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[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Hi, no one here is asking for "perfection", it does not exist. Personally, i ask for a fully specification compliant device. It may occour that a device have some non compliances, and solving the issues is a Samsung's duty.

Here we have a device that have a display with a well known problem that it's still unsolved (not to mention other unsolved problem such as the pink spot camera issue or the lowlight severe framerate drops).

The big problem is not a bugged or defective device, but the samsung intent to leave this problems as is. I'we already changed my device 4 times, and all devices had severe display problems. This is not bad luck, it's a samsung

serious problem.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
People like you will never be happy. The Sensation has a death grip issue and screen responsiveness problems. The O2X/G2X have LCD screen bleed among other issues. Every unit from the first to the last will have these issues so they're not "fully specification compliant" either. I'll be the first to agree that these design and manufacturing issues suck and could have been avoided. But Samsung's "duty" is no different than Motorola's, LG's, or HTC's. The SGS2 has less issues than the phones I just mentioned so no matter what you buy you're going to have to deal with the fact it's not going to be perfect and you're going to have to accept compromises. Whether you like it or not.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I do agree that all phones have an issue to a certain degree and the S2 has the least of issues but the sad part is that one of the major flaws for me is on the screen which is supposed to be better than the Galaxy S, I've already processed a refund for the S2 and I hope it gets approved since its not the same reply I got from them a few weeks earlier, they were very willing to refund me but now its pending for approval.. they also admitted that they know they were already updated with the yellow banding issue and the camera pink spot, they dont have a fix but will replace units affected. Hopefully I get a refund so I can wait out the Galaxy S3 this dec.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
I'm not so hard shelled as i could look, because i accepted my "not so perfect" screen. But try to see my point: i bought this device becouse of it's beautyfull screen, and i've seen this faded out screen on the left. I bought this device becouse of great photos, and i see a pink spot on the center of my photos. I bought this device becouse of 30fps full hd videos... and my videos stutters and goes @12fps in low light conditions. Well, after all.. i bought this phone because of high performances! But hey.. i cannot play 3D games too much or navigate too much becuse it becomes too hot :eek: Not to mention if i try to play a 3D game when the battery is charging (really often).. it becomes lava hot!

Do i explain myself? I decided to make a present to my self with my first android device, and i decided to buy this top class device becouse a lot of people said it's fantastic, not to mention the enthusiastic reviews and of course becouse its features are exactly what i was searching from a smarphone.

Do you know what's the hilarious story? I paied this product with defect free, fully compliant and perfectly working... 600 euros.

I'm simply disappointed.

Sorry for my personal venting...
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:


Your expectations are yours and you certainly don't need to defend them. I wasn't trying to single you out. But while it's unfortunate that some of you seem to have had a string of problematic phones, they're not all that way. I don't have a yellowish screen or the camera pink spot so there's obviously examples of the phone that are issue free. I'm not a fanboy and don't care who makes my phone but some posts make the phone seem far more flawed than it is. If they were all the way some of you describe, and there's no way it would sell as well as it does.
[Galaxy S II General] BrandoHD:
Sorry too hear that, I have all the issues that u speak about, and I have come to live with them because if it wasn't those problems, it would be another, the screen is still beautiful and the yellow is hardly noticeable, it still takes great pictures as the pink spot only appears in low light conditions (this may be technological limitation of camera phones), and I don't do CPU intensive tasks while its charging, I will charge it afterwards, when I am not using the phone.

Point is, while the phone has issues, I have found that it meets my expectations and greatly surpasses them, my suggestion to you is, if you cannot overlook these issues, you should take the necessary steps to return the phone, get back you money or exchange the device for another.

I just hope you did not spend your "defect free, fully compliant and perfectly working... 600 euros" in a manner that doesn't leave you with the above choices.....

