So after reading posts about a pink tint to the screen, i decided to put it next to my girlfriends white s6. Wish i hadnt. Her s6 is CONSIDERABLY more bright than mine with a white screen. Didnt notice much of a pink tint, even though i believe its faintly there. More worried about the brightness level.
I made sure everything was the same. Same screen mode, same brightness level, same picture. Hers was much brighter and much more white than mine. Will take some side by side pics when i get home. Really dissapointed actually... Thinking about going with a regular s6 if i can switch it out.. Just to many problems plagueing the edge.
Anyone else notice the same thing?
Yes this is a problem. Both Edges we had were returned for that issue. They were also darker than the regular S6.
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Yes this is a problem. Both Edges we had were returned for that issue. They were also darker than the regular S6.
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im not super worried about the pink tint, as many galaxy phones have had this issue and is later not as noticable, but the darker, less bright-screen would diminish image quality IMO.
What did you do? get them exchanged and next ones were better? Did u just get regular s6?
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So after reading posts about a pink tint to the screen, i decided to put it next to my girlfriends white s6. Wish i hadnt. Her s6 is CONSIDERABLY more bright than mine with a white screen. Didnt notice much of a pink tint, even though i believe its faintly there. More worried about the brightness level.
I made sure everything was the same. Same screen mode, same brightness level, same picture. Hers was much brighter and much more white than mine. Will take some side by side pics when i get home. Really dissapointed actually... Thinking about going with a regular s6 if i can switch it out.. Just to many problems plagueing the edge.
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This was known some time ago. You should read AnandTech reviews at least before you purchase a phone. S6 will always be more bright than the edge.
Try putting a flashlight on the light sensor with auto bright off and brightness turned all the way up. Watch how bright and vibrant the screen gets. It is a programming error. We traded to regular S6s. I noticed my S6 screen also had a very dull screen. Returned it for an M9.
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This was known some time ago. You should read AnandTech reviews at least before you purchase a phone. S6 will always be more bright than the edge.
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im only reading things about it BARELY being brighter, and all other numbers show the edge screen come out on top of the s6.
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Try putting a flashlight on the light sensor with auto bright off and brightness turned all the way up. Watch how bright and vibrant the screen gets. It is a programming error. We traded to regular S6s. I noticed my S6 screen also had a very dull screen. Returned it for an M9.
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you mentioned two s6's. Was only one of the screens dull? Was the other one flawless? Opinion of m9 vs s6?
so the darker screen on the s6e compared to my girlfriends s6 is just a software brightness bug? i can live with this.. My screen isnt super pink either... If my screen is just as bright as my girlfriends, then ill stick it out for a software update.
My wife is fine with her screen. It seems better than my returned S6. The M9 feels better in hand to me. Speakers are not as loud but sound way better on the M9. The colors on the screen of the M9 are not as vibrant as the S6. Whites are better though. No stutters or issues besides that in my M9. I've yet to feel it get any hotter than the S6.
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This was known some time ago. You should read AnandTech reviews at least before you purchase a phone. S6 will always be more bright than the edge.
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I actually read my first AnandTech phone review because of this comment. I've been using the site mainly for computer parts comparisons and reviews, but I was pleasantly surprised by just how detailed their phone review was. Thanks for posting!:good:
Also, however, to respond the forum OP's question, OP should definitely check if the auto brightness setting is enabled. With it on, max brightness goes way up, while with it off, the regular max brightness is relatively darker.
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So after reading posts about a pink tint to the screen, i decided to put it next to my girlfriends white s6. Wish i hadnt. Her s6 is CONSIDERABLY more bright than mine with a white screen. Didnt notice much of a pink tint, even though i believe its faintly there. More worried about the brightness level.
I made sure everything was the same. Same screen mode, same brightness level, same picture. Hers was much brighter and much more white than mine. Will take some side by side pics when i get home. Really dissapointed actually... Thinking about going with a regular s6 if i can switch it out.. Just to many problems plagueing the edge.
