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[Galaxy S II General] bharat_xda:
Yeah, looks like there are two colors 'Noble Black' and 'Smoke Gray'. Can you please check your box and confirm?

Also, what color is the Home button? Does it have a chrome/silver lining or is it fully black?
[Galaxy S II General] Mc S.H.O.:
Hello everybody i have the sgs2 from yesterday and was looking of i had the same problem but when i look and look and look i see a very little bit (light a nothing yellow) its a little bit darker on the left side than the right side
[Galaxy S II General] xclusiv8:
An official statement from Samsung would make things so much easier.
[Galaxy S II General] Prankey:
I replaced mine from a China make to Korean and it has much better screen as I see. However yellow on the left side is still there. China made had a conical lighter color shape around the center which this phone do not have (instead has some vertical brighter thick bars around center - much bearable).

Not sure what to do next as I am not happy with the display as yellow tint on the left and brighter bluish tint on the right is quite noticeable on grey and white color shades.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Joust updated my phone firmware from KE7 to KG1. Kernel is still 2.3.3. Pretty useless update. Same yellow tint on the screen, same crap camera with pink spot and low framerate. Same **** samsung ****....

edit: official kies update.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
About time you had it returned and replaced or get a refund and just get the Note or S3
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Are you talking to me?

It's impossible to get a refund now, i bought this phone more than one month ago. I can only ask to get it repaired, at the least the camera system. About buying a note and/or an s3: only a mad can buy these devices as soon as they're launched on the market. I'm not sure i will trust samsung again.
[Galaxy S II General] rockrag:
I am getting my refund for my S2 and looking forward to the Galaxy Note. Cant wait longer for the S3. I'll be happy with a larger screen than 4.3" as i watch videos a lot on the phone. Comeon Samsung lower the price of the Note!
[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
Something weird happened with mine. Since I started using the Miui rom the yellow tint disappeared... Either that or its barely there? Or maybe the screen evened out or something. It's been almost 3 weeks owning this phone. When I got it it was really obvious now it isn't anymore.
[Galaxy S II General] Devhux:
That reminds me of one of the iPhones when it came out. I seem to remember seeing similar yellow tint complaints and it was determined to be glue holding the screen together. After a few weeks it would go away.

I'll see how mine holds up in a few more weeks.
[Galaxy S II General] shatterproof:
I faced the same issue of a brand new set but my tint was pretty mild looking at some of the sample shots.

Flashed to KH3 (2.3.4) and the tinting is gone (even at 0% brightness)!

And I've seen reports of people in my local forum who sent their sets in and got back panels with worse tinting/pink pixels in camera/both.

So please DO try a 2.3.4 rom and see if it helps before trying for a replacement!

PS. I do know it's supposed to be a hardware issue, but as far as perception is concerned, there's no such distinction. Cheers
[Galaxy S II General] lvvine:
All the S2 have the Yellowish Problem

Hi,

I have check almost 20 phones, Some of my friends have got the replacement or some got serviced. Every phone have the same issue. One thing i observed. The yellowish color is becoming lighter & lighter in course in couple of months. My Brother brought Aug 2011 batch S2. Even that have same issue

Some reported its getting fixed after updating to 2.3.4 firmware..Does it really fix the issue ? What version is fixing the issue ?
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
It will not be better in time, this is a different issue than the iphone one. It could get even worse in time.
[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
I flashed back to my latest stock version kh2 and the tinting is also gone. Really odd. It used to be so apparent.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
Wether its a software or hardware issue, thel latest roms from samsung is making some special procedure to find the yellow tint issue and sort it out by reducing the brightness. People saying that they dont have the yellow tint issue in 2.3.4 roms, watch your screen in a dark environment, the right side will be brighter than the left side.....
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
This is true, today i'm gonna pick up my 6th replacement and is suppose to be from a new batch they where waiting. The unit i have now suffers from the severe blue tint/coating in all screen, one other thing i noticed and don't know if affects all units is when you have one home screen without icons or widgets and other with the calendar widget, put the brightness to maximum and then go switch from those screens and see if the brightness lowers on the shortcuts below like phone, contacts, messages and apps. It does on this unit that will be replaced and i never noticed it in the pass.
[Galaxy S II General] somethingfierce:
Ok, this is my frst post here. My English is a bit rusty, so excuse me on this :)

SGS2 of unknown origin, bought about a week ago. Stock XEKE2 firmware had yellow screen problem. After reading local forums (namely, 4pda.ru), I flashed XXKG1, which unfortunately didn't helped.

