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Screen Flicker Issue

Anyone else got this? Basically, when the phone screen isn't moving, such as when I'm reading some text, the screen flickers. For example, whenever I'm reading a post on xda, the white background around the text starts to flicker, and it is really noticeable in the dark while just reading posts in my rom thread, and its very distracting. (Happens when keyboard is open and closed)
Anyone else have this? Anyone know what part I should buy to replace it?
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i had this a few months ago and now the phone is on low all the time cant turn up, the brightness it still flickers a bit brighter every now and then.
if you have the same as me it isnt the screen i was thinking its was the ribbon cable and couldnt find a cheap replacement based on a hunch,
now i seen more people getting this i would guess its the driver board for the screen,
not looked in to this though and dont want to folk out money on a phone i am looking to replace as soon as the driod 4 gets GSM.

niai_mack said:
i had this a few months ago and now the phone is on low all the time cant turn up, the brightness it still flickers a bit brighter every now and then.
if you have the same as me it isnt the screen i was thinking its was the ribbon cable and couldnt find a cheap replacement based on a hunch,
now i seen more people getting this i would guess its the driver board for the screen,
not looked in to this though and dont want to folk out money on a phone i am looking to replace as soon as the driod 4 gets GSM.
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Ahhh man, it's so noticeable when it's on low brightness my ribbons going too, I see screen tear when I open the keyboard ;( thanks
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
Ahhh man, it's so noticeable when it's on low brightness my ribbons going too, I see screen tear when I open the keyboard ;( thanks
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Does this mean no more taz roms?
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MarkyG82 said:
Does this mean no more taz roms?
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No it doesnt just means I need to save up for a new ribbon cable thing :')
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
No it doesnt just means I need to save up for a new ribbon cable thing :')
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Happy days. Kinda :}
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s3 shocking outdoor visibility worst ever

i have owned every mobile device under the sun and the s3 is the worst device i have ever used outside in sunlight, im out with my dog a lot and use spotify on the go email etc etc and cant see a thing, the screen seems to take ages to reach full brightness and even then i cant see a thing other than that i love the device

Dhont go out whit Sgs 3 use only home
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I noticed something strange, sometime I feel the outdoor legibility is good, and sometime isn't. I suspect the auto-brightness messes up, but I haven't got the chance to confirm it.

i never use auto brightness , i think its crap , just untick it and go manual

Always go for manual adjustment for brightness.
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Turn off auto brightness and stick the brightness on max. Not perfect but easily readable on sunlight.
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Even with full brightness, it's still a ***** to see in the sun. Oh well, good thing im inside 70% of the time.

I highly doubt you have owned every single mobile device in the world.
My SGS3 is perfectly fine in sunlight, it is one of the things I love about it because my previous phones always had problems in sunlight.
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Yeah this phone is really hard to see the screen even with a matte anti glare protector
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It's not the best, my iPhone 4s is much brighter but it's not that much to make me want another phone.
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treble4 said:
i have owned every mobile device under the sun
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I see what you did there..
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On cm 9 on my sgs2, they had this out door mode in the display settings that changed the hue in direct sunlight... any one know of an app that does same thing... made the phone extremely readable in direct sunlight
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Mine was hideous. So I got a new screen protector (skinomi) that was NOT anti-glare. Much better now. Still not great, but much better.

Not being funny but you live in the uk and we have sun maybe 2weeks of the year not really an issue is it

I might not have 20/20 vision, though I'm not legally blind, but putting the S3 and Nexus side by side with full brightness the latter is brighter, despite whatever GSMArena review said. I'm not very impressed with how the S3 deal with sublight compared to the S2 and Note, which is the brightest Samsung screen I've used. But its not a deal breaker either, also Samsung notification bar let you adjust brightness on the fly.
muhamet said:
Dhont go out whit Sgs 3 use only home
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Believe it or not, Samsung marketted the S3 as a mobile device and their commercial shown people carrying the S3 outdoor. I was going to make a stereotype comment about nerds next in relation to the outdoor, but I'll stop here.

With the mods available I now have no problem with my phone in sunlight...
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hiya1987 said:
Not being funny but you live in the uk and we have sun maybe 2weeks of the year not really an issue is it
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No that's Manchester rest of the UK gets more sun sometimes .
Certainly cannot see my screen at all today on standard colour scheme .
jje

there is something like a white autobalance in screen settings, its a separate option than auto brightness. i think switching it off + max brightness give quite good outdoor experience

riso123 said:
With the mods available I now have no problem with my phone in sunlight...
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Can you tel us the mods?

hiya1987 said:
Not being funny but you live in the uk and we have sun maybe 2weeks of the year not really an issue is it
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We have had a crap summer this year but we do usually get quite a lot of sun on and off. It's just totally unpredictable. That's why most Brit's go to the med for their holidays because if you book a holiday in the UK you could get great weather and more comfortable (less hot) than the med or it could rain the whole time.
Anyway we have had quite a lot of sun since I bought my S3 and today is glorious. I would say it's performance in sunlight is the only thing I dislike about the phone. I can't help wondering how Samsung can easily sell this phone places like the US and far East where they get a lot of sun and which I would have thought were it's main markets. Apart from that I love the phone. The main thing I use it for outside is memory-map. I can see the maps pretty good in sunlight if I turn it away from direct sunlight but struggle to read the text in it's menus.

Screen Burn-in

I Recently noticed screen burn-in of the Google Play icon (Homescreen Shortcut) on the screen ...
The burn-in is more noticeable in white/gray backgrounds...
How do I remove it if its posible? Tried few apps from market but app logo imprint is still visible

Can u post screen photo from another camera
How much old is your s3
And do you always use same home screen layout ?
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I don't have any other camera device ATM... Phone is 5 months old & yes sadly I always use same homescreen layout...

