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Ive had this powerhouse of a phone for just under 16 Hours, Screen has only been used for around half an hour etc,
Ive just noticed some screenburn on the screen The four buttons - (Phone, Contacts, Messaging, Apps) are visible on the screen when I look at a grey-ish background (Such as the speedx initial bg). Ive been through 6 Galaxy S2s, Three of them had this issue - Is it me, or is this a bit weird? Phone screen on for only 30mins since it was factory shiny&new, and theres already light screenburn.
Is this a characteristic of SAMOLED Plus, or is this a faultly batch? (Im on my 5th replacement phone from Amazon due to various faults). It seems a bit weird, a phone thats cost near £475 inc has this kind of issue.
Thanks In Advance,
Aman.
(Picture attached, You have to look quite carefully to see the greyish outlines of the boxes)
It doesn't look screen burn as it looks coloured. it might be the app you are running has transparency.
afaik, OLED does suffer from screen burn like plasmas do - potentially, but not that quick!
Well, it can happen. After a month i started seeing the same thing when pulling down the notification bar. So it's not app related, cause i don't use other launcher, i can clearly see the shadow of the 4 icons for a few seconds when pulling down the notification bar. They disappear pretty quickly, i'm not that bothered about that.
Also notice even if you just got the phone the very first second the digital clock actually burns through the notification tray and slowly disappears, I think its a technology limitation on the SAMOLED+
hi i dont know if my post will help or not
put i have a samilliar proplem with my sgs2 screen
i have proplems with colors like grey and dark blue
i will attack photos for u to see if u have the same proplem with colors like me
and my phone is only 14 day old
i really dont know if the colors are normal or not
p.s: make ur display 60/100 to see the colors
on my sgs1 the screen was way better
the first two pics are of the grey color ( to see if u have the same like this pic open msg and write a messege there is an option to write sound messege click on it
it will show the same thing see if u have the same like me
and the third pic is of the home screen to compare see if there is something wrong with ur screen
also could some one please look at his device and my pictures so i can now if there is something wrong with my device
thanks alot in advance
EarlZ said:
Also notice even if you just got the phone the very first second the digital clock actually burns through the notification tray and slowly disappears, I think its a technology limitation on the SAMOLED+
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Seems like a SAMOLED+ limitation as you say. I was just curious, it shouldnt bother me much whilst im using my phone normally.
ashish.vig said:
I just got my screen replaced, because of the screen burn issue, had a violet patch on top left, right where the viber icon sits, wihc caused the pinkish tint screen. Got my screen replaced in under 20 mins at samung service centre in Mumbai.
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If the screenburn gets really bad, I suppose i can always just use the 2yr Warranty I have on the phone to get the screen replaced. Waste of an invisibleshield though.
Considering the phone is less than a day old, the screen might go really weird in 2-3 months - Which is what im worried about.
ayhamx360 said:
on my sgs1 the screen was way better
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I would have to agree that the S1 screen is was a better display even if did have a more jagged edges on the fonts.
I have a similar issue in the messaging app, but with the keyboard. If I 'enable'(/turn on/whatever) it then disable it, it's 'shadow' stays there for a couple of seconds. It is however not a permanent burn in, so I think it's just the screen's limitation and it doesn't really bother me as this screen is still by far the best I've ever used.
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Also notice even if you just got the phone the very first second the digital clock actually burns through the notification tray and slowly disappears, I think its a technology limitation on the SAMOLED+
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wouldn't that screw up video playback though? sounds more like a software bug
I turned the clock on the notification bar back to 24hr , as i read/saw the AM/PM can burn in as they are displayed a lot longer then the 24hr digits which move at least every hour.
I just discovered this issue last night. I had been noticing a few lines here and there on my regular usage and I thought it was just a defective screen. Through the use of Terminal's blue screen, I realized that it wasn't defective.
I have a car dock, and use PowerAMP in the car every day. As you can see above, those burn ins are the buttons in PowerAMP. I went to take a picture of my SGS2 with my N1, and while looking at the blue screen on my SGS2 through the display of the N1, I noticed the N1 had the issue too!
I'm trying to run JScreenFix now to see if it solves the problem, but I highly doubt it.
Will Samsung even honour the warranty for things like this?
I have an SGS1 of 1 year old and my SGS 2 bought in may. Side by side, I will never exchange my SGS2 for another SGS1. Screen quality (colours and details) is by far better on SGS2. No comparision
I also don't see any burn in in both devices (keybord test, status bar...). Maybe some defective devices around that you just should exchange
If you want to test your screen or anything on your phone type *#0*# into the keypad
If the burn don't show up on green blue or red then its something else
I also have the same issue. I can see shadow of the System task bar. It was quite vivid on RED and it shows as lighter blue on blue colour. And on white it became pale white. Bright yellow as well on yellow.