Today I clenched my teeth (I'm still somewhat afraid of flashing) and flashed XXKH3, and voila! No more yellow tint!

I hadn't feel such a relieve in years :)
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
The yellow tint is only solved via software for the affected hardware models. People who had yellow tint earlier and solved after flashing a new rom will most probably have lower brightness on the left side.

But still it will be great relief because lower brightness is less notable than yellow tint.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
I have lower light on the left than the right and on the left there is yellow tinting, becouse the gray pattern is more brownish on the left.

The way to patch my screen is to lower the screen right side brightness and apply a color correction to the left.

With the official KG1 firwmare update i see no tifferences on the screen behaviour.
[Galaxy S II General] TECK:
Got mines from Bell, no yellow spots with either UGKG2 2.3.3 or XXKG3 2.3.4 (currently flashed) firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] underhuggare:
Just got my Sgs2, and i discovered the yellow tint pretty fast, though the tint on mine covers the whole right side of the screen and half of the left side, giving a ~2cm thick whiter line down across the screen. Like for most of you, its not noticeable on high brightness but on less than ~30%, you cant miss it. Pretty damn annoying.
[Galaxy S II General] lockieio:
.

ok...reading allot of this post's.

So please people,can you suggest to me to buy or not to buy phone, cuz it have this tint problem...tnx :)
[Galaxy S II General] Declan79:
Of course buy this phone. It wont bother anything

send from my premium XDA GT-P1000 2.3.3|DXJPE
[Galaxy S II General] dikime:
Same here. Bought it with KF3, flashed KH3 and the tint is gone, but the brightness is different somehow.

When I reboot the phone, the tint is here until I manually lock the screen and turn it on - then it goes.

Same happens if I do a factory reset.

Too bad Samsung screwed this beautiful screen - and damn my game addiction that forced me to buy Galaxy S' bigger brother :D
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
Hey, I just bought the S2 before knowing about this issue. I DO NOT want my phone to have this. As soon as I receive it, I'll check for this.

If I see it, I will ask for a replacement, and will go for the Galaxy S1 (I don't want to start the neverending swap process. I did it once with Apple, and ended up swaping a yellow tinted ipod touch V2 8 times. Yup, 8 times, people at the apple store thought i was crazy, but when I put my swaped ipod touch near the ones of my friends, mines looked like piss. It was OBVIOUS. I finally decided to just sell it because I got mad with the Apple inability to give me a normal screen, I will never buy any other apple product from that day) .

But concerning the Galaxy S1, do you know if there is the same issue (yellow band on the left) on the S1 ? (it seems the S1 have a perfect screen, I personnally prefer to pay less for a perfect screen, even if the phone is "slower" ).

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
BTW, do you have pics of the GS1 display on the notification page ? I'd love to see if it has the same issue.
[Galaxy S II General] cioly:
i had sgs1 and my screen was perfect, but it's not the same case with the sgs2. i bought from orange and i sent it to warranty 2 times, now im waiting to see if they REPAIR it because on the first time they changed the display and were more problems than before. I will probably check it again and found another problem to sent it again because on third or fourth time they will give me a brand new one. It's unfair to have a repaired phone because i bought it new and use it 10 days and like 3 weeks in service.
[Galaxy S II General] gbohm:
it doesn't neither does my nexus s
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
I'm so fed up with this issue... My 6th unit has yellowish and strange paterns, on grey backs like in messages, or websites and that. I can see the same strange behaviour on lockscreen when moving the image i can see that there are some lines paterns that dont move with image, some kind of screen issue. And to best of all this has severe pink spot on photos.

