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?! 🙂

[SamTheMan44]

Yes they just said thank you and that the developers are looking into it

[usernlJWEEWmbF]

I was just told they are NOT planning on fixing the washed out screen because it's how they designed it to look.

[Jskinvest]

If that was the case then why even have a toggle to vivid mode option in settings? Are you sure the person who said that knew what they were talking about? Who told you that? 

[user0ctWHW837E]

There has to be a fix. The vivid mode obviously isn't working if it does nothing when you turn it on and off. It's fine if they want to make it more natural but at least give a working vivid mode 

[user0ctWHW837E]

I don't believe that nothing is wrong with the screen. https://youtu.be/rSkhC4AGhxg?feature=shared. Watch that video.

[usernlJWEEWmbF]

Samsung just told me 1/31/24 3:30 mtn time (US) that Samsung plans no software updates to fix the screen because that's how it was designed to look.

[Jskinvest]

Well then why do they have a toggle to vivid mode option in settings if it does nothing?

[user0ctWHW837E]

Exactly vivid mode is broken. It needs to be fixed and also the grainy screen issue.

[Jskinvest]

What a joke. Went to the Verizon store checked all three models of the S24. They all had the same problem : The toggle to vivid display was not working at all. I compared it to other galaxy phones specifically the galaxy flip and there was a huge difference in the two screen modes. Samsung should be ashamed of themselves for putting out a new phone with that sort of bug.

[RBSLC]

Any updates from Samsung on fixing this screen coloring issue?