I had sixaxis app running and apparently when its running in the backround the screen wont turn off. I plugged my phone into the charger last night and when the phone was done charging the notification for done charging popped up and turned the screen on. because I had sixaxis open it didnt let the screen turn off and my screen was on all night. My question is have I damaged my screen by doing this? I fear of the infamous burn in now.
Install LCD test from Google Play and look for any signs of screen burn in while you run it.
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Virtually no chance. My old sgs 2 screen stayed on most nights when plugged in overnight (clock app). No screen burn after 1.5yrs of that.
Sometimes people mistake screenburn of the notification area when they load up an led test because you get a bit of a memory effect on ltd segments that have been on for a long time. If you leave the screen test on for an hour they normally disappear.
The chances of getting screenburn during a normal lifetime of a smartphone are negligible, especially on the type that the sis3 uses.
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joeyzadoe said:
I had sixaxis app running and apparently when its running in the backround the screen wont turn off. I plugged my phone into the charger last night and when the phone was done charging the notification for done charging popped up and turned the screen on. because I had sixaxis open it didnt let the screen turn off and my screen was on all night. My question is have I damaged my screen by doing this? I fear of the infamous burn in now.
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My question is do you have the phone and can you look at it to see if the screen has burn in or not?
"Display Tester" also has a screen burn in function as well as test, if you do find you have a problem, though i would have though running a white screen would remove it as well.
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Hey all,
I was turning my screen off last night before heading to bed when I noticed that I could still see the picture frame widget while I was stood under my bedroom light....it looked like it had burnt onto the screen as you could only see it faintly while direct light. I then turned it on and off again and the picture frame widget disappeared but area in the top right hand corner of the screen could now be visable again under direct light. I flicked the phone on and off again a couple more times and eventually it was completely blank.....anyone else experienced this? Is my handset faulty or is this just a characteristic of mini TFT screen? I know it hasn't actually burnt the image on the screen as I don't leave the screen on long enough for it to occur and its not just residual light as it doesn't fade, but it will go completely blank after a couple more on and off's.
Strange one,I will try and reproduce it when it is dark tonight
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wiki term called "Image persistence"
might help u
Aaahhhh...thanks dead101, so just a characteristic of LCD screens....had me worried for a bit!
haven't checked out that terminology yet, but i am pretty sure that LCDs do not have the burn in effect in the way that the old CRTs did.
I've noticed this phenomenon as well, and haven't noticed it on any other device. It always goes away if I press on and off again. I don't know that it is image persistence, because that seems to require leaving it off for a period of several hours to remove the effect, not switching it back on and off quickly.
I'm worried it may actually be a fault where the screen sometimes won't switch off completely. One night, my Streak went from full charge to dead in about 8 hours while on aeroplane mode. Could be unrelated, or could be that the screen was still drawing a current. Who knows... it never happened again. Annoyingly I could not get the "what's been using my battery."
Either way, whenever I notice that part of the screen is still visible after putting it on standby, I always switch on and off to clear it.
You cant feel how angry i am,
i've gotten my nexus 7 on my Birthday, btw. i bought it myself and it's not turning on
there just this giant black screen and nothing else
Send it back.
Beamed from my Grouper
Same as my problem. The battery drained bellow limit and happend to me when I switched it on for first time. I put it on charge and the next day it turned on. But I did factory reset after some time and its dead again. I am sending today for replacement
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checkd said:
You cant feel how angry i am,
i've gotten my nexus 7 on my Birthday, btw. i bought it myself and it's not turning on
there just this giant black screen and nothing else
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Its not broken. Common problem, your auto brightness is stuck. Hook it up to the charger, turn it on and give it about 5 minutes to boot up. Shine a bright light on the screen and you should see a faint start up screen. Go to settings an adjust or turn off auto brightness.
Good luck.:good:
Auto-Britghtnes?
dparrothead1 said:
Its not broken. Common problem, your auto brightness is stuck. Hook it up to the charger, turn it on and give it about 5 minutes to boot up. Shine a bright light on the screen and you should see a faint start up screen. Go to settings an adjust or turn off auto brightness.
Good luck.:good:
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I don't see anything on the screen, but ok i will check the trick ;D
How long should i press the start button 4 sec? 30 sec for an restart? i don't know, but from what i feel is that it's charging .. Because it get's a little bit "hot"
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crazy stuff, screen did show up something for 2-3 sec,
let's see if battery is at low level
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It booted google logo + Nexus stuff and then shutdown ...
I was using my Nexus 7, browsing the web, and the battery dies, so i go and get my charger, plug it into a USB extender, and then into the Wall Charger, it began to charge then when i unpluged it by mistake it made a static noise, (like the old TV snow, that static-y noise, I dont know if it came from the speakers or not though) and on the screen was grey(ish) horizontal lines, & really tiny colorful horizontal lines, that were moving up and down. Now it will not charge or turn on even if pluged in via the wall charger. Help?
