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[Xperia Z1 General] meetdaleet:
When i compare the Z1 from me and the one from an mate, i just saw a difference in colorquality and brightness, before he alltough updated to .257.

Now they see equal.

Before the update i were just unhappy with the display. But right now i'm glad that i'vent changed it on the shop to buy an LG G2.

Sincerely,

Meet
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[Xperia Z1 General] Luhccas-X10:
Any 6943 with yellowish display?

I've bought a brazilian Z1 and i'm afraid to get a bad display... (Waiting)

Sent from my Xperia ZQ
[Xperia Z1 General] Engin.OK:
Xperia Z1 Diffrent Screen

It's Xperia Z1 BH900 Black and White BH906

BH900 very good white
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
if you read through the thread you will easily find out that there is a calibration issue with BH906... if the latest update still doesn't fix this, there is an app suggested in this same thread that can help you correct the calibration issue... it is the SAME screen calibrated in different facilities, it happens...
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
These disappoint me but here are the screenshots of my unit.

S/N BH906

First pic: Screen Adjuster OFF

Second: Screen Adjuster ON

If you're gonna take a look closely at the second picture, the lower part has a left out color which wasn't affected by the screen adjuster.

My phone really suffers from the yellow hue which is just evident in gray areas but still this is a let down. :(

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z1
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
Reposting the pictures...

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z1
[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
If you want o have a good comparison and see if your screen is really affected with the yellow hue. Got to the service menu by dialling *#*#SERVICE#*#* -> service tests -> screen test -> tap the screen 8 time until you see a screen test board and than look at the attached picture (both are Z1 without the screen adjuster) :)

Additionally when you use screen adjuster the screen colors change every few seconds, just turn it on and look at grey colors in one point of you screen and they'll change.
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
My previous phone Xperia S has this similar "Yellow" hue, I haven't been bothered by it... the display is still pretty awesome...

It is not actually yellow hue, its what you call "Warmer" calibration versus "Colder" calibration...

no need to cry over this... that is why there is the app for adjusting screen color... its because this is a common thing for all devices...

people blowing this out of proportion...
[Xperia Z1 General] djcoolguyno1:
I have white bh 906 no yellow hue or tint in fact it was brighter than any z1 I m compared to
[Xperia Z1 General] maomao891007:
Capture screen won't show anything...
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
Ok done it. Looks like the left one. Ampf.

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[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
I believe that the lower part of screen is yellow because during normal usage there's the bar with buttons ( home, menu, back ) and if you look closely the screen adjuster doesn't change the colors of the bar (and in't lock screen the bar is not visible). Try viewing the same picture in the album app and than compare :)
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
So it's the same when I use a screen filter app, the lower is not getting filtered in the lock screen. As per my brother my unit doesn't seem to have yellowish tint. Maybe it's just too bright. Ah this is crazy. Hahaha.

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[Xperia Z1 General] GPKrzychuXxX:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u92jht22x3zza82/IMG_20131125_184145.jpg

Bh903...
[Xperia Z1 General] natkaen:
yea, it's the calibration. i bought a new one and it had no yellow hue, but after i updated to the new version right there at the store the color turned warmer. so it's definitely the warmer calibration, but people keep going on about this yellow hue lol.
[Xperia Z1 General] djcoolguyno1:
i guess there is some kind of brightness problem some screen appear bright some dull

more over i observed in my device when my device is heated up abit of yellowish appears and when it's cold it disappears
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
My Z1 compared to my friend's iPhone 5. No other Xperia Z1 or any other Xperia to compare with.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z1
[Xperia Z1 General] jlevy73:
My xperia z1 screen is pretty bad. If I don't own another device I probably wouldn't notice as much. But when i compare it my Nexus 5 and HTC One it just looks downright awful. The yellow hue is very noticeable and really takes away from the beauty of what could be a nice display. I've tried a bunch of screen filter apps but none do very much to help. I love the device just don't like the oversaturated yellow hue.
[Xperia Z1 General] shteren:
You are alll serious whiners, I own an xperia zr, when people have a first look at my screen they say "Ohhh it's. Gorgeous" because it truly is, but when put next to another phone it's. A tad bit yellow! So frigging what? Thats how sony calibrate it's. Screens, and they are gorgeous! Please stop whining... It's not your laundry doesn't have to be perfect white.
[Xperia Z1 General] Jiyeon90:
Mine looks like a that too, my screen has a little bit of yellow tint, not really noticeable though.

