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tewmgd
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Question [Q] purplish screen

like Trakman reported (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...7#post24834547) when the brightness is set to low (automatic or not) the gray colour of my Lumia 900 is more purpleish. You can see it when the keyboard is expanded or in a screen with the Pivot, on the gray out items.

Anybody got the same problem ?
 
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dial ##634# and than run the screen test. IF the color looks right than you pass if not fail and return.
 
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I take a picture with the Lumia 800 and you can see that at low brightness the gray is not so gray.

Low brightness:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...1&d=1334426620

Automatic brightness:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...1&d=1334426620
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UPDATE!!!

So, after reading the responses from my original post. I went down to the ATT store where I got my replacement Lumia 900 updated version for a low volume mic and they told me that the screen was normal after three reps inspected it and compared it to other Lumia 900's in the store that were not purple. They said that it could be because of the software update. I told them that my original phone did not turn purple in low lighting and others that have updated the software did not turn purple as well, but the still did not approve the replacement.

So, I went to another ATT store and told them about my purple screen and did not mention anything about the software update and they compared it to other lumia 900's in the store and approve my exchange. So, dont mention anything about software. There is definately something wrong with the screen. My new 900 does not have a purple screen.
 
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Just get Rogers Support on the phone and they flag my device to be replaced. So I'm going to get a new one next week when stores have them in stock again.
 
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I have this issue on an updated phone, too. Think I'll wait a bit before I swap my phone out--but it is annoying.
 
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I also have this issue on my Rogers phone.

On medium and high brightness, grey is grey. On low brightness, grey is distinctly purple.

Should I bother taking it in or are they all like that?
 
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Default Purple screen AT&T

I picked up a Lumia 900 yesterday on AT&T and have the same purple screen issue reported here. it seems go go away on manual brightness at medium level. The unit I exchanged this for would not even boot past the carrier logo screen. Very disappointed in Nokia's showing here and, coupled with its data issues at launch, it's lack of QC on this product. The large amount of negative feedback on the 800's hardware and software issues seem to be mirrored here with the 900.
 
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this seems like a software bug .. hope nokia fix it ..
 
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Mine has this issue as well.

Do we have a confirmation that this is on all or only some devices?