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[Galaxy S II General] farisk:
I'm in Vancouver and got mine a few days ago shipped from Bell. No problems here with screen colors or dead pixles. My son also dropped it on tile already and not a single scratch, thank god. Still waiting for my case from ebay.
[Galaxy S II General] crush:
Nothing else except that, and bro my phone is always having 0% brightness :D hehe.

and to be more precise those drawings on full black color looks like burns on old CRT tv when suddenly power cuts isn't it ? haha

Anyways, Colors are vivid and really better than my LED TV.

and no viewing angle problems.

Do i really need to worry about those drawing while on full black? :eek: though you see them only if you look closer or focus ur eyes for long
[Galaxy S II General] viper98:
mine has a blue tint when viewing off angle

so is this not normal because my buddy's is the same
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
I dont know what is normal or not no one knows. But I am assuming if there is no color shifting when tiliting on my SGS this one shouldn't have it either.

I really wonder if people don't realize whether their screen is yellowish/purplish or their phones are just perfect.

As far as I see there is no natural color phone toronto by now. And belive me I am not exaggerating it. If you put those two phones side by side their color tint is completely different. What kinda manufacturing is this?

I can even say which stores in toronto have what colors.

If u wanna see purplish tint display phones:

-Future shop in dundas

-Bestbuy in dufferin mall

-Source in dufferin mall

-Bell in Eaton center (lower floor store)

Yellow tint display phones:

-Bell Eaton center second floor they had like 5-6 displays which were all yellow)

-virgin mobile in dufferin mall.

I don't even remember some stores. this doesn't mean if u buy from there u are gonna get the same color phone. Its totally random. These are the colors of display phones.
[Galaxy S II General] zabihjan:
i dont understand man, i have mine for 2 months now in UK, screen is fine it is the best screen i have ever seen.

it could be a trick from Apple :) hahahahha not wanting SGS2 to succeed in the USA and Canada.....
[Galaxy S II General] motocrossmann:
Apple has patented the concept of a display that completely works. If Samsung didn't have some sort of defect, Apple would file another lawsuit.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
LOL! That actually made my day, didn't expect that to make me crack up so badly.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Yeah, gotta love the deadpan humor. Some members here are quite good at it.
[Galaxy S II General] intruda119:
I had a dead pixel when I ordered mine when it was released in UK about 2-3months ago. The dead pixel went away within 2 days of owning. Maybe your 1st device was your best 1 with a little more patience.

Theres no excuse to you having 5 devices with problems. I really think there might be quality control problems with the screen manufactors. But I do know this is probably a very small percentage since it doesnt seem widespread.
[Galaxy S II General] kotaro_14:
Wow man messed up. I bought mine from China and it's the best. Absolutely perfect no defects at all! Perfect just Perfect!
[Galaxy S II General] viper98:
well I just got off the phone with Samsung and they told me that what I'm seeing is a defect

I don't know if I should exchange it for another one or just return it and stick with the Atrix
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Why talk about it as if it's a fact then? And even hold it up as a fact several posts after? If you haven't confirmed he has had 5 units, how can you even start holding it up as a statistic?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16140750&postcount=85

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16146104&postcount=103

What was that about me doing things? How is it you know me so well? How do you know what I have or have not done? I'll ask you again, are you stalking me?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Good evening to you Mr. GIR ( or morning depending on your time zone ) and have a nice day =)
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Annoying isn't it when somebody starts quoting your own words back to you and pokes holes in your arguments. Best thing todo is just turn around and run away. Be bye.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Not really, your argument still holds no water.

You owning a big repair shop that fixes thousands of thousands of Galaxy S2 in a day does not even compare to having you personal phone ( if you have one ) to be returned and have to go through over a dozen of defective phones just to get 1 that works.

Like what you claimed, you only sent it back once, How is that remotely comparable to someone going through dozens of phones to get a new one ?

I couldnt even remember that you owned a repair shop till you brought it back again since it was irrelevant to the discussion to begin with. No offense.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
You again, didn't you say goodbye just now? *Sighs*

Lets make that a dozen MINUS FIVE shall we?

