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[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Someone had their screen replaced by hand at a Samsung service center. The problem still exists. OP got a couple of online sites to pick up this story and Samsung's never responded. By all means, contact Samsung. But I'd bet you the response is - "Sorry to hear about your problem. We haven't had previous complaints. Take your phone to a Samsung service center." Unless it's software related you'll probably have to live with it or return the phone.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Thanks for posting the pics. In the cutaway pic you can see the difference, in the full screen pic its much less pronounced. Here's mine. Would you say it's the same, better, or worse? Looking at it on the phone, it seems fine to me. But I do think you have a keener eye when it comes to these things.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
You're keyboard doesn't show it as well as mine. If you look back and forth from the bottom corner buttons it is visible. Even the slightest gradient in the white shows it.
[Galaxy S II General] DuoM:
Ahh, okay. I thought the pics were in response to my post.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Apologies. Barry had asked for some actual use pics a while back. I should have been more clear!
[Galaxy S II General] TechnicR:
Have any of you tried setting the display to 5-10% and then check the gray tester site in a pitch black room?

I get one horizontal black line at the lower part of the screen and multiple black spots as if the screen were dirty, but it is obviously not. I tryed to do some pics, but my camera is not sensitive enough - or I dont know how to set the ISO well :) -

Could some of you test this please? I did the same with my SGS but it was clean (except for a darker circle, but I have known about it since purchase, I am goint go get that repaired one month before warranty expires)

I'll try to play with the camera, maxbe I can make some pics.
[Galaxy S II General] powerba11:
I saw 5 phones until now...all of them had horizontal or vertical lines when set to gray backround colour (10% brightness). So, nothing special that you have...this "features" came bundled with the other ones....like yellow tint&pink camera spot.

Enjoy your SGS2!
[Galaxy S II General] -Anthony-:
Normal device

Hi,

there's some pics of the screen without the issue? Someone tells to have a normal screen, but i've not found photos about.
[Galaxy S II General] Natascha303:
"normal" is just a personal view of things. there is no normal screen out there like u know from SLCD.

as a SAMOLED+ user u have to accept a grey as white and lines. and last but not least a couple of us a more or less strong yellow/green tint.
[Galaxy S II General] bruflot:
Mine is perfeeeect <33:o
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
To all those saying its perfect, rather than just saying it (which has no meaning tbf) you need to post a picture up. Ive yet to see one device that doesnt have it.
[Galaxy S II General] Crazy CS:
prove it.
[Galaxy S II General] -Anthony-:
Thank you. When I had a SGS1 i see a green stain on the bottom of the screen. May be the Amoled Screen have screen issue easly?

Yes, prove it. It will be the first pic without problem
[Galaxy S II General] :
What I don't understand why everyone is looking for proofs? Everyone knows there are issues, so why keep running the same old tape.

If someone is not convinced, why don't they just select another phone and stop posting in this 80-page thread. This thread is totally irrelevant now - there is nothing that I have seen in about last 20 pages which is constructive in any way.

1. We all know there are issue with the screen (to varying degree).

2. Some among us are not too much concerned (may be not visible during normal usage), and maynot be looking for a fault in the device.

3. Some who find this extermely irritating, keeps changing the device multiple times knowing that the next device they get will have the exact same issue.

Why not just get a sensation/iphone/Arc instead? Sometimes it appears that we humans are too narrow in our outlook.

Whoever feels that the issue is too much to ignore, just get a different phone [issue resolved]. For the rest, well, enjoy the device.
[Galaxy S II General] nomnompie:
I see what you're saying, but, some of us can't get another phone. (Sensation's radio bands will not work on my carrier.) Some don't want to downgrade (xperia arc), and some retailers are only allowing exchanges (in my case particularly, they are not letting me get a refund, at least for now.)

