It is amazing how many of you are having this problem... I have only seen this once and I knew how my cousin abuse his phone.

People are buying too much into the promise that the phone is waterproof.

I would say it has nothing to do with subpar quality.

Personally I think it has more to do with a couple of factors. First is the thinner bezel that Samsung has been championing over the last few years. Secondly is how the back of the screen is literally attached to the battery which will be bloated as it degrades over the years. And lastly I think users should handle their phone with some care, as waterproofing also degrades over time plus dropping the phone also exacerbate the whole issue.

It's definitely not a manufacturing problem.

It only prove you don't read... see above

I could only speculate since my last Samsung is a S9+ and I only bought S23U for wife last year and also S23FE. I would assume S23FE would have less of a chance to encounter this issue due to the thicker bezel. I'll updatebif my wife phone encounter green line in the future. My mom also using S22u and so far no problem.

If it's a manufacturing issue then all oled panel manufactured by Samsung would have this issue but when you see the different rate of failures, you can almost pinpoint this on the design issue and users as well. As they pushed to the limit of manufacturing, there will be compromises taken to achieve the result they wanted and in this case, I would say its the bezel. That's the only thing that has been changed since. If Samsung had no problem manufacturing the smaller S9+ oled panel with 2k resolution (heck, even my much smaller S6e came with 2k resolution), I dont see why they would have problem manufacturing the bigger S22U screen or the 1080p screen for S22 and S22+.

Hardware failure are norm, I don't know why people are so upset about it. It happens...

It only showed how much knowledge you have on the mobile market.

Samsung is losing dominance in the world biggest market China. They are also losing in America and now India. They wont do thing without a reason. Doing this is not because they acknowledge the defect in their manufacturing, it is just them saving their investment of hundreds of millions in marketing.

If this problem is as bad as you portrayed, Samsung would have to be recalling all their smartphones just like the case with Note 7.

because they need to kowtow to Samsung... now got chance sure run la... you never heard of the row between Samsung and Xiaomi?

China vs Samsung... its getting closer now but Samsung is still slightly ahead. Once China reached the yields of Samsung, then maybe we will start seeing lower oled price. I have a Realme GT3 Neo with Tianma OLED vs S23FE. No contest... but in another 2-3 years, who knows...

Interesting video... China OLED output S grade 20%, A grade 80%... meanwhile Samsung S grade 80%, A grade 20%...



This post has been edited by andrekua2: Jan 2 2025, 03:49 PM

Goto 14:00 in the video and you will see the problem with China OLED... this is exactly what I had in my Realme GT3 Neo vs Samsung. I always feel it is harder to read the text on the realme screen at low light compare to samsung. My age is also not helping.

5 years? Hehehe... good luck with that. I dont mean troll you but I have seen screen failure. My wife S8+ screen become B&W after 15months and have to claim warranty. The replacement was good until now and my S9+ also survived until now. However the thing is that OLED is very prone to damage lor if you think about it. Just google how often those OLED tv/monitor get dead pixel etc.

Hence I dont think that OLED will get better shelf life compared to LCD. It will get dimmer, color become worse, and also prone to pixel burnout.

If you are buying midrange phone, you wont get the latest tech la... therefore unless I buy a top range phone, else all I get is older tech screen. Sub RM2.5k I would say hard to get top range china oled... just see the sub 1000nits already knew

Just goto TikTok and be ready to get surprise.

Didnt samsung already change the update screen to black now?

Not sure what video you watched but those arent repair videos. When we said repair video, it is repair video with microscope and everything that show you what they are doing.

https://www.tiktok.com/@onetreetech/video/7...t=1749929229991

Even though it was mentioned as repair, but it was not explained in details what these actually do. Are they merely reconnecting those severed signal lines or totally melt the affected subpixels with laser to bypass the broken pixels.

You're going too far man. You can't even be certain that updating cause these light saber to show up and now you wanna claim screen off also will cause it?

BTW do you guys (with light saber screen) use AOD?

Chinese oled is not yet on par with samsung but it's getting better. China oled yields are not yet up to there with samsung hence their panels tends to suffer at the highest and lowest brightness. I don't think they have cracked the code yet (even though they have hired ex samsung engineers). What they are doing is limit the brightness (both low and high) of their oled to what they are getting from the yields so that each panel looks and feels the same. You can find a video of this in TikTok as well.

I have a Realme gt neo3 and I thought my vision are getting worse but once I switch back to S9+, I can read the text much easier. That's why I mostly use Chinese phone to game.

This post has been edited by andrekua2: Jun 15 2025, 10:08 AM

Don't live in your fantasy. I don't hate Chinese phone, I love them but I don't deny facts. I think samsung phones are overpriced but there are few advantages that they had over Chinese phone and one of them is display.

Enjoy the video.

If you ask me, they won't ever catch up. Why? China is a mass manufacturing, focus on price/performance thus they will always be there about. Maybe there will be a small portion of them going for the extreme like 1+ and possibly Huawei but that's all. Samsung and LG are not sitting still as well.

Bro,

Look at the video I posted. There are problem with the screen which cause the light saber. Also you can look at the second video.

I don't believe that updating cause Light saber but don't deny it might have contribute to its demise if one's phone is taking too long to get the update completed due to the white screen it used to display.

I think it could be caused by the power tweaking Samsung is doing with their screen to eliminate darker spot on their oled. It could have contributed to hot spot on the display or the continuous higher power delivery to the affected pixels (which could be a yield issue) causing them to burn out first.

There is one shop in Kepong that could do that and it being run by a Chinaman.

The thing is that nobody knows if Samsung is replacing their screen or repairing them like what was shown on those videos.