But then when I compare some video playback the Z1 colors blow my sister's 4s out of the water.

I guess it's thanks to the triluminos tech.
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
I've finally decided not to sell it. It's just stressing me much. Haha. I know I shouldn't be but I was. :D I'll just make it up for the next flagship of Sony. Whites doesn't look really bad. Only the gray areas are affected. Still great display. :)
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
We've finally got our new TV from Sony and I therefore conclude that 1000% my Z1's screen is yellowish. Hahaha. But enjoyed the screen mirroring! Awesome! ^^
[Xperia Z1 General] Jiyeon90:
Yup, its only noticeable on greys, not a big deal, besides we might get the white balance app in the next update which should fix this
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
What's this i hear about a white balance app? I'm new here so i didn't know, that's a great idea from Sony
[Xperia Z1 General] jlevy73:
That's a good point, it's only greys where it's noticeable.
[Xperia Z1 General] homer285:
This thread needs renaming to, "Z1, OCD, Neurosis, get a life"!
[Xperia Z1 General] 88Mike:
Please I ask you to read my answer on the display issue of the Z1. I really want that complaining people learn more about displays in general. I just tell you: two of the same display model, batch, etc. will never be the same. Please read and spread it because I read all the people complaining about displays for every phone and for the people who work in imaging it's frustrating to read. ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2462767&page=14
[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
Ok, so you're right and Sony is wrong when they admit that there are different screens in different batches ?

Additionally a Sony Centre employee told me today that the demo versions of Z1 are tweaked to look better ;p

Either way - if you'll make my screen look the same way as the demo one or make it whiter - I'll buy you a 0.5l of polish vodka and ship it to India ;p
[Xperia Z1 General] 88Mike:
Nope, I'm not saying that Sony is using one display, they surely use (like Apple, like HTC, like everyone) more than one company as display supplier. The thing that I want you to understand is that this is not a defect. You can surely have the right to ask for another new Z1, but the real thing is that the warmer displays are warmer than others because they all have the same calibration but the displays are different for its nature of being displays.

If Sony calibrates one Z1 by one, we should all have the same color reproducing but with different calibrations, but it's impossibile for them to make millions versions of firmware because we all want the same white as others...And it's the same with every display technology.

You can look for these informations anywhere on the web and you will notice how two equal displays has to be calibrated in a different way to look the same.

By the way I'm not from India.
[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
Sorry I was pretty sure that it said "Coimbatore" on your profile ;)

I think the same way - that there are different displays and only one calibration profile - but there are only three different color temperatures reported, so it would not be hard fo Sony to have three calibrations inside the firmware ( I know that every display is different, but it would make every display look more or less the same). Also - it's not only the screen temperature but the brightness that differs. There's also another thing, there's no way to calibrate the screen right now, because using market apps just adds blue to the screen making it darker, the proper way would be to remove - let say 5% of yellow, so one have to wait for Sony response or sent their device do Sony service centre.

Mine was at Sony Service center and they've replaced my screen and now it's worse ;p It's yellowish/greenish ;p i'm waiting for the Sony screen calibration setting ..
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
Very well said. Well let's hope this will help people who are experiencing the said issue, me included, calm down about their phone's display. I remembered when my sister got her iPhone 4s she has been told that there were 2 different displays in iPhone 4s, the warmer and the colder ones. I guess it's same case with our units. Sometimes it's annoying, sometimes it look ok. Let's just hope that Sony will be able to provide something to rectify this on the next update so that everyone of us will have a peace of mind. :)
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
firstly, If you read through this thread alone, you will see everyone from all countries are using the same sharp display panels.

secondly, it was also discussed that sony uses 2 plants to supply them the screen. same hardware but may be different in calibration.