My opinion is an 800 dollar phone shouldn't have a half tinted yellow screen. Period. Whether other people can tolerate it or not. The reason people want proof is because they want to know if there is possibly a new batch circulating where this issue is fixed, or if the user simply doesn't see the issue, or doesn't get bothered by it. If it does look 100% fine to those who can see the issue, then we can maybe gather more info such as screen model number, date and place purchased from, etc. This would provide others with possibly a better chance at requesting one from said timeframe which would hopefully also not have the yellow tint.
[Galaxy S II General] Deviser:
My phone...slight yellow tint and ghosting from the keyboard....the screen is dim, otherwise this can't be seen....
[Galaxy S II General] blade75:
I try to make it simple, very simple:

The thread is about an issue with the screen.

Many people report it, with evidence

Somebody posts claiming his screen has no issue

People who have the issue ask for evidence in the hope to know that there is really some GS2 around not affected.

If evidence proof it, they can have choice to ask for repairing, or sell their device to someone who is not so concerned about the issue, and then buy a not affected one.

What I do not understand are people who are not so concerned about the issue coming here to complain about people who are.

There is nothing that force you to follow the thread, as the thread is clearly about the issue, as stated in the subject.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Well then, tell me what the purpose of the people with the issue complaining is? None of us work for Samsung, so you're not going to get any joy from anyone reading your posts. So you repeating the problem incessantly is no different than someone repeating it doesn't bother them incessantly. Unless there's some type of modification made by Samsung the phone will continue to exist exactly the way it does. So keep it, or get rid of it. The issue has been acknowledged here so the real value of this thread now is to help people wanting to buy the phone to understand the true impact of the issue. That and updates on whether newer phones have different screen or assembly processes allowing people to seek repair. Someone had their phone repaired by hand and the issue is still there. That means it could be a design issue. Since for a lot of people the issue isn't bothersome for all we know it's a compromise Samsung was willing to accept to make the phone so thin. If that's true, there won't ever be any changes.

I have it and am not bothered by it. Some feel the same way. Others have it and are extremely disappointed. For the disappointed the choices are: 1) suck it up, 2) get rid of the phone, or 3) hope that down the road something will change and the screen can be replaced. Option 4, *****ing repetitively, is non-productive.

Albert Einstein's definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome. Post after post saying "how do we contact Samsung," "this is unacceptable for a high-end phone," "here are pics of my phone - I can clearly see it," isn't going to change anything. And chances are anything anyone wants to say (pro or con) has been said at least a dozen times already.
[Galaxy S II General] blade75:
The complaining itself is useless.

Complaining about complaining is even more useless overhead.

I do well know the quote by A.Einsten.

Nevertheless, if you read point 5 of my previous post, it should be obvious that is not useless asking evidence of a claimed perfect device.

This was the point.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Agreed. And you make a good point. The only way we'll know if there's a design, production, or assembly change is to see a perfect screen. As of now, and I've been following this thread for a while, I'd assume there are no phones unaffected. Maybe asking people their production date would be less antagonistic than asking them to prove their screen's perfect? The Sprint U.S. version's due out in a couple of weeks. I'll be able to see a couple samples soon. If the same issue exists on a different variant of the phone I'd guess there might never be a resolution. If the issue isn't present, well, that's a whole different discussion.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Well as I said earlier, unlike talking about Einsten/Newton lets just address this directly towards Samsung stating that the faulty phones need to be changed and as you have the proof (i.e- the photos) it won't be difficult right. XDA is popular forum worldwide and who can ignore that. We are on the 81st page of this thread but I doubt that if even 81 users have posted here.
[Galaxy S II General] scorpo:
Please also inform us if you see any improvement on sprint badge. i,ll be waiting because i am planning to buy this phone if there is no improvement i will go for sensation.
[Galaxy S II General] thesludge:
Well i have spent a few hours reading all of these posts and am surprised at the varying effects from one phone to another.

Please dont shoot me down, I am new to Android and just wanted to help if i could.

