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[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electricview:
So can we clarify a bit, are you guys having issues with your screen colors on ANY brightness? I haven't received my 128 yet, but i purchased a 32 for my mother and played around with it.. All i notice is that when i make the screen very dim (anything under about 40% brightness) it starts to tint a little pinkish in hue.. It's not bad it just doesnt stay as consistant as my galaxy s5 (which if ANYTHING is only SLIGHTLY blueish/green when its dimmer, its hardly noticible). When her phone is 50-60% or brighter, whites look great.. Although tilting the phone does give the 'oil spill' color effect, though my GS5 does that too, just not quite as quickly as the nexus, then again, small screen probably = less chance to see it.....

Just wondering if the slightly pinkish hue when turning down the brightness alot is normal or not?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharpehenry:
I started to notice on the right edge (entire right edge about 10th of an inch) that shines little more pink than other areas. I think I'm going to wait 2 to 3 months for "hopefully" revised model comes out just like they did to nexus 5 speaker grills.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trystan.snyder:
Build date on mine is October 15th. Pink and green here. Will report back
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnafides:
If this helps, when I called the rep had me set it to 1/3 brightness with Adaptive Display off as a baseline to check. So, my guess is that below 1/3 the pink hue is considered normal (but you should not see it at 1/3).

Also, my replacement (ordered yesterday) shipped today and it's listed as being Overnight Shipping, so I guess it'll be here tomorrow?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makoto_ai:
What do you guys think of this image here.. hard to see from the picture but some odd texture/lines (more apparent irl) on the left side while the right side is normal.

http://imgur.com/jFkrIPD
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __NBH__:
This looks similar to mine, pinky in the top left and more blue towards the right and bottom. It shows up more when you have a white box across the screen like on a SMS message box for example, you can see the box change from pink to blue as you read across.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makoto_ai:
Well that pink doesn't bother me so much what really does these lines. If I l down my notification bar my entire left side looks like my amolded screen unde neath has wrinkles. Two people on Reddit said that had aa similar issue and RMA. This was going to be my permanent phone over my non shipped 32gb graphite but the customer Rep told me it would be faster to just do a return and reorder if I wanted larger storage. That or wait for my graphite compare and return as needed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisexv6:
Just got my 64GB last night and may have lucked out.

While the whole screen seems a bit on the yellow side, its *consistent*. My advice for those with consistent but yellow-ish tint: hold onto the device. ElementalX kernel is out and has the ability to adjust screen color values. You can tweak away the yellow-ish tint. Obviously if you have only certain spots with different screen coloring you cant necessarily fix it. But if its consistently/evenly "wrong", it might be tuneable. I had to do the same with my Galaxy Nexus forever ago.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
Got my second replacement today. Screen is almost perfect. I say almost, because the far left side is slightly pinkish, but its not exactly noticeable unless you stare at the screen for 10 mins. I guarantee you'll find a fault with every phone screen out there if you do this though. So I'm happy to call it consistent. It was also very cool when it came to colour temperature, meaning they aren't all yellow or warm after all.

The downside is, this once again had awful sounding speakers.

The vast majority of devices have a poor bottom speaker, meaning the top one is noticeably louder in landscape, its extremely distracting.

So its going back and I'm getting a refund. The sheer amount of quality issues being reported in this forum alone should tell any prospective buyers to keep well clear of this device. There is no quality control going into the manufacturing of the Nexus 6P. Just don't bother with it.

If I wanted speakers to send sound from mostly one side, of have just went for a Note 5 and its single side speaker. As it stands, I can either go Samsung and wait years for uodates, or stick with this moto x style with its uneven display (a lot of pressure point marks).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wazka2:
Ladies and gentleman ,boys and girls!

I have picked my 4th 6p. Had it for one hour and could not find any fault. Screen is much better then before. Plastic at the back is nice and even.

There is pink hue, but nice and even, the one that everyone is saying is an Amoled thing. Each corner seems even!

Happy Days!

Never Settle guys!

Good Luck!

Build date 10/10/2015 wow older by 7 days than my last one !
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnafides:
Hmm, that is not encouraging because that is what I have now (an "even" pink hue) and it drives me crazy.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolguy949:
I have a slight pink hue along the left side and seems to get pinker on the top left. It's almost like a pink backlight peeking through the left side. Judging from what I see here on this thread, I have one of the better ones but it still bugs me a bit. I've had the device a couple days and I will give it until next week to see if it's enough for me to send it back. I'm thinking I'll keep it. I had the yellow hue on the bottom of my OPO and that's all I could see for months. It went away over time and I can't see it anymore even if I look for it. On my N6P, everything else is flawless but my speakers are slightly uneven. maybe 55/45 and not as bad as some others.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
Actually.. I think my replacement is a much better. I still see a pink hue but I do not think it's as bad as my original one

Original on the left and replacement on the right
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
What is your brightness set at there? Adaptive on or off?

