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[Q] HTC Stuck pixel

I got this phone a few days now and a dead/stuck pixel has already show up. It's red and really frustating. It's miniscul but I can't get my eyes from it. It's on the right side of the screen, a little bit above the right down corner. I can only see it when the screen is black (so in some of the apps and menus) or when it's an other dark colour. Does someone have a solution to this? I heard that it's possible to get rid of it with some special technique.
Thanks for your attention.

i'd suggest taking it straight back to the carrier and say the product is faulty. They normally have a decent period before they say you have to go back to the manufacter, and manufacters normally don't fix it for an individual dead pixel, but you should try.

I've personally never had a dead pixel before, but I heard one way to fix that was by rapidly changing colors on a screen. There's an app for that

screen burn in ?

hi. i am using 2 phones the nexus s and the gs2 .
and i noticed something on my gs2 and i need to ask you people about it.
the phone isnt like 3 weeks old. its brand new. however i noticed a temp screen burn in on the following places.
when i use the keyboard for txt msging. if i pull the keyboard down " by pressing back ", i can see the squares of the keyboard on the screen for like few seconds before they dissapear.
i also noticed the same thing in the status bar, battery meter. specially in the browser or an hd wallpaper app called " HD wallpaper "
when i downloaded that app. i turned the wireless and went through the app. now its trying to load . if i switch the screen to the side. the status bar will tilt as well. vertical horizintal depends on the way you move the screen. and i clearly can see the marks of the status bar for few seconds before it dissapear again on whatever verticial or horizintal/
what is the issue here ? i cant call it burn in because its not permenant.
i noticed the same thing with Miui on the nexus S. but only on the status bar. nothing on the keyboard.
any idea peeps
is it some sort of memory effect or bad refrish rate ?

Someone else had this. I think it was related to apps or widgets they installed. It's not normal. Do a search and see if you can find the other thread. Try searching on "ghosting."

i was searching through ghosting. is this normal with everyone here ? or some people dont have it ?

i think you should be carefull with your phone, if you leave it to much on the same background it will burn in easelly, oled burn in as easelly as plasmas when it comes to leaving them on the same image over and over again, try see if you can change yours, i certainly have no such issues with none of the 2 i had nor with this one.
PS: depends on what you mean with ghosting, if you mean the pixel response time beying visible when moving an image fast then yes thats normal, even though oled have 0.01 ms response time this one is deffinitly higher as i can notice it easelly.

i have a screen burn in on my Nexus One, annoying at times when i do notice it.

Yes, I have this. Had a thread, temporarly burn in. I can see it when I type a message.
Just when the keyboard is visible and I pull down the notification bar, I can see the contoures of the keyboard letter there... Probably happens with other things but aren't that noticable on other colours than grey I guess...

i can also see some weird banding or whatever on a pure gray image, not sure how normal this is but ive noticed it with all of my 3 phones.

ghost image disappears for me within 2 seconds (very hard to see unless if you look at the screen hard), definitely not a problem, and wont be killing myself for this or even consider it a hardware issue.

i also facing a same problem as u guys, now waiting for service centre to replace my lcd.

This ghosting issue seems to happen with all phones, very visible when your using the keyboard and you drop down the notification tray, then it goes away after a couple of seconds.

Two issues here. First off, search the forum for burn in, its already been posted.
Two issues, the temporary burn in is new to the galaxy s2 and seems to go away after a few seconds. But all Samsung amoled screens suffer permanent burn in of the status bar, click time, and anything else in a static place.
My nexus one has permanent burn in right now, both status bar and keyboard. Original galaxy s and others has this also.
The temporary burn in seems to be different and only on this new amoled plus display so far.

EarlZ said:
This ghosting issue seems to happen with all phones, very visible when your using the keyboard and you drop down the notification tray, then it goes away after a couple of seconds.
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they dont seem to hapen all the phones. only with amoled screens. i dont see anything like this on lcd screens or slcd or the ips screens like optimus 2x and iphone 4.
RogerPodacter said:
Two issues here. First off, search the forum for burn in, its already been posted.
Two issues, the temporary burn in is new to the galaxy s2 and seems to go away after a few seconds. But all Samsung amoled screens suffer permanent burn in of the status bar, click time, and anything else in a static place.
My nexus one has permanent burn in right now, both status bar and keyboard. Original galaxy s and others has this also.
The temporary burn in seems to be different and only on this new amoled plus display so far.
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i did search the forum before i post. however. as far as i know . burn in screens are permenant. and the other threads talked about that. here i am talking about something that goes off after few seconds. something like either ghosting / or something about low memory / low resposne / low refresh rate of the screen. not a real butn in.

