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I recently acquired a 2nd user MDAIII and it is in excellent condition, very happy with the unit. But something that I have noticed is the main background screen appears to have more of a yellow hue than that of my previous units which where white. For example if I place my MDA1000 and MDAIII side by side the whites in the MDA1000 are more prominent and crisp. Is this a normal characteristic of the BA type units. It also has a screen protector attached, could this hue be attributed to the screen protector?
In fact the hue is very similar to the background colour of the XDA developers website.
Thanks john.
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Come on Guys all you BA owners must have some feedback to this? would appreciate it...thanks
John
spooky this post as just got me new m2000 today and was thinking my eyes where playing up.
deffo a yello tint to mine as well previous units didnt have this was thinking about asking them to change it
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Thanks thought it was just my eyes, but there you go. Another one out there. I was informed that HTC sources the screen from different manufacturers so this may explain the difference. Alas I cannot take mine back. Other than that it functions perfectly. so no problems there. But may trade it in for a XDAIIi or equivalent.
M2000 with blue tint
I've just got a replacement M2000 which has a really strong blue tint.
If they are going to use different manufacturers for screens, i'd expect some tool to adjust the colour settings.
Yes I agree you can only alter the brightness of the backlight, but not contrast or colour. It would be a good addition. If they want to use different manufacturers then they should at least ensure all the screens are within a specified tolerance. Anyone else have any thoughts on this or how to correct tones etc.
Orange have agreed to replace my M2000. Aparently there is no software solution to the problem...
Hi there,
I just got my T-Mobile SGS2. When I look straight at the phone screen, I see whites that are yellowish, as if the color temperature is bumped up by +2000-3000K. Tilting the phone 5-10 degrees to the left or right shows proper, much colder whites, as one would expect. The same nice whites can be seen if I tilt 20-30 degrees up/down.
Perhaps I would not have noticed this problem had I not played the with international version of SGS2 - the whites on that phone are just stunning anyway you look at it. I went back to the T-Mobile store and all the SGS2 phones there the same "issue". The guy in the store thinks that is how the colors should be...
Am I going crazy here? Is it normal to see this yellow cast with a straight viewing angle? Can someone confirm that their screen shows fine whites at any viewing angle? I'm considering sending the phone back for replacement, but it'd be futile if this slight yellow cast is indeed normal...
Mine is like that too. I think its just a quality of the amoled screen, cause I've seen it on other amoled phones too. You get used to it.
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I've checked out/toyed around with close to half a dozen handsets since they came out a couple weeks back and I have yet to see one that has a yellow tint. Every one I've seen has had a blue hue/tint, some approaching a grey cast while a couple others almost like a light mint green. Unfortunately AMOLED screens have the hardest time reproducing white as there apparently is no such thing as a true white LED.
Sounds like the one you got did indeed come a lot warmer than most which tend to me on the cooler side. I wish they would have a factory setting much like most flat panel TVs have for setting/adjusting color temperature to your liking. The blue tint really bugs me but I guess over time you just get used to it. Same would go with yellow too, just have to get used to it. I suppose you could keep exchanging phones as some lucky few out there seem to have gotten handsets with a good color temperature where whites actually look white, but who knows how many times you'd have to try that. I'd bet most places wouldn't be too willing to do that for a customer though.
I'm looking at a yellowish tinted XDA now. Totally dark in my room, auto backlight could be the issue...
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On my Galaxy Note 2, if I display a pure black screen in a completely dark room, I can see that first of all, the "black" is not really black, but somewhat pinkish. And second of all, there are "really black" dots and lines across what is supposed to be "pure black" but is somewhat pinkish (like i said). Also, this effect, of having a darker line, can also been seen with say, dark blue on screen in a completely dark room.
This effect is not noticeable when white or other colours are on screen. I'm really sorry but I can't show you a picture of this because obviously a screenshot captures the digital signal and not the physical output and I don't have a good enough camera to take pictures of what I'm saying in complete darkness.
