yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
There are still people on their forums who ordered and got recent batches that still had it. It's kind of like roulette.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FSOP:
Ah, we must have been the lucky ones then!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
No it wont. You're clearly a OnePlus employee set to damage limitation mode.

It's a backlight fault. It will never go away. The people saying it will, or theirs has, either had a genuine issue with glue setting (which does happen, albeit rarely) or are simply in denial/fanboi mode.

Still curious as to whether or not the more recent batches have had issues though. With the new update that supposedly fixes a lot of things, as well as the addition of RAW image output (some of the samples online look amazing), this phone has piqued my interest again.

As I said previously, I loved the design and everything else about it, but I just couldn't look past the awful screen uniformity.

The annoying touchscreen driver issues and call speaker/mic issues were also a major annoyance that took way too long to fix. I'm not even sure if they fixed the call quality issues.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djbenny1:
I ordered mine last Thursday, received on Monday and I'm pretty certain I don't have the problem.

I've tried looking at white picture etc and my eye can't pick out any significant discolouration.

Delighted with my OPO!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
Have

You read any of the comments above,

Its still an issue and until the oneplus 2 is released it won't change if you haven't got the yellow tinge then your lucky but have real close look around the bottom of your screen as its there on 99% of the ones.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FSOP:
Asked a couple of the guys at work earlier and none of them could see any yellow banding on mine
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lordxcom:
Honestly, $300 for a kick a$$ phone.. A little yellow hue.. Who cares...

Btw, read on a thread to lay the phone out in the sun for an hour, screen facing up, would clear it. And it worked for me.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
2 weeks of uv lamp treatment and sunlight and it never went away. It's a hardware design issue. Variances in screens used and the lights source at the bottom. Consider yourself lucky.

Never had a phone that looked two different colors even cheap ones didn't do that but it's funny how their moto is never settle yet people settle with that kind of issue.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veliksam:
Hey guys, I've been using my opo (64gb) for a couple of days now and I can confirm it dis not have any yellow tint, I even tested it using one of those dead pixel test apps and it's all nice and white when the white screen is on.

I'm lovin this phone.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
Best way to test is to get it on an white screen turn the brightness up but opo sent out an update a month or so ago that helped.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluxxis:
I received my OPO end of september and had the yellow band issue. I sold it soon after and ordered a Huawei Ascend P7. The P7 had the same issue. I was told this is very rare with the P7 but the other device I saw in a store had it too. In fact, nearly every second new device I checked in the store with a flat ips panel had this issue, amongst them some Sony Xperia Z devices and devices from HTC and LG (did not remember each one of them). You noticed it the most if you turn the device in landscape mode and watch some websites with white background (which is not so uncommon in my daily smartphone life). I guess that this is also why so many OPO users noticed the fault: A lot of manufacturers use the on-screen-navigation-bar on the bottom which hides some of the critical space near the lights. Samsung is one of the last manufacturers who is using hardware buttons - but also amoled displays which are not infected by design. The OPO also has hardware buttons and therefore the critical part of the screen has been left alone.

I think it all cames down to pricing, the higher the price of a device the higher the standards for the display (and the ration of false displays going into the trash). Why else are Apple iPhone Panels "better" although they were produced by the same display manufacturer?

If you want a panel without any color failures you have to go for an AMOLED display and just hope that it does not have any fault pixels, is bright enough for use in sunlight and does not have that ugly pentile matrix. Or you have to be one of the lucky ones with a perfect ips panel. Good luck!
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
I am not their employee lol and idc they can burn in hell if you ask me:D anyways from what you guys say it seems it won't go away. I thought it was just some glue like on nexus 5 and it go away by itself...

Sent from my One A0001
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTCC:
You must not have had a lot of phones if you have never came across a faulty display. My first 3 1+1 phones had a small amount of yellow tint on the bottom, about the same as my nexus 7(2013) has. I never noticed it as a problem on my nexus until I got my first 1+1 and started looking for it.

I ended up selling all three of the first ones I got because I got a G3 and I made several hundred pounds on them. The one I got a few weeks ago has no yellow tint at all.

On any forum your going to get people that have problems with their device because it is the first thing to do for most people who want help. You will also get people trying to find fault with stuff, even some who don't have it will say they have and say this that and the other is wrong with it. I sometimes wonder how many of these people are paid to do so.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
I just never had a problem with the phones I've owned. Of course they were more expensive than a one plus but I did have the purple camera issue on my m7. HTC replaced it free of charge via advanced rma.

