Hello everyone,
A few days ago, my phone screen became very bright. Not happen immediately but gradually, first for a few hours, then recovered, then for a full day, followed by a shorter recovery and so and so. Right now is from two days in this condition. Besides the fact that all the colors are very fade, there are some aberrations in the gray area (green and purple instead of dark grey), as can be seen from the photos attached.
In this time I did a factory reset and an upgrade to Mango, but the problem persisted, so it's probably not software.
So, has anyone any idea what could be the problem? I think it's not the screen, but maybe the connector or the video card? Has this happened to someone else?
Thanks in advance for your help.
PS: As for the good side, I have an excellent day view of my screen, no matter how sunny it is ouside )
palllasy said:
Hello everyone,
A few days ago, my phone screen became very bright. Not happen immediately but gradually, first for a few hours, then recovered, then for a full day, followed by a shorter recovery and so and so. Right now is from two days in this condition. Besides the fact that all the colors are very fade, there are some aberrations in the gray area (green and purple instead of dark grey), as can be seen from the photos attached.
In this time I did a factory reset and an upgrade to Mango, but the problem persisted, so it's probably not software.
So, has anyone any idea what could be the problem? I think it's not the screen, but maybe the connector or the video card? Has this happened to someone else?
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The AMOLED screen gargled. Get it repaired / replaced at a service center. Happened to me on the SGS.
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Does anyone has solution for white screen of death. My O2 MIni after upgrading is not dispalying anything but white screen.
I have the same problem. Screen is completely white. First time it happened after I removed and I put back the SD card. After 1 month and a half it work again, after 4-5 hours again displays white screen. I thought it was the internal battery but I do not think.
If anyone has any idea or a solution to this issue forward.
If you need photos whit phone or inside parts let me know.
ThankS
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its the screen problem or the screen connector... im 90% sure, it happened to me, so i had to change the connector and after that all was ok. try putting another display and see what happens
Hello all,
I've got the SGS II for about 1 week now and at first I thought it was a software issue. The thing is, when I'm on a very light colored background ( Market, facebook, whatsapp or whatever ) You see smudged out stripes from the text or any picture that is on there. They're all faded stripes. I thought it was banding but this is something totally different.
What's even more weird- it only happens when I'm outside the house, so my guess is that the brightness sensor plays a part in this? When I'm inside the effect is minimal to none but when I go out or to a very bright place, the stripes are extremely annoying. ( will take pictures for reference when I get the chance )
Would you say this is a manufacturing fault?
Please help if you've encountered something similiar.
Thanks!
Here are some images, the stripes are not that evident right now. They seem to get worse when I'm in the sun.
Looks like some polarising effect.
Should I return to the shop to get this swapped? It seems to me that the screen is defect???
Return!! It seems alot of people are having screen problems.
Same issue on my SGS2.
Was perfect during one week then theses anoying stripes!!!
Did you perform a 1:1 exchange?
There were similar problems on the Sensation forum and it was found to be app/widget conflicts.
If you turn off auto-brightness and also the power saving lcd brightness mode under display in settings does it still happen? You mentioned it happens when you go outside so was curious if you adjusted brightness manually if it still happens
Sooooo....
Yesterday evening I changed form litening 1.5 to the stock rom on KF1 with full wipe.
After that stripes where still there.
Went to bed.
Woke up this morning: Big surprise stripes were almost invisible!!!
Battery 40%
BUT
today I used the GPS google navigation during 1h and discovered that theses stripes appeared again and they are very strong.
- No link with app/widget, nothing installed .
- Didn't touch on settings display auto-brightness before the problem. Tried after but nope.
I tried this today
(all credits to Cost from french forum tmaddict)
Flashlight to use white light during half an hour.
Stripes almoust disapeared...
Then picture with high contrast and color.
Stripes came back.
Conclusion :
With SGS2 you can encounter a display refresh problem.
Not solved btw => screen defect => exchanging it today.
Thierry.
Dear all,
I wanted to see if anybody else is experiencing the same issue. I have received my S6 Edge+ on Tuesday and a couple of days ago I have noticed the following problem that annoys me a bit.