I've tried various things like put the screen on full brightness on Black and Red and blue but still have the shadow there.
I will see if i can get my warranty repair.
I just wanted to confirm that the SGS2 sure can have a Burn In, as it was declared before as "Burn In Proof".
I noticed it while playing the recently released Game "Osmos HD". The game's color temperature is pretty blue-dark, and thats where I can see a slight burn in of the Task Bar.
Afterwards I checked my screen with various LCD Test programs and BAM - with low brightness I see slight burn in of the whole task bar. I can even see the signal indicator, the battery percentage and the spot where the clock sits.
But its only visible at very low brightness and a blue-purple coloring.
I called my brother, who has the Galaxy S2 as well, and he directly went and checked with LCD Tester as well. He, too, reported to me that he also has a slight screen burn in of the task bar, tho its very tough to spot. I guess, if you dont know its there, u wont notice it.
We both have our SGS2 models now for roughly a year, and the screens already seem to decrease in quality and stability.
I am a fan of Super AMOLED+ color quality and contrasts, but my 2 bothers and me have all the yellow tint issue, tho its not very drastic, and all devices start to get kind of a permanent screen burn in.
Its really sad to see that the otherwise fabulous screens already show its age. I hoped that Samsung learned from the SGS1's issues and user feedback, but sadly, it seems like they kind of ignored the fact that the Super AMOLED cant take much action...
My girlfriends Desire HD's screen (which was my phone before I got the SGS2) is still showing good colors. Sometimes I think about getting an LCD device again...
I think what most posters in this thread are reporting is Samoled ghosting, ie image retention for a few secs. Its not permanent, unlike burn-in, which some people may experience after some months of usage.
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I think what most posters in this thread are reporting is Samoled ghosting, ie image retention for a few secs. Its not permanent, unlike burn-in, which some people may experience after some months of usage.
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No, its not ghosting at all.
The taskbar image thats burned in is from MIUI. And since I am running either and Sammy ICS Build or Androidmeda for a while now, this image must've been there for longer than I thought.
As I said, I just noticed it yesterday while trying out the Osmos HD Demo. And its clearly the MIUI taskbar. Must be there for more than a couple of days already.
No screen burn on my Galaxy S2! Btw, been comparing screen to iphone 4/4s and Galaxy S2 screen way better! You have to have some sort of "telescopic" vision to notice resolution advantige on 4s... Who anyway reads webpages fully zoomed out? LoL... With magnifyng glass?? Contrast and colors advantige is huge on galaxy side....
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mad_max911 said:
No screen burn on my Galaxy S2! Btw, been comparing screen to iphone 4/4s and Galaxy S2 screen way better! You have to have some sort of "telescopic" vision to notice resolution advantige on 4s... Who anyway reads webpages fully zoomed out? LoL... With magnifyng glass?? Contrast and colors advantige is huge on galaxy side....
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I dunno why u are now comparing with the iPhone 4/4s here, but thanks ;-)
For how long are you using ur Galaxy S2 now? Mine is running non-stop since a roughly a year now.
And yes, it seems like a permanent screen burn in on my end. Just checked again, same visibility of the probably weeks-old MIUI taskbar.
The Galaxy S2 is known to consist of many issues particularly with its screen. Although the screen technology is far more superior than the one featured on the Galaxy Note, I wanted to know if the Note has any of the following issues with its Super AMOLED HD screen--
1). Black blotches? (*#0*# Select Black; wait for your eyes to adjust; be in a complete dark setting, and assess for this)
2). Stains? (*#0*# Select Black; wait for your eyes to adjust; be in a complete dark setting, and assess for this)
3). Red Tint in Black Background? (*#0*# Select Black; wait for your eyes to adjust; be in a complete dark setting, and assess for this)
4). White-colored bleeding? (*#0*# Select Black; wait for your eyes to adjust; be in a complete dark setting, and assess for this)
5). Brightness uniformity issue? (One side darker than the other or lighter than the other, vice versa)
6). Color uniformity issue?
7). Washed out colors?
8). Lack of clarity?
9). Horizontal or Vertical lines?
10). Ghosting?
11). Circular mark?
12). Banding? (Use *#0*# to test)
13). Dead pixels? (Use *#0*# and Select White)
Above, are issues I've encountered on different S2's. Please let me know if you spot any of the above issues on your Samsung Galaxy NOTE. I really want to gather feedback on all of the above. Thank you.
