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[Nexus 4 General] itpromike:
Yellow spots like this are common for screens of this type and this early on in the production cycle. This is not a software issue... It's glue. The glue dries over time through usage and its like it was never there. Usually at beginning phased of the production with a high demand phone like this and some tablets as well, the devices are shipped without the glue (from the screen lamination process) being completely dry because they are trying to ship them off so fast. After a while though the glue dries on its own and the yellow spots disappear.
[Nexus 4 General] kyleds:
No, Stays in the same place. Tried more than one pair of polarized lens'
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Will check when I can on mine.
[Nexus 4 General] Skenzin:
So it seems my tint issue has actually improved just using it this weekend. I thought it was looking less yellow but i just compared it to my 3rd gen ipad as a reference and i realized it was not just my eyes getting use to the tint. So it seems atleast for me the glue drying thing was not a load of BS.
[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
My screen is brighter/whiter at the top inch or so and then fades to yellow the further down. Filed a RMA Tuesday and have yet to see any shipping notice..
[Nexus 4 General] sporez:
That's how my 2nd N4 was. Try the jelly time kernel. That fixed it for me.
[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
I've found that the yellow DOES improve... however, if part of your screen is yellow and the other is not, the phone will likely remain non-uniform. Mine had really bad yellow on the lower 50%. Over time it has dissipated a lot, but the lower half of the screen is still not quite as crisp as the top. Thankfully most of the time it has not really been noticeable. If the phone had no light bleed, I think I would be fine with the state of the screen. Supposedly iPhones seem to never have light bleed, etc, but I was sitting next to a guy while at the barber shop and he was using his iPhone. The white of his screen was almost pink! The N4 looked a lot better to be honest. Made me feel pretty good. Now if they can solve the light bleed spots that seem to present themselves on the top of the screen. With a screen this small, it shouldn't be that hard... guess that's the price we pay getting such a "cheap deal."
[Nexus 4 General] nyyankees3511:
Its an IPS screen. Its called ips glow. Very common in ips displays. put on a black image on the screen and rotate the phone and you can get the glow to shift.
[Nexus 4 General] Dustwulf:
Mine is fine so far, just heated it up with benchmarks and I don't even have any noticable glow with the screen all black in a dark room.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
The bleeds just piss me off because like u said its such a small screen. Was there no quality control at all?
[Nexus 4 General] khawarspirit:
No, actually, it's made by Sharp. And has far better numbers than the LG screen on the N4.
[Nexus 4 General] NardVa:
Makes sense. If you look at the manufacturer date, you will see these phones are being put in our hands a week or two after being made. It may be smart to let your new phone sit a few weeks instead of turning it on right away. I'm thinking the heat from the display slows the glue from drying. Hence people saying the yellow effect appears aftet having the phone on for several hours.
[Nexus 4 General] Emama:
After using for week the yellow spot is still here.. Filed RMA on Nov 30 and still don't get a new one
[Nexus 4 General] Tenji7:
My phone have a yellow spot that only comes on when it gets warm, but if you press hard on the spot, the yellow spot will disappear. Bad thing is it comes back after a few minute. Don't know what the issue is, it's been 2 weeks since I notice it. I don't want to RMA it, because my screen is perfect beside the spot, the color are good, white looks white, no yellowing or warm color, and no backlight bleed. I have other family in the house with 2 nexus and both of their nexus have yellow tint(top is more whiter then bottom half screen, warm color, and one have a bad backlight bleed at the top.
[Nexus 4 General] flight777:
No real spots here but only a slight shift in viewing angles (while typing for example) I can see a yellow hue. Really noticable on grey colors (like the keyboard). However, when I've found a viewing angle where it seems ok and I compare it color for color with my N10 the N4 seems to have no yellow hue at all. Could this be the glue not dry and giving those hue's at specific angles?
[Nexus 4 General] flight777:
Does anyone else have that problem? Is it normal for this type of screen XD Just want to know so that I can make a decision if RMA is usefull.
[Nexus 4 General] Emama:
It is absolutely NORMAL when u shift the viewing angle the color change
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Yes it is normal. Take ANY display and look at it from different angles.
[Nexus 4 General] BR_Impulse:
Today I rooted my phone and installed Paranoid Android. Lo and behold that once I activated the 'Expanded Desktop' mode that hides the bottom onscreen buttons, there was a nice yellow spot in the bottom right corner staring at me (just like in the first post in this thread). It was hiding below my multitask button. Reactivating the on-screen buttons, I now notice that the yellow spills over a bit just above the black bar. Thankfully it's only visible on white screens and really noticeable with Expanded Mode on. I was hoping to run it fulltime in expanded mode with LMT Launcher though, so this sort of foils my plans as I can't 'unsee' the yellow spot now. Wonder if I should RMA since it looks like one spot in a not so visible area... Great job on the QC there LG. Your Optimus G's I played with have non-yellow screens with good calibration too. Now I know where your best LCD panels went :rolleyes:.
[Nexus 4 General] flight777:
Even at very slight angles? I mean, I've never noticed it on my Dell IPS, Transformers and S2 AMOLED displays. When I'm typing the phone "bounces" a little to the angles change every so slightly. During that I can see the keyboard (its really noticable on greys) change from a cooler gray to a more warmed/yellowish grey. Again, that might be normal as well but this is the first time I'm noticing it on such a display.
[Nexus 4 General] Hash_Map:
Same here. Noticed it on grays too, mostly on the bottom half of the screen. Mostly seen in the Settings menu.:confused:
[Nexus 4 General] admiez:
What you're seeing is the normal background color gradient used by the settings app.
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
No, I know what he means. Correct, angles are nowhere near as good as monitors, tvs etc. But phone is not designed to be used at an angle. Colour does shift on comparatively small angles, but not enough to affect day to day use. It's still better than many smartphones out there. What a lot of people seem to be forgetting is the price point. Any other smartphone that is even close to these specs costs almost double when it comes out first. I am not saying device shouldn't be working as intended, but do not expect top notch quality of components. CPU is probably from a lower bin, screen is probably from worse sides of the sheet, etc etc. Just got to be realistic with your purchase. Taking all that in consideration I'm well happy with angles.

