This morning, my screen has weirdly shifted colours. It looks like the some settings were messed up while I was asleep (no idea how) and now when greys are too dark, they go purplish, and bright colours are over-saturated with white. Not like in the usual AMOLED oversaturation, which to my belief, is just because of software, but everything that was slightly lighter blue, is now this weird, greyish-blue colour.
Is it a hardware defect or can it be solved in software. Already tried wiping data. Didn't help. (I'm gonna try to reflash android later.)
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Hi, I have an annoying problem with my Focus. Basically the screen randomly take a yellow tinge and all the colors become bleached out. For example white pages, become slightly yellow color. The blue theme looks almost teal, and the keyboard which is dark grey become, light yellowish gray. It does it whether or not automatic brightness is activated. When it happens, the screen just looks like crap. Is that normal or should I get my phone exchanged?
Ayle said:
Hi, I have an annoying problem with my Focus. Basically the screen randomly take a yellow tinge and all the colors become bleached out. For example white pages, become slightly yellow color. The blue theme looks almost teal, and the keyboard which is dark grey become, light yellowish gray. It does it whether or not automatic brightness is activated. When it happens, the screen just looks like crap. Is that normal or should I get my phone exchanged?
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That sounds like a deffective OLED. Certainly not normal.
Did it start all of a sudden? You could try a backup and hard reset. If after hard reset it still happens, then warranty... If not, restore from backup. If it still happens, you probably did a wrong hack... I hope you haven't been tinkering in the internals of the MFG app...
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That sounds like a deffective OLED. Certainly not normal.
Did it start all of a sudden? You could try a backup and hard reset. If after hard reset it still happens, then warranty... If not, restore from backup. If it still happens, you probably did a wrong hack... I hope you haven't been tinkering in the internals of the MFG app...
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I ended up getting it exchanged at Best Buy, I also specifically asked for a rev1.3 instead of the 1.4 I initially got. So now my screen is perfect and I also have NoDo. Couldn't be any more happier than this.
The problem: Most screens on my Droid 2 are consistently darkened, as if dimmed to the lowest setting. The colors are even inverted in a few places. I would be inclined to call this a hardware problem, except that many of the stock android screens (app drawer, contacts, settings, etc) display perfectly. As you can see in the (poor quality, sorry) photos, the app drawer looks normal, but the second you switch back to the Home screen, everything visibly fades to a darker, slightly inverted color scheme. Pulling down the notification tray only makes the display darker, and it unquestionably inverts the colors, turning black-on-white text into white-on-black, the wifi indicator turns from blue to orange, and the battery indicator turns from green to blue and magenta.
I've reset the phone to factory, run the SBF through RSD Lite, and searched the Internet high and low for someone experiencing a similar problem. I finally resorted to taking it to Verizon, but (surprise, surprise) they couldn't figure it out, either.
There's been no water damage, and the phone seems to be in pristine condition. It works great in every other respect, but it's basically unusable if the screen doesn't show colors and brightness correctly. I love this phone and don't want to return it to the EBay seller I got it from, but I'm beginning to feel that I have no other choice.
Any help from the XDA gallery?
Well, it's a moot point now. I just returned the phone to the seller; should be getting a full refund.
I'll leave this up for the next guy with this problem. It won't offer much help, but at least he'll know he's not insane.
i have this problem(maybe common in amoled devices) if i take gray pitchure and put it on background there is distorsion in grey. like brighter and darker stripes(but you need to look it realy good) for exsample download program screen helper lite and tell me do you see stripes on main gray program screen.
There is a thread going for so long,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079444
Regards.
I think that he meant this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075364&highlight=banding
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121840&highlight=banding
I dont think he is refering to both yellowish screens or banding.
I'm having this issue too. It doesnt show itself unless the screen brightness is turned down, and especially an grey background. There will be faint large vertical stripes. It is as if the backlighting is uneven. Increase the brightness and it'll go away.
Seeing that i do not have the yellowish screen problem, no stuck/dead pixels and no bluish tint problem, im very reluctant to send this phone back for a replacement due to this problem. Its something that i can live with.
Can anyone make an ultimate fix for galaxy s4 smearing?
Are you talking about the graphical smearing/tearing that happens when you, for example, scroll?
This is caused by the pixels. In AMOLED devices, when a pixel shows black, it is actually turned off. However, there is a delay when turning that pixel back on. So if pixels have to change from black to colored and vice versa (for example, scrolling through your app drawer if it has a black background), this graphical glitch occurs because of the delay from turning the pixels off and on.
Samsung has rectified this issue on their stock ROMs by eliminating true black, making the pixels always on. This will also negate the battery saving effects of AMOLED displays when showing black. This is the only way I know to fix the problem.
If you were referring to another "smearing" please elaborate and we may be able to help better.
I'm talking about that one that you said.. but in 3rd part apps in 4.3 stock android roms there isn't any fix ,apart Screen adjuster setting contrast -10, i wanted to know if someone can change blacks in very dark grey keeping the other colors , not changing all the colors setting contrast -10 or SmearFix app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2372357 Have a try!
Hello there everyone,
My S10+ Exynos variant suddenly started showing wierd colour bad contrast in lower britgthness. When dimming the phone below 40% , the picture/video quality gets so dimm, pale, also i notest at work, my other two coworkers have same phone, with notisably darker picture, pictures and videos are darker , contrast is wasy better between dark and bright parts of the picture. And i know about all settings, vivid, advanced, visibility enhancments, Themes. Tried em all. I know android very well in stock settings.
Also i have tried factory reset, wipe chache, i even F...uking updates the phone to the very last firmware, and each update even after factory reset didnt change anything. Its still the same. At lower brigthness the screen gets so grenish dimmed and pale, colours lack contrast.
And also another wierd thing... in both of my coworkers s10+,s dark mode (night mode from pie) is amoled dark, pixels turned of, on my phone its not, they are turned on, dark grey colour. Funny thing is, if i take screenshots, they are not, screenshot shows amoled dark. While in phone, pixels are turned on, like its backlight lcd panel and not amoled. Screen failure or something else i can do?
Any tweak app or something to play with contrast ratio in Samsung Galaxy s10+?