 is the worst of the Galaxy devices for quality control.
It was rushed to market to compete with HTC and Sony and so suffers a lot of issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love my S4 but definitely check the screen as soon as you get it.
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I have none of these issues, except the smearing, which with the update is fixed. Anything else is just perfect. I would say that this is the best mobile display put on a phone so far, and by faaaar the best SAMOLED out there.
Obagleyfreer said:
Screen issues on the Galaxy S4? Where do I start!
*Pink tint
*Light Banding across the screen on low brightness
*Purple smearing
*Hue changing when keyboard is toggled
*Screen flickering when using data on white Web pages
*Purple greys on low brightness
I'm sure there's more!
The S4 is the worst of the Galaxy devices for quality control.
It was rushed to market to compete with HTC and Sony and so suffers a lot of issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love my S4 but definitely check the screen as soon as you get it.
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I can confirm that I have all these issues aswell...
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derWolf_ said:
I have none of these issues, except the smearing, which with the update is fixed. Anything else is just perfect. I would say that this is the best mobile display put on a phone so far, and by faaaar the best SAMOLED out there.
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The latest update did NOT fix the smearing.
It is just no longer as noticeable in the settings of TW.
All 3rd party apps and even other parts of TW still have the purple smearing, even the stock gallery.
It is simply a drawback of the AMOLED display showing pure black by turning off the pixels.
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Liskrig said:
Those were all the issues I was afraid of...
I may risk it though, I believe Verizon has a pretty painless return/exchange policy.
Thanks for all the continued replies, I really appreciate it!
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It's worth the risk mate. The S4 is still one hell of a phone!
It's just a shame Samsung were blinded by the $$$ and didn't put the S4 through proper quality control.
If you bought it I don't think you'd regret it
Obagleyfreer said:
The latest update did NOT fix the smearing.
It is just no longer as noticeable in the settings of TW.
All 3rd party apps and even other parts of TW still have the purple smearing, even the stock gallery.
It is simply a drawback of the AMOLED display showing pure black by turning off the pixels.
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True, however for most of us it was most obvious in the settings menu, and it is gone from there, which is fine by me
However, you said it is a drawback of the AMOLED technology. I don't remember my old S2 having smearing issues? Or did it..
derWolf_ said:
True, however for most of us it was most obvious in the settings menu, and it is gone from there, which is fine by me
However, you said it is a drawback of the AMOLED technology. I don't remember my old S2 having smearing issues? Or did it..
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It's not a drawback of AMOLED it's a draw back of this display turning off pixels to make black.
The S, S2 and S3 did not shut down pixels for blacks.
You get better battery life and purer blacks on the S4 but the downside is the smearing effect.
Obagleyfreer said:
It's not a drawback of AMOLED it's a draw back of this display turning off pixels to make black.
The S, S2 and S3 did not shut down pixels for blacks.
You get better battery life and purer blacks on the S4 but the downside is the smearing effect.
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Your right...we have to live with it...the pixel are going from off to on when scrolling through black menus..thats why this happens. ..older galaxies never actually cut off...if wanna fix this you can use screen adjuster and slightly adjust the rgb, this will stop the smearing but also stop the pixels from turning off when displaying black
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Note 3 has Smearing, Ghosting

Hi Guys
I got my Note 3 today. The first thing i saw was this purple Ghostimg..
Uncheck Auto Brightness and set the slider to -5.
Then in Settings and Contacts you can see Smearing like on the S4 (not that bad but its there)
If you use Tapatalk change to dark theme and scroll slowly..
The Grey Text gets purple... When you stop scrolling its grey..
This Su***
Sorry for my bad english
Sorry for DP
You can also see it in LCD Test (Amoled Ready) App.
Change Brightness to lowest possible level.. Then switch between black and darker grey.. You can see a purple bar between them
Edit: I tried the S4 Fix. Changed Contrast to -10 (with Screen Adjuster) and Smearing is completely gone
so note 3 screen is fine then?
