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bad Pixel or WHAT ??? Weird !!!

When I chose calendar, i got a black pixel on the calendar bar (gray bar, just under the black start bar)...and when I choose Excel or contact, it's gone...but they are same gray background...
Doesnt make sense...my display passed all colors on PocketLCD ???!!!
and my two "stucked pixel" at Contacts are exatcly the same spot as the ones in the GSMARENA screenshot review...this is weird !!!
Anyone care to explain ? Do u have the same behaviour too?

sectorlord said:
When I chose calendar, i got a black pixel on the calendar bar (gray bar, just under the black start bar)...and when I choose Excel or contact, it's gone...but they are same gray background...
Doesnt make sense...my display passed all colors on PocketLCD ???!!!
and my two "stucked pixel" at Contacts are exatcly the same spot as the ones in the GSMARENA screenshot review...this is weird !!!
Anyone care to explain ? Do u have the same behaviour too?
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I can at least confirm this. Same pixels occur on my device. No explanation to this here.
Eriol

Same here on the contacts screen.

I've got the same, and looking at screenshots on the web, it seems specific to the HD.
ie this diamond shot seems OK:
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/htc-diamond-vs-samsung-omnia/sshot/gsmarena_s049.jpg
but HD not:
http://i.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/htc-touch-hd/sshots/extra/gsmarena_004.jpg

Yep, got this on my HD too, weird. Perhaps a quirk of the HTC customisations?

i have a dead pixel too when i start my camera. it's strange because the same dead pixel does not appear when doing something else.

i can also confirme the 2 stuck pixels in contacts manager.
strage ....

I'm not going to look for it - if I see it once, it will annoy me every time I look up a contact.
Sounds a curious little feature though.

Yup had this problem once when i installed GSEN had to delete it because it cause my screen to display a dead pixel when their was none. so try uninstalling programs which might be causing it.

Regarding GSen, that is their way of showing the GSen app is running, small white pixel top dead center of the screen. If you soft reset you'll notice its gone until you re-launch GSen again.

Mark One said:
I'm not going to look for it - if I see it once, it will annoy me every time I look up a contact.
Sounds a curious little feature though.
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Then, we need a new ROM to fix this issue... I wont be bother since it's a SW issue not HW one...

I have the same dots in contacts, doesn't look like dead pixels, otherwise it would have shown on the snowpicture on fullscreen.

its just some lame graphics issues when they made it.. dont worry

I've got the same thing, but it doesn't look like a pixel problem. I hadn't noticed it before, now I can't ignore it anymore

Pixel
Hi,
i just recognized a blue pixel on the screen when i start the cam .
So i downloaded a tool called "smartUDPixel" to check the screen for dead pixels BUT everything looks fine.
What`s going on? Why`s the blue pixel only shown by using the cam? Any reason for that?
Thx for your feedback.
Stefan

I have one white pixel that shows up in while in camera mode and shooting a dark scene. Strange however as its not visible in any other programs.

Same here too addition to one black pixel dead appears when the screen on blue color :S

If you can capture it, it won't be dead pixel on LCD.

Hi
The pixels as per the original poster is something to do with the WVGA resolution I think as I see the same thing on the Topaz, but not on other devices.
Regards
Phil

WOW............are you all talking about those tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny teeeeeeeeeeeeeeny little dots that can barely be seen?
Man my eyes must be **** lol I have them but I had to put my glasses on (there for reading and even then I could barely see them)
Whats the big deal? Flash a new ROM with a different contact UI
And I thought I had OCD lol

faint lines on white screen w/ text in portrait anyone else PLEASE check

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this same problem. When on a white screen like a Google search or aldiko, where the text is displayed portrait mode to the left and right of where text is displayed there are like faint bleed lines where the text is displayed. I tried with brightness all the way up and for the most part they go away but around 50% brightness if you look closely I can see it. Do any of you see the same thing. Just wondering if the amoled screens are like that the Samsung behold II is like that. But godly enoguh in landscape I don't see it. Just portrait. Just hoping nothing is wrong with my cool new phone.
Here are 2 pix of what I see
http://tauruspc.net/pix/1.jpg
http://tauruspc.net/pix/2.jpg
And a better one. Just look to the left and right
http://tauruspc.net/pix/3.jpg

I *JUST* answered your question on google support lol
I have the same thing but mine is definatly not that easy to see.

I just checked and i cant see what youre talkin about so i guess my answer is no

Talk about ironic timing. Weird will look then. And the weird thing is on xda page I don't see in Google support I do. LOL.

Also, I am using Dolphin Browser not default so that may be in play I'm not sure, try downloading it and see if you have the same problem maybe.

Yeh I will do that mainly seems with just black on white portrait mode like Google support. Not xda though.

Wonder if it has to do with power consumption. It takes more power to display white pixels. With the black on the same line maybe those lines with text are consuming less power on the line making the rest of the LEDs on that line of the matrix receive more power, making them brighter?
I tried for about 10 minutes to make that as unconfusing as possible lol

Makes sense. Weird only on portrait not landscape. but just spoke with HTC and they say that haven't heard of any problems like that and can send this in get a problems like that and can send this in get a temp one while they fix it and then switch around again

haven't seen much improvement setting manual brightness either.

I get the same thing, I think it is simply a scaling artifact. When you double tap to zoom the lines are no longer visible.

