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
I am trying to help people but there is a lot of bad info out there.
Try something. Go to display settings. Scroll to adaptive color tone. Turn it off. Select vivid and make sure slider is set to cool or middle and you have the regular vivid back.
I have same problem on my S24 ultra, the screen seems faded, my flip3 screen looks way better and thats cuz its 2 years and 3 months old, it makes my $1500 S24 ultra look cheap
I have not received any software updates since purchasing this phone and it's still on January software patch. Is samsung going to fix the AOD and dull display? Has there been any official statement over the topic from samsung?
If not, can they just get rid of the vivid mode and natural mode settings. It's pointless to have both of vivid does absolutely nothing.
I havnt got any software updates as of today. Now, the display "issue" that's happening, I actually like the display better than my s23 ultra and 22 ultra. I appreciate the realistic colors. I understand why most are upset about it but I like the display. Apparently when they do issue an update this month it'll fix the screen issue.
So I've been reading online and there are conflicting news articles i.e. Forbes... like one article says samsung is going to supply a fix, but then an article stating their going to leave it as is. This why I'm confused over the subject.
