I received my Nexus 6p directly from Huawei yesterday. I love the phone but I noticed immediately when watching videos that the typical Amoled blacks didn't look right. I did a Google search and discovered there's a bug or a hardware failure in some Nexus 6p's that make blacks appear grayish.
Apparently the bug is tied to Marshmallow and is also affected the 5x and cast players. There's quite a big discussion going on about it in xda and official Google Nexus boards. It's extremely frustrating to have blacks look so horrible. I am considering sending the Nexus back but if a fix is coming soon I'd like to keep it. I contacted Google in hopes to discover there was a remedy in the works but I wasn't given encouraging advice. I was told to contact Huawei. I will post pics in a bit of what I am experiencing.
This is my Nexus 6p and a Galaxy s4 on a dead pixel test video. As you can see the video is stopped at the same time with a black screen displayed correctly on the Samsung.
Link to the video...if you have an amoled screen the at 1:01 the pixels should shut down and the image should be pitch black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLZSnKdWaY
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/kernel-bug-causing-videos-to-appear-t3253555
Apparently the bug is tied to Marshmallow and is also affected the 5x and cast players. There's quite a big discussion going on about it in xda and official Google Nexus boards. It's extremely frustrating to have blacks look so horrible. I am considering sending the Nexus back but if a fix is coming soon I'd like to keep it. I contacted Google in hopes to discover there was a remedy in the works but I wasn't given encouraging advice. I was told to contact Huawei. I will post pics in a bit of what I am experiencing.
This is my Nexus 6p and a Galaxy s4 on a dead pixel test video. As you can see the video is stopped at the same time with a black screen displayed correctly on the Samsung.
Link to the video...if you have an amoled screen the at 1:01 the pixels should shut down and the image should be pitch black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLZSnKdWaY
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x/help/kernel-bug-causing-videos-to-appear-t3253555
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