During the first boot screen (the one where "Samsung galaxy S IV - I9505" is displayed) there is a vertical green line of pixel in the left of the screen who runs across the entire screen from top to bottom.
It disappears immediately after during the boot animation from my carrier and it never appears anywhere else when using the phone. Besides that everything is working fine and I haven't got any issue with the phone, no dead pixels or other problems I can think of.
I'm just wondering if it's an hardware issue and I should be worried about it and change the phone at the shop or if it's just some weird kernel bug who could easily be fixed.
I could already have checked by installing another rom but I don't really want to tinker with the phone because of warranty issues...
My phone carrier is Orange France.
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I have had about 4 HD2'S already until this one (4th) other 3 with alot of problems
I noticed the reset button on the Back under the battery cover next to SD card is yellow not red like the other 3 i have had.
My girl friend has had 3 HD2's since all Red buttoned nothing but problems, same goes with 2 people at work Red reset button and nothing but problems.
What color do you have?
Do you have any issues with the One having the red reset button?
Has me thinking????????
Glad i have a Yellow button lol
I have a yellow. I haven't had any problems besides the phone refusing to wake up once. And, once, it totally send a SMS to a different person. As in, in the thread I intended it for, the person never got it, but some other random person did. Man, was that awkward. I was totally talking about something full-retard to something else and it sends it to this girl. Thanks, HD2.
I've got a red reset button, and no problems. They changed from red to yellow because people were confusing it with a moisture indicator. They saw the red and on moisture indicators that means moisture damage. So they changed it to yellow so theres no confusion. I don't think theres any other hardware difference. The yellow ones may have newer rom version, though, since they are newer. But once you flash it, it doesn't make a difference.
Mine has red since i bought first day it came out... It used to freeze lot untill i flashed "ship" stock, which can be found here, since then my phone is working smoothly except for horrable the 3g connection and the music tap is to slow (i guess because I have to many songs).
Yellow here, never a glitch. runs like a champ and battery last about 2 days or so.
Yellow, originial stock ROM....zero issues.
Interesting supposition. I have a yellow button, and stock ROM. Only noticeable problem is that occasionally the phone will just be lying there and switch itself to an application ... without being touched.
Red
Red. No Problems, Stock Rom. I don't think having different colored reset button changes anything. Its the same hardware and same ROM version... But I guess whatever makes you happy. If having yellow solves your problems then yellow it is. lol..
Yellow, 2.13 ROM, no problems...save for the recent battery drain since ROM upgrade (I think)
I have a red button, and my wife has a yellow. I've had problems with freezing, usually when trying to wakeup the phone after the backlight has automatically shut down. The phone buttons will light up, but the screen stays black, necessitating a battery removal and restart. My wife has had none of these problems.
I've been running stock and was hopeful the new ROM update (2.13) would be the cure, but the problem continued. Tried a new class 6 SD card, disable sense timeouts, clear ram, etc...
Finally decided to flash a custom ROM, chose Dutty's and have been stable so far...
Perhaps the yellow/red button does have some meaning, but the problem is with a small sample of various forum users, the sample pool is not really big enough to know for sure.
Red button, stock 2.10 rom, not really a lot of problems... Usual glitches, like an app that I didn't press might start. Or won't wake up from lockscreen. But runs pretty well for me.
red = made in Taiwan, yellow = made in China....Maybe??? Look under battery
Bought TMOUS version on release day, and 1st one was bad, kept crashing & locking up. Sent it back for replacement (wirefly.com) and I've had the 2nd one ever since, red button, and it's working fine, aside from the various known build issues.
i have just brought t-mobile hd2 from ebay
and from my research i have found out that hd2 with yellow colour reset had lot of problem with the screen digitizer and htc later made some hardware changes and all the phone released later are of red colour.
so red colour hd2 has less screen problems
aarif_ziaee said:
i have just brought t-mobile hd2 from ebay
and from my research i have found out that hd2 with yellow colour reset had lot of problem with the screen digitizer and htc later made some hardware changes and all the phone released later are of red colour.
so red colour hd2 has less screen problems
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If that were true, why do all of us who bought TMOUS on the first day have red reset buttons? RED no problems.
aarif_ziaee said:
i have just brought t-mobile hd2 from ebay
and from my research i have found out that hd2 with yellow colour reset had lot of problem with the screen digitizer and htc later made some hardware changes and all the phone released later are of red colour.
so red colour hd2 has less screen problems
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Red ones were made first, then later it was changed to yellow. I bought mine on first day of release and have a red reset button.