Is this a defect or just an unavoidable "feature" of Samung AMOLED screens?
you did not use the search function: i personally wrote a huge amount of posts regarding this, also in the note1 section!
search for "black blotches" or take a look at my posts. really lots of them are about this!
in short:
its manufacturing dependant and its luck of the draw to get a "good" screen!
samsung lives with this as not many customers complain(ed) about it, as most of them do not even notice it!
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jeanclaudevandamme said:
On my Galaxy Note 2, if I display a pure black screen in a completely dark room, I can see that first of all, the "black" is not really black, but somewhat pinkish. And second of all, there are "really black" dots and lines across what is supposed to be "pure black" but is somewhat pinkish (like i said). Also, this effect, of having a darker line, can also been seen with say, dark blue on screen in a completely dark room.
This effect is not noticeable when white or other colours are on screen. I'm really sorry but I can't show you a picture of this because obviously a screenshot captures the digital signal and not the physical output and I don't have a good enough camera to take pictures of what I'm saying in complete darkness.
Is this a defect or just an unavoidable "feature" of Samung AMOLED screens?
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Mine is pure back at full brightness when seen in a dark room (no pinkish hue or any line that you mention). And Note 2 screen doesn't even have the infamous black clipping/crushing issue like its predecessors! Blue colour also good, no issues for me.
No, it is definitely not an AMOLED feature or drawback (never seen it on any other AMOLEDs either)! Of all other aspects samsung SAMOLED screens are known to have the deepest blacks (with best contrast ratio). Sure, it sounds like you have a defective screen, and my suggestion would be to get it checked up at SC for replacement.
i also have a similar issue on my note 2. a black screen is not completely black, but a brownish black. And i can see 3 (or more) dots which are completely black.. i can see this only in a dark room, so normally this is not an issue. But when i read kindle in my bed with dark background, this really bothers me. initially i thought this was some smudge on the screen. im sad to hear that other people are also having this issue..
I had the black dots on my galaxy s2 ... but not my note ... The screen on my note has none of that sooooooo happy about that it really is just luck of the draw ....
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Same issue here. But it does not bother me that much, and if I get it replaced, the next one might have worse issues.
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im only worried if it will grow in time. like a dead pixel in an LCD screen, if this phenomenon spreads to the neighboring pixels over time, then its a very bad thing... otherwise, i am not bothered at all..
We need this thread each time there is a new phone which amoled screen? ..
The sgs2 has this as well as the sgs3 the note 1 etc.
it's not a defect, it's a limitation of amoled screen production.
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Mine is pure back at full brightness when seen in a dark room (no pinkish hue or any line that you mention). And Note 2 screen doesn't even have the infamous black clipping/crushing issue like its predecessors! Blue colour also good, no issues for me.
No, it is definitely not an AMOLED feature or drawback (never seen it on any other AMOLEDs either)! Of all other aspects samsung SAMOLED screens are known to have the deepest blacks (with best contrast ratio). Sure, it sounds like you have a defective screen, and my suggestion would be to get it checked up at SC for replacement.
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Sorry, what you say here its not possible! EVERY amoled 'suffers' from this ('cause it CANNOT display 100% blacks, due to it's active matrix)! If you won't see it it's because of a wrong method or your eyes!
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So yesterday I got a replacement one from Verizon and as soon as I opened it I checked the camera and the camera was fine so I was glad about that. But unfortunately I accidentally updated and my phone suddenly had the issue. Again today I tried to use the camera and the camera was fine so I plugged it in to charge and put a case on it when I picked it up it felt a bit warm and I checked the camera and the issue began to creep up again. So to test it I unplugged my phone let it cool down infront of a fan and it was perfect again. Anyone else try this or am I over thinking this.
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Every HTC One has the purple hue issue. Whether people want to admit it or not. The low light setting was set too low. Find a white wall or counter top , in a dark room, take a picture point blank, one inch away, two inches away, three inches away, they all have a purple hue. It's not until you back it up a ways so that light passes through that you see the purple hue disappear.
