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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo.bahamut.zero:
Well I could live with banding, black crush bug or video pixelization for a few months if I knew it could be fixed via software.

Has anyone contacted Samsung for an explanation and fix instead of returning the phone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjr72:
Yeah, I called the Samsung Canada tech support after I got home and as I expected, the guy said he was totally unaware of the blocky video and that I was the first complaint he'd heard regarding this. He didn't have a clue. Didn't even know anything about the display not being true RGB. They just look up specs. But it was worth the call to see what kind of support I'd get. Nada.

Good luck with a fix guys. I went through this same kind of technology BS with a "wide gamut" monitor where it could not display sRGB images from web pages without color banding. I had to screw around with applications that were color managed, create color profiles.... in the end, I bought a cheap $100 monitor for web surfing and left my color managed wide gamut $1500 monitor for Photoshop only.

Seems this 24bit Samsung display is great marketing, but practically useless in a world of 16bit apps. And if people get turned off by the poor video performance of the Note at a Rogers store, they won't buy it, and the developers won't re-write their software for a phone nobody is going to buy. When my wife's iPhone can play Angry Birds and her screen looks beautiful, and a Samsung Note looks like ****, we have a problem.

Hey Samsung, next time you release a 24bit phone, stick in an extra chip and do some hardware dithering and downsampling for the 90% of 16bit apps out there. You might also check video performance on mega sites like YouTube as well. Most people don't want to screw around with alternative video players. Include one with the phone that works right off the bat. Jesus.

Here's a great analogy: Kind of like buying an HDTV that can only display 1080p, super high quality source material. Meanwhile, I got what, maybe 10 half decent HDTV channels, but they're 1080i and the HDTV shows artifacts ... then I got another 250 SDTV channels that the HDTV can't play without massive artifacts either. Only damn thing the HDTV can play perfectly is a 1080p blue-ray from a Sony PS3. That's the Samsung Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Screen discoloration on edges are pretty common with SuperAMOLED screens, I see this almost every time I check a Galaxy Note / Tab 7.7 screen. If it bothers you exchange it.

Getting the HTC One X might be a good idea, they are using LCD technology which is a more consistent and mature technology as compared to AMOLED.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluoxethine:
I've noticed some dark spots on my Note's screen when working with it at lowered brightness in dark room. So I've taken a long exposure photo. Here is what I've discovered:

It is clearly seen that some areas are completely turned off. I'd like to have it rather uniform. Also there is noise/grain visible.

(these lighten up areas can be reflections - I didn't isolated it perfectly from ambient light)

These dark spots are visible with naked eye when setting Note's screen to lowest brightness available (15% using 'Screen Adjuster') and having your eyes adapted to darkness (min 0.5h). They can't be seen when working normally with Note however they are just slightly visible when displaying uniform grey test image (and their visibility vary with time 0_o )

Generally I'm disappointed with this screen's quality due to:

- color banding

- grain/noise of a few pixels size (visible when displaying greys even at full brightness)

- those dark spots

So possibly because of HD Super Amoled's bad quality Samsung won't let us set the brightness too low using native android's 'Settings' menu ; )

Photo setup:

Note - screen brightness set to 100% ('auto' disabled); displaying black test screen using Screen Tester

camera - 4 minutes exposure @ ISO 100 (check exif)

I encourage you to test your screens also : ))
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo.bahamut.zero:
Wow, that's really bad. The conditions in which this photo was taken were a bit extreme, but still I didn't expect this mess.

Too bad HTC One X costs 100€ more. :confused:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Udonitron:
Aw man....I hope the N7000 white version I bought does not have these issues as I notice little thing like this.

My GSII has no issues other than a little blue colouration at the top of the screen when the background is white :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Seems to be quite common starting with the SuperAMOLED's used on the Galaxy S2, on the S1 it was quite rare to see someone having that kind if issue, the blacks were uniformly lit. SuperAMOLED does have deep blacks but not equivalent to the blacks when the screen turns off, on the Note it is very lit as compared to the Galaxy S2 or any other SuperAMOLED device. It can be disappointing especially if reviews and marketing material that point to how great the black levels are.

Sure the conditions used to show this in photos is quite extreme but the conditions required to see this in real life is not, You dont even need a pitch black room to see this, just display an all black image and have your eyes adjust to the low light and this will be very visible.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whmcal:
This is unfortunately not an uncommon issue. I have this issue on both my Note and S2. Only because of screen size is it less visible on S2. It is a major issue with Samsung and we should keep shouting about it, and including it in reviews till we're heard. Dont forget about logging concerns with consumer complaints organizations too.

