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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rey5757:
Yea, kinda look the same at that same setting...

That explains why my screen differs to your screen... also explains shadows, lines that appears on our screen.. why no one ever bring out this mura thingy at the first place.. Now u know what i mean by "u hv got the perfect screen!!"..

Samsung only advertise how rich their amoled screen color is, how good their screen contrast is, how sharp the picture is, but NEVER say anything about this...

For me, i found of their rich color Amoled comes with shadow or MURA, high level of black contrast comes with clipping.. period..

As this finding spreads, sooner or later those shops will start to sell phones with good screen at higher price...

someone might as well email APPLE about this thread so they starts promoting their retina screen as Super Bright, Super Ultra Color Balanced EVEN@ LOW Brightness, SUPER SHARP & BALANCED that YOU will NEVER SEE ANY LINE. GUARANTEED!!

As for me now really, I wish my G.Note uses 5" LCD that is as good as iphone screen..:(:(:(:(:(

As EarlZ stated, all those players, or screen adjuster, or web flash player, they are compensating the clipping at the cost of ur color range displayed, ur black level are much darker & deeper if u view in stock player. So u are viewing "LCD quality" videos on ur Amoled Screen. Or in another word, u get "VCD quality" out of your DVD player.. Ya i know, u still can watch movie.. But I would like to watch Dvd quality out of my Dvd player..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21443253#post21443253

And NO, ur screen doesnt get better with each update. The "MURA" is manufacturing "inconsistency" due to material "inconsistency" and the line u see, or shadow u see is and will be permanently there, whether u like it or not. And these lines, shadows are unique to all individual screen, hence no update can solve that. Only way is increase the brightness to hide this lines or shadows.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshoon:
So how is it possible that if I make a screenshot, and view it on PC, that the banding is completely gone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Andriod 2.3.6 is running 16bit system wide, only a few apps run in pure 24/32bit. I dont know if this holds true for other phones like HTC,Motorola,LG because I've never really owned any other andriod phone aside from Samsung.

The black clipping is not caused by the 16bit rendering but the gamma curve samsung is using on the Galaxy Note / Nexus.

Screen shots and actual pictures:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
If you are using a TN-monitor its not gone just stand up and look down on your image.. viewing angle issues. If your using a highend S-IPS or H-IPS panel then you can still see the banding straight up.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
follow up

Yesterday I saw that a Gnote can have a perfect screen.

So today I went to my Samsung shop to try to find a solution.

So they kindly propose to exchange my Gnote for the second time , but they didnt' allow me to test it in the store , saying that if this didn't do the trick then they will send it to a repair centrum. I also asked them if this was a kown problem or if they already had a lot of return but they did not wanted to answer me.

So the new Note ( 3rd one I repeat )

has all the same defects

, banding in colors and clipping/pixelated blacks in video. But the blacks are slightly better and the banding is worse.

So the problem i even worse because a unique software fix will not do the trick ( depending on how bad is your screen ). It seems to me that the quality control done by Samsung is very poor. never had this kind of experiene with HTC .

I'm gonna take there advice and send it to a repair centrum.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tintin1042:
now more people are experiencing the almost perfect ones.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
damn bad news :/ if they wont fix it i wont buy any samsung product and will change for other phone producer, shame on you samsung :@
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plunderclat:
Yo guys, firstly the ALOD's in these screena are made from organic materials that are inconsistent. In the same breath that they decided too use their processes for making ALOD'S's, their quality control went on strike permanently :p

The problem you have is in no way acceptable as some of you may suggest, as the first gnote had an excellent screen, but the top microphone was broken. I returned the second for the screen issue, and my 3rd gnote displays the same issue.

I decided too take it up with Samsung 2 Weeks ago because I love the device allot, but I'm tired of returning too the phone shop, only to get the same ****. I really felt like it needed too be dealt with through Samsung, since it came from them, but they play dumb

I contacted them in the UK on 0845msamsung and I need back up. I'm currently harassing a nice guy called 'richard' who works in customer services, and he suggested I was just "unlucky" lol. I had 3 galaxy nexus's that had this problem and refused too invest in something I can't sell because of defect, hence why I have the gnote, and it is leaps better than the galaxy nexus. This manufacturing error is an error that we as a customer, shouldn't have too pay for.

email me if you want info on how I'm dealing with Samsung, and how it's going.

Michaelcollingwdr@Yahoo.co.uk.