3rdly there is also a part of this thread that discusses that the yellow hue only happens on certain models (specific models where also listed) proving my first and 2nd point.

lastly, Download screen adjuster app and set +4-8 blue. you can send my vodka to singapore...
[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
No vodka for you - saying that adding blue to the screen will fix the problem confirms that you haven't seen a screen without the yellow hue. Adding blue just adds another "layer" that makes the screen colors colder - but that doesn't fix the problem! I've spent some time trying to match a "good" Z1 and it wasn't possible with the screen adjuster.

And finally Sony has announced white balance settings for Z1, I hope it will allow to remove the yellow instead of adding blue.
[Xperia Z1 General] nailll:
Hi,

From my 2-3 days experience I can say there are indeed differen types of "yellow hue" issues we are talking about.

I've received my new xperia z1 around 2 days ago and spotted that the colors are more yellowish everywhere in the screen. It was very different from xperia Z (previous phone) that I've used just 2 hours back on the day of purchase. It was especially noticable in Ingress game which was more about blue/cyan colors which in z1 became more cyan/green (obviously more yellowish)

After couple of hours usage I began to spot this in every app and it became very annoying.

Went home and received a new update (latest fw .257) which was having "display calibration" item in their feature list.

After update nothing really changed.

Next day I decided to do a full reset. Subjectively it became better. Still noticable but not that bad.

Another attempt I made is do this display 'burn in' approach that somebody in this forum said it might help...

So I entered my phone to retail demo mode (*#*#73556673#*#*) and left it on a charger for about 12+ hours (for a night)

Today I clearly see that display got better. Colors in apps are more normal (ingress game is more blue now) however when I opened white background on a full screen and 100% brightness - now I can see yellow hint area at the bottom of a screen (near the button bar) its almost a yellow hue gradient applied to the screem. its around 1/5 of the screen area. So it looks like the 'glue' reason and after display got a little 'burned in' its gets better. Top area of the screen looks great - white is white!

So I'm wondering, should I go and replace Z1 or take the risk and hope for this 'glue' issue to vanish after couple of weeks of heavy usage?

What do you think? :confused:
[Xperia Z1 General] BreakShadow:
It's going to be fixed, chill out guys.

Check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...Hue-Tint/td-p/391521/page/7?sl=y&sso_no_log=y
[Xperia Z1 General] Ame123:
The yeollow tint on the grey is purely because of the optimized backlight option being always on in the new firmware i rollled back to the previous firmware and unticked the option and theres no yellow tint on blacks or greys
[Xperia Z1 General] nizarnoor:
No.
[Xperia Z1 General] Ame123:
It will be no for you but for me it is yes... I have no yellow tint or anything like that
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
Very comprehensive and well thought off answer.
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
I just noticed today after comparing mine an Xperia Z that was being sold in a store

And i does seem yellowish in comparison(Google page) and the greys look kinda odd too

EDIT/

Seems its only yellowish in the dark(as stupid as it sounds) anywhere else the screen looks very good and the yellow tint is unnoticeable even in the lowest brightness setting
[Xperia Z1 General] Ame123:
Thats what i am saying to all and this yellow tint in blacks is due to the optimized bcklight option set to always on in this new firmware
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
You might be right, i swear none of this yellow stuff was there when i bought the phone, i started noticing after the update to the latest firmware

Might be just a coincidence but i tried this phone for over 30 minutes before i bought it(the clerk and i were testing that everything was ok before purchase)

I know for sure that i wouldn't have bought this exact phone if there was any yellow tinting, i would have asked for another one right there

Other than that, this screen is pretty awesome i love it
[Xperia Z1 General] paniczklos:
I went back to the old firmware, tried turning this option off,but the screen was still yellow. Same people report that turning this option off helps them :/ either way, android 4.3 is coming,hopefully it will help with the yellow screen.

