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
1. Go into the Developer Options (To enable: Settings -> About phone -> Software information -> Build number (keep tapping on it until it says "You are now a developer") 2. Scroll down to Contrast and select "High" 3. Go back to Display and make sure that "Eye comfort shield" and "Adaptive color tone" are both turned OFF. 4. Make sure that "Screen mode" = Vivid.
After following these steps and comparing the results to my S23U (which is already on Vivid), they are a much, much closer color match now, with some nuances (in some cases things on my S24U are actually more "vivid" than on my S23U, but some things are still slightly lighter in tone). And to make sure I wasn't just getting "placebo effect" (shout out to "Samsung Knight," lol), I cast my S24U screen to an AMOLED laptop that I knew had vivid colors, and it's still a closer match than it was before using the TechOdyssey workaround.
The anti reflection is amazing and does work good. Natural looks good. If they can just fix the vivid then everyone will be happy. More options the better because everyone likes different things. Main reason we like android is for customization. Just really hope it's not something to do with the glass change. Kinda like glossy monitors where the colors pop compared to a matte anti glare monitor. Still looks good but not the same. I definitely notice my note 20 ultra has that glossy look. I have no idea if that's the case though. I simply want to know if it can even be changed with a update or not.
I'm not saying this is what happened to you or not, but I think they have been merging posts into the one large post about this issue. Kinda makes sense since we won't have 100 posts saying the same thing flooding the community.
"I'm not saying this is what happened to you or not, but I think they have been merging posts into the one large post about this issue. Kinda makes sense since we won't have 100 posts saying the same thing flooding the community."
Yep... Posts are being merged to the large dedicated thread. And unfortunately some of them might get deleted / not transferred in the process.
Yep. Samsung merging all the threads to try to make this problem not look as pervasive as it is. Better to have a single thread complaining about vivid mode color mode not working (even with 1000 posts) than hundreds of separate threads. It's the PR team spinning fulltime lol
Let me preface this by saying that I do hope Samsung updates the vivid mode to be more vivid. I will also add that I traded in my S23 Ultra yesterday and decided to keep my S24 Ultra regardless of if they fix it or not.
But let's be real with ourselves, we are in the minority. I saw a report yesterday that Samsung updated their sales goal up by 1 million for the S24 series in the first quarter from 12 million units to 13 million units.
When we are talking about tens of millions, what are we talking about here? Thousands? Probably well under 10,000?
Not saying they won't fix it, but everyone screaming they are returning their phones isn't gonna hurt Samsung as much as you probably think.
When I got my s 24+ I saw the difference right away compared to my old s9. The colors are awful, dull, greenish-grayish, no clean whites. Thinking of returning if the problem is not fixed
Feel like being betrayed by Samsung. I've been using Samsung phone from series 6 because I hate the notch on iPhone (recently the huge black hole). This S24 series is the worst one. I can't bear to look at the ugly screen every time I turn it on.
