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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ph0b0z:
Nahh.. it was "prepaid".. often used it on well-known online shops.. but this was a little careless by me.. and really ****ed up by this criminal a**hole..

Small hope my Bank may be able to reclaim the transfer.. but well. Maybe in the time of waiting for the/new money, google will announce another nexus model ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
This one is really bad and that too showing up until 55% brightness. I would go for replacement if you really like nexus and would like to own it. Otherwise simple return and wait for next nexus/buy a different one. Replacements are not perfect and there is no return option once you do the exchange.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xpunksbeendeadx:
Hey guys. Got my advanced RMA finally. I was wondering if I could get your opinions. To the left is my new phone. To the right is the old one. Which one is better and I should keep? Thanks for everything.

Edit- I added a second pic of the new phone, more focused. Its the third pic. So order is new one, old one, new one.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Looks like the new one is better. But only keep it if you are 100% happy with it. That would bug me still.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
What is your brighness settings? How does it look with some text on it? Just want to confirm is the pinkish tinted white your concern? To me your old one looks better compared with the new one.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] xpunksbeendeadx:
Well the old one has this blue tint along the whole right side. Those pics are with lowest brighness settings.

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Yeah I feel like the new one is better too. Not 100% perfect but it sounds like these are just traits of the screen on the GNex sadly. Looking at them more though, the new one definitely has better whites but just some banding still.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rllong1:
My screen is very gray looking with auto bright on. It's extremely dim and whites are gray. I turn it up to 100% brightness and the whites look perfect but anything other than that, the whites look gray. I don't think something is wrong with the screen because on 100% bright all the colors look fine. I feel like it's more an issue with auto bright than the screen , itself.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pepski:
First time posting over on these Nexus boards. Looking at selling my SGS2 and investing in the GNex, as I'm really looking for the super-quick, greatly-supported 'pure Google' experience. :)

Just have to ask if this problem has been addressed by Google and/or Samsung in any brand new models, or if the screen issues persist? Really could be a deal-breaker for me if 99% of devices have very noticeable flaws.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
By the looks of it even the newest devices have this problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hinouchi:
Trust me, you'll learn to live with it with the purple tint, it's not that much of a problem ... and yes even the newest build from May have the problem. I went through 4 units already, same ****. I just turn the brightness to 10 percent instead of all the way off, the tint went away.

People just need to stop nick-picking at every flew and enjoy using the damn device ... lol Like what are the chance of someone's going to stares at a pure gray screen for more then a minutes and look for bending issue? or a pure black screen and see black spot? Screen with pink and blue spot on white that I can understand, it stands out when you surf.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thor79:
I love the device...my only gripe is with the display problem...so I'm going to exchange it until I get one I'm happy with.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
i can say there's only 0.01% chance you'll get a perfect screen. hope google will exclude samsung in the next nexus phone. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pepski:
Ha! I'm not liking those odds. Samsung have clearly built a fault device if this is an issue with so many of them. I know that it's a different screen, but my SGS2 has an incredible display - can't fault it!

Thanks for your answers, guys.

Had a play around with a GNex again in the 3 store, and couldn't see an issue with the screen there. Could well be that it just didn't have the brightness below, say, 10%? If these are only issues with such a brightness, surely I could download an app/kernel that allows you to restructure the low-light levels?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
your sgs2 panel use samoled plus -RGB (Red Green Blue) instead of samoled RGBG (Red Green Blue Green)- so its color production should be no different than those other LCD panels (RGB) out there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jason.pc:
Hey Guys,

Quick question. I'm trying to set up an RMA with samsung up in Canada. I have around 15 black spots on my screen. I was wondering if anyone can confirm whether samsung had an advanced replacement program or not. The CSR advised me that the advanced replacement was only done through the service providers, and not samsung themselves.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Yes, this is a very long post - with many answers

Indeed... A colleague of mine has the One S, and at the time I had the Nexus, when I compared the two... the One S looked way sharper/better, despite the lower resolution/screen size.

Hence, my conclusion earlier... PPI has something to do with the faultiness of OLED panels - it's greater on the Nexus => defects; it's lower on the One S => awesomeness.

Now immagine how awful would the Nexus look if it had RGB instead of RGBG matrix, lol.

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That... is... painful...

Return it if you can. I'd say ask for a refund and never consider the Galaxy Nexus ever again :) .

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The Galaxy Nexus boasts some sort of Gorilla Glass display - reinforced by Samsung themselves. Sammy is as bad at doing glass panels just as bad as they are doing at doing display panels :) .

