True, noticed this as well and thought it was a LG screen issue. Now the 17PM LG screen is brighter than the 17P Samsung screen. Definitely keeping this 17PM and returning the 17P. Gotta stop going down this rabbit hole at some point, now I can't stop seeing the pink tints on all my Samsung screens...
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Other This years screen lottery (17, 17 pro, 17 pro max and air)
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If you think your substandard faulty dull non-trendy LG GVC screen looks poor, install pixel control and do the coloured stripes. Looks fantastic and bright and colours look amazing. You’re welcome. Trust your eyes, not internet strangers.
Just ordered 2 pro maxes to test further. I’ll keep the best one. I currently have a LG screen with the green tilt. For the rest is quite good. White, uniform and bright but want to see if i can get one with those and no green shift.
One thing I didn’t like is I had to buy from a retailer instead of apple store like my first. Always preferred that for warranty reasons.
Anyway this is my first and last test. I’m not gonna keep doing it.
One thing I didn’t like is I had to buy from a retailer instead of apple store like my first. Always preferred that for warranty reasons.
Anyway this is my first and last test. I’m not gonna keep doing it.
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IP PM 17 1 TB Silver: GVC LG panel
Looks great no tinting at all.
Looks great no tinting at all.
Noticed my launch day Air had pretty noticeable black crush during dark scenes in content, did the Lagom contrast test card (attached) and found it failed to display all but one of the top row and returned it.
New unit is great, no off-axis green tint and perfect grey scale displaying full detail in shadow areas.
Has anyone else noticed this issue?
New unit is great, no off-axis green tint and perfect grey scale displaying full detail in shadow areas.
Has anyone else noticed this issue?
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Received my AppleCare replacement phone today. It’s still GH3 with colour shift, but it is significantly better. Less green and yellow. Is it as good as a GVC, G9N, etc? No idea.
You definitely want to stay away from GH3 panels 🤣 ( joke )
My experiences:
16 Pro Max, GH3 panel: perfect screen, uniform, no off-axis tinting
1st 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: screen not great but ok, visibly worse than the 16PM, uniform, slight off-axis tinting
2nd 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: awful screen, bad off-axis tinting, much much worse than the 16PM
My conclusion from these statistically irrelevant samples:
(1) LG screens can be perfect (at least 2024)
(2) huge variations among GVC-panels
In addition to the display problems, the 1st 17PM has a back glass that is not aligned with the aluminium frame, you can easily feel it when holding the phone. So I am going to return both 17PM and keep using my 16PM. Not going to invest almost 2k€ for a phone with a screen that is inferior to the screen of my current 16PM. Maybe I try again in a couple of weeks.
Frustrated. Would have loved the new tele camera, among other things 🥺
16 Pro Max, GH3 panel: perfect screen, uniform, no off-axis tinting
1st 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: screen not great but ok, visibly worse than the 16PM, uniform, slight off-axis tinting
2nd 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: awful screen, bad off-axis tinting, much much worse than the 16PM
My conclusion from these statistically irrelevant samples:
(1) LG screens can be perfect (at least 2024)
(2) huge variations among GVC-panels
In addition to the display problems, the 1st 17PM has a back glass that is not aligned with the aluminium frame, you can easily feel it when holding the phone. So I am going to return both 17PM and keep using my 16PM. Not going to invest almost 2k€ for a phone with a screen that is inferior to the screen of my current 16PM. Maybe I try again in a couple of weeks.
Frustrated. Would have loved the new tele camera, among other things 🥺
With a perfect 16PM, might also consider skipping the 17PM altogether and wait for the 18PM in ~11 months.
Here is my story.
Purchased a pro max at launch from online apple store. After 2 days I noticed the typical green shift at the bottom when tilting towards you. For the rest it was quite good: uniform and bright.
However this green shift bothered me, especially as I still my 15pm and that screen was better so I felt I downgraded even though if I would have never read this post I probably would have thought all screens were like this or never noticed.
