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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A_Saknussemm:
Hi;

Today I visited a store in Spain (Tenerife - Canary Islands) and checked out the screen with the calculator app, the default Google page (white background), and launched the display testing menu (dial: *#0*#).

I could not see none of the defects commonly mentioned at different brightness levels either on the calculator or Google white search page, but did see very obvious banding on the "Dimming test" section that divides the screen into 3 sections with a gradient of each red green and blue fading to black.

I do not know if the banding on the display test mode "dimming section" is any indication of a defect, as I have yet to read a comment on it here, but other than that, the device seemed perfect even thou that particular model has been on display at the store for about six weeks with the display set at full brightness for the longest on setting.

Forgot to look at the model details, like ROM version or anything else you can get through the "settings" menu, but will try to get those latter on. The Note was the dark blue one, and the menus were in Spanish, so I guess it's some European 16GB version, and since it's been there since about the middle of February it must have been manufactured at least early in that month.

PS. did notice some lag that was not there a couple weeks ago when I first saw the phone. But with all the people coming into the store playing with the device and no maintenance whatsoever I guess it is to be expected.

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Thanks for sharing the photos and the technical details on them.

At first I thought what's wrong with them? but then noticed the slight tint on each. This is exactly the kind of artifact that's hard to notice on the store with bright lights and distractions, yet will drive you crazy reading in bed with the lights off.

Will be more carful the next time a see a note to try and notice these slight variations, that I have yet to see on other AMO LED displays.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermitano:
anyone here using the latest rocket rom? has the zip for fixing the banding issue been verified?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
You might wanna ask on this thread instead since it is for checkrom users :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jermitano:
this aint check thread as posted OP...and it has been asked here before...missed the possible answer to that query
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
Hi everyone!

I have spent 2 days reading this forum about all the Note issues, I also have theese with mine. Of course I contacted Samsung first by phone (support) but they didn´t understand the issues or have heard of them (!) when I told them all about it. Incredible!? So I mailed them a more specific description, based of the information and my own issues with the note. Here is the incredible answer from Samsung:

Thank you for your E-mail to Samsung Electronics Nordic.

I'm sorry that you have such problems with your Note. We have tested this with three different Notes and can not reproduce the errors you mention in your previous email.

The phone automatic peels down to 16-bit color depth for it to work. The incident angle affects the screen colors and gives the feeling of cold colors when you look at a sharper angle than if you look at it straight on.

The pixels in the dark depends on video compression, the youtube-application scales down the video to match the mobile devices.

Stains, stretch and spots due to a broken AMOLED screen. If you discover this you should immediately go to dealer/shop to have it replaced.

I hope you are satisfied with the answers to your questions!

Happy Easter! :)

Please contact us again if you have more questions.

Sincerely

XXXXX

Samsung Support

What can we say about this? They are blind to the issues? Could not reproduce the errors? WHAT?!

I mailed them once more telling I wont tolerate such an answer!!! I´m a costumer for god sake with a bad/defect product, and according to all the other dissapointed users out there it´s very likely I just get another bad note in replacement :mad:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voxano:
Not unanimously. Some say it works and others say it doesn't.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1430847
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
He's basically saying it happened because you moved around your head or your hand was shaking. LOL.

Can you try sending this guy my photos as posted here?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
I have already uploaded many pictures to them that proves the issues, but it feels like talking to a wall. Hopelsess. Now I have very bad banding/clipping in movies, an .mkv file that looks OK in my computer is clipping and cut off horrible in the note under playback! Even my own films from the note´s camera is clipping! WTF?

Samsung MUST TAKE THEIR RESPONSIBILITY!! They cannot get away with this scandal! I have talked to my local dealer where I bought the phone, and with him it´s no problem changing the note for another phone brand (read htc, they are actually working :)). What can I say? Bye bye Samsung crappy note!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
Are you guys still at it? Sell it or live with it (like everbody else) already! :p
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Same. :D I have pink discoloration on the right edge of my screen but at this point I just learn to live with it.

No point wasting my time with 10 returns/exchanges.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
That does not compute. Customers spend over $600 on that phone and have to live with 3 serius screen defects?! You gotta be kidding me. It´s like saying: OK Samsung, we pay our wages for your crappy **** phones, just keep producing such phones. NO WAY! It´s totally unacceptable, otherwise why pay such money for a phone? I have now talked to my local shop, and the seller is going to take it back so I can switch over to an Sony Experia S (an OK phone with no such screen problems). No wasting time with many more returns here. Note should have been one of the greatest phone ever made, with that huge screen. Unfortuantely Samsung failed! Now 5 months and still no update that fix it, that should worry...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
Good luck with the Xperia s, I had one, disgraceful battery life and backlight bleed. Much prefer the Note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tommylkc0909:
I want to thank everyone for their replies!

