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Yellow Screen, does it really fade away? (with pictures)
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i think Apple has to use many different suppliers for screens due to the sheer numbers of phones they have to produce. Expecting one supplier to be able to produce that many screens and expect them to all be perfect, is probably not realistic.
Manufacturing is so easy to criticize from the comfort of your home.
My eye`s dont get use to it, and I cant see any changing so far. Testing this few more days and then will sent it back to apple to get a new one.
The colours are at full brightness fine, but in real world you dont use it full brightness all day. And at about 3/4 or less brightness the yellow tone looks really bad. Some sort of washed out screen. New pictures will follow
The colours are at full brightness fine, but in real world you dont use it full brightness all day. And at about 3/4 or less brightness the yellow tone looks really bad. Some sort of washed out screen. New pictures will follow
You're right, some people have said that, but as Small White Car was trying to point out, they were wrong.
Personally, I'm glad you are doing this, since it will be conclusive proof once and for all that the rest of us can point to when these people come out of the woodwork the next time. All of the messages I've seen from people claiming this conflated the splotches with the entire yellow screens and are just retelling what they heard from the yellow splotch stories. I don't believe I have read a single story from somebody with first-hand experience who had a yellow screen that had its white-point/color-temperature change over time.
-- Nathan
Having many different suppliers is no excuse. They should have a set of standards that the different manufacturers need to meet.
Since Apple demands such a premium for their products they should be built more consistently.
I have a white IP4s and a black IP4s, both run noticeably warmer than my ip4, which had a perfect screen (IMO).
That said, at the end of the day having a warmer screen on my phone is not going to be a life changing event for me, especially since I don't have the time to keep going back to the Apple store to look for a perfect phone. If I did, I probably would, but I just don't have that much free time.
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Sorry...But I disagree..Its been done before, many times over for many different products. All it takes is having a specific SOP in place and specific manufacturing guidelines in place.
Since Apple demands such a premium for their products they should be built more consistently.
I have a white IP4s and a black IP4s, both run noticeably warmer than my ip4, which had a perfect screen (IMO).
That said, at the end of the day having a warmer screen on my phone is not going to be a life changing event for me, especially since I don't have the time to keep going back to the Apple store to look for a perfect phone. If I did, I probably would, but I just don't have that much free time.
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Sorry...But I disagree..Its been done before, many times over for many different products. All it takes is having a specific SOP in place and specific manufacturing guidelines in place.
I'm going to ship mine back to AT&T. Just compared my 4s it to my brothers 4s and I can see I have a yellow screen. I had both 3gs and 4, they have the blue screen. I'm probably gonna pick up the white version instead of black.
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This thing, I dont understand. It does not have bothered you without the comparison!
I just do the comparison to have a fixed "value" and show users who dont believe it.
But I see it every day, I can tell with one look if its my yellow screen or if its another one.
New pictures will come soon
I don't think that issue will go away. I think you will need to exchange the device if you want the blue fade.
Cherry picking the perfect iphone is getting to be a pain. First one had the blue screen but had vibragate. The replacement has the slightly yellowish screen but had no vibragate until yesterday then it started again. I wonder what I will get next lol? I know some may blame it on OCD but $930 (off contract) for this phone it better be 99% perfect lol.
My 4S screen was very yellow when I bought it, and really noticeable when compared to the other 2 4S's we bought and my old 4. Within a few days the top right corner was the only yellow part and now it's even again, with the yellow tint fading away totally.
It's a bit warmer than my old 4 screen, but not by much
As a consumer, that is naturally going to be the place I will be when I complain! Am I supposed to go to the factory in China to voice my concerns?
Like someone else said, the high price point they still charge for these should change to reflect a drop in QC.
I realize they have to use multiple suppliers to meet supply demands and am not questioning that but only that each screen from the suppliers be consistent.
I have 2 iphone 4s one with the blue hue one with a yellow hue to my eyes when compairing the two the blue one looks looks wrong like a filter is over the whole screen the yellowish one looks muck better I have taken pictures with both and the colours are better on the yellow version, even asked my wife which one she preferes in different settings i.e. pics video screen settings etc and she always choose the yellow one as well !! its more true. I will be sending back the blue one.I think the bluer screens are left over parts from the iPhone 4.
