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All iPads Another iPad (Air), another (pink/green) unevenly tinted display.

So it sounds like the various display suppliers are revealing their differences. If I had to guess, I would say that LG is behind the uneven tinted (fade to dirty green/yellow) display and Samsung is behind the evenly lit, but yellow-ish display (Samsung displays tend to skew overly warm IMO). I wonder if Sharp is in the mix, and what their displays look like.
 
kidwei said:
good to hear.. i don't think folks should really go out of their way to search for issues.. but i'm definitely significantly distracted by the unevenness of my screen in normal, everyday use.. if your issues are only detectable via test patterns and not in normal use, don't exchange.. you'll possibly end up with a screen that's worse off.
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I don't consider to have any issues. Minor Light bleed at full backlight is unavoidable on sidelit devices.

I don't have uneven or a warm tint. So maybe sharp is the money one, and I got lucky.
 
My air has a very faint pinkish tint toward the bottom. I'm going to give it towards the end of the 14 day to see if it fades at all.
 
I came across this thread when searching for others who have noticed green tint on iPad Air. Tint is only noticed on some images where it is more obvious such as faces and skin tones which get a green or yellow/brown tint. I think my iPad's problem is a display calibration issue that might be cured with the ability to tweak the display RGB gain/offset parameters and tint (like a TV), but nobody seems to have such an app. I think the green face tints might be getting worse, because I did not see it 2 weeks ago on first use. It's a 32GB iPad Air s/n DMQL.... bought at Target.

Also, I had not noticed before coming across this thread, but now I see that my iPad Air has a small amount of the book-spine effect, where in portrait orientation there is a bit of brightness drop and yellow or green tint on the left side, while the right side shows whites brighter and more pure. However this defect is small (on my particular device) and not noticed in actual use of the iPad to show web pages, images, and videos.

I would say I'm happier with the quality control of this iPad Air than my iPad 2 which had worse blacks and backlight leakage than most other 2's, and a chip in the bezel metal where it meets the glass.
 
Even 50 returns are legit if they have lovely bluish and pinkish screens with dust in them. They are priced right enough to have a good amount to quality control for a product which is based on the screen.

Apart from to that I think for a display only product it's very important to have a good screen.

I got a iPad air screen was yellow on the left to the middle and then a cool white.

Anyone could see that that was not correct. I skipped the swapping process took a refund and I am just going to use my iPad 4 which has a stunning display.

It's sad that apple is not pressing the vendors so that they supply uniformed screens.
 
mustu said:
Even 50 returns are legit if they have lovely bluish and pinkish screens with dust in them. They are priced right enough to have a good amount to quality control for a product which is based on the screen.

Apart from to that I think for a display only product it's very important to have a good screen.

I got a iPad air screen was yellow on the left to the middle and then a cool white.

Anyone could see that that was not correct. I skipped the swapping process took a refund and I am just going to use my iPad 4 which has a stunning display.

It's sad that apple is not pressing the vendors so that they supply uniformed screens.
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be that as it may, why someone would tolerate anything approaching 50 duds i beyond me.
 
mustu said:
I am speaking hypothetically
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clearly. but the point stands. as i said up thread, i'm not sure how many times i would put up with getting a dud, but I am 100% certain that number is FAR closer to 1 or 2 than it is to any of the absurd number of returns people have referenced in this thread and others - hypothetical or otherwise.

my theory is that some people are being unrealistic. obviously it is possible that someone might be so unlucky as to get X legitimate duds, where X is an agreed upon high number, but my suspicion is the number of people in that situation who are being unreasonable far outweigh those that are not.

i could be wrong.
 
DisplacedMic said:
clearly. but the point stands. as i said up thread, i'm not sure how many times i would put up with getting a dud, but I am 100% certain that number is FAR closer to 1 or 2 than it is to any of the absurd number of returns people have referenced in this thread and others - hypothetical or otherwise.

my theory is that some people are being unrealistic. obviously it is possible that someone might be so unlucky as to get X legitimate duds, where X is an agreed upon high number, but my suspicion is the number of people in that situation who are being unreasonable far outweigh those that are not.

i could be wrong.
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Well it's nice that you have these suspicions, but if you haven't realized before, people come in all shapes and sizes and carry different opinions. What may seem unreasonable to you may be perfectly reasonable to others. In this case, I personally can attest that there are indeed screen issues. If it were just an isolated few being "unreasonable", there wouldn't be massive threads on here and the Apple discussion forums documenting the issue.
 
