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?! 🙂

[Samsbum]

Time to return before it's too late

[Matthewstorm]

I started reading this thread when my S24U was in transit. I was dreading tuning this phone on. But, the screen is perfect! Colours are great! I can absolutely see a difference btwn. Vivid and Normal mode. It's subtle but still a difference. I am so relieved! My signal strength is fantastic as are my data speeds. I switched from an iPhone 15PM. The S24U is great! 

[Stefan0784]

What version of firmware do you have? Thanks!

[Matthewstorm]

6.1

[Stefan0784]

not version of One UI.. version of firmware: settings-about phone-software information- build number? the last 4

[Matthewstorm]

Here

[userOYgfH0PvWP]

I agree with you. My phone colors are great too. I even compared my S24+ to my iPhone and the colors were more vibrant on my Samsung.  

[Dimitripost]

Woowww you dont believe this. I synchronized my s22 to my new s24. The color difference was insane. S22 megs contrast and colors. S24 dull and washed out colors. Then restarted my s22 that night, after restarting my S22, it had washed out colors as well!!! I have a second s22, this one is still showing vivid colors and contrast. It looks like they are downgrading the old models so you won't notice the difference.

[user0ctWHW837E]

Downgrading old models? What are you talking about 

[Brho0m13]

This is Samsung's problem with the lack of color saturation in bright mode and neutral mode. I hope Samsung will solve the problem. They are raising the gamma from the 2.2 reference target to 1.8 gamma.

https://twitter.com/brho0m13/status/1752246776281584008?t=13j8rkqT44Tr2bqet39jRw&s=19