Wysłane z mojego C6903 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
I'm excited for the 4.3 update and hopefully this will bring a lot of improvements and fix especially the undying issue of the yellow tint on the screen of select units (mine has) but I'm just crossing my fingers (and my toes as well!!!) that that can be resolved through the new update provided that it's a software issue and not a hardware issue. :) Best of all to all of us Xperia Z1 owners. :)
[Xperia Z1 General] c312eal:
My first z1 i got had the yellowish screen before and after the update, the greys looked SO YELLOW, so I went back and exchanged it and tested a BH902 and there was no yellow tint. Went home updated the phone to the latest firmware still no yellowish screen. I think this is a hardware problem.
[Xperia Z1 General] Barso1:
I just received my Z1 in the UK from Amazon and it must have one of the worse screens I have seen in a flagship model.

The blacks are grey and nothing I can do will change that.

Sorry Sony but this is going straight back and I am going back to the S4 or HTC One.
[Xperia Z1 General] brockyneo:
ive just got rid of my note 3 for the z1 ans wow the feel of this is alot better then the note 3 (which im a huge fan of the note series) and i find the z1 screen easy one of the best ive used and ive had a lot of phones htc one,note 3 and 2,iphone 5s,galaxy mega,ect

well done sony :D
[Xperia Z1 General] kantk20111:
Thanks a lot to this thread, it's pretty much ruined the phone's screen for me. My screen is perfect, even after reading through all of this thread. I wasted 45 minutes-1 hour of my life trying to find a yellow hue problem and I'm paranoid that my viewing angles are worse than other Z1 owner's viewing angles. I dont have a Xperia Z to compare so I don't know if mine's the same panel or not. The point is I found the phone to have a beautiful screen before I found this thread, now it's all throwing doubt at it...this thread accomplishes nothing and it's kinda a placebo. If you go out trying to find a problem, you will find a problem even if it's not there.

My advice is if you are happy with the Z1's screen DO NOT read this thread, it'll fill you with useless doubt about your device that accomplishes nothing.
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
Dont mind it dude, it might as well be placebo too who knows

In my case as i said earlier i sometimes see it, sometimes don't, im leaning towards the backlight thing in the latest firmware

But what i do know is that the Z1 has an awesome display(on non faulty units)
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
and you can easily see the paranoid responses in this thread... lol

I did become paranoid for like 2-3 hours but then got over it quickly lol this an amazing phone.
[Xperia Z1 General] kantk20111:
This happens whenever a new phone is released. People have to complain about something or another about the phone. When I had an SE X10 people were complaining that they were using 2 different types of digitizers and people got really paranoid about that. With the HTC One X people were complaining about how one side of the glass stuck out 0.1mm more than the other side or how there was a little bit of flex in the glass. With the Galaxy S3 people were complaining about the ink splotches you can barely see in zero light. With the Z1 people are complaining that Sony's using 4 different types of screens for it which is absolute bullcrap.

I'm starting to get over it too now :D Life's too short to nitpick over every single thing that's wrong with something.
[Xperia Z1 General] ckchan08:
yeah... and some are just so obvious they r some other brands' hardcore fans, just trolling around and talk bad about other brand only.
[Xperia Z1 General] Chirag22ster:
Ki Kantk. I share similar feelings like u. Dont really know whether its an issue or I am getting paranoid. Except the off white screen on some applications like google and contacts page, the rest of the screen is excellent with good viewing angles. Dont know what to do? Here is what I had written in some other topic.

Finally bought the Xperia Z1 yesterday. Batch BH900. And it definitely has the yellow hue issue. Having said that the viewing angles and the screen appears really good. All the videos reproduce white colour really well. I realy dont know if its just a calibration issue or hardware problem. Sony service in India is really bad and its seems that they are not giving replacements as they havent accepted the problem. Kind help me. Will this be sorted out in the next firmware update?
[Xperia Z1 General] taranfx:
I'm a note to Z1 convert. I love the display when looked headon. When watching video with firends, colors and contrast is washed for most of them, thats ugly.

