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[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
I just used an S III at Sprint.

First thoughts: wow, I like the design. It feels premium. Nicest phone I've put in my hand. I'd say the Droid sliders are nice and a runner-up but I think S III takes the cake.

But the display...very dim whites. Just like Nexus, Note, S II, etc.. VERY dim whites. ~40% dimmer than my old Droid even. And yellowish-pink. Also it's annoying I have to put brightness up to max over and over in each application instead of just once. I like using my phone with 100% all the time, unless I'm getting really low on batt. And then there are the new displays like EVO and HTC One X, which subsequently blow my Droid out of the water. It was sad going back to the S III after looking at EVO or HOX LCDs.

Now the pentile, I can see it. it's not bad from a two feet away, or one foot, whatever normal use is. But when I hold it up it's noticeable. It's annoying but not as bad as phones from last year with low resolution. It's not a deal-breaker to me like the dim white screen. Also I CAN see it on text when the text is small, even from two feet. And on things like the four icons here in the upper right on XDA, the Facebook one and Twitter one. I can see this pink jaggedness on their edges. Hm. Why can't Samsung just make their own LCDs?

So in summary: the screen is below average in my opinion, being both dim and pixelated. The over-saturated colors I at times found nice but it also seemed to get a bit annoying. Perhaps I'd get used to it. They were nice and bright. The screen tests were actually awesome, displaying just red, green or blue. I wish WHITE was that bright!!! Is there a hack to get white to be more...white? Like brighter and not a muddy yellow/pink?

Also this "black crush" thing is in full effect on S III I guess, because when I looked at this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1559800 the test image on right was ENTIRELY black. It was also entirely black when I set it to wallpaper. Maybe I was doing something wrong? It was lit well, maybe that matters. Also the whole ink marks thing. Ugh what a disaster why doesn't Samsung use LCD. As to tint, though, it didn't look to bad, there was a slight gradient and a slight tint when viewed from the side, but it wasn't too bad.

Also the burn-in I saw on Nexus and Notes was a nightmare. Can I ask folks here if they've had that and if so have you had success getting a free replacement from Samsung? I'd fully expect a replacement if that happens before my two years are up, from normal use. In fact I may use my phone a bit less than most people. I don't leave things up on screen a lot either like movies or navigation.
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
First my White one has 3G problems, my second was Blue and has screen issues...

But today in my store i check for a perfect one and i found him, White again and perfect...

Thank God, so many issues with this phone, Samsung fail in quality control.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Good for you that you had the chance to exchange it. I am trying to sell it to buy another because the salesman says that isn't anything wrong with the screen. :(
[Galaxy S III General] ttieder:
I have the black ink marks does everyone have it is it worth exchanging it
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
If I have no ink marks and no tint, I might keep S III. In hopes Voodoo color or whatever can make the whites brighter and whiter. Maybe.

If ink marks, etc.... It goes back for an Inc. 4G or Rezound or something LCD. Very sad because everything else about the phone is AWESOME. I want to like it. But the screen is a big deal for me. I also LOVE TouchWiz. I love how it makes those selection things when you select text. I like the lockscreen and widgets and other TW stuff too. And the feel of the phone is sooo good I was thinking I'd get a big bulky case but now I think I might just get a bumper or something. But this whole screen quality thing...Hmm.
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
What a shame that salesman.

Wish you luck dude.
[Galaxy S III General] ttieder:
Is it both blue and white models I have the ink problem? I have blue and have ink problem I have been reading and seems like white doesn't have the problem.
[Galaxy S III General] m3n991:
probably just a defective unit ,, isn't there an application where you can adjust the screen ?
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
Both colors have this problem, some units (doesn't matter what color) have this issue.
[Galaxy S III General] ttieder:
Guess I should exchange Damn I really didn't want to
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
It depends of how you can see it.
[Galaxy S III General] ttieder:
I see it pretty bad in low light watching videos I've go like a big ink line but you can only see it when the screen turns black in low light
[Galaxy S III General] UnknownPleasures:
I just tried to replicate both the pinkish hue and the ink spots and could not get either to show.