P. S. Tilting device to the left reveals warm angle, tilting device to the right cools it down, so it doesn't look as bad. Also it's slightly diagonal. Just take it, sit in the dark room in minimum brightness and slowly tilt it around. Or not if you haven't noticed that before and it's likely to upset you if you do.
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
Yeah I can't get over it. My screen has a sickly yellow tint even when I look at it straight on. Gray tones look yellow. And the color tweaks haven't helped at all. :(
[Nexus 4 General] Hash_Map:
Yes, correct, I just noticed the warmer colors on the bottom half on all screens that have this gray gradient. Not a biggie for me, I could care less since this phone is a steal for the the price I paid, but that yellowish tint doesn't look correct to me. I really don't go and changing angles just to find an issue, but my screen looks 'goldish' at the slightest angle, lol. Really goldish :D

I had a similar issue with my GNex, when it had the purple tint and honestly, after some color tuning I stopped noticing it. I will do the same for this beast and hopefully that diminished that yellow-goldish hue\tint.

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Color tweaks haven't helped much either ! :(

What's your next steps? RMA?
[Nexus 4 General] ATnTdude:
Well, it's normal for LCD displays. LED will generally look the same from every angle, barring internal reflections between the actual panel, the digitizer and the glass cover. If you came from a Samsung, I can definitely understand not being used to it.
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Sorry, I should have taken it into consideration. I've never had a single device with led screen (well, wife got s3 recently) so completely overlooked it. Yes, any lcd screen is like that.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
My screen has a very slight yellow tint in the bottom quater. Anyone else? Doesnt really bother me, though. Got lot worse phones/screens.
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Paid app nexus 4 display control with custom 238,228,240 settings will fix it!
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
I will check that tomorrow, need to root first. Just got the phone today :)