---------- Post added at 03:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:44 PM ----------

your images are not viewable. Can u post again. I've poor viewing angles with bh903 and pinkishh tint
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
I tried an app called screen adjuster and after adding a few points of blue, any trace of yellowness dissapeared completely

Whites where very white and grays where perfect

I removed the app cause some people say it could damage the screen

But at least i know that a little bit of calibration(white balance setting like on z) would be enough to fix the only issue my phone has
[Xperia Z1 General] GavTheStoner:
Hey guys, been lurking since getting my Z1 a couple of weeks ago.

First one I got had serial BH90E.... - Had really yellow screen on it - didn't root it so don't know what manufacturer panel it had.

Took that back after the weekend and got another one. This time the serial was BH90F.... - The screen was better than the first but greys still looked yellow. Sharp panel.

The guy in the o2 store pretty much said that it was never going to look like the display model so wouldn't replace it again.

I thought this was unacceptable and applied this analogy:

Sony release a new w9 series TV, the display models have crisp images and perfect colour reproduction. The ones that they sell to customers arrive with less than adequate screens in comparison to the display model. Sony would replace these, I work in tech support and get calls like this all the time, Sony are generally quite good when it comes to uplifting faulty TV's with problems just like the one we are having with the Z1.

I find it hard to believe that with all the internet coverage that Sony don't think this is an issue.

So I emailed Rowan the CEO of O2, stating that I had been miss sold the phone because I bought it judging the quality I was to expect from the display model in store. He passed the case to someone else who promptly emailed me back stating that they have no knowledge of this being a fault in the supply chain. He also stated that he had seen the many threads (including this one) about this issue and offered to replace the handset again.

Today I received this handset. It has serial number CB512... The screen is just like the one I had viewed in the O2 store. Greys are grey and not yellow tinted. Whites are white. I even noticed some colour in the software that I hadn't before. When writing a new SMS message the text boxes have a green tint to them, whereas on the previous phones they had a yellow tint. Pictures on this display even without X Reality enabled look amazing. Viewing angles are good too. About to root it to find out the panel ID.

So to sum up my rantish post. If you are on O2 and have this issue. Email the CEO! ;)

Probably even worth emailing the CEO of whoever you got the phone from if its not O2 aswell. They cannot get away with pawning off the shoddy quality of these screens in a phone that costs £600. They would not get away with it in any other product.
[Xperia Z1 General] Option58:
Um guys...This thread isn't bull****. Sony does use different panels...at least for my phone. So I have Xperia Miro (it's a low end device with low resolution screen) but my unit has a great screen aside from resolution. Viewing angles are perfect. Blacks are somewhat deep for low end device. Colors are great and so on...

Today my friend bought the same phone but from totally different shop. Blacks were so washed out. Viewing angles are terrible. Colors awful. Like from low-end LG phones.

I really don't know but I suppose it's the same thing...And it's sad they use multiple screens in (let's believe this thread) higher end devices.... :(
[Xperia Z1 General] amirprog:
how can anyone call a 54 page thread "bull****". it's beyond me.
[Xperia Z1 General] GavTheStoner:
Turns out than the panel in my new Z1 is JDC. Serial starts CB512.

I think it was sent out from o2's online stock. Whereas the bh90x came from their high street shop.
[Xperia Z1 General] conquerator2:
Aw x/

That's indeed disappointing.

From what I've read in a review, Sony has been using one of the following:

JDC - old stock presumably, the inferior ones, identical to the Z1, perhaps even worse.

JDC - new, the one you got, superior in every way it seems.

Sharp - somewhere in between, a decent display it seems

Samsung - haven't seen this one yet, supposedly an IPS based display used in the newest/future batches. Comparable to the new JDC, maybe even better.

That's all I know and what I read... That basically mean that I have to test them in the store when buying and see how they compare to the ones on display (hopefully they'll be some...)

No way I am ordering these online yet... For.now.
[Xperia Z1 General] negrobembon:
Yeah quoting myself here

Apparently using this app was useless cause the issue dissappears as soon as im in a bright place

As if the backlight had something to do with it(happens even with auto brightness off)

I think im going crazy here so im taking my mind off this thread for a while