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13th iPad (for various reasons)... and still no good
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This is the first post I've seen that accurately depicts the issue. Its true, no one on this thread needs another poster saying "Mine's Perfect" as if you imply that everyone else is delusional.
My problem is simple: all the returns. Stay in the store and open 25 units until you get one you like.
BTW...for everyone else, what authority has said that the color hues are bad (not including the yellow from the adhesive).
Do these screens look bad under normal use?
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Sorry, that ain't happenin. If you buy one, open it in store, don't like it, and want to exchange it on the spot, they will accomodate you one time with no hassle. If the replacement also has issues, they might let you do it again. Beyond that, you will most likely be told "sorry", unless you get a reeaaaallly friendly genius backed up by a reeeaaallly friendly floor manager on duty.
At that point, you can return it for a refund and buy another, though doing so at the same store on the same visit will likely cause you problems.
But Apple is definitely not letting people rifle through 2 dozen boxes at any store at one time.
Good for you an good to hear. You are lucky!
I think you'll accept without hesitation to post a picture of your screen? White or grey background, 50/70% brightness... Thank you!
Here's my perfect iPad 3 screen...
Noooooooooo!!! apparently, when I take a photo of it in a darkened room and just tweak the levels a bit, my perfect screen is revealed to be all blotchy and discoloured! It looks perfect to the naked eye, but clearly my vision is being corrupted by Apple brainwashing. I can't bear it. I will be returning my iPad forthwith...
But seriously folks, I'm not saying that anybody has deliberately faked photos, but phone shots of illuminated screens are not reliable evidence. I haven't painted anything in here - just applied a spot of gamma correction (I could have made it MUCH worse).
The the colours and contrast in a photo are whatever you or the camera set them to be - note that the bezel of this (white) iPad is dark brown in the photo, and if I use the white-balance tool to correct that, the screen is vivid blue.
(Summary: "the camera never lies" is one of the stupidest statements ever to have been made - it was spectacularly wrong even before the days of Photoshop).
By my reckoning, you'd need about 25% of iPads to be duff to make a 1-in-a-million chance of getting 10 duds in a row. So the options seem to be (a) duff batches, so a few stores have mostly duff stock or (b) people being unrealistically fussy.
fixed it for you.
I'm sure YOU think it looks great, but I can clearly see a patch of green/cyan at the top and upper left, and pink/yellow at the bottom. This has nothing to do with you applying levels. RGB adjustments applied evenly over an entire image will merely accentuate what's already there. Yes, your levels may have boosted the saturation somewhat, and in fact your screen may not look as bad in person, but the fact remains, it's showing more or less the same coloration issues in the same areas as many of the problem screens I've seen in person (and my eyes are not camera phones), and many of the images posted here.
Your example is like purposely oversalting poorly cooked food, then claiming that "Of course the food tastes bad, it's oversalted!"
Wow, buddy. You need to calm down. So you doubt nobody is faking photos but yours is a fake!!! Huh? What point are you trying to make? If yours had a yellow blotch and you couldn't see it with the naked eye and only in a photo then you would have a point by posting.
Sure the camera changes things from the real eye, but I reckon most people are having problems with the naked eye (from what I've read so far) and posting picture to back up their problem.
I posted a photo and can assure you that what you saw in the photo was actually better than in real life. Mine was stunningly yellow with an absolutely perfect backlit screen (no bleeding, no dead pixels, no heat problems). To my dismay I had to return it as the yellow hue was just too much to accept (even the genius commented it was really yellow). Got my money back and went back to my ipad 2. Now after a month or so, I'm happy i got my 600bucks back (I spent it on an airfare to Australia instead) as the upgrade from 2 to 3 isn't worth 600 bucks at this point IMO (Next year will be different though).
The only people who are really unhappy with my return is my buddy who was going to get my ipad 1 and my wife who was going to get my ipad 2. They'll keep...
Came across this article at one point. Thought it was interesting.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/03/26/new-ipad-yellow/
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/03/26/new-ipad-yellow/
Thanks for this. I hope medias will make it louder and louder in order to wake up Apple! So it can act as quickly as possible... Returning iPad now is too risky since most of replacements device still have sh*** panels.
I had to exchange my iPad, due to the battery not charging past 87%. I went to the apple store and they plugged it in and after 50 minutes it went to 88%. They wouldn't exchange it cause they said it was working for them. (mind you I just bought the iPad 4 hours earlier.)
After the manager said I couldn't exchange it..I returned it and got a gift card and drove two miles to the next apple store and bought it there. That iPad worked great.
I wonder why they gave me so much trouble, while other people can exchange theirs so many times? I'm just lucky I have 4 apple stores so close to each other.
