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So can anyone confirm that the striations or lines on the screen are normal??
Im talking about when you pull down the notifications bar there are light lines that come down vertically and soma cases are horizontal.
Please let me know I got 30 days with it. thanks!

azzeh3 said:
So can anyone confirm that the striations or lines on the screen are normal??
Im talking about when you pull down the notifications bar there are light lines that come down vertically and soma cases are horizontal.
Please let me know I got 30 days with it. thanks!
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my first nexus s had darker whites than the display model at the store. I would recommend comparing yours with the store display or another persons nexus s, I think this is the best way, since we cant physically see how your phone screen looks. good luck

Are you referring to the gray section where your service provider is listed? Or the very dark area where the notifications are listed?
If I stare I can see some lines in the gray area.
I do see a slight grid pattern in the power control widget.

No I'm talking about grey section where your messages show up
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I think its screen burn in already
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I don't have a Nexus S, but I have a Galaxy S i9000M which has a similar (if not exactly the same) screen. If I bring up a screen that is a solid colour, I do notice some imperfections like you describe. They are hardly noticeable though.

Weird. My nexus doesn't have that and I would know, I modded my nexus 1 to be pretty much like gingerbread 6 months back, massive burn in.
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actually no.... mine doesn't have any lines or defects.
the only lines are the horizontal ones separating the notifications.

I think I know what you mean. My N1 on certain backgrounds has very faint grey lines. Not always visible, even on white web pages
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dudeimgeorge said:
Weird. My nexus doesn't have that and I would know, I modded my nexus 1 to be pretty much like gingerbread 6 months back, massive burn in.
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Why would that cause burn in more than anything else?

I don't know but I don't want it to get worse over time
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Yes, I can see it. I can see it on any AMOLED/SAMOLED phone I've ever come in contact with. It's the nature of AMOLED screens unlike most LCD screens. With AMOLED, each pixel is individually powered, and it's impossible to have each pixel (or subpixel) be identical, which leads to slight differences in output and color reproduction. An LCD screen is backlight by either florescent tubes or recently, LEDs, which produce an even backlight (usually) where the colors are controlled by filtering each pixel, rather than having to illuminate each pixel.
Anyway, I only really notice it when the brightness is at the minimum and it's very dark in the place I'm using my phone. If I crank up the brightness or if I'm in a well lit area, I don't notice it at all really. Although if it's VERY obvious, you might have a screen that's significantly lower quality than average... it happens, bad QC or something, exchange it.
Oh, and if you stare at a plasma TV long enough you'll notice the same thing... similar technology, each pixel illuminated individually.

Pink tint area in the display

I love everything about this phone except...pinky tint at the bottom 1/5 of the screen!
It's especially visible with white background. It seems that the bottom 1/5 part gets very warm when the phone is doing lots of stuff or charging battery and I think that's when the pink tint is really gettung, well pink.
I will probably exchange it once the supply gets better and my local att store gets stocks. Hopefully you guys are not experiencing this.
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Yunosuke said:
I love everything about this phone except...pinky tint at the bottom 1/5 of the screen!
It's especially visible with white background. It seems that the bottom 1/5 part gets very warm when the phone is doing lots of stuff or charging battery and I think that's when the pink tint is really gettung, well pink.
I will probably exchange it once the supply gets better and my local att store gets stocks. Hopefully you guys are not experiencing this.
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what color did you get?

I have the white and have not noticed this.
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Yunosuke said:
I love everything about this phone except...pinky tint at the bottom 1/5 of the screen!
It's especially visible with white background. It seems that the bottom 1/5 part gets very warm when the phone is doing lots of stuff or charging battery and I think that's when the pink tint is really gettung, well pink.
I will probably exchange it once the supply gets better and my local att store gets stocks. Hopefully you guys are not experiencing this.
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How dark is the tint? Like how noticable is it?
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werked said:
I have the white and have not noticed this.
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Same here.
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americasteam said:
Same here.
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Thanks guys for the reply. I've got blue one. It's barely visible as my friends couldn't see it at all lol. I have really good eyes, or I have to say "trained eyes " that I do graphic arts stuff everyday. Color accuracy is critical for my job.
My S2 had blueish tint but it was uniform color temperature for the entire screen. I'm currently using app called Screen Adjuster to mitigate the issue but it doesn't solve the problem because of the uneven color temperature. I really think that the heat at the bottom part really changed the tint permanently.
I'm happy that you guys don't have such problem!