Anyway stock is very low atm, so 2 days ago I noticed a retailer here having them in stock. I prefer to buy from Apple, but they could only deliver in 2 more weeks and the return window of my first iPhone was nearly up. So i bought 2 PM from that retailer.
I opened the first one and quickly noticed no green shift. Also bright and uniform. Although I was already satisfied with this one I opened up the second one. Again a very nice screen.
Even maybe a tad bitter. In terms of color vibrance is was slightly better, bit very minimal. Same uniformity, no shift.
I did the panel check and both were samsung G9N, my first one with the green shift was LG GVC.
One thing the LG did better was having a cooler white which i personally prefer. The samsungs were bit warmer and much more when true tone was on. There was also a noticable difference between the 2 samsung screens with true tone enabled. One was warmer. Without it not much difference. This surprised me as it seems the signal the screen receives from the toggle is more severe, as I thought both would look the same like they did with true tone off.
In the end I decided to go with the last iPhone tested, but right as I was suppose to factory reset the first one I looked at all the other parts to see if it was ok. And then I noticed a tiny speck of dust below the camera lens. Kinda bummed. I had found the absolutely perfect screen and then this. Wasn’t noticable in photo’s. A google search showed this can happen and has no real effect on photo’s but I know myself, this would bother me.
So I kept the first one I opened as that screen was 95% the same as the camera dust one.
Below the 2 samsung screens. I kept the right one. In reality they looked the same except for a tiny amount of cooler white / vibrance. The black stripes is just on the photo.
Purchased a pro max at launch from online apple store. After 2 days I noticed the typical green shift at the bottom when tilting towards you. For the rest it was quite good: uniform and bright.
However this green shift bothered me, especially as I still my 15pm and that screen was better so I felt I downgraded even though if I would have never read this post I probably would have thought all screens were like this or never noticed.
Anyway stock is very low atm, so 2 days ago I noticed a retailer here having them in stock. I prefer to buy from Apple, but they could only deliver in 2 more weeks and the return window of my first iPhone was nearly up. So i bought 2 PM from that retailer.
I opened the first one and quickly noticed no green shift. Also bright and uniform. Although I was already satisfied with this one I opened up the second one. Again a very nice screen.
Even maybe a tad bitter. In terms of color vibrance is was slightly better, bit very minimal. Same uniformity, no shift.
I did the panel check and both were samsung G9N, my first one with the green shift was LG GVC.
One thing the LG did better was having a cooler white which i personally prefer. The samsungs were bit warmer and much more when true tone was on. There was also a noticable difference between the 2 samsung screens with true tone enabled. One was warmer. Without it not much difference. This surprised me as it seems the signal the screen receives from the toggle is more severe, as I thought both would look the same like they did with true tone off.
In the end I decided to go with the last iPhone tested, but right as I was suppose to factory reset the first one I looked at all the other parts to see if it was ok. And then I noticed a tiny speck of dust below the camera lens. Kinda bummed. I had found the absolutely perfect screen and then this. Wasn’t noticable in photo’s. A google search showed this can happen and has no real effect on photo’s but I know myself, this would bother me.
So I kept the first one I opened as that screen was 95% the same as the camera dust one.
Below the 2 samsung screens. I kept the right one. In reality they looked the same except for a tiny amount of cooler white / vibrance. The black stripes is just on the photo.
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Not to be a downer, because I'm glad you got an acceptable one, but the phone on the right is not uniform and shifts from green to pink from top to bottom. Maybe it is just the photo / lighting. If you post here, we'll find issues with every panel 🤣 .
Make sure you go into Accessibility on your personal device and toggle off Auto Brightness if you are going to compare. The store units have this off to drive max brightness on the panels
Correct and almost every Samsung panel I’ve seen has a shift from top to bottom (green to pink), regardless of 17 Pro or Pro Max. So just something to live with
Yup, I made sure EVERYTHING was a match and I couldn't believe how bad the quality was on my original 17 Pro. Even the BB employee was shocked and said to exchange it right there and then. Still in the process of setting up my new 17 Pro, will report back on how it looks.