yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] DuoM:
Yes, someone said that they had it repaired and it came back with the same problem. Why would you send it in for repair instead of return and wait?
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
If you believe what I said about any change that improves the screen coming quietly and discreetly, the only way we'll know something changed is if either a repaired phone comes back cured or later batches no longer have the problem. So at some magic point in time the perfect screen will be appear and we'll just have to keep testing the system until its found. Not very scientific is it?
[Galaxy S II General] renton82:
I hope in sw mod...
[Galaxy S II General] hyperyon:
i bought this week from orange romania online store a galaxy S2...i have this problem...a big splash yellow in the lef top side...like a 10c coin...i will put 2 pictures

i contact the seller and i will receive another one because i announced them in 48h. i read about this problem at another buyer on a local forum..who bought it this week like me [same lot]. now i am afraid the new phone will come with same problem...

what can we do..wait ..or change one..change another one..i don't know ig they will change it sendont...thirth time..
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
That's a mark left by the suction cup that's used to move the screen in to position during assembly. It's a QC issue that's been reported occasionally along with fingerprints inside the glass. Your next one should be fine.
[Galaxy S II General] -Anthony-:
Hi all,

someone has find a way to find this problem only viewing the serial number of the phone or about so?

Or it's completely "random"?

Thank you
[Galaxy S II General] xiskillo:
not at all, has not form. Every SGS2 has another screen issue. Everyone more or less big.
[Galaxy S II General] vinaymonu25:
im dependent on u all...

indians plz pull me out of dis dileema...guys i waited for this device since feb n when finaly got 1 i checked d screen issue by setting d brightness to minimum n sending a grey pic found on xda(www.fiddle.com) through bluetooth..i could see whitish banding from top to bottom on d 33%leftside of d screen i.e d right side is perfect bt d left 33% was lighter dan d rightside.i immediately returned d handset..im sure d pic doesnt hav any problem.

Can u guys tel me if u suffer 4m same problem ?

I jst wnt to knw if every indian handset has same issue...not able 2decide should i go 4another handset check it n buy or wait for d perfect screen batch 2arrive.

Please indians help me out 4m dis situation..suffering wid n82 since sold my s1 in feb
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
You just described what's been discussed over the past 85 pages. Did you read any of them? Look at the pics of other phones with the issue? All the phones (yes, even the Indian version) are effected by the banding issue. Your choices at this point are live with it or return the phone. If yours is worse than those shown in the previously posted pics then exchange it.
[Galaxy S II General] julandroid:
He is not an Iphone fanboy, because I saw the same problem with the pink spot in an even greater extend on the Iphone 3GS, testing in the same time and conditions. So, this issue appears in the IPhone too.

It seems software (colour) processing of the camera takes place again. It is not a real problem, but imperfection of the software algorithms. Similarly, like the issue with yellowish spots - the camera tends to over saturate the real extend of the problem.

The pinkish thing appears/disappears depending of the light. You should understand that there is no perfect camera and by far the human brain can do the best "colour processing" and no hardware/software can not compare, as far as I know.
[Galaxy S II General] nytral:
I don't know if it has been posted before, but I confirm the issues mentioned, on mine:

http://samsunggalaxys2review.org/ho...-s2-samoled-plus-screen-at-stake#comment-1917

Hopefully it can be addressed by a software update, although I seriously doubt it.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
Thats great that it doesn't bother people. I wish it didn't bother anyone. That doesn't mean one can make a sweeping claim of it being unnoticable under most circumstances however.
[Galaxy S II General] B3311:
I'm making no such claim, nor have I done so in my previous posts.

The only "claim" I have made is that I do not notice the flaw in anything other than the notifications pulldown and my (stock) keyboard. As previously stated, this doesn't bother me in the slightest. Hardly "sweeping".

For what it's worth, I'm not a gamer, use no social networking apps such as Facebook or Twitter, do not use any e-mail app and have black wallpaper for all screens, including lockscreen.

Hence I have no experience or opinion to proffer on screen flaws seen with the above apps etc.