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Galaxy S2
2 months old
no custom roms and not unlocked
no problems prior to this
On 3 network
assuming the issue is a screen related problem:
The screen at first was flickering bright lines on and off in random positions and also the lower segment of the screen would be black and not visible.
Then within about 30 minutes of this happening 90% of the screen has been black, with just the notification bar visible.
Bringing you up to date on the situation now. The screen is completely black but the device is definitely still on and fully working as I have received 2 text messages in the time of writing this and also I was able to press the camera app and auto focus and take a picture and view it on my laptop but the screen remained black the entire time while i did this.
Not sure what to do with the phone as I'm unable to reboot in recovery mode or restore to factory settings.
I will be going into the three shop now and seeing if they can replace the handset.
Has anyone else had this issue?
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated
I gave a NookColor to my oldest son 1 year ago, which was rooted & had CyanogenMod7 on it. The other day he said he was booting it & he pushed some buttons while it booted & when he did the screen turned green. It has never been dropped & he has never had a problem with it before this. You can see the icons, fonts & it still functions properly in all other respects...the screen is just green. The screen is also green during the CyanogenMod startup screen, then it goes black, then is green again during the CyanogenMod boot animation. I can tell that the screen is working normal, as it is lit up & black when it is switching between the boot screens.
I have spent many hours searching the net & cannot find this problem ever happening before. How can I change the background back to normal? Is this a hardware or firmware problem??? I have taken it apart & unplugged & reseated the video connector, just to be sure that that wasn't the issue & I've tried putting different Roms on it, including the new CyanogenMod10 for NookColor & it still has a green screen. I even restored it back to Stock & the screen looks almost normal, but when I played the Introduction video, the video doesn't look like the colors are right or something.
Does anyone know how to fix this or if it is even fixable?
Someone...PLEASE help!
Thanks!
Similar Problem here, except half of screen is green.
mothemak said:
... the screen turned green. It has never been dropped & he has never had a problem with it before this. You can see the icons, fonts & it still functions properly in all other respects...the screen is just green. The screen is also green during the CyanogenMod startup screen, then it goes black, then is green again during the CyanogenMod boot animation.
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I have a similar problem, except only half of my screen is green. The half that is green remains in the same place, regardless of orientation, so I am guessing this is a hardware problem.
mothemak said:
I have spent many hours searching the net & cannot find this problem ever happening before. How can I change the background back to normal? Is this a hardware or firmware problem??? I have taken it apart & unplugged & reseated the video connector, just to be sure that that wasn't the issue & I've tried putting different Roms on it, including the new CyanogenMod10 for NookColor & it still has a green screen. I even restored it back to Stock & the screen looks almost normal, but when I played the Introduction video, the video doesn't look like the colors are right or something.
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My experience is similar, except obviously I have half a screen of odd looking video and half normal. I also tried reverting to the stock rom, but with no success. Fortunately when reading books, i.e. just black text on a white background, the effect is not very noticeable, so the NC is currently back to being an ebook reader.
Still I'd love to know how to fix it. I see powerbookmedic (I have no connection to, or experience of, them) sells used parts for the NC, but is this a display problem, which seems likely, or a logic board problem? Buying both would be more than the whole thing is worth.
I bought an i9505x from eBay, before realising that the "x" signified a shop display demo model, which has the SIM socket disabled.
I then bought a working, unlocked i9505 logic board from eBay to replace the dummy one.
I received both and the demo unit was in immaculate condition, booted and displayed "Galaxy S5, Live Demo" on splash screen startup. Everything worked apart from SIM of course. All sensors, camera, WiFi... everything apart from mobile networking.
I then swapped the demo board for the full logic board (and added the thin antenna cable that runs down the side of the screen as this wasn't present on the demo phone). The phone booted and received telephony and internet from both the giffgaff and three SIM cards I tried in it. Everything else worked.