(experiemented with so many "as"s and "at"s... sorry if it's confusing, lol)

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All three phones seem to be exactly the same as my old Galaxy Nexus. Upper-right corner is slightly unenlightened, hence it has a gray tint.

I could live with that... I mean I did, until I sold that shyte and bought a Note :) .

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Yeah... Super AMOLED displays tend to do that :) .

They look AWFUL when the brightness is low, that's why display units in stores have the brightness turned all the way up to 100% - *some* even locked at that position, so people can't turn it down and realise how ****ty it is, rofl.

I saw one S3 in an Orange store once... the brightness level could NOT be adjusted no matter what. One employee told me it's been like that since it arrived. Sammy probably locked it, lol.

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You can't really enjoy your phone if the only thing you're interacting with 100% is the screen, and that is filled with splotches and grays and whites and ghosts and crap :) .

It's like trying to hold the steeringwheel with your teeth, expect to be 100% safe and even enjoy driving... lol.

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Purple tint and all that is fixable - TRINITY, F***ING, KERNEL ! ! ! ! !

Banding and inhomogeneous colors - can NOT be fixed... and sadly, that is present on >95% of Nexuses :) .

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The greens do look brighter on the Nexus (due to the extra green sub-pixel), but the SGS2's screen is MUCH less flawed... still not perfect, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrisjs81:
I'm on Galaxy Nexus #3 and I have to point out that Samsung screwed up the purple thing to different degrees. On my first two phones, even with Red Gamma at -15, purple was still prevalent at low brightnesses, with unit #3 I'm able to tune out most of the purple at around -6. So, for some screens, even color control may not be enough.

I think I'm satisfied with this one but it's not perfect either, at low brightness green isn't consistently bright from top to bottom. I agree that probably none of them have perfect screens.

The color multiplier settings are considered "unsafe" over the default of 200. Whether or not that can actually damage the screen remains to be seen.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DPU16:
have people who RMA'd seen a consistently higher quality screen? If not, and 95% of GNex have banding, then there's no point in sending in mine for RMA for banding I guess.. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeyMike01:
Actually, it would look a hell of a lot better. Ask anyone with an SGS and SGS2.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
The sgs has a rgbg matrix doesnt it? I thought it was only the sgs2 with rgb from amoled plus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrisjs81:
No, unfortunately it's a complete crapshoot. You need to accept that there are few or no perfect screens but if yours is particularly bad exchange it and hope for an improvement.

I've gotten two replacements and each was slightly better than the previous. I attribute that to luck... The replacements aren't coming from stock that went through any better quality control.

My current one is still not perfect, but good enough.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeyMike01:
That's my point. Going from Pentile SGS to RGB SGS2 at the same resolution made a significant improvement.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Ah I see yea I would agree.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rllong1:
Thanks for the info about AMOLED screens. I like using auto bright but now I just keep the phone at about 50% brightness. I'm just glad nothing is wrong with my screen like what some people have.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Trinity colors don't differ very much - the kernel definetly applies color multipliers within safe ranges, that's for sure. Increasing a multiplier too much would be what you reffer to as unsafe - meaning the sub-pixels could decay faster.

Trinity kernel just modifies the multipliers (and not only that!) enough to calibrate the screen so the whites don't go yellow, grays don't go purple, and other colors are as deep and vivid as they should be on such a display.

Actually... it was my mistake, right there.

I owned the SGS2 and the Galaxy Nexus, and, as you say, the S2's colors were much better... at least compared to the stock Nexus colors.

As I said many times before... Trinity does the trick and brings the display of the Nexus up to expectations - or at least close to that level :) .

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I don't know why Sammy went with RGBG for the GNex, GNote, S3 anymore...

Was it the longevity? Some say PenTile helps a screen last longer, and reduces the frequency of such malfunctions... it hadly seems that way, though. The GNex's screen is crap, the GNote is 1/3 that, the S3 is not perfect neither...

The S2 isn't really flawless, too. But such color tints and banding and all that... is less frequent.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] t.saddington:
I have the same issues

I have the aforementioned issues with my GNex but Samsung nor the retailer will take it back. They are saying that it is normal and no issues... I am disappointed :\
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
I think they don't have the technology yet for samoled plus HD. That or its expensive.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
Hello all. I am having doubts about my VZW Gnex's screen. I remember it being the best and most vivid screen out there. Lately it seems as if the screen has lost brightness and has taken on a slight yellowish or tannish tint. The attached images is a screen shot of my VZW Gnex running Pete's Bugless Beast 4.1.1 and my sister's GS3 unrooted and stock. I chose the same wallpaper to show the difference in the colors. The reds on her Flipboard widget is vivid red. Mine is darker.

