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?! 🙂

[TheMan25]

Bettery dies crazy fast, horrible picture quality lack of detail, lack of sharpness, dull display, live translate doesn't actually work lol overall major downgrade from mybs23 ultra

[userCE5SuAu6c0]

The pictures and photos from the camera app are not great and it still over processes them in post even when you turn off the optimization! Even on raw which shouldn't happen. Been a longtime Samsung user, and I found myself disappointed with the phone. It's the first pre-order I vmhave done, and now I kind of wish I didn't. It feels like they won't have anything fixed before the return window which is also disappointing. I'm thinking about returning it.

[TheMan25]

Samsu g has not officially acknowledged these issues therfore they are not working on it instead there moderators are removing our comments and posts to prevent us from affecting their sales.

[K4ZT13L]

This a example of the grainy display of my s24 ultra vs my s23 ultra a big difference i think im gonna send back the 24 ultra and wait to next year (picture on the left s23 ultra and right the s24 ultra

[Faith7777]

Hi, would you please share what font style you are using on the right S23 Ultra? I like it. Have a great day.

[K4ZT13L]

Is Cool Jazz you can downloaded on the galaxy store

[Faith7777]

Thank you so much! Have a great rest of your day.

[BrüZZi]

Cool Jazz font is gone for the S24 Series. 

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-S24/Missing-favorite-font-cool-jazz/m-p/2798992#M9206

[Faith7777]

Oh no, 😲. Thank you for letting us know.

[Faith7777]

I was able to find and download it on my S23 Ultra. I love it, but I shouldn't get used to it since it won't be on the S24 Ultra.
Samsung must have also removed from the latest tablets. I have the S9+, but I can't find it on that either.
The one I just switched from to try the cool jazz is "Choco cooky".
You may want to check that one out. Have a great day! Thanks again!