[Q] Nexus 4 gray/white screen - Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

today my nexus 4 screen turned bright white then the corners turned dark and the whole screen slowly turned dimmed gray.
I forced shutdown my nexus 4 and restarted it and the phone was working again for a few mins but then the same thing happen.
the screen turned white then gray.
anyone know if this problem is fixable?
right now its on andriod 4.4.2 or which ever is the latest version of andriod.
and the phone is stock.
I only had my nexus 4 for about 4 months.
I am able to connect usb to computer and see all the folders and files.

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anyone know what is causing the white/gray screen??
I need help or I might have to start contacting google support and rma the phone.

Same thing has been happening to me 2-5 times per day since KitKat.. Even with the latest patch update. Super annoying...
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Azaxirus said:
Same thing has been happening to me 2-5 times per day since KitKat.. Even with the latest patch update. Super annoying...
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do you know if google might send a new patch update to fix this problem?

Happened to me once on 4.3. I was using the facebook app and playerpro was running as well. The screen turned white. I did force shutdown and I switched roms soon after. Thank God it didnt hapen again

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nexus 7 screen flickering

So this only Happens when I'm on Google chrome and I've noticed that ocassionally that the screen flickers, its not crazy annoying but definitely distracting. Have any of you had this problem?
Hopefully any of you aren't epileptic.
joshintoshin said:
So this only Happens when I'm on Google chrome and I've noticed that ocassionally that the screen flickers, its not crazy annoying but definitely distracting. Have any of you had this problem?
Hopefully any of you aren't epileptic.
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I totally thought that I had either 1. developed serious eye problems or 2. broke my brand new toy At least it's not just me having this problem
Yep its a known problem.
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yeah..
joecoolman said:
I totally thought that I had either 1. developed serious eye problems or 2. broke my brand new toy At least it's not just me having this problem
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Hopefully the next update will resolve this problem.
so set and wait.
So I should just wait for a fix and not return it over and over to try to find a good one. It has a year warranty.
I see it too!
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I turned off automatic brightness and I think that solved it. I think it was flickering when it was changing brightness.
its still there with auto off.
And with the brightness up but it so slight u have to be ocd like I am about my stuff to see it. But its easy to tell its not hardware because games like sonic CD are beautiful.
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I turned off automatic brightness and I think that solved it. I think it was flickering when it was changing brightness.
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Mine still flickers regardless.
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So is this a software problem.
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flash_beezy said:
Mine still flickers regardless.
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It happens to mine when its on the lowest brightness setting of when "auto brightness" is on. For now I've just set the brightness to max so I don't have deal with all the flickering.. for now.
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Mine still flickers regardless.
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Mine as well
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With my settings set to Automatically lock (immediately after sleep) and power button instantly locks with a visible patter screen lock, my Nexus 7 on wake-up [pushing the power button immediately] either right after an invalid pattern code (where device then sleeps) or waiting a few seconds with no activity until the device sleeps (where the Nexus 7 fades to a black screen) will have a delay in bringing up the lock screen OR sort of flicker presenting some sort of black and white bar lines background at the bottom half of the screen for a split second before bringing up the lock screen. Is this normal or it is in fact a defect?
Thanks in advance!
Not sire about that I have seen it in 3rd patty apps on all devices before. But the flicker we are seeing is like it changing the brightness up and down.
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Mine still flickers regardless.
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As does mine. I think people think it goes away when not on auto, because the "low" setting is about 20-25% and auto will often bring it lower than that, making the flickering worse.
At medium brightness the problem is almost, almost, non-existant.
It's also not just in chrome as some say, just most noticable on chrome's white backgrounds. I've noticed it in any app with lighter, brighter colors. I just exchanged my Nexus 7, and the new one has the exact same problem. This leads me to think the software problem is the most correct answer.
I get it every once in a while. Full brightness set, no automatic. Ill wait for a fix, doesn't bug me too bad.
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I suspect it to be a software problem because in game it looks great. Plus in a new device like this software problems go with the territory.
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Doesn't bug me in function but I'm electronic ocd I like my stuff to be perfect.
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bpschoon said:
Mine as well
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And mine as well I noticed my screen flickered when my batt was getting down to 10% and my brightness level was at about 1/3. But now its charged and I don't see it flickering yet. I don't know...with Chrome having a bug (lags when scrolling) and the flickering screen...I may be returning my unit? I really hate to because aside from my issues, it's an awesome device!
Don't take it back they well fix it with a update.
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(Q) Stuck pixel?