Anyone else notice the same thing?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWYOngr_20
Trev420 said:
So after reading posts about a pink tint to the screen, i decided to put it next to my girlfriends white s6. Wish i hadnt. Her s6 is CONSIDERABLY more bright than mine with a white screen. Didnt notice much of a pink tint, even though i believe its faintly there. More worried about the brightness level.
I made sure everything was the same. Same screen mode, same brightness level, same picture. Hers was much brighter and much more white than mine. Will take some side by side pics when i get home. Really dissapointed actually... Thinking about going with a regular s6 if i can switch it out.. Just to many problems plagueing the edge.
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Edge is way brighter according to this LUX test, maybe you got a defective unit
okay been doing alot of reading. There seems to be a defect in the edge model, just about all of them. With auto brightness off (meaning the phone has no control over brightness of the screen), in a dim room with brightness bar cranked up, the screen will dim. When i did this test, my room was dimly lit. Will do some more tests later when iget home.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-auto-brightness-issues-strange-glitch-5.html
okay, so heres a video i took to demonstrate the issue.
its a big difference in my Nexus 6 vs the Edge. The Nexus is MUCH brighter.
I bought today S6 Edge and that was for me quite a disappointment.
But when you put a flashlight to a light sensor (or whatever it calls), you can see that S6 Edge has two more modes-both brighter. The first brighter mode is bright like S6 and the second one like S6 under the flashlight (or sunlight). That shows that the screens are same and that the problem is software. I cant wait to see, whether they solve this with the next update.
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I bought today S6 Edge and that was for me quite a disappointment.
But when you put a flashlight to a light sensor (or whatever it calls), you can see that S6 Edge has two more modes-both brighter. The first brighter mode is bright like S6 and the second one like S6 under the flashlight (or sunlight). That shows that the screens are same and that the problem is software. I cant wait to see, whether they solve this with the next update.
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Same thing here. Samsung is still not solving the issue and it is aware since more than a month! How difficult is to be solved? I'm not sure they will ever solve it at this point.
Guess this is affecting only the carrier variants. Mines a international GSM g925i and I am in a dark room typing this with auto brightness turned off and brightness at 40pc or so..the screen is damn bright and it has remained this way without dimming.. So not a issue here. Also I think the brightness at 40pc is killing my eye right now..so its quite good. May be a feature requested by the carriers who knows...
No it's affecting the no brands also. Mine was no brand bought on the web store, in NL.
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Guys check out my post on this issue. I have even given a solution for this
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I have used a Galaxy S from an year until recently last week, i exchanged it to get a new Galaxy S II. I like the phone very much and i still think its the best phone ever made. But i notice that even my screen has the yellow discoloration problem as others. I don't bother much about it but what made me curious was that a friend of mine purchased a new Galaxy S a few days back when i brought my S II. I put both the displays side by side and noticed this
1) The display of the Galaxy S was much brighter than my S II at 0 and 100 levels of brightness. I felt that my S II screen was more dull and yellowish while that of S was brighter and greyish
2) In direct sunlight, the visibility of the Galaxy S screen was more than my S II at both 0 and 100 levels of brightness.
I was surprised by these findings and I want to know whether
a) Super AMOLED+ brightness is supposed to be better than Super AMOLED ?
b) Or does my SII have a faulty screen and can i get it replaced ( purchased mine a week back) ?
To be honest, i always used my old Galaxy S at 0% brightness and even at times i felt it was too much brightness in a dark room, so used the Screenfilter app. But thats not the case with my S II, i have to use it at around 20% in the same dark room. So, i want to know whether my particular screen is defective or is it the same for everyone else ?
Settings display background effect: choose dynamic
And you can turn off the adjust screen for power option in display settings
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u sure u disabled power saving mode for the display? That usually causes a duller/greyish screen...
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I have used a Galaxy S from an year until recently last week, i exchanged it to get a new Galaxy S II. I like the phone very much and i still think its the best phone ever made. But i notice that even my screen has the yellow discoloration problem as others. I don't bother much about it but what made me curious was that a friend of mine purchased a new Galaxy S a few days back when i brought my S II. I put both the displays side by side and noticed this
1) The display of the Galaxy S was much brighter than my S II at 0 and 100 levels of brightness. I felt that my S II screen was more dull and yellowish while that of S was brighter and greyish
2) In direct sunlight, the visibility of the Galaxy S screen was more than my S II at both 0 and 100 levels of brightness.
