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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
Check where your GN's are made........mine is made in Korea which are supposed to be a lot better and have less problems than the ones made in China.

My display looks good, blacks are black etc...only thing is, grey looks like there is some banding. Like when i'm on the Play Store, and something is loading and all you see if the grey background. Looks like theres a tiny bit of banding but in general okay.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jmattp:
Mine was made in China
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
It's weird, mine looks awesome except where you mentioned. Specifically transitional menus in places like the play store. It looks awful, with a lot of weird color and banding.

When I am at a very low brightness level, this image: [apparently I can't post outside links, but the image I am talking about has a very sudden transition from black to white] has a VERY thick line of purple at the transition point.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lithdoc:
Mine does not say where it is made... I'll assume China, and you have to love how it is conveniently left out.

The greys look terrible, with some burn-in too. I use Flex T9 keyboard, and when you switch from typing to dictating, you can see the burn-in from the keys that stays in for about 10 seconds!

As for comparinson with Apple... They don't build their products cheap and they do make darn sure that quality control is in check. When you compare GN (remember the $800 price tag on release?) with an iPhone, there is no comparison when build quality is concerned.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
Yea mines not terrible, but I definitely see some banding on that grey transitional loading page at the Play store.

Mine doesn't go from black to white with a thick line of purple, well haven't experienced anything like that.

Just checking, the settings menu.....it's supposed to be darkest in the top right? and get brighter going down to the bottom left? It's also purpleish at the top right and not fully black. I'm guessing its probably just the way ICS is themed and not a problem with the screen since my status bar is pitch black so it's probably just how the settings menu is.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I hope so, because mine's like that too! :p

I think Google should have made the settings menu 100% black with white text. Seems like it looks like crap on everyone's GN
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ILLHYHL:
I have GSM GNex ordered from expansys.

is my screen defect?

i only get these horizontal lines when in medium dark backgrounds....

this is only problem i have with the phone.. nothing else. no banding lines, no dead pixels, brightness fine, voice, data, gps, etc., everything is perfect

should i learn to live with it, by using custom rom/themes with the colors that the lines wouldn't appear??

(i was on AOKP B29 rome with black exodus theme, where i noticed very little horizontal lines in couple of widgets)

(i usually prefer all black/ really dark backgrounds to save battery and for looks :p)

or should i exchange it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
I have that a little bit too. Only in the phone app though, nothing else. Mines not as bad as yours either though, I have to look really close to see it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ILLHYHL:
i guess i'll just live with it :(

i'm going with all black theme anyway.

nowhere to be seen then.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
Yup....my wallpaper is straight black to save battery.

My battery life has been amazing though so far since I got it a few days ago.

Been running liquidsmooth and franco

Yesterday was my first full day. Had around 3 hours and 26 minutes display time with over 11 hours on battery and 40% battery left. Could easily squeeze 6+ hours display time probably with more heavy usage till it died.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ILLHYHL:
may i ask your governer / cpu settings :D?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pewpewbangbang:
With Franco, i'm using the hotplug governor. CPU settings are stock, no UV or anything.

Smartflex automatically undervolts, so I'm technically still undervolting I guess, just not manually.

384mhz min CPU and 1228mhz max
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 8723045587230455:
It looks great! How can I do that? I am using kernel for franco,is the only way to fix the screen problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I'm getting more and more disappointed with this phone as the days go on. Here is a black test on 100% brightness, and my call history screen to show some banding.

I have until Friday to exchange it, but I hear WIND mobile just gives you units that other people have returned instead of new phones out of the box :mad:

What do you guys think?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chjade84:
You'll probably always notice it. I've not seen one with a smooth background on those menus. You could root and change the backgrounds if it bugs you a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I'm more concerned about near blacks being purple
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Guzmanus:
The top 1cm of my screen has a blueish tint, i've just noticed it, will the warranty cover it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
So I went back to the store to exchange my phone, and in store, this new one seemed way better.

Now that I am home, I think it's much, much worse. Before it was only certain colors that were purple, now it's the whole damn menu system. Where it;s supposed to be grey, it's now ALL purple. The menus are purple to black gradients.

I'm getting REALLY fed up with this BS. I payed $650 for this phone, how come they can't get a damn screen right?

http://i40.tinypic.com/2iqblf4.jpg

Here's a picture of some hot new color banding: http://i.imgur.com/j2oxB.jpg

EDIT 2: Yeah I'm definitely bringing this phone back tomorrow. The purple is now more noticeable everywhere else on any brightness.

Awful.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fortesquieu:
So Wind Mobile actually lets you exchange the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
Apparently, yep. I just showed him the very obvious problem, and showed him this thread on my laptop, and he agreed to exchange the phone for a new one. The new phone even looks brand new, though it probably isn't.