I can only speak for myself, and have done so. Frequently....
[Galaxy S II General] (•.•):
I9103

Oh I will buy a SGS2 I9103 when it will come out.

It will have a SLCD-Screen and a Tegra 2 Chip !!!

SLCD will not take so much power / battary drain.

and it will be even cheaper then the actual I9100.

muahahaha :D

the only bad thing is, i will miss the super amoled blackness or other colors.
[Galaxy S II General] connectandroid:
well i used DSLR for mine posted at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=14654383#post14654383 and i can't see the issue on the photo or in real life. Maybe my eye sight ain't that great ??
[Galaxy S II General] :
^^ as long as you are content, you needn't bother about anything..
[Galaxy S II General] rj3005:
wow....almost 100 pages over a practically non issue.

So you can't use your sgs2 screen for color proving, so what? The ISP screen I use right now is changing colors and brightness more than when i move my head 10 cm up/down/left/right than the Sgs-II .

The perfect screen doesn't exists yet.
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
The Yellow tint is very much visible on your device same like us.
[Galaxy S II General] uiterlix:
Here's mine, it's not pretty, but not bad enough to send it away for repairs for a few weeks. Notice the light spot in the lower left area.

I'm kind of afraid I'll get it back worse than it is now. So I think I'll wait at least 6 months before samsung sorted out their production quality issues.
[Galaxy S II General] Deeti:
Found out something interesting today;

When you are at the gray pull-down notification screen on the vertical mode, gray bar at the bottom left is really darker, than it is on the bottom right.

But, when you twist the phone to a horizontal mode, on the bottom left the gray bar is again a lot more brighter, than it is on vertical mode at the same spot on the screen.

So i'm still believing this is software problem.
[Galaxy S II General] ransagy:
Got mine today. Can't seem to notice any yellowness anywhere, So i'm either blind or i don't have this issue.
[Galaxy S II General] motodude:
This are the two phones which were bought on the same date/time , same shop ... Yet two different screens . The left one is mine and the right one is my friend's . Well my friend's phone has that yellow tinge on the left side of the phone but i dont have that but his phone's screen produce a much more whiter background with a little blue tinge , than mine's which is kind of off-white type.

20% brightness

100% brightness

A white background comparison

BTW which one of this do you like people?:)

I guess we have to live with this ... Like LG, Samsung will not do anythings regarding this. Ohh Samsung what have you done I had so much faith on you guys :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Are the display settings on both phones the same?

Background effect: Dynamic, Standard, Movie?

Auto adjust screen power: Checked? Unchecked?

Browser brightness: Auto off? Auto on?

Display brightness: Auto off? Auto on?

The first two definitely effect the color temperature of the display. That seems to be a pretty big variation if the settings are in fact identical. Playing with mine I'd say its much closer to the one on the left but its hard to compare live to a pic (and I'm done with pics).
[Galaxy S II General] v1rtu4l:
this thread is featured in eldar murtazins spillikins

http://mobile-review.com/articles/2011/birulki-123-en.shtml
[Galaxy S II General] briko78:
Hey,

mine looks like the left one... I'm really happy with it. It's slightly darker on the left, but only at low brightness.

Browser looks fine to me though - it's a normal white I would say...

BTW

please tell me where to adjust this setting...

Bye

briko
[Galaxy S II General] sachilleas:
I've noticed that too ... what do you have to say about it ?
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
What a ridiculous comment. It's ips by the way.
[Galaxy S II General] Shezed:
Than i keep returning it untill the send me a perfect one... you pay for an as close to perfect product... i mean seriously my SGS had a better screen than this new SGS2 i have
[Galaxy S II General] dk206:
"How can we compare this issue with the one in Nokia N8? In that model you cannot watch video properly due to irregular colors. For Samsung you need to create a special environment and take a picture to get the desired yellow stripe otherwise invisible.

I am not going to defend Samsung, but the situation looks weird. To prove the defect you have to create an artificial environment and then take a picture of the screen. It's crazy! I do not know whether users may really suffer from the issue in everyday life. I am sure those who wanted to criticize the model found a pretext here. You have to be ingenious to prove that an excellent screen has drawbacks."

