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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msburr87:
I have been using a Nexus 5 for the past two weeks, which has great color accuracy and whites due to being a LCD. So when I swapped out my sim into the nexus 6p I was really disappointed with the pink hue. Really the only thing better about the 6p display (apart from size) is true blacks. Also before that I was using the perfect screen on the note 5. So surprising as so many reviews raved about the 6p display, and I was under the impression the 6p used the same panel as the note 5. I realize this is normal to an extent but I guess the million dollar question is how much.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiv101:
I'm only seeing the yellow on very low brightness which I believe is normal
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msburr87:
Same thing
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
I don't know about the Note 5 being perfect, you may have been lucky with yours, but I looked at a few demo ones in store and they were not any better than the 6P, same color tint shift from various angles and horrible burn-in on the demo models (granted they are on 24/7 on max brightness I assume).

I think overall I would have preferred an IPS screen in the 6P, this is my first AMOLED and not impressed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy Homeless Guy:
The warmer color is the correct color. For years we have been subjected to poor color on screens that is actually more blue than white. Now everyone thinks something is wrong with there simply because a problem that has existed for a long time had beaten fixed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
This.

Years back I had my HD RPTV professionally calibrated and had the calibrator setup 3 color profiles: neutral, warm and cool

Neutral felt too yellowish to me but it was what you would consider a perfect calibration. I preferred cool which makes the whites a little bluish

The "yellow tint" on our screens was actually more like the neutral setting on the calibrated TV so I tend to think of it as correct. I still prefer cool bluish whites, though.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Correct is in the eye of the beholder :) Who says what "correct" is? People have different perceptions of colors. Correct is what pleases your eyes, that's all that matters.

But the thing is, use a device for a bit and you'll get used to it, we adapt rather quickly, in particular if you don't have another device to compare.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brownmc77:
Pink Tint

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I experienced the pink tint. I only noticed it in the bottom right and I didn't really know if I actually saw it, thought I had bird eyes too, until I received my new RMA, then I really noticed the difference. And they sent it overnight express which was very nice of them. It's funny because I'm still waiting on my graphite 128gb that I ordered on initial release day. Smh
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy Homeless Guy:
6500k is the digital standard of what white should look like on a screen. It is an objective measurement not a subjective assumption.

6500k will appear slightly warm even yellow if you were using a poorly calibrated display prior to this phone. Use the phone for a month and then look at your old phone. You will likely be surprised at how blue your old phone looks.

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Agree. I hate AMOLED screens but I bought this device anyway.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Unfortunately there's no good Android device out there that gives you prompt security updates (the monthly updates from Google). There's nicer hardware but you are stuck on who knows what version and for how long.

The Nexus 5X is really not an alternative, somewhat inferior device for only $70 less (for the 32GB version). And it's not even that much smaller than the 6P which is on the big side for me.

So we have to live with the compromise, AMOLED in this case. I'm sure we'll survive :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vaxick:
My display has a slightly yellow tint, but I'm not shocked. Google was the same way with the Nexus 6 so I expected warmer colors. Thankfully this time around it isn't so extreme and rather subtle.

As for the tints you notice off axis, that's a characteristic of OLED displays. You'll notice it in LG HDTV's as well that have OLED panels.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidbuff123:
I noticed that if you put a bluish wallpaper on your screen, the yellowish tint practically goes away. Much better now.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiv101:
I had a little yellow but elementalx fixed that problem
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anglerstock:
you must be kidding me lol. who told you that? correct color is the one my eyes tell me so, not what some "scientist" writes on some blog. yellow color is not white.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rainstalk:
You're definitely correct! i didn't even notice it till you said something but i have been thinking something is wrong with my tablet screen for the last two days because it is all too blue. That's crazy!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BTT8:
Anyone get their 6p replacement yet? If so, please post pics for comparison sake
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkc120:
I took a couple, but in a hurry and they suck. Suffice it to say, replacement is uniform and quite acceptable, though probably still yellow compared to an LCD panel. Only qualm I have is the sudden drop off in the black gamma test which translates to the halo effect in dark parts of video but I'll take that over a half pink screen.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goffmj:
I get mine tomorrow. Will try to do so.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 91SDLegend:
As far as I'm concerned, I've considered my device perfect, my speakers are evenly balanced out and there's no defects in the pieces on the phone so far.. *knocks on wood*. I'm just concerned about the thread. From what a good amount of people are saying, its normal for the 6P display to have warmer whites. That's the only thing throwing me off at the moment. Hopefully someone with an RMA can clear this up.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] italia0101:
This thread always appears lol,

Displays can be calibrated colder or warmer ( 7500k or 6500k )

Now they shouldn't be urine coloured yellow, but generally 6500k is where it should be , if you are used to a colder screen then it will appear yellow, but you do get used to it, its better for other colours to be this white point.

