Galaxy Nexus Screen - What's Normal, What's Not. (Photos!)

Emama · May 3, 2012

mgymnop said:
Black dots are normal. I had them on my Galaxy S II too. There are supposed to be some without but I don't believe that.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

My vibrant does not
but my Nexus S has one..
I dont care about that since even it is in lowest brightness it is not obvious.

However under the lowest brightness in Galaxy Nexus I can see that already at night,
it is VERY obvious when I take picture at night...which is not acceptable..

kolyan · May 3, 2012

Received Nexus, dont know if this is a defect but whites are very grainy. Compared to my One S and Nexus is just horrible. Whites are white without any grain on One S w/ automatic brightness.

coolmaster121 · May 3, 2012

Two phones orderes but they are are soo different

I ordered 2 phones form Play Store, and one has the purple screen issue the other one is fine.

kolyan · May 3, 2012

Mine only has pink issue at zero brightness but screen looks just horrible with automatic setting....due to grain, its the worst screen I have ever used on a smartphone.... including my tmo shadow

sblantipodi · May 3, 2012

coolmaster121 said:
I ordered 2 phones form Play Store, and one has the purple screen issue the other one is fine.

what about banding issue? do you have lines on grey and white color?

Emama · May 3, 2012

remedy1978 said:
Ill be getting my third replacement hopefully tomorrow or Friday. The first two have the black dots, one with a horizontal black line through the middle. Either Google got a bad batch or perhaps this is the norm.

The quality of HD amoled screen is really

Even it does not have black dot..the grainy white color is really disappointed.

sblantipodi · May 3, 2012

Emama said:
The quality of HD amoled screen is really

Even it does not have black dot..the grainy white color is really disappointed.

what do you mean for the grainy white color?

brian515 · May 3, 2012

Alexander T. said:
What's your production date?

Production date was C2 so February.

But here's the kicker. I called Google yesterday and they kindly overnighted me a new one which I just got. The new one is less grainy and doesn't have the lines, but it does have a green tinge towards the left edge, a blue tint towards the top, and some retention when the brightness below 20% or so. But here's the good part. I took another picture of a perfectly black screen. This new one has the SAME EXACT dots in the SAME EXACT places.

Old: imgur DOT com SLASH K5RiD.jpg

New: imgur DOT com SLASH dekMi.jpg

Samsung? More like Sam-suck.

Maybe #3 will be better, otherwise iPhone here I come!

PS The production date on my second one is also Februrary

Emama · May 3, 2012

sblantipodi said:
what do you mean for the grainy white color?

see the 1st post 0% white

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brian515 said:
Production date was C2 so February.

But here's the kicker. I called Google yesterday and they kindly overnighted me a new one which I just got. The new one is less grainy and doesn't have the lines, but it does have a green tinge towards the left edge, a blue tint towards the top, and some retention when the brightness below 20% or so. But here's the good part. I took another picture of a perfectly black screen. This new one has the SAME EXACT dots in the SAME EXACT places.

Old: http://i.imgur.com/dekMi.jpg

New: http://i.imgur.com/K5RiD.jpg

Samsung? More like Sam-suck.

Maybe #3 will be better, otherwise iPhone here I come!

PS The production date on my second one is also Februrary

why dont u post the link directly?

btw, I have one of those "二" mark too...
which is very obvious during the night time especially in the camera app

kolyan · May 3, 2012

Emama said:
see the 1st post 0% white

thats exactly how my phone looks. the ony way to get rid of the grain is to use it around 100% brightness level. One S also has SAMOLED grain but its NO where near what i so on Nexus.

jeNova- · May 3, 2012

Well I understand that people here are angry and pissed.
And although I am really glad I got a good one I can understand that and I think its just bull**** what Samsung hast done here to this awesome phone.

BUT the screen is in no way the "worst screen ever" first of all most issues are just on low brightness, so on normal brightness the screen shoud be fine right?
Well it sucks anyways, but the screen itself is gorgeous. And yes that its grainy on low brightness sucks, but is it really that big of a deal? I mean who uses his phone on such a low brightness? I dont even do that in the dark.

Emama · May 3, 2012

jeNova- said:
Well I understand that people here are angry and pissed.
And although I am really glad I got a good one I can understand that and I think its just bull**** what Samsung hast done here to this awesome phone.

BUT the screen is in no way the "worst screen ever" first of all most issues are just on low brightness, so on normal brightness the screen shoud be fine right?
Well it sucks anyways, but the screen itself is gorgeous. And yes that its grainy on low brightness sucks, but is it really that big of a deal? I mean who uses his phone on such a low brightness? I dont even do that in the dark.