I rooted/CWM'ed it and upgraded the ROM to 4.3 or 4.4 (can't remember which one) and it worked OK for maybe two days and I went to work. When I got back from work my girlfriend said it had been displaying green lines and dots on the screen so she turned it off and put it on charge.
I had a look and there were intermittent rolling pale green lines quickly moving up and down the screen on boot, with a few dots the same colour at seemingly random intervals. After leaving the battery out for 30 mins and putting on charge for 30 mins I managed to get it to boot into ROM and all seemed well until I tried to reboot and the lines/dots happened again, with the dots getting worse.
In a tiny font on the display it seemed to have a line of text, but as it was so small and scrolling about I couldn't read it. A couple of boots later and the screen is totally blank.
I've flashed a stock 4.3 ROM on it by guessing the download key combination, as there's no display for download mode. Odin responded correctly, showed a connected device and went through the ten minute flash process and rebooted the phone.
The phone now boots and makes the Samsung startup tune and once booted I get the volume adjust bleeps when I press volume up/down so I know the ROM has booted but the screen is totally dead. I even get the initial blue LED for a couple of seconds on boot.
I'm going to try swapping the demo board back in today to prove if the screen is dead or not.
If the screen is OK then could it be the GPU portion of the logic board?
If so, what are the chances of me swapping chips around? I imagine this would be an impossibly tricky job to do at home.
Thanks for reading.
How much have you laid out so far £££ ?
i was using my s7 edge today, and in the middle of browsing facebook the screen just went black, the phone didnt die because the navigation buttons still light up when i press back or recent, also i still get notification light, i tried to do a hard reset to restart (holding power and vol down) but the phone and it still has a black screen.. anyone know what i should do? or has this happen to anyone
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This happened two days ago with my wife's S7 Edge. She was using it to text me about dinner plans after work, her screen shut off, and it wouldn't work for several hours. The thing was getting very hot. When she was home and charging the phone the screen started working again for a little while, but with several green stripes down the right edge snd aa flashing horizontal band of grey near the top overlaying the screen image. Then when I tried plugging it into my computer to use Samsung's Smart Switch to roll back from the update she had accepted while at work the screen died again. It has not come on since, not even the stripes, and blue or red LED lights once in a wwhile at random. I managed to use Smart Switch to wipe the phone's memory. Then the program took several hours to download something very slowly and install that - a whole new OS update? That completed, and now the charging LED works correctly and the green stripes and grey band are back, flashing rapidly when powering on. Otherwise no screen function.
She is now trying to find a new phone, but definitely NOT a Samsung. This S7 Edge has already had the screen replaced once, just before the first year warranty ran out, as it did almost the same thing - in March the green striping (plus pink) appeared along one edge and the battery was running out very fast, the phone overheating so much that she found it uncomfortable to hold. We argued with Samsung a lot until they replaced the screen. Something is VERY wrong with this model. She's considering an LG. What a waste of money. One would expect a thousand dollar phone to last longer than this.
I am facing what I think to be the same issue with my son's phone. Green line down right side edge. Screen turns on for a second, then black screen. It's on, but can't do anything. Did you find a fix for this?
No. Today I gave up and took my wife's S7 Edge to the authorized repair centre. They say they'll run a diagnostic for $25, and if the screen needs to be replaced it will cost $385. Brilliant. If this thing gets fixed I will be running custom ROMs on the phone, probably an RR, as it seems Samsung's OTA updates kill phones.
Turned in out the authorized repair centre for our region, Acura in Surrey, BC, went ahead with the screen replacement without our authorization. I specifically said in a note given to them at the time that they were to ask first. But they didn't bother. My wife decided she liked the phone enough to pay over $400 to get it back. It's been working for a few weeks now. Hope it stays working. At this point I have a strong feeling that the S7 Edge was a poorly made device, at least some batches. The reports of these screen failures are just too common.
Check if your screen still alive or maybe connected correctly, here is a way to do it:
1- plug it in your computer then start smart switch
2- dail *#7353#
3- you can now test any thing in your phone
4- search for the TSP
5- try now to touch your device screen
If it display in the computer that mean the touch is working but the screen is not
If the toch is not working you have to check the cables if its connected correctly inside your phone
But if you have warranty don't waste your time and let them fix it, and don't forget to backup your files