Because i have one SGS2 almost perfect in my family i know i can get one like that as well, so i will trade until i have one like it. I can see how brighness is so much better on the "perfect" and colour normal. But my problem i can see from the IMEI i'm getting replacement units old compared with the imei of the almost perfect one. So i guess the new batches have less yellowish problem and less pink spot effect, without having to change rom to take the yellow out.

I guess i will be that annoying man that goes to the store a million times to trade a defective product but... what can i do!? My carrier doesnt make refund only says that i have 15 days to replace defective product and i'm going to my 7th one in a hope to get one like the other i have almost perfect. :\ sad and painful story...
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
Man, I know your pain, I experienced the same situation with Apple an their ipod touch V2, all my friends had perfect screens, with nice brightness, nice colors, very uniform and contrasted. All the ipods I got from the replacements had washed out colors, yellow tinted screens and weak brightness, whites were yellow, blue was green, red was orange, I got sick of it and sold it to get rid of the problem. Sometimes, you're just the unlucky dude.

I'm waiting for my SGS2, If I see that issue, I going for the SGS1, hoping I'll get a perfect screen. I'm not courageous enought to swap it 8 or more times.
[Galaxy S II General] smartshoppingg:
my samsung galaxy s2 is completely blue screen just like ink color, i am disappointed, it started with a pink spot near the phone app at the lower left corner and it kept spreading withing 2 days the screen turned blue and black spots all over. I bought it from expansys.com (unlocked UK version) and when I called samsung canada, they said that they can't give me warranty because it was bought online and the only samsung authorized online store is amazon. I find that bs. does anybody know if this is true, the warranty should go by the serial number not where you bought it from. now, I'm stuck and I can't even use the damn thing, i mean everything is functional but the screen is too dark blue to the point that I can't read text. any help would be much appreciated. I just want to replace it with a good working one. please tell me what I should do. thanks for your help.:(
[Galaxy S II General] Lulabby:
Hi Smartshopping,

I have a yellowish screen but it is still usable. As your case, ask if the shop you bought do exchange, otherwise, you can riskily buy a screen replacement on ebay for around US$125-$150, it comes with the tool kit so you can replace it by yourself.
[Galaxy S II General] smartshoppingg:
I bought it from expansys.com which an online shop, I will call them tomorrow and see if they give me a replacement but my question is if the phone is under warranty, should samsung just replace it for me?
[Galaxy S II General] fmrc:
Hi Everybody!

I have a galaxy SII since May and now I bought a new one to my wife.

The question is not due with yellowish on left side, is concerning the light sensor... in automatic the screen goes too much darker than mine on the same place...

It could be some problem of the light sensor or just any trick from Samsung to save battery?

I was with KE7 and now woth KF3 and is the same thing...
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Some screens are actually dimmer at lower brightness levels while being higher at max, that MIGHT be the case.. also try this open dialer and key in *#0*# and choose the sensor test place both phones side by side and see if they get the same LUX value and brightness level.
[Galaxy S II General] synxx:
yellow tint and banding gone!

hi guys, think i might have stumbled across a fix for the yellow tint and pixel banding of which i had both. i just did this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991276

its the v6 supercharger by zeppelinrox . i went thru the prosses and did it with UPDATE 8. and i used the BULLETPROOF option (you will see what i mean if u read/apply it) and rebooted my phone to find i no longer have any yellow tint and the line of pixel banding i had running horizontal down the left side of my screen had gone! :eek:

now ive had this problem from day one :rolleyes: so i cant see it been a stroke of luck that at the same time of doing this it just disapeared so i can only put it down to applying the v6 supercharger as this is the only thing ive changed on my phone in the past month. as far as i know im the only person to notice/report this so thought id drop by to see if anyone else is willing to give it ago to see if any results come from it? if you do try put what your problem was eg, yellow tint and if it fixed it or not. got to be worth a try hasnt it? good luck and fingers crossed :D
[Galaxy S II General] Lulabby:
Hi Synxx,

Which option number did you use, I did not see any option named "bullet proof"?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] synxx:
hi lulabby, the first option is scrolling speed, i typed 1 then pressed enter, then the next option to select is 12 the writing to the right of it should mention bulletproof. once thats done i think its option 13 to reboot phone or just close the app and reboot manually. hope this helps, any other questions feel free to ask. all i ask is u report back if it fixed your screen or not. thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Lulabby:
Hi Synxx,

With the screen quality, I don't see any changes, left yellow tint is still there at 0% brightness.