Fattytail said:
Well it's nice that you have these suspicions, but if you haven't realized before, people come in all shapes and sizes and carry different opinions. What may seem unreasonable to you may be perfectly reasonable to others. In this case, I personally can attest that there are indeed screen issues. If it were just an isolated few being "unreasonable", there wouldn't be massive threads on here and the Apple discussion forums documenting the issue.
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and there again, why would anyone tolerate repeated failed screens? if I received 3 or 4 unacceptable iPads from Apple there is no way that would be acceptable to me. So rather than getting that 5th ipad, i'd be asking for my money back.

Your condescension not withstanding, I do not believe that the majority of people returning 5+ iPads are seeing legitimate screen problems. Obviously that is an opinion, i didn't present it otherwise. Nor did I say that there weren't "screen issues," clearly that is the case. This is par for the course with any new device. i am questioning whether what people are calling screen issues really are defects and from what I can tell, not all of them are.

the massive threads on here and on apple discussions are people complaining - as people are want to do more than they are to post when they're happy. They sold 5 million or so iPad airs in the first weekend. Most of those people seem to be happy. So is this a QC issue? Are people simply not seeing it? Are people just putting up with it? Are people being unreasonable?

I can see the yellowing in some of the pictures posted, but there are other images people have posted where I honestly can not at all see anything wrong. That doesn't mean it isn't visible in person or even that other people can't see it, but it really does seem to me that there is a bit of hysteria at play here.
 
If you take my case - I have used every gen of the iphone and iPad.

I change my macbook pro every 3 years and my imac every 3 years as well and have had multiple macbooks and imacs with out any issue's ( never needed to replace it even once ) out of the box works like a charm and have had perfect gorgeous even colored screens.

I would be able to deal with the iapd air if the screens were even and not half baked yellow and half a cool white.

I think as they changed suppliers etc for the screens they have not been able to produce the quality of the older suppliers.

iPad 1 - no issues
iPad 2 - no issues
iPad 3 - multiple issue with tint, finally got a decent one.
iPad 4 - no issues
iPad Air - tired and returned 1 unit and now waiting for 1 more after which if its not perfect will wait and get the next gen.

I too have a manufacturing business ( we make more than 2800 products )and if my products we in this state I would certainly do something to have the issue sorted out.
 
I too have had half a dozen apple products with zero issues.

I'd accept an iphone 5S with a slighly unevenly tinted screen because I don't stare at it intensively for reading but on an iPad Air, this problem is unacceptable.

Lucky are the ones who've got no screen complaints.
 
I picked up a White iPad Air 32 GB yesterday. The first thing I did was check the screen and serial number. Its a DMRL and the screen is near perfect. It does have the slight "book spine effect" on the left side in portrait but its only maybe 5-10 pixels.

I can live with it being 95% perfect.
 
I sincerely hope law enforcement and the FBI read about this blatant fraud and act accordingly. In fact, I may notify them myself.

The people doing the insane amount of returns are mentally ill. End of story. And it's sad. And you should be in prison or a mental hospital. There are just a few of you out there driving up prices for rest of us and making some suppliers so frustrated and angry, and absolutely justifiably so.

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To be more specific, if you return it once I think it is 100 percent ok. From there onward the abuse starts and gets exponentially worse. I applaud best buy, amazon apple and hopefully others for taking action. I am sick of paying money for these imbeciles actions. Money I could spend on another cool ipod as a gift. I have given five shuffles and they all loved them. For the record I am not associated with apple in any form except repeat and very pleased customer
 
rajpatel said:
I sincerely hope law enforcement and the FBI read about this blatant fraud and act accordingly. In fact, I may notify them myself.

The people doing the insane amount of returns are mentally ill. End of story. And it's sad. And you should be in prison or a mental hospital. There are just a few of you out there driving up prices for rest of us and making some suppliers so frustrated and angry, and absolutely justifiably so.

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To be more specific, if you return it once I think it is 100 percent ok. From there onward the abuse starts and gets exponentially worse. I applaud best buy, amazon apple and hopefully others for taking action. I am sick of paying money for these imbeciles actions. Money I could spend on another cool ipod as a gift. I have given five shuffles and they all loved them. For the record I am not associated with apple in any form except repeat and very pleased customer
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this is nonsense. Apple is obligated to uphold their end of the contract - if that contract says you can return an item within 14 days, then that's a condition of the sale. What they are not obligated to do, however, is sell those individuals another iPad... so if the policy is "driving prices up for everyone" then your complaint is more with Apple then with the fringe nutbags who are "never happy"
 
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Giving someone a shuffle as a gift carries with it the odd sensation of having given someone a diamond ring. Almost like a marriage proposal.

