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?! š
Count me in - first thing I noticed when I turned my S24 Ultra on was the screen looked way off. Figured it was settings, kept messing around with settings and getting no where. Did a search and i see it's a big problem! Super disappointed - what a disaster! Once I figured out I couldn't get the screen to look right I went right back to my Note 20 Ultra! Super bummed that they **bleep** this up so bad!
You can customise the AOD clocck and colours. It's just not in the AOD menu anymore. Go to Walpaper. When open select the lock screen and tap on the visual representation of the clock. This will let you pick from the usual customisations. The AOD will just follow what you set there.
This should not be that complicated. They are back peddaling and saying it was on purpose for user benefit...RIGHT! No phone this expensive should be hitting its customers blindsided with a "new and correct" display.
Just set up my S24 plus this evening and exactly same problem sadly. My A52s got much nicer colours and screen than my new S24 plus. Really disappointed. I hope they can fix it with a software update soon š
Add me to the list. Colors washed out. Vivid and natural look exactly the same. changing the RGB settings has not effect either. Samsung better announce something soon or I will be returning my new S24 Ultra.