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] dakiss:
No. It won't fix it!
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
Now I'm not so sure. I was using the PA ROM with faux123 002b5 kernel, the screen looked very yellow straight away and no color settings really made it look a whole lot better. I just flashed back to pure stock and the colors seem better to me. There's still a slight yellow tint but nothing that's a huge bother. Colors are still lighter than I would like and contrast isn't the greatest.
[Nexus 4 General] wurzelsepp3:
No you are not the only one, mine has the same problem.
[Nexus 4 General] [hfm]:
Say what? LED is just a backlight type, it's still LCD. Do you mean AMOLED? Also IPS type LCD have better viewing angles.
[Nexus 4 General] BR_Impulse:
Same here. Bottom 1/4 has a yellow tint, and in my case, below my multitask buttons has two yellow spots like in this thread's original post. They mainly show up after warming as well.
[Nexus 4 General] tsouza:
I've these spots too. But after more than 3 weeks most of them are gone. And the most yellow one is already vanishing...
[Nexus 4 General] Fidlefadle:
discoloration (warm/cool) when viewed at odd angles has nothing to do with the phone. It's a characteristic of ANY IPS-based LCD display. this is not unique to this phone google "IPS glow".
[Nexus 4 General] FatalityBoyZahy:
My screen is beautiful, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Lol
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Flash Faux beta kernel, buy his app, play around with the gamma and you'll see how truly beautiful display is :)
[Nexus 4 General] FatalityBoyZahy:
I'm happy with my display right now, but I'll give that a try when I get home!
[Nexus 4 General] viasat:
Glad I didn't buy this phone!My Nexus S I9023 had the same problem,the lcd was replaced twice in service ,and after a couple of months,the yellow spots appeared again,so it never fixed the problem for me,it's not the glue,but poor design,the phone was too hot,warming the lcd.I've had the same ''luck'' with Xperia S ,now both phones are sold ,and was thinking to buy Nexus 4,but with the QC of LG,I'm think that I'll skip this one.

Cheers!
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Hmm. To me it looks like your expectations are a problem here, not the screens on all the devices.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
Do you think slight yellow tint in bottom quarter is a reason to RMA? Are there any evenly white screens out there?
[Nexus 4 General] 0.0:
Kernel problem. Try Franco's kernel

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
If you are talking about tint in dialer or settings tab, keep in mind it has gradient which amplifies the tint. Open a browser and go to any white page, I normally use Google home for that. If gradual tinting persists, then it's an issue, but I'm pretty sure you'll find it's even :)

Not necessarily. See above.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
Yea I know that, but for sure it's not that! I took some pics:

White background, 1% brightness:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37488657/Foto 19.12.12 14 35 40.jpg

White background, 50% brightness:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37488657/Foto 19.12.12 14 36 05.jpg

White background, 100% brightness:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37488657/Foto 19.12.12 14 36 19.jpg

Grey background, 50% brightness:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37488657/Foto 19.12.12 14 37 31.jpg
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
How long you had your phone for? If it doesn't go away after a week, exchange it.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
Not even a week and not used a lot, it was @home because still got no case :p

Grey looks worse on camera, exaggerated! Not so bad in reality. White pretty much is the same.
[Nexus 4 General] akbisw:
I have this problem too so to speak. But I would be mad to RMA it just cause of the stupid yellow tint that lasts for half an hour after display gets warm.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] nuclearmonkeyuk:
I don't get a whole section of the screen tinted yellow.. Its literally just around the home soft key.. Should I be concerned or is it something that is going to go away?
[Nexus 4 General] Emama:
My RMA phone is so yellow....the whole screen is YELLOW.

I cant even tell if there is yellow spot or not when the phone is warm since it is already SO YELLOW....

what can I do.....call again and return the new phone...?
[Nexus 4 General] powerdoesntrun:
My RMA is much more yellow than my original, which I actually thought was too blue. What I've realized though is that both have the potential to display identical colors, depending on the angle. If I angle both of the phones in various directions, the color temperatures basically switch. Its really odd
[Nexus 4 General] usb7:
Wow I though I was the only one doing such in depth comparisons!

And I came to the same conclusion!

