Update fixing Galaxy S8 red tint issue arrives in Europe

Himanshu, 29 April 2017

After its home country of South Korea, Samsung has started pushing out the fix for the Galaxy S8 red tint issue in Europe as well. Weighing in at 426MB, the update is hitting Galaxy S8 units in the UK, and S8+ units in Germany.

Turkey is also getting the update - both S8 as well as S8+ are getting it in the country. The fix, as you might already know, comes in the form of a new Screen edge color balance option in the Screen mode menu, allowing you to adjust the full screen color balance as you see fit.

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Reader comments

Csonte
09 May 2017
pqt

Just got the update to my s8+ in Hungary two days ago. The only issue that I had was the reddish edge but only visible in high brightness. I use the photo mode and the first thing I saw was that the adaptive mode could be modified only. So changed th...

Anonymous
08 May 2017
m5W

Didn't get in UK on unlocked handset from Samsung directly.

alex.mitev
08 May 2017
3PE

Guy, that does not fix anything. I have Galaxy S8 that is suffering from the red tint issue, especially around the edges. The first two days I ignored the problem, because it`s hard to believe I spent 800 EURO and got a faulty unit. Then waited for a...