Do the whites still tint when viewing at slightly off angles on your replacement?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
Both set at max with adaptive off. The replacement still has a little bit of a pink mostly on the right top side. Using both for a while I definitely notice the pink a lot more during normal use on the original more than I do on my replacement.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gekko2:
every time i see this thread title i think of George in Seinfeld -

George: What about the skin? I need a good cheek, I like a good cheek.

Jerry: She's got a fine cheek.

George: Is there a pinkish hue?

Jerry: A pinkish hue?

George: Yes, a rosy glow.

Jerry: There's a hue. She's got great eyebrows, women kill to have her

eyebrows.

George: Who cares about eyebrows? Is she sweet? I like sweet. But not too

sweet, you could throw up from that.

Jerry: I don't think you'll throw up. *She* likes to throw up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nYW1T0Wbs
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] magnafides:
So, this is kind of odd. The replacement isn't really any less pink, however the contrast is better so it's less noticeable. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy I asked my wife to do a blind test on a few screens, and she picked the new one as looking better each time.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HMkX2:
You want to see banding on a Nexus 6P? I'll show you banding.

Both are Nexus 6P. Guess which one is going back for replacement.

For some reason it shows up better the farther away you are... in person it is fairly obvious.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
Return both. They're hideous. Bottom one in right oic has sever pink tinting to one side, and the top one has the aforementioned banding.

Do they both have crappy speakers too? As in, one is noticeably louder and clearer than the other, usually the top speaker.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharpehenry:
Mine has slight pink on entire right edge of the screen unlike the most of your top or bottom portion of it. just called google and they are sending me a replacement. seems like they are aware of this issue and have no hesitation of how to troubleshoot or go through series of tests while i was on the phone. the representative determined that I'll need a replacement. and if the new replacement still has that problem on the display, just reply to the email she sent it to me, she will personally reply back and go from there. i even asked if i should wait for 3rd or 4th batches to come out in order to address some of the flaws that 1st or 2nd batch has and process for the warranty, she said that would be the best idea but didn't want me to have a bad phone for a while and since warranty lasts for a year, they gladly replace my phone anytime until i get the perfect phone. so..i went ahead and processed it. google is so nice.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
Can you please post pics of the defective screen?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Syk69:
Your replacement looks like it has a slight yellow tint to it. Nothing a calibration can't fix.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wazka2:
It's actually quite annoying that buying the same phone can result in different screens. Not saying about defects but different colour calibration and brightness...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Banggugyangu:
Finally got my device in hand (long story), and I've examined the display thoroughly. Whites are white. No pink/yellow/blue hue to it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
No blue-ish-green hue when viewing at an angle? No pink at all when brightness is turned down below 25% and adaptive brightness is on?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pokedroid:
Are all of them that severe or is there a chance of it being more subtle? I notice a pink hue with adaptive brightness on and the brightness at min, but I think that's more due to the very low brightness the phone hits, rather than anything wrong with the panel. I don't notice a significant color change, but if I tilt the phone vertically the screen gets blueish at the bottom. I never hold the phone at that angle so I'm not sure I'll ever notice it again, but I don't want a defective unit. Am I being overly sensitive about the screen?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exSD:
I see a verrrry slight pink hue when I have my brightness low and only at 1 angle, very small angle at that.

Should I be concerned?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
I'd say your phone is awesome. I get all kinds of blues, greens and pinks when I tilt my phone even slightly. Dead on the colors looks pretty good though. But I don't hold my phone dead on straight all the time, so it is pretty distracting.

Trying to figure out if I could do better with a replacement or just a part of the AMOLED screen.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
As one of my latter posts said, the second phone I got through had an almost perfect screen. I doubt there'll be any better than what I got out there. But as I also said, the speaker issue forced me to send it back. Whilst the screens are hit and miss, the broken/muffled bottom speaker, due to a small gasket seal being in the wrong place, is on the vast majority of devices right now.

You will always get a pink hue across the whole of the screen when using the phone at very low brightness settings.

This is not a fault. It's simply one of the drawbacks of the AMOLED panels used. The Nexus 6 had exactly the same issue. The software simply hasn't been set up properly to prevent the screen from going to a brightness level that AMOLED screens simply aren't designed to go to without unwanted effects. Same goes for Samsung and their super bright mode under sunlight. Yes it may reach almost 800 nits of brightness, but the colours are massively washed out and horrible to look at because of it.