Do you guys think my screen is going bad?

GS3

Screenshot_2012-07-23-14-50-06 by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr

GNEX

Screenshot_2012-07-23-15-38-45 by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr

GNEX

Screenshot_2012-07-23-14-52-52 by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr

Gnex

Screenshot_2012-07-23-15-19-59 by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
@Downr@nge

We won't see anything wrong in the screenshots... because they're basically what the software renders - pure awesomeness :) . What is wrong is with the screen hardware, which is nothing you can capture with a screenshot, obviously.

You gotta grab a good camera and actually photograph the screen ;) so... sorry, but the effort you put into those screenshots was useless :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
Thanks, will do! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Downr@nge:
How about these? The right is my GNEX and the left is the GS3

photo (1) by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr

photo (2) by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr

photo by 32MasonPHA, on Flickr
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
They both look alright to me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
how long is your battery life when brightness is at 50% all the time? and what is your screen time?

i got 24 hours plus couple few minutes running auto brightness, and 4 hours and 5 minutes of screen time when it reached 5% battery life. i use only 2g network though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thor79:
I don't need an absolute perfect screen...just one without a glaringly obvious flaw I see every time I have a light background when using it n typical indoor lighting conditions. Some of the crap in this thread boggles my mind.

My previous experience with getting replacements due to the screen on my phone was with my iPhone 3GS...it had a decidedly yellow screen that looked horrid. The replacement wasn't absolutely perfect...it still had a slight yellow tinge to it...but it was much better than the first.

My replacement is already on the way...I expect it to be delivered tomorrow.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
No shyte :P

Anyway, they both look normal to me...

Try photographing the Nexus while you do the following.

First, install Screen Test.

Turn the brightness to 0%, then 50%, then 100%, and do each color test at each of those three brightness levels. So, you run Screen Test, display white, at 0% brightness, and after 15 seconds of exposure, you take a photograph. Repeat at 50% brightness, and 100% brightness, then do the same for black (especially black!), gray, red, green and blue. Try to be in a dark room - alone in the bathroom, haha.

Then upload the photos... but I'd say not here... Try to make a .zip with them and attach it or something like that. You get the idea :) .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
Good luck with your replacement. I'm getting mine 'morrow as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
I have a feeling that multiple replacements went through multiple hands, guys. I mean... chances are millicoelho's Nexus got to thor and the other way around (for example) :) .

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
would be good if a new thread for everyone to list all there serial numbers and imei, not as a whole number, say number 1, 4, 5 and 6 from serial and 1, 3, 8, 9, 10 and 11 from imei.

so we know samsung isn't messing us around like silly ducks:victory:.

just a suggestion.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
that would be a great idea, i still have records the imei but not the serial number :D

it's been a week but still my local online store -in another city- has not been able to find a much better screen for my 2nd replacement. i told them to test it first before send me new one. i know this will sound silly, but i miss my galaxy nexus. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
I miss mine :( might get a sgs3 and hope amoled isnt crap on that I miss custom ROMs and rooting. I'm not risking losing my warranty with HTCdev
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
is samsung better at warranty when going with custom roms and unlock bootloader?

sgs3 uses the same hd samoled as galaxy nexus, perhaps better batch. might had to keep with that htc one x -soon to have jelly bean too- for a while, dude. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
Got the 3rd replacement today. This is the best - no purple tinting. Grey looks really grey.

But in white(or any light color background) half the screen looks darker than the other half. Time has come to pick what I can live with as I can't get any more replacement ( nor I want to try even if they offer). I lost my hope of getting better replacement.

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Is your replacement any better?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
It is possible and I had that doubt as well. The last one I received the seal didn't look like new. It seemed to look like someone opened it without breaking it.(which I try to do with all my phones). Also the back plastic cover just fell off when I removed the phone from the box. It usually happens when you remove and try to put it back on. The back cover would never stick.