I was surprised by these findings and I want to know whether
a) Is Super AMOLED+ supposed to be better than Super AMOLED ?
b) Or does my SII have a faulty screen and can i get it replaced ( purchased a week back) ?
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All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
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I have disabled the Power saving mode, and also tried the three different modes- standard, dynamic, and movie. But i didn't find much difference. SAMOLED+ is supposed to be brighter than SAMOLED, right ? Other than this the phone is marvelous !!!
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All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
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I used a Galaxy S and it was an excellent phone with Lagfix and Darkys ROM. Briefly, in between I used an Xperia Play for a few days and it was so laggy, many apps used to force close, etc. So i decided to go for a dual core and I think there is no match for S II in this regard. I am very satisified with this but just wanted to know about this SAMOLED+ screen and it was supposed to be better than SAMOLED. To be honest, i always used my old Galaxy S at 0% brightness and even at times i felt it was too much brightness in a dark room and hence used the Screenfilter app. But thats not the case with my S II, i have to use it at around 20% in the same dark room. So, i want to know whether is my particular screen defective or it is the same for everyone else ?
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So, i want to know whether is my particular screen defective or it is the same for everyone else ?
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As I said in my previous post, 100/100 phones are like that, including me
ithehappy said:
All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
krishelnino said:
I have disabled the Power saving mode, and also tried the three different modes- standard, dynamic, and movie. But i didn't find much difference. SAMOLED+ is supposed to be brighter than SAMOLED, right ? Other than this the phone is marvelous !!!
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The plus got nothing to do with brightness but with subpixels. Its red blue and green in every subpixel where amoled got red green and blue green. Makes the image sharper to read.
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
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Yes, that's correct. It's not an improvement for me coming from S-AMOLED and I don't like it. When I've seen better I won't bear a lesser.
You are correct in that part.
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Does anyone know, how much power is saved by using the display powersave mode? I just tried turning it off and the screen looks much brighter and crisper. Is activating power save mode worth it?
My SGS1 not as bright as this one and not ad good in sunlight.
Yellow tint if i have it i dont care i dont see it.
Dont like SGS2 sell it simple answer.
jje
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Does anyone know, how much power is saved by using the display powersave mode? I just tried turning it off and the screen looks much brighter and crisper. Is activating power save mode worth it?
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I never have power saver switched on and my battery manages to make it thru a day with moderate use..havent seen too much diff with it switched on..
Same problem for me..i also believe SGS1 is brighter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118532
SGS is slightly brighter than SGS II. It's in almost every review that measures screen brightness. AMOLED Plus was updated for sharpness, not brightness.
DJTaurus said:
Same problem for me..i also believe SGS1 is brighter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118532
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What do you think your screenshots will tell us? If you want to prove anything, post *photos* not screenshots.
JJEgan said:
My SGS1 not as bright as this one and not ad good in sunlight.
Yellow tint if i have it i dont care i dont see it.
Dont like SGS2 sell it simple answer.
jje
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I am not bothered about the yellow tint either. What bothers me is the brightness level of SGSII when compared to a SGSI. Having used a SGSI for an year, the new SGS II has to be atleast equal to it. But lesser than the previous one is unacceptable. Thats my point
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I am not bothered about the yellow tint either. What bothers me is the brightness level of SGSII when compared to a SGSI. Having used a SGSI for an year, the new SGS II has to be atleast equal to it. But lesser than the previous one is unacceptable. Thats my point
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Well all i can say is bought SGS2 and one week later sold SGS1 in that one week it was noticeable that SGS2 was brighter clearer more vibrant better screen .Thats not memory thats matching both side by side .
jje
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
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Yeah it seems a strange comment.... one thing that always annoyed me about the original Galaxy S was the screen was TOO bright on the lowest setting - it was a nightmare if you were using it in bed with the lights off.