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That's absolute rubbish dude sorry :/ that's all I have to say about that.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paris.gr:
What is rubbish exactly dude? I also paid for the phone and this is my opinion. The least you can do is to respect it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edanfalls:
There's 74 pages of replies to this thread and there's no general consensus reached on exactly what's causing these issues for everyone. Surely that alone tells us that there are several issues in play here?

Regarding my Note (GT-N7000, Vodafone UK, stock 2.36), I do not have any issues whatsoever. There is no banding. When tilting the phone back and forwards, there are no hues at any angle. When titling left and right, purple and green hues become visible at around 0°-20° and 160°-180°. These are fairly extreme angles so not even close to being a problem (I assumed this was a standard property of AMOLED displays).

Some of the screenshots people have posted of banding are not correct. For example, one was of the Skype app. If you check Skype on any Android phone, you will see "bands". This is not banding but simply the design of the splash screen. See this example: zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2011/10/skype-main-android-5230640.jpg

A lot of websites use a CSS gradient which does not produce a smooth gradient but instead uses these "bands". Mostly this is a deliberate style choice.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noteworthy:
I agree.There are some issues that are not faults.There was a poster recently who complaied of excess lag playing games until he discovered that turning off system power saving sped things up considerably.

The black crushing however in my opinion is a fault and a solution needs to be found.It seems like most GNotes have this problem with a few exceptions.It doesn't bother me as I don't watch movies much but I can sympathize with those who do.Some videos with a lot of dark scenes are unwatchable.Seventy plus pages and we still don't know for sure if it's a hardware,software or calibration problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dominiciselga:
I am also having problems with my galaxy note. It just suddenly became murky and the resolution looks like that effect in the photo booth app. Can some one help? I have rooted it and tried to change density but still the same problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshoon:
Not really.

I can see the color banding on the screenshots that are posted here, but not on the screenshots I make myself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
i had la1 firmware and had ugly calculator color banding,after i flashed la3 firmware, it is much more better, not big color banding :) maybe ics update will fix this issue ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Alright, nothing much i can figure out on that.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshoon:
Exacly, this is so damn weird =/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haurar:
Hi! I'm from Romania , i have a Galaxy NOTE and i have the same problem with the phone - screen issue - i was a GSM service and they told me that is the graphic accelerator problem , and can be replace with new one! The real problem is that some Galaxy NOTE has one type of graphic acc. , others has another type ...Can be true this information? Same problem is on Galaxy SII...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BerreZ:
Update

Still waiting to find the perfect Gnote I went today on a quest.

First I went to the shop where my friend did buy his Gnote with a perfect screen , there pretend to buy one if I could look at the screen first . I've learned now that you can easily see the banding in the calculator and until now when you have banding you will have clipping. So there I've tested 2 phones , both had the screen issues. Then this afternoon went to another shop could look at one they had in display this one was the worst I've seen.

So as from today I had 3 different Gnotes , could look at 3 models in a shop all with defaults and have seen 2 models with what it seems a good screen.

So it's not looking very good for the moment with a only 25% of perfect phones.It looks more like a lottery.

Friday I'm gonna try the same approach in some other stores .

All the Gnote with the issues where not equaly bad.

I also mailed samsung Europe more than one month ago a claim.

They seem to have finished to sleep because I've got this response today , but I'm still trying to understand what they are saying ;

"Thank you for contacting Samsung Techwin Europe’s CCTV technical support team.

We acknowledge receipt of your email, and are committed to replying to your message within 1 working day.

If requesting RNA's Or Spare Parts please clearly state in the subjuct line that it is a RNA request or Spare Parts Request as below and this will help speed up them being processed.

RNA Request / Samsung Techwin (Your Company Name) / 1099854 (your reference)

Spare Parts Request / Samsung Techwin (Your Company Name) / 1099854 (your reference)

If you require assistance that is more urgent, you may in the first instance contact your distributor for assistance, or call our technical support line on 0800 169 1269.

Thank you"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
Seriously...

I finally got my Galaxy Note Screen Replaced after facing horizontal lines, but after the replacement, the new display still has the same problem. This time, the 1st half of the screen is darker than the bottom 2nd half. What do you all think I should do? I know this is not tolerable because I've checked locally and globally other counterparts over the last few weeks and couldn't replicate the problem to same extent. :confused::mad:

EDIT: The issue of black blotches and lines when you go into a dark setting has returned again on the new display. Not as severe as GS2 but its starting to. Giving a heads-up.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Haurar:
i think the problem is not the screen , is a problem of software or video chipset....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
I can tell you that no one for sure has a perfect Note. If you are reading comments claiming that they see no faults, that is just plain rubbish. It's all psychological. Many will come to the forum de-stress themselves and exaggerate all they want. Some post on the threads just 'cause they think their phone has no problem. Simply, Samsung has poor quality control, it's that simple. Every phone has a problem to some extent.

