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[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
My first galaxy s6 edge had a vertical line from top to bottom. Got it replaced. The second unit had a big smudge under the screen. Went with a normal galaxy s6 instead. No screen issues i can see. I added a couple of comparison pics with my Galaxy S5. The S6 is on the left. S6 looks a little warmer then the S5. But i cant see any kind of tints
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
For comparison, could you maybe upload some pics of the screens in Basic Mode as well? Cheers!
[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
I dont have the S5 anymore unfortunately.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Pics of the S6 will be sufficient.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Doubt that matters. My four phones were manufactured on different dates (earliest 3/14 and latest 4/17) and have the issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
S6 pics in basic mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Cheers...and your screen does indeed look very good...congrats! :good:
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
They say life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you gonna get. But for me it seems I'm always getting the lemons. Haha. Mali019 seems to have the most perfect phone I've seen so far... Keen to sell? Lol.
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
I might be imagining it but it seems like top left is yellowish and bottom right in pinkish.
[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
I cant notice any major screen issues with my unit. If I look long enough I'm sure I will start seeing issues. Compared to some other screens I have seen my screen looks good ( third time the charm) Hopefully I wont have any other issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Of course if you're game you could always show a fully white background and we can nitpick... but based on the images you've shown I did a high contrast image and couldn't make out any noticeable tint. Yours is really a good screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
Just out of curiosity i will upload a couple of just white background pictures :)
[Galaxy S6 General] Maywell:
Hi, Guys. I follow this thread also the Galaxy S6 display thread.

I myself take some shoots and compare between my previous S4 screen which I thought the better screen white, to my new S6 edge (I switched from S4 to S6 edge). Taken some shoots such as white wallpaper, flat brownish and gray wallpapers in basic mode and adaptive display mode, with lowest and highest manual brightness.

I found that S6 edge does have the better screen including the white color. It does have a slight warmer tone (yellowish) but it's obviously still better than my S4, which I thought I'm comfortable seeing its white on screen.

The "yellowish" screen I disappointed with S6 was actually only because my eyes get used to my S4, which actually wrong and inaccurate displaying color. I became comfortable with S4 after long time using, so my eyes are getting uncomfortable with S6 more accurate colors.

After understanding this, I think now I can live with my S6 edge peacefully.. I know I'll get used to it. I don't give a dam with bluish iPhone's LCD color. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
I saw how blue the iphone 6 screen is just yesterday. Compared to the screen of the S6 imo it's far less desireable. Really not nice to look at. The S6 has a much much nicer screen :laugh:
[Galaxy S6 General] mali019:
Some pictures of just white background.
[Galaxy S6 General] Maywell:
This is images of my Galaxy S4 compare with my Galaxy S6 edge, all in BASIC display mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
I *really* do not like you! ;)

That is a perfect screen imo...many congrats, looks like you've gotten yourself a perfect S6.
[Galaxy S6 General] easycure1974:
That is always the problem with amoled, I prefer a good lcd instead of amoled screens

Skickat från min iPhone med Tapatalk
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
Hi

Do you think my display is as good as yours? I'm just OCD right now :)

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
do you think i suffer from the same as yours?

Samsung says this is normal :|
[Galaxy S6 General] ReBorn1983:
I don't know what to do. My Edge has a yellowish screen if viewed from normal angle. If you tilt it a little bit it shows beautifull whites. Compared to a S4...the S4 has the better screen. I can't belive Samsung don't aknowledge that there is a issue with the edge screen... or just that there a massive differences beetween the screens in the same model.

For an AMOLED display, the WAD phenomenon results in the colour white sometimes appearing to have a Green tint, or on occasion a Blue or Yellow tint when viewing the AMOLED at an angle.

But when viewing directly from the front or side the colour will be as expected.

http://www.samsung.com/africa_en/support/skp/faq/1076253

So i'll send it back (again) and hope for a better device....
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Yeah except mine is on the opposite side. May I know where you live? In singapore I was also told the same.
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
got it from Samsung Singapore as well.