As customers, the only way we can make a difference is with our pockets....
[Galaxy S II General] Black-Star:
Ok so i've just discovered something very weird about the screen. When i go into a room without light and with my screen on and an all black picture i can see marks. I know that the screen i not turned off also because i can see lights coming out of it even if it's all black.

If you also want to check, just search 'black' in google image, download the first picture, and go into the gallery. It works only in dark room.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
If i still got the device is because it still has other good points, compared to other models. My target is to obtain a good working sgs2. For now i stand by waiting the next official update. If the update will not solve any one of the problems, i will bring the device to a samsung repair center, and the i will decide what to do.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Wow, someone actually has no pink spot on the camera xD
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Seems like some one has no pink spot, but it's hard to demostrate. I hope that the official update comes out as soon as possible, i would like to see if they have improved the amoled screen driving to correct or at least alleviate its defects.
[Galaxy S II General] rockrag:
Happy to hear u opted for the refund option. Well reading through the thread i guess u are currently on ur 4th unit. Thats frustrating to get 3 defective units on replacements. Because of this i opted for a refund. I'm not risking my 1st replacement also. Remember i asked opinion regarding replacement on my phone being 20 days from purchase. If u haven't read my post, well my refund is approved and will reach me within a month. Lets wait for the S3 :) Good luck on yours.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
My refund is still pending in process but a couple of weeks earlier they actually sounded it was pretty fast and easy to do, just waiting on what they can give.
[Galaxy S II General] sebarkh:
Believe me or not but since yesterday the issue has gone. !!!!!!

No yelowish no darker left side. Couldn't believe it, but it's true!

Ehr.... No... it's still there... kinda less visible but still visible at night. Hardly, but still...
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
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[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
Good thing you got a refund. You were obviously not happy with your phone. Refunds can take quite a while in our country. Takes lots of time to process.
[Galaxy S II General] zuchte:
don't worry, i got the same problem
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Its not a problem, the phone produces a lit black.. the problem would be if there are patters/splotches or whatever anything that does not make it uniform.

Its still pending for approval.

EDIT:

Looking at the Galaxy Note, it has a SAMOLED HD, hopefully its a new generation of tech that does not have any of the SAMOLED+ issues at all.
[Galaxy S II General] DarkDwarf:
Hello, I got my sgs2 from a french operator with insurance. So this phone I had was made in Korea. It had the yellow tint issue and visible stripes when the backlight was dim.

My phone was stolen, so I got a new one (through insurance). The second phone is made in china, and the screen is better, but not perfect: I have the yellow defects but barely noticeable even with low brightness. I don't have any stripes.

Today I tried galnetmiui, and my phone started heating up to 55°C. I noticed the yellowish thing starting to get really visible!!

So I when back to liten'ing 6.1 (my previous rom) through nandroid restore.

And the problem was still here!

As I have an insurance, I took the risk of putting some ice on the screen. The temperature on battery monitor was saying 26°C. So I guess the screen was pretty cold, after 15min the yellowish tint became like it was before: barely noticeable ...

I think the problem is not related to kernels or to roms. It might be coming from a combo of temperature and super amoled plus properties.

I'm just sharing my experience, and my conclusion could be wrong!
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Your conclusion is the same of mine ;)
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
The samoled+ is a good screen poorly enginered. The result is, unluckly, a crap. If i will decide to buy a new android device, i will wait much more time before buying it, waiting for users gripes..
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Im gonna be checking it out first then read more about it on what the real world usage issues are like because everyone has a different real world usage like always having 50% brightness or never using the phone in a darkroom with 0% brightness and even have studio level lights when taking pictures from the S2. But Im hoping the SAMOLED HD is as good as the SAMOLED (first gen) I agree though on paper the SAMOLED+ is great but on actual usage its worse than the SAMOLED.
[Galaxy S II General] flight777:
Same here, only when it is completely dark en when I stare to the screen I can barely see "black" stains on a lighter gray background. I think that is just a limitation of the screen which you will never see during normal use?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Yes thats 100% normal, there is illumination. if its not uniform then thats out of specifications and will quality for an exchange if it distracts you from normal usage or when watching movies/night clock mode.
[Galaxy S II General] zuchte:
Well I have those black splotches. when i look at an all black background; the actual black is lit but there are even darker spots/blotches spread over the screen.
[Galaxy S II General] Black-Star:
I've got exactly the same problem.