I put in lowest brightness most of the time in my Nexus S,
so I guess it will matter

alangrig · May 3, 2012

Emama said:
I put in lowest brightness most of the time in my Nexus S,
so I guess it will matter

Either do I

kolyan · May 4, 2012

jeNova- said:
Well I understand that people here are angry and pissed.
And although I am really glad I got a good one I can understand that and I think its just bull**** what Samsung hast done here to this awesome phone.

BUT the screen is in no way the "worst screen ever" first of all most issues are just on low brightness, so on normal brightness the screen shoud be fine right?
Well it sucks anyways, but the screen itself is gorgeous. And yes that its grainy on low brightness sucks, but is it really that big of a deal? I mean who uses his phone on such a low brightness? I dont even do that in the dark.

I dont even touch Brightness, mine is on Auto and its grainy as hell......simply unusable. I will settle when I dont see any grain at around 20% and up. My One S SAMOLED gets grainy only at 0% brightness....move slider 1 click to the right and most if not all grain goes away....whites are pure white, and blacks are pure black.....and its not even a flagship device with qHD pentile screen. How hard is it to fix a damn problem thats been there since launch date, or is it gonna be just like Nexus One were Google screwed all customers with cheap ****ty AMOLED ?

What is it with QA these days ? Is it too much to ask for a functioning phone ?

remedy1978 · May 4, 2012

kolyan said:
I dont even touch Brightness, mine is on Auto and its grainy as hell......simply unusable. I will settle when I dont see any grain at around 20% and up. My One S SAMOLED gets grainy only at 0% brightness....move slider 1 click to the right and most if not all grain goes away....whites are pure white, and blacks are pure black.....and its not even a flagship device with qHD pentile screen. How hard is it to fix a damn problem thats been there since launch date, or is it gonna be just like Nexus One were Google screwed all customers with cheap ****ty AMOLED ?

What is it with QA these days ? Is it too much to ask for a functioning phone ?

I had a Nexus One with an AMOLED display. It was 10 times better than the one on my Galaxy Nexus. Again, I wonder if this is a bad batch that Google is currently selling.

brian515 · May 4, 2012

Emama said:
why dont u post the link directly?

I'm a new member so XDA won't let me.

remedy1978 said:
I had a Nexus One with an AMOLED display. It was 10 times better than the one on my Galaxy Nexus. Again, I wonder if this is a bad batch that Google is currently selling.

I'm thinking maybe it's the same thing. I had a Nexus One too and after 2 years that phone has no burn in or image retention issues. Even the gradients look better. Apparently effective today Google isn't doing the RMAs for the Nexuses bought from the Play store and instead Samsung is. That's unfortunate since Google overnighted me a new Nexus no questions asked last time. With Samsung I now have to wait a day for some person to call me back to authorize the RMA.

kolyan · May 4, 2012

remedy1978 said:
I had a Nexus One with an AMOLED display. It was 10 times better than the one on my Galaxy Nexus. Again, I wonder if this is a bad batch that Google is currently selling.

Nexus One was fine, but it had bad multi touch issue.

brian515 said:
I'm a new member so XDA won't let me.

I'm thinking maybe it's the same thing. I had a Nexus One too and after 2 years that phone has no burn in or image retention issues. Even the gradients look better. Apparently effective today Google isn't doing the RMAs for the Nexuses bought from the Play store and instead Samsung is. That's unfortunate since Google overnighted me a new Nexus no questions asked last time. With Samsung I now have to wait a day for some person to call me back to authorize the RMA.

Rep at Google said they are overnighting me my replacement Nexus....I suppose this is pure BS?

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PS. screen also looks nasty on a black background. You can clearly see defects.

mingkee · May 4, 2012

After careful observing, mine has faint "banding" at extremely low brightness (lower than manual lowest) when using facebook app. Morerover, there is a pretty faint "ghost" when opening "Draw!". Notwithstanding that, these screen issues are not bad as the first post and they are acceptable.

kms108 · May 4, 2012

mingkee said:
After careful observing, mine has faint "banding" at extremely low brightness (lower than manual lowest) when using facebook app. Morerover, there is a pretty faint "ghost" when opening "Draw!". Notwithstanding that, these screen issues are not bad as the first post and they are acceptable.

this is normal.

kolyan · May 4, 2012

Spoke to Google about my promised exchange which was supposed to come in today and yet i dont even have a tracking number or any word that it was shipped out....

Rep said that perhaps they ran out of stock and now Samsung is handeling all claims, he also asked me if I would allow them to check my device before shipping it out to make sure there are no defects....i agreed to this.

UPDATE: just got my track. delivery tomorrow. fingers crossed

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