Guess I'll be holding onto this guy for sure.
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
Strange, my tint marks are very noticeable.

That's the reason for my exchange.
[Galaxy S III General] ttieder:
I'm scared to exchange the next one I get might be worst .
[Galaxy S III General] 353523:
try Filter Your Screen (Adjuster) available at google play
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Depends of the meanig of noticeable.....
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
In phonearena web site for example, even with çots of images in my previous SIII you see the tint marks...
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
well Filter your Screen does NOTHING for the dimness and yellow tint of the whites. I guess it can't outright make whites brighter or whiter. This S III AMOLED display and all other AMOLEDs I've seen are dim and have poor color fidelity compared to LCDs. I'm having very serious thoughts of giving the S III up for something with a least a decent screen on VZ. Wish Samsung just used LCD. I predict they'll have a tidal wave of returns from first-time AMOLED buyers like myself that are used to the quality of an LCD screen. And I'm not trying to hate because I love Touchwiz and the phone hardware itself. Also I noticed it constantly was disconnecting from the store Wifi, another big issue for S III. Hm. I'll give it 14 days though. :/
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Ink marks or tint marks? They are not the same.

Can you elaborate of the yellow tint of the screen? Is on all the screen or just a part?

Respecting Wifi, i don't have have any issue with that maybe you should check the router's settings.
[Galaxy S III General] Yusei:
Pink tint
[Galaxy S III General] GiveMe2Beers:
Hi guys. First of all let me tell this is far the best Android phone ever had.

But....

Really think this is the amoled with the worst viewing angle ever made!!! It's enough to tilt the screen 15-20 degrees to begin to see a sort of polirized/light blue effect on white backgrounds.

Really, really annoying, seriously you can't move a millimetre from a perfect 90° viewing angle? Wasn't view angles one of the "pros" of the samoled technology?

When you browse web, mail it's a pain to see this blue effect every time you change the inclination of the device. It seems to be more connected to GorillaGlass2 rather than display itself...

Any of you guys experienced that?

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
You should compare it with other devices. Maybe your device is flawed. Mine has a tint in the lower part of the screen on grey backgrounds.
[Galaxy S III General] GiveMe2Beers:
If I could compare it with other GS3's I wouldn't ask it on forums :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Good point. The thing sometimes the tint is so sutil that you have to compare phone to phone to tell the difference.
[Galaxy S III General] :
I have the exact same problem, coming from a HTC Sensation I knew there is obviously differences in the display technologies but I'm surprised it's so blue. The question I have is this a hardware device fault or will all AMOLED screens suffer in some way from blue/pink/yellow tints? Is it worth contacting samsung?
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
Subtle!?

The S III screen looks like garbage. AMOLED is sh!t. Whites look "dirty". Yellow/pinkish. and more importantly VERY dim. Like half the brightness of any LCD I've ever seen, even an old Droid/milestone. A HOX or EVO blows S III out of the water on screen quality, color trueness, brightness, and sharpness.

Firstly the S III is very dim. On this point alone I'm probably going to have to return my VZ S III when it arrives. I can't imagine how crappy it looks outside.

Second, the ink marks thing is wholly unacceptable. There should be NONE. But I guess all AMOLED screens have them and returning a unit will not result in another unit without them. That's nuts.

Then there are the tints from the side angles and even the gradients where even from straight on parts of the screen are a different tint.

I tried all software fixes to no avail. I turned off autocolor, tried Filter Your Screen, turned it to max. brightness, even still everything looks crappy on the S III screen. AMOLED is a disaster, Samsung will have a mountain of returned phones because this tech. is not ready for general use yet. They should use SLCD 2 IPS.
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
mountain of returned phones?

did that happen to their previous phones with amoled displays?

lol while rofl while lmao

:victory:
[Galaxy S III General] mariosraptor:
I think i see some ink marks during boot time.
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
I was thinking there may be lot of returns because a lot of Droid owners, and others, are up for contract renewal. The S III hype came about because S II was "the" phone of 2011. I didn't realize AMOLED was so bad, I'd never used one. Probably a lot of people never have. I would buy Droid 4 if only the screen didn't suck. But also because of all the other awesome features on S III I started looking at S III.