At for the others, you should check it too !
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
If you really need to look for it then its not really an issue TBH, some units have splotches that are visible enough when viewing movies with a lot of dark scenes, those are the ones that might need replacing..
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
Well I have the blue tint when I view from a minimum angle but it's my 5th unit and I'm so tired of going to store to get a replace and not really sure if they replace this one because they don't have other to compare the screen, this is usable but is so annoying when I had 4 units without this stupid tint... Is like when I tilt a little don't have any whites but only white blues...
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Same issue with my first unit, I had it exchanged w/o any issues as it cant display whites LOL!
[Galaxy S II General] slind:
same problem here, but I can see several spots (looking like moisture under the display) as well as long line going from side to side of the screen and an about 3 cm long line from the bottom right corner to the mid of the screen.

they are all visible if light shines on the device and the screen is turned off or not above 25% brightness ... sucks heavily.
[Galaxy S II General] Black-Star:
At first i thought it was because of my screen-protector but no... With what you're saying, i'm realising that i've also got this issue :(
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Sometimes its worth while comparing 2 phones and a demo unit from the store before buying, I made this mistake on the S2 :D
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
Yes, but when in my Operator company is always out of stock, I can't get to compare live, but when I got home with this one I realized something on screen was wrong... Well I got an iphone 4 to compare screens and I had compared with other Sgs2 and watching a movie I preferred samsung in almost every aspect, today I compared and I prefer the iphone in every aspects except for real blacks on samsung, so I can say that something is really wrong... I don't know how I will show this on store, other thing I realized today is the video quality on youtube hd is so far worse then iphone 4 is this normal? I didn't realized this before...
[Galaxy S II General] vand3lay:
I don't have any tints or one side being brighter than the other. However when my screen is in it's dimmest setting, and the lighting in the room is so low I can't even take a picture of the screen there are clearly visible yellow splotches on the screen around the edges, with the biggest ones being in the bottom 2 corners and one in the middle. The build info on mine is Jul 12 and I'm on Bell.
[Galaxy S II General] Tunjaii:
I had also this bad issue. It is very very annoying. Samsung please value your customers and take back these faulty handsets. I cannot explain how much it suffered me ...
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
hi, from istanbul/tr 2 days ago i got my s2 heres my screenshot i cant see any yellow spots :confused: btw my brightness@ %10.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Obvious troll is obvious..
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
kinda funny calling me troll i just wanna say not every person got this yellow shtz. so :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
You need to actually take photo's screen shots wont show it since its a hardware defect.
[Galaxy S II General] Tunjaii:
Hi Emeky, i wonder, from which company have you bought your SGSII from Istanbul. I've also bought mine in Istanbul. I've taken it to service centre but although i explained in detail they haven't realized a yellow tint. But it is not possible not to see it, for healthy eyes :( ...
[Galaxy S II General] Tunjaii:
I am worried that Samsung will not accept my yellow tinted faulty device.

Is it possible? Because I've read a post and someone says:

"One of the official samsung retail stores here in my place said that they were called up by samsung not to accept returns for the yellow tint on the side as this is a "Normal Defect" on the SAMOLED Plus screen..

I would guess this means sammy has no plans to rectify this and probably move with the SGS3 by the end of 2011 or early 2012."