+1000000000

Sorry but I got mine replaced. It now is perfect, no vertical white lines. Perfect screen.

Psychological phenomenon? Lol indeed.
[Galaxy S II General] darkriderz:
hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm ;)
[Galaxy S II General] habs101:
Originally Posted by v1rtu4l

this thread is featured in eldar murtazins spillikins

http://mobile-review.com/articles/20...i-123-en.shtml

hhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm

Eldar Murtazins probably has a closer relationship with Samsung, as his relationship with NOKIA has gone down hill.

Also people have stated they see this issue, in the widget selection in the drop down drawer of their PHONES.

therefore YOU don't have to create a certain environment when it's clearly visible .

Some people dont have their phone at 100% which is very normal, and thus reduce the brightness down.

But saying " you have to create an environment " when you really don't, and your just using built in fuctions to see the "YELLOW STRIPE" on the notifications section of andriod

there You really Can tell which way this "reviewer leans"

I bet he will say the same about the pink dot issue in the camera " that you create the situation by focusin on white spots " lolol
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
People react to the issue differently. There is no right or wrong. Those who are troubled by it shouldn't expect everyone to share their viewpoint. And vice versa. Maybe it'll be fixed and maybe it won't ever be acknowledged. If you're troubled by it, and keep your phone, ranting here isn't going to help you as none of us have the power to fix your phone.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
Obviously this thread is going nowhere. There are 2 types of people:

1. those who see the flaw on their device and all other devices with no exception

2. those who don't see the flaw on their devices, but see it on other devices

If all devices have the yellow tint than what's all this fuss about ? Sue Samsung if you are that upset about this problem. Or try to get your money back from the seller and switch over to other brand which you consider perfect. Posting in this thread ain't gonna help you much. It's Samsung you need to address :)
[Galaxy S II General] hudra78:
I am first type... :mad:
[Galaxy S II General] Deeti:
This. Crying here doesent help anything, just take the phone back to vendor and get your moneys back, like i did. You may criticize my decision, but atleast i'm not expecting quality like this from million dollar company.
[Galaxy S II General] eallan:
This is Not true
[Galaxy S II General] motodude:
Background effect: Dynamic

Auto adjust screen power: Unchecked?

Browser brightness: Auto off

Display brightness:Auto off
[Galaxy S II General] jonny_ftm:
I have the defect and only see it if I actively look for it. I also have an evident camera pink syndrome (and all phones will have it unless they change the building process).

However, I decided to enjoy the best phone ever released to date (remember, no phone is bug free!!!). I no longer look for the yellowish screen issue. My camera shots look great, as I take care to stay in the limits of the optics contraints. People criticizing the camera just don't have a clue on optics contraints. The most expensive DSLR optic will have weak points, and the cameras on phones are just the worst quality compared to even a compact digital camera. You just have to know your optics limits.

Just like with cameras, LCD screens on phones are crappy compared to any recent dedicated LCD TV/monitor. They will have some color/WB deviations.

Now, if they ever fix it, I'll exchange the unit I have. But I prefere to enjoy it rather than stay without my SGS2 for many months because of an unspottable "defect"
[Galaxy S II General] uhuraspock:
I am also having this "coin problem" with my display, but on the lower right side of the mobile phone.

It is only visible when the ambient light is very low and when the screen is dark grey, e.g. when you push down the "top status bar".

See the attachment for yourself, I didn't see it for 2 days, now I know how to get it visible. Taken by a cam it looks even worse.

What could that be? The pixels look very correct to me but somehow from the insight the backlight of this circle-frame is a little lower than the rest of the screen.
[Galaxy S II General] Erethnor:
"Samsung paid a lot of attention to this situation"

Seriously? Where's their official statement? Not from one guy that seems to value his own opinions as facts, I want to read it from a samsung website or email.

"I think it is more of a psychological phenomenon rather than the model's deficiencies"

I do find very interesting the fact that he picked 3 of the best screens posted on this topic.

If there's one thing I learned from this thread, it's that all SGS2 have this problem in various degrees, and to be honest, I would've been happy with any of the phones he chose to post.