My RMA is more yellow head on. But when viewed portrait-ly at a low angle the display is pure white.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
Same here!
[Nexus 4 General] JD914:
I had this very issue and just got a replacement yesterday. I had yellowing right above the capacitive buttons. The replacement seems to be free if this issue.
[Nexus 4 General] powerdoesntrun:
FYI, I tried out Franco's Display Control app and it works really well. I really wish it worked on other devices because my nexus 7 is of color as well.
[Nexus 4 General] usb7:
So his display control made your yellower RMAed Nexus look more like your blue Nexus?

Hm I thought since that glass's color changes depending on the viewing angle that it might be a property of the glass, and not calibration.

(Are you keeping your RMA?)
[Nexus 4 General] Vites:
After the screen warms (10-15 minutes) I have a yellow tint to the bottom of the screen on my brand new N4.
[Nexus 4 General] sporez:
I had that exact same thing on my original n4. Thankfully my replacement doesn't have it.
[Nexus 4 General] Ariozo:
Have try get that yellow line/dots on my screen, but my device seems ok.

Took a while for N4 to get here tho so maybe the later devices are better. As i cant get it to show even if i make it Hot.

Skickat från min Nexus 4 via Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] FTMDan:
Yeah, I played a game for a good 10-15 minutes and tried to find a yellow spot/spots after but couldn't. Got mine about 4 days ago.
[Nexus 4 General] BR_Impulse:
So my 8GB nexus 4 started with a yellow screen, but this faded quickly to a nice cool white after about two weeks. After this however, I saw two yellow spots below the nav bar when I hid it with paranoid android. These appeared after about half an hour to one hour of screen on time. Now I have the 16GB as of Tuesday, and the first thing I noticed was a super yellow screen as well. It's now a lot less yellow after five days however. I think these screens get less yellow after they've been used for a while and the glue below cures. As for yellow spots though, that might need to be examined in the longer term.

tl;dr if your replacement is piss yellow, give it a couple of days first. It should clear itself. If you're left with yellow spots, then consider replacing after a bit of testing with screen on for a few different times and see. If it doesn't correct itself.
[Nexus 4 General] powerdoesntrun:
Yes, that's right. Whatever the deal is with the viewing angle, it looks good now and that's all I care about. It seems like a calibration issue. For what its worth, I thought the original was sort of too blue. If I went from looking at my n4 to my n7, or held them side by side, the n7 looked yellow as hell. It may have a calibration problem of its own that doesn't have a neat little app to fix it, but having such a blue n4 made it unbearable. I've set the temperature of my n4 to something in between.

I think I'm keeping the new one since it doesn't have the earpiece crackling or lose USB port my original had and francos app fixed my only major concern so far.
[Nexus 4 General] matt310:
I think it's how the screens are oriented when they're installed in the devices. Some look white at certain angles and yellow at others, and it's the reverse for different units, especially at off-viewing angles. It's visually jarring when swapping devices, but I'm guessing the QC/R+D departments for display panels don't factor this variance into their production logistics.
[Nexus 4 General] Dharms:
Yes mines seems perfectly fine
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
My screen is becoming yellow on the bottom right more and more frequently now.. and the phone doesn't even feel hot! May have to get a replacement and see where this goes. Have had the phone since release.
[Nexus 4 General] Emama:
I doubt the whole screen is affected by the glue and make it yellow..

My RMA is REALLY...REALLY yellow compare to the old one..that I don't wanna bother to use it and see it......

I may just keep the old phone with yellow spot after a while rather than using that new urine color display..

How long I can keep both to TEST to see which one I should sent back?
[Nexus 4 General] nagle3092:
Just food for thought, I had one that was getting yellow spots when I heated up so I got a replacement. The replacement had a pretty bad yellow tint then I started using Franco's kernel and the tint was gone. I would say try his kernel before sending the device back.
[Nexus 4 General] smooney3:
My RMA phone came today. I ordered it because my first phone had a bad yellow spot above the nav bar when it warmed up. I did some benchmarks to heat up the new one. It took a few, since this one doesn't get hot nearly as fast as the other. No spots on the new one. However, I put it beside the old one and looked at a white screen and was shocked at how much worse the screen was overall. Whites look like a disgusting tobacco stain compared to the old one. It's so bad that my wife noticed the difference from across the room before I even mentioned it. I don't know whether I want to keep the tobacco colored screen or the one with the giant yellow spot that gets extremely hot. I might give it a while and see if it gets better, as some people have suggested, but I think I might send the new one back and tell them to send me another. Either that or keep the old one. The screen on that one was beautiful, other than that spot.
[Nexus 4 General] usb7:
Yea got my second RMA today. Still more yellow than my original...