Oh and anyone using adaptive display on Android still, all I can say is, you're doing it wrong. Auto brightness simply does not work correctly on stock android, and it hasn't for as long as I can remember. Certain manufacturers have it tweaked so it kind of works, like Samsung and Sony, but it's still finnicky. You'll also see better and more consistent battery life by manually adjusting brightness.

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Agreed. It's great to finally see a company taking responsibility for screen defects. And the sad part is, they don't even build or design the phone, Huawei do!

As opposed to Apple, who constantly come back with the whole "its within spec" nonsense. It's only recently that they finally started shipping nice screens without yellowing or one side of the screen being dark. They still aren't nice and uniform like the LCD panels HTC use, but a hell of a lot better than they were from the iPhone 4 through 5s era.

As for Samsung, well, they don't even deserve the energy it takes to depress these cherry blue switches as far as customer service goes.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pokedroid:
In regards to your comments about adaptive display, I disabled it days ago and have had no ill effects on battery life. I find that just under half brightness works for me in almost all lighting conditions, so I'll just roll with it like that.

As for your comments on amoled and low brightness, thank you. I'm glad to hear my initial opinion was the correct one (that everything is fine). I'll so worrying about it :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
I see a pink hue at full brightness with adaptive turned off on both my devices
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
It actually just appears that way because the other screen is more pink. It doesn't have a yellow tint. It's odd I see it more with my naked eye on the replacement than I do in the pics. I don't know.. hearing people say they are getting units with no pink is making me consider trying for a 2nd replacement
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exSD:
Oh in that case, I get the blues/greens too. But I thought that was normal because this is AMOLED.

Now I don't know what to think, lol.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
Across the whole of the screen?

If that's the case, then it's calibration. The few display modes might help, but if it's all of the screen covered by a pink hue, your only options are to return it or to root and install a custom kernel + kernel aduitor from the play store, then manually adjust the screen calibration from there.

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That's perfectly normal.

If you get a chance, look at a Note 4 screen. It has exactly the same colour changing effects at slightly different angles.

They fixed it to a certain extent in the Note 5/S6/S6 Edge+. It seems to need a much harsher angle to cause such visual disturbances.

Further proof that this is a Note 4 panel on the N6P, and not the Note 5 panel the tech journos claim it to be.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exSD:
It is normal for the color changing to be happening even at max brightness?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuMMoD:
Your tint is completely uniform on your replacement. Just keep it and use a color calibration app. I have a pink tint the width of my thumb on the right hand side. Even if i calibrate it with an app that side will always be different. I would be happy to get a completely uniform yellowish screen or pinkish screen cause I'll be able to modify it. I'm just shooting to get a completely uniform screen so I RMA'd my phone a few minutes ago through google.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jjschafe:
Dumb question, but, this would fall under the 1yr warranty, right? My screen seems to be a lot better than others on here, but there is still a noticeable pink towards the top of the screen. I could certainly live with it for a month or two while everything shakes out and hopefully all screens are good. I also don't want to wait too long and for some reason not get a replacement.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
I would think at any point in time Google could change what qualifies for RMA.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wazka2:
Nexus 6 vs Note 4 display.

https://youtu.be/oRZFR0CP36A
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deadlights:
I never noticed it until you guys brought it up. Aarrrrgghh
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
No, on my original it's like the top 1/3rd of the screen on my replacement it's on the top right corner and goes a bit down the right side. At this point it's either trying to pick the lesser of the two evils or trying for a 2nd replacement. In all fairness I have seen this on every single amoled display I have owned and I have owned many many many many devices.. It's always a different variance though. I have seen some where you barely notice it and some you notice it a lot more than others. My one friend said he never saw it until I coached him into seeing it and then after seeing it, couldn't unsee it. haha
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OneNutShort:
You just made my day. Seriously, thank you for that, I'm cracking up.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smitbro2:
Any thoughts on mine?

http://imgur.com/ujXma55

It's fairly uniform as far as I can tell. This pic is full brightness. Ignore the banding, it's from the camera I took a pic with. I see some slight pink tint straight on. The viewing angles aren't the best as the screen is cooler towards the bottom/top depending on how I look at the phone. But overall it seems alright. I just don't wanna play panel roulette. Can it realistically get much better than mine?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
So my friend sent me these pics of his unit.. Wow his looks so much better. than both that I have

I don't have enough on my card for them to put another hold for a replacement so I think I might just deal with Huawei directly

Here are pics of my friends:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] makoto_ai:
I posted this in the yellow section but I'll go ahead and tell this here too. I believe almost every screen will have some sort of issue now days. I've gone through 7 phones this year and like 6 monitors. While staring at my nexus screen caused me to realize an issue with my xb270hu (monitor) where the bottom 1/3rd has a slight yellow tint, which I'm sure could be resolved if I jacked up the brightness but then it would be blinding! I digress... the point I'm making is that I'm just going to settle for now as my 32gb graphite's screen is superior to the 64gb aluminium's screen (that suffered from banding issues).