Anyway, what are your statistics based on? Samsung has confirmed it has sold 5 million units worldwide. You say I don't know what I'm talking about but yet you pull meaningless numbers out of ur arse and hold them up to be true. Can you show me anything, anything at all to back up your claims? Maybe some certification or something?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Unless you've gone through dozens of phones in order to get a non defective one then yes you would never ever understand.

Remind me again what statistics we are talking about so I can check my sources.
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Oh this is some emotional thing, you wouldn't understand unless you were there... I get it and now I also get why you're so emotional all the time.

What statistics are we talking about anyway? You keep throwing numbers around as if they mean something. Guess they don't because not even you yourself understand why you're doing it obviously.

Hey wait, didn't you say goodbye just now?
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
Please quote me :D
[Galaxy S II General] GIR:
Look back yourself :D
[Galaxy S II General] tilaksidduram:
I bought my self a SGS II in June 2011 and was pounded with an issue on the Screen, this issue is only visiable under a "BLACK" color background.

It is the same issue that Warfanax was seeing with his phone. when in a dark room if you open a pure black picture the screen was showing some defects (dark black vertical and horizantal lines and spots on the screen), the spots look more like dust inside the screen.

If you dont have a pure black picture you can use the default messaging app on the SGS II to see if your screen has any issues. Make sure you are in a "DARK" room.

I have attached a black screen pic that you can download and use to check if any of your screens have the above issue i was experiencing with my phone.

I got my phone replaced with a brand new phone yesterday and the new phone no longer has this screen issue, but have a new problem, the graphics is very jettery on the phone. EX: if you open setting and scroll through the list you will see the text getting dimmed and will become invisible when you scroll, it is also seen under the contacts. if you are scrolling through webpages you will notice the text is blurry and will form a trail when you move up and down the page.

I have reset the new phone to factory defaults and also flashed new firmware using Odin, but it is still the same. Has any one seen this issue on their SGS II. i am on the lasted official FW(I9100XWKF3).
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Following your directions, mine's fine.

If anyone wants to really freak out, look at your screen in the daylight through a pair of polarized sunglasses. It's literally covered with random opposing colored blotches. And if you tilt your head, the blotches reverse color. Just thought I'd throw something new in because 19 pages of circuitous, mostly meaningless, and totally conclusionless banter's gotten a bit stale.
[Galaxy S II General] droilfade:
Sigh! I have a greenish tint from the left to the centre (the whole side vertically) when I see it under a white background just before the screen goes to sleep. I was expecting to find an answer in this thread. *sigh*

EDIT: Flashed back to KG2 (Bell-Canada) with bootloaders and the tint is gone! So, I'm thinking the 2.3.5 bootloaders are the culprit here, no?
[Galaxy S II General] TheQuarterMile:
Well that black blotch problem is mainly affecting those people who watch movies before going to bed... :D even I think my 1st display was the best but it got replaced due to some vibrator problems.. after that I noticed that problem or the other pink tinting issues on the other 3 displays I got replaced and things got even more complex ... So finally i fought with Samsung and they have agreed to refund my money...

I think most people are not able to notice this problem cause of weak eyesight or their dispaly is geniuely perfect...

Moral of the story: Consider yourself lucky if you have a perfect display.
[Galaxy S II General] Gnarfsan:
The display in my first SGS2 broke within the first two weeks. But the replacement phone is still working perfectly.

I live in Denmark by the way.
[Galaxy S II General] bkhc:
So are there any S2 phones out there with a perfect screen? Is this the trade off of this technology, or is it simply horrendous quality control?

My original phone had the yellow tint on the left side, burn-in diagonal line across the screen, and black splotches when viewing blacks in the dark.

On my replacement, all of these issues where gone, BUT new ones were introduced. It was replaced by a textured screen most viewable on greys below 60% brightness, and extremely poor viewing angles via the blue tint. The textured screen resembled brushed metal and the blue tint becomes so apparent it destroys all whites when I simply tilt the phone 3 or more degrees off centre.