My dell laptop which is correctly calibrated pretty much has the exact same white point, i can change it if i like, but after a while the colder display looks unnatural imo
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy Homeless Guy:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Standard+white+point+temperature
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnafides:
That's fine in theory, but in reality there are differences in these panels. Between my original/replacement and two others that I compared in person, they all had slightly different "tints" at the same brightness setting. The screen on my replacement was noticeably less washed-out than the original.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anglerstock:
You stick to that b.s. I will trust my eyes. What my eyes tell me is white, is white.

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
Its not BS, that is true white.

But most humans prefer brighter white, which is "cool" in color temperature (less than 6500K)

On my G2 the ROM Im running has something called "Live View" that will alter the screen color temp based on lighting conditions. So at night it becomes warmer so the screen is easier to look at in the dark. The night "color" temp is....6500K. The screen looks....yellowish. But to me that means the screen is too cool during every other lighting condition (i.e. whites are a bit bluish)

If you flash any modded kernels and/or ROMs, chances are there will be an RGB level adjustment built in. You can use it to tweak out the yellow.

I still maintain the most important part of the screen is that its consistent......consistently pink, yellow, blue, it doesnt matter as long as its "evenly wrong". You can then use an app or mod to tweak the levels to your liking.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
6500K is fine in theory, but how do you know that your particular screen sample actually displays 6500K? The only way to find out is to use a color meter which most of us don't have, so we just have to go with our eyes. Maybe the calibration of these screens is all over the place or maybe people perceive colors in different ways.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
You are right, we dont know for sure.

BUT I've seen screens calibrated to 6500K and whites on them always seem yellowish (at least to me). So logic tells me that a 6500K display (in any form) will show me yellowish whites.

Other eyes will most likely differ, but the yellowish tint on my N6P was something I expected and Im basically already used to after 6 days with the phone.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Personally I'm not a fan of calibrated TVs for example, I spent a lot of time getting home theater TVs calibrated and did not like the outcome. As correct as it may have been, it just didn't look right to my eye, so what good does that do me if I know it's "calibrated" but I'm disappointed every time I look at the screen?

On TVs I prefer more vivid colors but on phone screens I'm not a fan of the AMOLED colors, maybe because I've been using IPS phones for many years and that's what I'm used to.

Now, I'm happy we have the sRGB option in the Dev Options, but the setting doesn't seem to survive reboots. Hopefully there will be a fix for it.

But the color shift from various angles on AMOLED is disappointing and noticeable. On the plus side you can make the screen look blue-ish or pink-ish just by moving it a bit, whatever hue you prefer you can get instantly.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
Oddly enough Im the same as you....I had my RPTV professionally calibrated to 3 different color levels (since the TV supported 3 levels). Cool, Normal (perfect 6500K) and warm.

After all was said and done I preferred the Cool setting. Normal seemed a bit too yellowish for my tastes.

But to me, you want to produce a screen/device that is where it SHOULD be, not where some people might prefer it. Since its a pure Android phone its easy enough to get an app (or kernel) that allows you to tweak it to your hearts content, within reason. All of the AMOLED display phones Ive had have been helped by a little RGB level tweaking but thats because of MY preference. Some people prefer the yellowish tint, its a lot of personal preference more than anything.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Not really. As a manufacturer your #1 job is to sell as many devices as possible. So you have to calibrate them out of the box where they attract most eye views. I think most people prefer the vivid colors of Samsung AMOLED phones, I'm sure Samsung put a lot of research into it, they could easily calibrate them any other way but this is what they found sells best.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
Agreed. Its just like how all TVs come out of the box at 100% contrast, because "fake" seems to sell better than "real" when you are up on a wall with a bunch of different brands.

I feel the opposite, Id rather have it at least a little more realistic. I do see why most people don't agree.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
Does the tint problem get worse? I had a very slight pink tint on the left side of the phone out of the box, it was so slight I hardly noticed it. Over the past day or two, it seems to be getting worse and the colour now obviously shifts from pink on one side to green on the other?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
I don't think it should get worse in 2 days, but AMOLED usually gets worse with time as the diodes wear out. How I wish they used an IPS panel instead ... just copy what Apple does for hardware, they've done all the research :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
Maybe I'm just noticing more after the excitement of getting it has died down.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Also try the sRGB setting in Dev Options, you may like the colors better and it seems to make the color shift less obvious (it's still there, can't get rid of it, it's just an AMOLED thing, kinda like TN vs. IPS panels for computer monitors).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Epic800:
I just received my device yesterday. I am seeing a light yellow color towards the bottom of my screen. Should I try contacting Google for a swap?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechBSwift:
Yup because your phone will always be uneven
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadget069:
What about the yellow tint while there phone is in the sun? Otherwise no yellow tint is noticeable.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Epic800:
Was able to get Google to issue a replacement, no questions asked. Hopefully this one doesn't present any issues.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechBSwift:
I've had 5 nexus 6ps and only two have had correct screens. I refuse to pay $1200 (2 phones) and the items are not perfect
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiv101:
I just broke down and called google cause I have the top portion a washed out yellow and the bottom is perfect
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BTT8:
Pictures please guys!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkc120:
I've noticed that, or rather the shadow of my hand on the screen. That's normal as far as I know.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjaak1234:
AMOLED as a technology is much better than LCD. Better color reproduction, black is actually black instead of greyish (not so much an issue on phones as on tvs but still), better viewing angels, no blurrieness when showing fast movements etc.

I can't wait for everything to become AMOLED. I had one of the first AMOLED phones, the HTC Legend and I think the screen is still fine. My mom has been using it up until last year.

The screen in the 6P is made by Samsung right? I don't see any reason why the 6P screen should have more issues than other devices equipped with Samsung displays.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkc120:
The viewing angle, at least on my 6P, is terrible in terms of retaining color. Blue hue shift at very slight angles. My N6 screen wasn't as bad actually.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Better viewing angles? How so? They all show horrible hue shift as you tilt the screen a little bit. I can make my screen blueish or pinkish just by angling it a little bit. The plus I guess is that I don't need any kernel customizations to do so :)

What about burn-in and colors becoming less and less accurate as the diodes wear out? In particular the blue diodes.

Visibility outside in bright daylight is a problem too.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdave79:
I received my RMA device yesterday. I'm beginning to wonder if these are new devices or just ones that other people have returned as mine came out of the box with a small fingerprint smudge on the screen.

Anyway, the yellow tint is still there but definitely less noticeable on my replacement. Guess I'll just keep it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjaak1234:
Like I said AMOLED/OLED as a technology is better. Maybe there is an issue with the coating causing issues but every OLED tv I've seen in stores had no discoloration under the viewing angles I checked and it pretty much annihilated the (more expensive) LCD tvs displayed next to it in terms of IQ.

Burn-in is a non issue for phone/tvs used under anything remotely resembling normal usage. Yes if you are going to put it in a store with the screen on for 12 hours a day displaying the same screen over and over again, yes that won't do any good to the screen but that won't happen under normal usage.

Same goes for diode wear. This simply isn't an issue on phones under anything resembling normal usage.

I don't know about visibility outdoors, all the reviews I read mentioned the screen was readable outdoors and didn't mention it being noticeably worse than other phones released over the past couple of years.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tones1971:
Just got mine. Disappointed with the whites on the screen. And the colours do change on tilting the screen. Ive no idea if this is intentional or something wrong? Happy enough to wait for devs to calibrate it if thats all is needed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirxdroid:
Welcome to AMOLED. There is nothing "wrong" with the color shift, you can check out a bunch of Samsung S6 and Note 5 in stores, they all do the same thing. Well ... it is "wrong" in the sense that the colors should not be shifting like this, but it's "normal" for AMOLED.

Enable Dev Options, go in there and try the sRGB setting, you may like it better if you come from IPS screens. For some reason the setting doesn't seem to survive reboots so you'd have to re-enable it every time you reboot.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
It the uneven colours that have made me RMA mine, pink down one side and green down the other when looking at the screen straight on. That's an issue I've not had with any other phone not the Note 4 or S6 Edge, both have had even colours. It's not on that the quality of a £500 is subject to such an issue.