Does anyone know if IMEI is assigned sequentially with in the same manufacturer?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Samsungs SGS3 batch is defiantly better I have had one previously. Worst thing with the S3 is the black spots. With the samsung phones you can cover it up to look like you have never touched the phone. You cant with HTC :/. & I'm not sure what to do :( go to the S3 so I can use custom roms. Or keep the one x and be patient :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
oh i see. i thought that just lock the bootloader to s-on again from htcdev and you'll get your warranty back on. it works here in indonesia. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
HTCdev doesnt s off the boot loader it just unlocks it. We don't have s-off yet :P. Also when you use htcdev they record your imei and serial number. Plus when you relock your boot loader it says relocked instead of locked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
oh, my bad then. haha :D i only had the chance to register at htcdev.com and didn't bother to play around with the htc one v back then. :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yodeiu:
What should I choose between Nexus S , Galaxy Nexus and Galaxz SII ? Which has a better display ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
i guess galaxy s2 has better chance of better screen since its samoled plus (rgb non-pentile display) :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] starfcker69:
After reading much of this thread I'm going to stick with my G2/Desire Z. It's slow and the screen is small, but the screen colors are just about dead on - no tint.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] victorvasconcelos:
So guys bought my Nexus last friday and I haven't had any serious issues with the screen itself. But Im kinda worried that if you look really close to the screen, like 3 cm screen-eye I dont see that much sharp black texts. I put an iPhone next to it and the blacks on it arent as good as Nexus's , but looking very close to the screen the texts looks kinda better. Is it normal guys? And I dont think my whites are nice. As I said, from distance it looks awesome but from a close distance i can see not-so-sharp display.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
The Nexus S, haha. But the I9023, the S-LCD variant, not I9020 (SAMOLED) :) . Color reproduction is best on LCDs, and they tend to be MUCH LESS defective, anyway.

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You : TEST IT BEFORE SENDING !

They : FINE.

Later, they're like "screw this guy, he put us to work, send him the worst!", haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yodeiu:
But what about Galaxy S2 somebody said it doesn´t have that much defective screens as Galaxy Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
that's the way pentiles matrix are. normal lcd uses RGB (red green blue) to produce colors and such, but samoled uses RGBG (red green blue green), the extra green did it, and they tend to not produce normal white but they produce true deep black. :D

hahaha let's just hope that's not the case. *finger crossed*

bought this early july, only used it for 4 days, and the rest of them were back and forth with the replacement thing. hope nexus will show some love for me. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] heyitsejohn:
thanks for this! this is a big help. prior to this i was working purely on "gut feel". hehe.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yodeiu:
What are the chances to get a defective screen on S2 if I buy a new one from the last batches ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
wtf! my 2nd replacement (another C5 made in China) got another purple tint and gray and white banding/stripes on low brightness.

guess i have to live with the 1st replacement until the next nexus. *dissapointed at Samsung* :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lorthirk:
We all have to live with that. I immediately understood that and never replaced my Nexus. After all, in standard brightness the defects are a lot less noticeable. We'll see with the new Nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Please HTC make the next nexus and use the amazing display you used in the one x D:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
I think it's stated that samsung has been given the go ahead for the next nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] creeve4:
Blue screen tint at angles

My newly arrived Nexus has a blue tint on the screen when viewed at any angle greater than about 30 degrees. I am considering exchanging it, but I am wondering what my chances are of getting another with the same problem.

Have others had success exchanging phones with blue tint for one that does not?

Is the blue tint quite common?

Loving everything else about the phone, but even my original Galaxy S had a better screen than this...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
*sigh* you and most of all people in here are right. but what's your standard brightness? is it 40% as the icon in power control widget half full?? mine looks almost perfect at 40%.

haven't had the chance to test battery life with 40% brightness all the time, but 10%/auto brightness back and forth took me past 24 hours with 4 hours screen time.

let's make our petition on this! or a petition for HTC to make AOSP official on HTC devices.

i love HTC Sense 4 since they have more features on stock compared to Nexus, they can reverse usb tethering, calibrate the HD SAMOLED right on some of their devices, set mp3 as ringtone from the sounds setting menu, make wifi perfomance on top all the time even when sleep, and the auto positioning other widgets to fit the screen when you drag and drop one at homescreen while on stock Android this feature becomes available only on JB onward.

i tried my friend's Sony Xperia S, it didn't even have the auto brightness setting! lol. Haven't tried Samsung Touchwiz thoroughly though, but it seems Samsung Touchwiz is kind of stock Gingerbread.

oh no, not again! at least they should perfecting the next nexus with HD SAMOLED Plus, or just use plain TFT.

there's 50-50 chance you'll get one with no blue/purple/yellow/pink tint with the replacement, i got no purple tint at my 1st replacement. if you can, you can ask them to test it at low level of brightness on gray background such as in settings display. but to have near perfect white or gray production without banding or stripes on low level of brightness is one in a million perhaps. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] creeve4:
Thanks, I'll see if I can get them to test one before sending, if not I'll stick with what I have.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
here's my 2nd replacement. it's made in china with batch C5 slapped on its serial number. so C5 or not, you still have the chance to get purple tint. :cowboy: