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[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
Every SAMOLED display released prior to the SGS3 had tons of pages of discussion about display variations. Just search "display" on any of their forums. It's just a fact of life. It seems worse than it is because of the huge number of each device Samsung sells. The pre-production units are probably screened for consistency before they're released to the media (if Samsung's smart) so pointing out review units as proof of consistency won't reflect what's going to happen with production units. Having to exchange a unit with bad color temperature upsets some people more than others. That too will be a future fact of like here on the forum once the phone's released. You can't build millions of high PPI small foot print displays without some variation between them.

Here's a story that got picked up when the T-Mobile U.S. SGS2 variant was launched.

http://www.tmonews.com/2011/11/some...odels-suffering-from-poor-screen-calibration/
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
The device tested probably has a not retail version FW. Probably with a miscalibrated screen. The pink is too obvious to even Samsung.

But i can bet that this is a faulty device.
[Galaxy S III General] android_master:
ok,so the famous tints are back:o:o

Pink tint:mad::mad: this time...Earlier i was hoping to preorder it in India w/o even checking it,now will go to the samsung only premium store in india and will see the device myself and then only will buy it.

I still remember how i got my S2 changed 3 times because of this famous tint:mad:
[Galaxy S III General] Zanr Zij:
I'm sure not a faulty device :).

Max brightness! Min still the same!

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
You underestimate them. ;)

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Well, since we know the display's not supposed to be pink, the display is defective. Since it's attached to the phone, that makes the phone's defective.

If it ends up being one out of five devices with "off" color temperature, it's OK to panic. If it's one out of 20K, sucks to be the one that drew the short straw but no one's going to lose an eye. It's a little early to have conversations about display defect rates for a device that's not even out yet.
[Galaxy S III General] NZtechfreak:
Be interested to see how the one I get some hands-on with this weekend is for screen, will test it out if time...
[Galaxy S III General] eksasol:
If I have to choose, I'll go with the warmer pink tint over the cold blue tint. Please check to see if there are grey banding.

Its good to know this so I don't need to upgrade from the Nexus if the screen has not improved.
[Galaxy S III General] Zanr Zij:
On time 3 of 3 times testing, I feel nicer about warmer color tone. A little cold color on my Note. I want to buy it asap! Only problem right now is grey color @ min brightness.

Grey banding is fine as my Note!

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Well. I'm not saying that the OP is wrong. But if this "flaw" was so obvios. I wonder why pre-production reviewers didn't detect it. Because it would be noticeable even on white icons.

But be sure that i will test for this before i buy it.
[Galaxy S III General] bruangie:
Oh and yea be in a dark room when doing the test.
[Galaxy S III General] ben7337:
Just out of curiosity to see this ink spot thing I took my samsung stratosphere in a nearly pitch black environment and set it to a pure black screen. While I was surprised to see it was lit up a bit which was something I had never noticed in actual use even in comparable environments, I can say easily that I could barely distinguish any ink marks. At best there may have been some near the corners. Either way I don't think these ink stains are a big deal anymore since I could never see them in normal use before and only when straining in the dark with a pitch black screen that required an app was I able to sort of detect them. Perhaps newer SAMOLED+ and SAMOLED HD screens have the issue to a more noticeable extent?
[Galaxy S III General] nebsif:
Just jumpin in to say my screen has no tint.

To whoever goes for hox, gl finding one w.o yellow tint and/or spots.. or glue/ gap probs.

Compared to all the complaints on the 1x forums gs3 launch went perfect.
[Galaxy S III General] bruangie:
It's the same with me. You have to be in a dark room with the brightness down to see them really at best. At the end of the day it shouldn't be there but it's really not that bad.

Keep testing and posting guys as per my instructors. That way we all won't pull our hair out and waste time having our phones swapped as this is on all .gs3s. I'm purely talking about ink marks not tinting problems.
[Galaxy S III General] adam_r:
I did this last night and found i have 3 large ish black spots that are a few mm across and lots of small blotches around the screen.

Bit annoyed but never noticed them till i did the test
[Galaxy S III General] rock2702:
Same here, 2 of them a little big and around 10 more miniscule, only dots no lines, not noticeable at all in daily use. I believe every SGS3 has it so no use of replacing.

Sent from my s3
[Galaxy S III General] bruangie:
ink dots

thanks guys!!!!!!!!!

keep posting, just want everyone out there to see that really its ok!! ink dots are no big deal..
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I just got my s3 and did a test with black wall in a dark room, no black spots, i did the test with.my s2 which has 2 black lines(that u cant notice anyway)

And no tints :)
[Galaxy S III General] sebarkh:
I had such problems with SGS2 but now there are no color tint

and no spots in dark environment. I am amazed with the screen...

To all those having a slightest problem, replace the unit.

Because it really CAN BE PERFECT. As mine.

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not in every. Definitely not in mine.

I assure you no variations in dark room in LCD black screen test.

The unit bought in Poland.
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
Mine have only few little ink spot(very very small) , i'm afraid in changing because i could get a worse one ...
[Galaxy S III General] osvanberg:
Yeah of course....see PM.

Happy reading.....many pages.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
I tried this,thanks for posting a method. I couldn't see any kind of ink remarks or problems. All I could see is the usual bluish tint that I see regardless of brightness when I look at the screen from any angle except the front facing

sent with SGS3
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
no pink or blue tint on mine.

no black crush when testing youtube vid of glee either.
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
same here, bought yesterday.
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
Can you see the first 2 rows in the lagom black level test?
[Galaxy S III General] maxxpop:
Oh my God, you really sould be working @ Samsung selling SGS III !!!

What HOX has to do with SIII display issues?

you're off topic
[Galaxy S III General] chriskinetic:
hi guys,just wanted to post to say i have a yellow/green tint on my screen but it only covers around 85% of it ,the bottom 15% seems fine :mad:

ive had the phone about 2 weeks now,is this issue covered by warranty as im debating whether to send it back ?,weirdly i never noticed this issue for the first week ! it seems to have got worse over the last week,i took a photo but you cant really see the problem on the pic,but browsing the web on a white background i definately notice it in the middle of the screen :(
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
I have the exactly the reverse thing. While mine. Is white with a hint of blue in the bottom of screen that is only visible on a grey background. :confused:

In a white background is not noticeable at all. I showed to it salesman but he said to me that nothing is wrong.

My advice is, send it back in the worst case you will get the same device. :D
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
I also have pink tint that is very visible with white or gray background apps, but it's just on the bottom part of the screen on my SGS3. What makes it even worse, because the colors looks uneven. WTH Samsung.

Problem with mine I can't even replace it if it was possible. I got mine from another country. :(

Some friends of mine also got the same phone from the same shop and all their units are just fine. Argggg!
[Galaxy S III General] fenjen:
Same here. Yellow-ish or maybe a bit pink tint on the bottom 80% of the screen. Really annoying the **** out of me.
[Galaxy S III General] Alex---1:
After reading this I genuinely think I got lucky with mine.

Owned mine about two weeks and mine has a slight pink tint on the bottom 5% of the screen and it's very faint and not noticeable on full brightness. Only becomes noticeable on minimum brightness.

Never had this issue on my original Galaxy S. That just suffered from screen burn from the light grey notification bar on Froyo (what it originally came on).

Really hoping mine doesn't get worse as the one in the OP looks particularly bad.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Watchout

Exactly like mine. But mine is a blue tint instead of pink noticeable only on a grey background making it less noticeable. I went to the guy sold me mine he said that he couldn't see it. Nevertheless i have a one year extended warranty if anything happens.

EDIT:

People, check your phones with *#0*# with red, green and blue. And look for any screen burn. I have a screen burn on blue pixels on the lower part of the screen. This maybe is the reason to the tint in the lower part of the screen.