Horizontal lines in portrait mode? I've been getting that on my Nexus 7 all the time , specially when the battery was lot or I was surfing the internet. Unplugged, discharging or low battery charging. I will try and get a replacement for dead pixels though.
Mine didn't make any noise though :/
Is it anything like this problem I've been having? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1973953
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Is it anything like this problem I've been having? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1973953
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Had the horizontal lines until the 4.2 update. Now is fixed.
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Had the horizontal lines until the 4.2 update. Now is fixed.
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Sweet, I'm hoping the static I have gets fixed by the update!!
EDIT: after mashing the update key a few more times and getting the OTA, this problem seems to have gone away.
Same thing happened to me tonight.
Heard the low battery sound thought it was gnex but realized I had it charging . Went to see nexus 7 and saw it was at 0 so quickly plugged in charger but was too late. When I plugged in charged it was dark screen but then became slightly lit. When I tried to turn on it wouldn't and after holding power button it would bring about the static screen. I eventually got to Google screen and thought it was fixed. I thought it would boot normally and charge, when I glanced at it a minute later saw it was showing static.
Made a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72bU5-0IsM4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This was made after reaching Google screen second time and I was going to stop recording because it booted normally and no static appeared. However at 49 seconds you will see that it does. After restarting again and then booting normally I shut it off before trying to get the static again and it charged normally and now its at 73% charged and running fine. I was scared tho but from what I searched it seems to happen when battery dies out
Hello. I've had nexus for a few weeks now. Tonight i was surfing the Web and the screen started blinking on and off rapidly. It finally shut off. Now it will not boot. I tryed getting into the bootloader by holding volume up and down and power. I get nothing. If I plug it into the charger... The battery icon comes on the screen but that's it. If my nexus fried? Is there anything else I can do?
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Hello. I've had nexus for a few weeks now. Tonight i was surfing the Web and the screen started blinking on and off rapidly. It finally shut off. Now it will not boot. I tryed getting into the bootloader by holding volume up and down and power. I get nothing. If I plug it into the charger... The battery icon comes on the screen but that's it. If my nexus fried? Is there anything else I can do?
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Screen blinking rapidly on and off? I'd call Google. I'm sure they would send out a replacement.
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Yeah I called them. I they are sending a replacement. I have to pretty much pay for a new one untill they get the old one back.
This really sucks. What could this be?
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I've had my nexus freeze while using chrome a few times. All I do is hold the power button until it reboots. Has worked for every time.
The flickering screen does not seem normal. Glad google is giving you a replacement.
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I've had my nexus freeze while using chrome a few times. All I do is hold the power button until it reboots. Has worked for every time.
The flickering screen does not seem normal. Glad google is giving you a replacement.
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Yeah, holding the power button till it turns on works for me all the time.
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Yeah I called them. I they are sending a replacement. I have to pretty much pay for a new one untill they get the old one back.
This really sucks. What could this be?
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You have to pay for another first? Just got mine, & wondering about this?
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I've had the exact same problem as OP. I was browsing in Chrome when the backlight started flickering. Wearing headphones but with no sound, I was able to hear faint static that correlated with the darkness of the screen (when the screen was dim mid-flicker, noise was produced). I had it set to a specific brightness setting, so I switched to automatic using the drop-down settings menu. The problem persisted. I did not exit Chrome. I tapped the power button which gave a normal enough looking fade out. After about 5 seconds I tapped the power button again to power the device on. The Chrome screen I had been looking at when I powered the screen off flashed briefly on my screen accompanied by a bit of static and a slight pop, and the device went black. I have not gotten a response from the device since except for, like OP, when the device is plugged into the wall. Then I only get a battery icon with a lightning bolt for 1 second every time I push the power button.
After calling the warranty information number, Google is sending me a replacement device. They do not make you pay $400 (in my case, as I had the 16Gb) but authorize a payment of that amount so that if you do not return the device within 21 days they are not left high and dry. Seems reasonable to me.
Anyway, just adding my experience with this issue to the forum. OP is not the only one to get this symptom!
I just got this same issue. Was reading my news feeds on Google Reader, it seemingly froze up for a few seconds, then the screen started flickering when touched, and finally went black. Device is non-responsive except when plugged in, where it'll display the battery icon for a few seconds.
I do not know if this is related, but I was also having the charging glitch where it would power down with "0% battery" when plugged in or unplugged seemingly at random, and the long wake-up issue.
Now I am trying to get the device awake enough to be recognized by my pc so i can adb backup my data, but so far I am getting nowhere T.T
So about an hour after I got my phone I went to turn it off and charge it a bit to full.
Upon coming back to turn it on the screen is completely black but has reaction to touch.
Tried rebooting and all button combos still off.
About an hour later full charged my guess I noticed the screen still black but has a glitchy blink around the top part edges of the screen.
I've not installed any apps just took a few pics ran a benchmark.
Anyone else have this issue ? Luckily Verizon is replacing it immediately.
Sounds like nothing more than some faulty hardware...tough luck
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