Here is what I told someone on reddit:

Anyways I have a 64gb aluminium (being returned) and it has faint horizontal bands from left to right when on gray or darker blues. Colors are all slightly cooler and washed out as well.

Here is the banding... harder to see with my crappy galaxy s3 taking the photo a the time.

http://imgur.com/YM6n47x

Now this is my 32gb graphite (on right) vs my 64gb aluminium (left)

http://imgur.com/gry3uV5

I think the aluminium's speakers may have been slightly more level and I think the 32 gb's is slightly louder on top but it is hard to tell really. My 32gb is slightly pinker in the bottom left corner and the screen is over all warmer/yellow but with a custom kernel I can change the white point and alter it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __NBH__:
Unfortunately my replacement 6P's screen is even worse than the first one. Quite heavy pink on the top half of the screen while the lower half looks normal. This makes the two ends of the screen appear a different colour so it is being returned again, maybe third time lucky.

If the third one is still not right I'm thinking of giving up, I've had 3 previous phones with an amoled display and they have had no problems at all but this one has been nothing but hassle. I might pick something different for a year and try the 2016 Nexus. Really regretting recycling my Nexus 6 at this moment in time :crying:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] istrikerx:
So your old Nexus 6 has a perfect screen? I'm surprised, because a lot of those had awful screens too when it came to uniformity. Aside from the fact that they all end up suffering from extreme burn in issues.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MelchiahX:
Pink for me too

I have a 64gb aluminum purchased from Google (which means RMAing won't be a hassle). The right side of my screen is pinkish while the left is perfect. Like others I only noticed it on white backgrounds (so mainly surfing chrome or Google Now). It's not a deal breaker but I'll be RMAing it... Just not now. I think most of these issues are due to first batch syndrome. This explains many of replacement units are also defectives. Buying from Google means I've got a whole year to RMA without any issues so I'll wait for the next batch or two. (Fingers crossed).

:( this blows.... Otherwise my phone is perfect without any other known issue(s).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxwellag:
I was in the same boat: same color and storage size. I got my RMA device yesterday and it's perfect. Might as well try and get a perfect replacement now. When you go to "order" the replacement, you can select overnight shipping and it will eventually be refunded to you when they receive the defective device. That way you won't be waiting long for it. I initiated my RMA on Wednesday and had my new phone at my door on Friday. Not bad.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffixnyc:
I don't have enough on my card for them to put another hold. haha I already have one replacement hold on my card plus the cost of the phone, then 2 5X's on that card(Waiting for a refund on one). Instead of roulette I just contacted Huawei and will send my device to them. Maybe They will replace it with one from a newer batch since it's coming right from them
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arnab96:
Can you post your model and manufacturing date please?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wazka2:
Guys be patient. There are some good units out there. It may take 4 or 5 attempts but its worth it.

Do not give up! Get what you paid for ! ;)

I have compared my screen to Note 4 last night and 6p whites looked whiter and brighter ;)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anglerstock:
take some pictures.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fchowd0696:
Should we wait a week for the screen to "settle in" before making a judgement or if it comes out of the box with a yellow tint, RMA it right away?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nags92:
I hope you're right dude ! Waiting for my first RMA, wish me luck :svetius:
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jpeg42:
Me too! Just did an RMA based on wazka2's pep talk :) My phone has a pink blob in the middle. Hoping for a better one.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy Homeless Guy:
My right side of my screen is pink. I am thinking of sending it back and just giving up and requesting a refund. I am not convinced that almost of the various problems won't continue to expand as this phone ahead over the next year.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nags92:
Jesus Christ that was quick, already shipped and awaiting delivery. Will let you guys know if the RMA is any better
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __NBH__:
My third 6P arrived with a much better screen, can't see any pink and it looks a uniform colour so I'm keeping this one and finally enjoying it. I wish everyone who is awaiting a new phone good luck with their replacements.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuMMoD:
Can you go into the bootloader and verify the batch date on your device? Also if you place overnight for your replacement they refund that when you send yours in right?