It seems that there is a lot of variance between the display quality between different SGS2 units. I myself was perfectly happy with mine until the screen had to be replaced by the Samsung warranty service. The new display wasn't half as bright as the one before and the light sensor coupled with a dim display makes it even worse. I've done some comparison between different units and found that almost all of them had different quality displays - many way too dark.
I made a photo comparison between our own to SGS2s using an original device (bought in early July) as a reference as its display performance is similar to the one I used to have in mine before the replacement.
I would be happy to hear if you have noticed similar differences with you own or your friends units just to get sense of how common the issue is.
The full story below!
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I’ve been a pretty happy owner of a Samsung Galaxy SII since April. I’ve especially been pleased with the excellent display that is able to deliver true blacks while being one of the brightest screens out there.
Imagine my horror then when the display broke. It looked like something was leaking inside it. It started as a minor pink hue in the edge of the screen and in a couple days had turned into a bruise covering one fourth of the screen. All the pixels seemed to work but there was a shadow with distinct edges clouding the picture.
The issue
Luckily the warranty covered this and the service point returned my phone with a note: “Display module replaced“. Little did I know that not all Super Amoled+ screens are created equal. After a minute of using the serviced device I noticed that the screen was somehow dark – noticeably darker than before. I checked all the settings – everything was set up the way it had been before with the auto-brightness set on. It just wasn’t the screen I had come to know. We have two units of the SGS2 at home and so I compared the serviced one with the other original unit. The display in the original (reference) unit was noticeably brighter than mine. The difference was even more apparent in the dark shades – where the reference display separated several different shades of dark grays mine only displayed black. The original screen on the reference device delivered the same quality as my ‘pre-serviced’ unit. Then I turned off the auto-brightness on both devices and cranked up the brightness to the max. Again the serviced unit was visibly dim compared to the reference unit. Even the color space between the devices are different – the original quite natural and a tad warm and the serviced one distinctly cool with whites tilted towards blue.
Next I borrowed a couple of other S2′s from colleagues at the office and it turned out their devices were just as dim as my serviced one – one even dimmer! I guess this explains why some reviewers and users have judged the display on the SGS2 to be too dark – something that I always thought to be a silly complaint. It seems that the display quality between devices varies greatly. I’m currently expecting a reply from my service point as to what I should do with my ‘faulty’ screen – I’ll let you know how this pans out.
I tried taking photos with the reference unit and the serviced unit side-by-side. If you think the differences are small and to complain is silly you should know that the real life effect is that taking photos and watching videos is now a pain because every shadow is just a solid black area and when you go into a dark room the auto-brightness drops the brightness way too low. So if you own a Samsung Galaxy s2 with a dark screen – you are one of the unlucky ones.
Below are the comparison shots. If you suspect you have one of the dark screens feel free to leave a comment below.
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you joined this site specifically to link to your own one it seems?
skimminstones said:
you joined this site specifically to link to your own one it seems?
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The forum won't let me add photos because I've just registered - only way to show them for now is to direct people to the site. Or about six posts from now I guess I will be allowed to post pictures as well.
I will add the whole text in a moment.
either way, it seems you joined specifically to talk about your site. Seems a bit trollish to me
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you joined this site specifically to link to your own one it seems?
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Happy now? Any comments on the real topic of this thread?
no not really
Yeah i'm also one of the unlucky ones with the dark screen. What makes it worse is the blue tinge when you tilt the screen slightly. Another problem, my screen keeps going bright for about 3 to 4 secs about every 45 seconds and then goes dull again. Nothing to do with auto brightness by the way because i turned it off.
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Yeah I've noticed the hue shift when tilting the display as well. Also on gray and white surfaces when the screen dims the color is not smooth but looks rather like there is some dirt under the glass. Like it's a whole different type of display than the one in our other SGS2.
I experienced the same situation. I had to replace the screen on the S2 bought back in may due to nasty scratches. The screen was otherwise really top notch with no visible defects.