The second time I went for a replacement the service department argued it was like that. I purchased my phone in Hong Kong. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy S II General] JJEgan:
As per previous posts i have no problems with display gps sound etc .

Original release day one Made in Korea .

jje
[Galaxy S II General] nikzDHD:
Had no issues with mine when I had mine was day 1 release version, only started having screen burn 10 months later. Other than that it was perfect.

However the HOX we are having tons of issues with their screens another story on its own.
[Galaxy S II General] robertsydbrink:
Is there only the Super AMOLED Plus (or what ever the name is) screen on the S2?

I mean if i look at a completly black screen on mine its pitch black... you cant see if its on or not.

And it seems to be some color shifting in the outer viewing angles (maby around 150+)

But besides from that its the best screen ive ever laid my eyes on.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Yes all phones that I have tried had a defect. Today my friend purchased one and now I am checking it and its perfect. When u tilt the screen it doesn't change color, not pink not yellow its just gray when the brightness is 0. I checked it all of it in a completely dark room absolutely perfect. Not even a slight tint of pink or yellow.

The funny think is she doesn't understand about these things and wouldn't even notice if she had one. And ITS HER FIRST PHONE. I am so unlucky. I will wait few more weeks and try to purchase another one.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
Ugh :(, I really feel for you man. I wish you the best of luck on your next purchase, hopefully there is a better batch for the month of August. But at least now there is proof for you that not all phones comes in two types like you posted earlier.
[Galaxy S II General] robbiev80:
I've owned an SGS1 and now the SGS2. The screen on the SGS2 is even better. He must have gotten all the bad screens in Canada. Poor guy.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Good. So it's possible there is a perfect SGS2 screen out there.

Buy it from him for a premium! He makes money and you're happy.
[Galaxy S II General] heldchen:
on mine i can even see some sort of glow for a few minutes after having turned off the screen in a completely dark room. i think it's normal for an amoled screen.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Yes its normal for amoled. They all glow a little when phone is turning off.

Unfortunetly I already asked her but she said no cuz she knows that I returned 5 phones and there are defective ones. Eventhough she has no idea what are those problems. She doesn't wanna take a risk.

I am kinda jelaous actually. Damn man I am so suck of going to stores everyother day to exchange. They look at me with pity. Cuz they think its normal. Either they have no idea what it suppose to look like or the store lights making it hard to see.
[Galaxy S II General] Vulpix:
I guess it's true when they say nobody likes Canada. :p Samsung shipped all the rejects to Canada! Jokes aside, the QC for the Samsung IS pretty bad.
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
Over half the SGS2 phones out there are made in China. Check underneath the battery compartment and it will tell you.

Mine is made in Korea and there are no defects. I :p my SGS2
[Galaxy S II General] beWater:
I don't think that is a valid statement, it all comes down to how strict the manufacturer controls their product quality. (to be honest, apple does a good job with that):rolleyes:

to OP:

My phone used to have that yellow tint at the left of the screen when the brightness is low, which seems to be common across the board, but after flashing CM7, it seems like the colour distortion is not as serious as it was, so I believe a lot of colouring issues, apart from dead pixels, can be fixed/minimized by software.

Good luck with your next purchase :D
[Galaxy S II General] viper98:
go figure

mines china
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Well I of course checked where all made of and they were all made in Korea.

My friends phone made me believe that its not a software issue. All phones I had had the same firmware installed. Besides that, how can a firmware make phones change color when you view it from a slightly different angle. I am talking here 10-15 degrees tilt. up-down or left right. which my friend's phone doesn't have. When you look 90 degrees straight, they either have yellow or purple tint and when you tilt you see that purplish grays are becoming real gray.

I believe it might be a coating issue. Or something in the screen causing polarization.

