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
Do you have the Ultra or regular/plus? I feel the same way, especially compared to my S23U, and if they don't fix these things ASAP then I will likely return the phone.
Mine is working too, but I think this much it was always working. It always made a difference but not like it does on my s22 ultra.. are you having the screen brightness issue too? Where screen brightens when looking at pictures and then dims when going to home ?
To whomever is saying Samsung is fixing this, must work for Samsung to trick you into not returning your phone before the return period for you expires. There's no fix, for those who enjoyed the vivid profile. Imagine for those who like the non-vivid mode and they took that away and just used vivid, they've alienated and phaq'd the other half of their customer base doing this.
Good for you lol! Did you mention to him about display graininess in dark conditions ppl have been complaining about, especially on S24U units. I think it's more serious issue than Vivid mode bug since actual hardware could be impacted here
Wow, that's ridiculous. There are more than 1k posts in the AOD / Washed out colors post. Are they blind? They are gonna lose bunch of users with this disaster release