If one plus could have done the same that would have been cool. I have a few friends who have a one plus and they have yellow screens, their choice to keep it. Doesn't matter if it was a one plus or any other brand if I would have had a bad display I would not have put up with it.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
Have you ever owned a nexus 4 or nexus 5? The reason I ask is because those two devices had ips screens too and from what I remember people were complaining about yellow tint and the only way it got fixed was with custom color profiles. Even now looking at my nexus 5 I see the yellow tint at the bottom of the screen. Amoled screens I have never seen this thing though. Even htc one x you could see the yellow tint and that was ips screen as well.

Sent from my One A0001
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
The nexus 6 will be my first nexus device. I also had iPhones before I owned androids. My father had an iPhone 4 with a yellow tint. It was annoying but we went down to the Apple store and exchanged it.

I didn't have a tint on my one plus but the yellow band at the bottom. I believe that's just variation in screens they use and the placing of the light sources at the bottom because of the bottom bezels.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FiremakerP:
Got the phone last Wednesday. I also have the yellow tint. I will try the uv light for several hours to see if it goes away.

I love the phone even coming from the Note3! Battery life is awesome, the overall feeling of the phone is awesome. But the yellow tint bothers me so much that if the uv light doesn´t work the phone is going to be RMAed.

:cyclops:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
Try it out with both uv and sunlight. Mine never changed and they would not replace it for me. If it bothers you a lot at least you have 14 days to request a refund.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
If I was u I'd forget trying UV lamp and get in touch with oneplus and start the return as they don't have a great track record when it comes to refunds/replacements.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FiremakerP:
I already started an RMA ticket since I know they are taking their time with it. If the Note 4 wasnt that super expensive :(.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] selayan:
It took a little over a month to get my refund. I'm not counting the additional week or two trying to get a proper non scripted response.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
you should have gone the paypal route.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] someth1ng:
The UV will never work. Glass absorbs most of the UV so barely any would reach the glue if it was even a glue problem.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noobtoob:
I have this issue. You cannot notice it unless you look really hard. I didn't notice it until I was using my phone in the dark, and had the whitest screen ever. Even then it was of no concern. You can tell it is a backlight issue as it was coming directly out of from where the screen end meets the capacitive buttons. I am personally concerned about performance, not the yellow tinge that I must struggle to see. It is going to boil down to a preference issue.

Preferences aside, the phone is overall of great quality. I would definitely recommend this phone (already have) to anyone who likes to have a solid phone at a decent price, and let's not forget the one plus philosophy of unlocking, rooting, etc... [emoji57]

from the one+
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sn0warmy:
For those saying new batches don't have the issue, my phone has a build date of 10/10 and it does have the yellow band at the bottom. Some RGB color adjustments paired with enabling the on screen nav bar completely hid it though.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I change my main phone almost every 6 months and I also buy 2 or 3 $100.00 - $200.00 phones every year to play with them and I never had a faulty display. Not even with other cheap chinese phone.

Not only that, but I never had a phone with so many problems either. First time I have a phone who ramdomly reboots (twice today) ! Well done Oneplus !
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Petertyuh:
Yellow banding

I've ordered mine on 7th October (don't know the production date yet), but I can't see any failure of the screen. It looks as white as it can get.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KaeKae13:
My husband got a OnePlus one back in June and unfortunately his did have a slight yellow band across the bottom of the screen. I got mine in September and was worried that it would have the same but luckily it didn't.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] q123456:
I also have this issue. 64GB Chinese version. Build date 08.08.

Will check if this will fade away in time, but dubt it will...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
Since using on screen buttons its not noticeable plus you have to be looking for it to notice it which most people aren't most of my friends are more interested in the low price and how they can get hold of an invite.(which I've explained can be a nightmare)
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
This opo phone spec is so outdated now and there are so many choices to get cheaper with much more powerful hardware in China like mx4. Having a half yellow screen makes a phone horrible than any other phones in my point of view.

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It is so bad that One Plus refuses to RMA or refund for yellow monitor OPO sometimes. I guess the yellow problem is so high % of their phones so if they let all people RMA or refund, they will just break. I heard their CS would just tell people that every OPO phone is the same anyway so RMA wouldn't help. The high chance getting a yellow monitor issue is why I don't get OPO and I think it is so unfair that they refuse to let customers get a new phone or refund even it is their fault for sure.

