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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thor79:
I got my replacement last night.

Banding is gone, but it has the slight purple tint and a little graininess with grays. Good enough for me though.

My only concern is the area on the left side of the rear camera (looking at the back of the phone) seems to be quite a bit warmer than the rest of the phone or even my first GNex. It's not hot to the touch but it is noticeably warmer (but not so warm that you have to remove your fingers). I also had one reboot I couldn't explain last night around the time I noticed this. I notice it heat up after extended moderate use or extremely heavy use in a short time. I first noticed it when it was in the middle of installing all my apps from the play store via Appbrain.

Should I be concerned with this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
what's your production batch, is it C5 or C6? was it made in China? and what is the hardware revision number, is it 9 or 10?

yeah it's a bit warmer at the top side of the phone -when using hspa/3g mode- that's why it has hole on the back top of it to let the heat out. my ambient room temperature at noon could get 28-30 Celcius at noon though. :)

never had a reboot problem after flashing it to yakju/takju using factory image reset (bootloader, radio, recovery and such) and updated it to JB OTA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] victorvasconcelos:
Glad to hear that it's normal. Still dissapointing, even my older Moto Defy had crisper texts (but bad display withhorrible viewing angles).

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thor79:
C2, HW revision 9, Made in China

The hole is on the opposite side of the back from where I feel the most heat.

And that's the only unexpected reboot I've had since I got it. It was after I had rooted it and installed CWM Recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
I can confirm the SGS3 has a far better screen than the nexus. No graniness or banding at all. It still is no where near as good as the one x. But I managed to keep my one x also :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
The SAMOLED does not reproduce true blacks because of the extra green sub-pixel. In fact, true blacks are not even true blacks, since after 5-10-15 seconds of exposure, it goes brown :) . Anyway, the black on SAMOLED = true, while the black on a LCD = not so true, haha.

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I could easily trade my Note for a Nexus... but I fear the problematic screen will hit my ba##s harder than ever... :(

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If Google chose Samsung for the next Nexus phone... they suck. HTC is the way to go. Besides, they could easily make at least two OEMs team up together and work side by side for the GREATEST PHONE EVER :) .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
oh my bad, i didn't read that you're looking the phone from the back. :D

hand over the htc one x for me, will you? :P

yeah you're right about they're not true black, but it has the blackest screen than LCD. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
But at the expense of screen quality... :(

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
totally agree here! :(

sold my nillkin mobile skin case clear black for galaxy nexus to a local forum member today, tested a bit with his galaxy nexus display, it has no purple tint but has banding/vertical stripes on white/gray background on low brightness, again! *sigh*

still curious, i went to a local shop, tested couples of smartphones:

htc one x, dislike the stock htc sense keyboard, the best display (s-lcd2) for android so far.

nokia lumia 900, 800, 710, 610. not pure white but very acceptable for the screen quality, i believe they go with clear black display technology or something like that, have a banding/vertical stripes on gray background on low brightness but it's very hard to notice, like the stock windows phone keyboard, i type fast and accurate on nokia lumia 710 and 610.

apple iphone 4s, best ips display, somehow it's the fastest and the most accurate smartphone i can type with though comes with the small display.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
I agree I can type on the iphone far easier than any android phone. I am enjoying using cm10 on my galaxy s3 :P. Cant give you the one x im afraid :P my sister is using it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
I use Smart Keyboard Pro since... forever. Lately, I cannot type as fast as I used to :/ .

A friend of mine has the iPod touch 4, and I can type on it very fast :( although I never used iOS.

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The One X's S-LCD2 screen is nice... very nice. I'd trade my Note for one, if it wouldn't be plagued by hardware problems such as Wi-Fi, screen flex etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Went to this shop that I went to a couple of months ago to see how the Galaxy Nexus screen behaves (and saw it had major burn-ins cause of the lockscreen)... and guess what... the Motorola RAZR that was perfect two months ago, is now critical, haha.

Super AMOLED Advanced... Ultra AMOLED... No matter what AMOLED variant OEMs try to do, they still end up bad :) .

You can clearly see the icons from the home screen imprinted into the screen... and also, the white from Settings is now yellow... everything's got a tint of some sort, lol.

Even the Galaxy Note has burn-ins... for every possible outline of every possible pop-up of all different sizes... all outlines are imprinted on the screen, LOL. I let the screen expose white and gray for 15 seconds, and everything became much more visible. One employee came to me "can I help you?" and I was like "just planting a bomb here, OBVIOUSLY" so I had to run away, haha. J/k, but someone did come at me, thinking I'm abusing their deices or something :rolleyes: so no picture for the Note :) .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
in the days of the amoled and super amoled they did have true black, but i'm rather disappointed that with samsung technology and the newer version of the amoled + version and HD version, the quality is rather a let down.

now it's true grey or true brown, but at least their black is better than most other lcd.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
yikes, why is that? is it because the device shot 100% brightness all day long??

amen! :D hope google will listen to its customer and not using whatever OLED display on next Nexus. been sending email to google play store and android open source project regarding the screen quality issue. hope they don't get red ears of it. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Id rather have meh blacks but everything else good with LCD than great blacks but crap everything else with AMOLED :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Yep... just like the Nexus and the S2 and the Note and every other device, haha.