The product is just packaged that cleanly and elegantly. The product has that kind of fit and finish and quality, like a jewel. Sorry, I know the convention is to hate everything they do but I had forgotten about them completely due to universities repeatedly me and the rest of the student body "don't bring an apple, not compatible with our network"

Then I rediscovered them a year ago and much happier than using a crappy third rate hp just a hundred bucks less new
 
rajpatel said:
I sincerely hope law enforcement and the FBI read about this blatant fraud and act accordingly. In fact, I may notify them myself.

The people doing the insane amount of returns are mentally ill. End of story. And it's sad. And you should be in prison or a mental hospital. There are just a few of you out there driving up prices for rest of us and making some suppliers so frustrated and angry, and absolutely justifiably so.

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To be more specific, if you return it once I think it is 100 percent ok. From there onward the abuse starts and gets exponentially worse. I applaud best buy, amazon apple and hopefully others for taking action. I am sick of paying money for these imbeciles actions. Money I could spend on another cool ipod as a gift. I have given five shuffles and they all loved them. For the record I am not associated with apple in any form except repeat and very pleased customer
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I absolutely agree with you on how ridiculous and anal some of these people are. But as a lawyer, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Good luck with your endeavors.
 
rajpatel said:
I sincerely hope law enforcement and the FBI read about this blatant fraud and act accordingly. In fact, I may notify them myself.

The people doing the insane amount of returns are mentally ill. End of story. And it's sad. And you should be in prison or a mental hospital. There are just a few of you out there driving up prices for rest of us and making some suppliers so frustrated and angry, and absolutely justifiably so.

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To be more specific, if you return it once I think it is 100 percent ok. From there onward the abuse starts and gets exponentially worse. I applaud best buy, amazon apple and hopefully others for taking action. I am sick of paying money for these imbeciles actions. Money I could spend on another cool ipod as a gift. I have given five shuffles and they all loved them. For the record I am not associated with apple in any form except repeat and very pleased customer
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Hi instead why don't you get to apple and inform them in the boardroom to clean up their **** with crappy two tone screens so people would not return them and just buy what they keep. Let's see how many million iPads they ship out of the factory and let's see when one received them...... I guess it would say ships in 10 to 20 weeks.

The problem is with apple's supplier they need to be informed by apple to supply good and even toned screens.
 
jbud72 said:
I absolutely agree with you on how ridiculous and anal some of these people are. But as a lawyer, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. Good luck with your endeavors.
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You have my vote :D

I think it would fine to set a "3 returns policy" by Apple, after that a full refund with a smile and a goodbye, to stop those people's hysteria.

I know there are defective units, but a good percentage of these anal users are just ridiculous.
Look at this thread: a lot of users asking for how to check if they have a problem !!!!
Do you understand ? They can't see a problem but they ask how to check it ... insane :rolleyes:
I can imagine people keep returning perfectly working devices just because they read on a forum that's defective ....
And what about people returning it 5-6-7 times ????
 
Max(IT) said:
You have my vote :D

I think it would fine to set a "3 returns policy" by Apple, after that a full refund with a smile and a goodbye, to stop those people's hysteria.

I know there are defective units, but a good percentage of these anal users are just ridiculous.
Look at this thread: a lot of users asking for how to check if they have a problem !!!!
Do you understand ? They can't see a problem but they ask how to check it ... insane :rolleyes:
I can imagine people keep returning perfectly working devices just because they read on a forum that's defective ....
And what about people returning it 5-6-7 times ????
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yup. and as i keep saying, i simply don't understand why anyone would allow a company 5,6, 7 tries to get sometime right.

i understand not tolerating an unacceptable piece of merchandise, and I am sure i would return a faulty unit myself. What i'm not sure of is how many times i would do that before i would be asking for my money back but i know for sure that number is much closer to 1 or 2 than some of the numbers you hear people quoting here.

honestly - if someone sold me a lemon and replaced it with a lemon when I complained i'm pretty sure i'd start to lose faith in their ability to not sell me a lemon...exponentially so with each subsequent return.
 
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