I'd read how great AMOLED was. I'm really disappointed.

cba1986 you inquired about the tint. Actually... on the model I used, I did not see any sort of tint gradient. The bottom was not a different tint than the top, for example. It was tinted from side angles but it wasn't that bad. I didn't really mind it. I could not see ink marks of course because the store was bright. I wish I could test it outside.. but anyhow, the problem I found was it was dim and whites are dim and yellow/pinkish. Also the jagged Pentile was a bit disappointing but not as bad as I feared. For example on Motorola screens the PenTile is much more noticeable and completely ruled out me buying a RAZR or Droid 4.

It's weird how screens from years ago are better than now. I just want the display of a HOX on an S III. Everything else about S III is awesome. I loved TouchWiz and the phone itself feels great. Wish HTC One X was out for VZW. Inc. 4G is too small to use with onscreen keyboard. I want either a qwerty slider or big phone so it is easy to type quickly and accurately. I was big on a physical keyboard until I tried S III. It's so big that it's easy enough to type. Plus I really like text selection on TouchWiz. Hmm.
[Galaxy S III General] tanu_invincible:
Is it that the May 2012 batch of Galaxy S3 has the tint issues?? and the June 2012 is without any fault?

how many of you guys have May 2012 Korea made?Any fault in that?
[Galaxy S III General] Minoza:
Mine has that subtle gradient. It's really hard to notice it, it's only noticeable on white and gray backgrounds. I tried to show it to few of my colleagues but most of them couldn't even see it, and some of them were able to notice only when I told them that gradient is there, but barely. I can't say I'm too happy about it but I can live with it since it's really barely noticeable....
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
any major issues like this are not acceptable in an $700+ phone (actual cost), at least to my opinion... AMOLED does not seem to be ready for use yet. Samsung should use LCD for future phones. Instead of developing AMOLED why don't they just make the best LCD screens instead?
[Galaxy S III General] tanu_invincible:
Is it a white or blue S3?
[Galaxy S III General] Minoza:
It's white.
[Galaxy S III General] :
My s3 has this blue tint, is there any chance that a future firmware could fix these issues or is it hardware faults?
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
You are overeacting a little. I used a SGS1 for two years the only diff i feel with sgs3 is that the text is sharper and the screen is a bit dimmer. I don't see people throwing SGS3 to Samsung's Office's because of this. Because Amoled is a new tech developed by Samsung, it's consume less power and use less space than a LCD screen.

This is a great phone is going to be fine until the Note 2 is here, so i can live with a dimmer screen for six months. Oh, and i use the screen at 50% brightness.

Look who good is the phone that the only "problem" that has is a dimmer screen. Chack out HTC thread, capacitive light leakage, wifi problems, etc..

No phone is perfect, it's simple as that.

Exactly my case. Nobody i showed the device was able to see the gradient is very subtle.
[Galaxy S III General] vasp3690:
At the end of the day its what use each person has in their mind of the phone's use. Gaming, you need the good quality screen. Productivity and business? Not that bothered. Reading books? Maybe a problem if there are ink spots. But as I mentioned before I have been lucky and don't have any screen problems or spots and the side tints are understandable, but I don't look at the phone from a side.

sent with WSGS3
[Galaxy S III General] :
Well i spoke to samsung about the blue tinit this morning and the nice tech dude suggested I take it to a samung tech centre where they would probably just replace the phone.

As it happens i can swap it in store later. I'll be sure to check the phone throughly before i leave the store. How do i check for ink blotches in store?
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
To MY eyes, the SIII screen looks like SH!T. If you like it, I am happy for you, sincerely. To me, it's garbage. It's not just okay, it's really bad. It's dim, blurry, bizarre colors, tints, ink marks, ugh.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Blurry??