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call quality is much more important than so many things like cpu speed. I wouldn't get this OPO phone at all. I don't know do you guys know about it but One Plus mother company BBK Electronics is famous for making dvd players to play illegal dvd in china. Almost every family has one of their dvd players because everyone watches illegal dvd and their player is the best to break the code and watch any illegal dvd. I think they do pretty well in blue ray market too. That is how the company gets their wealth and then having OPPO, Vivo, One Plus. One Plus pretends it is not belonged to BBK but already proved it is.

So making players to watch illegal dvd, pretend a company doesn't below to them is the moral standard of this company, so they don't let you rma and don't fix calling quality make perfect sense.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
Ditto. They even expect you to pay shipping back to china even though you never agreed to pay them for a faulty device+your device ships from california, why return it to china. They try their best to make your life difficult so you never return it.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
would they even pay the shipment fee? What is their reason for not accepting yellow monitor as rma? They say it is a special feature so cannot rma ha ha? So after the first 14, then no way to return or rma I guess...

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by the way this is the most views thread of this opo section.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
Why you on here moaning about the specs if you don't want one don't get it simple
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTCC:
Don't forget that some people are paid to post negative stuff on forums, all forums have them.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
Don't forget that some people are paid to post fake positive reviews on forums and all over the internet;) let people speak up, why are you afraid? Or you follow the chinese tradition of censorship?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTCC:
I'm not afraid of anything, the Oneplus is one of many phones that I use, and I use it because I like the phone for the most part and when I stop liking it I will sell it after I move onto the next phone I decide to get.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
Then enjoy your phone and let those that do not like it talk. Afterall nobody said you are paid to like it, right?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTCC:
There is a difference between talking and preaching, it is obvious that you have an agenda with your posts.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heardamir:
I got two. One for my wife, and one for me. Mine has a yellow tint, among numerous other problems, and hers is fine. Wish I picked the OTHER box to open. ?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
I would give the non yellow one to my wife in this situation LOL
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heardamir:
Haha yeah, you're totally right.

The device is unusable now :( I'd have never heard the end of it :D
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
Have you tried to re fresh your rom?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heardamir:
Yeah, kernel too. Unfortunately, hasn't changed a thing.:crying:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
One Plus One CS and RMA service is very painful.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
Does the yellow issue still exists for anyone got in December? I would like to get one if there is no yellow issue anymore, but I guess the yellow issue still exists and this problem will be forever for OPO production...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gabeloooooo:
Yep, mine has a yellow spot (not bad enough to go thru RMA, but visible), got it early dec.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
Thanks for your reply. Base on what other people said in this post, One Plus customer service does not accept RMA because of yellow issue. They have tons of reasons to explain it is "normal" like if you look at it at another angle, then there isn't yellow....very horrible evil kind of customer service. I would not get OPO since yellow issue still exists.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoological:
Does anyone know where to get the screen equlizer app from user AAAH? It's not on the playstore anymore..
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ravi rokz:
Solution for one plus one yellow screen issue

the problem is due to glue used by company this will disappear by daily usage when phone gets heated the glue dissolves

if u r annoying about that u may keep device in sunlight for 20-30 minutes hope that helps you....
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quasar:
I've read that the yellow banding is because the glue between the screen and the body hasn't been cured properly. It can be fixed by exposing the screen to UV rays. Either leave your phone in the sun for an hour or two ( make sure it doesn't melt :p) or expose it to any other UV ray source, and it should be okay.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
Your joking right. Its nothing to do with glue its the way the screen is lit I got my opo in July its still got yellow tint its there for life or until the next opo.. But the ? Is can u live with it.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
You replied with a Nexus 6 so you cannot really live with a yellow sh it OPO.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
I've got an ip6p as well,if you turn on the nav touch buttons you can't notice the yellow tint.

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:confused:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crunchor:
Not looking at the bottom part of the screen is another way to fix it, or just brainstorm yourself to believe it is not really that yellow ha ha.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nedooo:
It's just ridiculous how many "I don't know how to call them" says it disappear over time.

This is backlight design flaw. And OPO is not going to fix it since there is an army of "I don't know how to call them"..."brainwashed hypnotized zombies" (that's how I should call them)...

OPO has failed their initialization as far as I'm concerned and many (still far from majority) using their God given abilities to look...see...think...

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No!!!!!

It has nothing to do with glue...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timos_:
I don't have that yellow tint on my screen...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nedooo:
It will never go away...

Maybe in OPTwo if they learn they lesson...

