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Is my screen messed up? I can't tell what's up!!

hiredgun

hiredgun

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I noticed a while back that my white doesn't look very "white" on my S5 but it wasn't till I put it side by side with another phone that it really is noticeable. The rest of the colors seem ok, but when you have a white screen it's more of a cream color IMO. It was a second hand phone as a gift so I don't know if it's a problem with the screen or the S5 is just like this. I have tried the different screen modes the S5 comes with but there is no real difference as far as the white goes. These pics were taken in the "Adapt" screen mode. If the shots here aren't good enough I can try with a better camera but the S5 is the one on the left and I think you can see that the whites aren't as white as it were compared to the Huawei next to it. I'd appreciate any help on this because I don't want to take it in if I don't have to and as I'm very versed on this and I don't want to get ripped off with a repair that I don't need! Thanks, Vin.
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How about one more pic with both devices looking at the same apps and using the same fonts. Frankly your S5 looks better to me than the Huawei. Check your settings. Your S5 seems to be running some kind of "Book" or "Diary" theme
 
Here is one more pic taken with an iPhone where I think you can clearly see that the S5 is an "off" white at best compared to the Huawei. I'm a first time Samsung user with this one so I have no idea if it has some book or diary theme applied or even where to look for that on the phone??
dontpanicbobby said:
How about one more pic with both devices looking at the same apps and using the same fonts. Frankly your S5 looks better to me than the Huawei. Check your settings. Your S5 seems to be running some kind of "Book" or "Diary" theme
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I'm going to look through a bunch of Themes and duplicate that effect. Did you yourself change those fonts?

The Play Store never looks that way unless the fonts have been modified and if you didn't do it yourself then someone tried to prettify your device for you without telling you.
 
I did change the fonts myself to the Choco Cooky thing but that shouldn't affect the whiteness of the screen should it? In the last picture I think you can really see it's not as white as the other phone screen.
dontpanicbobby said:
I'm going to look through a bunch of Themes and duplicate that effect. Did you yourself change those fonts?

The Play Store never looks that way unless the fonts have been modified and if you didn't do it yourself then someone tried to prettify your device for you without telling you.
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Have you ever used Color adjustment in Accessibility options? I had an experience lately where what I could see after using Accessibility options to adjust vision with my own eyes and what a screenshot showed didn't match at all.
 
Some phones, (the iPhone in particular), use a cool/blue cast to their screens which, to the naked eye, make them appear whiter. Other phone manufacturers prefer the slightly warm/yellowish cast on theirs.
 
hiredgun said:
You tell me, lol here is a screenshot. Looks "off White" to me but I don't have another phone here to compare with.
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There's a definite difference. S5 has an AMOLED screen and those can fade and burn-in with use. The Huawei is LCD, and those don't. How long have you been using the S5, a couple of years? I just looked at the attached image on my Oppo R9 Plus and compared to how it looks on my MacBook Air screen, and it's pretty much the same. Oppo R9 Plus is also AMOLED, but the one I've got is almost brand new.

With AMOLED I believe it's the blue pixels that might fade first, before green and red, which could account for the creamy yellowy cast it's got. The particular chemicals that make blue OLEDs have a shorter life or something. Back in the day, older CRT TVs could go the same way, one colour degrades and so the the three primary colours are unbalanced, and so white isn't white any more. The electron guns or the screen phosphor dots in the CRT, degrade or burn.
 
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Chinese or Korean it's all the same to Big Mike, always to the rescue, lol. I take back all I ever said about you Brits mate, lmao!! Now the next logical question, lol, is there an App that could try and correct the problem?? I don't even know what to try and put in the Play Store Search box? Lol.

mikedt said:
There's a definite difference. S5 has an AMOLED screen and those can fade and burn-in with use. The Huawei is LCD, and those don't. How long have you been using the S5, a couple of years? I just looked at the attached image on my Oppo R9 Plus and compared to how it looks on my MacBook Air screen, and it's pretty much the same. Oppo R9 Plus is also AMOLED, but the one I've got is almost brand new.

With AMOLED I believe it's the blue pixels that might fade first, before green and red, which could account for the creamy yellowy cast it's got. The particular chemicals that make blue OLEDs have a shorter life or something. Back in the day, older CRT TVs could go the same way, one colour degrades and so the the three primary colours are unbalanced, and so white isn't white any more. The electron guns or the screen phosphor dots in the CRT, degrade or burn.
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Open 'Settings', then go to 'Device' then 'Display', then change the 'Screen Mode' white affects the white-balance, or "temperature" of the colour profile. Try the various modes until you find one you prefer.
 
Just wanted to thank everyone for the input in the thread, I tried the "burn in" app various times but it didn't seem to improve the issue and new screen would cost around 150 Euros because it's the entire thing so that's not really an option either. There are a ton of those apps so I may try another but for the time being I'm just going to learn to live with a less than totally white screen!!
 
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