I dont see any of the above issues but one issue is the white seems little bluish due to pentile matrix
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Some user on another thread just posted a screenshot showing the uniformity issue where right side was darker than left.
Another issue noticed a circular mark
Bluish-tint is normal for Pentile matrix, but is the color evenly distributed?
? I haven't encountered any of the issues that you mentioned on my SGS2, and I've had it for almost 1/2 year now.
Anyways, just picked up the Note a few days ago and still customising to my liking, but so far have noticed (compared to the SGS2):
1. Banding. It's more noticeable (eg. Grey keyboard keys) compared to the SGS2.
2. Tile pattern when seeing grey background (eg. The notification bar)
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Comparing to my S2, the screen is brighter at 100%, I can read better any text, but I can still see the pentile screen. Not much problem, it is not annoying as hell as was in the first galaxy, but it is there and I can't wait to note 2 with plus technology.
So, on your questions, no to all of them.
Oh, for banding, testing with this image
http://www.imagica-digix.com/support/cine-tal/download/Stills/8bit_full_grad_1red.png
I can't see banding when I use full screen view on browser, but it is there if you move the image or don't see in full screent. It looks like the stock browser changes the colour to 65k when you make scrolls or something like that to be faster and smoother.
No problem for me.
What is tile pattern? Are you referring to the PenTile Matrix?
What is tile pattern? Are you referring to the PenTile Matrix?
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aussiebum said:
? I haven't encountered any of the issues that you mentioned on my SGS2, and I've had it for almost 1/2 year now.
Anyways, just picked up the Note a few days ago and still customising to my liking, but so far have noticed (compared to the SGS2):
1. Banding. It's more noticeable (eg. Grey keyboard keys) compared to the SGS2.
2. Tile pattern when seeing grey background (eg. The notification bar)
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No Note-2 'till next year though
kersh said:
Comparing to my S2, the screen is much brighter at 100%, I can read better any text, but I can still see the pentile screen. Not much problem, it is not annoying as hell as was in the first galaxy, but it is there and I can't wait to note 2 with plus technology.
So, on your questions, no to all of them.
Oh, for banding, testing with this image
http://www.imagica-digix.com/support/cine-tal/download/Stills/8bit_full_grad_1red.png
I can't see banding when I use full screen view on browser, but it is there if you move the image or don't see in full screent. It looks like the stock browser changes the colour to 65k when you make scrolls or something like that to be faster and smoother.
No problem for me.
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Pentile panic
SAlmighty said:
What is tile pattern? Are you referring to the PenTile Matrix?
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Don't panic. The screen on mine is superb.
I have not looked at any lo-qual 8 or 16 bit images, which will look like so called "banding". Banding is not a technical term, but I know what you mean.
This screen is 24bit, Millions of colors. If you look at 8-16 bit images, they will show banding. On older devices, you would see nothing but banding as they were only 16bit max.
Check out this: color depth
The checkerboard pattern happens when the screen redraws graphics when you resize it.
Zooming out to see a smaller view of a web page, there is a momentary checkerboard pattern behind the image, like the pattern denoting a transparent background in Photoshop. Normal and nothing to worry about. When I think about it, my HD2 showed a blank white background in this situation, not as good as I could not distinguish a page being redrawn and a web connection error giving me a blank page.
Samsung are leaders in the field of screen technology, no? Think about it. Who makes the best TV's? OLED screens are now becoming the TV industry choice of video monitors. They often cost over $10,000. Broadcast engineers are not likely to accept lower grade technology. In fact, LCD's are on the way out.
Don't believe the hype.
This device is amazing.
You can also use *#0*# to assess for banding, although I would believe banding to be common on a phone with greater resolution. The Galaxy S didn't have banding btw, unsure if that had to do with smaller resolution.
kersh said:
Comparing to my S2, the screen is much brighter at 100%, I can read better any text, but I can still see the pentile screen. Not much problem, it is not annoying as hell as was in the first galaxy, but it is there and I can't wait to note 2 with plus technology.
So, on your questions, no to all of them.
Oh, for banding, testing with this image
http://www.imagica-digix.com/support/cine-tal/download/Stills/8bit_full_grad_1red.png
I can't see banding when I use full screen view on browser, but it is there if you move the image or don't see in full screent. It looks like the stock browser changes the colour to 65k when you make scrolls or something like that to be faster and smoother.
No problem for me.
