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
I don't know about the grainy look that you're describing but the other part in regards to the vivid vs natural setting is a known issue. No idea when a fix is coming. If you search, you'll see more posts about it.
This is my homescreen... you can see the grainy texture. It absolutely does not have this grain in the original image or if I set it as the wallpaper on my S23 Ultra, S22 Ultra ect.
The strange thing is that if you open the image in your gallery, it'll look great, bright and not grainy. It's got to be something specific with the OneUI 6.1 where someone forgot to comment out a line of code or something simple. It's specific to the homescreen it seems.
Why does customer need to wait for bug fix on the New brand S24 ultra ? Why not everyone take a stand against of samsung for case of cheating .. samsung low grade model display is far better than this . Samsung is upgrading only Andriod version, processors version and UI with all company to do handshake for thier product but there is no quality . Samsung has not forgotten to increase $100 in New version then why should customer need to wait for bug to fixed .