I am using Cognition rom.
[Galaxy S II General] Lulabby:
I checked again with option 2 aggressive and the yellow tint is much lesser, like you change from the old kernel to the new 2.3.4 kernel. Have to play around to see what all options do. By the way, really thank you to mention about the script, it makes my phone blazing fast.
[Galaxy S II General] synxx:
yea im also on cognition. hmm so it did have an effect on the yellow tint but didnt completly remove it like it did wiv me. id like some more testers for this if anyone is up for it plz. if it doesnt get rid of the yellow tint it makes ur phone faster so bonus either way lol.
[Galaxy S II General] Devhux:
No change for me using the bulletproof method.
[Galaxy S II General] synxx:
thanks devhux, what about trying another option like lulabby did? didnt remove it for lulabby but made it not a visable. i cant see why it wud remove it wiv mine and not remove it on others???
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
Just received my S2, screen looked good at first, slight yellow on the left but no that bad. I'm not picky enought to say it's a problem for daily use.

However, I immediatly spotted a red/dead pixel on the top right. Very upseting, I sent it back for replacement. I hope I'll get one without dead pixels as it annoys me more than the slightly yellowish side.

Does your S2 have dead pixels ? :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] fmrc:
Hi

Thanks since now for your comments.

In the same place, my I9100 takes around 60-80 lux, my wife's I9100 doesn get more than 5lux and my Galaxy S takes around 80-100 lux

I supose that is something wrong with the light sensor?
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
I'm on my 6th galaxy s2 and havent seen one with dead pixels so i believe that you had an exception.
[Galaxy S II General] SaneinOne:
I just exchanged my device on Saturday due to this issue as well as frequent random reboots on carrier stock ROM. New device dated Aug. 24 at store. Screen is perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Thats great maybe they've upped the manufacturing quality.. I've refunded mine. Would you be able to post actual photos?

@Topic

This new add "showcases" that the screen is the most vivid , brightest and the best"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bu0IPC2F2g&feature=player_embedded
[Galaxy S II General] prinzhernan:
There is a thread about this. When I got my phone the first thing I checked for was dead pixels.
[Galaxy S II General] Ryan3041981:
Here are my pictures. I noticed the link in the start post, I will ammend this post with the grey background this evening. I will try and have a look in the dark because in the office with all those lights reflecting it is hard to see any gradient :P

White Screen

White Screen 2

White Screen 3

3 color gradient 1

3 color gradient 2

Grey Gradient 1 <-- not so nice picture, the second one is better.

Grey Gradient 2

Grey Browser Background Lowest Setting <-shows the problem clearly.

My S2 is an unbranded UK model bought at phone4u in Watford :P

Pictures taken with a Panasonic Lumix LX3 on maximum optical zoom and AI (auto) settings (Macro was selected)

I have official KE7 from Kies UK. My conclusion is that it is present on low intensity settings but to be honest, my camera (LX3) makes it a lot worse than it looks with the naked eye. Last picture was taken in a completely dark room.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Looks fine to me
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
Yeah I know about that thread, someone had the same dead/red pixel as me... So annoying. I tried massaging it, the pixel fixer but nothing worked. Come one, wtf are they doing at the QC ? That's the first thing I spotted...

I'm bored because the next one I'll get will probably be a refurbished one. I'm pretty sure it will have even more faults. :(
[Galaxy S II General] Leggenda:
Which fw and kernel do you have?
[Galaxy S II General] sriharsha_m:
Same problem here in India, I bought a S2 last month which had this Yellow spot Issue and got a new replacement today and unfortunately again the new phone from different batch is having the same exact problem.

Is Samsung acknowledging the screen issue any where?? I mean the service center guys here act like I'm in the first one in the world who had this issue with S2. Kinda irritating when they start acting as if no such problem exists.