After the manager said I couldn't exchange it..I returned it and got a gift card and drove two miles to the next apple store and bought it there. That iPad worked great.
I wonder why they gave me so much trouble, while other people can exchange theirs so many times? I'm just lucky I have 4 apple stores so close to each other.
My friend if you are telling the truth and you have returned 13 iPads then I'd say you are the fool here... A glutton for punishment... Now whether that punishment is infact real or imagined, well only you know the truth to that...
Most sane people would have stopped once they reached number 3 assuming the product was flawed, not worth any more time or money... The fact you kept on going for another 10 times casts serious doubt on your mental health or your truthfulness.
Most sane people would have stopped once they reached number 3 assuming the product was flawed, not worth any more time or money... The fact you kept on going for another 10 times casts serious doubt on your mental health or your truthfulness.
They probably had to deal with someone who returned their iPad 13 times just before you got yours hahahah.
I see nothing wrong with the screen pics you posted op.
If I look closely I can see what you refer to pink casts, tints or banding. This is picked up by a camera sensor on a white background where the camera lense is exposing for the screen.
What happens when the iPad screen pixels turn to colour to actually display something. I would probably never notice.
You clearly have an obsession with looking at blank white screens.
Post a pic where you notice this looking at photos, watching YouTube or even using twitter.
If I look closely I can see what you refer to pink casts, tints or banding. This is picked up by a camera sensor on a white background where the camera lense is exposing for the screen.
What happens when the iPad screen pixels turn to colour to actually display something. I would probably never notice.
You clearly have an obsession with looking at blank white screens.
Post a pic where you notice this looking at photos, watching YouTube or even using twitter.
Red hue at the top and greenish tint at the left side, I cant imagine how blind you are. Not that I approve of this 13 returns but some people are just plain blind.
Maybe your colour vision is not very good. Why do you assume that if you don't see the problem, then everyone else must not see it too? Especially if, as the op says, "Apple store employees saw the problem immediately"? People at Apple instantly recognized this as defective screen, and you're still telling us that there nothing wrong with it? What the hell are you talking about?
Or reading books.
Or browsing websites with white background (such as macrumors).
Etc.
Why some people cannot get that if they have iPad with no screen problems or they don't notice problems on their iPad, then it doesn't mean at all that other people will never get a defective screen or may not have more sensitive vision, and this green/pink colouring problem might actually be extremely annoying for them in lots of real-world usage scenarios?
It's even more apparent while reading a web page or book than when looking at a white screen, as you scroll up and down and see words travel from a pink area to a white area. Very annoying.
People get their kicks out of stirring the pot or think that belittling others anonymously somehow makes them big and strong and smart. Don't mind them.
Certain clown faced people in this thread are just that, clowns, and bring nothing remotely useful to this thread, and I'm willing to bet, nothing useful to anything offline either.
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Their business here is to badger and belittle others, because they suffer from low self esteem, and this badgering and belittling tricks their simple brains into feeling important and superior for a fleeting moment. Typical playground bully stuff.
Eventually, their hunger for bullying outpaces their common sense and they get banned.
Oh come on mcdj, I think "Calm Down Dear" is maybe what you should apply here as your comments are pretty wide and broad and do your argument no favours.
I'm not trying to belittle anyone or as you say trying to impose some kind of superiority complex or whatever.
Genuinely interested, i would just like to see some pictures of even a web page, twitter page or something with a white background and some text on it, perhaps images, to just see how bad the green / pink banding is.
There is no doubt S-IPS panels exhibit purple tints at certain viewing angles especially for dark lighting.
I would just like to see a photo of a screen at a normal brightness level in a normally lit room where the camera is exposing not just the screen but also the surroundings too.
We do have anti reflective coatings on the camera lens and the iPad which could even have a polariser layer on it. I just think it's important to see the photo's as mentioned above. I'm not saying that there isn't an issue. Just would be nice to compare.
Genuinely interested, i would just like to see some pictures of even a web page, twitter page or something with a white background and some text on it, perhaps images, to just see how bad the green / pink banding is.
There is no doubt S-IPS panels exhibit purple tints at certain viewing angles especially for dark lighting.
I would just like to see a photo of a screen at a normal brightness level in a normally lit room where the camera is exposing not just the screen but also the surroundings too.
We do have anti reflective coatings on the camera lens and the iPad which could even have a polariser layer on it. I just think it's important to see the photo's as mentioned above. I'm not saying that there isn't an issue. Just would be nice to compare.
MOD NOTE: Thread closed. The discussion keeps turning personal and we do not see a clear path for this thread to be productive. There are many other threads around these same issues, please use one of them and please keep it civil.
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