Samsung Singapore says this is normal, and it is not an defect.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Can you download the Phone Info Samsung app and check when your phone was mfg'ed? Mine's 4/17/15 from Vietnam, S6 gold 64gb.

Anyway if you can't get used to it, sell the phone. I wrote about my experience on my website a few posts back. My experience at Samsung Service Centre was same as you. Which service centre did you go to?

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Wow. What brightness settings are you on? Btw, that looks perfect. Simply perfect.
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
according to the phone info app.

it says made in vietnam, s6 gold, 32gb, 20150331
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
I see. Which service centre did you go to? I went to Marina Square. Wonder if a different svc centre would have different results.
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
Marina Square and Jurong point.

They showed it to a technicion, then the manager, and they both confirm its alright, if they want they can only change the screen, I was not happy to change the screen in new unit.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
I see. At least they're open to changing the screen, it seems. Why not give it a try? It could be that the screens they have on hand are better-binned. Otherwise, your best bet would be to sell, and buy again. Or if you' bought from Singtel, you can try getting a 1-1 exchange from them. I did that at first, but the 2nd unit had the same issue too.
[Galaxy S6 General] cuteoz:
it seem almost all the unit has the same issue, when in full brightness the issue is not existent.

only when it becomes really dim the problem is noticeable.

I think my problem is not that noticeable.

I don't think Singtel will exchange for 3rd time.
[Galaxy S6 General] reubenskelly1992:
If my s6 was perfect like that and Samsung gave a damn about good quality control for there customers I would've still had an 's6 now. Congratulations dude. That's one perfect screen:)
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucidd33:
How hard is it to get a perfect one? I've been following this thread and starting to wonder about amoled. Discouraging really.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
Had 5 phone all with some degree on tint or bad home button. Don't hold your breath unless u are feeling very lucky
[Galaxy S6 General] Lucidd33:
Sigh?

Found this too: no wonder the home button is so fragile and scratched:

https://techpolarity.wordpress.com
[Galaxy S6 General] PerryRhodan:
Is no one replacing the phone because of the gray frame which will be visible under sunlight on a lighten / white background?

I replaced my phone three Times because of this issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] 8roundsrapid:
Ive had a handful of s6's now . The first few went back as there were gaps around the screen . The next had a pink tint to the lower third of the screen . The one I have now while not having such an obvious colour tint is patchy when displaying whites . I have seen friends s6 and they have the same problem . Great phone let down by awful quality . Wont swap now as experience tells me the next may well be worse , but I tell you one thing for sure , this little blighter will most likely end up on ebay when the next batch of phones drop in the autumn. Just a shame I have to live with it for so long, cant believe I have paid so much for this phone .

I do not recommend this phone , I admit that the rest of the phone experience is amazing BUT between google , ebay amazon etc.. I spend too much time viewing white backgrounds for this not to over shadow all else , whats the point of all the fancy stuff if it cant expext the most basic performance that I having been getting from phones for years . Please note before im accused of trolling I have never owned a phone that is not a samsung :(
[Galaxy S6 General] DeMi-GoD:
I took my s6 out today in the sun and tried to look for that with a white screen and I didn't have it so it's odd that some people do.

Sent from my Galaxy S6 ~
[Galaxy S6 General] reubenskelly1992:
I had the sunlight thing on both of mine. Horrible
[Galaxy S6 General] PerryRhodan:
When you have a look to the teardown, it seems to be the film directly behind the screen. The frame has exactly the form of this layer.

I think you can be happy when your phone doesn't have this issue such as strong.
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
Well this is what happens when they try to make the phone too thin.
[Galaxy S6 General] otacon888:
Do you suffer from the pink hue?

Sent from my SM-G925F
[Galaxy S6 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
Bought a galaxy s6 flat version 64gb a couple of days ago.

I can definitely notice a faint pint tint around left top corner which is becoming really annoying when viewing websites.

Didn't realise until now how much white background is used in normal daily tasks.

I don't think I'll return mine because it seems like there's a good chance you will get a potentially worse screen. Mine's perfect except this screen issue.