Unfortunately, I am headed back tomorrow to get another because this one is still all purple and crappy, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chjade84:
Ah, yea that's not right.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ILLHYHL:
i had the same issue with the color banding in the call history screen.

i bought mine on expansys usa, because i heard that european batches are ones with less defects, etc.

i was wrong :p

i just shipped it back for an exchange. they better confirm this as a defect :mad: i'm don't want to pay any restocking fee

i'll get a new GNex within a week or so. hope this one doesn't have this issue....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andQlimax:
every amoled screen showing that particular gradient image, like the one in the call history, will show that banding artifact

3 options:

1. change screen panel / or phone

2. change the images in the rom, a completely black image will work

3. live with the "issue" as its not an issue
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] an430:
I have just bought for 2 days and still looking forward the problems from GN (hope none of it)

I was using desire2 days ago, just a little bit dislike the screen which is too much green...........
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ILLHYHL:
well them i just hope it's not as bad as the one that i had before.

last one had very noticable bandings..

and i wonder what was wrong with my last phone, which was SGSII, with any screen problems.. :(

i guess i was lucky to get a perfect screen, eh

i didn't have ANY lines, no dead pixels, no bandings neither vertically or horizontally in any brightness level
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I just noticed this when looking at the phone in the dark. NO WAY I am keeping it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Frosty666:
If your talking about the 'false lcd-backlight' effect, that's normal. If your talking about the black deadspots, that's a lot less than some of these phones have. Mine had two huge patches in the middle.

This is assuming that you've bumped up the contrast/exposure of the photo, if you haven't, you've got problems.

Sent from my Snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I cheated a bit, that was a 15 second exposure lol. After evaluating alternatives, I really can't afford to get rid of this phone/leave this carrier
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neotekz:
its very possible that the next galaxy nexus you get will have more of those dark spots. just do what most do and live with it, you cant see them under normal use anyways.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I got a yellow tint, but i heared that it is normal..is that true ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I went to a different store and had my phone replaced no questions asked, and my new display has a slight yellow tint, but it's nowhere near as bad as what was happening before with the purple grey colors, so I am happy.

EDIT: Here's a comparison pic of the two: http://i.imgur.com/UD5BM.jpg
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Ahhh yes ! Mine looks like the right one !

Im a bit sad because with CM9 i can change the settings and i got a beautiful white, but I prefer to stay on stock !

So I ask myself...why Google dont change that awful yellow tint ??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I think its an issue of no samoled screen being perfect right now

Some are a bit yellow, some are purple, some have banding, etc
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Thats sad to hear, so i have ro stay on CM9 or life with it...really bad...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] darrendm:
Had the phone since release and never had an issue with the screen so I ignored this thread.

However, seeing those pictures of them horrid black spots is quite shocking, I have none of those at all. That is pretty disgusting really.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] formula84:
Question: At what light condition was that taken in, dark room? Seems awfully bright for brightness all the way down. I too had a phone like the one on the left in your pic, got a replacement and this one is better but not like the one on the right, I almost want to say its more blueish then purple and seems dimmer. Looks good for the most part, that purple was awful.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] babymatteo:
really need some help

Hey guys...my screen was perfect this morning, and now it just looks very washed out. Phone has been on my desk and not dropped at all. Its been in a case too.

I wonder what could've caused this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
0% phone brightness, lights off in my washroom at night time, long exposure photograph (5-15 seconds depending on which photo)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Could you make a picture of the browser please ? I would like to see if youre yellow tint is like mine

P.S.

Interesting :

http://www.stuff-review.com/2011-11/samsung-galaxy-nexus-display-has-a-slight-yellow-tinge/

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
I tried here: http://i.imgur.com/iCerp.jpg

Unfortunately it's very hard to capture my discoloration (which I am thankful for). I can only notice it in places with "revealing" colors like the settings menu. The bottom of the screen in that menu is definitely blue on the right and a weird blue/green on the left, but I hardly even notice it unless I am in a very dark room.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Looks like mine...so its like that..i hope google will chamge some colour settings that the Nexus wonte be so "warm"

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
100% brightness

Purple gray

What do you think? There's some banding, but I got used to that from my SGS2. That purple is really annoying. Notifications also show as purple which is really annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
WOAH that first picture, are the bands actually that distinct in person? My grey menus look nothing like that.

Any more pics?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
They are, but only when I pull down the bar in settings. I'll post more tomorrow(later today actually)?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] neotekz:
not sure if thats really banding but that happens with all galaxy nexus, i think its more from the background google uses in the settings menus and other apps with the android blue gradient background.

for those with yellow tint you can fix this by calibrating the colors if you use a kernel like franco, it makes a huge difference. i was also using a stock galaxy S2 for comparison. the galaxy nexus was very warm with a yellow tint but after a few adjustments of the colors and multiplier i ended up having a whiter screen than the S2.