Thank you Gahshn and dannstarr.

You cant imagine what a releif it is to know I didnt cause this problem myself.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Lawl, you sure are young in the field of technology. Haven't made many purchases, have you?

First off, get it out of your head. There is no such thing as a perfect tech. If there was, there would be no need for innovation and progress. Secondly, understand that manufacturing is done with variability of quality. The assembly line cannot and I repeat, physically cannot produce and endless supply of 100% identical screens. Third, understand that 95% of buyers in the market are not like you. Fourth, do you know how much people paid back in the day for the first car, DESPITE all of the potential problems and repair costs (or the first brick phones)?

If you can't deal with this in the world of purchasing tech products, go buy dumbphones.

I don't know about you but I have much more important things to do in real-life than to hang around a phone or computer trying to get constant exchanges with a phone. My phone works to a reasonable level, I have no weird lines on the screen, the colors are great, there is no ghosting when scrolling (put it next to any LCD or SCLD and scroll through the settings screen and you'll see how bad the ghosting is on LCD-tech). Samsung never promised me a perfect screen that is free from defects when I purchased it. They promised me a functional phone which is the sum of all of its parts combined, not just the screen.

Enjoy your bad-black levels and ghosting on your new screen, if the screen is just how you judge a phone's functionality by. :)

P.S. If you decide to return to the Note, I'd advise you to just find one with a screen that you can live with. Don't let the things that you read on the internet bother you in how you enjoy your device. Sure some people have reportedly "PERFECT" screens, but I'm sure you have better things to do than to sit in a dark corner of your basement analyzing every subpixel for defects.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rezz:
I could live with the banding, Ive had an SGS1 and SGS2, so I kinda expected the same issues on the note.

What I cannot live with is that my blacks arent black, it's kind of the no1 feature of amoled, complete blacks are black bc the pixels are off, but the next value that my screen shows is just plain grey, wich results in the terrible clipping we all know.

Now I don't know wether to get a replacement screen, wich could be even worse, or pray to the old and new gods for a fix in ICS.

Oh such terrible first world problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apofisapep:
I don't have any problems with my note screen. In fact i'm very happy with note screen .
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
What manufacture date is your device?

I only had three all from March 2012, and they all had screen tint changing problems with different default color tint. But my blacks were black on all of them. Just problems with colors chaging all the time.

My fourth one is coming tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure it'll have the same color tint changing problem. I"ll probably just live with it, with a bad taste for Samsung products.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
Jesus! First of all I have had cell phones since Ericsson GA-628 :) I have owned aproxx 10 different phones through the years...

Problem is that we where not talking about phones that costed 600 bucks. More about that later..

Are you working for Samsung? ;)

First of all: please don´t put word in my mouth thanx. Noone denies the fact there is no such thing as a perfect phone. I never said that. I was just pointing out the issues due to bad manufacturing, and like someone already told in here Samsung was probably in a rush because the competition out there to release a "better" phone than the others quickly. They had not tested it properly. I´m not talking about 100% indentical screens, but here we are talking about almost 130 pages in this forum covers the issues, what do you don´t understand?

It could be some bad batches outthere as well, but I hace read about costumers that had their 8:th (!) replacement with the same issues. That is by no mean OK!

Secondly, why should I buy a dumbphone?! What I want for my $600 is a phone with a good picture quality, good rendering performance playing movies etc. Otherwise I could just buy a "dumbphone" and save money!! What is hard to understand here?

According to your silly statements about the screen, well Samsung themselves are making a big businnes about... you get it? THE SCREEN! They are selling this phone pointing to the "fantastic" screen. Maybe you should argue with them too? ;)

In my case (and many others) according to the hue/color temp shifting from cold to warm randomly, I get headache and my eyes hurting when trying to read at webpages and more. If that´s OK with you, FINE I dont care... Jesus!

My purpose of this phone was to replace it with my computer (most of the time) but it showed up to be a great dissapointment. End of discussion.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Enjoy your Sony Xperia S. Good-bye.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
Very well said. It causes a headache to see those color temperatures changing for me too.