The one they replaced with is much dimmer and actually has a higher contrast which leads to some color burn. There are also stripes from top to bottom when I pull down the top bar. And as if that was not enough, the picture is grainy. As you pointed out it feels as a totally different display.
I am not going to swap it since I managed to lower the contrast to an acceptable level but it's quite disappointing regardless.
This could be samsungs way of trying to slow down the screen burning?
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I still haven't bought an S2 yet but this is a bit of a concern. I'd like to hear from more people with a newer phone, do they have the same screen issues as mentioned above.
If you come from HTC to Samsung, you're certainly going to notice the difference. At least in my case, the HTC had better whites on screen and no blue tinge when tilting screen.
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I frequently flash between the XW and XX series of ROMs and notice that on some roms, the screen is darker and on others it is brighter. This is when it is being tested at 100% brightness and display setting set to normal.
If i knew for sure that flashing my phone with the correct ROM would make my screen brighter, i would do it in a flash.
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Same problem with the white sgs2 I bought few days ago. Really disappointing.
Seifer1975 said:
Same problem with the white sgs2 I bought few days ago. Really disappointing.
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Would you still recommend the S2 with the screen as it is on yours, or has it spoilt a good phone?
UKseagull said:
Would you still recommend the S2 with the screen as it is on yours, or has it spoilt a good phone?
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I would still recommend the phone, but you will have to use manual brightness instead.
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For those with the dim screen, if you are adventurous enough, you can follow the instructions here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1235212&highlight=brightness to crank up the brightness of your phone so that you can use the auto brightness.
I have a new white sgs2 and this is the first Android phone I have had where the auto brightness on all roms Samsung or cm7 is totally useless. I use manual now and it looks good at around 1 3rd brightness so heavens knows how low the auto brightness is setting it!
Ephumuris
supermurmeli said:
Yeah I've noticed the hue shift when tilting the display as well. Also on gray and white surfaces when the screen dims the color is not smooth but looks rather like there is some dirt under the glass. Like it's a whole different type of display than the one in our other SGS2.
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I have the same problem, dirt under glass. The strange thing is, I got a replacement, the same problem. When you lower the brightness, there is small dark area, like dust. Two devices the same shop, the same problem. I start wondering it is the production quality Samsung can get
krico said:
If i knew for sure that flashing my phone with the correct ROM would make my screen brighter, i would do it in a flash.
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I have talked about this several times and even sent private messages to developers but all ignored it.
Anyway, try flashing the official kernal of KE2 and you will see the difference.
The collors and screen brightness will change without any effect what so ever to the device performance.
Screen Adjuster is another way to correct this, it is a free program in the market which will do the job for you .
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UKseagull said:
I still haven't bought an S2 yet but this is a bit of a concern. I'd like to hear from more people with a newer phone, do they have the same screen issues as mentioned above.
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HTC is no better, I had a Sensation before and it had the same problems, They use two different screen types and many complains about it in the Sensation forum.
The display is noticeably tinted pink, especially side by side with vibrant. Anyone noticing this? Is this a defect and should i exchange the phone at walmart from where i bought?
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Take pics and show us? But probably you should return it.
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I would return it. I have a S1, S2 and a t- mobile S3 and I don't have any pink issue so please post pics of your problem
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Unfortunately my camera was not good enough to pick up the difference. I scoured youtube and got this picture, and this is exactly how it looks. Vibrant is a bit cooler compared to One S in the picture. But Galaxy S3 display looks exactly the same. What do you guys think?
it's kind of hard to tell by picture but is it possible because your lights are dim? For whatever reason, GSIII default light settings are low...really low. Samsung is being cautious or something...I mean their Auto-brightness future sucks because of this, they make it really dim.
Hmm..Really?! The picture is pretty clear in showing the reddish tint on Galaxy S3 screen. But on that youtube video not a single comment about it. Makes me wonder if this is normal and I guess I am too used to the cooler blue tint on the Vibrant? It has been just a few days I got the phone and exchanging it at Walmart is not a problem, otherthan reinstalling all apps and other setup. But I just wanted to know if this is normal and if so I will be getting exactly identical phone and it is just gonna be a waste of time.