I remember HTC used to deny widespread Newton ring screen issue in early days, but people persisted and eventually were heard... then got screen replaced under warranty. I have heard forum posters say than a screen replacement can solve this. I had 3 phones with both this problem and black clipping during video play. Now I finally have a Note with acceptable video play. But, the dotted screen artefacts on startup and shutdown are still there, not as widespread as on some of my previous Notes, but they are there! Biggest shock was finding flaw too on s2 after examining it last week in dark conditions on startup and shutdown
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicDom:
I too am having screen issues although it's mainly noticeable when I'm using it in the dark. I've noticed that when my screen is black (not true black because it's on) I have a long black line across the width of my phone and what seems like splatter droplets. I can see the line particularly when I turn on my phone. Is this a common problem or is it just me?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Common problem but there are screen with out dots or anything.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EpicDom:
This is EXACTLY what I have, although mine is quite a bit worse. I actually have a line that stretches diagonally across the width of my phone. It's absolutely irritating...I thought it was just me...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jellygoose:
As far as I know every note out there suffers from that to varying degrees.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
True and actually its the very least of the distracting defects, the visible lines are still ranks 1, followed by the discoloration on the edges as seen on grey shades like the loading screen on the market or on the stock keyboard.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartijnMM:
Eventually sold mine after (pre)viewing the HTC X one.

Loved the size, but couldn't live with the pixelation in video playback.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Great choice, even htc didt go for superamoled in their top end phone, i think they are well informed on the amoled issues and decided to go with a much more consistent slcd2 screen.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mishans:
LC1 update

"Differences

1. keyboard error fixed(for korean... typing 가1이 is repeat 가, so result 가1가이)

2. S memo is better than LB1. so faster and sensitive.

3. antutu benchmark is lower score(6300->6000)

4. so smooth, almost no lag.

5. ##Fixed contrast problem. there is no rendering issue(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1430847). If your note were black wallpaper, it would not show you lockscreen banding anymore."
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arass75:
galaxy note screen issue

All in this forum, I had eight galaxy note replacement before and I am very familiar with all the screen issues. My last 2 replacement were directly from Samsung UK. This last one ninth replacement is totally different. In lowest brightness and in dark or bright room no visible lines at all in any background colours. The viewing angle is much better than the rest, hardly any tints when viewing from angles, grey looks excellent. i would not say 100%, butt 99%. No black colour issue or pixilation as well. Interestingly there is a minor change in the phone where you can see the soft tough buttons even if the back light off. the production date of the phone is 27/02/2012
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diament:
At least its good to know that samsung is learnig note manufacturing, i mean i hope.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Notified:
Bought my Note in November and did not have any issues with the screen, but other eyes do.

When I was at my best friend's house (iPhone-user) he startet to bash me with "geese, do you notice the green tint all over the screen ??".

I for myself can't see this, to my friend it's clearly visible and I'm in no way color blind :).

Maybe those tints are in the end quite dependant on the viewer himself as every pair of eyes combined with a unique brain are not the same :).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpyderTracks:
Sorry if this has been mentioned but worth checking this thread, there's an expert on the case for this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1430847

Galaxy Note colour rendering issue: started working on it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TempusFudgeIt:
+1

I can see the occasional grey banding

I never noticed green tinge (as others have said who wants to watch the screen from an angle anyway? Get real!)

And who wants to turn their screen down to 15% using software then wait in the dark for half an hour to see black dots appear on the screen. Wish I had that much time on my hands.

Seriously - I have downloaded many movies and tv shows (HD) directly to the Note without re-encoding and not once seen a pixelation. My phone is from end October last year so can't say that it is a newer one.

I'd like to ask all those that had problems - do you undervolt or change the basic frequency of your cpu?

Sorry that so many have reported problems - I really don't think Samsung would let these sorts of screens onto the market. IMHO.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluoxethine:
It can be simple. Samsung discovered that their manufacturing system for Amoled screens isn't that good for high density screens. Probably otherwise they would have to discard large amount of displays and this would rise Note's market price significantly. They have chosen to lower the quality standards as most of the users aren't so much into tech and wouldn't consider these issues as defects.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Samsung earns more money by selling these defective screens, just look at the number of people who actually see the issues but say it does not bother them, thats where samsung profits the most! On a very small size id say less than 20% are flawless screens, imagine the amount of money earned on that. If only gets about 20% of return rate from the screens that 80% more defective screens sold instead of being discarded.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
You have no numbers to backup your claims. XDA is not a statistically viable pool for basing of your sample numbers.

