What is this "smearing" people are talking about?

[Zendroid1]

I don't see it talked about as often here as other places but some people are saying this smearing is a deal breaker whatever it is. Can anyone elaborate?

 

[thehatguy]

Finger prints from... touching the screen.

Mine gets smears, using a Spigen Glas.t screen protector. I just wipe it off
and get on with it.

John

 

[Zendroid1]

Finger prints from... touching the screen.

Mine gets smears, using a Spigen Glas.t screen protector. I just wipe it off
and get on with it.

John

are you serious?? i thought they were referring to some sort of color rendering issue or something haha

 

[anon(26204)]

Sometimes people complain... Just to feel important...lol

I'm with the other poster... Whip the screen off then on with it.. Lol

This Messages Was Shot From A Galaxy S4!

 

[infinity12402]

correct me if im wrong, but doesnt every phone get finger prints on it.... and since when has that become a huge problem

 

[Rick Bray]

actually, what they are talking on other forums about that "smearing", is that when you slowly scroll on black backgrounds, with gray options (such as in the settings menu, where background's gray, and the buttons and some other things are gray), while slowly scrolling, the gray will kind of turn a lil' bit purple or something like that...

personally i haven't seen anything like it, as my device does not have that problem apparently.... but you have to look with a lot of attention to notice as far as i've read

*edited to correct grammar typo

 

[tcdude]

I noticed it on mine, slight smearing when scrolling. Does anyone know if there will be a fix or is there something I can do to correct this?

Thanks

 

[voot]

You can really see it when the brightness is set really high in a dark room. I noticed this mostly in the settings menu where the background is black and the font is white. Not a big deal though.

 

[kirkhere]

Finger prints from... touching the screen.

Uh, that's a joke, right?

The so called "smearing" issue is easy to demonstrate on my shiny new 32 GB S4:
- Go into Settings
- Select the My Device tab
- Scroll up and down

Notice that the thin grey lines fade to purple as you scroll, and then return to grey when you stop. Notice that the larger grey bars like "Input and Control" turn purple on the edges while scrolling.

I haven't looked for the issue on multiple GS4's, but I suspect that it is just an attribute of the AMOLED display rather than an flaw or quality control problem that only affects certain phones. My PVA computer monitor does it some also, and it's related to the response time of the panel.

If it bothers you, then seek a phone with an LCD display like the HTC One or Optimus G Pro.

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Just get a freakin screen protector...I have this anti-glare screen protector and leaves ZERO smear marks...phone looks fresh all the time

 

[tcdude]

Has samsung said anything about this are they going good to try to fix this? it's not a big deal but I do think they should address it

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[Distrack]

Has samsung said anything about this are they going good to try to fix this? it's not a big deal but I do think they should address it

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This screen shows less finger prints than any previous phone I had. I ordered a screen protector but I probably wont use it. The feeling of the Gorilla Glass 3 is simply amazing.

 

[Aquila]

We can probably tell if it's device or software by having someone do the same test with AOSP on their device...

 

[maryjane2300]

Wow, people really do find anything to complain about.

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[tcdude]

I agree the gorilla glass 3 feels awesome and it's not that I'm trying to complain it's just I would have thought a device like this wouldn't have this, and it's not fingerprints I'm referring to its the actual words on the screen smearing while it's scrolling

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[TomsAndroid]

Are people serious about the fingerprints? As said, it's screen smearing, not fingerprint smearing.

Tom

 

[j510]

Can't be serious.. Smearing as in "Scrolling" in settings menu. Not fingerprints

 

[Aquila]

back in the days of mushrooms, we called those trails...

 

[snookasnoo]

Just get a freakin screen protector...I have this anti-glare screen protector and leaves ZERO smear marks...phone looks fresh all the time

Buy a screen protector to make up for smearing...which of course won't work.
Buy a case to make up for the cheap build quality and feel.
Buy an SD card which are slow and unreliable to make up for having only 9 GB of space.
Turn off as much as possible to make the phone somewhat lag free.
Anything else we can do for Samsung?

 

[smooth4lyfe]

Buy a screen protector to make up for smearing...which of course won't work.
Buy a case to make up for the cheap build quality and feel.
Buy an SD card which are slow and unreliable to make up for having only 9 GB of space.
Turn off as much as possible to make the phone somewhat lag free.
Anything else we can do for Samsung?

1. Actually it does work, my screen never smears
2. Subjective opinion
3. Better than no SD Card
4. The features don't make the phone lag, most of the lag has been fixed by updates
...Nope, Samsung is doing a great job