I dont believe i have the issues as others have stated, but i DO have the red spot camera issue. I just felt compelled to reply to say there is NO Samsung email address-you really have to register your product here .samsung.com/uk/ At the top of the screen is Product Registration. Click there and then Register your phone and model etc with serial number and that then gives you a an opportunity to post a question to the team and then get response for anything you report should you choose to do so.

I reported the red spot issue there and got the following reply from them>

Aside from the above , i took some pictures of my phone using a Canon sx1s camera.

Note that it was on a macro setting just 0.5cm away from the lense of the camera

The lcd version i have is OCTA SM2.

The phone is on T-Mobile contract

It is on KE3

I also obtained following information on the phone

Model: I9100

Region: T-Mobile - Germany, (Branded: yes)

Available languages: cs, de, el, en, es, fr, hr, hu, it, mk, nl, pl, pt, sk, sl, sr, sv, tr, (da, fi, no),

May 2011 Revision: 3

Some pictures of the phone taken in my en-suite with the door closed that has no window in there...

10% light setting

h**p://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee275/meandbex/samsung%20galaxy%20s2/006.jpg

100% light setting

h**p://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee275/meandbex/samsung%20galaxy%20s2/007.jpg

h**p://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee275/meandbex/samsung%20galaxy%20s2/004.jpg
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Wow, who would of thought of that? Contacting Samsung directly? It's been done. The issue was covered in the online media with links to this thread. There's a Facebook page floating around out there somewhere too. The OP is to be given credit as he spent a great deal of his time creating awareness of the issue. And if you read back, the person who showed the issue to Samsung when getting his screen replaced at a tech center was told they didn't see it as a problem but would replace the screen as a courtesy.

It took Samsung six months to react to the SGS1 GPS issue (the SGS2 has been out a month) and even then didn't publicly acknowledge that there was a global problem. And that was far more serious than this with hundreds of threads and thousands of posts across XDA. Adding another 80 pages of hysterical "ME TOO!" to this thread isn't going to change anything whether you choose to accept it or not. So if Samsung never responds, and it's a design issue, the same three choices referenced above still apply if you're unhappy. You'll be waiting an awfully long time if you're expecting some type of worldwide recall and mea culpa from Samsung. It's never been done before and there's no incentive for them to do it here.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
eallan is kind of the unofficial picture judge. Thoughts eallan?
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Well that sums it up. This thread is done then. If they didn't accept it then they are not gonna. So discussing about this for another 100 or 200 pages won't do any help, right?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
The thread should be kept alive for two reasons. It gives people who want to buy the phone someplace to see examples of the issue. I talk about this issue to friends wanting to buy the phone and send them to this thread to see if the issue is a deal breaker for them. Just because I'm OK with it doesn't mean I can assume my friends would be too. Also, if at some point there's a change and phones start appearing without the issue those that want to would be able to know to get theirs repaired. It really does suck that such a great phone is marred by such a seemingly avoidable issue.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Sorry buddy.

Not yellow, but gradient of brightness for sure.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Well said.
[Galaxy S II General] thesludge:
I can live with that :D Least its not yellow eh.
[Galaxy S II General] renton82:
So, if someone has this phone without the issue please verify what kind of display has the phone! So, if i'm going to buy this phone i can test the version of display before buy it! Because in the most case in the shop it's too difficult to see the issue due to too much light!
[Galaxy S II General] Jokesy:
Wooow

You've got a great screen dude.

Definitely can't see any issues with yours but i doubt it if EAGLE EYES and great photoshoppers here won't say otherwise though.