Obvious troll is obvious.
[Galaxy S III General] mm1dhd:
stop crying, s3 is a beautifull phone with beautifull screen.

if you dont like it, sell it and buy iphone
[Galaxy S III General] eric0668:
.......

HERE HERE
[Galaxy S III General] penfold:
i have a different problem, with sharp lines from black to grey instead of smooth, only shows in gradiant backgrounds not solid colors, i posted an example here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1753410
[Galaxy S III General] nikzDHD:
Both my SGS3s had noticeable tint issues, my SGS2 was perfect in regards to the screen. Both of mine are going back this week and getting my money back. Will await the Note 2.
[Galaxy S III General] fasty:
I saw this thread before buying my phone, and it nearly prevented me from going ahead until I got assurance from the store that I had a 7-day money back guarantee.

As it happens, i can't detect any of the defects mentioned.

Whites are rendered fairly neutrally and there are no ink spots.

I'm not saying this just to gloat. I suspect that Samsung may have had quality issues with a new design of AMOLED and perhaps these particular displays are not nearly consistent enough yet.

But it's probably worth mentioning that they are certainly not ALL defective.

A lot of these phones have been sold - and not everyone is complaining.
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
a lot of people have poor eye sight, too. Not saying everyone claiming they don't see a particular flaw have poor eye sight. Rather, I suspect a large portion OF people claiming a perfect and bright S III display have poor eyesight. Not all, but a large portion. In fact I have poor eyesight myself but the S III screen flaws are just so glaring.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Anybody notice a some dithering in certain apps? For example, in the now playing windows of the music player asides the number of the song and up the thumbnail.

The same on Angry birds Space with the space background. I think that is app related because pictures in the gallery looks beautiful.
[Galaxy S III General] macdroid01:
Apparently it handles stuff differently in each app. This is why Black Crush appears more in some apps than others using the same exact image. E.g. it is worse (or better? Can't remember?) as a desktop than in Gallery or browser.

Also apparently brightness only adjusts a single app? I know the solution is to download a universal brightness widget. But it just seems like a weird quirk on TouchWiz. Otherwise I think TouchWiz is pretty nice. I think this quirk it to try to cover up the weaknesses of AMOLED. i.e. balance color, sharpen, etc.
[Galaxy S III General] HellStorm666:
I've a Pebble blue sinds 4-7-2012 (4th of July).

I have no problem with pinkish or blueish tints...

But I have a few ink marks.

Vieuwing a dark or black image in a dark room and I can see a few ink spots and a line of ink (pure black, while the rest of the screen is a little less black.)

Should I ask for a replacement, or is this normal?
[Galaxy S III General] rlorange:
Lucky I have no ink marks
[Galaxy S III General] 10076757:
I got mine replaced 4 times because of the ink marks as they are visible when I use my phone at night to watch movies. The main problem is showing the ink marks to the people you got it off. If you turn on the front camera and take a picture of something white you will notice a pink splodge in the middle ( not too fussed about front camera at all) so I used that excuse and said the camera has a defect and showed them it, and that's how I got my 4 replacements, just because of those stupid thick ink marks. I got so fed up and got a refund, now I went to car phone warehouse and placed an order for a blue one. Previous 4 were white. Fingers crossed I don't have ink marks in field of view. I wouldn't mind if the ink marks were aligned to the side, but in my case they were going through the middle of the screen and visible to full effect.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
That is a good one. I will try that to get mine unit replaced.
[Galaxy S III General] 10076757:
Trust me it works. Just take pictures of something white using your front camera and you will see a pink blob in the middle. Show them that.

I showed them that and I also said I was on video call to my sister and was showing my newly painted room (white) and she goes why is it pink.

Boom 4 replacements
[Galaxy S III General] proudixz:
i noticed my white goes to pink only when my device get warm , i was doing benchmark GL full run , my screen was whole dark pink.
[Galaxy S III General] demonwind:
Wow, trying to downplay this issue as normal? Then how do they explain why some units aren't like this and others are?
[Galaxy S III General] vaxick:
Ink marks? Those are not "ink marks". That's a very well known issue with OLED screens called the mura effect and every screen has it to a certain to degree. It all has to do with how the pixels are printed. As of now, there is no perfect process to eliminate this issue and considering it is only visible in extreme dark environments, it really isn't a issue at all.