I could see faded whites even on my home screen, and I find it rather offensive calling this problem "psychological", as to suggest the problem is in our heads only.

"but once again we have no more than 20 claims probably triggered by the story on XDA Developers."

Now this is a trick I have never seen: trying to minimize a problem saying that there are only a few people experiencing it. New indeed.

I am not interested in what % of users have this problem - it doesn't matter if 1%, 5%, 20% or 90% - I have a problem, Samsung has to deal with it.

"May be everything I mentioned above is my mistake and you indeed have a defected model on your hands, which can be delivered to the service centre for them to handle the issue."

I did this on the 19th of May - still waiting for any word about it, 32 days afterwards.

If my phone has just a "psychological" problem, they are sure taking their time finding it.
[Galaxy S II General] vinaymonu25:
ELDAR MURTAZIN solves the display issue by his WISDOM

if what eldar has said is true then he means that whoever is seeing or can see this screen having a yellow tint or some whitish banding on the left side he should be taken to a psychiatrist coz he is seeing something on the screen which is not at all present.

THAT MEANS PHONE IS NOT DEFFECTIVE BUT OUR BRAINS ARE ?

Eldar is really a good doctor and im one fool who thought he gives reviews on cell phones...lol
[Galaxy S II General] Bassarnis:
Hello there! Just spent all my evening on reading this thread.

Same problem in Galaxy S II in Greece, bought it 3 days ago. I don't have yellowish screen, but darker gray on the left side of the screen. ( I wish i hadn't read this thread, didn't spot it before reading it. )

As a side-note, i had the pink spot in camera, and a white pixel when scrolling during browsing on the bottom left of the screen, also a gray flickering image for about half a second right after i press my power button to unlock the screen. Plus, the headphones provided in the box, didn't exactly fit in the jack, like there was something blocking it internally.

So, i handed it over today to the store i bought it from. Tech support guy also saw this defect, and i am getting my replacement tomorrow morning. Will report back with pics if i 'm lucky.

Curious if samsung's service center knew about this problem, decided to call them. The person i spoke to, took note of the defects my phone had & how to reproduce them, as it seems i am the first one to report them. I was advised to use the DoA service and if i keep getting this defect, bring the phone to them for inspection.

When i asked if others reported anything wrong with the phone he said: "No, i usually help people using the menu options. Not many Greeks have bought the phone yet, so i can't have a healthy sample of people having issues with this phone."

My strategy is to keep returning the phone until i get a defect-free one.

Funny thing is, the guy over at the store, told me to replace it with an iphone.

Me: What about flash?

Him: Meh, who needs flash? Pics show just fine without it.

Me: I mean flash player.

Him: Ah... that flash... Get a 10$ phone, and grab an ipad 2 also.

I actually said "No you."
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
My condolences.
[Galaxy S II General] blue265:
Man just change the notification bar to black and be done with it. How often do you look at grey screens otherwise. I've never seen it on my screen nor will I go out of my way to scrutinize grey boxes to see if its there. I am so glad this thread didn't scare me away from buying the phone because I find it amazing
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Not to take away from your sentiment, but a screen shot doesn't show the issue. You have to physically take a pic of the screen.

There are three camps:

1) Don't see it even when looking buts it’s there because no phone yet has proven unaffected

2) See it when looking but don't care or think it’s trivial

3) Clearly see it and it annoys the crap out of them

Camps 1 and 2 have a hard time seeing why it’s such a big deal to camp 3. Camp 3 finds it hard to believe camps 1 and 2 aren't more upset that such an expensive device has such a consistent flaw. The link posted trivializes the issue so I fully expected camp 3 to be pissed. Similarly, a slam piece that amplified the issue would have pissed off camps 1 and 2.

Bottom line... All the camps need to get along because no one's going to talk anyone else out of their respective positions. The U.S. and Canadian variants are due out soon and they'll be different builds of the phone. Let's see what their screens look like when they arrive. I'll say this; those variants would be a great point at which to introduce a design, manufacturing, or component change. If they too are effected it probably means the issue is one Samsung feels is an acceptable compromise (thinness, weight, cost) vs. a flaw or defect. Let's see which way it goes.