Really disappointed in this phone and frankly, I think this will be my last samsung phone. I have never had any luck with samsung products.

I would like to point out though that the display models at various stores all seemed to have a perfect white screen. Didn't see any pink tint issues..

I wonder if as you use the screen, these pink tint will "burn-off" and sort of reach a good white balance.

Time will tell.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Maybe, hopefully! But I also think Samsung ships devices with a perfect screen to many (p)reviewers as well as shops for demo purpose.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Well due to the many screen issues on my 4 separate S6's, I am now seriously contemplating returning to (my trusty) Note 4. It really was an excellent phone/phablet, and the large screen-size is to be honest much better than the smaller size on the S6 in my personal opinion. Ok, it's bit (tongue-in-cheek) heavier, but I'll survive :)

Also the upcoming update to android 5.1 with the trimmed-down version of TW (as on the S6) should be very nice indeed.

Sjeez...seems like I wasted about a month of my life with the S6 :eek: Well not really, but you get the drift....
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
It's hard to see under store lighting it needs to be a fairly dull room to see it properly ad the brightness needs to be lower.
[Galaxy S6 General] ReBorn1983:
Just decided to give it another try.. I can't unsee the yellow tint. Maybe the third one don't have these issues.

Anyone with this issues got finally one that's worth the money?
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
nope!

gonna start tweeting #nextispink against the #nextisnow hopefully get it up the trending stats a bit get people noticing...
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
The fact that display models and all the ones that they gave to reviewers are perfect means they definitely know about all these issues, before the phone was released.
[Galaxy S6 General] hung77:
Reviewers does not receive perfect models. I have watched many reviews and also see the pink tint in the video's . Most people don't see this phenomenon though. So, claiming that samsung sent perfect units to reviewers is just nonsense.
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
I'm talking about well-known reviewers for popular sites like cnet.com. Not some random Youtuber. If they have to buy their own phone, then probably they will have the pink tint issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] RustySpoons:
I have a decent screen after 2 exchanges, but I now have the Samsung ISOCELL Camera :(
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Review indicates not a huge difference between the Sony and Isocell modules. From memory one is a bit better in good lighting and the other a bit better in low lighting. But definitely no huge differences between both cam modules.
[Galaxy S6 General] RustySpoons:
Pictures look quite a bit different to what I see between the two, the ISOCELL Is a bit washed out with no punch, I never take low light pictures, if I do I have a high end DSLR for that.

I went for the S6 to have the best camera in my pocket if I need to take some pictures during daytime. I do hope we can get an answer once and for all which is better.

Is the ISOCELL the same sensor as the S5 as that's quite old.
[Galaxy S6 General] vegetaleb:
Hello!

I wonder if someone ask for a screen replacement because of the ''burnins'' on white background under direct sunlight, and if yes if it worked?

On my S6 I don't have this problem and we have good sun in my country that's why I don't understand how some have it and say it's on all screens
[Galaxy S6 General] RustySpoons:
Yes they do!

Also every device in an Apple store is cherry picked, same with the ones that go out for review.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Just curious, what do you mean by a 'decent' screen?

Most of the screens I've come across in stores seem to be either one of the two:

1) Pink uniform tint

2) Whiter screen with patches of tint
[Galaxy S6 General] RustySpoons:
First one had a Yellow Tint, near perfect uniformity,

Second one had Awful uniformity,

Third one has the correct white balance and near perfect uniformity.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Im on my 6th phone and it has some pink but its very hard to see. Gonna keep this one as its the best i think im gonna get.
[Galaxy S6 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
Is there like an app or something that we can change the white balance on s6?

Maybe we can change the white balance a bit more cooler or warmer to mask the pink tink a bit.

It's really annoying that I have spent so much money on this phone and I have to spend so much time worrying about it.

What a waste of my time.