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I have very noticeable vertical banding. Looks as if you are looking through a screen door when panning. It is especially apparent on the Maps app and any grey/white/green backgrounds. Any fixes to alleviate this, dont want to send this back to UK.
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I have very noticable vertical banding. Looks like a screen door esp on maps, and grey backgrounds. Any fixes to alleviate this, dont want to send this back to UK.
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I'd wager they all look like that. Mine does.
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eallan said:
I'd wager they all look like that. Mine does.
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Really? I assumed this was a manufacturing defect. It is very distracting and takes away from the overall image. Coming from an iphone4, I find it very annoying. Perhaps I'm just anal.. Do others notice vertical banding on their Note?
I don't notice any banding on mine.
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VTEChump said:
Really? I assumed this was a manufacturing defect. It is very distracting and takes away from the overall image. Coming from an iphone4, I find it very annoying. Perhaps I'm just anal.. Do others notice vertical banding on their Note?
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On a grey background I notice what I would call a "hatching" type effect. It almost looks like the thatch grey background on iOS devices.
By hatching, do you mean the yellow-tint like that found on the Galaxy S2?
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On a grey background I notice what I would call a "hatching" type effect. It almost looks like the thatch grey background on iOS devices.
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Yeah I have the thatching effect on mine as well, like you said, on grey backgrounds. I don't notice it otherwise, just on certain shades of grey. It seems that Samsung screens have problems with grey colors, have had simaler problems with my Nexus S and SGII. I think it's just something with the amoled screens. :/
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On a grey background I notice what I would call a "hatching" type effect. It almost looks like the thatch grey background on iOS devices.
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Crap...
Here we go again, users reporting Black Blotches on their screens. What's up with that, evening on Pentile displays?
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By hatching, do you mean the yellow-tint like that found on the Galaxy S2?
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No. Not the same thing. This I'd probably a pattern from the pentile.
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I wish I wont have a problem.
Just got my HK version of the 16GB Wi-Fi only model last week. So far the 7.7 is pretty darn great. One issue I'm noticing though:
For the first few days I was using the Screen Filter app by haxor industry, so I could comfortable use the tablet at night in bed. The app, however, did not properly dim the status bar containing the navigation buttons & notification tray. I changed my dimming app to ScreenDim, which did the trick.
Now however--when dimming is enabled, and holding the tablet in landscape--- I'm noticing that there is discoloring in the exact area where the portrait-oriented status bar is positioned. The tablet looks fine when I'm working within any of the built-in brightness levels.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
Had mine now for just over a week. Have not noticed any burn in so far. Will watch out for it..
Many people claim to have seen the burn in effect of AMOLED. I been using my Galaxy S i9000 close to a year now but I do not notice anything. Maybe is my usage pattern. I don't usually spend more than an hour continuously on the screen. I'll pay more attention to the display unit when I drop by the phone shop next time.
If you are worry, you can try the HideBar apk that hide the status bar, but you need root. I tried it and it's working.
http://ppareit.github.com/HideBar/
I've had mine since the 7th Jan and I have the image burn - the status bar.. Not bothered by it though..
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This is likely due to the fact that the notification icons are blue coloured. In OLED displays, blue sub-pixels degrade faster than either red or green due to the fact that they have to be run at higher power levels to produce the same light levels as the red and green.
All OLED screens degrade and suffer burn-in sooner or later; you cannot avoid this.
Personally, I haven't yet experienced the burn-in effect with my unit, but perhaps another solution to delaying this inevitability is to create a modified build.prop which changes the overall blue theme to green instead?
The SAMOLED+ screen on my SGS2 from last May hasn't shown any signs of degradation yet, probably from the green theme of gingerbread.
Just thought I would chime in here. I just recently sold my GS2 which never did what my Galaxy Nexus does. From time to time when I move about through apps or screens I can still see feint remnants from the previous screen. The best example is going from my home screen to the market where my clock widget is still visible for a few seconds. I can turn my screen off and then on or just continue navigating until it disappears. If this is similar to what my Galaxy Nexus does then I believe it's not really an issue at all. (Although I was expecting differently from the Tabs screen since it's a Plus whereas this is not.)
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Okay, while I don't have the status bar "burn in" yet, I notice that when using the Screen Filter apps to dim the screen, the lower part of the screen (near the Samsung logo) is dimmer than the rest of the screen no matter when it is view in portrait or landscape. I'm not sure if this is cause by the apps itself or the display panel having unequal brightness. No problem when operating with the device standard lowest brightness.