By next year, I'm expecting S-LCD3 to be out. That'll kick ass. If Google doesn't go for that... they deserve to be hanged... from the b@lls...

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Agreed.

If only the One X had a greater battery... an was not plagued with all these random issues...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
just go for one xl, it has snapdragon s4 krait in it, should have the same battery life as iphone 4s, 9 hours browsing, which is awesome! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeyMike01:
This is my opinion exactly.

Especially considering LCD blacks are getting better all the time and SAMOLED isn't improving in the slightest.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
I doubt it will be as good as the iPhone :P given the xl has LTE a bigger screen and higher resolution. Plus the processor is clocked higher.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
htc one xl is the same as htc one x for at&t usa. it has been reviewed on anandtech and in browsing testing it had the same battery life as iphone though it was on 720p screen display. take a look at it.

anandtech

gsmarena

kudos to qualcomm snapdragon s4 krait 1.5ghz dual-core cpu built in 28nm process it saves power juices a lot while having instruction per cycle (ipc) advantage over tegra 3 in htc one x international.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] colingpt:
interesting

before this I never think about the difference between screens:cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
The Krait architecture seems to kick ass... Oh well.

There's a reason you can browse the web for 9 hours on the iPhone 4S... the screen can be dimmed a LOT more than the Galaxy Nexus, for example, and it is also a LOT smaller. Don't tell me you can browse the web for 9 hours on the 4S, with the screen all the way up to 100% brightness... or anywhere above 20% :) .

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SAMOLED does get improve in some aspects. For example, the sunlight eligibility is claimed to be awesome... at least improved by 30% from the original AMOLED.

Still not enough :) .

The S-LCD2 is better in sunlight, too... :rolleyes:

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LTE, bigger screen, higher resolution, better CPU... Yeah, I'd go for that, at the expense of battery life :) .

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There shouldn't be any difference between screens... I mean all Galaxy Nexus screens should be roughly about the same. But, in fact, some are plagued by red-tint, some by yellow-tint, some by purple-tint, some by awful banding, some by black holes, some by white holes, some by wormholes...

:highfive: @ Samsung. With a hammer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
:o wow I would love to use the S4 version but I live in the UK :( and I just got a SGS3 so I have no money :P my 4S is on eBay though! The tegra One X's battery life is a bit meh :P hopefully android 4.1 or the 4.0.4 update thats hopefully at the end of this month helps. The one x is still using a 2.6 kernel :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Definetly keeping the Note. Buh-bye =}
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Aha don't worry it will be updated to 3.1 after the 4.0.4 update or the jb one :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
yeah, krait use cortex a15 architecture while having the 28nm process technology advantage -cooler & more efficient in power usage- i believe, that's why it palm faces cortex a9 quad-core. bwahahaha :D

there's no HTC One XL too for indonesia due too we are not having LTE connection. they also crippled the HTC One S with a S3 cpu and not S4 due too this LTE limitation in my country. *argh :/

but, ZTE Grand X N970 and ZTE Grand X LTE will soon change the landscape here, both using Snapdragon S4 SoCs! :cowboy:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Yea I heard about the s3 thing. Some are showing in the UK too which majorly sucks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
just tested samsung galaxy s3 on another local shop, the white background are great with no banding or stripe when low brightness. poor nexus *sigh*

i ended up buying a flip feature cdma phone from samsung. bwahahaha :))
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Aha :P did you get rid of your nexus then?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
not yet. i replace the stolen nokia 6275i cdma for phone use only, it's cheaper using cdma.

the nexus -back to 1st replacement- should arrive next wednesday, can't wait to mix it with the momax icase pro.:P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
Glad you have found an ok one finally :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
thanks dude, it still has transparant/gray/white banding on gray/white background on low brightness but i guess i can live with that until the next nexus. i got a thing for jelly bean.

just downloaded the ring tones and notification tones from htc one x to fill the emptiness on galaxy nexus sounds. lol :D:D:D:D:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j2cool2012:
Ok, so I got a Galaxy Nexus from Newegg about a week ago, and I'm not sure if this is just normal for this screen or what, but listen