Edit: I've also noticed in the RMA order that Google will check the defective device when they receive it and if it's not defective charge you up to the full amount of the phone, they could in effect say the issue isn't actually an issue and charge you for returning it!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tones1971:
Annoyingly it looks a lot better when i tilt the screen back. But not so great straight on. sRGB is the same. Havent had an AMOLED since my S3 i had for a brief time. Dont remember such problems even back then.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nrfitchett4:
No, that guy is always right, no point in trying to discuss anything with him.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jiv101:
Do you think they'll take this phone back due to the uneven screen color?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
Yeah,definitely.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
Think you're in the wrong thread, but so are a few others to be fair.

Yours looks very similar to the first one I sent back. Can only be evened out by making the top half pink through an app, but then everything is pink and horrible to look at.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tones1971:
Quite shocked at how many screens are suffering yellow tint. thinking of returning for a refund. I dont want to have to look at my phone from an angle all the time to get the colours right.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjaak1234:
Okay, took some searching but I found two 6Ps in stores and both had the same yellowish white tint. Turning on sRGB made no different to my eyes. Pretty sure this is simply how the screen is calibrated and depending on what you are used to you might find this very obvious or annoying. Some might not care at all. Personally, its obvious to me but I'm not sure if I'd really mind because it is slightly easier on the eyes, especially in the dark. My M7 is buring my eyeballs in the dark even on the lowest brightness setting...

It's very similar to my Dell IPS monitor and the crappy TN panel laptop that I had or the monitor I'm using at work. Both are absolutely horrible in just about every aspect (the viewing angels on my monitor at work are so poor that lighter colors turn completely white unless I'm looking at an almost 90 degree angle) but the whites are super white. The Dell OTOH is pretty yellowish but overall a much more pleasant screen to look at.

I also noticed the blue hue under angles. Seemed equally bad on both models. I've done some reading on this and it seems other phones with amoled screens experience similar issues so it might be due to the coating or the digitizer or something like that because it's not present on LG oled tvs.

As far as I could tell it's only visible when displaying a mostly white screen.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjaak1234:
Both are OK.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cougzzz:
Left: top right pink hue

Right: bottom half is pink

Left is the better phone but u should rma it. BC doesn't seem to be uniform.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sjaak1234:
Might be that the first picture is just poorly taken because the other two pictures, both showing a white screen, don't show any pink hue.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cougzzz:
Looks like the pink hue tends to exhibit with low brightness and not so much with higher brightness based on previous posts.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nookcoloruser:
If you want to get rid of the yellow white without root there are a couple of great apps 'cf lumens' by chainfire and 'screen balance'. I managed to get rid of the cast completely.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alan7467:
My unit which I received last Thursday has yellow tint on the bottom half of the screen, green tent on the bottom right, and also seems to get blurry on the bottom half the longer the screen is on. To top that off the top of the phone came out of the box with a bend in it. That coupled with a terrible ambient light sensor (constantly changes screen brightness with no change in ambient light) have me leaning toward returning rather than exchanging. The quality control seems pretty bad on some of these :(

I've had my Nexus 6 for just under a year, and once I adjusted the screen calibration early on I've been really happy with it's display. It feels like a breath of fresh air looking at it after using the 6P I received. I do absolutely love the performance, camera, and finger print sensor on the 6P though. Tough decisions ahead...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aygul12345:
Damm I totally agree with you, soooo many fault screen displays, why? Is this only the first batch? Is this going be fixed?

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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markwebb:
Delete
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadget069:
My screen is fine. Manufacturer date was 10/30. Just curious if there screen issues are effecting phones built by a certain date, or was there just a huge batch of bad screens.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenkinz:
Hi, what's the setting you use in cf lumen to remove the yellow tint? I tried to change the temperate in daylight mode but doesn't seem to improve much.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebarwabbit:
My 5x works very well. Not yellow screen.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tones1971:
Had to send pics of my display to Google on Friday. No one had replied to me yet. I've emailed back asking for an update, if I get no reply today I'm sending the phone back. Much too annoying these colors
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubhthedevil:
Whites look dull

My screen have a serious yellow tint. Is it normal or I do need to replace the product?:(
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tones1971:
I don't believe it's normal. My colors and viewing angles are really poor. I don't have a lot of faith in replacements and Google are now ignoring my case. Going to return for a refund. Shame as I was looking forward to getting involved with the nexus development again.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zenkinz:
Yellow tint is there, although it's not serious it's clear that it's not white.