Hey Friends,
First of all I have to warn you, I am a bit of a perfectionist as I am German
I've noticed that the display of the watch is not 'perfectly round' as I can observe very small impurities around the edge of the display.
The Jagged Edge is mostly visible at the very top of the display. Attached you find a picture, unfortunately on the pic you cannot see it very clearly.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pushbullet...IO8tEddsKSQ8mb8AVWJml/IMG_20141229_225843.jpg
Looking at it with the naked eye you can see it much better that the display is not perfectly round around the edges.
I was wondering if this was due to the manufacturing process of the round display or if it was a hardware problem only on my device.
Can you put the brightness on full and check if you see it on your device?
It looks as if a few pixels are missing around the top edge of the circle.
Would love to hear from you! Thanks
Thomas from Germany
the display isn't perfectly round
you can't get a perfect circle out of square pixels and in this generation, the ppi is still low enough that you can see jagged edges - if you are really looking for them
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I've had my N7 for a week and a half now, and there is only one flaw: I have a 1.5cm dark band down the right side of the screen. It's only really noticeable on white or solid pale colours, so for videos and games it's fine but it's a little distracting when reading black on white.
I have only the slightest amount of backlight bleeding round the edges, even under extreme conditions (ie. full brightness in dark room,) no dead pixels, no ghosting, no issue with washed out colour. So I'm just wondering if it's worth getting a return or just waiting to see if it evens out a bit.
I haven't found any mention of similar issues on the forum, so I'd like to ask how people are finding the uniformity of the display?
same problem
I have the same defect.
How did you resolve? Did you get a replacement?
Schmeggma said:
I've had my N7 for a week and a half now, and there is only one flaw: I have a 1.5cm dark band down the right side of the screen. It's only really noticeable on white or solid pale colours, so for videos and games it's fine but it's a little distracting when reading black on white.
I have only the slightest amount of backlight bleeding round the edges, even under extreme conditions (ie. full brightness in dark room,) no dead pixels, no ghosting, no issue with washed out colour. So I'm just wondering if it's worth getting a return or just waiting to see if it evens out a bit.
I haven't found any mention of similar issues on the forum, so I'd like to ask how people are finding the uniformity of the display?
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I think I might have the same problem. But with mine it only shows after having the screen off for a while, and it slowly fades to normal after the screen warms up.
So far what I have done is have all dark themes so I dont see it anymore. Have tried to refit the cables inside and using pixel fixer apps, none had worked.
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Hey guys,
I already mentioned this in the German thread, however it may concern a couple of more people.
I just received my replacement. The reason I ordered one was I got 2-3 tiny little bright spots close to the top right corner on the display. Exactly they are located on the opposite side of the back camera. These pixels are brighter than all others. Though the spots are very tiny you can notice them e.g. if I look closely at the Google search bar on your home screen. It's not that they are disturbing me but I feel on a new device there should not be such issues. You never know how far this is going to get.
So, the today's device is made in Jan 2013 and it has the same spots. I want to ask if anyone of you has the same issue. Just download a pixel test app ( e.g. Dead Pixel Test by Ossibus Software) and look at that area at different angles and colors. I attached a picture to get a better feeling of what I mean.
Max
Hi
me_max said:
Hey guys,
I already mentioned this in the German thread, however it may concern a couple of more people.
I just received my replacement. The reason I ordered one was I got 2-3 tiny little bright spots close to the top right corner on the display. Exactly they are located on the opposite side of the back camera. These pixels are brighter than all others. Though the spots are very tiny you can notice them e.g. if I look closely at the Google search bar on your home screen. It's not that they are disturbing me but I feel on a new device there should not be such issues. You never know how far this is going to get.
So, the today's device is made in Jan 2013 and it has the same spots. I want to ask if anyone of you has the same issue. Just download a pixel test app ( e.g. Dead Pixel Test by Ossibus Software) and look at that area at different angles and colors. I attached a picture to get a better feeling of what I mean.
Max
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Sometimes it is better not to go looking for these tiny flaws as often we find them.