The first picture was when the phone was nice and cool. Second I took after watching a couple of YouTube videos while on the charger while the phone got warm on the same spot. I just think it's weird how that works. Is it possible that the sensors are being messed with by heat?
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Sorry forgot to upload the second one. Haha
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Think it's to do with iso.
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Sorry forgot to upload the second one. Haha
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From the looks of the shadows and the lighting, the first picture, the whites on your bed are bright, the aluminum from your phone tells me you either have a light on or sun passing through a window. if you take a picture in a dark area, like the second picture where the whites in the bed are dark and the reflection from the aluminum on the phone indicate that a light is turned off or the sun has settled down, and your going to see the purple hue.
I think it's a software bug Verizon will fix. (they can't replace all our phones with new ones, or we'd get the shaft and get refurbed unit casuing an uproar)
anyway we will find small thing that help fix it but all phones eract differently and this camera software is prime example.
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Every HTC One has the purple hue issue. Whether people want to admit it or not. The low light setting was set too low. Find a white wall or counter top , in a dark room, take a picture point blank, one inch away, two inches away, three inches away, they all have a purple hue. It's not until you back it up a ways so that light passes through that you see the purple hue disappear.
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I do not have a purple hue on black or white. I had a little bit of purple tint when I took a picture of fire, but the camera was so good it captured the fire and the surrounding area as well.
Hey guys, come on over and join the purple tint party here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317507
Also, If you could answer a few questions about your phone (you'll find the info on the last few pages of the thread) that would be great. We are trying to find some kind of pattern to this issue.
I have the purple hue issue as well. I think there may be something to the whole "caused by heat" argument. If I power off my One and leave it sitting for say 10 mins and do a cold boot there's no purple/red/blue hue. Once I use the phone for 10 minutes or so it pops back in. I actually had it remedied for over a week and a half after doing a factory reset and cache wipe. Then all of a sudden it came back. THAT makes it seem like a software issue. So idk. Seems both are viable arguments based on my personal experience. I hope it's software bc it's annoying as all hell.
I wanted to add that changing the ISO to 100 that some people have had success with doesn't do anything for me except change it from solid purple to a light purple haze. A little better but still very noticeable. HTC addressed the issue and said it was going to be fixed with the 4.3 update so I'm curious if the Sprint users actually have seen the issue resolved or not.
UPDATE: I added a thread on the Sprint HTC board asking if the issue has been resolved or not. So we'll see what they say
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I have the purple hue issue as well. I think there may be something to the whole "caused by heat" argument. If I power off my One and leave it sitting for say 10 mins and do a cold boot there's no purple/red/blue hue. Once I use the phone for 10 minutes or so it pops back in. I actually had it remedied for over a week and a half after doing a factory reset and cache wipe. Then all of a sudden it came back. THAT makes it seem like a software issue. So idk. Seems both are viable arguments based on my personal experience. I hope it's software bc it's annoying as all hell.
I wanted to add that changing the ISO to 100 that some people have had success with doesn't do anything for me except change it from solid purple to a light purple haze. A little better but still very noticeable. HTC addressed the issue and said it was going to be fixed with the 4.3 update so I'm curious if the Sprint users actually have seen the issue resolved or not.
UPDATE: I added a thread on the Sprint HTC board asking if the issue has been resolved or not. So we'll see what they say
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Funny you say that because I was just heading over to their forum to post the same question
Okay seriously... In the thread link the other user posted about the camera issues 85% of HTC One users on XDA have the issue. 85%!!!! Pathetic.
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Oh and the 4.3 update did NOT fix the issue according to 2 Sprint users in the thread I posted on their forum. Said it was a little better but still there. Awesome.
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Oh and the 4.3 update did NOT fix the issue according to 2 Sprint users in the thread I posted on their forum. Said it was a little better but still there. Awesome.