I am using a lot of video chat (Kakao Talk if that matters) and every day in the evening I notice black edges of the video screen where my own video feed is usually shown on the top right of my display.
The whole square seems to be a bit lighter / more white too. This is especially noticeable if you turn up the brightness. Normally the square goes away until the morning, but its really not pretty to look at the screen during the evening hours.
I don't have enough posts to attach a sample picture, but anyway my Note 3 camera can't quite capture what I am seeing. When I look at it, there is a noticeable "more white" square with darker edges.
If anybody is interested in seeing it, I can PM you the imgur link.
So my question is: Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Maybe with a different AMOLED phone? Did the problem go away after some time or did you exchange your phone?
I am a bit hesitant to send it in, as since the problem usually goes away over night, they won't see the same issue when my phone arrives at the service center.
If you want to check your screen I suggest to turn the brightness up and use either a white background or "Screen Test and Fix" from the Play Store
Thank you in advance for your time and input.
HDYves said:
Dear all,
I wanted to see if anybody else is experiencing the same issue. I have received my S6 Edge+ on Tuesday and a couple of days ago I have noticed the following problem that annoys me a bit.
I am using a lot of video chat (Kakao Talk if that matters) and every day in the evening I notice black edges of the video screen where my own video feed is usually shown on the top right of my display.
The whole square seems to be a bit lighter / more white too. This is especially noticeable if you turn up the brightness. Normally the square goes away until the morning, but its really not pretty to look at the screen during the evening hours.
I don't have enough posts to attach a sample picture, but anyway my Note 3 camera can't quite capture what I am seeing. When I look at it, there is a noticeable "more white" square with darker edges.
If anybody is interested in seeing it, I can PM you the imgur link.
So my question is: Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Maybe with a different AMOLED phone? Did the problem go away after some time or did you exchange your phone?
I am a bit hesitant to send it in, as since the problem usually goes away over night, they won't see the same issue when my phone arrives at the service center.
If you want to check your screen I suggest to turn the brightness up and use either a white background or "Screen Test and Fix" from the Play Store
Thank you in advance for your time and input.
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Not sure if this is the exact case (I didn't read the complete article), but you should look at this :-
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/save-screen-prevent-burn-in-amoled-screens/
Also use the code *#0*# on dialer to verify the screen with each colored pixel one at a time.
Resurrecting a very old thread, but I just burned the "Samsung Galaxy Edge+" text from the boot up onto my screen, which sucks. Bought the international model off Swappa used, so no warranty. Was my own fault, tried flashing a custom recovery onto the phone but it didn't work and got stuck on that bootup screen (which is max brightness, which made it even worse). I was doing something else at the time so couldn't get to my phone, it was probably left like that for about 30 minutes only and that was enough to burn the text into the screen....... WEAK.
Currently trying one of those screen burn-in fix apps from the Play Store, we'll see if it works.....
I have yotaphone 2 from tinydeal germany. (I think they flash the ROM to change the language.)
The phone worked fine at first but now the e screen on the back is doing strange things, leaving images of previous pages showing through the current page. This means, for example, on the clock face the clock is faint on a grey background and as the fingers move they leave a black after-image. Pages that should be black look speckled grey. Any suggestions for cause and a fix?
Unfortunately this is how (older) EPD screens work. When updated they somtimes leave a ghost image behind. To eliminate this the screen needs to be flashed white/black/white before redrawing and with the low refresh frequency of EPD this results in a very flickering image. So there is nothing wrong with your screen, this is just how EPD screens work. See also here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper#Disadvantages
Thanks, but this ghosting or layered imaging is much more severe. I know someone else with the same phone where black is black and whilst there is very slight ghosting of things like clock fingers it is nothing like this current phone. The phone was fine when we got it, and the layered/grey imaging has started without me doing anything. I only mentioned flashing of the ROM because Tinydeal have told me that that is what they do to change the language on these phones.
So from the Wikipedia entry and your comments I now assume that the phone should automatically flash black/white between page changes but it isn't doing it.