LCD panels do have flaws, and a certain number will leave the factory with some broken pixels, some good information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_pixel
Some applications claim to fix these pixels by flashing the screen with lots of colours, and they seem to work for some people, typically however the pixels are intermittently broken and would have probably just started working anyway!
Manufacturers of LCD panels let a certain amount of screens through with broken pixels simply because otherwise they would be throwing too many away and so their cost would be considerably higher.
I'm not sure if yours are broken pixels however. How are you seeing these? If you are cranking the brightness up to full and viewing a dark colour you can often see tiny pin holes of light, and this is just tiny flaws in the filters which are so thinly applied tiny breaks happen, which you wouldn't see in typical use. You'll never find a screen 100% perfect if it is this you are seeing.
What do you see if you have a dark black background and the phone on normal brightness? Pixels stuck in the "on" position would be very clearly visible. On a white background stuck "off" pixels would be clearly visible, either by showing a tiny black dot, or typically a dot of a different colour.
If you can't notice them in typical use, just don't go looking for them :good:
If they are stuck pixels you have been unlucky, and the only option is another RMA.
Regards
Phil
Had a "hot pixel" almost in the same place as yours when I got the phone is December. RMAed it and the replacement is looking good now.
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Sometimes it is better not to go looking for these tiny flaws as often we find them.
Regards
Phil
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This is good advice. My last 4 phones (captivate, atrix, gnex and N4) all had some kind of defect with the screen. Captivate had slight burn in, atrix and gnex had black spots that can be seen with brightness on lowest in dark room and my N4 has minor screen bleed under the camera.
Its not hard to find problems with LCDs if you look close enough but none of the defects i had could be seen with normal usage so i didnt bother to return them. There is a chance that you will get a replacement with worst defects not to mention all the hassle of having to do a rma. But then again this is xda where people freak out when they see a scratch on the screen.
PhilipL said:
I'm not sure if yours are broken pixels however. How are you seeing these? If you are cranking the brightness up to full and viewing a dark colour you can often see tiny pin holes of light, and this is just tiny flaws in the filters which are so thinly applied tiny breaks happen, which you wouldn't see in typical use. You'll never find a screen 100% perfect if it is this you are seeing.
What do you see if you have a dark black background and the phone on normal brightness? Pixels stuck in the "on" position would be very clearly visible. On a white background stuck "off" pixels would be clearly visible, either by showing a tiny black dot, or typically a dot of a different colour.
If you can't notice them in typical use, just don't go looking for them :good:
If they are stuck pixels you have been unlucky, and the only option is another RMA.
Regards
Phil
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Thanks, mate.
When it's black I only see light bleeding from the top. Therefore, they are not dead. I believe, during the manufacturing process a layer behind the the pixel gets damaged. I filed for another replacement. However, I don't think it'll get better.
So I just picked up my Note 4 last night. Coming from a G3. Screen is bright and colors are great. Liking the phone. But one thing that bugs me and it may just be me.. is the color shift during different viewing angles of the screen. Mine turn to like a greenish blue tint when tilted all directions. It's most noticeable on lighter screens. Darker colors not so much.
Does anyone else have this? Does it bother you? Should I go exchange?
Mess around with these settings first
Doesn't make a difference. Anybody else have this problem?
All the displays in the Note 4 have screen viewing angle issues. Some have vertical shift issues wheres others have horizontal shift issues and others have both. People tend to keep their eyes oriented on just the vertical aspect and look at their devices eye-on, a big factor as to why you don't read many others acknowledging this on their AMOLED devices (Note, not just pertaining to the Note 4). AMOLED has perfect viewing angles, the culprit is usually the digitizer and glass which are incorporated on top of the AMOLED screen. The digitzer and Glass are responsible for the color shift due to inorganic elements used to manufacture such components. I've seen red shift to orange when looking at certain Note 4's from a horizontal angle, and I've seen Blues shifting to purple from vertical angles, and I've seen worse in which a demo unit had pink shift and green and blue shift. A replacement is not going to help. The iPhone circumvents the screen viewing angle problems thanks to the separation between the LCD panel, backlight, and glass. Recently, Apple decided to combine the backlight and LCD, thus reducing 3 layers to 2, the results did not compromise the screen viewing angles. IPS displays are still a versatile choice when thinking about appropriate displays. AMOLED is simply good for folks that are addicted to saturated colors.