I've paid for but could never use. It is a big pain :(
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I believe I said that, some stores made those claim I dont know if its legit or not but sammy is processing my refund for this issue after 3 replacements and 4 other failed selections.
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
u can say it before calling me troll :( and here you got some pics of my s2 taken by fujifilm finepixZ kinda low cost camera.btw some reflections on my s2 screen because of bathroom light and my camera

sorry about you, i buy from sahibinden.com and phone made in china , wish u got a rpr! ;)
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
here i take some more photos out the bathroom,when midnight i take more photos ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Devhux:
Definitely notice some screen issues on my S2. Sadly I can't really exchange it because I bought it second hand (and didn't notice the issue when initially testing it).

This is a Bell handset.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I was just pulling your leg relax the yellow tint is extremely visible on your screen even by the thumbnails only, It might appear as a darker left side to some.
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
dude if you talking about my first post pics u just see @ the left top side my bathroom light please check my second post pics. and i take alot pics later @ midnight seriously thers no yellows on my screen plus i dont use glasses;)
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Yes, bad customer care. I've payed my phone 600€ and it's full of defects that samsung does not want to repair.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
As long as you dont see it dont sweat it or dont look for it, thats the main concern here its not if you have it or not.
[Galaxy S II General] Tunjaii:
I am thinking deeply, but realy i don't understand how it could be possible for Samsung that doesn't accept to repair or exchange their clearly seen defective devices. If Samsung had said that their super super screens could be defective I had never bought it. But Samsung says their SAMOLED+ screens are perfect in evrery advertisements.

Samsung, please exchange our defective devices, help your customers ...
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
Ok, going for my 6th unit, hope to get rid of this blue tint.... Was contacted today from my carrier, waiting for a new unit since is out of stock. Today i saw a unit from a store and I was shocked! The screen had a yellow spot right in the middle very very noticeable and pretty big one, had permanent shadows too, this is alarming... Ok this unit is almost allways on but same with other models and never saw nothing like this in so short life time for the galaxy s2... Think in a year or so we will all be complaining about permanent damage on screen with the usage... Hope not but I think we will...
[Galaxy S II General] DoliRS:
Second phone. :(
[Galaxy S II General] transbean:
Look the same as my 2nd phone bad yellow tint on half left of screen plus greenish screen on mine, and i can't replace my phone because limit to only one replacement :(

May i know what is display brightness level when taking the picture?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Ouch! But trust me, a lot of people say its impossible to notice that in daily usage :D
[Galaxy S II General] DoliRS:
Photo is with minimum brightness or 10%, but i see difference with automatic brightness (indoors). :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
HAHAHAHAHA this.

Common Barry show up.
[Galaxy S II General] thecrab93:
Hi everyone, don't know if this will help at all but I hve the yellowish tint aswell, I can see it in the web page at nearly maximum brightness instead of minimum but when I'm browsing I can see it at low brighness levels it's like the 4th day since I have it, as soon as I found this thread I phoned Samsung's mobile phone support in the UK and mentioned about the issue saying that my screen had a yellowish titn to the right hand side of the screen and the guy askedt me how long had I had the phone and I said 4 days and then he said take it back to retailer and ask for a replacement quickly so I said, do you know if this is a common issue with this phone? And he replied saying that it's the first time he gets someone complaining about it..... So I'm going to try the replacement to see if I notice any difference.....
[Galaxy S II General] aliamerji:
I got one which was Korean make with Yellow tint, used it for a week, sold it for USD 100.00 less, got another one Chinese make, no yellow tint, spotless and flawless, enjoying..................
[Galaxy S II General] emeky:
said before my phone chinese too , and no problemo. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] 120202:
Well as for my SGS2 , I can't see any yellowish tint on my screen. may I call myself lucky ?
[Galaxy S II General] xclusiv8:
Guys! Engadget made an article about it!!

http://mobile.engadget.com/2011/05/30/is-your-galaxy-s-iis-display-yellow-on-the-left/
[Galaxy S II General] Razer(x):
That sucks, i've just ordered my SGSII
[Galaxy S II General] xclusiv8:
Whats up with alternative 4 on the engadget poll. Kinda makes it look like they are not taking it serious.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
They always have a throw away answer. Glad they posted it.
[Galaxy S II General] NitroOnTheRocks:
haha, they used one of my pictures, I recognized my custom SystemUI.apk...