Thinking of buying the Note 3 but really wanna know how bad the smearing issue is cause i bought the Galaxy s4 on launch day and couldn't live with the smearing issue ( my girlfriend also bought a Galaxy s4 on launch day and still has it..she didn't think the smearing was annoying..i hated it )
Could someone with a Note 3 try both things explained below on low brightness
1. Download zedge and search for black wallpapers..then while scrolling thru the wallpapers..do you so smearing..purple glow on the grey background in zedge between the wallpapers?
2. Choose a black wallpaper as background and install nova launcher...then on the homescreen set a widget with some grey in it like the stock music player widget and scroll between the homescreens...and also with some icons on the homescreens?
On the Galaxy s4 doing the above there was a lot of smearing..purple glow visible even after the fix from samsung cause they only fixt it in the samsung framework
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For me... Its too much Smearing.. I sold my S4 because of Smearing.m And now Note3 is the same.. Bought it Yesterday.. Now i sell it on ebay.. i hate this ugly smearing.. its a no go for a 750 € Smartphone..i stay with my Note 2 -.-
Edit: Tested Zedge... Between Black and Grey Wallpapers massive Smearing.. very very bad :/
Yeah Samsung will fix this for sure.. But in Tapatalk ect Smearing will still be there
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Gee, I have this issue with my Galaxy S4. I don't have the Note 3 but considering they have the same screen technology, the issue is probably with the hardware.
I've attached a picture which really shows the smearing.
1. Set brightness to lowest.
2. Open the attached picture in the galaxy app.
3. Zoom in on the picture.
4. Scroll up and down. You'll see purple shadow around the black edge.
cdon2109 said:
Gee, I have this issue with my Galaxy S4. I don't have the Note 3 but considering they have the same screen technology, the issue is probably with the hardware.
I've attached a picture which really shows the smearing.
1. Set brightness to lowest.
2. Open the attached picture in the galaxy app.
3. Zoom in on the picture.
4. Scroll up and down. You'll see purple shadow around the black edge.
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Yup, I see the purple smearing on my n9005.
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Me too...mm..quite dissapointed with 1080p display..
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Son of a b...... I knew I should stop reading stuff.....
I never noticed the problem until I read this thread haha
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RavenY2K3 said:
I never noticed the problem until I read this thread haha
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Then is it really a problem?
BarryH_GEG said:
Then is it really a problem?
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Haha very true, well it wasn't... it is now lol
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it is okay long as the ghosting doesn't affect my photo, video and apps
cdon2109 said:
Gee, I have this issue with my Galaxy S4. I don't have the Note 3 but considering they have the same screen technology, the issue is probably with the hardware.
I've attached a picture which really shows the smearing.
1. Set brightness to lowest.
2. Open the attached picture in the galaxy app.
3. Zoom in on the picture.
4. Scroll up and down. You'll see purple shadow around the black edge.
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I noticed it when browsing several forums that have darker themes, any black/grey transitions smear terribly with purple..
I don't think it's a screen tech thing, because fast moving films with dark scenes don't seem to smear, it only seems in the rendering of UI stuff..
It is hardware problem?
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I think I read it is a screen tech thing - a side effect of the deepest blacks produced by turning off the pixels altogether. Then the smearing is caused by the pixels being turned on again but not quite fast enough. At least I think that was the theory.
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Is it possible to remove the smearing permanently?
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harold5249 said:
Is it possible to remove the smearing permanently?
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You can reduce it a lot by downloading screen adjuster in the playstore and set contrast to - 10 to - 15 and then press activate
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This happen to every set? Or some only?
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I tried with the picture someone attached, zoomed in with lowest brightness and moved the picture around. I was not able to see anything weird.
Definitely has it on mine at lower brightnesses, got it yesterday. VERY easily noticed in Tweetings where mentions are in a grey-ish colour. Only does it on text at basically minimum brightness, so I can live with it. Really bugged me on my S4 on text as it was apparent at slightly higher brightnesses.

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