Looks like a defect to me, mine is not like that!
My GS3 is on the left, GS2 on the right. Both at 100% brightness
brfield said:
Looks like a defect to me, mine is not like that!
My GS3 is on the left, GS2 on the right. Both at 100% brightness
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Thanks, your picture gives me some relief. The SG3 definitely has a warmer tone and I think at 30% brightness it makes the whites a little pink. This combined with the fact that I compared to blueish super bright screen of Vibrant may have caused my panic. The brightness of SG3 screen is definitely low, I mean minimum usable is 30% and you have to set it at 50-70% for most situations. Vibrant is super bright where i can use it even at 0% brightness and anything above 50% really hurt the eyes.
My GS3 does not look anything like that, you can easily see the pink in your display.
Defect, return it.
ingenious247 said:
My GS3 does not look anything like that, you can easily see the pink in your display.
Defect, return it.
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What brightness level you usually set for indoor use?
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What brightness level you usually set for indoor use?
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I leave mine at about seventy five percent always, but at any brightness it does not look like that pink at all
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So here is my dilemma and I need some community input or advice. I have a GN2 titanium. I bought it at my employer Bestbuy. Thing is, there is a strange looking line that resembles a tear under the screen that is slightly curved and is about 3/4" long, maybe a tad more. You can ONLY SEE it when the brightness is turned ALL THE WAY DOWN and you are on a screen that is dark. Now if you go into the light with the darkness down all the way it goes away. Full brightness it cannot be seen.Not even at half brightness or 1/4 brightness can it be seen. Thing is I could easily return it BUT bestbuy stopped carrying the titanium on verizon the day they got it! Crazy right , in other words we are sold out of titanium and are not getting more in. I could always get a white one but I don't think I want a white one. Truth be told I think it's just bugging me and need to tell someone lol. If it was your GN2 would you for one even notice it,and if so would you just roll with it? I have to do all the steps above just to see it. I noticed it when watching on mx player in bed at night on low brightness. The touch screen works fine in that area and everything. I wish I could take a picture but I cant seem to get it to show up in a picture.
tl;dr ?
-Strange tear under glass
-causes no touchscreen/pen issues
-only viewable at 0 brightness , in the dark , on a dark image
-exchange for a white GN2
-live with it
jdedeaux said:
So here is my dilemma and I need some community input or advice. I have a GN2 titanium. I bought it at my employer Bestbuy. Thing is, there is a strange looking line that resembles a tear under the screen that is slightly curved and is about 3/4" long, maybe a tad more. You can ONLY SEE it when the brightness is turned ALL THE WAY DOWN and you are on a screen that is dark. Now if you go into the light with the darkness down all the way it goes away. Full brightness it cannot be seen.Not even at half brightness or 1/4 brightness can it be seen. Thing is I could easily return it BUT bestbuy stopped carrying the titanium on verizon the day they got it! Crazy right , in other words we are sold out of titanium and are not getting more in. I could always get a white one but I don't think I want a white one. Truth be told I think it's just bugging me and need to tell someone lol. If it was your GN2 would you for one even notice it,and if so would you just roll with it? I have to do all the steps above just to see it. I noticed it when watching on mx player in bed at night on low brightness. The touch screen works fine in that area and everything. I wish I could take a picture but I cant seem to get it to show up in a picture.
tl;dr ?
