Im saying the orange/yellow is normal because I use night shift , but the red hue on top isn't .
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Ok I understand what you’re saying now sorry about that, I’m gonna try to take a pic as well with my Night Shift on at full brightness but it’s still morning here I’ll do it later on in the evening, I really don’t remember my display looking like thatbut we’ll see later when I try. What does it look like when you don’t have the Night Shift on?
no need to apologize
without night shift it looks fine, a bit of a hue at bottom though, but nothing at the top (unlike in this pic). it annoys me but not the end of the world
what is it you see on my picture aside from the yellow tint on the whole display ?
LG GH3 here on a 17 Pro Max. Screen looks great, there's no color tint any from wider angles that I could discern so far. Maybe a slight brightness dip but that I would expect. Will update this if I notice any anomaly that jumps out.
It'd be nice if the screen maker was consistent between all units, but even then the occasional manufacturing batch could have a defect that wouldn't be in preceding or succeeding batches of the same brand utilized.
It'd be nice if the screen maker was consistent between all units, but even then the occasional manufacturing batch could have a defect that wouldn't be in preceding or succeeding batches of the same brand utilized.
Some data points (all with true tone/night shift off)
17 Pro Max (Silver 512 GB): G9N, top 90% of the display was almost a neon green, bottom was pink tinted - even at full brightness with TT/NS off there was a noticeable color and brightness gradient between the top and bottom
17 Pro (all Silver 512): all G9N
17 Pro Max (Silver 512 GB): G9N, top 90% of the display was almost a neon green, bottom was pink tinted - even at full brightness with TT/NS off there was a noticeable color and brightness gradient between the top and bottom
17 Pro (all Silver 512): all G9N
- one was similar to the above
- another had green tint of the top 60% with red tint on the bottom 40%, the left edge and top edge also looked blue & were noticeably dimmer when the screen brightness was lowered to 50% and below
- one had pink tint throughout the entire display and while this was more uniform, it wasn't as bright as the others & the camera was considerably less sharp (which is an issue that some phones unfortunately exhibit)
Still loving my uniform bright GVC on my silver 17PM 512. Slight green shift is a non-issue now for me after several weeks of use.
Straight-on colour deviation would have driven me mental.
Straight-on colour deviation would have driven me mental.
I have G9P as well on my 17PM, it's a Samsung panel. Mine is as good as I'll find I think. Very uniform just a bit uneven toward the bottom 25% of the screen, but no pink tint. I don't think there's any difference in PWM settings between Samsung and LG, as the settings are tuned by Apple.
So here’s my most recent Air, GVC panel according to sysdiagnose, not that I care what it’s called – I just don’t want this green shift.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
I’ve got a G9P on my regular 17. it’s the best display I’ve had so far on an IPhone. No off axis tint at all and a completely uniform screen.
Yeah that’s awful. Sorry you got that unit.So here’s my most recent Air, GVC panel according to sysdiagnose, not that I care what it’s called – I just don’t want this green shift.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
I bought another phone today. My GH3 with horrible green shift at 5 degree tilt is on its way back. The new phone is a 17PM Blue 512GB. The other one was 256GB. The new panel is a Samsung G9P. No color shift and no pink. The screen is even. It may be a hair warmer than the GH3. Very happy and can end this.
So here’s my most recent Air, GVC panel according to sysdiagnose, not that I care what it’s called – I just don’t want this green shift.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
Thanks for the photo reference! It looks like it's happening to multiple panels, not just "the worst" LG one.
Mine (GH3) does have a pinkish top (1>3rd screen) and greenish bottom (< 1/3rd screen) and whitish middle. About 35% brightness. It's very slight, and only from a certain angle is it prominent enough to notice to the point that something's not quite right. For the angle when noticing it, the top is a couple of inches farther away from me than the bottom and the phone - overall - is a foot away from my face. Other angles weren't as bad and I don't think I'll notice under most general uses, but I don't do work that's color-sensitive on it. Some people will and it's an important requirement.
My 17PM is blue, 1024GB storage, built in August, will have to look up the actual day.
At least it's not from the days of the old TN panels, yuck... but, yeah, if some models are consistently hued at any angle, then why introduce another brand panel? (It sounds like LG is better with PWM but Samsung is better for hue uniformity?)
Never mind.So here’s my most recent Air, GVC panel according to sysdiagnose, not that I care what it’s called – I just don’t want this green shift.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
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That is EXACTLY how my GVC Air and GH3 17 Pro Max looked… Return that ****.So here’s my most recent Air, GVC panel according to sysdiagnose, not that I care what it’s called – I just don’t want this green shift.
Uncropped and unprocessed photo taken with my 13 mini main camera (26 mm-equivalent), obviously from fairly close (about 8 inches).
The camera’s auto white balance made the top look magenta as it tried to compensate for the green bottom, but in reality the top was still pretty neutral at this angle and the bottom was even greener.
Ignore the PWM banding from the 1/266 s shutter speed.
This really doesn’t work for me, for the way I use my phone.
I don’t care about absolute neutrality or perfect evenness at a perpendicular viewing angle.
But I can’t stand this strong green shift that comes on so abruptly at a specific viewing angle – the exact angle at which the words “Night Shift” are being viewed in this photo.
Exactly how it was for me. Had a 16PM with GH3 display before.
The blue tint on the bottom 1/3 of the display is more annoying than the pink tint on the top 1/3.
Me too. And I guess thousands of users outside this forum.
Poor uniformity and color tint has always been the indicator of a no-no panel. Until now.
I had similar with 2x 11” iPad Pro M4. One from Apple and one from Amazon. The panel on the Amazon device was horrific with at least 3 colours across the panel. I returned it and kept the Apple one despite the Amazon being £250 cheaper.