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hey guys so i have this phone and i like it, not awsome all the way, but its great so far, astonish performance and an OK camera, anyways heres what ive noticed and i dont wanna send it back before im sure its a problem:
-When i view its screen turned on from different angles the color hue slightly changes a bit to blue, this is most noticeable in bright images with alot of white level for example, is such thing normal?
Also is there any particular thing i should look for to know if its working properly or not? ive heard alot of ppl had problems with the screen, what are the steps that i need to take to check if mine has or does not have the same problems.
Thanks in advance!
ill be getting my S2 tomorrow but from what i understand this is normal on the phones ive owned in the past
all the screen issues i heard on the forums are
black spots
and yellow color from the left side of the screen
qwerty warrior said:
ill be getting my S2 tomorrow but from what i understand this is normal on the phones ive owned in the past
all the screen issues i heard on the forums are
black spots
and yellow color from the left side of the screen
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hmm thanks i dont have yellowish colors or black spots on mine, when u say the phones u owned in the past, were they all AMOLED? because AMOLED screen is suposed to avoid this kind of crap unlike LCD
TheWarKeeper said:
-When i view its screen turned on from different angles the color hue slightly changes a bit to blue, this is most noticeable in bright images with alot of white level for example, is such thing normal?
Thanks in advance!
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True ... when screen are turned and seen from different angles, the color hue slightly changes a bit to blue and that's normal.
But on my SGS2 no yellowish colors or black spots.
OP, the slight bluish hint is normal.
Also normal is some moderate banding on plain gray background.
Also normal is moderate yellowish left side. To check how severely your screen is effected, switch OFF orientation sensor, display a full screen gray image on about 25-50% brightness, look at it in portrait orientation, than flip the phone 180 degrees, so it is upside down. Do a few flips, you will notice the difference in colors on the left and the right sides. Most people do not see it by just looking at the image, they need a real precise side by side comparison like what I just described.
All these issues in moderation are normal for Amoled. What is not normal is dead pixels or damaged screens underneath the glass, but these issues are rare.
Pity you dont have a search button .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1127649
jje
There seem to be quite a few Note 4's being sold globally that suffer from serious screen coloring (color shifting) when watched from close to a normal viewing angle. To get an idea of the scale of this problem this topic contains a Poll.
This defect is most easily noted on a bright white screen (www.google.com, "Dead Pixel Test" app). Even at a slight angle (=20"-30" from dead straight) the screen will show a clear blue, green or red colored haze. The screen on a properly built Note 4 stays (close to) white, even at a wide angle.
Please let us know if your Note 4 suffers from this phenomena beyond a trivial degree or if it doesn't.
Also be aware to check for this defect BEFORE you root your Note 4, as Samsung will object or even prohibit you to exchange your device for a better model.
see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note4-amoled-screen-quality-t2906365
common problem, since forever with samsung amoled screens...
TML1504 said:
see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/general/note4-amoled-screen-quality-t2906365
common problem, since forever with samsung amoled screens...
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Thanks for the link! Was just going to add it in the opening post, but this also seems adequate.
Ettepetje said:
The screen on a normal Note 4 stays white, even at a wide angle.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a "normal" Note 4. Every AMOLED phone from Samsung varies from unit to unit. I remember finding exactly the same differences between two Galaxy S3s where one had a tint horizontally and the other had a tint when angled vertically. Interestingly the phones with the greatest colour shift are usually the ones that go brightest when looked straight on. Either Samsung is making these phones in multiple ways from multiple factory plants....or for whatever reason using different materials (such as polarising materials) in the top layers of the screen.
Although I didn't check the tint on a second Note 4 I tried, I did notice that mine was obviously brighter at all points on the brightness settngs bar!
Either way, while bad uniformity is definitely a defect....I think this off-axis viewing tint is not. If it was a defect, it would exist with Note 4 only and not all the Samsung phones I have seen to-date. BTW my Note 3 also tints when viewing at an angle but a bit less than the Note 4.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a "normal" Note 4. Every AMOLED phone from Samsung varies from unit to unit. I remember finding exactly the same differences between two Galaxy S3s where one had a tint horizontally and the other had a tint when angled vertically. Interestingly the phones with the greatest colour shift are usually the ones that go brightest when looked straight on. Either Samsung is making these phones in multiple ways from multiple factory plants....or for whatever reason using different materials (such as polarising materials) in the top layers of the screen.