Yunosuke said:
Thanks guys for the reply. I've got blue one. It's barely visible as my friends couldn't see it at all lol. I have really good eyes, or I have to say "trained eyes " that I do graphic arts stuff everyday. Color accuracy is critical for my job.
My S2 had blueish tint but it was uniform color temperature for the entire screen. I'm currently using app called Screen Adjuster to mitigate the issue but it doesn't solve the problem because of the uneven color temperature. I really think that the heat at the bottom part really changed the tint permanently.
I'm happy that you guys don't have such problem!
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Have you contacted samsung about it? I am curious on how they would address it.
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I have some ink blob close to the middle of my screen that's visible at night in a dark room. It's very annoying and definitely swapping it out hopefully next week. I have a blue gs3.
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uranis said:
I have some ink blob close to the middle of my screen that's visible at night in a dark room. It's very annoying and definitely swapping it out hopefully next week. I have a blue gs3.
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Mine has a couple of those too. From reading the international thread, it seems somewhat normal with amoled. There's a chance you will exchange it and get once that's worse....
Edit: I shouldn't say normal with amoled. My nexus s doesnt really have it. My nexus s is also almost completely black while the galaxy s3 isn't as dark of a black
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uranis said:
I have some ink blob close to the middle of my screen that's visible at night in a dark room. It's very annoying and definitely swapping it out hopefully next week. I have a blue gs3.
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I must say it'll be really hard to find the AMOLED screen with no ink bolbs unfortunately.. I went through 3 S2 Syrockets and 1 Playstation Vita. All of them have those blobs or lines of ink that you can see in a dark room with black or gray background. It's really prevalent issue. Personally I gave up about the issue as its only visible in some limited conditions. Sorry but if you don't have any other problems then i dont want you to exchange it with even worse unit...
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I have no tint or anything in that matter, I don't see any blobs like I did on my s2
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cashyftw said:
I have no tint or anything in that matter, I don't see any blobs like I did on my s2
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Thanks! I'm really hoping that the odds are very rare!
Until my exchanged unit arrives, I'll just enjoy this beautifully built phone!

Oh man I thought samsung noticed this issue with the intl version.. is it possible to use the SG3 without a simcard? I mean can I access the applications / browser using wifi without having a simcard in? I am asking because I ordered one from AT&T and I will unlock it, I don't want to unlock it then send it back if it has issues..

Sher The Love said:
Mine has a couple of those too. From reading the international thread, it seems somewhat normal with amoled. There's a chance you will exchange it and get once that's worse....
Edit: I shouldn't say normal with amoled. My nexus s doesnt really have it. My nexus s is also almost completely black while the galaxy s3 isn't as dark of a black
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Yunosuke said:
uranis said:
I have some ink blob close to the middle of my screen that's visible at night in a dark room. It's very annoying and definitely swapping it out hopefully next week. I have a blue gs3.
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I must say it'll be really hard to find the AMOLED screen with no ink bolbs unfortunately.. I went through 3 S2 Syrockets and 1 Playstation Vita. All of them have those blobs or lines of ink that you can see in a dark room with black or gray background. It's really prevalent issue. Personally I gave up about the issue as its only visible in some limited conditions. Sorry but if you don't have any other problems then i dont want you to exchange it with even worse unit...
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I never noticed the issue on other amoled devices but you're right it would suck to give it in and get something worse.
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If you want to see if your phone has these blobs, do the following
Go into a pitch black room
Set your phone brightness to auto
Open camera app
Turn off flash
take a picture of pure darkness
View the picture in the gallery, and tap it once open so all the bars and menus go away showing nothing but the image
Inspect the screen up close, you may have to wait 5 minutes for your eyes to adjust
If you don't see those blotches, your eyes suck, didn't let them adjust enough to the dark, or you just wasted your luck on a nice phone rather than a lottery ticket!

