Screen suddenly became gray (black and white)...what to do?!

[mempto]

So all of a sudden my screen went from color to black and white (gray) and I have no idea why. Has anyone experienced this and if so...what did you do to fix it? I hope it's not a hardware issue. I had noticed earlier that sometimes when scrolling in Chrome, the top portion of the article would turn a gray color but I just chalked it up to a weird software glitch. Can anyone help?

 

[franko515]

Is your battery low? Its sounds like ultra power saving mode to me (if not a software glitch). If your battery isnt low, go into settings > accessibility > vision > and see if greyscale is turned on

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[coolbreeze78]

Sounds like you somehow enabled grayscale mode. Go to settings-->personal-->accessibility-->vision and make sure the "greyscale" slider is turned off.

 

[Kadence Ferguson]

i tried that it is off and it still is no color

 

[Trent Funke]

i tried that it is off and it still is no color

Same with me. I just got a new LG Gpad 8 and during software update while setting it up, it turned grey. Grey scale is turned off

 

[Betty Burgess1000]

Screen is black and i want it back to whitr

 

[Brenda Casanova]

wow, thank you so much, this worked.

 

[Mbca2]

Just happened to me. Mine is a mint looking albeit replacement Samsung Note 5, which I took care of even using external free space wipers to maintain, VPN law practice grade security, and general care. Screen just went old TV static and it's clearly wasted. Not a heat thing. I'm worried that it's a refurbished battery physically wasting something that charged the screen and shocked the rest. Mine is gone with or without charging. Talk to me guys...

 

[baby22555]

Thank you coolbreeze78 so much because of your post I was able to fix my son's note. Can't tell you how happy I am. I was about to buy a new note...☺

 

[Prakash Jaiswal]

Many many thanks to coolbreeze88 .I m very glad ..I was suffering from this problem. Ur solution works. Now my phone becomes normal..Thank you from my heart..Love u..

 

[Jakob batten]

My LG aristo has a gray and white screen when I went to check the grayscale it was off plz help me!!!

 

[B. Diddy]

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[Martin 2]

Is your battery low? Its sounds like ultra power saving mode to me (if not a software glitch). If your battery isnt low, go into settings > accessibility > vision > and see if greyscale is turned on

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Thanks a lot just having freakout cos I threw my phone hard at the setter so fort I lost the colour
Thanks so much
The grayscale was on thanks so much Martin

 

[Genesis Figueroa1]

So my phone Had nothing to do with the Gray scale in settings it actually had to do with an alarm for my bedtime set to greyscale at bedtime and and it took me 2 days to figure it out.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Yeah, that's part of Digital Wellbeing, which is relatively new (I think it was introduced around 2019 or so).

 

[mustang7757]

So my phone Had nothing to do with the Gray scale in settings it actually had to do with an alarm for my bedtime set to greyscale at bedtime and and it took me 2 days to figure it out.

Welcome to AC!
These problems can be tricky with so many settings, you have a Samsung?

 

[mustang7757]

Welcome to Android Central! Yeah, that's part of Digital Wellbeing, which is relatively new (I think it was introduced around 2019 or so).

Bedtime is fairly new

 

[B. Diddy]

Bedtime is fairly new

Yeah, it started as "Wind Down" around 2019, then they renamed it to Bedtime Mode in 2020.

 

[mustang7757]

Yeah, it started as "Wind Down" around 2019, then they renamed it to Bedtime Mode in 2020.

I didn't realize it has the grey scale lol