I don't see proof anywhere of anyone posting snapped shots of their screens. I just see the same old JPEGs that are probably photoshopped or copied from some other forum. I need evidence to confirm whether there is a problem with a certain batch or manufacturing procedure.

Otherwise, its all just a waste of time to read about folks reporting success stories about their Samsung Galaxy Notes.

This is why we form a thread and work towards finding fixes for these crappy Samsung problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] John Renz:
i've been following this thread since day 1 and im with you in this. I even followed this thread BEFORE i bought my Gnote. I was so disappointed when i receive a lame Gnote with this issues. But now im gonna get this thing straight until i get a Gnote that i can tolerate!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arass75:
galaxy note screen grey banding

I had my Galaxy note from Orange as an upgrade,. the screen had bloches on un even white shades. I had six replacement all had un even screen on grey and white, none was identical problem though. One of them the touch buttom was freezing. one of them had a perfect viewing angle but a constant grey line on the screen the one had blue tint from an angle the rest had green tint from an angle. I contacted samsung and they replied as below

Thank you for contacting Samsung and I have pleasure in providing the following assistance.

There may be some software confliction with the heavy Orange skin they place on the handset. Under the battery on your phone, beside the IMEI, you will see an S/N. Can you please reply with this and we can set up a claim on your behalf and send out a handset without these issues. Please can you also reconfirm your address so there is no mistake on our part

If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.

Kind regards

Now I am waiting for a direct replacement from samsung to see if waht they claim is true or this one will have similar problem
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
All of those issues you mentioned have nothing to do with the customization Orange has done but thats a standard corporate reply blame it on others they try to send out a 'fixed' replacement and hope for the best.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edanfalls:
Aren't you contradicting yourself there? No one has a perfect Note, yet Samsung has really poor quality control. Well, surely if the problem is down to poor quality control, then some people will have a "perfect Note" down to odds alone.

If the problem was not poor quality control, but instead a problem present in every single device, then yes, no one would have a perfect Note.

Personally, I have zero banding whatsoever. I have a purple and green hue present but only at extreme angles (>70 degrees to the left or right). To me that's a perfect Note screen. The only thing that I can notice is the pixel separation due to the pentile display - when in the dark, it's a bit annoying. But that's not a "problem"; just a property of the technology.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I think what he is saying is that due to the poor quality control there is no such thing as a perfect screen, so far nobody has really posted pictures including me.

I dont care so much about the banding issue but it would be nice if you can provide pictures from the main menu of angry birds and skype.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terrywone:
Please discuss your issues on Facebook...

There is still low activity on the Facebook page dedicated to this problems.

Come to the page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-Screen-Issues/154264438017212

And please, write in short a problem you are having with your gnote, and if it is possible people, start taking and uploading pictures or videos, as we are loosing with only words in the age of high speed net.

If we are able to make wide range of potential gnote customers wonder, we will start getting answers from Samsung.

Lets help each other!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
Post!

The forum is nothing but drama, lol.

As EarlZ had kindly requested, post pictures proving your claim-- or else this thread will reach God knows, how many pages. And it all draws down to a waste of time.

If everyone has display imperfections or any other problems that may be related to the quality control or manufacturing process, then we should file a class action lawsuit or something equivalent on Samsung; take them to court, make it a whole legal issue! That's what the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act is all about--if not applicable, have the whole world go against samung, boycott their products, lol. There's nothing more; there are too many retarded consumers buying Samsung products with the illusion that their goods are perfect. Its that simple. The Original Galaxy S did not show any of the problems we are facing now on the Note to this extent. Apple had problems dating back to the original iPhone; but the company admitted their mistakes. Samsung on the hand, seems to make money as their priority over customer satisfaction, I could be wrong on this case. :D

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I think some folks don't know what a perfect display means. some probably don't know what horizontal lines or black blotches to look for or how to look for them. I wouldn't rely on all the information users post on the forum. viewer discretion advised, lol :D

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See if its a graphics accelerator issue and changing the motherboard does not rectify the issue then it is probably the display, vice versa. If Mali 400 is that bad then who knows how Mali 604 (600) will behave.