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Okay, while I don't have the status bar "burn in" yet, I notice that when using the Screen Filter apps to dim the screen, the lower part of the screen (near the Samsung logo) is dimmer than the rest of the screen no matter when it is view in portrait or landscape. I'm not sure if this is cause by the apps itself or the display panel having unequal brightness. No problem when operating with the device standard lowest brightness.
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Yes; this is exactly what I am experiencing. Assuming it's not the dimming applications' doing, I was wondering if Samsung configure the screen like this on purpose...perhaps as a preventative measure thinking the edge by the Samsung logo would have the static image of status bar the majority of the time in daily use.
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This is likely due to the fact that the notification icons are blue coloured. In OLED displays, blue sub-pixels degrade faster than either red or green due to the fact that they have to be run at higher power levels to produce the same light levels as the red and green.
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Yeah Samsung are geniuses. They can produce the screen, but don't know the limitations. You would think they would avoid using blue for cumpulsory static images that you can't turn off. I don't know why they couldn't use red, green, or yellow in that area and avoid any color with blue in it, including white.
Dumb. dumb. dumb.
DaveC1964 said:
Yeah Samsung are geniuses. They can produce the screen, but don't know the limitations. You would think they would avoid using blue for cumpulsory static images that you can't turn off. I don't know why they couldn't use red, green, or yellow in that area and avoid any color with blue in it, including white.
Dumb. dumb. dumb.
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Agreed. It is quite an oversight.
Having said that, I haven't yet had any burn-in issues with my unit, even with my screen at full brightness just about all the time.
I found a yellowish mark in the same place of status bar when I hide it or change from portrait position to landscape position .. and I can see it only in gray screen like market or settings. I use my tab only for 1 week . Is it burn in? . Dose it go away by itself when I hide the status bar for a long time?
I think it won't go away. Mine got the same yellowwish on the status bar. Actually I love this phone more than any other devices I used to use before but it actually annoy me with this bug screen.
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I was going to sell mine and buy another one.. but now I think I will keep it because this screen bug will be in the most of this device
I must be lucky! I've had my device for almost a month now, run my screen at 100%, and I have yet to experience any issues whatsoever! Odd... Not complaining though!
I'm just wondering is there anyways to fix this bug screen? Is that any firmwares can fix it? I think we should complain to Samsung for this burn screen. It is very annoying :-(
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This bug is more visable at low brightness
I have mine for over three weeks now and I've no discoloration in the status bar area and I'm using the Tab a lot.
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Not all screens are created equally so others may not have burn-ins over 2yrs while others will get it as early as 2 weeks.
Just have it replaced and hope for a better screen.
How much u pay for replacement? Mine can't cuz here no warrenty :-( so sad
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Well i just noticed the dreaded screen smearing/purple haze on my new note 3 when i had the brightness turned all the way down, so i decided to check my new S5 and guess what its there too!
FU samsung how can they not pick up on this???
Yes there are fixes but it shouldn't be happening in the first place if you want to test yours out download the pic below, set brightness to 0 and zoom in on the pic and you will notice pink/purple smearing between the black and grey colours when moving the pic around.
Hmm wonder why they made all the menu bars green? now you know.
Don't see any problem in mine.
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Don't see any problem in mine.
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You need to have the screen brightness all the way down and make sure your looking real closely.
Out of the S4, note 3 and the s5 Samsung has seemed to make it the less noticeable on the S5.
What you could be seeing is the after image of the screen. You're seeing pink shade because of the way RGB is showing the color grey. You're seeing smearing because you could be moving the image around quite fast and the display is not fast enough to trail your fingers.
I followed your instructions and could see nothing that you are speaking of.
I have also previously owned a Note 3 and did not experience any "purple smearing" either.
In my opinion you are grossly overreacting.
mediumsteak said:
I followed your instructions and could see nothing that you are speaking of.
I have also previously owned a Note 3 and did not experience any "purple smearing" either.
In my opinion you are grossly overreacting.
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Have you read through THIS THREAD on it happening on the Note 3?
This is true exaxtly the same and really annoing when i want to use the phone at night how can i fix it
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I started the "infamous" thread over a year ago http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252445
Despite some thinking it was a software issue, it's simply a hardware issue with the panel.
The smearing occurs due to the native refresh times of the panel when going from completely off to dark shades, I.e black to greys etc.
The reason it wasn't an issue on older amoled screens was that the pixels were not completely off when displaying black, which is why in a dark room you could see a glow to blacks and also the "infamous streaks and blobs".
On the newer samsung amoled screens black is completely black, the pixels are not illuminated.
Samsung are just using cheap panels.
I spent a lot of money on an oled samsung tv there was the same issue. Putting a film on like sin city would highlight it. I returned the tv.
