No, just make a backup before doing the restore. Do a backup by right clicking your phone in iTunes and choosing backup. After backup is complete, click the Restore button. After restore is complete phone will reboot and then choose the backup to you just did to return the phone back to the same settings.
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iPhone Yellow Screen Issue Fix!
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No, just make a backup before doing the restore. Do a backup by right clicking your phone in iTunes and choosing backup. After backup is complete, click the Restore button. After restore is complete phone will reboot and then choose the backup to you just did to return the phone back to the same settings.
Mine and my girlfriend's both had the new firmware out of the box. Purchased yesterday.
Hers is a white one, mine a black 16GB. Her screen is very contrasty, pretty much oversaturated. Mine is just about perfect. At first I thought I liked hers better, but really mine is the overall winner because of its color balance.
Didn't work for me and I definitely have a tint because dark areas in pictures on my new iPhone 3G don't show up as clear as they did on my original.
Exact same situation here. To the "t". Glad to know the black is more accurate, as my designer's eye has me in fits over the difference between our two iPhone's screens.
I can confirm that it didn't do a thing for me. I'm on my 2nd phone. The first one was not warm, it was downright dingy. The keys on the keyboard looked like smoker's teeth. Shadows on buttons looked sepia. I restored to 5A47 and nothing changed.
2nd phone is somewhat better, but still not clear and crisp as the AT&T demo phone I played with the other day. Restoring again did nothing for the color.
I call placebo.
After looking at the issue even closer, I have determined that my girlfriend's white phone is actually the warmer one, and my black one falls on the cool side. Comparing side by side with photos in the wallpaper section, her photos are decidedly warmer and more saturated. The best way to describe this really is the difference between a 2.2 gamma monitor (PC) and a 1.8 monitor (Mac).
I can't tell which one is more accurate. Or that it even matters. Her phone does tend to lose detail in the dark areas of photos pretty easily as a result of this saturation, however.
I will hold on to my phone, and wait and see if anyone releases an app that can adjust the color temp. That would be cool, but I don't see Apple letting that see the light of day.
I can't tell which one is more accurate. Or that it even matters. Her phone does tend to lose detail in the dark areas of photos pretty easily as a result of this saturation, however.
I will hold on to my phone, and wait and see if anyone releases an app that can adjust the color temp. That would be cool, but I don't see Apple letting that see the light of day.
Please take both yours (black 16gb) and your wife's (white 16gb) out into the sun and compare the screens. I suspect you will find the black one becomes really "griddy" and not clear at all when compared to your wife's white one.
Please confirm. I used to read on my 2G all the time and I have sore eyes when reading on my 3G at night and it may be due to the bad quality screen of the black 16gb.
Please confirm. I used to read on my 2G all the time and I have sore eyes when reading on my 3G at night and it may be due to the bad quality screen of the black 16gb.
Yellow Screen
I don't get you guys.. all we do is complain and look for magic solutions. It could be that for some the problem is SW but I can tell you that I have had several 3G iphones in my hands with the latest sofware and some of them are good and some look like some body pissed on their screens. I personally think this if a HW issue due to some bad performed process when buiding the screens. so anything else is just a poor excuse. Apple screwed up about half the phones (and 10% of the chargers.. ).
to the point, I have called apple phone support and opened a ticket and they told me I am the first person to open a ticket for this issue. how can you possibly expect apple to know about this if you dont report it in a way that they cant deny? pick up your phones and call the guys. open ticket have your phones replaced.. scream in a way that apple will have to do something...
I don't get you guys.. all we do is complain and look for magic solutions. It could be that for some the problem is SW but I can tell you that I have had several 3G iphones in my hands with the latest sofware and some of them are good and some look like some body pissed on their screens. I personally think this if a HW issue due to some bad performed process when buiding the screens. so anything else is just a poor excuse. Apple screwed up about half the phones (and 10% of the chargers.. ).
to the point, I have called apple phone support and opened a ticket and they told me I am the first person to open a ticket for this issue. how can you possibly expect apple to know about this if you dont report it in a way that they cant deny? pick up your phones and call the guys. open ticket have your phones replaced.. scream in a way that apple will have to do something...
This thread is a year old. This thread pertains to the iPhone 3G, not the iPhone 3G S.
Me too!
Haha, I was gonna do the same thing, but luckily I looked at the post time and it was last year.
would something like this work with the new issues ppl are having with the yellow tint on the 3gs?
is this yellow tint the result of a simple setting or is it reason to return the phone? even if you return the phone wont u be risking to get another one just like it?
is this yellow tint the result of a simple setting or is it reason to return the phone? even if you return the phone wont u be risking to get another one just like it?
As I've said in other threads, return the phone. My 3G S next to a friend's 3G S reveals a dingy, yellow tint on mine.
Here's my 3G S compared to my old 3G. Two support reps agreed with me that this is not normal.
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