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may be blowing this out of proportion, but samsung will throw every feature out there on a smartphone, even apple knows they can do, but don't find the practical purpose of it, because such technology is still in research development, like samoled. samsung is a novice in handling all of these things whereas apple appears to be a mature company ready to handle anything that comes in their way

thats just my thought after facing shady results from the s2 and note

im not saying note is bad, its a good phone with lots of potential

think about it
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edanfalls:
As I mentioned earlier in the thread:

Those "bands" show on my Note. As they also do on the Skype screen on my HD2. That's simply what the app looks like.

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Wow. Did you seriously just quote me saying "To me that's a perfect Note screen." and then tell me I'm wrong because I don't know what to look for?

Perfect in this context obviously means "as good as it should be". As I said, the pentile separation can be annoying, but that's due to the display type. There are no faults that I shouldn't have.

I work on a computer for most of the day and exclusively use high-end S-IPS panels at work and home. I know what to look for.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
Sorry

Hey, I sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding. I wasn't pointing my finger to you. :D I was pointing my fingers to others that claim to have a well-rounded perfect display. I damn agree with you, "as good as it should be," nothing is 100% perfect. Cheers :)

However, I think a lot of the issues being discussed here is not related to the pentile. Those horizontal lines, blotches, brightness uniformity issues, and yellow tinge were also faced in the Galaxy S2, and can potentially be a problem in subsequent models like the S3 and Note 2 as well when they release in the market; SAMOLED, anyone?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
This is the sole reason why 99% of the people never understand how disgruntling this issue is, the Galaxy Note is their first Samoled device or they started with another OLED device with a lesser issue and now calls these defects as 'normal'

Just with the Iphone4 they didnt directly admit the product design fault but they offered a solution for it, because people cried about it and didnt accept it as normal.

The yellow tinge on the Galaxy Note is not as noticeable as on the S2 because its only affecting the lower part of the screen and can only be seen in a solid grey color or for people who use the phone in landscape mode 95% of the time OR for those who use the stock keyboard in landscape will notice that the right side is yellowish.

Just show us proof that your device has no color banding on the area that you posted, not to be rude but your line of work does not give you more credibility but proof will :)

And Sal is right, until proof is posted this thread will just be full of drama and useless/repeated information for the next 100pages.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
I mean the Galaxy S had issues as well and as you said, people got use to it, accepting that as normal. However, folks like us, who are more technologically savvy, know what faults exist. :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
I had none of these issues on my Galaxy S1 and I really tried to find any fault on it as I could not believe OLED has already matured that much when I got my S1..

No 'mura' lines, no splotches on blacks, blacks are deep ( Gnote blacks are more lit ) , no uneven color shades when viewing any shade of grey or any color for that matter, 170deg of viewing angle w/o a slight change in color tint.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAlmighty:
It was just the pentile on the S1 that many complained about. I remember there used to be uniformity issues especially in notifications area, lol. However, S1 was far perfect than the S2 and Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chong81:
My Note also has the black clipping and gradient banding issues.

I find that the default calculator seems to be a quick and easy way to see the severity of the problem. I've compared about 7 sets so far, and they had varying levels of banding in calculator, but mine was the worst.

All phones in pictures below were set to 100% brightness, Standard color mode, Display power saving off.

Here's mine:

Here's my buddy's:

I also tried EarlZ's ironman video clip on my set, and the results were as horrible as his.

So I popped down to Samsung service centre, and they agreed the LCD is faulty. As I had previous problems with the phone and made multiple visits already, they offered me an exchange with a brand new set when stocks arrive. I really hope I'm more lucky this time.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Thanks for actually trying my sample clip and confirming the results. I hope we can really get this sorted ASAP. Wish people were less complacent about this issue, but we cant push our expectations to them.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chong81:
Yup agreed! I posted the same thing on another forum, and most of the replies were nonchalant, with some even wanting to believe it's a flaw with the calculator app itself.

Your video was what convinced me that I'd be doing myself a great disservice if I did nothing about it. Thanks man! :)

Anyway, did you manage to fix your screen (repair, replacement, etc)?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Only had 1 screen replacement so far, it made the issue worse with the black clipping and significantly worse viewing angles. Im trying to process a refund as this screen replacement lottery is too much for me. I'll just repurchase when I come across an acceptable screen.