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
No they aren't. You are referring one of many conflicting canned responses from a customer service rep in India. Samsung has not officially acknowledged this issue at all.
Do you have any link please to a Samsung notification confirming a fix. I 'upgraded' from a S22+ and find the S24+ display colours extremely disappointing by comparison . From what I'm now reading on multiple sites Samsung made these screen display changes intentionally and don't think there's a problem. E.g https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s24-vivid-mode-wont-be-fixed-3410485/
Hi, vivid looks the same as natural on the s24 regular, it really makes everything look dull, turning on vivid mode does nothing, please fix vivid mode, other than that this phone is great
Yep, search for it on this board and you will find hundreds of other posts with the same problem. As of yet, there is no fix. You may want to consider returning your phone.
After reaearching, I just made a long post about the lack of incompetence. But per usual. They will make an excuse instead of taking the blame. I just need 5o know when it'll be out while under grace period with ATT