PMad said:
If you want to see if your phone has these blobs, do the following
Go into a pitch black room
Set your phone brightness to auto
Open camera app
Turn off flash
take a picture of pure darkness
View the picture in the gallery, and tap it once open so all the bars and menus go away showing nothing but the image
Inspect the screen up close, you may have to wait 5 minutes for your eyes to adjust
If you don't see those blotches, your eyes suck, didn't let them adjust enough to the dark, or you just wasted your luck on a nice phone rather than a lottery ticket!
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I dont want to see them if I do this my ocd will b In overdrive....
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PMad said:
If you want to see if your phone has these blobs, do the following
Go into a pitch black room
Set your phone brightness to auto
Open camera app
Turn off flash
take a picture of pure darkness
View the picture in the gallery, and tap it once open so all the bars and menus go away showing nothing but the image
Inspect the screen up close, you may have to wait 5 minutes for your eyes to adjust
If you don't see those blotches, your eyes suck, didn't let them adjust enough to the dark, or you just wasted your luck on a nice phone rather than a lottery ticket!
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How do you know that the blotches you see after this test are not just a camera flaw? Did you send the picture you took on the sg3 to another phone and view it again? If the bloches are there, its a camera flaw. If not, its a screen flaw.

Everysingle amoled screen that I have owned had purple tint. It is more or less common on samoled. Especially noticeable when the brightness turned to low.
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NA 521" said:
How do you know that the blotches you see after this test are not just a camera flaw? Did you send the picture you took on the sg3 to another phone and view it again? If the bloches are there, its a camera flaw. If not, its a screen flaw.
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Because, i used pinch and zoom while the picture was open and pretty much saw nothing happen on the screen. I could tell from some slight changes in some lighter spots, but the blotches did not move. You can do the same.

PMad said:
Because, i used pinch and zoom while the picture was open and pretty much saw nothing happen on the screen. I could tell from some slight changes in some lighter spots, but the blotches did not move. You can do the same.
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Ah, that will work, too! Thanks!

Dust around screen on titanium grey fault?

Is anyone else bothered with dust packing in around the little gap around the screen? Best seen in light. And only visible on the grey.
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The blue s3 had the same problem (I've got a white note 2 after reading about this problem).
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I just use a little detailing brush every other day or so on my Pebble blue S3 to handle that. One of the downfalls to not selecting the white model.
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YES, I too see it, being quite particular it really annoys me! I just use a very fine make up brush (not mine obviously!!) that seems to do the trick.

I had to change to white because of it
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Whats seen cannot be unseen, dammit!
Didnt notice it until now. Should've never read this thread :crying:

had mine for 2 weeks bought from handtec. Just noticed the dust issue and slight gap between the top body and screen, plenty of dust so I've decided to return it for another grey one. tempted to get white but I know I will regret it few days after so sticking to grey as it looks much better.

Cant see one spec of dust in mine, but surely switching to a white will make it show up more?
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RavenY2K3 said:
Cant see one spec of dust in mine, but surely switching to a white will make it show up more?
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I have a white note 2 since september 29th and no dust on it that I can see
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god dang it, i was about to get the Grey version (its costs 60$ more) as i know the white version turns yellow after use! but damn it seems everyone agrees that this problem only happen with the grey version, this is sad as i really like it :/
can anyone please post a picture of the dust?

I haven't got any
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Me either.

Anyone got a pic?

I just got my Note 2 titanium grey today. I saw it too, around the corner. Will use it for another day to see if it gets worse. Any idea why it is affecting the Grey model only?
Edit: It is most definetly my scratch guard. Not the dust. Sorry for the wrong info. But I am still curious could anyone post a pic?
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No problem here..using it since 4 days..and in very dusty environment...
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Can anyone post a pic?