^S5 is the latest, so it's definitely new. So, was it really the panel?
What application requires one to view a dark grey image at 0 brightness zoomed in at 100%?
Come now, this thread is surely to attract the likes of trolls, or have I missed something?
I have no smearing, probably its all in your shorts lol.
homer285 said:
What application requires one to view a dark grey image at 0 brightness zoomed in at 100%?
Come now, this thread is surely to attract the likes of trolls, or have I missed something?
I have no smearing, probably its all in your shorts lol.
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Or you have bad vison. Just put ur brightnes to lowest and enter a dark roon and you will see it
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Ok lets be realistic, the people saying their S5's are not doing it are ether one of 2 things,....
1. Plain stupid and don't know how to adjust their phones display to reproduce the smearing, example: "homer285 What application requires one to view a dark grey image at 0 brightness zoomed in at 100%?"
2. or in denial and don't want to believe their perfect s5's could have such a flaw.
Because all S5s and note 3s for that matter are all shipped with the same display hardware tech, and no you don't have some super special s5 that has different hardware from everyone else cause your awesome .
Now saying that there are fixes for the problem, one can use a screen colour adjuster to keep the "off black pixils" turned slightly on witch helps big time but kills ur battery dead.
homer285 said:
What application requires one to view a dark grey image at 0 brightness zoomed in at 100%?
Come now, this thread is surely to attract the likes of trolls, or have I missed something?
I have no smearing, probably its all in your shorts lol.
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Not black on whole screen, but you may see pure black parts when you watch videos that are not on HD scale. Also, around 95% of movies have at least one dark or low-light scene.
Xanode said:
Ok lets be realistic, the people saying their S5's are not doing it are ether one of 2 things,....
1. Plain stupid and don't know how to adjust their phones display to reproduce the smearing, example: "homer285 What application requires one to view a dark grey image at 0 brightness zoomed in at 100%?"
2. or in denial and don't want to believe their perfect s5's could have such a flaw.
Because all S5s and note 3s for that matter are all shipped with the same display hardware tech, and no you don't have some super special s5 that has different hardware from everyone else cause your awesome .
Now saying that there are fixes for the problem, one can use a screen colour adjuster to keep the "off black pixils" turned slightly on witch helps big time but kills ur battery dead.
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Most of us are neither of those two. Just because you experienced it, it doesn't mean that everyone has. Phones are not made in a single batch/production date. It's impossible to produce millions of S5 in a single day anyway. All products sold internationally have the so-called batch date/number to trace possible problems. My previous S3 have the black blotches when screen is dark and viewed under very low light, but my friend's has none. Now, my S5 doesn't have any screen problems.
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Or you have bad vison. Just put ur brightnes to lowest and enter a dark roon and you will see it
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Have fun with your "smearing" lol
I can confirm this too on my SM-G900F 16GB model... The Note 2 and S3 i owned didn't have this, but the S4 does and now the S5 also....
When having a black background (and lowered brightness) you'll notice it when swiping through the homescreen pages.
I don't know what causes this but i doubt it can't be fixed, yet Samsung continuous playing it their own way by ignoring the problem (the 'anti-smearing' update they once released was a joke)
This should only be a problem at night or in low light environments(typically when screen brightness is very low). I'm pretty sure it's a hardware limitation of Pentile AMOLED screens with the diamond sub pixel matrix, and thus affects all GS5's at low/very low brightness levels.
I've suggested this a couple of times on here, I'll say it again: 1.Change the screen mode to Cinema or Pro Photo.
2. (More importantly) Download Lux(free) and change the White Balance to Fluorescent. This slightly tints the blacks, and greatly reduces the smearing effect.
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denski101 said:
I'm pretty sure it's a hardware limitation of Pentile AMOLED screens, and thus affects all GS5's at low/very low brightness levels.
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The S3 had a PenTile AMOLED screen and it wasn't affected by this. AFAIK it's due to the Diamond Pixel layout Samsung uses on the latter Galaxy series.
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The S3 had a PenTile AMOLED screen and it wasn't affected by this. AFAIK it's due to the Diamond Pixel layout Samsung uses on the latter Galaxy series.
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Your right. I had that in mind, but was confusing Pentile and the Diamond pixel layout as one and the same. My mistake.
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Xanode said:
You need to have the screen brightness all the way down and make sure your looking real closely.
Out of the S4, note 3 and the s5 Samsung has seemed to make it the less noticeable on the S5.
