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?! 🙂

[BrüZZi]

Quote: "Are you two in Samsung's payroll?"

So, you think I'm getting paid by Samsung just because I said I liked the colors ?!?

Laughable !!! 😉

Quote: "This is the fakest sounding "conversation" about how elated you are with the high gamma mess they they call "natural" colors."

Sorry if my "conversation" sounded fake. It wasn't my intention. 🙄

Quote: "No real living human I know that bought the phone with their own money agrees with you"

I'm not asking anybody to agree with me.

It's just my opinion.

Don't like it ???
I couldn't care less !!! 😎

Quote: "Glad Samsung is finally fixing this mess"

That's exactly the point...

Samsung already announced the fix coming soon.

Why do you even care about what I like or not?!?

It won't make any difference at all !!! 

[NaptownMyBackground]

The only thing I can say is that the youtube tech review ppl r saying there's an update coming for all the issues u brought up. I hv the 24 ultra. I too used the trade-in option with the 22 ultra. They sold me with the flat screen. The deep, saturated colors r a given for samsung. Why would they change that?! I truly dislike when companies go away from what drew everyone to them in the first place. I think they figured out that the experiments have failed. Hopefully the AOD fixes will be in the update. 🤞

[Galaxy Knight]

Update is starting to roll out in Korea...

https://www.sammyfans.com/2024/02/15/samsung-galaxy-s24-gets-february-2024-update-w-many-display-cam...

[GreenBubbles4Life]

Official announcement of the upcoming fixes to the displays and cameras. (Note: It does not explicitly address the widely reported graininess issue.)

https://bit.ly/3SCVxUg

[KnightRiderRalph]

W incoming update

[userMcBsw3MUKi]

Is samsung s24 ultra vivid modes going to be fixed

[Galaxy Knight]

https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/feature-stories/samsung-announces-galaxy-s24-series-update-offeri...

[Davecon11]

9 Big changes made with Samsung Galaxy S24 February 2024 update - Sammy Fans

[RBSLC]

https://youtu.be/Gmv2hoyJ4t0?si=42xm7DNWRWnDKTaK
Some potential good news for a update that's rolling out on the S24 to help provide the vivid slider, to provide more options to what type of screen coloring you prefer on your Samsung. I am on T-Mobile in the USA and we have not received this update yet. Hoping the update comes across soon.

[RBSLC]

Great to see an official announcement on Samsung's website addressing the vivid screen fix.