Hell Guardian said:
god dang it, i was about to get the Grey version (its costs 60$ more) as i know the white version turns yellow after use! but damn it seems everyone agrees that this problem only happen with the grey version, this is sad as i really like it :/
can anyone please post a picture of the dust?
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I really don't buy the fact, that it happens on a particular coloured device, it's the exact same phone! Just a different colour, if it happens to X it'll happen to Y.
It's not like the white ones have a differently designed front where it doesn't have the gap, they are both the same. If dust does get in there, you'll only see/notice the dust that gets contrasted by the colour of the phone, lighter colours would show up more on the grey, where as darker colours should show up more on the white.
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I have the dust "problem", but I don't care as don't affect the screen and it is almost invisible.

It's less visible on the white. I've had blue s3 and white s3 same issue with them.
There is variable gaps on the grey also, I've had 2 Grey. Take a paper and drag across the gap. Does it fall in you will get dust filling up. The good thing about the white one is that dust is not so visible.
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For me, this will be minor issue. Note 1 has the same. Taking a sheet of paper and sliding it gently through the gaps helps remove dust. Can hardly see it. imo despite picking up fingerprints like crazy, grey seems like the classiest colour.
I like things staying pristine but gosh, if I were going to worry about eg. possible dust build up between keys on pc keyboard, would go nuts! Gotta accept, its gonna happen. Hopefully casemate or others will produce a tough case that covers these gaps.
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Is your screen so damn yellow?

I don't have my Nexus 4 yet but I'm very concerned about the extremely warm tones I've been watching on some nexus 4 reviews, maybe some screens are defective? Does your screen have a yellow tone? Are the whites yellowish? I'm very unhappy with my Galaxy Nexus screen because the yellow tone of its screen, this could be a deal breaker for me, is there an app or something to give the screen a colder tone? Aka more blueish not as crazy as the galaxy s iii but you get the idea
Check out this comparison between nexus 4 and galaxy nexus for example
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For me, if your looking at the phone directly there is no yellow tone, but once you angle it there is some yellow then turns back into regular white. (this gets really yellow when you do this while looking from any corner of the phone) not sure if that makes any sense.
EDIT: i see most reviewers on youtube have it at an angle and makes it look really yellow.
not sure why its like that. maybe it has something to do with the glue lg uses?

lookitzjohnny said:
For me, if your looking at the phone directly there is no yellow tone, but once you angle it there is some yellow then turns back into regular white. (this gets really yellow when you do this while looking from any corner of the phone) not sure if that makes any sense.
EDIT: i see most reviewers on youtube have it at an angle and makes it look really yellow.
not sure why its like that. maybe it has something to do with the glue lg uses?
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The question is : is someone don't have this damn yellow tint from angle views ?

Check out this comparison between nexus 4 and galaxy nexus for example, the nexus 4 screen is ridiculously yellow

My n4 is not yellow. Idk why you listen to people. Smh
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Freshly_Snipes said:
My n4 is not yellow. Idk why you listen to people. Smh
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Even when you look from angle ?

Hydro8 said:
Even when you look from angle ?
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what the why would you look at your phone from an angle its not a tv?

The phone dims quickly at an angle. Which keeps from bothering people next to you at night. I like it.
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Slight yellowing when looking from bottom left or top right corners.
Looks slightly blue when looking from bottom right or top left.
No discolouration at all when looking head-on.
I think it's just how the pixels are aligned in the screen, it was built like that.

i.l.p said:
Slight yellowing when looking from bottom left or top right corners.
Looks slightly blue when looking from bottom right or top left.
No discolouration at all when looking head-on.
I think it's just how the pixels are aligned in the screen, it was built like that.
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THIS ^
I don't think it is an issue
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Not an issue.... Colors can be fixed with software anyways...
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i.l.p said:
Slight yellowing when looking from bottom left or top right corners.
Looks slightly blue when looking from bottom right or top left.
No discolouration at all when looking head-on.
I think it's just how the pixels are aligned in the screen, it was built like that.
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+1 No real issue.

admiez said:
+1 No real issue.
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I agree... No issue. I have one and have not seen any yellow at all