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I don't have any other camera device ATM... Phone is 5 months old & yes sadly I always use same homescreen layout...
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Then it will burn it has to be.
Even in led TV's if u use Amy particular image more then 2hrs its pixels also starts burning that's why in led TVs we don't have blue screen when there is no cable connection
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5 months is too early
when will amoled mature?
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ronhoover88 said:
5 months is too early
when will amoled mature?
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You can burn your screen in a day also
Just keep your device screen on in particular image
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Managed to take pics from featurephone, check them out ...
Please enlist any good apps you know to fade it out

No way to reduce it it will
Read this for future
http://m.samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00001261&fm_seq=1429
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Mother of GOD ! there are other icon imprints as well if I look closely !!
Hope it doesn't get darker than this ...

You won't find away around it unfortunately.
These screens are both fantastic and both sh*t at the same time. It's good technology but it isn't perfected. My original SGS went terrible. After nearly 2 years on it I could see perfectly the alarm icon and almost every icon I had on my home screen on light and dark backgrounds - It's a nice screen but it will only get worse within time.
As others have said only real solution is to keep altering your backgrounds and home screens but tbh I wouldn't bother, you'll still get burn from the time and other icons in the status bar.
Until Samsung sort them out and improve how they work it's just the way it's going to be

Whoa!! That is scary!
I have heard that there is no solution for a burn-in..? Thanks for the advice though. I'll keep changing the layout constantly.

[Q] Dark line on my screen.

One thing that annoying me on my nexus 4. You can see on the left of my screen, straight dark line from top to bottom. I haven't drop my nexus before. It appeared on dark colours especially grey colours. For your info its start to appeared when 10 minutes screen on after about 20 minutes screen off. Is it normal? Anyone here have the same problem?
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Holy damn. I was just about to make a thread. But mine can't be screenshot. Its seen just like you said and I can flick the different home screens and it stays in the left I've flashed back to stock and still there. Been a week. It got less noticeable when used less. I'm wondering if its because I'm near a big subwoofer in my living room. I know TV used to do this like a bleed line. Have you heard any data yet??? I will send mine back. Please let me know...
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Droid2drummer said:
Holy damn. I was just about to make a thread. But mine can't be screenshot. Its seen just like you said and I can flick the different home screens and it stays in the left I've flashed back to stock and still there. Been a week. It got less noticeable when used less. I'm wondering if its because I'm near a big subwoofer in my living room. I know TV used to do this like a bleed line. Have you heard any data yet??? I will send mine back. Please let me know...
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I dont know what have caused this until now..can you attach picture here? I'm use other phone to take picture..
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i have used lcd test to test this issue but it doesn't appear on my phone

Mine is the same

meangreenie said:
Mine is the same
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can you attach picture? for your info it start happened when I'm using franco kernel..maybe related to voltages drop? how about you?
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same here. Just noticed having it after 4 months.. I don't think it's always been there though.. its pretty recent I guess.. don't know what happened though cause I didn't drop it or anything

bellasahbella said:
same here. Just noticed having it after 4 months.. I don't think it's always been there though.. its pretty recent I guess.. don't know what happened though cause I didn't drop it or anything
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it happened to me for a month now..it always been there..will claim for warranty soon from LG service center in my country..
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Image Retention(?) On N4

I saw someone ask this in a nexus circle on G+ and though maybe it was just his device but a few people posted also claiming the same so tried it myself and noticed it also.
If you put your phone on max brightness and go to an app that leaves the logo on the screen like G+ in the upper left hand corner, imagine FB or whatever else will work the same, and stay there for about 2 minutes then switch to a dark screen(clock) the image is still visible in the corner. It stays there for a few minutes too, then its gone. Is this normal of IPS displays or even LCD for that matter? I mean its very circumstantial, you would have to at max bright and on that type of app for a long time and then to a dark screen to ever notice it but if you went longer under them conditions could it potentially burn in permanently?
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This happens on my tablet (TFT LCD), but not on my Nexus 4. It shouldn't cause burn in, LCDs don't burn in
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illgodson said:
I saw someone ask this in a nexus circle on G+ and though maybe it was just his device but a few people posted also claiming the same so tried it myself and noticed it also.
If you put your phone on max brightness and go to an app that leaves the logo on the screen like G+ in the upper left hand corner, imagine FB or whatever else will work the same, and stay there for about 2 minutes then switch to a dark screen(clock) the image is still visible in the corner. It stays there for a few minutes too, then its gone. Is this normal of IPS displays or even LCD for that matter? I mean its very circumstantial, you would have to at max bright and on that type of app for a long time and then to a dark screen to ever notice it but if you went longer under them conditions could it potentially burn in permanently?
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Hi there ! The one asking the question on G+ was me !
I'll post a video on youtube and open a poll about it here !
P.S. it seems that many people do suffer from the problem (cf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228013&page=4) Therefore I won't be making the video (I think)...

It happens to me all the time. Especially noticeable at night when using it in bed so it doesn't even have to be at maximum brightness.
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lopezk38 said:
This happens on my tablet (TFT LCD), but not on my Nexus 4. It shouldn't cause burn in, LCDs don't burn in
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Have you tried it? I have two rev3 in my house and both do it. Both stock unrooted.
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siguchi said:
Hi there ! The one asking the question on G+ was me !
I'll post a video on youtube and open a poll about it here !
P.S. it seems that many people do suffer from the problem (cf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228013&page=4) Therefore I won't be making the video (I think)...
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Nice, I tried to search on my phone for the topic but for some reason search from the xda app never really gets me the same results as when I'm on my browser.
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