I hate to break the news, but you will never get a "perfect" OLED display. They do not exist and technologies are still being researched to try to improve the well known faults that exist today. As of right now though, there is no perfect way to get the same amount of voltage to go to each pixel. It will vary because of the boards being used to print the pixels on. Just relax and enjoy your new phone.

I'm amazed at how many people are thinking they are having some serious issues. I've never seen anywhere near this many people complain about the OLED displays on the PlayStation Vita that also revealed to many people the mura effect. Once people learned about it and the technical reasons as to why it occurs during the manufacturing of OLED displays, it was quickly forgotten about because nobody really saw it unless the screen was mostly black.

BTW OP, your screen has a amazing low amount of mura, you should be beyond happy. Here's a pretty common sight for a OLED screen at dark.
[Galaxy S III General] Isadora:
Same here. I'm a photographer so I obviously have calibrated displays - out of the box, the vast majority of monitors, particularly laptops, have way too much blue (brightness is set horrendously high as well) . I would dearly love to be able to calibrate my phone screen and my Touchpad too, it makes such a difference.
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
Devices with "flaws" rarely get in to the hands of reviewers. As an example, the One X uses two different panel providers, Sharp and AUO. The Sharp panel is noticeably warm and you can tell the One X in the four phone comparison above has a Sharp panel. Not a single phone HTC sent to a reviewer had a Sharp panel. The goal of sending out review units to the media isn’t to get objective opinions; it’s to get positive reviews. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
That could be the case with HTC. But Samsung uses Samsung's panel. So there is no different panel providers.
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
Samsung's manufactured the panels in all their devices since the i9000. Every device since then has had color temperature variations. If the SGS3 doesn't, it will be the first. To your point, I'm sure if there are 200 phones in Samsung's press pool they were probably selected out of a group 300+ phones to ensure they all were as close to design spec as possible. The pink display (which is real because we can see it) would have never made it in to the press pool.
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
It's happens with every component not only for the screen.

It sounds to me that the pink display is more a soft issue that a hard issue esulted from poor calibrating. Nothing that voodoo colour can't repair.

I'm sure that samsung is aware of the issue and this will be repair. (If it need any repair at all)
[Galaxy S III General] BarryH_GEG:
These aren't Rolls Royce’s that are carefully crafted by hand. If Samsung sells 20MM SGS3's in a year they'll be building 55K a day if the assembly line works 365 days a year. And with tons of third party parts that QC's supposed to have been done on before Samsung receives them. There's a lot that can go wrong and people being paid $3.00 USD an hour are the ones performing the QC checks; not h/w and s/w engineers. Devices will get out that probably shouldn't have; especially early in production. It's just the way it goes with mass market electronic devices no matter who manufactures them. And people shouldn’t freak out when it happens.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Sadly, maybe if that reviewer is in a 3rd world country...
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
as these screens support mdnie profiles , we can simply tweak them to make it perfect right?

people dont forget the master"supercurio", if in case we have the color temperature problem he surely will solve it . thats what his "voodoo color" project is about

http://project-voodoo.org/color
[Galaxy S III General] Chicken Nugget(s):
This might be juuuust on the red side, the older AMOLEDs are known to be blue, maybe they just over corrected it. Dunno if these will make it to consumers though.
[Galaxy S III General] Gnarfsan:
I have tweaked for hours and I still can't get my SGS2 as white as my LCD displays. However, in daily use, I don't notice a thing. It doesn't bother me at all. I really just tried to tweak it for the hell of it.
[Galaxy S III General] pacc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqC4bDDqgY&feature=g-all-u

After 3rd min (during browser) you can easily notice blue tint on white background.

Looks like this screen issue isn't sorted, be sure to test carefully your S3 screen before purchase.