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?! 🙂

[Popsicle20]

According to this article, AOD brightness has been merged with the main screen brightness control. The author of the article said they were able to see results by turning on Auto-adaptive brightness.

https://samlover.com/2024/01/29/galaxy-s24-misses-manual-aod-brightness-control/

I don't know why Samsung themselves don't make it clear how things like this work now. It would save them a lot of bad publicity.

[BernieM]

It's a downgrade from my S10 ! If I'd known I wouldn't have bought the S24. I was dependant on the analog clock on the "always on display", and also used the pulse and oximeter features on the S10. 🤨😪😢😭

[Davecon11]

Samsung support is useless......no help at all................

[shweem]

Found new aod pretty annoying and wanted to check if others have similar issue or solution. 

So I have a s23 ultra and I can actually click and use the widgets that are on my AOD

But on s24 ultra I have failed to do so.

Also can't get the OG colored notification layout to even pop up on aod after having it added on good lock but og colored noti works on my s23

[msvd10]

I turned off aod. It seems restrictive/read only and not interactive. I can see music playing on aod but I can't change the track, why?

[shweem]

Ya turned it off to lol triggered me trying to make it work like my 23ultra . Hopefully there's a fix

[Focr06]

There's not gonna be a fix. Samsung already replied back to me last week that it was intended to have better transitions

[usermzeJaY3BsM]

Hate to say this, but it needs to be done.  You do not work at Samsung.  You do not know with 100% certainty that they will NEVER fix this issue. 

The statement "it was intended to have better transitions" could be interpreted in different ways, so your smoking gun here is not correct.

it was intended to have better transitions
-We meant for this to be like this so that our device does not stand out.

it was intended to have better transitions
-We made a mistake and intended it to have better transitions between the other devices.

[Focr06]

Sorry I'm at the beach in Waikiki.. And was giving a short answer.. But here's a screenshot if you need it. Also, just found out that the screen is not better to read in direct sunlight compared to the S23U

[shweem]

Ya not sure what is so transitional I can't even use the widgets on the aod lol