I've recently bought a Galaxy S2 from someone and didn't see the burn in until a few days ago.
Now I can't reach the guy to get my money back... the phone seems in perfect shape except for the burn in (status bar and some digital clock widget).
I've been trying every day now to run this app called Screen Burn-in Tools for an hour or so but nothing happens.
You can find the app on the Google Play.
Should I continue using this tool or this burn-in is permanent and there's nothing I can do about it?
I can't believe such a high end phone has such a poor life display... how can this be possible!?!? They should've stayed with the regular LCD or something.
It's too bad because I'm a fan of the OLED idea and technology, but unfortunately samsung owns too many patents for this technology to spread to other manufacturers as well. This is what happens when the damn corporations get their greedy hands on something great that can benefit the mankind!

blue dot when screen is off

Recently I just noticed that there is a small blue shining dot (pixel) on my screen when I turn GN off and it stays there for near 20 sec !
you can not see it even with the smalest light in the room but it is there in darkness !!!
it is in the right side of the screen a little lower than middle ....
any one else notice that ?
is it normal ?
how can I check what it is ?
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Had this on my GS2, the screen was replaced under waranty.

you have a stuck blue sub-pixel! this should be visible in every picture you display, but it's most noticeable when displaying a black picture (and switching the device off takes about 10-20sec - and the display is still active, but displaying nothing)!
you can test your screen with a test-tool opened with the dialer: enter *#0*#
such a defect is really hard to notice in real life conditions, due to the small subpixel size. also, samsung has no obligation to change your screen because of one dead subpixel, but you can try!
more common is a dead sub-pixel (the subpixel stays always dark), and it's also less annoying. if i would be you i would try to exchange!

Thanks for info
I just test it with *#0*# and there is no blue pixel in the green or red or white or black screens ...
So I just try to ignore it for now or may be change the screen if it gets annoying

Same here. I think is a ICS bug. If i flash a GB rom there is no blue dot. It only appear during 30 o 40 secs when you switch off the screen.

chanur_000 said:
Same here. I think is a ICS bug. If i flash a GB rom there is no blue dot. It only appear during 30 o 40 secs when you switch off the screen.
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which rom you have ?
I'm on Rocket Rom v2 .

i´m on kingdroid 2.1 but have tried several and the problem is always there except with GB roms.

Try detect pixel and fix from the play store. It helped me fix a stuck pixel on one if my older phones.

I also have the blue pixel when the screen turns off after the ICS update. It doesn't show on a black image either only when the screen turns off. Detect pixel and fix hasn't worked.

BPS ( blue pixel symptom ) seems like an ICS problem or ICS on some devices problem or ...
I tried every solution you can think of but when screen goes off its there for about 20-30 sec and then it goes away.
I tried deferent rom and kernels ....
I think many others has this problem but didn't noticed yet.

For all people experiencing this issue, i would like to tell you that when i got the galaxy note initially, i too had this problem! This problem has nothing to do with software so using Gingerbread or ICS dosent matter. I had taken my galaxy note with this problem to Original Samsung Center. They took my phone to "check it in a dark area" because in daylight it wasnt visible. Then they confirmed to me that it was a screen damage and replaced my damaged screen with a new one free of charge since it was under warranty. So if ur suffering from this same problem please go to your nearest Samsung Service Center OR Outlet where you purchased the phone from and get a screen replacement or phone replacement.
Cheers!

Strange thing is my wife's note has a red pixel. I swear it wasn't there in the start. It goes off 30 secs after screen is off.
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Seem to remember having the same issue, had to be very dark though. Occurred with ICS and GB. I think its a hardware issue. I don't know what the policy is with Samsung and smart phone screens with duff pixels, might be worth checking as with computer screens there are tollerances and 'some' manufacturers have zero tollerance where they will accept a return for any pixel defect, others wont. But this occurs when powered down for 20 or 30 seconds and does not show up with screen tests. I guess the QC policy might be thus: if you power down = your not going to be looking at it = it doesnt matter.

Galaxy s4 - dead pixel?

I bought my galaxy s4 few days ago from private store. Yesterday i notice a green dot which seems like a stuck pixel, however from what i have read i understand that OLED screen doesn't have stuck pixels. I tried to run fix and detect dead pixel from the store but it didn't work. It seems to appear on ceratins color like white grey yellow and ironically green. On blue, red and purple however it looks all normal. Today after i received some push update from whatsapp it suddenly disappear and all looks great but when i tried to load video from youtube it returned. I can barly notice this dot in the daily use, it appears more strongly when i watch videos.
here's some photos:
about the warranty - I bought it from private store and in their policy they said they don't cover problems in the touch screen\ inner screen, but only manufacturer fault. Also in the offical samsung website it's written that only from 3+ dead pixel a phone device will be replaced:
what do you think i should do?

howfunny22 said:
what do you think i should do?
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Live with it.

Screen burn in / ghosting?

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.....