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?! 🙂

[wingriderr]

Yes, Going to return s24U. My s23U is still better than it.

[chas099]

I've noticed that if you turn off the auto brightness and then turn up your brightness to maybe 50 percent the screen looks much better.

[al10104]

I agree, but for the price of this phone I expected so much better.
Maybe that's just me. But im still have my hopes that the 25 series next year will be the one to blow me away!

[al10104]

I loved the s21 and s23 when they first came out. Still love the 23, but the s24 didn't give me that same reaction. Maybe there's more software updates that will do it. But time will tell!!

[aleXvampire]

Finally arrived on unlocked S24+ device running on ATT

[Carolina_MīC]

Let the new complaining begin now that the update has been released. 

[betancd]

There seems to be a lot of it! LOL. I, for one, am very happy with the phone and any complaints I have are extremely minor.

[al10104]

Yea, minor dollars spent on a very expensive phone. This series was a big disappointment !!!!!

[betancd]

To be fair, regardless of price there isn't a phone out I am fully happy with. I returned my iphone 15 PM since it gave me a bunch of esim issues, I love my Pixel 8 Pro but it is bad for gaming. I also have a Oneplus 12 right now, it is near perfect, but the display is hard to look at after seeing the anti reflective screen on the S4U. Ultimately no phone is perfect, just gotta find the one that is best for you.

[al10104]

I agree 👍