Screen sometimes has a tint of blue?

Hi Kids,
Sorry but this query is listed as answered and I fail to see how it is answered. I see work-arounds but no explanation as to why the display comes out of sleep mode not recognizing the color calibration. It also seems to be an old issue and across many versions of the MacBook Pro line. I don't think I should have to convince my system to do what it's supposed to do.

So has Apple addressed this? Does it fall under the NVidia issue? Is world peace only a dream? Is...wait, wrong forum! First two questions only!

Jimmy

@Jimmy Keegan, I totally agree with you.

"Sir, your car's steering wheel is broken, and you can't turn left. The fix is that you make three right turns instead."

I too can get this problem to "go away" by opening the Displays control panel, but it soon returns for no apparent reason. I have a Dell 24" monitor hooked up as a second display, which works without a hitch.

I know there are a lot of Apple computers that have had display problems, but nothing I have seen has addressed this specific problem on these specific MBPs.

Hello, Apple? Or is this gonna be another one of those infamous Apple threads that mysteriously disappear? Apple, hello, Apple?

Another chime in here.

Have started having the same problem. The blue tint will occur on wake from screensaver (or sleep) and on start up. My MacBook Pro is only about 4 months old.

Read on another thread that it is caused by temp getting too high. I have installed iStat and the temp never even gets close to the 70°c mentioned in that other thread.

Yes, the various workarounds work, but how about just fixing it?

Same thing here.

I have two MBP Santa Rosa (a 2.4 and a 2.2). It has happened to both of them. I stumbled onto the workaround, luckily. It doesn't happen all that often. Maybe once a month or something. Strange. Was hoping bumping up to 10.6 will fix it.

Yup, same thing here. When the system sleeps it forgets to reload it's monitor calibration and loads some sort of default which tends to be blue. Going to the system prefs and clicking "display" resets it but that is hardly a fix.

When a question like this continues on with no answer I think it's Apples way of saying, "I don't know why that happens - just ignore it until we can figure it out..."

Having the same issue with my MacBook Pro 15", 2.53 Ghz, OS X 10.5.7 & an 24" Apple LED Cinema Display. When the system goes to display sleep, my MacBook screen wakes blue sometimes.

My fix was to set up a "Sleep Display" hot corner in the Desktop & Screen Saver system pref. Now when it wakes, if it's blue, just a quick cursor visit to the right lower corner of my screen fixes it.

Not that the problem is solved. It's just another quick fix.

I have this issue also, it happens to me almost daily (and sometimes 2 or three times a day) with a Dell 2007WFP connected via DVI. As stated above simply opening Displays in System Preferences reloads the correct color calibration but it is more than annoying.

Does it seem to be the case that keeping the CPU temp below 70° Celsius prevents this from happening?

I would love for some kind of fix from Apple to correct this issue. Does it seem to be OS X issue? or an issue with the NVIDIA driver? or an issue with the video card? or the logic board?

Just to add my two bits that I have the same blue-tint problem when the Macbook Pro (2.4 GHz, circa March '08) comes out of sleep. I've had the problem for months now - it seems to be far more frequent recently. I discovered the Displays Preferences workaround but it's not a solution at all. This seems to be a software issue. C'mon Apple, this has been going on for a long time.

Same problem here, I am using MacPro 8 core 2009 with Dual 24" monitor. Both OSX 10.5 and 10.6 got the problem.
It is very annoying that I need to hit syspref to switch back to normal color every times.
Why apple doesn't fix it as the problem was exist for such a long time? They don't know or they can't fix? Very disappointing !

Just got a brand new 15-inch unibody 2.8 MBP and this machine has the blue tint issue far more often than the 15-inch 2.4 MBP it replaced.

Probably comes up about once a day. Going to Display in System Prefs fixes it but it comes back.

I have the exact same problem!!!

Going to display preferences then color fixes it but it's NOT acceptable as a solution! I step out of my desk several times a day, and each and everytime the screen saver comes on, my external display color profile is messed up.

PLEASE HELP!

My band-aid fix has been to extend the time of the screen saver to about 1hr, which is stupid...just to avoid having to go to sys preferences...

Ricardo!

Same problem here. I think it is a bit lame for Mac to decide that this question has been answered and solved. It hasn't. I'd like a solution to the problem, or at least an explanation of what the problem is and why a solution is not available yet. Thank you.

Hi Guys,

Solution I found online was to setup screensaver to come on by touching any active screen corner (setup in expose) - and then anytime you have the blue tint you turn the screensaver on and then off again and screen goes back to normal (so very quick fix).

Cheers!
T

I've had the blue-tint-after-screen-saver (and sometimes after wake) since I purchased my Unibody MBP. It happens in Leopard and Snow Leopard. The problem has been happening in various Macbook models for years (Google it). It is indeed time for Apple to come up with a fix for this problem!

Well, here are my two cents....
Late 2007 MBP
Blue tint happens after wake, after screensaver, with and without external monitor attached. Started happening within a month of so of getting the MBP. It happened under 10.5.1 thru 10.5.8 and now under 10.6.0 and 10.6.1.
Until today, I had to open System Preference/ Displays/ Color and the tint would disappear.
Now, I quickly run the mouse to my screensaver Hot Corner and move it out again, the tint is gone.
The screensaver Hot Corner idea is a MUCH better work around than the System Preferences mumbo jumbo.

I am curious. Has anyone had luck with trashing all the com.appl. **.plist files in ~/Library/Preferences ???

Apple time to find a FIX for this.

-Jason