We are the 1% of the consumer base that are high on obsessiveness and being able to spot every little freckle on the screen.

Just because we consider something to be a defect does not mean the other 99% of the normal population does. ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I think you misunderstood or I was not too clear, sorry for that.

What I mean is that just basing on XDA, id say 80% of people dont have issues with their screens and 20% have, imagine if the returns are only 20% in the entire world. thats 80% more money made on defective screens.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cswithxda:
It's been 1+ month, except for the banding issue, my Note is holding OK. I guess i did eat the issues. My loss, Sammy's gain!

Maybe ICS can address some of the banding issue...

Maybe SGS3 won't have these issues ;p

Can't wait for ICS, or SGS3.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shingo77:
I also have some pixel issues in dark room, but since i don't really watch video at night, i don't think it's a big problem for me
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chikess:
What do you think about this?

I'll try to get a new one today. The red banding at the corner and the clouding is not that, what i execpt form such an expensive smartphone :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Looks bad, ive never seen a screen in that shape.. lots of visible lines.. red tints and dark edges.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yamtar:
Help!!! :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A_Saknussemm:
Any Statistics?

Dear forum members;

I am just dying to get my hands on the marvelous Galaxy Note since November; but the screen issues keep me holding back until Samsung has either acknowledged the problem, or at least made corrections to the assembly line.

Meanwhile, it might be useful to both current and prospective owners of the GNote, to get some objective details of each phone with problems, like date of purchase, seller, date of manufacture, first numbers of the SN, any design differences, like some users have noted on the back-lit capacitive buttons etc...

Along with the previous data, subjective observations of the type of screen (or other) defect, might help draw a "map" of trouble devices vs good/acceptable ones.

Please excuse me if there is already similar any effort going on, I've read the whole "screen issues" thread and have not found anything similar going on.

PS.

Photos might be more useful if the resolution is greater than that of the Note's screen, so as to make individual dead pixels easy to find.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
The march build dates should be flooding the market by now, I wonder if the screen is better or still a hit or miss.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] °Dexter°:
I have this exact issue, apart from horrible viewing angles (not worth warranty replacement, so i don't bother): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mVWkBK41I

Do you think (by experience would be better :D) it's worth sending it back for replacement (i already had display replaced for an other kind of problem, and the latter is visually worse than former), or would i just get an awesome "firmware update" fix?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Hi all, I posted this in a separate thread as well but am hoping perhaps someone in here can help me perhaps...

I have a weird issue and am wondering if anyone else has this there is a fix or is it just me who has this issue?

I have a White N7000 Note and I LOVE IT but for some reason the color BLACK does not render properly on my LOCK SCREEN ONLY... Let me explain...

On my home screens, black is nice and black and is "solid" ie: no color banding, etc... In apps, the color black is "solid" ie: no color banding BUT... On my lock screen, I tried to set a full black wallpaper to make it nice and minimal but when you look at the lock screen there is major vertical banding and the color seems to be a mix of red and black. It also looks very patchy.

I cant upload a pic at the moment as I don't have a camera with me and I don't think the screenshot would show it.

I know that there have been other threads mentioning color issues (banding, etc) and I DO get color banding in certain apps and such (nothing quite like this) but I don't get why this specific issue with "full black backgrounds" ONLY seems to be giving me issues on the lock screen?!

Im a bit stumped. Can anyone advise on this?

Thanks,
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] °Dexter°:
What firmware do you have? It seems to be fixed on LC1 (and later, i guess)...give a try to a 3rd party locker app (i.e. widget locker, i don't know if it has a free version but you could still use refund option within 15 minutes), and check if it's ok...if so, it's sw problem
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Ok... I had purchased Widget Locker some time ago but dont use it so I will give it a try.

I am on Darky Note v3.3 ROM which is LA6 based so maybe it has been fixed in newer ROMS / Firmware? Had you seen this issue posted by others before as well?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A_Saknussemm:
Software vs Hardware defects?

Hi XDA members;

Reading these posts it feels like some of the display problems the Galaxy Note exhibits are software based; like the black squares visible during video playback (compression artifacts?), or the black color problems only affecting the lock screen.

Could it be the coloring seen on the previous poster's YouTube link is some sort of rendering HTML issue of the browser/ROM combination?