Enjoy your device. Currently waiting for mine and hoping to get something close to yours
[Galaxy S II General] v1rtu4l:
first off, it is funny to see the people who thought super amoled was the best of the best in everything getting kind of sober right now.

i used super amoled and super lcd and i have to say that both are equally good (imho), because what you gain on the one side you loose one the other.

everybody is talking about the great blacks of amoled, but nobody did ever mention that on the other hand amoled has worse white than lcd displays. you probably wont notice it without putting your phone against a phone with a good lcd display, but amoled white was never as white as the super LCD white. it always has some faint colour-shadow of blue, yellow or whatever.

the banding problem is not a problem of amoled, because i had similar yellow bands on two of my prior super LCD devices. i switched them until i got one without bands and now the time has come that my 6 month old phone needs to step aside for the galaxy s II which i will buy tomorrow but only after letting the guys in the shop start it for me and inspecting the phone.

could anyone check if the bands are visible if you use the coloured test screens after typing in "*#0*#", please ?

and a bit offtopic responding to the guy (sorry, forgot your name) who mentioned the gps-flaw of the galaxy s devices, i got to tell you that it was not samsungs fault, that those devices performed so bad. google forced samsung to stop using the xps network location system after samsung already released the phone so at some point phones where shipped without that little gps-helper and there was never enough time for samsung to replace the deactivated xps network location method while already selling the handsets
[Galaxy S II General] RogerPodacter:
The other thing I hate amoled for is white colors drains an insane amount of power, and everything we read is on white pages.

Right now I'm pulling 500 mA on full white screen Max brightness, but 110 mA on black screen min brightness. Slcd just pulls 250 mA no matter what (actually its 100 mA on min, 250 mA on Max). Much more stable predictable battery web browsing experience. It sucks to have to be aware of what content I'm viewing to consider battery life.
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
maybe someone can hack the browser to invert background/foreground on webpages
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
It's funny to see people having the trouble to write testament's here saying we should stop complaining about the screen LOL

Do you know there are thousands of other threads in this forum ?

Jesus...
[Galaxy S II General] ranwej:
Or you can use OPERA MOBILE with custom user style (user.css). I'm using it and it's working fine (black background, silver text)..
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
how do you do that?
[Galaxy S II General] vegetaleb:
The latest SGS2 have also the yellow problem or they corrected it?

What is the ''screen burn'' problem?
[Galaxy S II General] Jokesy:
Don't let anybody deceive you about screen burn. You can learn more about it here:

h**p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
mine had strange lines specially on bottom of the screen

hardware issue or software issue ?
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
^ That's yet to be figured out. No one can claim 100% that it's a hardware problem nor software, even on the 83rd page!
[Galaxy S II General] Lownita:
Guys what do you think about my display? Left side has a yellow tint and is slightly darker. Only visible on grey. White is good though. I guess I will keep it, seems like it would be hard to find a phone without any issues.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
I was in the Samsung experience store in NYC the other day and they had a bunch of Infuse phones there... all of them suffered from this problem as well.

Took a pic (with my SGS2 so it isn't the best) which I'll upload later.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
100/100 phones are like that, I mean GS II. No point changing the device, you will get a same like before. And besides, how long we actually see at that drop down Notification bar?
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
and for mine : refund or not ?

cheers
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
That depends on you pal. If you wanna try another phone you could always do that, but by looking at your pic I can say that mine is 100% like your, I meant the screen.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
even the kind of horizontal white banding at bottom of the screen ?
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
Nope. It's not that clear in the picture for me. But I can say there is NO horizontal banding at the bottom of the screen for me at least.

Regards.
[Galaxy S II General] Bratag:
I have to say that on my replacement from expansys this issue is much less a problem. yes there is a darkening on the left side, but it is very minimal and has no yellowish overtone.
[Galaxy S II General] djase:
so i'm only the one that had these horizontal white banding ?

damned ! samsung sucks !
[Galaxy S II General] Seabass1:
It's hard to make out in your photo but I think I can see what you are talking about and I'm fairly sure that mine when I had it didn't have that problem. Probably worth an exchange if it bothers you.
[Galaxy S II General] menonino:
i've the problem too but, i hope next stock will not have it, i'll try to send it back to samsung.

