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Other This years screen lottery (17, 17 pro, 17 pro max and air)

Furrr

Furrr

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Let see what screens you guys have.

I have a LG screen (GVC) on my 17 pro max and has a bad case of screen (green) tinting when moving the bottom of the screen away from my face. Also it has a greenish tint overall when facing straight to my face.
It could be because my 13 pro max is 4 years old and has cumulative 1000’s of hours of screen on time (blue pixels degrade the fastest and red will be more dominant). Colours look somewhat washed out too. Coming from a 13 pro max, which had a perfect screen with better colours, it’s a little disappointing.

Is the lottery a thing again with this generation?

copy / pasted the following from reddit and worked for me:

“For those wondering how to check your display manufacturer...

You can run sysdiagnose on your phone (press volume up, volume down, and lock button) all together for around a second. You will feel the phone vibrate.

Wait a couple of minutes and then go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Analytics and Improvements -> Analytics Data.

You will then scroll down and look for a file titled: sysdiagnose_XXXXXXXX.

You will click on that file and then click the arrow in the upper right hand corner and scroll down and click “Save to Files” Once it is saved you will go into your files and click the file to unpack it.

Within the folder that is unpacked you will click on the folder “ioreg” and then click the file “IODeviceTree”.

You will then use the magnifying search glass in the bottom right hand corner to search “raw-panel”. It will then give you a serial number.

I have an LG display which has the beginning letters of GH3.

GVC is the best of the LG panels but not as good as Samsung’s best which is the G9N.

The top 3 panels are:

• Samsung G9N • Samsung G9Q • LG GVC

The worst panel is LG GH3.”
 
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Gsxr750 said:
My screen looks good. I don’t need a model number to tell me that. It’s not that serious.
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Great that your screen looks good! 😁

For many of us, for whatever reason, it is serious. Let’s try to share our views as opinions, and not present them as the norm.

For you it’s not that serious, and that’s totally fine! 👍
 
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Furrr said:
Let see what screens you guys have.

I have a LG screen (GVC) on my 17 pro max and has a bad case of screen (green) tinting when moving the bottom of the screen away from my face. Also it has a greenish tint overall when facing straight to my face.
It could be because my 13 pro max is 4 years old and has cumulative 1000’s of hours of screen on time (blue pixels degrade the fastest and red will be more dominant). Colours look somewhat washed out too. Coming from a 13 pro max, which had a perfect screen with better colours, it’s a little disappointing.

Is the lottery a thing again with this generation?

copy / pasted the following from reddit and worked for me:

“For those wondering how to check your display manufacturer...

You can run sysdiagnose on your phone (press volume up, volume down, and lock button) all together for around a second. You will feel the phone vibrate.

Wait a couple of minutes and then go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Analytics and Improvements -> Analytics Data.

You will then scroll down and look for a file titled: sysdiagnose_XXXXXXXX.

You will click on that file and then dick the arrow in the upper right hand corner and scroll down and click “Save to Files” Once it is saved you will go into your files and click the file to unpack it.

Within the folder that is unpacked you will click on the folder “ioreg” and then click the file “IODeviceTree”.

You will then use the magnifying search glass in the bottom right hand corner to search “raw-panel”. It will then give you a serial number.

I have an LG display which has the beginning letters of GH3.

GVC is the best of the LG panels but not as good as Samsung’s best which is the G9N.

The top 3 panels are:

• Samsung G9N • Samsung G9Q • LG GVC

The worst panel is LG GH3.”
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What storage and colorv
 
GVC on silver pro max 512GB UK

EDIT: I get the green hue when I tilt the bottom of the screen away from me, but TBH that's something that doesn't happen in the real world. Would be more fussed if it did it when the top tilted away which is more likely to happen.
 
Screen lottery very much still a thing. My post from the other thread of the 5 I’ve tried:
  • 17 Pro Max - busted screen, top half white, bottom half green, major blue tint off axis
  • 17 Pro - pristine, perfect screen (keeping this one)
  • Cloud White Air - busted screen, green tint on bottom half.
  • Sky Blue Air - busted screen, green tint on bottom half plus blue shift when looking at it from any side.
  • Light Gold Air - busted screen, green tint on bottom half
I’m probably more unlucky than most cause this is wild at this point. 😂
 
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I have GH3, but screen looks fine to me. Plus, I have an anti reflective privacy screen protector on
 
My air has red tinting on the bottom half of the display, far worse at low brightness levels. I also noticed that when the phone is hot from blasting the CPU that the screen non-uniformity gets way worse! When hot the entire top half of the phone (coming from from the plateau) gets a much brighter blue glow until the phone cools down. I’ve never seen this behavior before in an iPhone.
 
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uller6 said:
My air has red tinting on the bottom half of the display, far worse at low brightness labels. I also noticed that when the phone is hot from blasting the CapU that the screen non-uniformity gets way worse! When hot the entire top half of the phone (coming from from the plateau) gets a much brighter blue glow until the phone cools down. I’ve never seen this behavior before in an iPhone.
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I have a similar thing on my 15 Pro. Happened with every 15 Pro I tried
 
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I had LG(dont remember if it was gvc, it was the best at the time for LG) on the 15pro, and it was clearly less bright on angle than my previous 13pro, it also shifted the color(greenish) like any LG screen. I got the Air this time, its a GVC, and to me its on par with the old 13pro that have samsung on it, the angle don't lose brightness like the 15pro I had, and the color shift is also better.
 
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peleh said:
I had LG(dont remember if it was gvc, it was the best at the time for LG) on the 15pro, and it was clearly less bright on angle than my previous 13pro, it also shifted the color(greenish) like any LG screen. I got the Air this time, its a GVC, and to me its on par with the old 13pro that have samsung on it, the angle don't lose brightness like the 15pro I had, and the color shift is also better.
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Do you still have the green color shift? I have a little bit on my 17 - not sure what to do
 
applefanb0y said:
Do you still have the green color shift? I have a little bit on my 17 - not sure what to do
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Much less than on the 15pro, and the pro also lose brightness a lot on angle. The thing is, I liked the 15pro, this color shift on the 15 annoyed me at first, but I got used to it quickly, and even though it had this characteristics, the overall quality felt very natural, I think I like LG screens.

Edit: Its not that there isn't a color shift, with LG there is, its just that this shift on newer phones are not fast like on my 15pro, on the 15pro I get color shift on top/bottom with minimal angle, maybe because its smaller. But again, the problem here is the difference, if apple want to keep consistency, then the manufacturer must not change. Go just Samsung, or just LG.
 
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I bought a regular 17 in the Netherlands (you people need to report location so we can see any patterns) and the screen is terrible off-angle.

Wild green or magenta colour shifts depending on angle.

Returning it. Never returned an Apple product before.

Not sure what to do now that I’m learning they all have more than one display manufacturer so no particular model can be trusted to be good.
 
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Really hope folks don’t get too hung up on this stuff. My 17 Pro is the “best” Samsung but the Air and 17 units I have are GVC and they’re perfectly nice — and I’ve been OCD about displays in the past if part of the panel seemed too warm, etc.

Is there a green tint on the bottom half of the GVC phones if I tilt that part away from me? Sure, but in what scenario would that ever matter in real-world use?
 
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Furrr said:
You will click on that file and then dick the arrow in the upper right hand corner and scroll down and click “Save to Files” Once it is saved you will go into your files and click the file to unpack it.
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I don’t have the option for “save to files”. Just says Copy or Add to Quick Notes
 
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