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Yellow Tint!

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Glad to see I'm not the only one that's noticed an improvement over the past three days - yesterday I used my iPad for 11 hours (50% brightness, no LTE/4G on, wifi on/off). By late last night it looked better than the comparisons I had done that morning.

Still wish I'd taken day 1 comparison pics, but I'll snap settings screen pic (sorry it'll be with my iPhone 4) between the iPad 2 and iPad 3 later this afternoon and post a difference.
 
I am still going to go past the apple store tonight and check it against the floor demo units. I may even purchase another to compare and then return it/exchange it if it is no good. My current one although still a little warm is better than it was and has no bleed issues or dead pixels.
 
Yellow tint very noticeable especially on text and next to my ipad 1. Seems uneven too, warmer on the left side of the screen. Disappointing faced with the hassle now of tracking down a good one and checking them over in store.
Even if it were even, the tint needs dialling down. Can anyone confirm about the glue needing time to dry, guess we won't know for a while.
 
markstephen22 said:
I am still going to go past the apple store tonight and check it against the floor demo units. I may even purchase another to compare and then return it/exchange it if it is no good. My current one although still a little warm is better than it was and has no bleed issues or dead pixels.
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wow this is like a mirror image of myself haha

i'm going to the apple store to compare mine to several at once and not just my old ipad2.

and i do feel mine has cooled a bit and now looks close to the ipad2 but a tad warmer which is a good thing for the black levels
 
ixodes said:
Mine's just fine.

Perhaps it's a quality control issue. The first iPad 2 I got never did change, stayed yellow. Apple replaced it with a good one.

This iPad (3) I just bought at Walmart has a perfectly neutral display. It's perfect.
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Are you comparing that side by side with a iPad2 that you own?
 
markstephen22 said:
I am still going to go past the apple store tonight and check it against the floor demo units. I may even purchase another to compare and then return it/exchange it if it is no good. My current one although still a little warm is better than it was and has no bleed issues or dead pixels.
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I don't believe you about the bleed. Turn the brightness all the way up and take a picture of it in the dark.
 
25% of my ipad screen has a yellow tint and messes with my eyes while reading since it changes from blue-ish to yellow-ish while I read.

Is this a glue issue or a defect issue?
 
markstephen22 said:
I am still going to go past the apple store tonight and check it against the floor demo units. I may even purchase another to compare and then return it/exchange it if it is no good. My current one although still a little warm is better than it was and has no bleed issues or dead pixels.
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Compared to my iPad 2 the new iPad looks definitely warmer so today I went to apple to see if I can get it exchanged. We compared the demos and they looked exactly if not mines looking more whiter then the demo units displayed. For some strange reason when I was at the store the screen didn't look as much yellow. I just decided to keep and enjoy it. After comparing them with multiple display units to mines you couldnt tell the difference. Oh well
 
Here's mine with brightness turned all the way up. (note they were taken in an very dark area with a iphone 4s) Note the yellowing on the entire right hand side of the screen. The left side is a nice crisp blueish color.
 

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my ipad is warmer than my iphone 4. does it look any yellow or tint?
 

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false - gate

on the advice of letting the screen burn in here are my results...
a drastic reduction in "yellow tint"

1. initially, im not going to lie, i thought the difference between the ipad2 screen and ipad3 screen was way too subtle... and my appreciation for the Retina display was "meh" at best.
2. decided to let the screen burn in.... downloaded the 500px app... fired it up with a slideshow (+30 second timer) + full brightness + disabled screen lock.... decided on landscape and had it go all night... and most of today....
3. already seeing drastic improvements .. and NO .. i am not warming up to the color tone... *pun intended*
4. alot of forum members have been emphasizing how the colors are more accurate... via light tests and what not.. but im not about graphs.. a simple run of photo for photo with 500px on both the ipad2 and ipad3 clearly .. and i mean CLEARLY shows which screen is superior.... the colors are ridiculously more vibrant and it really does question wtf have i been looking at for the past 2 years... yes i know its in regards to photos
5. another comparison with Flipboard on both... and i could tell the yellow has softened a bit... the white is looking MORE white *ala cool blue?*
6. im only appreciating the sharpness of the app icons and texts now...

sooo perhaps a burn in is necesary? i dunno... but honestly it seems to put a fix to all this yellow non-sense.. for me at least to a point where im not craving my ipad2 anymore.... so for now this case is shut for me... the last post showed crazy yellow on a black background.. that for sure is not acceptable...
maybe guys could try out that 500px / or photo album run through for a few days and see how your ipads turn out... and it kind of makes sense.. the demo models on the apple floor are ON all day... and the ones i saw on the floor did not suffer from yellow tint... looking forward to hearing people with similar success
good luck
 
i dont think I'd mind a tint as long as it was even. Is there any truth to the burn in mentioned above? It seems like a homeopathic thing, lol.
 
I had yellow and light bleed issues with my iPad 2... but my iPad New is a bit different. The top half is warm, but the bottom half is cool. I usually use it in landscape, so it's split left to right. I've been hoping it would "break in", but nothing so far. I've probably oly had the display on for about 5 hours or so... maybe I should leave it one overnight.

Also... people calling people complaining about the warm color temp "crazy"... no... it's pretty obvious.
 
I have to say when first reading this thread I was concerned. Right out of the box I did notice the display was a bit warmer (yellower) than an iPad 2 screen or iPhone 4S. Now after a couple of days I can definitely say it seems more neutral. Still warmer than an iPad 2 but more neutral since the iPad 2 was a bit cool (blue). I've done photography for many years and calibrated many Mac screens, so I'm very familiar with color temperatures. The amount of hysteria on this thread is way above anything I'm seeing in reality.

For those about to pounce and say that people are compromising on accepting yellow screens, I'd point them to this: http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_ShootOut_1.htm
 
Last year it was screen leaks this year the yellow tint.

We all seen the 3GS/Iphone 4 comparisons was it really a surprise it would be a little more yellow?
 
ERIC8585 said:
The one on the left is an iPad 2. What's wrong with the one on the right and the one on the Tom's hardware page? Piss yellow?
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The one on the right looks to yellow for me, also from its left to right side there is a noticeable change in color is that just caused by the camera because the unit on the left also has the same issue but its from its right side going to its left.
 
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