Anyway at the moment maybe there aren't phone with the same performance of gs2, so i think too keep it :)
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
That is correct, upon second inspection (switching roms) on my infuse, it does in fact have the same issue, on the same side.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Well, isn't that interesting. It could mean:

1) It's an issue with the new SAMOLED+ screens in general

2) The innards of the Infuse are similar to the SGS2 and it suffers the same interference

3) It could be s/w if it wasn't on your Infuse with one ROM but there on another

4) There's no hope this will ever be fixed if Samsung's is allowing it on all there SAMOLED+ phones

But don't you think an eagle eye on the Infuse forum would have caught this if it is in fact effecting stock Infuse's the way it's effecting the SGS2?
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
This is so weird.

We need a Sherlock Homes :D
[Galaxy S II General] Arkanius:
To everyone that says every SAMOLED screen has problems, they are wrong

I have been accompanying this thread since here at my household we would be getting 3 GS2 due enterprise channels.

Of the three we received, 2 were perfect (No Pink spots on cameras and no yellow brightness on the left side and no vertical or horizontal patters on solid images)

However the one that was destined to be mine had those problems (Except the camera, that worked perfectly since I checked as well)

So yeah, it's a gamble. Mine is going back to Samsung until I get one that is immaculate like the other two
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
You must know play in the lottary mate.

OMG...
[Galaxy S II General] zorkis:
Honestly, I find this a little bit overreacting. As long we dont see it normally. I can hardly see it unless we come to grey color and with 20% light. Thats quite a few time we come into this situation.
[Galaxy S II General] PHiL_G4:
Hi @all !

FYI, in the attachment this is my first device from Amazon.de.

Today a new one has arrived and everything is fine now.

:)

phil
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
There are two separate issues.

1) Various QC issues like the suction cup circle, finger prints on the inside of the screen, dead pixels, and random vertical or horizontal banding on the screen. They're do to either specific defects and/or sloppy craftsmanship. They've been pretty rare though and I'd assume they happen to every brand and model of phone to some degree.

2) The always vertical discoloration/banding on the left 1/4 to 1/3 of the screen has so far been seen on every SGS2 produced. Sometimes it can be seen with the naked eye, sometimes only by taking a picture of it (see the first post). The significance may vary by phone or user, but its always been there in every picture posted. Even from users who swear they don't have it (I was one of those).

This thread has been discussing the presence and impact of item number two.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Honestly, It's harder to see on the infuse.

The stock notification shade is a color that doesn't show the issue. The gradient of brightness also seems less "harsh" if that makes sense. I'll snap a pic later.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
many of us see it normally
[Galaxy S II General] iced_tea:
Hi everyone. This is my first time visiting this thread despite seeing it many times. I've never noticed the yellow tinge problem on my SGS2. Took two screenshots of my notification page and the test page at 0% brightness.

What do you guys think?

Edit: That was silly of me. I just realised I'm supposed to take a photo of my phone screen rather than screen shots. Will be back with photos.

Here are the photos (left to right): 0% brightness, 100% brightness // 100% brightness, 0% brightness.

I think there is a slight yellow tinge but I honestly never noticed this before. Now that I know it's there it kinda bugs me. On a side note, I think the pinky-ness showing up in the photos is not part of my screen. At least I really hope it's not.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Screenshots will not show the issue.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
I'd love to see a tear-down of either or both phones to see what componentry runs along the left side. Or how Samsung connects power to the display.
[Galaxy S II General] Delarock:
same issue
[Galaxy S II General] sascha224:
iFixit has made a teardown, maybe someone could interpret the pictures? (Sorry, I'm new and not able to post a link)

Edit: On Step 7, Pic 3 of the teardown, you can see there is a cable on the left side, connecting the upper front facing camera part to the lower usb connection board. Is it possible that this cable is causing interference?
[Galaxy S II General] Natascha303:
six batches, six different displays. ill stop for the next two months and will buy it in late august. no more fun yet... to much variations and every single batch has another problem.

maybe the right one was the best off all, but has got a not proper item quaility.