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This is the worst news I've read all day.
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This is the worst news I've read all day.
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+ 1. No kidding. Maybe once we get source someone here on XDA can pull some magic and help.
I hate when non-Apple products fail in quality assurance! I'm running nightlies of CM and I get the purple tint.
Yeah like apple products are soc perfect lol. Thanks for the laugh.
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BygSii said:
Every HTC One has the purple hue issue. Whether people want to admit it or not. The low light setting was set too low. Find a white wall or counter top , in a dark room, take a picture point blank, one inch away, two inches away, three inches away, they all have a purple hue. It's not until you back it up a ways so that light passes through that you see the purple hue disappear.
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My wife and I both got the HTC one on the same day. Mine has the purple hue in low light and hers does not. To test this I would open the camera and lay it down on my couch so the camera gets nothing but black. Mine will slowly turn almost completely purple and my wifes will remain completely black. She also does not have the tint in low light conditions. I also think heat may play a role. One of the first things I did when I got my phone was run multiple 3dmark tests to see how hot it gets and also test the performance of the graphics chip. I had taken pictures before this and noticed no hue until after my phone heated up really hot. Since then it has had the issue. I think the OP is on to something as I was thinking the heat damaged the camera myself. I also think HTC probably knows this and just wants us to think its a software thing that can be fixed. Even if you adjust the low light settings the hue can still be seen, just not as bad. I bet the update to fix this will probably be something that disables that portion of the hardware so we all just think its been fixed.
It not heat and was you and your wife's settings the exact same? I can get rid of the haze if I lower the iso setting and if I use HDR or night it goes away.
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BygSii said:
Every HTC One has the purple hue issue. Whether people want to admit it or not. The low light setting was set too low. Find a white wall or counter top , in a dark room, take a picture point blank, one inch away, two inches away, three inches away, they all have a purple hue. It's not until you back it up a ways so that light passes through that you see the purple hue disappear.
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Its always good to make claims you don't know lol. Mine does not. My friends does. He even says mine does not... But I'm sure you know everything
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Ever since I got my Xperia M the display has had blueish tint and bad color reproduction but I acknowledged that is a problem with every Xperia M. But beside that, when I look at the display from an angle, on a white background, I can see a gray line appearing from top of the screen and a gray circle in the middle. Again, it is visible as an effect when looking at an angle, cannot see it when looking directly at it. I also have a bright pixel on a black background. Are these also negligible, common issues or along already bad screen I've got a defected screen? I am very disappointed in Sony anyhow.
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Ever since I got my Xperia M the display has had blueish tint and bad color reproduction but I acknowledged that is a problem with every Xperia M. But beside that, when I look at the display from an angle, on a white background, I can see a gray line appearing from top of the screen and a gray circle in the middle. Again, it is visible as an effect when looking at an angle, cannot see it when looking directly at it. I also have a bright pixel on a black background. Are these also negligible, common issues or along already bad screen I've got a defected screen? I am very disappointed in Sony anyhow.
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I'm pretty sure I saw this post somewhere b4... anyway for bluish tint - get the white balance app from @xperiaz2 (Yes, you need root and the bluish tint is due to the colour temperature, its at around 10k+, the norm. being around 6500k) Gray line appearing... pretty sure you're having a defected display and about the bright pixel, display is defected. Yes you got a defected screen (The bluish tint is not a defect though) so just bring it back to where you bought it and they'll replace it for you! (If the warranty is still live)
Well I posted on Xperia support forum trying to get help there, too. Or just an insight of what could that be and what could cause the problem. Anyway, here are a couple of pictures taken with a phone. The camera couldn't get that grey line properly but it appeared as a shadow from the top of the screen probably because as I said it's like an effect when tilting the phone, not a still colour. http://imgur.com/3Ae2rdr http://imgur.com/Nyv2maS
I suggest you to bring it back to the shop, that problem isn't present on mine.