-Strange tear under glass
-causes no touchscreen/pen issues
-only viewable at 0 brightness , in the dark , on a dark image
-exchange for a white GN2
-live with it
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I have the same issue but I can easily get a new titanium grey one. I am not going to though because it is hardly ever noticible
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jellydroid13 said:
I have the same issue but I can easily get a new titanium grey one. I am not going to though because it is hardly ever noticible
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thank god im not bat sh!t crazy and someone else has seen this, its strange eh? i think ill sit on it as well
Hmm you sure this isn't just the blotches that show up on amoled screens when it goes dark. If you shut the phone all the way off does the line go away. From what it sounds like without actually seeing the phone it sounds like what I described above. If it is. All the super amoled screens tend to do that
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jdedeaux said:
So here is my dilemma and I need some community input or advice. I have a GN2 titanium. I bought it at my employer Bestbuy. Thing is, there is a strange looking line that resembles a tear under the screen that is slightly curved and is about 3/4" long, maybe a tad more. You can ONLY SEE it when the brightness is turned ALL THE WAY DOWN and you are on a screen that is dark. Now if you go into the light with the darkness down all the way it goes away. Full brightness it cannot be seen.Not even at half brightness or 1/4 brightness can it be seen. Thing is I could easily return it BUT bestbuy stopped carrying the titanium on verizon the day they got it! Crazy right , in other words we are sold out of titanium and are not getting more in. I could always get a white one but I don't think I want a white one. Truth be told I think it's just bugging me and need to tell someone lol. If it was your GN2 would you for one even notice it,and if so would you just roll with it? I have to do all the steps above just to see it. I noticed it when watching on mx player in bed at night on low brightness. The touch screen works fine in that area and everything. I wish I could take a picture but I cant seem to get it to show up in a picture.
tl;dr ?
-Strange tear under glass
-causes no touchscreen/pen issues
-only viewable at 0 brightness , in the dark , on a dark image
-exchange for a white GN2
-live with it
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You bought it at Bestbuy. You guys have a really good return policy. Why not swap it out?
hredder said:
Hmm you sure this isn't just the blotches that show up on amoled screens when it goes dark. If you shut the phone all the way off does the line go away. From what it sounds like without actually seeing the phone it sounds like what I described above. If it is. All the super amoled screens tend to do that
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Wow didnt even think of that lol. Thats definitely it thanks.
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sounds pretty typical of an amoled screen they all suffer from it under very low brightness, I haven't noticed on mine may be because I stopped paying attention for it a long long time ago lol, after having a few phones with amoled screens.
I have the same issue. Even started a thread about it in the Q&A section. Glad I'm not the only one to have it lol
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Yep both my Note 2's have the same problem, both are Titanium Gray. My brother got a launch day Marble White from the Verizon store and his screen is immaculate. Not a single black spot or line on his screen. We flipped the lights and tested them using the same app. Once our eyes adjusted, which didn't take more than 10 seconds, it was immediately clear the difference between my phone and his. His screen not only had a deeper black than mine, but it was free of any markings while mine looked brighter and had noticeable splotches all over.
Niiiiiiice.
DaRkL3AD3R said:
Yep both my Note 2's have the same problem, both are Titanium Gray. My brother got a launch day Marble White from the Verizon store and his screen is immaculate. Not a single black spot or line on his screen. We flipped the lights and tested them using the same app. Once our eyes adjusted, which didn't take more than 10 seconds, it was immediately clear the difference between my phone and his. His screen not only had a deeper black than mine, but it was free of any markings while mine looked brighter and had noticeable splotches all over.
Niiiiiiice.
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I don't think the color of the devices have anything to do with it. But all amoled screens are different. I guess I since of the lucky ones mine performs great but had only one little dark spot right under the Samsung logo.
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Not sure if its me trying to adjust to the S6 Edge screen coming from a HTC One M7 or what but boy why is the screen brightness bad on the S6 Edge? Thought Samsung got better with these screens, I compared my S6 Edge with my mom's S5 and her phone was noticeably brighter, how?! Also, I saw reviews saying that under direct sunlight, the screen brightness can go pretty high and I tested it putting a flash light onto the sensor and wow did it make a difference, why can't we have that high of a brightness on this beautiful phone all the time?! sorry if this offends some people, just very disappointed with the brightness on this phone ugh.
Not sure what's going on for you, Im on auto but the slider is the lowest it can go and it's bright enough for everything except strong sunlight when I had to move the slider up a bit. The screen is bright, perhaps a setting or software bug?
Well now something is up. So I'm not even using auto brightness and the screen goes brighter in lighted areas and then dims when I'm outside at night, is this normal?