The seller is ready to replace my phone again, but I'm not sure the new one will have a perfect screen, as I see there is a difference in brightness levels in three different S2's compared side by side.

Kindly advice me what should I do??
[Galaxy S II General] anshmiester78900:
Tried flashing with Kh3 ??
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
You won't find a perfect S2, as there is no perfect product. I compared two HP laptop once, side by side, they were the same model, but one had a keybord that felt better, but the other's fan made less noise, and had a better screen. It's the same for the S2, every product is different from the others. You should try to find one with no dead pixel and no yellow spots, that's all. Even if it has a slight yellowish side on the left, it's not a problem as 80% have this. The HTC phones have problem too and their screen are a lot yellower that S2. Same for the iphone which has washed out colors and yellow screen on most products since iphone 3GS.
[Galaxy S II General] Lulabby:
I suggest you to choose the brightess one.
[Galaxy S II General] Ryan3041981:
I have official KE7 from Kies UK. My conclusion is that it is present on low intensity settings but to be honest, my camera (LX3) makes it a lot worse than it looks with the naked eye. Last picture was taken in a completely dark room.
[Galaxy S II General] tonnytech:
just got my new phone and love it however like others i have spotted the yellow tint on left of screen. Can dial most of it out with raising the brightness but thats not really going to help battery.

First noticed when i pulled down taskbar , and is noticable to everyone i showed it to , kinda wounded. Will try replacing once and if next is like it will swap for sensation. Shame screen is gorgeous but im not looking to get stuck with a half yellow screen ;p
[Galaxy S II General] Okkz:
You really should stick to the Galaxy S2. The Sensation's screen is totally yellow, and has washed out colors (no contrast)

Look at some pics of its display :

Some are fine but you'll have to swap lots of time before getting one with a nice screen. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
I had a sensation and the whites weren't yellow like that, screen was perfect but for sure not better screen then s2. Even with the yellow I think you will prefer s2 screen every day.
[Galaxy S II General] Ryan3041981:
Some speculation

Hi all,

I read in the past that one of the main chalanges of OLED displays was to guarantee performance (color/intensity) over time. Now I used to work for fluorescent and HID lighting and, especially in HID lighting, it was custom to give every lamp a burn in period. They age the lamp for a certain amount of hours to bring it to a descent level of output after which it should perform according to specifications.

I was just wondering if this Super Amoled + screen might require the same, and needs to be operated for a while before it becomes properly activated. I have my doubts at the moment because of the sheer quantity of reports, maybe it is a faulty way of driving the screen. All guesses by me.

What one could try, if one assumes the burn in is a requirement, is to set the device on maximum brightness and white (tip flashlight app) and leave it burning like that for some time (in a cool place since it will protect the screen from overheating if it gets to hot by lowering the intensity (thanks anandtech for this info :P) Maybe one could even take a picture of the screen. Edit in in fotoshop to flip it in such a way that the result is exactly the opposite gradient and then set that picture on at maximum brightness for a while. It might counter it.

Shame I am no expert on OLED :P

Anyways, for me it is not a problem, I like the screen a lot and barely use it at its lowest settings anyway nor do I have grey backgrounds (everything is blue on my device) and lets not forget, although I agree that for a device in this price range one should get a proper device, I feel I should support samsung in bringing a device of this capability on the market for an acceptable price. They will learn from these issues and the next generation will be even better because of it :D

Hope they won't get blocked to much by these patent wars. Horrible stuff that is.
[Galaxy S II General] lvvine:
All most 99.9 % have this issue

Hi,

I have check almost 20 + Phones, All have the Yellow tint issue. Its waste of time opting for replacement. Again 100% you will same kind of handset. My friend tried replacement...Same story continues.... Lets see if samsung fix this by software Update..Try KH3 or KH4..It reduces the issue
[Galaxy S II General] nunomeneses:
This is so no 100% true. Because i have seen with the same rom and kernel from my carrier company and some have yellowish and newer have just slight darker left side with same software. So every samoled+ have issue yes but not all are yellow and even the yellow ones there are slight and other that is so noticeable.

Actually in this very topic there are photos showing this comparison.