It's not noticeable on daily usage on even an enterely white image but with time it could be.
[Galaxy S III General] miahegypt:
i'v just bought my S3

i'm so lucky

no screen problems at all

No tint at all at white and at gray

No screen burn at any color

No dead pixels

and to the ink marks i have very small one only visible in all black background and in very dark room
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Good for you. I'm still thinking what i'm gonna to do with mine..
[Galaxy S III General] bullyfrog:
I had an ink spot.. Flashed CM9 and i no longer see it. So it is software fixable.

Edit: I take that back.. I do see it.. But its less visable
[Galaxy S III General] chriskinetic:
Ive contacted my supplier and asked them what is the process of returning the phone,i hate to be without my new S3 but dont want this horrid p!ss stain on my screen :(
[Galaxy S III General] :
I had a problem with the ink marks, they were quite large and annoyed me. I went back to the shop today and explained them the problem. They hadnt heard of this before and couldnt reproduce it (too bright in the shop), but within 15 minutes i was back outside with a brand new device.

Tested it in the dark and its perfectly smooth. No black ink marks, no yellow tints, etc.
[Galaxy S III General] hefonthefjords:
Im quite enjoying the slight tint to the screen. Its a lot less harsher on the eyes that pure brilliant white of an lcd.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Well i talked with the salesman who sold me my device. He talked with him supplier and don't consider that the lower tint it's enough for a exchange.

Now, what intrigues me. Is that is only visible on a gray background( market, or antutu for example) But i test the display with *#0*# with the thre different colour (blue, green or red) i don't notice any difference. The same with a white background there is no visible tint.

I really don't know what else to do. Could somebody explain why is only visible on grey background and not visible on a pure white screen?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
I got even more lucky, because my screen for what it is is flawless *knocks on wood*

But I've had bad screens on other phones before. It was about the time I hit the lottery. My HOX either had a scratch under the screen or a row of dead pixels vertically =/, this was when I walked out of the store with it.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Sorry to quote myself but anybody has an idea?
[Galaxy S III General] quattro_rs:
where can i find the production week on the sticker which digits are they ?

never mind, found it :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1519606
[Galaxy S III General] Kresstian:
Does anyone have an overall slight pink tint, and that the screen looking better viewed from an angle, istead of looking best when viewed straight on?
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
It's a known issue from amoled screen. You can try screen adjust from Play store and increase the green and blue value to get a better white balance. Or if you are lucky you can ask for an exchange.
[Galaxy S III General] Fir3blade:
This is exactly how my screen acts!

I have my blue S3 for a week now, and somehow i got used to the slight pink tint.
[Galaxy S III General] trellva25:
my screen has the same issue...it looks best when viewed at an angle...viewing straight on it has a noticeable yellow tint.

as for the black spots i have that too, small black dots viewable on a completely black screen...compared it with my S2...the s2 has the same thing but funny thing is the blacks on the s2 are deeper so its more difficult to notice very annoying

then we have the banding issue and black crush issue...damn amoled pentile...don't knw why Samsung keeps using that technology it just has too many issues
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
2 things which I noticed from using the sgs3 for 3 weeks. The display is much more critical of view angles than previous amoled displays. Turning blue abruptly off axis. It's also much less draining on the battery compared to previous designs. especially when doing Web browsing. On my nexus one the screen takes up over 70% with heavy web use. One the sgs3 it's a little more than 30% and much better battery time despite the larger display. I suspect Samsung reduced the dispersion on the green and red pixels to boost brightness at the expense of poor viewing angles.
[Galaxy S III General] renton82:
However, i remember that galaxy s2 has yellow tint on the left side of display as soon as it come out, the issue was solved by a new kernel, hope this is the same thing here...
[Galaxy S III General] creon100:
Pretty much every smartphone I've had since my first (which was an original iPhone) has had a different white balance. I tend to get used to a phone's individual white balance pretty quickly, but I don't watch a whole lot of video on my phone so the actual white balance doesn't bother me.