No yellow on mine
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all lcds have color shift guys, btw..stop watching videos from pocketnow..they're totally apple fanboys.
ive seen the guy try to spin contrast ratios by saying iphone has higher contrast ratio(which is impossible, since amoled has infinite contrast(300:0 vs say..600:0.3)) amongst other things

i.l.p said:
Slight yellowing when looking from bottom left or top right corners.
Looks slightly blue when looking from bottom right or top left.
No discolouration at all when looking head-on.
I think it's just how the pixels are aligned in the screen, it was built like that.
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Thank you for explaining this.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's going to vary from unit to unit.
I've compared four iPhone 4's side and they all had dramatically different color casts from one another.

Just compared my Nexus 4 to an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 4S in the Apple Store yesterday, this screen is definitely a bit warmer than Apple's displays. It is sort of yellowish on white pages, but the iPhone's were a bit bluer so it all depends on the software.

It's like you guys are looking for any issue. You can find a flat in any product in this world. The sky is definitely not falling and this a non issue. Just use the damn phone. Lol
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My screen is not yellow from any angle and ive compared it to my gnex from all angles
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[Q] Anyone who doesn't have the yellow tinted screen?

I've used at least 5 units and besides mine, which is creaky and has a few other screen issues, have yellowing. How come so many are yellow?

No yellow tint here, but to be fair, I wasn't really looking for it. I haven't looked at my screen with a pure white background though to be sure.

espionage724 said:
No yellow tint here, but to be fair, I wasn't really looking for it. I haven't looked at my screen with a pure white background though to be sure.
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No yellow tint here either and I did check with a full white screen well a pretty much blank web page

I have seen a redder tint on the N4 than my previous phone, but it is probably that the other was bluer.​

davepmer said:
No yellow tint here either and I did check with a full white screen well a pretty much blank web page
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+1 mine came perfect and after 6+ months still perfect without issues

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+1 mine came perfect and after 6+ months still perfect without issues
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+2 Mine is really good stock. When I tryed some of the custom ROM/KERNEL combos out there, it had a bluish tint... Weird. Stock for me. No creaking or anything else going on either. If it makes a difference, it is a newer build with the nubs on the back.

No tint
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A lot of people really on had this issue and it went away for some over time. Dunno if that was a placebo though. Also you can fix it with using kernel with color rgb and gamma control.
We see you meow on our nexus⁴ can we haz some more?

Mine came with yellow tint but went away after a month or so.

Well I'm glad to know other people have had positive experiences with their nexus 4, because I've been having the worst luck in terms of build quality with every nexus device I've owned. I just posted a huge rant about my experiences with the nexus line of products (specifically the nexus 4) and how what you pay for really is in most cases what you get.

I paid 99¢ for my wife's HTC One X.
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what you pay for really is in most cases what you get.
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You pay 650-700$ for an unlocked galaxy s4 and you still get display burn in after a while..
Or you pay the say amount for a galacy s3 and get the corrupted EMMC and sudden death syndrome. (I had an s3 with an affected chip).
One more point, the nexus 4 sells outside the playstore for over 500$/600$. The 300/350$ playstore price is not a regular price.
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if you mean the whole screen is yellow tinted from bad calibration, then yes. the yellow splotches that ive heard about, no. ive only seen the yellow tint for a matter of minutes when i first got my phone and flashed it to 100% stock, a custom kernel will completely get rid of it.

No yellow tint on any of the three nexus 4 devices I've used. Now my galaxy nexus... that's yellow!
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No yellow tint but when my nexus gets warm, i have a yellow blob at the bottom left corner. Goes after it cools down.
Not great i.m.o. Does anyone else get this?

withnailuk said:
No yellow tint but when my nexus gets warm, i have a yellow blob at the bottom left corner. Goes after it cools down.
Not great i.m.o. Does anyone else get this?
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Sounds like the glue
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” ― David Brin >^.^

I got 2 yellow spots on mine but its only noticeable on white backgrounds... One is on the bottom left of the screen and the other is at the bottom right of the screen just right above the navigation buttons
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