NumairRana said:
Well now something is up. So I'm not even using auto brightness and the screen goes brighter in lighted areas and then dims when I'm outside at night, is this normal?
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Do you have adaptive display set? This could be whats changing the contrast etc even though you don't have auto set.
I'm hoping that the custom based TW gets rid of the brightness lock or whatever Samsung tough was smart to do lol
wide spread issue right now...http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...-auto-brightness-issues-strange-glitch-5.html
I sent this video to the Samsung assistance in NL (where I bought the phone). They replied that they were not able to see the youtube video!! How can we expect they fix this bug if they are not even able to watch a simple video of youtube...are they monkeys or what at the Samsung customer care??
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I sent this video to the Samsung assistance in NL (where I bought the phone). They replied that they were not able to see the youtube video!! How can we expect they fix this bug if they are not even able to watch a simple video of youtube...are they monkeys or what at the Samsung customer care??
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Let me tell you one thing. Samsung care or services or whatever they do are crap. They will try to find as much freaking way possible to avoid helping/exchage/repair. My device have camera blur issue ( when zoomed in ) yes zoomed in will blur but the blur is crap. Even my old note 3 can take sharper picture when zoomed in. My usb port is out of position and the separate plastic coating around it is broken. Regarding all these issue, Samsung said to me that it is not an issue and just minor and it can't claim for repair or exchange. Screw samsung in customer care. Their phone is great if you get a perfectly well builded phone. If your phone happen to have problem, you are gonna have painful days.
bibiner said:
Let me tell you one thing. Samsung care or services or whatever they do are crap. They will try to find as much freaking way possible to avoid helping/exchage/repair. My device have camera blur issue ( when zoomed in ) yes zoomed in will blur but the blur is crap. Even my old note 3 can take sharper picture when zoomed in. My usb port is out of position and the separate plastic coating around it is broken. Regarding all these issue, Samsung said to me that it is not an issue and just minor and it can't claim for repair or exchange. Screw samsung in customer care. Their phone is great if you get a perfectly well builded phone. If your phone happen to have problem, you are gonna have painful days.
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No problem. The phone is 850 euro, I returned and I didn't loose anything. Maybe I will in a month of so buy it again if it is solved. If there is any other issue, no problem, you have 14 days to return it.
NumairRana said:
Not sure if its me trying to adjust to the S6 Edge screen coming from a HTC One M7 or what but boy why is the screen brightness bad on the S6 Edge? Thought Samsung got better with these screens, I compared my S6 Edge with my mom's S5 and her phone was noticeably brighter, how?! Also, I saw reviews saying that under direct sunlight, the screen brightness can go pretty high and I tested it putting a flash light onto the sensor and wow did it make a difference, why can't we have that high of a brightness on this beautiful phone all the time?! sorry if this offends some people, just very disappointed with the brightness on this phone ugh.
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I have the same problem I only noticed when I put my s6 edge next to regular s6 on max brightness the s6 screen is brighter, but when I turn on and off the auto brightness on the s6 edge the problem goes away till i lock the phone and it dim again, it's software bug, samsung too busy making money right now so it will take them min to get update fix.
Did android 5.1.1 update solve the brightness bug? I mean this seems really a huge bug how is it possible that samsung didn't come out with a solution yet?
Disable the power saving mode then
retry
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dr.Y.Z said:
Disable the power saving mode then
retry
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Absolutely not. It's the first thing everybody disabled. It's not related to that. It's a bug of the s6 edge still not solved.
The Trivo guy said its a software issue. He said in a post somewhere that he installed the galaxy S6 ROM and the brightness issue was fixed. Hope its juts a software bug. Fingers crossed
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3139754
Hey Im having the problem in the video but opposite, I have a case that goes over my screen kind of like a wallet case with a see through window so I can see .Estates I get, anyways when the case is open (brightness auto is off and turned all the way up) it's dimmed, but when I put the case over the screen it because full brightness again? Is this the same glitch going on or do I need to fix something?
just go to setting/ then > Display & finally under brightness scrollbar turn off > Auto adjust brightness. Hope everything shinning again……..