Now my PC monitor and my Plasma - those are both calibrated. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] :
dissapionting screen

Yea the screen is a big dissapointment. Got my second s3 and still have black crush. Its no a big deal if its just barely visible but its very noticable e.g in pictures or videos.

And the brightness and banding are also problems. I never had a phone were the max brightness were so dark. But its not as a big problem as black crush.

In this picture only the last row is visible

And here even the last one (21) is barely visible
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
For some reason Level 1 power save mode in browser has excellent black details down to the darkest square. Could be useful if you can put up with the blue tint.
[Galaxy S III General] :
No cant confirm its still bad with every 3 modes. makes it even worse.

On my galaxy nexus its far better.
[Galaxy S III General] chriskinetic:
how many ppl have sent their phones back and got a replacement for tinted screen issues? im wondering if your replacement was any better? or did the replacement also have screen tint?
[Galaxy S III General] Po0yAn:
I'm not gonna edit my post cause I'm still pretty sure that banding is not part of holo theme! I am using ICS since the sdk port about 8 months ago on both i9020 (nexus s samoled) and i9023 (nexus s slcd) and I'm very obsessive about graphical flaws, so I would have noticed it if it was there. If Sammy is screwed some where don't blame it on Google. Give me a link of this fix from nexus s or galaxy nexus forums and I'll fix my post.

NeXusS i9020T - Slim ICS V4.0 - Matr1x V19.5
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
Must be your phone then. I am now using level 1 power save in browser menu and can see down to 5 in dim lighting and down to 1 in pitch darkness. On default mode everything except the last row os invisible.
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
In my Note or Nexus S i've tried roms with that same issue.

Now i can't remember, don't have those phones for a long time.
[Galaxy S III General] Will.1:
Same issue for me, just got it yesterday and a very noticeable tint on the screen when looking at grey/white backgrounds.

It looks much better when looking at an angle.

A huge pain if u ask me, especially for a phone this expensive.

When compared to my SGS with CM9, the blacks are very noticeably less deep and the tint is very clear (I also have a ink spot but it doesn't bother me too much since it's not as big as a few of the guys here).

Still in comparison to my SGS I feel like the screen has difficulties distinguishing different shades of white/grey. For instance in the XDA forum page, aside from the brown which is fine, my S3 has a lot of difficulty diffentiating the two different whitish colours (the space where you post and the space where the date username etc is shown.)

I'm wondering if this can be software tuned, and if later versions of the phone can have this probleme corrected.

I'll post photo comparisons of the two phones as the difference is clearly screaming.

Awesome phone nonetheless, but what a shame...
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
I noticed that in the lower quarter of the screen looks a bit "whitier" than the rest of the screen. The rest of the screen doesn't have any colour in particular is just that the white looks more warmer. Before anything i should clarify that is visible looking directly to the screen. The real issue is with a grey background, like the market or the antutu background. That part of the screen looks more blue-ish or darker than the rest.

Well i talked with the salesman who sold me my device. He talked with him supplier and don't consider that the lower tint it's enough for a exchange.

Now, what intrigues me. Is that is only visible on a gray background( market, or antutu for example) But i test the display with *#0*# with the three different colour (blue, green or red) i don't notice any difference on the screen. The same with a white background there is no visible tint.

I really don't know what else to do. Could somebody explain to me why is only visible on grey background and not visible on a pure white screen?

Another question i ask my self. If the the tint is blue-ish. Is due to an over saturation of the blue pixels? If so, can this be "fixable" wearing some of the blue pixels on that part of the screen?
[Galaxy S III General] beat.kitano:
After three weeks, i noticed that the display has a blu subpixel dead. At the moment of the purchase of the device, the display was perfect: i checked it.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
I really don't know how can you spot a dead sub-pixel. I tried with blue, red, green, white and cannot find any dead-subpixel. Only that damn tint on the bottom of the screen.
[Galaxy S III General] beat.kitano:
I found it with a LCD test. The pixel, only on the blu screen, doesn't turn on. So the blu subpixel is dead.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] tannor:
I was actually thinking of getting a S3, but after exchanging my galaxy nexus 4 times (purple tint, and/or vertical banding) to find a screen that is decent with minimal banding I think I will hold off..at least I know Samsung QC is the same for all their AMOLED devices.