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ramsenn said:
Or you have bad vison. Just put ur brightnes to lowest and enter a dark roon and you will see it
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wow, pathetic. I hate all the BS threads about how samsung screwed us on the screen. Basically, by saying to turn down the screen all the way down and looking closely, in a dark room, you are asking somebody to look for a problem that never happens in a real world scenario anyways? WTF is up with all the people looking for problems in technology? Honestly, why in tha hell do people always try to find the tiniest this and the smallest that in every piece of tech they own and then bash the constructor for it, things that in the first place only appear in VERY SPECIFIC SCENARIOS THAT YOU NEVER ENCOUNTER IN REAL LIFE?
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wow, pathetic. I hate all the BS threads about how samsung screwed us on the screen. Basically, by saying to turn down the screen all the way down and looking closely, in a dark room, you are asking somebody to look for a problem that never happens in a real world scenario anyways? WTF is up with all the people looking for problems in technology? Honestly, why in tha hell do people always try to find the tiniest this and the smallest that in every piece of tech they own and then bash the constructor for it, things that in the first place only appear in VERY SPECIFIC SCENARIOS THAT YOU NEVER ENCOUNTER IN REAL LIFE?
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Or you are just a kurwa who use full brightness at night to fuc up your eyes.
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Hi everybody,
Since a few days a got this blurry facebook page in my screen. How could I solve this problem please ?
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Hi everybody,
Since a few days a got this blurry facebook page in my screen. How could I solve this problem please ?
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Page?
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Take a photo with another phone... the solution is change the screen.
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Take a photo with another phone... the solution is change the screen.
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But what is he trying to say. I don't see anything wrong in the screenshot.
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I'll try to show you you with this screenshot.
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Hi everybody,
Since a few days a got this blurry facebook page in my screen. How could I solve this problem please ?
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Do you mean a ghost image? If so, it's a common problem of amoled displays. You must not being for a long period with the same image in the display. Do you know, for instance, that samsung as applied in the new S8 a almost invisible scheme to move time to time the virtual home buttons to avoid burn the display?
It's exactly that: a ghost image. It is the first time I notice that
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It's exactly that: a ghost image. It is the first time I notice that
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Ok. It's common my friend, but most of people don't notice that bcause wallpapers are not bright enough or don't have regular colors etc. etc. For see the effect that AMOLED screen don't resist to much and burns easily, you can notice that in demo cellphones in retail stores. It's also the reason that sometimes they use videos instead static images...
There are a few apps in google store to fix that. What they do is being about 8 hours presenting strong colors to the screen alternately (I think for burning all the screen evenly). I tried some in my galaxy S5 but no results... Any case you can try...
The best thing to do since beginning to avoid the screen burn in is not abuse of screen brightness and do not use for a long time static images or images with strong sharp colors like the strong blue bar at top of Facebook...
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Ok. It's common my friend, but most of people don't notice that bcause wallpapers are not bright enough or don't have regular colors etc. etc. For see the effect that AMOLED screen don't resist to much and burns easily, you can notice that in demo cellphones in retail stores. It's also the reason that sometimes they use videos instead static images...
There are a few apps in google store to fix that. What they do is being about 8 hours presenting strong colors to the screen alternately (I think for burning all the screen evenly). I tried some in my galaxy S5 but no results... Any case you can try...
The best thing to do since beginning is not abuse of screen brightness and do not use so much time static images or images with strong sharp colors like the strong blue bar at top of Facebook...
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I don't see it in that screenshot or on my phone even.
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thahim said:
I don't see it in that screenshot or on my phone even.
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we don't see that in his screenshots because screenshot is a digital pure image, not the image that he sees in HIS display. For us to see the ghost image in his display he must take a photo with another outside camera
If you want to notice that in your own phone try to have a regular white image in your phone above all screen area. Perhaps you can notice already at least the battery percentage, watch digits, or wifi or network scale in notification status bar place. Try it
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we don't see that in his screenshots because screenshot is a digital pure image, not the image that he sees in HIS display. For us to see the ghost image in his display he must take a photo with another outside camera
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Is this problem with all phones? I have S8 plus and it doesn't seems to have this yet.
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Is this problem with all phones? I have S8 plus and it doesn't seems to have this yet.
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Yes is a problem of all AMOLED screen phones, like plasma tv's - burn-in screen problem, you can search in internet. If your phone is a S8, is too new to be burned already. Also If you take those advises I said probably the problem take more time to appear. Any case I wrote any posts above too the Samsung trick with home virtual buttons to avoid or disguise the burn-in and ghost image of home buttons. It's one reason that I prefer physic buttons...