If I didn't own Sgs without this issue, I would believe that this is normal for "the super amoled plus" which is superior to super amoled. ::sarcasm::
[Galaxy S II General] unleashed12:
Hmm weird, literally the first person I've seen complaining about the screen with the bell I9100, Mine is perfect, i don't even have that left side yellow tinting that people talk about. I think you just had bad luck honestly.
[Galaxy S II General] Sleepycat3:
The question to ask here is whether your friend's phone had a screen protector on. Some anti-glare and oleophobic coatings can cause colour shift when viewed at an angle. That is the nature of a reflective surface. I can't tell you my experience without a protector as my phone has had one on since day one. And with a protector, there was no colour shift on mine. I am not saying that colour shift does not occur though, because there are quite a few other members who have posted the same colour shift observation as you did. I just wonder if it is because without a screen protector that a colour shift occurs.
[Galaxy S II General] Isadora:
I would notice, believe me :p - I work with images so all my computer screens are calibrated (out of the box they *all* have some colour shift - laptop screens for instance are very blue and most people don't notice it) so it depends what you compare it to really. Given that the phone display can't be calibrated (would be great if it could though) I find mine to be pretty good actually :)
[Galaxy S II General] crush:
yes i see that also,

True, This phone has best screen i ever own.

I mean watch a HD movie and you will see how it feels like that character is jumping out of screen and doing everything in front of us :P

ah so its due to that only. So everything's fine.
[Galaxy S II General] KingKuba13:
I guess you missed the hundred page threads about display problems....

That's ok, everyone else has a perfect screen besides you.

Enjoy.
[Galaxy S II General] tietherope:
I have a Bell version and I am unable to find any of the mentioned problems. I am someone that would notice and it would bug me every single day.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Come on man I am not a noob. Do you think I returned 5 phones just because I have no idea about them? :-P

All comparisons made without a screen protector. My friend bought it just yesterday and I invited her to my house to compare. No screen protectors. She brought one and asked me to put it. So I went to a dark room and checked it. Nothing. Then I put screen protector and checked in dark. Nothing again. And if needs to be known, its these screen protectors that comes with cheap cases. Nothing fancy.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
No I didn't miss anything. I red all of that thread. Maybe you didn't?

Cuz if you red you would realize people are only talking about yellowish left side or color banding. I couldn't read anything there about phones having purple color or if someone says color shift when tilting it gets lost between comments no one says anything about it.

I just shared my experience. And I just laugh at your last statement.
[Galaxy S II General] mancuk29:
i had 3 from amazon uk with problamatic screens all all went back I've got one from another supplier screen is perfect but when IM using xda app screen does go pink when IM scrolling ... Apart from that IM happy with the phone and it has a superb camera
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Here are some pics of purple/pink tint.

The first pic is one of the phones that I had compared with my SGS.

Second one is from another forum.

The photos speak for itself...
[Galaxy S II General] tietherope:
Wow, that's a lot worse than what I pictured from your description.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
And imagine when you are in a dark room it looks a lot more bad.

I wanna go buy today again from somewhere else but I am so sick of receiving purple, yelollow, defective phones. I already spent 50bucks for subway within a week for going to stores.
[Galaxy S II General] Disfected:
Just wait another week or two, you can do it.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
The color temperatures vary from display-to-display. How many are totally unacceptable (QC issues) vs. unacceptable to an individual user (personal expectations) we'll never know. Assuming a couple hundred thousand got sent to Canada, a sample of five is statistically irrelevant. And no one knows whether an entire run of hundreds of phones are effected or a random number of phones within a run. I'm pretty active in the display threads and cool/blue seems to be the baseline. A percentage seems to be coming through leaning toward warm/yellow. I'm guessing the average user who's not as anal about their toys as an XDA audience wouldn't be bothered by a warmer screen. Pink, purple, green, and extreme blue are defects. Exchange it until you get one that suits you or call it a day if you can't. I'm guessing with the volume being sold phone's are getting out in to the wild with displays that normally wouldn't pass QC. Look at it this way, if it was an insanely high percentage of units threads like this (and those that preceded it) would be a lot more active. It also doesn't appear to matter when or where the phone's made as early units (Korea) seem to have the same temperature variations as newer units (Korea & China).
[Galaxy S II General] bossman74:
@warfanax

Did you try to change the background effect setting to see if it helps ?