Although I didn't check the tint on a second Note 4 I tried, I did notice that mine was obviously brighter at all points on the brightness settngs bar!
Either way, while bad uniformity is definitely a defect....I think this off-axis viewing tint is not. If it was a defect, it would exist with Note 4 only and not all the Samsung phones I have seen to-date. BTW my Note 3 also tints when viewing at an angle but a bit less than the Note 4.
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I never had this phenomena with my 5 previous Note or Galaxy S phones, nor on my Samsung Tab S 10.5's. I did have multitouch issues on my Note 3 and 2014 Note 10.1. Seeing the screen of the Note 4 is plenty bright I don't care too much for the "more brightness" bonus, if it were applicable here. I compared my unit to a random store unit and in direct comparison I much preferred the store model. The white screen already looked a bit 'off' on mine, and the store model did not have color shifting at all.
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I never had this phenomena with my 5 previous Note or Galaxy S phones, nor on my Samsung Tab S 10.5's. I did have multitouch issues on my Note 3 and 2014 Note 10.1. Seeing the screen of the Note 4 is plenty bright I don't care too much for the "more brightness" bonus, if it were applicable here. I compared my unit to a random store unit and in direct comparison I much preferred the store model. The white screen already looked a bit 'off' on mine, and the store model did not have color shifting at all.
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What are the chances of both my Note 3 and Note 4 having the same "fault" though? My Note 3 goes bluish off axis, my note 4 goes greenish. Both screens are still perfectly readable at any angle, and only colours that noticeably shift are white/grey. Orange still looks like orange, red still looks like red.
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What are the chances of both my Note 3 and Note 4 having the same "fault" though? My Note 3 goes bluish off axis, my note 4 goes greenish. Both screens are still perfectly readable at any angle, and only colours that noticeably shift are white/grey. Orange still looks like orange, red still looks like red.
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I think it depends on the amount of color shift. My Note 4 has a clear blue haze even when looking at it close to dead straight. I watched a snowboard movie/documentary and snow went definitely blue with only a shift of 20-30 degrees.
It's really good news to know that many devices don't have the blue tint when shifting! If mine has it I'll definitely send it to maintenance. I guess repairing is better as I can look at the device at their facility and not accept it if I don't like the results.
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I think it depends on the amount of color shift. My Note 4 has a clear blue haze even when looking at it close to dead straight. I watched a snowboard movie/documentary and snow went definitely blue with only a shift of 20-30 degrees.
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It is really hard to be sure we are all seeing or evaluating this the same way. For example, if I display a photo with many colours, I see no shift at any angle. White is the most obvious and you need "lots" of it like a www.google.com screen to see it. I would say I am fine for 20-30 degrees before it starts shifting. I think you may have been a bit unlucky in happening to choose a snowboard documentary rather than Iron Man 3 or something like that etc! Then you might not have noticed it
I voted "No" because the poll asks whether the screen color changes at a "SLIGHT" angle. While mine does not, at a larger angle the screen does show blue tinge that increases with the angle.
I have this too, its normal?
I have the same "issue" actually it was the first thing I realized when I turned on the phone for the first time. I haven't even realized it with my previous used galaxy S5
It's probably caused by some coating layer. Nothing we can do about it, doesn't distract me much in a phone anyway. The screen is lovely apart from that, the black level made me almost cry when I compared it to my LCD TV. I so want an OLED TV now. Shame they are so expensive.
Mine does this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVrm73sAnUs
Is this a faulty display or is it just the way this display works?
There are several factors involved,
- Amount of Oleophobic Coating which distorts the actual colors discernible by the viewer
- The Digitizer
- The Corning Gorilla Glass
- And the amount of bonding used to keep the AMOLED display adhered to its bottom layer (Remember: Organic by Nature).
Magnesus said:
It's probably caused by some coating layer. Nothing we can do about it, doesn't distract me much in a phone anyway. The screen is lovely apart from that, the black level made me almost cry when I compared it to my LCD TV. I so want an OLED TV now. Shame they are so expensive.
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I get all the colors green a little blue and a little red it actually seems to me like a [email protected] rainbow I don't mind it much because it doesn't distract me much but I will pay more attention in the near future before buying a Samsung phone again...
No solution to this feature?
jvidia said:
No solution to this feature?
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It is not repearable by software or external means. Well, maybe a heater could do something, but I am not gonna try.