The ghost images don't appear if you load something like chess or sudoko onto the rear display but appear again as soon as the regular Yotapanel or Yotacover is used.
I have the same problem, but only when the white theme in the Yotahub is turned off (so the dark theme is active) or when I use the Yota Mirror. The ghosting is terrible. When I use the white theme, it looks like it should look. I am not aware of any changes I made to my phone yesterday, but in the afternoon this problem started.
Does someone know how to check if the screen is flashing/refreshing correctly and if not, how to repair this?
Update: when I put a completely black screen on the back, it is spotty. The black is not black, but dark grey, and there are many lighter spots on the screen.
Update 2: the white theme has this problem too, but less visible. The white starts as real white, but because of ghosting becomes slightly grey. With black it is much more noticeable, because black does start as dark grey.
Well this may only turn out to be a temporary fix but I went through the Yotapanel pages repeatedly and very rapidly using the bottom of the page buttons.
I got all sorts of shades of grey and multiple overlying images but then the phone suddenly showed a clear black and white page with clock.
Ringing the phone from another phone produced a clear missed call message on the back of the phone and then after a minute the clear black and white clock page came back. I am leavng the phone without looking at all the othe Yotapanels or the Yotacover for the moment in the hope that something just got out of phase in the software and the phone might now settle down to correct operation again.
I have the same problem. It has started a few days ago and it gets worse every day.
Unfrtunately the problem has returned on my phone although I was able to get back to a black screen with the clock after three page changes using the bottom left arrow. This time a missed call message came up very clearly on the back of the phone but after the missed call message cleared the whole of the back of the phone was speckled grey with a very faint clock image. One question though: is this just the phones from Tinydeal where they have apparently flashed the ROM, or is it all phones?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lggfc.nookclearscreen
That's the app for Nook ereader to refresh its screen and get rid of ghosting. Works also on Yotaphone.
What always works for me to clear the screen when the ghosting annoys me is to switch to Android on the EPD screen (by holding the circle button and choosing the left option) and switch back right away using the same procedure. This always leaves me with a clean black back.
Thanks Keeper and VirtualL.
Tinydeal asked me to upload a video to demonstrate the fault, and no sooner than they did that the phone started behaving normally again!
So if it goes again the first thing I will try is that page sequence, and if it fails the App.
I have to say that these are really fantastic phones. I think that a lot of original reviewers completely overlooked the basic issue of not being able to see a phone screen in bright sunlight, but that the yotaphone overcomes this problem.
Resolved by switching the back to front screen views a couple of times. Getting the front screen to mirror on the back seems to give that hard black and white interscreen flash that clears previous images.
Lothor said:
Resolved by switching the back to front screen views a couple of times. Getting the front screen to mirror on the back seems to give that hard black and white interscreen flash that clears previous images.
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I don't know if you already use it but this widget makes it very easy to switch between mirror and back. Just one click on the widget.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/yotaphone-one/development/widget-yota-toolbelt-t3145462
Last week, I got a chinese version (YD206) through GearBest. I had the same problem what you mentioned. (Black was always Grey and was never black and lot of ghosting). Until yesterday, I used to think that's how the e-Ink display works so I was using White theme all the time.
After seeing your post, I tried using Nook cleaner software and it did not help. Then, I removed the screen protector which the phone came with. For the next 1 hour, I did not see any difference. I left it thinking it could be ROM issue.
But, after few hours, I noticed everything became normal. Now, the e-ink screen looks goergeous in BLACK.
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What always works for me to clear the screen when the ghosting annoys me is to switch to Android on the EPD screen (by holding the circle button and choosing the left option) and switch back right away using the same procedure. This always leaves me with a clean black back.
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This issue keeps coming back and I am not able to find a guaranteed solution to this.
Like you described, activating and deactivating Yota Mirror in quick succession clears the ghosting and makes the screen BLACK. At other times, it does not work at all.
I even try swapping to different Yota Panels, but it is a hit and miss. Is this issue specific to Chinese version of YD206?
How to solve this issue permanently?
If not possible, is there any known step which I can do to clear the ghosting?
prasathvishnu said:
This issue keeps coming back and I am not able to find a guaranteed solution to this.