I had the same problem with the washed out yellow screen, the yellow was almost dark enough yellow that when there was a dark background with white lettering it was unreadable. I brought it back, and the one that replaced it is more like my iPhone 4, not too blue, not too yellow, juuuuuust right. Good luck
The difference in hue is massively problematic.
My lab team and I were recently working on a cure for an extremely serious virally transmitted illness. We're using an app that allows us to examine blood samples visually on the iPhone screen, with infected cells showing up as a different colour - the more intense the yellow, the more infected the sample/culture.
Obviously, when it came to incident analysis time, we couldn't determine the full scope of the infection, because the yellow tinge problem meant that any judgements we made were flawed. In the end, we almost had to abandon the project, which would have led to the death of thousands, many of which could have been prevented.
Finally though, we had a breakthrough - we realised that it was just a phone, and that the fact that it was 2-3% more yellow than any other phone meant absolutely nothing, since no-one should be doing any kind of work that would rely on a perfect display on a mobile phone. We decided that, at most, when we next watched a movie on it, it'd be mildly irritating at worst, and at best, it'd be entirely un-noticeable. Then we moved on with our lives, and never, ever made a thread about it on a forum.
The end.
My lab team and I were recently working on a cure for an extremely serious virally transmitted illness. We're using an app that allows us to examine blood samples visually on the iPhone screen, with infected cells showing up as a different colour - the more intense the yellow, the more infected the sample/culture.
Obviously, when it came to incident analysis time, we couldn't determine the full scope of the infection, because the yellow tinge problem meant that any judgements we made were flawed. In the end, we almost had to abandon the project, which would have led to the death of thousands, many of which could have been prevented.
Finally though, we had a breakthrough - we realised that it was just a phone, and that the fact that it was 2-3% more yellow than any other phone meant absolutely nothing, since no-one should be doing any kind of work that would rely on a perfect display on a mobile phone. We decided that, at most, when we next watched a movie on it, it'd be mildly irritating at worst, and at best, it'd be entirely un-noticeable. Then we moved on with our lives, and never, ever made a thread about it on a forum.
The end.
Yellow screens look like pee-pee stains. I'll take blue-ish tint as they tend to represent whites a bit more accurately.
That is my scientific assessment and I am sticking to it.
That is my scientific assessment and I am sticking to it.
I ended up swapping mine at the apple store. I just couldn't stand the yellow tint. The more I thought about it, the worse it got. The first three serial # DNF. Apple genius swapped it with #C39 iPhone and it's way better. I know the serial numbers don't really matter but i'm just putting it out their. Now when I compare my old iPhone 4 with the new 4S, the 4 screen looks too blue, lol. I also do believe the new 4S screens are supposed to be slightly higher in contrast, but obviously not yellow tinted.
Also, don't let the Apple genius persuade you that the yellow screen issue is due to glue not drying (very rare if it's the glue). First compare your iPhone with the floor models, you will probably see some that are yellow tinted and some that are normal. I even compared my iPhone 4 but, nothing will compare to the deeper bluish color. My replacement 4S, I would say is balance just right. Contrast is higher, not yellow tinted, not washed out, and whites are actually white. If the replacement is still yellow, don't accept it. Just wait and go back another time and check to see if the replacement is better. The Apple genius said you have only a one time exchange for the yellow tint problem. Once you sign for the exchange, you basically have to live with the yellow screen problem. Good luck everyone on the hunt for the perfect screen.
Also, I haven't seen anyone complain about the glue issue yet with the 4S on any forum board yet.
Also, don't let the Apple genius persuade you that the yellow screen issue is due to glue not drying (very rare if it's the glue). First compare your iPhone with the floor models, you will probably see some that are yellow tinted and some that are normal. I even compared my iPhone 4 but, nothing will compare to the deeper bluish color. My replacement 4S, I would say is balance just right. Contrast is higher, not yellow tinted, not washed out, and whites are actually white. If the replacement is still yellow, don't accept it. Just wait and go back another time and check to see if the replacement is better. The Apple genius said you have only a one time exchange for the yellow tint problem. Once you sign for the exchange, you basically have to live with the yellow screen problem. Good luck everyone on the hunt for the perfect screen.
Also, I haven't seen anyone complain about the glue issue yet with the 4S on any forum board yet.
Nah, I have no idea who the display manufacturer was. I just know it looked like garbage. It looked like the screen that was on my aluminum CE macbook.