Every screen is going to need different settings here so you have to play with it. the idea with a yellow tint is to decrease the red values and increase the blues until you get a nice white. i used -5,0,5 and 230,230,260 for the multipliers. this helps with the banding in settings menu.

There's a thread with more info and and people's numbers. i still get a slight purple tint with some grays but its generally the colors are much better.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
My phone only has the yellow hue on one side of the screen, so wouldn't adjusting the colors just make both sides different again?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
So sold my SGS2 finally and moved to GNexus. Received one few days ago and got very sad of Sammy crap. Gonna replace one for sure. Please pics below and pics with white and grey background.

In addition I use this website for LCD test purposes:http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Its really sad, if i pay 400Euro and i have to flash a Kernel ! If I dont want to root im in a bad situation :mad:

I think I will give it back an hope to get a better one !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Matt08642:
Here is the kind of color temperature differences I am now subjected to after my 2 purple screens.

http://i.imgur.com/VT5Mo.jpg - And compared to how it's supposed to look http://i.imgur.com/8dvO6.png

It's JUST prominent enough that I don't feel I should be paying full price for this phone.

Unfortunately, I am basically the only person who sees this. None of my family members see what I mean, and I don't think the people at the store would see what I mean, either (they are only open during the day, plus they are indoors and in good lighting, so everything looks good)

I am also torn because I might exchange this phone, and get another just like it, or worse, another purple one!

Gah, why is the QC so nonexistant from Samsung with these screens?!

EDIT: Here's another pic showing the rainbow of colors I'm getting on a white background http://i.imgur.com/T3rvd.jpg
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I would change that phone for another one ! I had already 2 phones with a bad Display ! This 3rd ist ok but still a bit yellow ! I heared now that there ARE phones with a nice white ! I want a good one too and dont flash Kernels that I got good colours...

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] onyx1980:
same thing here , the white , isn't really white , and if you view from angel , white gets tinted with a shade of green ,

mine is "Made by Samsung in China" ,

i compared it's screen with my moto razr xt910 , and quite frankly , i love the screen on razr pretty much better , at least it doesn't get tinted with any shade , and it gives you the full view. goddamn sumsung!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Yes tjats really annoying ! Till now i never saw a really white one ! I had 3 in my hand and all of them were yellow !

Taptalked from GNex -- AOKP 32 / Jame Bond Kernel 3.1.7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] formula84:
Funny you mention RAZR as it also has SAMOLED, I just looked at my brother in laws, pulled up three pictures and a white and grey solid. All looked better on my phone and I think my display is not perfect his was very warm/yellow on whites.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Mine looks warm too...slowly im getting angry because this is already the 3 Nexus ! Its terrible....

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kocai:
Have been thinking about getting a Galaxy Nexus since the price has dropped quite significantly. But then I saw this thread. Damn, those purple tint are horrible!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
If you gonna flash CM9, AOKP or a Kernel with Colorsettings everything is fine !

Till now this is my third Nexus ! My girlfriend has one and 2 of my friends, EVERYBODY got a yellow tint, but I never never saw that purple tint! I think there are not so many with the purple tint, but many with yellow !

I dont know if I should change my mobile a 4th time or just life with it, but I know that there are also white ones and I paid 400€ for that mobile ! Why I shouldnt change it till I get a good one ? Maybe Google will fix it..maybe not...or I root my phone an flash a kernel, but with root I cant download Videos in "Play Movies", because google will stop the service for rooted devices.

Taptalked by GNex -- 4.0.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
Unless your screen is half yellow or just a part of it then you can adjust color settings with a custom rom. Purple grays is a lot worse trust me, I'm waiting for an answer from the store I got it from. I haven't decided if I'll replace or refund and get something else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
I've tried to play around with custom ROM and gamma adjustments. Yes it's possible to recalibrate to better extent, but purple remain purple. Nothing you can do about it. Very sad. Last weekend, I visited local stores in Riga and quess what? all of them got PURPLE...

Next week gonna get answer from Samsung service center and will post result regarding purple issue and black spots on the screen, visible in the darkness at 0% brightness level.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Like in Germany...all are yellow !!!! Just a few got nice white...

I can life with mine, maybe I will...who knows, maybe the next one is worse !?