Whites have a yellow tint to them, no matter what settings I try, BUT if i tilt the screen down, they look normal. Also, grays look purple on low brightness. I also found out last night that on pure black, after about 5 seconds, I'll see actual black dots on the screen, and a full band of black near the top, but these are not seen if there is color in the screen. Should I send the phone back?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] millicoelho:
All of them are common issues with nexus screen. If it bothers you, return it. If you really like Nexus you can go in to vicious cycle of replacement until you find a better one(believe me you would never get a perfect one). Curious though why you bought from NewEgg and that might be the international version, Samsung may not offer the 14-day advanced replacement which they do if bought from google play store.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] j2cool2012:
I can live with it. I just wanted to know its a common issue, and not a serious one. Also, its a Verizon Gnex. They were having a special. Upgrade for $30. I jumped on that crap so fast... and I love the phone otherwise. Some simple screen gripes do not outweigh the awesomeness of this phone. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tal120:
thank!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
Hurray!! This just in. Mine looks great on this momax icase pro hybrid case.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] flintdragon:
Other than the graininess, pretty happy with my screen. I don't really see any tints and *maybe* a little banding but not very noticeably. Way better than the black crush on the Note I just sold.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
Congratz dude! Am happy too for ma nexus. Put it Nillkin Antiglare screenguard on made the banding/stripe seemed faded away or so even at 10% brightness. Awesome! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] waterface:
Love the phone, but the screen is such a letdown. I am unsure if I should go through servicing, the Samsung assistance center said to me they'd replace the screen. But I don't want to end up with a worse panel than I currently have.

I don't have banding or excessive/uneven graininess but I have ghosting effect (no burn in...just yet) and purple grays at low brightness. Like, every time the screen dims before turning off, that particular shade of gray is REALLY purple. And a certain shade of gray on the menus background, for example, the settings page, is NOT gray at all even at higher brightness settings.

Advice?...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
just replace it on and on until you find one you can live with. :)

i have to replace twice to get what i can live with which was the first replacement. the purchased one and the second replacement were having purple tint. all of the three were also having gray/white banding/stripes on low brightness, though. so still mine isn't perfect.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lorthirk:
I'm sorry but I'll suggest the opposite. While you should have a perfect device (and I'm very very picky about screens, I returned a total of 6 tablets, 4 Acer and 2 Asus) the truth is that the chance that you'll get a perfect screen are really low (take this with a grain of salt, but about 5-10%) and even if you manage to get it it will probably deteriorate after months. I'd never go through such a risk of an endless back and forth... but just my 2 cents.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
Erm... what hybrid case? As far as I remember, the MOMAX iCase Pro was PC+TPU (not exactly hybrid). THIS is hybrid.

Or wait... hybrid = combination of two. MOMAX iCase Pro = PC+TPU = two. But it's not the same as Spigen ones, or Otterbox, or CaseMate... who make some GREAT hybrid cases.

Speaking of cases... I suggest you try S-Line wave cases. I believe they're made by CUBZ? Not sure about that.

I had S-Line cases on the HTC EVO 3D, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus and now, on my Galaxy Note. They were a bit loose on the EVO 3D and Nexus, but were super strong on the S2 and now on the Note. Besides, they're cheap. And better than MOMAX - at least the S-Line case doesn't leave the buttons uncovered...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
And what makes SGP hybrid case different? Does SGP use better quality material? SGP is so expensive.:p

Thanks for the S-line heads up. I used Nillkin mibile skin case (TPU) which covered the whole buttons and it often made me pushed the rocker volume when trying to hit the power button. But with Momax, the ease of use pushing power button feels like I'm not using a case.:p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] throwback1718:
just got mine in ... and I can say Im disappointed, it looks like I have a constant linen background or like canvas.

I had a SGS3 and I've kept hearing how the GNex is a superior display despite the slightly smaller screen. This has sucked the life out of my hype.

It looks like when when on Windows and you switch the color amount in the display settings to 16 Bit. Its saddening. And I bought it from someone so I doubt samsung will honor that warranty... Would they?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Formhault:
I believe the SGB hybrid cases are better than MOMAX. Oh well... I never used SGB.

I too have a hard time pressing the power button without hitting the volume button/s, on my Note! But that's because the volume buttons are at the same location on the case, as the power button... I wish the power button was placed more lower, and the volume buttons more to the middle, like the Nexus...

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Well... you wanted vivid & natural colors... you get natural look - canvas, HAHA.

That's normal with every Nexus out there... it seems. The screen is so bad, it makes this great phone rubbish :( .

The Galaxy S3's screen is superior. It does not have banding (which makes the Nexus look like it's a canvas or something) and color tint...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrisjs81:
Replacement #2 had a screen that's brighter green at the top and, particularly on lower brightness, the bottom part turns red. The purple tint is tuneable out of this one but it also suffers from image retention.

And this is the best of the three I've seen so far, which isn't saying much. I was going to live with it, but yesterday (day 13) I called for another replacement.