Still waiting for my new replacement SGS2, still 1 week to go...

But the vertical lines you can see in the picture were as annoying than the yellow left side,

that's the reason I went for exchange.
[Galaxy S II General] yellowchilli:
while i dont have this problem myself- which is lucky because i imported mine..wouldve had to send it back to uk or something all the way from hk if something was wrong?

anyway, ive noticed something else.

when in total darkness, and i switch the phone off, there's a maybe 20second period where the button LEDs are still on, but the screen is blank and black until the phone does a final buzz to signal it's now off.

2 things:

1. superamoled plus's contrast is not quite infinite. it seems that there is still a veryveryvery dim backlight somewhere lighting up the screen pixels rather than being...black...as in OFF. am surprised by this

2. because of this very dim backlight, im also able to see that the screen has what seems to be...splodges/dots of dirt on it. these however do not affect anything or show up in normal everyday use. very strange indeed.
[Galaxy S II General] Nurra:
I'm a perfectionist too. I've tried to find the yellow screen. I did notice the some black lines on black background in feedly. I can't see those lines more after the content is loaded. Then again, I went to the phone shop and inspect the phone itself and only paid after no problem was found.

Oh I do have one problem with the gs2. I uses the nexus one before this. The 3g signal on nexus one was always H while the gs2 constantly move back and forth between 3g and h, it stays at 3g most of the time.
[Galaxy S II General] tsimpoyris:
This is a battery saving feature. It switches to 3g when no data is being used.

The original SGS has this too.

I'm waiting for my SGSII in a couple of days. Hope it doesn't have mustard on it :P
[Galaxy S II General] sachilleas:
http://pocketnow.com/android/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-screen-problems-trouble-in-paradise
[Galaxy S II General] stijnr:
I have the same sort of problem with the XDA app on my SGS2. When scrolling through the posts, the background color toggles between blue/pink/red shades. I think it should be white all the time.
[Galaxy S II General] r_a_c:
Ok nice that the picked it up. Though the comments on the posts are pretty stupid. I will believe there are ones without if anyone could please post one without the problem!!!
[Galaxy S II General] xclusiv8:
As usual, people that dont have problems dont really care or notice threads like these. That is why one cannot trust polls on forums.
[Galaxy S II General] nedooo:
So burn in effect is still present, that's not good and jet another problem :mad:

After a moth or two, maybe more, with full brightness SGS2 should get permanent burn in marks, since that's a well known problem with Samy's AMOLED family.

But you can avoid burn in if you don't use full brightness.

Some people are ok with brightness turned down, but not me.

Hmm...I should wait for some phone that has that LG's NOVA display good GPU and a GIG of RAM.

Or...

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsungs-shiny-new-OLED-display-factory-opens-for-business_id19213
[Galaxy S II General] Doopliss:
I got my replacement today, new device still has the yellow (of course) but the criss-crossing dark lines (which were the main reason I wanted it changed) are, thankfully, absent.

I also noticed the metal surround on the new device is a slightly different colour. The old one was almost black, but this is a definite grey. Weird.
[Galaxy S II General] capactus:
I'm on my third SGS2 and this latest one has the least yellowish screen of them all. It's almost perfect. I have to look really really hard to see a slight discolouration.

The other two had the yellow tint very noticable.

So I really do believe there are G2's that don't have this problem. I'll keep mine cause it's allmost flawless.
[Galaxy S II General] r_a_c:
Thanks!

Now I believe there are ones that have at less, almost unnoticable, maybe don't have it.
[Galaxy S II General] why_999:
I hate this thread & PocketNow.. Never noticed before, or thought it was the background. Now I'm looking for it on every screen.

Mine isn't as bad as some shown here, but is noticeable now I'm aware of it.

so thanks guys.