S24 Display Quality & AOD Missing Options

[Locoblade]

Hi All

I've just got my S24+ today to upgrade my trusty but ageing S10+ having not strayed from Samsung for almost 10 years. Naturally I was hoping it would be an upgrade in all departments but although on the whole it is, there's several annoying and unexpected downgrades that are making me seriously question whether it's actually worth spending quite a bit of money to change.

Firstly, the screen although pin sharp is really washed out. Even in vivid mode the colours are dull and the blacks are significantly more grey than the S10 screen, and even look washed out when put alongside my wife's budget spec A52! I've played around with brightness and colour tone etc but I can't dial it out, and my cousin who's got an S24 Ultra said exactly the same when comparing it against the S22 it's replacing.

Then there's some bizarre features missing from OneUI 6.1, the ones I've noticed so far are specifically in the Always On Display settings.  I use AOD to display as a bedside clock,  with my S10 and also in OneUI 6.0 / Android 14 on the A52 you can rotate the AOD to landscape orientation and control the brightness, you could even do the latter from the AOD lock screen by tapping twice on the clock to access the brightness slider. In OneUI 6.1 unless I'm missing something it seems all that functionality is missing, the brightness of the AOD is linked to the main screen brightness setting which is far too bright for overnight use, and you can't set it to landscape mode which I'd prefer when on it's horizontal night stand next to the bed. Why this functionality would be omitted I have no idea, but it's really annoying! Please someone enlighten me to some hidden menu somewhere that fixes all these issues?! 🙂

[N8OR1US]

I was having the same issue, but when I turned off the "eye comfort shield", it was way better.

[darwin604]

Same issue here with my S24 Plus. Looks absolutely terrible next to my S20. The color gamut is awful. I wish Samsung would publicly address this issue instead of leaving us all in the dark. There's a clear problem here. 

[Blitz garvi]

Turn on extra brightness. It's a really big difference on screen with that feature on and much more acceptable.

It's most likely a software issue.

And yes, extra brightness will work on all level of brightness not just peak brightness.

[Boomslang]

This, disabling Adaptive Color Tone, and resetting Accessibility settings have basically fixed it. However, enabling Extra Brightness kills the Adaptive Brightness setting completely, which is something I enjoy.

[bigbear8629]

If you turn on extra brightness and slightly maneuver the brightness bar until it is no longer red then the colors will pop.

[Boomslang]

Then you're killing Adaptive Brightness, which is default and used by most. Definitely turn off Adaptive Color Tone, though.

[userBov5lRKx6f]

for real... turned on the new phone and colors on my s22 ultra look way better. very disappointing. 1st time I'm disappointed purchasing a new phone from the S series

[sultraphotos]

Same, I feel like I am going to send back the 24ultra. The color on the pictures is meh compared to the s22 ultra.

[Polishhotdog]

Same here. S23 ultra next to s24 is night and day difference

[DrayWorld]

Returning mine. Screen looks terrible