Hey everyone. Whenever I turn my screen on full brightness with a dark/black image showing, I can see one pixel that stays green (at least as far as I can tell it's green. It's tiny so it's hard to tell), I've ran a screen fixing app for about 8 hours on full brightness with no luck. I'd rather not RMA, so are there any other apps, or methods of fixing this issue? Thank you!
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okmijnlp said:
Hey everyone. Whenever I turn my screen on full brightness with a dark/black image showing, I can see one pixel that stays green (at least as far as I can tell it's green. It's tiny so it's hard to tell), I've ran a screen fixing app for about 8 hours on full brightness with no luck. I'd rather not RMA, so are there any other apps, or methods of fixing this issue? Thank you!
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Rma. And why wouldn't you? Dead pixel is the manufacturers fault. RMA is easy all you have to do is call them. Fill out the form. New phone comes in. Take a few days to test new phone and move your content over. Send old phone back and not pay a dime. Only Google wallet puts a pending charge on your card (my bank already removed mine)
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Background App shadow on Nexus 7 screen ?

Hello,
I have a Nexus 7 32GB WiFi, using 4.2.2 stock ROM, rooted and unlocked boot loader. I wiped device when 4.2.2 was released and started fresh again.
For a few weeks now I have noticed when using Chrome browser after closing or letting browser run in background when looking at my home screen I can see part of the browser like a shadow showing on the screen.
Here is a picture of it, does anyone know what this is and is it a hardware problem or something ?
Some times the shadow is much noticeable than other times.
If you look carefully you will see the shadow.
Thanks for any help.
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Not a hardware problem. It goes by a couple of terms, ghosting, persistence, and if permanent screen burn-in.
It happens when you have the same screen up for a long time. If it fades, It's persistence, and does no real harm. If the 'ghost' does not fade it's burn-in, and is permanent damage.
Keeping your seen at the lowest brightness that suits your current need will minimize this, and help prevent actual burn-in.
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Nexus 4 Bugs