P.S. - I'm in camp 1 if anyone cares.
[Galaxy S II General] rodeo2:
As you can see, my phone doesn't seem to have any such issue. The picture is taken at 10% brightness, but it's the same for 0 to 100%, a uniform color display.

Those of you having issues, can you update since how many days you've been using the phone, just in case, if it's anything related to ageing. Mine is an Indian unit and I've been using this since 10 days
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Is that a screenshot or did you take it with a camera? It looks like a screenshot from your phone to me... and of course it won't show up there lol.
[Galaxy S II General] rodeo2:
Okay, lemme try with a dslr. But I don't understand why one has to dig deep to find out a problem which I can't see with naked eye.
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
If you can't see it, then don't bother trying to find it. Take my advice and forget it.
[Galaxy S II General] rodeo2:
Find what you can but I don't see any issue there.

OP's post was on 14 may and s2 was only available in India from June. I can only guess that Sammy fixed this in between.

I saw pictures of those who have issues and they are way too visible to eyes. I can't see any signs on my unit. Sorry for not joining the chorus, but that's it.
[Galaxy S II General] budde85:
Here's mine. I think it's quite obvious. Flipped the bottom part of the picture left to right to emphasize the issue.

Will take it back to the shop and hope for a better one.

ht tp://i.imgur.com/y3O0Q.jpg (apparently not allowed to post links since this is my first post.
[Galaxy S II General] Sp1tfire:
I don't understand either why people struggle so much to discover this flaw. If you have to meet certain requirements like: set less than 10 % brightness, have a grey background, take a screenshot, flip the bottom part of the pic, then in my opinion it's a flaw you can live with. I don't see it, even if i have it, which i probably do, i can't be bothered. I do have the pink spot camera though, but that doesn't bother me either. Would only bother me if i wanted to take a pic indoors of my girlfriend's white panties, but there's always the option of turning on the light and make the pink spot disappear. So not really a huge problem either ;) I expect BarryH_GEG's camp 3 to explain me once again why the yellow tint is unacceptable, but it still won't make me change my mind.
[Galaxy S II General] gtda:
got my new sgs2 from optus yesterday and so far no yellowish

came with the latest firmware ke7 so maybe its a new batch

although i really dislike the screen compared to my sgs1

pics dont seem sharp, they seem to be blurry, yellows and oranges look too red

pictures of ppl look the worst, white looks weird, doesnt seem like a bright white

i dont wanna take it back coz i already flahsed a new firmware and didnt back up

and of course there is no optus firmware in samfirmware
[Galaxy S II General] dinan:
Uh you don't notice the left side of the screen having a significantly different shade of gray than the right? If not... then cool it seems like it's not an issue for you, but it looks pretty obvious to me.
[Galaxy S II General] Cyros:
I confirm the presence of the issue on my unit, too (I9100XXKDJ purchased in the Czech Republic).

The left half of the screen has a yellow-greenish tinge and a reduced brightness. Especially visible on lower brightness settings.

There's another issue (sorry if it's already been mentioned). Probably even more annoying than the former.

It looks kind of like banding or pixelation, where single-colour areas are not uniform but fragmented into streaks/blocks/blotches of slightly varying brightness and colour shade. It's almost undetectable on brighter colours, but glaringly obvious on dark backgrounds.

I first spotted it on isolated images and thought that those flaws were in the images themselves (compression artifacts, etc.). Then I fired up the app "Check My Pixels" (great app!) and was astounded at what I saw on some of the darker backgrounds!

The weirdest this could be seen when I reached the black background in the app. The lights were out in my room and I could see black blotches on a faintly glowing screen all over it. There was a solid horizontal line at the bottom of the screen from edge to edge! What's that!? Try it yourself (in a dark room; give your eyes a couple of minutes to adjust to the darkness).
[Galaxy S II General] jvidia:
Yes i've notice too that in really dark images the color is pixelized, not uniform.
[Galaxy S II General] rodeo2:
Yup cool, my eyes are working well and I don't see any issue. Moving on.

Ps. That dslr capture had light source to it's right.