Settings > Display > Background Effect

It changes the tint of the displayed colours a little.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
Believe me man it has nothing to do with it. I tried everything. It just changes the colors but the purple or yellow tint were still there.
[Galaxy S II General] warfanax:
For an avarage user yes they might not have problems. But if I spend 700 for a phone which is made of completely from screen I expect some sort of quality. at least I expect it to display "gray colors as gray" not purple.

You can see from pictures above. They are shot in bright environment. Imagine you are in your bed at night. I don't need a comparison to see those grays are purple. No one needs. The QC is just unacceptable for a phone with this price.
[Galaxy S II General] tietherope:
If it helps at all I bought mine at The Source in Fairview mall and the screen has no issues.
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Hey, I'm not defending the issue or saying you don't have a legitimate beef. In electronics, a defect rate of 1-2% is the Holy Grail. 5-8% is acceptable. Anything over 10% is abysmal. Based on 6MM phones sold that's 60-120K, 300-480K, and 600K that could have defects. To those effected, the 90-99% that are fine are irrelevant. But even just looking at display threads (the left side banding being an exception) vs. Wi-Fi, 2/3G issues, audio quality, and camera, the level of participation is comparatively low. And the display is something that effects everyone here equally where as the others may not. Maybe a bad run hit Toronto. If you travel, try picking one up somewhere else in Canada.
[Galaxy S II General] chaoszero112:
Both of my Canadian i9100M's have 0 defects.

Edit: one is from Mississauga, one from Burlington.
[Galaxy S II General] kbiz90:
Your girlfriend might like the purple. True, that pic was pretty bad.

However, we all know you want the phone so give it a couple more tries. I guarantee the sixth time will be the charm. If not, the seventh.

By the way, when ever I look at the thread title, I think "Shiny Display" because "Sh***y Display" has three ***.
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
Oh well... Tbh I felt the same as you OP my first Amoled experience was a Nokia N8...had it exchanged 7 FREAKING TIMES before getting one without purple tint. Now with the galaxy I have a yellow tint and the banding problem...I hate it even more than the purple tint on the N8. Also please people to those saying "mine's perfect,mine's perfect" please post a pic of it. You most likely didn't notice it.I think the pure probability of getting a galaxy with a good screen is lower than 5%...Yeah now samsung people will kill me.

But really show me ONE super amoled plus without atleast ONE defect

edit: Ah and inbefore china vs korea wars. mine is in korea and the faulty n8-s were from finland...
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Seriously? What you're in fact saying is that either 95% of us have no standards or are so oblivious that we don't notice the screen we look at constantly has defects. Everyone's entitled to their own expectations but I think that having to create special conditions in order to see a problem doesn't really qualify as a problem. My phone has the left side banding, I think they all do, but I have to take a picture of it in the dark, at 10% brightness, and on a grey background to see it. The perfect screen doesn't exist. The Atrix is Pentile, the O2X/G2X has LCD bleed, and the Sensation's is either crisp and yellow or hazy with better color and both allow dust under the screen. Since people with high expectations rarely suffer silently, I'd think more people would be *****ing about the screen if 95% of them were defective in some form.
[Galaxy S II General] RjYslf:
I don't think you got it. My cheap old TFT 5800 had none of those issues. Also I am more than capable to see it even in full brightness(in the dark especially). Stop protecting Samsung really they won't give you any better phones if you simply say "ah just don't look at it". I agree posting this here doesn't help too much but really you posting here won't change my mind either. What I'm saying is that buying a faulty 800$ device is terribly bad. Also I only told them to post a pic of their "perfect screen". Why are you so angry about that? You have to prove your statements if you want them to be taken for good.
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
Nobody said the SGS2 screen is perfect, it's just the best screen on any smartphone as of now