I'm having a problem with faint horizontal lines flickering across my screen. I only really see it against a gray background. So if I set my wallpaper to a gray or grayish image, or open the image in gallery, the lines appear and sort of vibrate. Then it gets worse when I swipe between home screens, pinch to zoom, or even if I hold my finger just above the screen without touching it. Moving the s-pen above the screen makes the lines even more pronounced. The best way I can describe it is that it sort of looks like the lines that you would see when you fast forward a VCR tape. At first I thought it was a color banding issue but I'm not sure since it's worse when touching the screen and using the s-pen. The lines are just visible enough to be annoying.
Has anyone else seen this or have a suggestion? I attached the image that makes it lines most visible if anyone feels like testing it on their phone. I would hate to take a refurb from Verizon if the problem is present on all Note 3's.
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I got a secondhand T-Mobile MDA and while the screen works fine - the touchscreen works, there's no cracks or anything - everything is colored wrong...
It's like if you suddenly decreased the color depth on your desktop version of windows... everything goes to a washed out version of the proper color. In addition, there's kind of... lighter stripes that flicker across the screen when it's displaying colors.
Since I can't really explain it that well, I took a video of it. It's a little flash video like you find on YouTube... I also have a raw MPEG of it here for people that don't have Flash.
That's the default Windows Mobile theme in the video... the blue is washed out, and you can see the stripes flickering on the right as I move the slide up and down. While there's little "arc" of discoloration across the top some times, the stripes are usually the major discoloration on the screen.
There seems to be little problems when displaying things with a primarily white background except for washed out colors. The little water damage stripe under the SIM is still there and white.
Is this fixable? How much is it gonna cost me?
Anybody have any ideas? Would a new LCD fix this?
Maybe it's a flex?
Can't tell much from Your video
i also have this problem... it just happens when i slide my phone up...
So, I guess I screwed with something on my phone, but my display now shows "color bleeding" mostly when i open the phone up in horizontal mode. Would this be a problem with the flex cable? if so, just replacing that cable should fix the problem right?
I am able to disassemble the whole phone no problem.
I am experiencing the exact same issue, its bloody annoying.
I'm fairly certain it is the ribbon, but I wouldn't know where to get a new one, so havn't tried swapping it yet.
Did try disassembling and cleaning it out a bit though, no luck
-Nipqer
Could you post a picture of what you're talking about?
Sadly enough, I do not have a camera other than the one on my dz... a screenshot wouldn't do anything since it just looks fine.. but it's something with the physical hardware part. I'll see if I can borrow a friend's camera when it happens again, but essentially the red and blue colors look like it's splotched in different parts and sometimes it even "pulsates"
it doesn't do it in vertical mode, but in horizontal mode.. it appears instantly.
Thanks to someone in another post that led me to the amazon link for the ribbon cable.. the phone now has no color bleed. Woohoo!
For those who want the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IMHAGW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
It works great and looks exactly like the original.
I'm experiencing a slight color disfiguration. I traded my girlfriend my phone for a few days and when i got it back, the bottom half has a yellowish tint. Is the flex ribbon the reason why it's like this?
is it the same tint whether or not you're in vertical or horizontal (keyboard open) mode?
if so it might be your flex cable or it might be the actual screen itself.
Yeah, the yellow (and now with blue) tint is in both modes. lower half of both sides (vertical and horizontal)
wait, does the tint change on the screen? as in does the tint stay in the bottom half of the vertical screen and stays in the right half in horizontal? or does it shift so that it goes to the bottom half in horizontal? if it stays in the same physical space in both modes, then it might be the screen itself, but if it shifts.. it's most probably the flex cable.
yeah, it shifts. but now the blue and yellow lines is throughout the screen. initially, i thought it was a ROM thing, so i changed it to see it in a different rom.
sounds like a flex cable problem. I can't guarantee it since it's one of those "replace it and see if it works" deal.
Hi all...
I have just notice two days ago a grey line on my screen...(left side)
Really noticeable on a grey screen (not for red/green but also present on blue, just less...). I have never noticed this before, despite of being several hours per day on my screen since several monce... No drop....
As you can see, small spots are also visibles, particulary on bottom left side (like "commons" dot on amoled screen). Its like a strip causing a little gradiant on left side (when looking very hard....)
I can see it on screenshot so it's a screen issue...
I saw a lot of thread reporting grey lines due to amoled technology, but i think my case is a little bit different...
Photos of my screen are here:
http://imageshack.us/a/img23/5032/rhhm.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img443/7329/j5gh.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/1260/lck4.jpg
Anywone have this issue? It's not very noticeable but enought to boring me... But for the moment i can deal with it...
Thx for your feedback..
Chewee91 said:
Hi all...
I have just notice two days ago a grey line on my screen...(left side)
Really noticeable on a grey screen (not for red/green but also present on blue, just less...). I have never noticed this before, despite of being several hours per day on my screen since several monce... No drop....
As you can see, small spots are also visibles, particulary on bottom left side (like "commons" dot on amoled screen). Its like a strip causing a little gradiant on left side (when looking very hard....)
I can see it on screenshot so it's a screen issue...
I saw a lot of thread reporting grey lines due to amoled technology, but i think my case is a little bit different...
Photos of my screen are here:
http://imageshack.us/a/img23/5032/rhhm.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img443/7329/j5gh.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img9/1260/lck4.jpg
Anywone have this issue? It's not very noticeable but enought to boring me... But for the moment i can deal with it...
Thx for your feedback..
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If you use your phone a lot in landscape mode, the grey line could be screen burn in from the status bar. I have read about people claiming this can happen (not necessarily in landscape mode.) It looks to be the right width to suspect this.
Of course, i think you're right! I suppose the only solution is to change the screen right? It can be considered as a screen default for warranty?
Yep. squares, allot of them.
i had this issue since day one with kitkat, lollipop didn't help.
i can't view or edit .doc or .pdf if it has squares on it, also some website's. Just watching a picture with squares (like in attachment) make it lag or unresponsive until i turnoff the screen and then rotate it, whene i rotate the phone the issue will disappear.
Worth noting that on sun light i can see vertical lines of the digitizer. like in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2590622
My theory is that when the squares line up with the digitizer lines it make it unresponsive...
also the same issue as this video, it's a very rare issue whene the screen is unresponsive on the top right if it's flat on a table. but when i touch it anywhere it becomes responsive again
https://youtu.be/3y5PVRDqi_I
if anyone have the same issue, or can help me solve mine, is welcomed with his suggestion.
Simply put, I accidentally dropped my J3, and now large areas of bright color (such as the white of a search bar) spreads across the screen, depending on orientation, e.g. in Firefox, while in landscape, the white of the address bar bleeds onto the tab count and 3 dot menu, and in a game I play, the large bright blue wording against a back background bleeds across both sides of the image.
It isn't usage hindering as much as it is annoying, and the main thing worrying me is, will I HAVE to replace the LCD, or is it just a small issue that can be ignored? Would love a reply ASAP, as this is the only phone I have with service and if a replacement is necessary I would like to know as early as possible.
That's what happens with AMOLED displays unfortunately. Over time it will only get worse. The best thing you can do is get it replaced