So it looks like in the past, there were some good ones and some spotty ones, so it was pure luck. Now, all the newer batches seems like they have these color temperature changing problems all the time. I'm not expecting the Note to be perfect, but at least there is a minimum line here what would be expected.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Are you using a screen protector?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
No, but I know what could happen when using some of the matte screen protectors (sparkling effect).

By saying "spotty ones", I meant ones with some kind of problems, not really having spots or anything. The recent ones seem like they all have problems. I don't really mind the color variance when seen side by side between two devices, but the color changing when reading something at night is what's driving me nuts.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flightless:
@PoisonWolf

I understand what you are trying to say but also consider those who are coming from previous generation of SuperAMOLED screens and knows what to expect from a quality screen. I came from A Samsung S8500, Galaxy S and S2, none of them had these hardware related screen issues, I understand that the "HD SuperAMOLED" is a "new technology" but the basis for quality is always the previous generation. I've never had any mura lines, spotty blacks and other issues I've seen and read on the note with both of my S8500 and Galaxy S, the S2 had its spotty black issues and yellow tint but they were evetually fixed after 6-8 months. I foudn the screens on my previous devices as my basis of what a quality screen should loook like, Im also guessing that most of the people complaining also came from those devices. I've returned my note for the hardware related issues also the same with the Galaxy S2 that I got when it was released. Just recently, I got a free Galaxy S2 from my provider and it no longer has any of the issues before, even the blacks are not spotty anymore. Everything is relative to experience and expectation. Samsung could have intentioanlly dropped the quality control level and see how people react. Maybe they are selling a substandard ones to specific regions, who knows what they are trying to do.

But the biggest cause for alarm on this issue is that those people who always preaced that the majority have perfect screens, this raises the concern that if the majority have flawless screens then it should be relatively easy to get a flawless one as well, getting more than 3 problematic screens should be impossible unless that believed majority only resides in the 50.01 percetile. Also I remember LordManhattan frantically defend the screen early on and claims that he has a perfect screen but in reality he was just living with some of the issues that he didnt find distracting, a difference of context between having an actual perfect quality screen and a subjective acceptable screen.

In regards to the testing methods, Im sure even the most anal user wont spend his time at the basement just looking for flaws, Testing with a specific color on the screen with specific light and brightness settings makes the testing more objevtive rather than subjective, Im sure you are smart enough to deduce that it is for objective testing. Others with the accalimed perfect screens are the ones that are more dismissive and aggressive are the ones causing more harm, they dont have issues to be begin with why be rude to others who are facing such problems or why be on the thread to begin with.

Im just saying and not ranting as I have no reason to do so, Samsung was very nice to resolve my issues with my Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note, I just hope they step up the quality control just like how it was back in the Galaxy S days. I've also heard that AU Optronics and LG are coming into the AMOLED mass production in a couple of months.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Pointed noted. But as someone has pointed it out pages back, they probably lowered the threshold to not "waste" the screens. Imagine what would happen to the thousands of screens if they were to up the threshold?

Does the color shift mean the screen isn't functioning? No, it doesn't. The screen works. From an environmental standpoint, I would hate for Samsung to throw away used resources, energy, and inventory of screens just because 1% of the population (if even as XDA is a microbe relative to the entire market) cannot put up with the color shifts when the most common lay user would never even use their phone to 50% of its true ability let alone notice the issues with the screen. By the way, this type of user is Samsung's true-market, and not folks at XDA.

You guys got to remember, Samsung is a business. And if the statistical model holds that this certain margin of quality production is yielding profits, that is all that matters to the stockholders.

Lastly, if you want consistent tech, go for LCD or SLCD. You get poorer blacks and ghosting in exchange for consistency. When building organic screens, this is the sad trade-off (including shorter lifespan relative to LCDs).

If you're not happy with the "screen issues", return the phone and move on. This is just the problem with the present tech. If the color shifts are on the verge of giving you an epilepsy, seriously, move on. Just because two pieces of tech share the same name (AMOLED) does not necessarily warrant the basis for expecting the same level of quality. Who knows? Maybe the pentile layout mixed with the resolution mixed the expansive size of the display is just not playing nice with the current manufacturing assemblies that Samsung has. What are you going to do about it? Talk to their shareholders to give up their quarterly profits so that they can re-direct all their profits to building better assembly lines? Not going to happen.