Other defects seem fully caused by hardware; like the numerous dark marks visible on some devices when displaying a gray area at low illumination levels, or the colored screen edges on some screens.

Has anybody figured out the ratio of hardware to software defects? Has any user experienced some sort of defect and flashed a new ROM to see it vanish? Make it worse?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan_Aykroyd:
Hi there,

I'm new to the Galaxy Note universe. I've been having the I9000 for a year and I'm looking forward to a new phone, probably this Note!

I also noticed about this issue and was amazed to see it was 126 pages long! :O

So, to sum it up, is there something I should look on before buying it to try to avoid this screen issue (build date, some specific serial number, etc.)?

And while I'm at it, if there are other known issues of the Note, to know beforehand what should I look forward to before buying.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
If you came from the galaxy s and have and eye for a quality screen you would already know what to look for, some of the defects are very obvious.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan_Aykroyd:
I mean, what to look for BEFOREHAND to getting the phone: serial number, lot, date, something to pinpoint failing units vs. OK ones...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] °Dexter°:
If you refer to the video i posted above (white shades problem), it happens all over the phone (i.e. whatsapp, on the home itself, etc.), it's just much more noticeable on large white pages, of course

@yannisthegreek: i've read about your issue from other users, and i've read Lc1 changelog and it says something about lockscreen problem, i guess it's that
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
i had black note with color banding, black color clipping and it was made in vietnam, today i bought galaxy note white,made in korea, latest one and no color banding, even calculator, no black color clipping :)

edit: tested with gamma test picture, and left side is allmost all number with black field. i had black note also tested and there was all numbers white field except left side 1-2-3-4 numbers. Now it is different with galaxy note white. So i think i was lucky to get the perfect one. also it shows same as my laptop that gamma test picture. damn jeez in my pants :O
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
putting up pictures may help a lot of people especially on the gammatest.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
ok, i will try to do, but picture quality wont be good because i dont have any good camera, only nokia c6720 camera 5megapx and ipod touch 4g :/ maybe i will do video with showing iron man trailer and gamma test. I will try to do this evening

---------- Post added at 12:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:04 PM ----------

here is video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpUTNhwzVI&feature=youtu.be

but i think i need to make video at night, because a bit hard to see gamma test and video of sunny surrounding. Sorry for bad video editing, made too fast :)

btw Production month: February 2012
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arsalan_qamar:
i am currently in south korea and today i went to the flagship store of KT in seoul. I have a n7000 which has some spots on grey ... nothing that bothers me , but it aint perfect ... so i had to get it activated on korean network as international phone cant work in south korea as they have white list , so apart from that .... i checked the notes on the display and each of them had some issues , some had screen burn ins some had no pure blacks some had green red tints at screen sides .... BTW the korean LTE Note screen is not as great as N7000 , it has a bit less contrast may be the display devices are in use all the time they lost their quality... looking at those i have made peace with my note as thing is Samoleds are uncertain... you might get a very good piece today , but sooner or late it will develop some weakness ... depending on how picky you are , it might or might not bother you ... To me the blocky blacks in videos at night dark room is a total deal breaker .... so i am using it as a mobile phone and internet browsing but for video playback i have used and seen better devices so its not perfect in that department .... Ipad 3 is on my hitlist mainly due to IPS HD resolution..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afhum:
May i see how ur spots on grey look like? :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
I just got my blue Galaxy Note yesterday bought on ebay's daily deal (sold by 1saleaday). Manufacture date is March, 2012, and ROM is UBKK2. The box wasn't sealed and didn't include any kind of warranty card.

I have the exact same issue with screen colors shifting through green tint, pink tint, blue tint every second (to few seconds interval) when I look at google's webpage with white background.

I had already disabled "automatic brightness" control and "auto adjust screen power", and it didn't help.

I was just going to let this one slip, thinking it's not worth going through the hassle, but last night when I used the Note in my bed with lights turned off, it was so distracting that I couldn't pay attention to the text on the webpage. I contacted the seller, and they are sending me a prepaid shipping label for a full refund. (Nice service!)

I reordered a white one from Amazon (sold by Masterdeals, fullfilled by Amazon) this time in hope that I get a different batch.

Edit: Some photo's of the screen showing the difference. I used Nikon D7000 with fixed white balance, 1/40 shutter speed, ISO800, 200mm, each photo was taken about 2 second interval. Initially I had 10 photos, I only left three to share.

I also shot a video, but it is kind of hard to get this recorded. I have the video, maybe I'll upload it in youtube too if I am inclined enough.