I ran my first RMA through many movies to see if the yellow would go away but it didn't.
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
Could you please post a picture of that yellow screen? Thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] ksavai:
Screen is getting better and better on my nexus 4. Or may I'm getting used to? First couple of days it bothered me but now it's like little off white and getting better
[Nexus 4 General] smooney3:
It's actually looking a little better today. It's still very yellow compared to the original one, but a good bit less than it was. Maybe it will continue to improve.
[Nexus 4 General] astromanic:
please keep me updated on this. i just got my rma, and its screen looks yellow and crappy compared to my original as well. im hoping it will turn to white eventually?
[Nexus 4 General] usb7:
Are our out of box yellow screen due to glue or calibration?
[Nexus 4 General] NYCguy2020:
I think a little bit of both.My RMA is also yellower than my original but with a little of tweaking (via FauxClock app) the screen now looks a lot better and the yellow tint is almost gone.I think in a few more days it will be completely gone,as the glue dries/cures.
[Nexus 4 General] smooney3:
I'm going to be sending back my original N4. The new one has gotten a lot better over the past few days. It's still a little off, but I can only tell when looking at both together. Maybe it'll clear up completely, maybe not. I'm thinking that it probably won't ever be as perfectly white as the first one, but I'm just happy that it's improved to the point where it's the least annoying of the two.
[Nexus 4 General] Audioboxer:
Do Google really accept returns of the device for this reason? I have an issue of the bottom 1/3rd of the phone being yellow tinted and no amount of calibrating can fix it as its always different than the rest.
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
Yes they will. It's defective and you deserve a new one, there's no reason they shouldn't.
[Nexus 4 General] Audioboxer:
Does anyone know what causes the issue? Uneven LCD? Its not as if its simply a warm or cold LCD from different manufacturers, they can be calibrated if its the whole screen. I specifically mean those like myself who only have part of their screen being yellower at all times, even when calibrated (I use faux kernel and tweak RGB values/gamma).

Its annoying when using the web browser or this tapatalk app as its very noticeable on white/grey/cream backgrounds.
[Nexus 4 General] mmace:
my phone has got worse over the past couple of weeks, my phone gets really hot with normal use and on my wireless charger

after 10 mins of normal use I get the following:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Pgm1gR2nqYNXhCVXpPWHhlSmc

(above but circled) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Pgm1gR2nqYaGpvXzNzVlZWdEE

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Pgm1gR2nqYaTFLWFJPd3hOcW8

(above but circled) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Pgm1gR2nqYbUNqQXh2Sll6b2c

I just phoned Google Play support, he asked if the screen was dirty, I said no, he then said OK, we'll send you a replacement phone

easy!
[Nexus 4 General] bogdan1980:
Google on this phone are using crappy panels. If they put and good panel, Au optronics aka BenQ, or samsung, problem like this does not appear. Cutting costs make these problems.

Im sure that panel they use is some china cmi panel or something.

Galaxy powered by GM and Dorimanx
[Nexus 4 General] kgeissler:
I got my phone on December 5th, after ordering it on launch day. After playing Ingress the last couple of days I noticed the yellow tint by the home button on the display. It did go away once the phone cooled down, but came back once the phone heats up. I decided to RMA the device and hopefully the new one will be better.

One question....I am rooted, stock, with Franco's kernel. Do I need to relock the bootloader and return the phone to completely stock before sending it back?
[Nexus 4 General] iFinCyde:
LOL

Delete that links please :D

Don´t you know how risky it is downloading that way?
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
yes
[Nexus 4 General] khanh1289:
when RMA a device, do we send it in and wait for them to fix it and send it back? or they send us a new replacement device while we send in our defective device?
[Nexus 4 General] Lownita:
You get a new device, then you send in your old one.