My next phone will definitely not be an amoled screen!
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
"Screen equalizer" is the best ive found.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...oid&pcampaignid=APPU_1_o8pTVempKIK3ogSU7oDgAg
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
Careful as it makes grey/dark colors worse, but whites do become better.
[Galaxy S6 General] xmfpdlemalnz@hotmail.com:
Could you recommend the values to use in the app to make the pink tint a bit less obvious ?

Anyone with other work arounds, please suggest!!
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
The reason its pink is because the green leds arent bright enough in the pink areas. I had success using neon green color at about 95-98% tranparency
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
I'm currently in the process of burning the green LEDs on the non-pink areas to make my entire screen pink. Once that is done, I plan to burn the red LEDs uniformly to restore the balance to make the screen white again. Let's see how this goes...
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
Just so people are aware, using a green filter or tint will burn out the already weak green pixels quicker meaning you will need to do more and more to compensate. You also risk green burn in over time
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Which is why I'm doing the opposite. I'm burning in the strong green pixels so they become equally weak. And then I'll burn the red pixels throughout so they become less pink.
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
no idea how long that will take....
[Galaxy S6 General] kLN93:
Do post screenshots when you're done please!
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
out of interest, how are you doing the burning in specific parts of the screen, what app are you using as screen equaliser seems to only be able to do big blocks across the screen and not patches...
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Mine has a pink patch at the top and green at the bottom, so screen equaliser works perfect for my use. I use display tester to leave the top half on a black background and not have the screen timeout.

I've been doing it for two hours each day for a week now.. Unfortunately not much of a difference yet.
[Galaxy S6 General] hanano17:
Even if these screen burning techniques work, they shouldn't have to be done. For me, I'm not paying $700 for pink tint or to go through a tiresome process of burning pixels. I am returning my 3rd S6, which came today and is the worst one yet. I will go back to my N6 for a little bit and hope they iron out their screen problems and try again in a few weeks or so.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Note 4s have been out for 6 months And people are still having the same problem. Go take a look at their forums.
[Galaxy S6 General] hanano17:
Well thats not promising :/
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Anyway, I left it on the whole night. To change up the mix, I left the bottom on green and the top on red. Unfortunately, things remained the same when I wake up. Perhaps one good outcome of this is that the screen isn't that susceptible to burn in... Not at least for 7 hours.

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Indeed.

fyi: http://xdaforums.com/note-4/general/note4-amoled-screen-quality-t2906365/page30
[Galaxy S6 General] iamhacked:
I bought one today, and the pink tint is very subtle. It seems to be pinkish at the top and greenish at the bottom, but it changes a lot by angle.

Manufactured date March 25.
[Galaxy S6 General] orlandoxpolice:
Don't know if it is the placebo effect but the adapt display secret setting from the HDxDaniel thread seems to make it less noticeable, although the rest of the colors are slightly more washed out.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Yea i noticed it helped a little too. But colors were also washed out a little.
[Galaxy S6 General] superleeds27:
I've gotten use to it now.

Granted, mine wasn't as bad as some on here. Using the hidden adapt display setting. I think the colours look more natural!
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Excuse my ignorance, did I miss something. What's this adapt display setting and where can one find the HDxDaniel thread? Cheers!
[Galaxy S6 General] superleeds27:
http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/want-accurate-colors-cool-whites-lcds-t3107840
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Cheers. That's a funny mode...how does one ever find it I wonder :eek:

Will have to try it out a bit more to see how my eyes like this setting...not sure on first sight to be honest.
[Galaxy S6 General] exxi:
I suggest you guys stop being such ******* about the screen and go on with your life.

My phone also has a pink tint but honestly, after 2 days I just got used to it and now I don't see it anymore.

Just enjoy the performance of the phone and go on.
[Galaxy S6 General] daffie:
Oi Forrest speak for yaself...

...***** is as ***** does!
[Galaxy S6 General] ReBorn1983:
and that's why samsung can throw ****ty quality screens on the market... "Only 700 bucks and the screen isn't flawless. but who cares..my daddy bought it for me"
[Galaxy S6 General] exxi:
you know I'm right about this. It seems like this thread is where obsessive compulsive s6 owners gather to rant and reassure themselves about some minor problem - a luxury problem really.