Never had any issue. When I first got my phone, when I viewed the screen from a heavy angle it had a bit of a pink tint on white colors, but that had gone away now.
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Are you using any screen protector as well?
BTW,
There are several factors involved,
- Amount of Oleophobic Coating which distorts the actual colors discernible by the viewer
- The Digitizer
- The Corning Gorilla Glass
- And the amount of bonding used to keep the AMOLED display adhered to its bottom layer (Remember: Organic by Nature).
I have no issues. Looks amazing for me
Well after having it a few days.. it doesn't bother me much anymore or I don't notice it as much. Maybe it's going away. I had a few galaxy devices recently and I guess I never noticed. I'm used to my G3s ips screen.
Simple question really. I'm just wondering why there is a thin black circle bordering the watch faces/UI in general. It appears to be on the same surface as the actual screen, so I'm wondering if those are deliberately disabled pixels to form a border or something. It just looks weird sometimes that the watch face doesn't really extend all the way to the edges of the available space.
Maybe a quick email/message to LG could get your answer?
DropThatMelon said:
Simple question really. I'm just wondering why there is a thin black circle bordering the watch faces/UI in general. It appears to be on the same surface as the actual screen, so I'm wondering if those are deliberately disabled pixels to form a border or something. It just looks weird sometimes that the watch face doesn't really extend all the way to the edges of the available space.
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That's because the display shifts slightly from time to time to prevent burn in. If you watch it long enough you will see it move.
JimSmith94 said:
That's because the display shifts slightly from time to time to prevent burn in. If you watch it long enough you will see it move.
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Yeah, I know that it does shift around while in ambient. Even watching that though, it never shifts completely to the edge of the total display area. Besides, other watches like the moto 360 have full edge to edge displaying and their ambient mode shifts around. I guess it's the one little thing that irks me about the watch.
I noticed that tilting the screen if my S10+ make the white turn a little bit into pink... anyone else? It's really really barely noticeable. I have leaved on original screen protector and since to me for now is fitted perfectly on the screen, I don't want to take it off only to check that it's the cause of this kind of "rainbow effect ". Someone else could check it?
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Yeah, noticed the same. My S9+ don't have it. Also S9+ screen is is more white compared to S10
Have peeled screenprotector of but stays the same. Screens looks better though without protector.
My S9+ also have more "white" screen compared to this S10+, however screen shifted a little bit to blue/green if tilted...
I've noticed it as well on my S10e without the screen protector. Not that noticeable and not as bad as the Pixel 3 but once you see it, you can't un-see it
Could be wrong but OLED/AMOLED have this trait - not issue but rather if screen is tilted it will have a red/pink hue - same when I had a Mate 20 Pro and while the same its less noticeable on S10+ ( better panel maybe )
Blacks are spot on but whites aren't perfect.
So i think i will leave the screen protector on until i'll have to replace it...
I have this issue too, TMobile US. But only towards the bottom portion of the screen, the top part is fine. Which leads me to believe it's a defect in my particular case. It's very distracting. Also fingerprint sensor works whenever it feels like.
Have to return it now.
Rick1vr6 said:
I have this issue too, TMobile US. But only towards the bottom portion of the screen, the top part is fine. Which leads me to believe it's a defect in my particular case. It's very distracting. Also fingerprint sensor works whenever it feels like.
Have to return it now.
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Mine is different, i notice this pink/purple hue only tilting the screen more than 30 deg in any direction, if i look at it straight, whites are perfect.
Mine is the opposite , I keep blue light filter on all the time and the Samsung screen gaurd
When tilt i get a greener tinge
Just looks normal, tilt any screen or look at it from oblique angle things look differently
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