Like you described, activating and deactivating Yota Mirror in quick succession clears the ghosting and makes the screen BLACK. At other times, it does not work at all.
I even try swapping to different Yota Panels, but it is a hit and miss. Is this issue specific to Chinese version of YD206?
How to solve this issue permanently?
If not possible, is there any known step which I can do to clear the ghosting?
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I have the same problem with a GearBest YD206 running Android 4.4.3. Would updating the firmware change anything?
Hey Yotaphone Users!
I finally have a solution for this problem, that I received from the Yota Phone Support:
"If you see that ghosting is amplified, try to do some steps. Try to discharge the phone completely. Then leave it discharged for long periods of time, f.e. overnight. Then charge the phone to 100%."
For me that worked perfectly!
For me the discharge-recharge didn't work at all.
Discharged untill it switched off. Turned it on again untill switched off, untill phone wouldn't start up again. So: battery was flat.
What happened was: EPD turned black. Yohoo! Happy!
But: after one night discharged, i put it on charger again. Screen switched on, and ghosting was immediately back.
Disappointed. Very disappointed.
Anyone has a different solution?
stoerebink said:
For me the discharge-recharge didn't work at all.
Discharged untill it switched off. Turned it on again untill switched off, untill phone wouldn't start up again. So: battery was flat.
What happened was: EPD turned black. Yohoo! Happy!
But: after one night discharged, i put it on charger again. Screen switched on, and ghosting was immediately back.
Disappointed. Very disappointed.
Anyone has a different solution?
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Sad to hear that.
Did you remove the screen protector from the back side as in the post #14 the user said that after removing the epd screen became normal black again?
Has anyone heard and try heating with hairdryer the EPD screen for 2 minutes (not too hot) to eliminate ghosting?
Hello everyone,
Got a problem with my Galaxy note 3 amoled screen. Couple months ago some lines appeared on that, look like artefacts or dead pixels or something, not really sure. Didn't drop/drop in water the device before that. No idea why that happen. But, they don't go.
Tried some dead pixels apps from market with no success.
Due to certain reasons cannot give the device to repair service, so, need to try to fix that by myself.
OS version is 4.3, if that matters.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Will attach the screenshot. The line in the middle. Have few of them already. Background is green, to make it more visible.
Thanks!
Shinkoku said:
Hello everyone,
Got a problem with my Galaxy note 3 amoled screen. Couple months ago some lines appeared on that, look like artefacts or dead pixels or something, not really sure. Didn't drop/drop in water the device before that. No idea why that happen. But, they don't go.
Tried some dead pixels apps from market with no success.
Due to certain reasons cannot give the device to repair service, so, need to try to fix that by myself.
OS version is 4.3, if that matters.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Will attach the screenshot. The line in the middle. Have few of them already. Background is green, to make it more visible.
Thanks!
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Looks more like heat damage to the screen adhesive than a software/electronic defect, to me. I'm just guessing here, but could it have been left in a spot where a beam of focused light could burn the screen? Mine has a few little defects on the screen from where a water bottle on a window ledge focused the sunlight onto a point on the screen.
factory reset.
Flash stock rom and see .
Thanks for replies guys,
One more thing I probably should mention,
The line on the attached pic is maximized, the real lines are quite small, like 3-5mm length. Really small. But anyway visible...
Jaitsu,
Hmm tried to recall but don't think something like that happened. Sometimes I use my phone as GPS when riding bike, means it's outside under the sun (but not a focused light or something), max. 1 hour per time. Could that be reason?
Also, did you find any way to fix that, by yourself?
I read about several ways to fix screen issues, including leaving phone without battery for some time, or even placing it into the freezer. Tried battery method yesterday with no result, but kind of worry about the freezer...
JJEgan
Yes factory reset is a common advice but you really think it might help? Looks like a hardware issue to me. Can a software glitch damage the display? Also, lines are everywhere on the screen, not like one certain place.
Will give it a try if nothing else found, just, sounds uncommon...
Agree probably hardware but a factory reset rules out firmware .
Thats the first step for a service tech sheet .