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Yes is a problem of all AMOLED screen phones, like plasma tv's - burn-in screen problem, you can search in internet. If your phone is a S8, is too new to be burned already. Also If you take those advises I said probably the problem take more time to appear. Any case I wrote any posts above too the Samsung trick with home virtual buttons to avoid or disguise the burn-in and ghost image of home buttons. It's one reason that I prefer physic buttons...
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I also have s6edge edge plus which also has amoled screen. No problems yet. So I have to keep brightness to lower level and don't keep an image with bright colors yeah ?
How can S8 started having it?
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I also have s6edge edge plus which also has amoled screen. No problems yet. So I have to keep brightness to lower level and don't keep an image with bright colors yeah ?
How can S8 started having it?
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yes, more or less that you said. But first you must understand the technology. While LCD screens have a led light bulb that illuminate all screen and respective pixels (passive) and this ones not have own light, only take several colors, in amoled screen are the pixels who make the emission of light. This light of each pixel is too strong for it size. It's the reason why amoled screen is more detailed, vibrant colors, bright and with a infinite contrast. Now think, if you have a static image that is half white, half black it means that half pixels are turned on burning in the maximum while the other half ones are turned off spared. If this image are presented for a long time it means that half of pixels are already stressed while others are new in their maximum power of brightness. Now can you take easily your own conclusions why this happen and how can you try to avoid it? But it's only avoid a little bit, because in the end, there's no solution for it, unless you don't use the screen...
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yes, more or less that you said. But first you must understand the technology. While LCD screens have a led light bulb that illuminate all screen and respective pixels (passive) and this ones not have own light, only take several colors, in amoled screen are the pixels who make the emission of light. This light of each pixel is too strong for it size. It's the reason why amoled screen is more detailed, vibrant colors, bright and with a infinite contrast. Now think, if you have a static image that is half white, half black it means that half pixels are turned on burning in the maximum while the other half ones are turned off spared. If this image are presented for a long time it means that half of pixels are already stressed while others are new in their maximum power of brightness. Now can you take easily your own conclusions why this happen and how can you try to avoid it? But it's only avoid a little bit, because in the end, there's no solution for it, unless you don't use the screen...
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I didn't get this problem on my s6 edge plus
Anyways for how long is it safe to stay on same screen?
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I didn't get this problem on my s6 edge plus
Anyways for how long is it safe to stay on same screen?
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of course I can't secure to you how many minutes you must avoid to be on same screen! Simply try to avoid it as you can. For instance, I can tell you that my Samsung galaxy S5 suffered a display burn-in because I used S-view cover. The window area of the S-view case became dimmer (burnerer) because when it was close, only this area was illuminated at the maximum bright when notifications came like messages, mails or phone calls.
Also I became noticing that that area at the top of screen of notifications bar, wifi bar, network bar, battery and clock (that always is black) - in a regular color photo presentation that notification bar is not presented, that area was more brilliant because the pixels were most of time off, and also I could see the battery, wifi and clock ghost image. I became noticing that, after 6 months of purchased the cellphone...
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of course I can't secure to you how many minutes you must avoid to be on same screen! Simply try to avoid it as you can. For instance, I can tell you that my Samsung galaxy S5 suffered a display burn-in because I used S-view cover. The window area of the S-view case became dimmer (burnerer) because when it was close, only this area was illuminated at the maximum bright when notifications came like messages, mails or phone calls.
Also I became noticing that that area at the top of screen of notifications bar, wifi bar, network bar, battery and clock (that always is black) - in a regular color photo presentation that that notification bar doesn't appear, that area was more brilliant because the pixels were most of time off, and also I could see the battery, wifi and clock ghost image. I became noticing that, after 6 months of purchased the cellphone...
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If it's like that it must burn in the always on display part of the screen or the nav bar.
thahim said:
I didn't get this problem on my s6 edge plus
Anyways for how long is it safe to stay on same screen?
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If it's like that it must burn in the always on display part of the screen or the nav bar.
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As you can notice, the "always on" objects are moving time to time to avoid burn in of those pixels. The same for the home buttons in the galaxy S8. The black bar or tab in the top, or the blue bar in same area of facebook or other app's like some browsers, whatsapp etc. there's no chance to avoid the dimmer difference between the rest area and this one, also ghost numbers of clock, battery and so on. Of course as much of bright you have in scale, faster will be the burn-in effect and more you'll notice ghost images or tabs.
Me, to avoid that also, I installed a black theme background, not only to save battery ( in AMOLED screens white illumination screen area drain battery) as also to avoid white and strong color areas, cause these ones burn faster the pixels