I sold my Note 4 and now have the Note Edge, which luckily has much less issue with color shifting.
While looking directly mine is red at the middle of the screen. While rotating, the red tint is appearing at the top or bottom of the screen according the rotating direction. Also Bottom part of the screen is also less white than top.
Forgive my not reading the entire thread as it's late and time is an unusually precious commodity lately...
My screen does develop an extremely mild hint of a color shift at slight angles, but I don't notice it unless I look for it. However, at extreme angles (at which I never view the screen, like greater than 75 degrees away from dead-on perpendicular to the screen surface) I do see not only greenish/bluish (almost like a faded teal) but also a magentaish hue. I suspect in my case it's a result of the manufacturing and tempering processes of the glass. LCD panels exhibit something similar when viewed through polarized sunglass lenses, but this is not the same: LCD panels have a nearly random-blob appearance where on this Note 4 it appears in bands running along the vertical (when viewed in portrait orientation) axis of the screen. At worst, I can make it greenish on the left side and magentaish on the right by viewing at around 70-80 degrees off perpendicular, so admittedly I have to hold the phone in such an extreme position to see this that I don't consider it a defect per se.
HIH.
We need a stupid name with this... I don't know if it's a gap or the glass is so thin that the light will leak through. To find out if this happens to you, Google "white" go to images and put your phone on full brightness and go in a dark room and you will probably see through sides of the phone growing lightly, I don't think it should be visible during normal daily use but I found this while in bed. I will have pictures soon I don't have any phones with usable roms at the moment.
yaa.. same here with gold s7 edge
There is no back light like ips displays. There for cannot have light leak. What your seeing is the side angle of the display because it bends. Test this by recreating the situation then turning the phone so the edge part of the display is facing you.
zathus said:
There is no back light like ips displays. There for cannot have light leak. What your seeing is the side angle of the display because it bends. Test this by recreating the situation then turning the phone so the edge part of the display is facing you.
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I have a s6 edge+ I'll see if it happens on that phone
proman505 said:
We need a stupid name with this... I don't know if it's a gap or the glass is so thin that the light will leak through. To find out if this happens to you, Google "white" go to images and put your phone on full brightness and go in a dark room and you will probably see through sides of the phone growing lightly, I don't think it should be visible during normal daily use but I found this while in bed. I will have pictures soon I don't have any phones with usable roms at the moment.
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I gave my S7 edge back for warranty repair because the screen stopped working. They changed the screen and now my repaired unit has the same issue. I'm pretty sure the original one didn't. See the pictures. Do you guys think it's normal ?
danw84 said:
I gave my S7 edge back for warranty repair because the screen stopped working. They changed the screen and now my repaired unit has the same issue. I'm pretty sure the original one didn't. See the pictures. Do you guys think it's normal ?
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It is normal. It's because of the curve of the glass, that's all.
Yep i see those too in my device, but i highly doubt people check their phone in that angle.
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As others have said I don't think it's a physical gap in the glass but more of a reflection of light against the edge of the glass. I wouldn't worry about it.
It's normal. Every S7 Edge will look like that. It's just physics.
I am 100% positive that it comes from under the glass and not a reflection of the edge.
I even put a black tape on the edge just to be sure.
Do all of your S7 Edge look like this ?
I have same thing pretty sure it is light bending off the glass and reflecting at an angle that it illuminate the outside edge
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Hi Guys,
mine also does that after I replace my cracked screen.
Samsung has released a statement about this. Just google: Light leak Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, and you will find it in the first one from Samsung website.
Hope this one help.
Cheers
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/skp/faq/1102521
I dont think it does this because of the curvature of the glass, because if you add pressure to the screen the "light leakage" sort of goes away.
TroyBoy30 said:
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/skp/faq/1102521
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Savage.
nitrous² said:
Savage.
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lol, I've seen that. but I'm just saying, from my observation I noticed tiny spots along the line of light at the edges, possibly dust or air during production of the phone. If the light was caused simply because of the bend of the screen, wouldn't it be a perfectly straight line?
i dont know if your still going on about this but the top speaker also lights upcause of the light leak
Hello. I have been trying to wrestle with the s7 edge i got. It's beautiful. But i don't know if i'm overthinking this or not. I look @ the display and the whites aren't perfect. Seems like a yellowish hue to it. I'm coming from an iphone so this kinda affects me.