Taptalked by GNex -- 4.0.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
That's was the story with SGS2, I exchanged it 6 times, and every time I got different issues, so current Galaxy Nexus I sent for screen replacement instead of phone replacement in order to avoid new issues with every upcoming new GNexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
I'm going to return it and wait for the SGS3 announcement. I can't actually believe that I'm saying that as I pretty much swore not to buy Samsung again, but I have to admit that the SGS2 was great. Anyway, about the Nexus, I guess it isn't that bad but it's like SGS2 banding except it's also purple..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
Well, no more Samsung gadget, except Google phone, 'cause Sammy tied up security policy and devs support, behaving more like applish way. Consequently SGS3 will be less supported by real devs and to experience true google experience will be under the questions. That's already happened with SGS2. If you are really advanced user and want to experience pure Google stick to Google.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I never buy an Samsung with TW again !!! Nexus forever !!! :thumbup:

Even the new S3 will have some issues, I thin the next Nexus will be for sure great !

Taptalked by GNex -- 4.0.4
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
So these are samples: how it looks like and how it should be:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zmsudu:
@ alangrig

How did you change it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
Here's some more examples of how purple mine is, I'm definitely getting a refund and getting either One X or SGS3. It's also quite grainy in the whites when in low brightness, but you can't really see that in pics.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Thats right !!! I will refund mine for sure, when I see that HOW it could be!!

Taptalked by GNex -- CyanogenMod9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
Well, just print screen (as usually or via Droid Explorer) at the minimum brightness level, 'cause print screen grabs internally.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alexander T.:
Purple grays.

Hi,

I have had 3 Nexuses so far, and 2 of them had the purple grays. The third one had no sign of purple, but instead it had its half screen reddish, and the other half - greenish. The first one was January made, produced in China, the second and third ones were from February, Vietnam made batch. Yesterday I was in local store, and checked 5 different Nexuses produced for Russia, and believe me or not, all of them had the ugly purple tint (all of them were C2 - February)! I guess, we need to wait and see if the March batch will be free of this defect. Personally, I have sold off all my 3 Nexuses, since I don't want to watch videos and images with black showing as purple, which would be acceptable in case of an LCD screen, not AMOLED!

A small hint on how to easily check if there's any purple present: just switch on the phone in a not-so-bright room, and watch the boot animation's background; if it looks purple, then the screen is bad, try a different one. On my purple-free phone the background of the animation was of a deep gray color, not purple at all! Later you may continue testing with Display Tester app, found on the market.

---------- Post added at 11:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 AM ----------

Could you please check the production date of those that are free of purple grays?

Here you may learn how to figure it out.

---------- Post added at 11:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:21 AM ----------

As far as I can judge by the images you attached, yours also suffers from a color shift going greenish from left to right. That was an issue with my first and third Nexuses. Very annoying!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
5 Jan. 2012

Taptalked by GNex -- CyanogenMod9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
Well, good at the start up of the screen replacement process:

Service center confirmed screen with PURPLE, BLACK SPOTS and Vertical Lines on the grey color to be DEFECTIVE, see pic in attachement.

Due to storage shortage of screens in Baltic region (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), new screen will be delivered within 2 weeks.

Just gonna hope it's gonna be the latest updated non-defective screen.

I'll post replacement result,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
Yesterday my small brother bought a new Nexus ! Guess what his Nexus has ???!!! A yellow tint !!! Slowly I get the feeling that google has bad settings ! They should change the settings more "cold" or put settings inside to change the gamma and multipler settings like Cyanogenmod ! It isnt a big thing !

Why they dont do that ? Its annoying ! My brother bought his mobile 5 month after release and the same issues ! That shows me they should fix that with an update.

Anyway Google said that the Nexus will be slowest phone running Jelly Bean in Oct. ! So im pretty sure we will see in Dec. a new Nexus !

As I heard now it will be made by Moto ! So Google will make now their own device and Im pretty sure that will be better ! I think Samsung didnt paid a lot attention on the Nexus ! They were just thinking about there S3 !

Taptalked by GNex -- CyanogenMod9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
Mine is brand new and has quite massive purple tint..I will return it and wait at least to see SGS3. It may not be Nexus but popular devices get a lot of ROMs quite fast(think SGS2). And I'd much rather have a fast phone with a good screen than this OK performance with not so good screen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I will not buy a Samsung again ! Always Display problems ! S1, S2, Galaxy Note and now the Nexus ! With every phone I had Display problems !

Taptalked by GNex -- CyanogenMod9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freemini:
The first phone I've had screen problems on was the SGS2 but it was minor(banding and grainy whites). My iPhone 4S isn't perfect, but not bad. Nexus is seriously annoying, it just looks bad because of the major banding and purples. I really don't know, I liked the SGS2 but obviously I was lucky to get a good one..

I'm definitely spending some time investigating the one x and the threads there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alangrig:
Well after 3 replacements of SGS2 finally i had a great screen :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I got already my fifth Nexus :o

Taptalked by GNex -- CyanogenMod9