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?! 🙂

[Members_8QoN2Ue]

Yes, and the opinions of those posting said screenshots cannot be taken seriously

[Gauntix]

It's probably because of the reflection dulling glass they have on the S24U now. They had the same thing going on for a side by side comparison between the premium steam deck model vs the other 2. The glass dulls glare but in return, will also slightly dull color.

[16_oz]

Yes it does seem to not be as clear but it definitely reduces the glare.

[Konrad999]

Is possible, but the problem many are complaining about is that the natural and vivid mode almost have no difference. Samsung could increase the contrast and color saturation if they wanted. Is an oled screen after all. Give us punchy colors on the vivid setting for those who are used to seeing those colors on the s23 and older samsungs

[GreenBubbles4Life]

The new glass has absolutely nothing to do with it. Samsung Spain has already refuted such claims. It's software-related. Further, the regular S24 & S24+, which don't carry the anti-reflective display, have the same color desaturation issue.

[Members_8QoN2Ue]

Nope, not even close. This is 99% due to the revamped color profile. It's actually not revamped as much as it was appropriated. "Vivid" mode is no longer classic vivid mode at all. Its name was appropriated but the actual color profile replaced with something hardly different from Natural mode. Instead of adding the new option, they replaced the well-established option. Given how many people have come to expect this over the years, it's a kind of bait and switch.

[Jokerloz]

I can tell by my background pictures on my phones it's nothing to do with the glass. It's the setting itself

[GreenBubbles4Life]

No one is exaggerating this issue. See the attached pic. The device on the left is the S24U, and the image on the right is that same S24U, phone-linked to a Lenovo Yoga 9i with an AMOLED display. And if you view this picture on an S23U or older device (or any device with an AMOLED panel that covers 90%+ of its own color gamut), then unless one is color-blind, the disparity will be immediately visible.

Side point: The collective sentiment from the thousands of users reporting this deficiency (which it indeed is) isn't simply that the colors are less saturated, but that Samsung has arbitrarily taken away our choice to do anything about it in the settings. If it were truly an intentional config change for the sake of viewer safety (as Samsung Spain alleges), then why was that same config change not pushed out to the S23 line and earlier lines, also? Does Samsung only care about viewer safety for S24 users but not the others? Highly unlikely. Hopefully this issue is becoming enough of a "scream test" for Samsung to take appropriate action on this matter. Because their closest competitors have been following this "S24 washed-out screen colors" conversation, too.

[bondo008]

Hopefully they fix the vivid option in settings so we can set are phone's up the way we want. Vivid definitely isn't what it used to be. Or maybe make 3 preset display options for us. Natural, vivid, and true amoled vibrant

[Members_8QoN2Ue]

lol