I just receive my 2nd Captivate from AT&T after doing an exchange. This one compared to my first one, the screen is darker and has a yellow look to it. Is this normal? The color does not seem as bright / white as my first Captivate.
Color looks very washed out. I've read other threads where people notice a "blue" tint due to the differences in Super Amoled. Is this what I'm experiencing?
Buy instead, I'm experiencing a yellow tint.
I posted this in a different thread, here is the link
http://androidforums.com/samsung-fascinate/175750-who-got-blue-tinted-screens.html
Or here is what I posted copy and pasted:
"So I own the Vibrant, and my phone has the blue tint problem also. Basically for those who don't know, you see a blue tint to things that should be white.
I've compared my Vibrant side by side to other Vibrants, Epics, and Captivates.
Here are my conclusions. Many of these Super Amoleds come with some form of tint or the other.
Possible tint colors I've noticed are:
blue/green, blue, blue/grey, yellow, dirty yellow, down right ugly brown(on an epic).
Some people may have been lucky and got one with absolutely no tint, meaning your phone produces pure warm whites.
Now, for those of you who don't see a tint, try putting your Super Amoled next to a non super amoled phone or lcd monitor, and fire up a pure white background. You may now see the tint problem when side by side next to another phone. If this is the only time you notice it, then no worries for you.
I like using Screen Test app from market, it lets you display a pure white screen. (ps..when you run this app, you will notice a horizontal dimmed area wayyy on top, a horizontal line going accross, don't worry your screen is not broken, i've noticed this on every single galaxy s i've used the app on. I've also noticed the faint green line on the left on every phone, that should be normal too, honestly, it is barely noticable unless you dig and search for it)
So, what do you do if you have a blue tint? Well, you might consider yourself lucky, I dunno. Some people claim, the blue tint was done on purpose. You see, the blue leds die faster than the other ones. Since the blue leds have a short life, the argument by some people is, that samsung purposely made the blue ones more prominant, thus giving a longer life to the overall display. I don't know if this is true or not.
Another option is trying to exchange your phone for one without the blue tint. I say, proceed with caution. Trust me, I've looked at several of these phones, I would hate it if I ended up with a yellow, dirty yellow, or brown tinted screen. You don't want to go into an endless loop of doing returns/exchanges.
Finally, I've noticed that the blue tint may be getting better as some have claimed would happen, either that or I'm getting use to it. One final note, although the blue tint is there, side by side comparison showed my colors look brighter.
Last time I went into T-mobile I was showing the employee and comparing Vibrant screens, she said "I see the blue tint, but honestly your phone looks nicer than the yellow tint, the yellow one looks dingy and old" I had to agree with her.
:c ool:
PS... ZuneHD, Incredible, and Nexus one all use Amoled screens, users have reported tint problems also, usually pink tint, but some reported blue too. Thank god my super amoled is not pink!"