You can see this effect in the boot loader, but only adjacent (the right of) to where there is text at the left. if you look down where there is no text, and just white space, the ghosting lines across the white are not present.
either way, doesn't really bother me, you really have to look for them to see them.

Yeh double checking I see it there too. So yeh just not me then. Probably just amoled tech. the kind of blinky static lines is what bugs me. Don't happen that often and still kind of have to look to see those but since I have been using heavily since I got it about every 4- 5 hours I see where it gets like static lines horizontally about one pixel think blinky faintly in random spots all over the screen but kindof like static or noise from chip shielding or bad power frequency.

Decrease brightness

Especially at night the screen of the phone is to bright for my opinion.
Is there any app to decrease the brightness of the screen?

Screenfilter
On market + free = Awesome

What a brilliant little app. That is exactly what I've, been looking for...
Superb!
The only remaining thing I'd like would be a way to turn the screen negative too, so that I can flip bright white web pages to being black background instead. Happy to have the distorted photo colours this would induce.
Although thinking laterally, the better way to solve this in the browser itself might be with local css style sheet over-ride, (if it was possible?).
The negative screen mode would still be useful to flip other bright white apps though. Of course ideally, the screen would be negative inverted as well as having this screen filter available too, so that you could convert background to black and still also reduce brightness of text.
Anyone know if such a feature exists, or could be created easily?
Thanks
Mike

Daneshm90 said:
Screenfilter
On market + free = Awesome
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wtf I changed it too zero couldnt see anything
had to remove the battery to reboot the phone
SIlly mistake

You don't need an app, just run your finger left/right on the notification bar to increase/decrease brightness.

sionyboy said:
You don't need an app, just run your finger left/right on the notification bar to increase/decrease brightness.
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the minimum brightnes is still too strong in dark, therefore is screenfilter needed

Lowest you can get from the notification bar is down to 8%.
With a few different brightness widgets you can get down to 0%, which is still blindingly bright and not much darker than 8% to be honest... especially at night in a dark room!
This "screen filter" software lets you make the screen much darker than 0% by adding a grey lens over the whole screen for when you want it darker. It works really well.
Mike

Wow i didn know screenfilter exist. *Rushing to check it out*. Finally no more blinding light when in my bedroom.

ScreenFilter
don't set it all the way down lol

OS samsung is not well made. Or is it the screen...

Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks

Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...

godutch said:
Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...
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Yeah ok, the look is something else, everybody has it own taste.
But i was talking abouth the banding on the grey of the numeric keyboard, and the alarm for example...
At these screenshot they look pretty normal, but on my phone they don't look like that...
So is it the screen that make them look like that???
Do these things look the same on your phone screen as on your pc screen? Or do you also have banding on these things?

PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje

There is a topic about the banding, I think it's a software issue it probably doesnt use 24bit color depth, just use go contacts/dialer

JJEgan said:
PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje
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Yeah i know it's stupid. But you should think it is optimised for the phone.
On the dialpad I see banding on every number's grey "button".
And it is not the ringer volume, that was an accident when i made the print screen, I accidently pushed the ringel volume at the same time.
It's the grey from every alarm, very banding on my phone...
So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?

So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?
Factory reset first to clear any problems .
jje

r_a_c said:
Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks
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I am sure the screen response will loosen up over time. I noticed too initially but it's all okay now.
I remember first two weeks of my tv was almost painful to watch while the pixels caught up with the action. Maybe oled isn't much different to lcd in that respect
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

Screen Burn In Home Buttons

I noticed while browsing on web in landscape mode, the screen is discolored where the home buttons always are.
Can you all do me favor and open this page on your phone? Tilt it to the side and let me know if you have discoloring too.
http://pflog.net/~floyd/gray.html
It's an even bigger difference if I turn the screen brightness down on my phone

You got a screen burn-in (physical). Better hide your virtual keys and use something like PIE to avoid more serious burns in the future.
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gtmaster303 said:
I noticed while browsing on web in landscape mode, the screen is discolored where the home buttons always are.
Can you all do me favor and open this page on your phone? Tilt it to the side and let me know if you have discoloring too.
http://pflog.net/~floyd/gray.html
It's an even bigger difference if I turn the screen brightness down on my phone
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This is present on my phone, too; the softkey area always looks bluish-white while browsing webpages, while the rest of the screen appears to have a reddish/yellowish tint.
In truth, though, this isn't exactly burn-in. OLED displays simply don't turn on pixels when "black" is the called-for color, so the softkey area is basically the correct color; the rest of the screen is technically "burnt-in", as many screen types yellow with age.
AndyYan's suggestion stands: in the future, hide away the softkeys if you're highly concerned about wearing out the screen evenly.

Strife89 said:
This is present on my phone, too; the softkey area always looks bluish-white while browsing webpages, while the rest of the screen appears to have a reddish/yellowish tint.
In truth, though, this isn't exactly burn-in. OLED displays simply don't turn on pixels when "black" is the called-for color, so the softkey area is basically the correct color; the rest of the screen is technically "burnt-in", as many screen types yellow with age.
AndyYan's suggestion stands: in the future, hide away the softkeys if you're highly concerned about wearing out the screen evenly.
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You think Motorola would replace the screen under warranty?

gtmaster303 said:
You think Motorola would replace the screen under warranty?
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Most likely not. A yellowed screen from normal use isn't a defect, after all.
Have a look at Wikipedia for further info.