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?! 🙂

[ItsLtDan]

That's because it's the same display as the iPhone so ur already use to it. Samsung ppl can tell the difference

[userJphoJL5JS2]

coming from the people who actually used galaxies for years, yes we can tell tbe difference and we purchased galaxy because you can change the display option unlike Apple that restricts almost everything you do

[userWJYvmTWihw]

I'm glad it wasn't just me that noticed the color difference. My S22 ultra has much more vibrant color throughout the entire screen. I'm very disappointed in the washout effect I'm getting across the screen. I tried every setting available to adjust the color and saw very little to no change in the washout effect! There was absolutely no difference on my S24 ultra between the natural and the vivid! If there is not a fix for this I will be returning my phone! It's entirely to much money:money_bag: for there flagship phone to have a design flaw like this and then for him to say it was intentionally done!! If that's really the case then I will intentionally send it back!

[Kyle0505]

I've just received the phone s24 plus today, and I immediately recognize the display issue on the screen of the new phone. I put my old s23 ultra and new s24 plus side by side to compare. The new s24 plus display looks like 10 years old phone ago. I'm waiting for Samsung to fix the problem. Hopefully, it's the software issue, or I gonna return it. It's definitely a bad display because I look at the screen every single day. I'm not happy with it at all.

Btw, the art case comes with the phone is so stupid design, I can't plug in the cable to change the phone when I put the case on.

[BrunoF]

They are joking!

If this vivid mode problem is not resolved, I will be the one to return the phone.

it's a shame!

[Popsicle20]

The new phones are supposed to have a feature where the phone automatically adjusts the display colors depending on the ambient lighting. I wouldn't be surprised if this new feature is where the bug is.

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s24-adaptive-true-tone-display/

[ItsLtDan]

My brightness keeps turning itself on to automatic even after I turn it down, it's really starting to annoy me

[Popsicle20]

Does it help to turn off Adaptive brightness? (Settings > Display)

I don't have an S24 phone, so I don't know if they still have this option.

[ItsLtDan]

I did and for some reason it keeps turning back on by itself

[Popsicle20]

Do you have any Modes or Routines running that might be doing this?