Also I don't think that Samsung is going to address the issue in its second batch of production because production methods are too expensive to change for something that only a few complain about. So don't get your hopes up, you'll only be disappointed.

Might as well just start accepting it and be happy that you own a flagship device with mind blowing performance and an excellent camera.
[Galaxy S6 General] Jonathan-H:
You're right and wrong. I am using a cheap Samsung monitor right now which has a perfect screen, my phone on the other hand cost 5 times as much and has a pink dark tint on the bottom 25% of the screen. It makes the screen average rather than excellent and looks worse than my HTC One M9 which i've just sold. The performance isn't mind blowing either, it's good, until it lags and slows and has to be restarted, but you're right about the flagship with excellent camera bit.
[Galaxy S6 General] Kinetical:
Just visited the Galaxy Studio in SoHo, NYC. Got my screen replaced for the pinkish tint problem. However the repair didn't solve the problem and now the phone is shipped back to Samsung.

People in the store were very helpful, when I showed them the screen, instead of denying the problem or staring at me, they recognized the problem immediately and took my phone to repair. 30 minutes later, my phone was back with a new screen, but I was told that it wasn't a 100% fix. I did see a similar tint on the new screen.

The technician there told me that I probably need a new motherboard instead of a new screen. I said OK and then asked him to explain. The idea behind it was each motherboard has a module to hold the calibration of color/tone/contrast built-in to fit each individual screen. Some companies like Sony or Nokia (well...) prefer the module on screen to enable extra features like 'Memory-on-display' so the CPU doesn't have to re-draw the whole screen every 1/60 seconds if the image is still or just to show you the clock with lowest brightness. In the S6 however, this module is on the motherboard.

So my phone is back to Samsung, waiting for a motherboard replacement. I will let you guys know how does it turn out when I get it back. Cheers.
[Galaxy S6 General] NeoAznMan:
I wonder if the module can be edited via software.

If not, then it must be hard-coded and a reason for motherboard replacement.
[Galaxy S6 General] superleeds27:
After applying the 'hidden' adapt display mode my screen seems to be okay now.

Its not pure white white, I'm not going to lie, but the obvious tint I could see no longer annoys me!

I think if you have a slight tint, keep the phone, your eyes adjust to it. If its really bad, like the one on the first post then yeah, fight for a replacement!
[Galaxy S6 General] Andi1000:
That is mine. Looks really bad for me [emoji20]

Auto brightness 50%.
[Galaxy S6 General] superleeds27:
Yeah, that's not acceptable really! Really is noticeable!
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Thats horrible. I had 3 about that bad. Had no problems exchanging them.

Just curious, what camera sensor do you have? My worst pink phones all had samsung cameras. Wondering if theres a correlation....
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
My one which is pretty good is a Sony sensor. The 3 bad ones I checked were all isocell so uight gave a point. Don't know how the camera module would be connected to screen tint though?
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
No im just wondering if they cherry picked the best screens for the sony phones. Most the review sites seem to be using sony cams and no report of pink screen issues.

Only review i saw with the pink screeen issue, i couldt find any info on what cam they had.

My final 6th phone is the only one that came with a sony and the screen is almost perfect.
[Galaxy S6 General] trenzterra:
Nah. My first three phones had the issue and with Sony sensors. Now I'm cursed with both isocell and the screen issue.
[Galaxy S6 General] Andi1000:
My S6 Edge has the Sony Sensor.

With screen adjuster you get, even with this strong pink tint, quite a good result
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Well that answers that! Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] Hawke84:
That was interesting thinking. Could still me more differences between phones??
[Galaxy S6 General] demonwind:
Can you try the secret adapt display mode and post a photo?
[Galaxy S6 General] Andi1000:
I've already tried.

It is placebo. Only the saturation is less than before. I do not see big improvements.

With screen adjuster, a green filter and the right settings ... it's a big step ahead.

Disadvantage ... you get a dirty effect on black and dark grew