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
Samsung community manager Justin said that the display has been carefully tuned and basically that it's intended to be this way. It's such a shame when you can compare it to your old device and especially people like me that use a tablet as well it's extremely noticeable when switching between devices. From the way it sounds Don't expect anything to be changed with the display from the next update. They are also deleting a lot of posts about the display issues from the Samsung members forms. This may be deleted as well but I would return your phone and not expect an update if you don't like the display look.
Return your S24 now. Samsung obviously does not care. Absolutely no official word from them on this massive issue and they are deleting posts about it. Super shady, do not let them get away with this.
Same here, the display is terrible and the colors are all just, off. I going to return mine before I can't. I don't want to be stuck with this if a software patch doesn't fix it.