If it helps, try to see the plus side of AMOLED tech: faster refresh, much better blacks relative to LCD (ignore previous S2's AMOLED HD PLUS, etc), and increased contrast. See if you can live with those pluses and the color shifts that some of you are experiencing. If not, move on. No point getting all riled up over a phone. :)

P.S. Yes, I have the color shift too. My screen is far from perfect just in case if you're wondering if I'm preaching given the fact that I have a perfect screen.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhruva7:
I strongly feel its software issue as I had taken picture which had gray shades its shown pink tints. I think next software update may solve the problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
My Note next to my wifes Galaxy s 2, you can clearly see the Gamma problem.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mystic38:
fyi that is a color temperature problem, not a gamma problem.. gamma relates to luminescence, ie brightness, color temperature is what makes white go from pinkish white to bluish white..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
Xperia S was not in stock so I went for HTC One X. And wow what a difference compared to Crapsung note. I will not regret my exchange. Video playback now perfect rendering, even with the "IM2_Sample3" clip anyone tried in here looking crap on note. No color banding on HTC, neither no hue/tint changing effect due to colortemperature issue. And I got stronger hardware as a bonus ;) Finally I´m pleased!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Glad to hear you finally found what's worth it for your money. Now please head on to the appropriate forum (HTC One X). I'd rather you not try and cultivate a flamewar over HTC One X vs Samsung Note here.

As long as you are happy with your purchase. Make no mistake, any attempt to flamebait a phone-war will be reported to the mods.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EdgaBimbam:
ehm because it has slcd display? ^^ you get wonderful screen, but your battery life is shorter ;D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CONTACTMC:
But I am talking about the fade in numbers, my wife gs2 fades gradually out at about 11, my note goes from 4 to black with no fade. Hence any picture trying to show a fade at that point becomes a blocky mess.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilrat:
I will NOT start some kind of "war" here lol, you better chill down a bit. Such an aggressive attitude is not that popular I suppose. And, yes of course I will change to HOX forum, why wouldn´t I? Cheers ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
Finally got my 4th white colored Note yesterday, and spent some time installing everything and setting up all the stuff. OMG, it doesn't have a color tint changing problem!!! The screen color was slightly better and more white than my previous 3rd Note, but not as good as my 2nd Note. (until now, they all had colors changing on their own.)

I bought this one from Amazon fullfilled, sold by "BRIGHTPOINT (Dolphin international)". Box was completely sealed - for the first time. Manufacture date is also March, and it came with Spanish welcome screen. No warranty card. Has a UBKK2 rom, just like all of my previous ones.

The one downside of this screen is that the color difference is very noticeable when looking at a slight angle. It becomes blue even at 30 degrees off. Kind of like the difference between iPhone 4 screen vs iPod touch 4th gen screen, where iPod uses a cheaper screen so colors are bad when looking from a slight angle. It's crap quality screen, but I can live with it now. At least I'm not distracted by colors changing on its own now. Next time I buy a Samsung, I will make sure to check if complaints like this thread exists before I dip into it. Had too many bad experience with Samsung and their screen (Series 7 Slate).
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Can you elaborate this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hp79:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24414763&postcount=1266

This is what I had on 3 of my previous devices dated March 2012. My 4th replacement doesn't have this problem.

Color temperature was changing (from greenish tint to blueish to redish tint every second) even when I was holding the phone still in a perfect angle. My 4th replacement doesn't have this problem, but it does have a narrower viewing angle. If I tilt it just a little bit, screen looks blue. But since I hold the phone still when I use it, it's less distracting than changing color temperature all the time.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrfan:
I am using ICS Stunner and I don't see any banding issues. Neither I got them when I was using GB...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mishik:
Congratulations man. I had exactly the same situation, but I got lucky with my second phone which behaves similar to your fourth. I don't mind the narrower viewing angle to much, I'm totally happy with my Note at last.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Oh that, I never had that on my note but its happening to my Tab7.7 which is only noticeable if i stare at the white background on webpages in a low light environment, but Ive seen that happen on a samsung demo unit even on the gallery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smashmash:
I got my first Note on 5 April, it went back on 6 April with the dreaded green/red intermittant screen tint issue. It was completely random. I now have a replacement and it doesn't seem to have the issue - it still does do a slight red tint when touching the screen at low brightness levels but this seems to be related to the auto power setting in display menu.

The funny thing is with the first one I didn't notice the issue until I upgraded firmware over air, then I searched the internet and my heart sank when I found this thread (you bastards, lol!)

Call me superstitious but I haven't updated this one and won't until ICS release!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PoisonWolf:
Try turning off the auto-lcd power saving function.