I want to ask if anybody has similar bugs to a non-rooted, locked, stock nexus 4 on 4.2.2 and would like to know on how to fix them. I have factory reset the phone and always seem to get the same results. I don't mind these little bugs, but they are making me want to root my phone.
1. While listening to Google music, I would try to unlock my phone and Google music screen widget would flicker and shake and make unlocking difficult I provided the picture on the attachment.
2. Another bug while still listening to Google music; it would dim more than normally it would in a shorter amount of time on lock screen.
3. Almost every time I open YouTube, the YouTube window animation flickers.
4. Battery drops 2-5% when the phone is rebooted.
5. Phone battery % drops after being fully charged and unplugged.
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4 and 5 are caused by a slightly wrong calibrated battery if you reset the calibration files (here is a tut somewhere) or just do only full cycles for a few weeks this shouldn't be a problem because it is just a displayed drop I think I'm rooted and don't listen much to Google music so no comment to 1 and 2.
3 isn't known to me.
Just a quick answer haha
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Thank you, I'm going to look on how to properly calibrate the battery. These little bugs can get frustrating at times.
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Don't know about 1 and 2.
3) The youtube app is a buggy piece of sh*t, so I wouldn't sweat it too much.
4) The battery percentage drop on rebooting has occured on every ROM I tried so far, so I don't really care. Well, maybe not 5%, but 1-2% is normal for me.
5) Happens to me occasionally, I don't really mind if it drops to 99% straight away, it's only correct. 100% would mean that your battery is perfectly fully charged. When you unplug it, some tiny (seriously) amount of power is being used due to the fact that your screen turns on, right?
Try cleaning the app data and cache for Play Music and Youtube (settings > apps) and see if it gives any result.
Thank you for helping. I forgot to mention another bug that is probably the worst. When receiving a phone call, I pick up the phone and the screen turns off. I try to turn the screen on and it doesn't respond. This bug has made me miss calls various times.
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reiko09 said:
Thank you for helping. I forgot to mention another bug that is probably the worst. When receiving a phone call, I pick up the phone and the screen turns off. I try to turn the screen on and it doesn't respond. This bug has made me miss calls various times.
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Mh well your on/off presses sometimes interfere with the proximity sensor on your phone this "issue" sometimes causes wild screen on/off during call because I click the button but the screen was already turning on because I no more held it next to my ear so it turns off again so I click again to turn on but hold the phone to my ear shortly to check whether the other person is still in call so proximity sensor reacts.... Repeat n-times. But that doesn't sound like your problem. Could you describe it more specific?
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When receiving a phone call, I pick it up the phone and the screen turns off and doesn't respond to the power button. I have to tilt the phone until it turns on and until I get a chance to answer the call. Proximity sensor/s does sound to be the cause of this. Any way to fix this?
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Phew I don't think so... But changing habits... I'm working on a solution for my random clicking but I think the only way to solve that is to give the phone more time to react before pressing power button because it'll turn screen on/off as you would like it to but it needs a short period of time for that
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Hopefully Android 4.3 fixes some of these bugs. The Nexus 4 Lg adapter was garbage, I dropped it once and after that it stopped working.
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1 & 2 Yes!
I told Google about this back in February.
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What did Google say? Its frustrating listening to music and having this happen.
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What did Google say? Its frustrating listening to music and having this happen.
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They said to clear cache/data & uninstall updates. Then update.
It did not work. I told them & they said they will Look into fixing this issue in a update later on.
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Yeah, uninstalling and updating apps doesn't work. I've been doing that since the longest and no fix. Factory resetting or even flashing stock doesn't seem to fix these bugs either. Hopefully later on they find a solution. I didn't mind these bugs at first, but after a while, it got frustrating.
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I want to ask if anybody has similar bugs to a non-rooted, locked, stock nexus 4 on 4.2.2 and would like to know on how to fix them. I have factory reset the phone and always seem to get the same results. I don't mind these little bugs, but they are making me want to root my phone.
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1. While listening to Google music, I would try to unlock my phone and Google music screen widget would flicker and shake and make unlocking difficult I provided the picture on the attachment. Don't use the lockescreen and/or the music app. Google play music works fine on my end.
2. Another bug while still listening to Google music; it would dim more than normally it would in a shorter amount of time on lock screen.
Don't notice this because I always sleep the phone manually after choosing music.
3. Almost every time I open YouTube, the YouTube window animation flickers.
Never have experienced this.
4. Battery drops 2-5% when the phone is rebooted.
This can happen, yes. Stop rebooting so much.
5. Phone battery % drops after being fully charged and unplugged.
This happens about 95% of the time. Nothing to worry about.
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Thanks for your reply. For the Google Music apk, I don't use any lock screen widget. When I listen to the music and try to unlock it, that's when it gets buggy. Either the widget shakes or the screen dims more than normally it would. I only reboot I once a day every morning in order to reduce lag and refresh the system.
I guess I don't know what you mean with the music app. What Rom are you on?
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I'm on stock rom, unrooted and locked. I was on cyanognemod, unofficial miui, and decided to go back to stock. I have enjoyed stock until bugs started happening. When I listen to Google Play Music; there are times when I turn my phone on and try to unlock the screen, the Google Music widget shakes and makes it difficult to unlock.
Found another bug. Not annoying but its just there. When applying a stock wallpaper and you immediately scroll left or right, you get this result.
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May be it's just the universe trolling you saying "one does not simply not root a nexus".
Yes most of the bugs you mentioned are present and they are fixed in most of the custom ROMs.

YouTube help on Note 3

I have had this problem since I got the phone 2 days ago. I keep getting what looks to be the mirror screen emblem. I have turned everything off and nothing works. Any help would awesome. My Note is also rooted be problem was before that also. Will post picture of what my screen looks like.
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Cant_C_Me said:
I have had this problem since I got the phone 2 days ago. I keep getting what looks to be the mirror screen emblem. I have turned everything off and nothing works. Any help would awesome. My Note is also rooted be problem was before that also. Will post picture of what my screen looks like.
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Have you tried turning off mirroring
Cant_C_Me said:
I have had this problem since I got the phone 2 days ago. I keep getting what looks to be the mirror screen emblem. I have turned everything off and nothing works. Any help would awesome. My Note is also rooted be problem was before that also. Will post picture of what my screen looks like.
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ive got the same problem. i believe it is a blue tooth problem.
only happens when i have my bluetooth on. very strange
and yes screen mirroring is off.
Youtube grayed out
I've disabled screen mirroring several times but it activates on its on for whatever reason.
I simply uninstalled the youtube updates and the issue has ceased.
I'll wait for a new youtube update before updating again and hopefully they will have fixed the nagging issue.
What I did was, first turn off bluetooth then open the Youtube App. Finally, turn on bluetooth and use as normal.

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