I suppose most people just don't care about the screen quality, because I would think that better screen quality control would be a whole lot cheaper than repeatedly replacing entire units.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ste1164:
You will still have your warranty with samsung unless the person before has done something to void the warranty. I have purchased second hand phones before and used warranty. & random but aparently the note 2 is going to have a lower res 720p display but SAMOLED plus which would be good.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
With some countries you may loose the warranty, warranty is only valid for the first owner, with some countries you will need to registered you personal detail, and during the repair samsung may ask for id to see if this phone has been registered and that the phone has not been transfered to a new owner.

That being said, most of them won't as for id.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] victorvasconcelos:
Hey I just realized that when I use the Clear white theme on the SwiftKey keyboard the image retention doesn't exist anymore. At least I didn't notice anymore, because most of my problems where with the Grey keyboard. Give it a try guys, it's much better.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] waterface:
No purple tint on low brightness at all? From what I can read pretty much all Nexuses have it, plus they can have other problems in minor or major grade, like banding and weird color halos, or very uneven graininess... which on mine are rather not evident, they don't bother me much anyway.

I would like for someone who has a "perfect" panel, that reads this thread, to post a couple well balanced pictures so that everyone could see a "can't get any better" example. My request is out...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
Yeap, no purple tint at 0% brightness. It only has vertical and horizontal textures on white and gray backgrounds at low brightness below 25%. The white is almost perfect at 25% onward, while the gray is almost better at 40% onward.

You can dig up my post at previous pages, i attached photos of it on low brightness with no purple tint at all.

I have to choose 3 nexus in one month. All of them have the textures on white and gray backgrounds at low brightness level and all of them were made in China. The first one was a C2 batch production with pretty bad washed out colors. The second was a C5 batch, no purple tint with good contrast. The third was a C5 batch, again with purple tint but not having washed out colors. So here I am choosing the second one.

If only Samsung Indonesia imported the one made in Korea. *sigh* I am pretty jelous of the better quality screen of the other Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note get from Samsung which are way better than Galaxy Nexus while having the same HD SAMOLED display. I tested 3 GS3 and 4 GNote on different local stores, and there's only 1 GS3 came with very soft textures on white and gray backgrounds at 0% of brightness level.

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i can confirm this too, i have a very soft image retention of the apps center icon right above the home button if i set a pure black wallpaper on home screen and navigate to settings menu. the icon itself is white and the settings menu background is gray. it seems that the white somehow takes longer time to disappear on gray background. but if set the wallpaper to phase beam live wallpaper or the default jelly bean static wallpaper, and navigate to settings menu, i couldn't see the soft retention anymore. perhaps this just the way SAMOLED is. *ewww.:P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] squashpile:
I have purchased two in the last month. The only thing I really see is some banding on white background on zero brightness. I'm trying to see purple, but I don't..lol.

It is not bad all all. I think they both are acceptable and similar. The newest one may look a little more grainy. I'm going to have to compare some more. May flash trinity on the new one.

Headphone jack is broke on one though. I'm not sure I want to send it back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
are you talking about the headphone or the socket itself, the socket is easily replaced, requires no soldering.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] squashpile:
Only get sound out of right side of headphones. I tried three different pairs. All three pairs are in stereo on the Nexus I received yesterday.

I'm going to try and get some screen comparison pics later.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
so it's a damage heaphone that you got.

i'm sure you cannot use other samsung headsets on the nexus, the sound goes hollow.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] squashpile:
No.. I have three working pairs of headphones. When I say working I mean from left and right ear. Verified and tested from multiple sources.

All three pairs of headphones work on one Galaxy Nexus. Sound on left and right on all three pairs.

The same working three pairs of headphones do not work on the other Galaxy Nexus. Sound only on right side on all three pairs.

ok.. sorry for the headphone mention in a screen thread ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kms108:
Oh i get your problem, one phone work and the other wont, anyway i've seen the spare part on ebay and direct from china , it's very cheap on a few dollars and easy to take apart.

Oh sorry for hijacking the thread.

if you need to speak pm me.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrone:
congratz for the acceptable display. it's very hard to find one and live with these days. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] waterface:
Found your post. Yea it looks good, good for you!

Mine is a C5 made in China, and as I said it has purple grays. Good whites though, and little graininess.

Been playing with Trinity Contrast Interface, it gets rid of some of the purple (not if you slide the brightness all the way down to the bottom though...) but then greys look kinda greenish. Facepalm. So I've been tinkering with multipliers as well. Doing adjustments at 8% brightness which is the low value set using the toggle on the power control widget, it seems like I'm getting "good" results with both red and green down to 150, blue on 185, and contrast interface value to the minimum, -24 (all of these set with franco.kernel control app). Gamma, I decided best be left untouched.

Every panel is different, but to all of you with the purple tint blues, try those settings. I'd be glad to know my last two hours torturing my eyes were helpful!

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Good for you! Serial numbers/manufacturing details?