I put two nexus 6p's side by side and saw there was a difference in screen colour.
I like the cooler temeperatures and i hate the yellow. The samsung engineers came back saying that my device is perfect and they can't do anything about it. I'm i wrong? Is this a general thing with AMOLED displays?
Go into Settings -> Display -> Screen Mode
Change to your liking
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Iphone have bluish white and S7 have very close to perfect white but you get used to bluish white on iphone so now you see white on S7 as yellowish. There's nothing wrong with S7. It's just your brain and eye.
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If you are desperate about it, play around with an app named Screen Equalizer. With that you could add a blue tint to the whole screen if wanted. It's meant to "fix" uneven display lightning/white balance but could probably be used for your cause too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aaahh.yellow
Anyone else have this on the AOD? Not a huge deal, just curious. Sorry for the low quality photo...
Nonbiasedhippo said:
Anyone else have this on the AOD? Not a huge deal, just curious. Sorry for the low quality photo...
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I do! Only on AOD though. Any other black screen I have no bleed at all, but for some reason AOD likes to give off some.
tophloph said:
I do! Only on AOD though. Any other black screen I have no bleed at all, but for some reason AOD likes to give off some.
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That's odd. Does it look the same as mine?
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That's odd. Does it look the same as mine?
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Yeah, exact same spot and looks identical on mine.
I have screen bleed on startup screen.
What is AOD btw ?
Emerald Core said:
I have screen bleed on startup screen.
What is AOD btw ?
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Always On Display
Got the same bleeding on mine as well
Very common on LCD panel screen. My first two V20 got it, just different corner.
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Don't have it there but I have it along the top side of the screen but it doesn't look that bad.
I believe that is just the nature of design. I've read elsewhere that light bleed is almost impossible to avoid 100% with IPS displays.
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Mine doesn't have that but it does have a screen that isn't uniform. The bottom of the screen right above the navigation bar has a warm tint to it making it look sort of yellow compared to the rest of the screen. I'm returning it. I can't look at a screen that isn't uniform. The AOD looks fine though. If the replacement I get has the light bleed on the AOD I'll be returning it.
It's not a light bleed.
It's a special LED only lightning up, when AOD display is enabled.
When seen at 0 LUX your eyes will see it lightning up from bottom. This way the phone won't use the full backlight of the display to only light up at night. It's a side effect from not having AMOLED display.
It is as duckstardeluxe says
duckstardeluxe said:
It's not a light bleed.
It's a special LED only lightning up, when AOD display is enabled.
When seen at 0 LUX your eyes will see it lightning up from bottom. This way the phone won't use the full backlight of the display to only light up at night. It's a side effect from not having AMOLED display.
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I am not sure if this is from the lighting zones on HDR displays, or if LG implemented extra leds at the bottom of the display just for the AOD. Pretty nifty trick to get low light and power consumption on an IPS panel.
The light streak effect that looks like light bleed is due to light falloff as it moves from the bottom LED through the diffuser behind the LCD. So nothing wrong with your displays.
If you want to test light bleed; open a full screen black image in a very dark room. My screen lighting was perfectly even.
mine is exact the same. glad that im not the only one i was ready to send it back lol
Same thing here
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It is as duckstardeluxe says
I am not sure if this is from the lighting zones on HDR displays, or if LG implemented extra leds at the bottom of the display just for the AOD. Pretty nifty trick to get low light and power consumption on an IPS panel.
The light streak effect that looks like light bleed is due to light falloff as it moves from the bottom LED through the diffuser behind the LCD. So nothing wrong with your displays.
If you want to test light bleed; open a full screen black image in a very dark room. My screen lighting was perfectly even.
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Oh, here is why I notice that only with AoD :victory:
What excatly am i looking at ? Do we have what on AoD ? That brighter screen like that ? Yeah when the phone is under some sort of light ( sun, lamps during night ) when in total dark it dims... )
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Brothers G6 have exactly same problem. Just on AOD and on the bottom middle!
Hutascz said:
Brothers G6 have exactly same problem. Just on AOD and on the bottom middle!
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Nothing wrong with your phone, it's normal behavior for LCD displays. It's not AMOLED.
Nonbiasedhippo said:
Anyone else have this on the AOD? Not a huge deal, just curious. Sorry for the low quality photo...
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My G6 has it at the same place. I think it's the way AOD is implemented.