Piss effect is due to display backlight design (JDI genius... NOT!!!)...(slightly opaque near the source of the backlight (14 LED at the bottom of the diaplay)...what did they used to make it opaque...gremlin piss?!?!)...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
I can't believe this thread is still going its not going to get better over time a UV lamp doesn't help and neither does putting it on your cars dashboard like nedooo and a lot of others have said its a crap screen they gave us top specs for a cheap price but the screen is of a bit and off,if your one of those peeps who can't help notice it every time they look at there opo then send it back or before you buy check out some reviews as its a well known issue me I can live with it and if I use the on screen nav bar its gone plus the phone rocks its still holding its own against the latest devices,so don't concentrate on the bad focus on the good.:p:thumbup:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikramevan1:
NO

I guess no because recentry i bought 30 oneplus one from china. there is yellow issue in the screen
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DasGensu:
Ordered mine on 1/5/2015, got it a few days later.

It has the yellow tint at the bottom, but only noticeable if you really search for it. I use onscreen buttons so the very bottom does not concern me a bit.

If i use my 14 days to return it, will i be able to order a new one or do i need a new invite for that?

If i need a new invite, i think ill just live with it. best device ive ever had (apart from that) and as i said, its barely even noticeable
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DasGensu:
My Question is: Does it get worse? Mine is only noticeable on plain white screens when the screen is pretty dim (and i think i only see it because i knew of it and searched for it extensively - a mistake on my part)

if it stays that way i can live with it
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nedooo:
By my experience it stays same...
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaimex2:
No yellow bands on the two I ordered, absolute perfect screens. I got them early November.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justFred:
Hi,

can you share some photo from the screen? I am about to order one, but I need to know if I can live with that thing. ;) the photos I found aren't that clear

Sorry if this question is off topic, but:

I am also living in Germany, how many days from when you got it since you ordered it?

thanks
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexxusty:
I am truly amazed by some of these responses....

"Just use the software navigation bar"

That's a joke right? A really big one too I am guessing. Why in the hell would anyone accept that as a fix? Seriously?

Got mine the other day, saw the yellow band, searched, found all this crap..... annnd I'm selling it ASAP. I don't care how much this device ran me, I don't care if it has "great specs for the price". Like at all. I don't know why people try to justify this obvious cheap out by OnePlus on the OPO's screen.

They screwed us. Plain and simple. I for one will not accept if for one second. This device will be sold ASAP and I won't ever buy a OnePlus device again.

I will also tell every single person I meet or will see saying "Oh yeah, OPO is a great phone" that its a sack of trash and the company who makes it has the worst CS EVER! In shock with how they are dealing with this issue. They are done IMO.

It's a complete POS. Just like the company. We need to show them what's good.

Doing EXACTLY OPPOSITE of what their motto says will not aid us in this venture.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
Pretty much this really.

Plus with the OPPO Find 7 being only £40 more than the OnePlus One in the UK now, it's a far better phone for the money. Expandable storage + a QHD screen + no yellow band + fast charge (75% in 30 mins!!!).

Battery might not last as long, but then again, the OnePlus One has had garbage battery with every update after launch.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oneplus:
It is a color temperature issue. Compare it with a nexus and notice how the whites on the nexus are yellow. The reason why, is that google noticed the what would happen if they go for blueish whites like the 1+1 and instead they decided to get rid of the white whites and ship all their phones with yellow white. Is annoying though and not acceptable, no matter how much you pay for the phone.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexxusty:
I'm almost positive the Nexus 6 just has closer to 6500k (NTSC Standard) temperature bro.

I really doubt it's the screen itself.

What you are not seeing is the screen on the OPO IS defective. Without debate.

Screens don't have different temperatures on specific portions of the screen. They have to be uniform in order to be a non defective product.

My Note 4 has a lowly Pentile Screen and it's easily the best screen I've ever used. By a very wide margin. It has its fallbacks yes, but there is not clouding or uniformity issues. At all. Samsung includes different colour temperatures in the stock ROM for you to use and I don't see why ALL manufacturers do this. If Google doesn't add this to AOSP they are pretty short sighted.

The screen is the same with my Note 3 though. Perfect in every way (sans TN Pentile).
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GabrielSousa:
orded my 16-2-2015

and i have a little Yellow tint,

did anyone manage to fix this ?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pifsworld:
This post should be changed to all opo have a yellow tinge at the bottom of screen so live with it.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FiletMignon:
I received my OPO last Summer/Autumn. There's no hint of a tint yellow or otherwise.