What a shame because when the screen is working it looks awesome!
[Galaxy S III General] joeyzadoe:
Just got my S3 and noticed the ink marks. I have a couple of dots which arnt too bad but I also have a ring ink mark thats a circle and easily noticeable. Now I understand that supercurios display expert wont be able to remove the ink marks but will it be able to make the blacks deeper so that you cant actually see the marks?
[Galaxy S III General] Zanr Zij:
If you don't want to see ink marks, you should decrease phone brightness :).

As I check more carefullly, some S3 display back color like poor black but some others do not, more gray! With more gray, you can see ink marks easier :)

I change my white S3 to blue S3 ( by warrant it ) and recieved better unit after check carefully. Still got ink marks but very small and better tint :D

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Good to hear that. i want to do the same thing. But the salesman told that the lower blue tint is a normal behaviour on Amoled screens. Also i couldn't make him the the ink marks. Too much light on the "shop". :(
[Galaxy S III General] ishaycc:
I have no color tint problems but i do encounter black ink marks. Its easily noticable on black screen in a dark room.

Does every unit has this defect? Or at least a good amount of them? Cuz i dont want to exhcange mine since its the only defect and its pretty much minor exept this black strip on buttom left.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
It's a lottery really. I only have two very tiny dots and and one short line about half a cm. You only can see it only if look for it. When i charge my camera i will take some photos for you to enjoy.

Regarding ink mark it depends how many, how visible and how good is the shop where you bought the phone. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] ishaycc:
Well i got 3 small dots that is not noticable at all and a 1 cm line that is not that bad if i wasnt such a crazy person i would let it go. Just to give u a clue i switched 4 units of iphone 4s in a week and i baught and sold them privatly. But i really consider of letting go this time since tbe colors of the screen are perfect.
[Galaxy S III General] demonwind:
Keep this thread going strong. Send formal complaints to Samsung.

Do NOT let them hide this issue like they did with the S2 screen problems.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
I didn't wanted to do it. But i sended some photos of the screen of my SGS3 to show it what is the problem of my phone. I'm waiting for him to answer.

Wish me luck.

To the previous post. The issue is there, nobody is denying it. Until now every user here that had any phone with ink marks/ tint issues their units were replaced. So i don't think there is a conspiracy to hide the amoled issue.
[Galaxy S III General] trellva25:
I think the vast majority of s3 out there have marks, some have more and some less. of course there will be rare cases of an s3 not having it at all. Problem is when buying the phone in a shop, testing for ink marks is almost impossible since most shops are brightly lit,
[Galaxy S III General] Pyr0x64:
Received a blue SGS3 on Thursday.

On Friday started noticing a very slight pink tint across the top inch or so of the screen.

I don't notice it when playing videos/games, but it annoys me while browsing websites & forums, especially if I hold the phone horizontally.

As I'll probably use the phone more for web browsing than video watching, I don't think I can live with it.

I phoned T-Mobile this morning and they've offered to exchange the phone as I'm within the 7 day cool-off period and not completely happy with the screen.

Hopefully a courier will arrive on Tuesday to do the swap and I don't get one that's worse :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] 1234568:
Although there are many things I really like about the S3 I look at the screen issues as a deal breaker. My initial handset suffered from yellow tint, as well as ink marks which I could easily see at night. The replacement handset I was sent didn't suffer from yellow tint, but there was even more ink marks.

I have just contacted O2 who have agreed to cancel my 2 year contract free of charge and refund the cost of the handset to me. This is all possible due to the distance selling obligation. If I had of phoned O2 a day later I would have missed the 2 week window. So why do I mention all of this... if you feel dissatisfied then make sure you contact your provider early on, you can always arrange a return and then decide to continue with the contact later on!