[Galaxy S I9000 General] Neo-ST:
Hi...

So i bought the new galaxy s...the best screen of mobile phones at the moment, super amoled....is everything to me except "super" right now.

The phone is merely a month old. I bought it from some guy that sells phones without the bill but with valid warranty (seal+signature) because in my country (Croatia) it wasn't officially available when I was buying it (it is now)...

Everything was fine for a week or so, when one morning I turned it on (left it for recharge during night) and noticed that something is wrong with the display. It had a certain "mist" layer (similar to when you boost brightness too much) in the home screen and menus were different too. I couldn't tell what exactly happened until I opened a few dark HD pictures.

I realized that the phone isn't displaying colors correctly, or their depth or something.

It displays them as if someone messed with color depth in driver settings and set it to 16 or even 8-bit (default is 24 or 32-bit as far as I know).

I tried fully resetting the phone (by typing in the code for factory wipe+reset) but with no luck.

Then I called the guy that sold it to me and he wasn't very polite, saying that it can't be possible and that I must have messed with phone or dropped it or something, which I haven't, I even have a special case for it to avoid scratches, etc. Nevertheless, he told me to send it to him and I did.

I also wrote him a short message explaining what the problem is, and even told him to compare the display with the other new galaxy s and to lookup some dark pictures, because the anomaly is best seen there.

The phone was for 2 weeks at him, and he kept saying that everything is alright with the display, that he compared it with other phone, etc. and that he'll keep running some tests just to make sure. I said alright, didn't want to mess with his job.

Today I received the phone. You're guessing - he didn't fix anything but I paid postal charges alright.

Since he doesn't seem to know or care about my problem I'm asking you for some favors. I need pictured proof of my anomaly, which I will then send to him again in hope he'll finally understand the problem and do something about it.

What I'm asking from you is to take screen shots of your Galaxy S with these two pictures on the screen (when they open click on them to get full size):

1. http://img824.imageshack.us/f/14213741.jpg/

2. http://img819.imageshack.us/f/35743610.jpg/

Please, just make sure that the pictures are clear to see. You might need to turn off your lights and take a night shot with macro to capture the screen properly.

After you do that, just post the screens here. I will need those pics to send him the evidence.

These are my screen shots, take a look at the pictures and you will see what I mean:

The home screen. Artifacts can be seen:

The menus screen:

The gallery screenshot, even here you can see the color anomaly:

The second pic. Please compare this to the second link I gave above:

And yes, everything is alright with my digital camera, the picture just looks that awful on the phone's screen :mad:

The second pic when screen dims after 30sec (notice how it adds purple layer):

The first pic. Please compare this to the first link I gave above:

The first pic when screen dims after 30sec:

So there it is... :(

If some of you wise people know how to fix this problem without sending it again to that guy or voiding the warranty, please do tell me. I assume it has something to do with color depth or something, maybe somehow that setting changed, don't know how or why, maybe some software I installed triggered it although none of it was illegal or malicious in any way...I think...

Thank you in advance for any help and I appreciate your efforts for helping! :o