Hi guys,
Just a quick Q to see if anybody else has had this really weird issue. It's happened to me at random[AFAIK] and happened twice. When i'm playing music through the stock music app and press the "Power" button to turn the screen off, for about 2 seconds the phone shows the lockscreen, then everything is RED. That's not to say the whole screen is red, but the lockscreen text and everything is red and then the screen turns off. My lockscreen is the standard lockscreen(the crappy glass effect 1 that you swipe to the side to unlock) so the text at the bottom should be white and the notif bar should be normal, but it's all red.
Like I said, it's happened twice now and I was hoping it wasn't a screen problem!
Stock phone on O2. Latest O2 firmware installed.
Thanks.
I got the same problem once when the whole screen turned to be yellow for few seconds!
I'm on KE2 rooted and overclocked 1.5ghz
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Purple in my case - fixed with a reboot. Had a suspicion it was software related, but no evidence...
Hi guys,
I've been experiencing a strange problem with my N4.
Sometimes when waking the phone back from idle mode the screen gets dimmed. Not all of it though – the status bar and control panel at the bottom won't be affected. It looks like a layer that all of a sudden covers most parts of my screen. Toggling the brightness settings will have an effect on the overall screen only in that it only allows more light through this half-opaque black layer, it won't get rid of it however. I need to reboot the phone in order to get rid of it.
Running a rooted N4 – CWM 6.0.4.7, SuperSU 2.16, KK 4.4.4 (KTU84P)
This has been an ongoing problem for as long as I have the phone, I think… but it seems like it's becoming more frequent. I can't find anything related to this topic on the internet.
Thanks.
I started to have this weird problem all of sudden on my phone where the screen flickers on different apps, a solid color of thing that's being displayed on the screen comes up from the bottom of the screen which covers up more than half of my screen and sometimes the whole display.
I installed one of the screen filter apps from the PlayStore which fixed the problem by having an overlay on the screen but the brightness has decreased so I am unable to see the screen n bright light(like outside), I can't figure out if this is a software problem or hardware since the screen is perfectly fine when I have an overlay/filter app running in the background.
I have tried resetting the phone, installing a custom rom and disable hardware overlays etc but still no luck
Samsung Galaxy S5
Running CyanogenMod 13.0
SM-G900L
Weird thing just started happening. When the screen is off on standby the second screen is reversed, it displays my settings for when the screen is on (favorite apps, most recent apps, etc).. And when I wake up the screen the second screen when swiped will now only display my setting for when the screen is off (time, battery icon, signal strength, etc.). However if I launch an app the second screen goes back to working fine. Huh?? Scratching my head.
I've rebooted several times, turned off the second screen settings and restored them, nothing seems to be working.
Strange I never had this issue on my V10. Anyone else seeing this? Verizon v20.
Update: this is a Nova Launcher issue. I started up on safety mode and the second screen had no issues with the other launchers. Uninstalling Nova....
It happens when you hide notification bar. Same with action launcher.
Hi,
I have this phone for little over 2 years. For over 1 week now I'm experiencing my phone not being able to wake up when I use the power button/home button. Whenever I push the button, the screen flashes for like 1s blue color, you can also see that the notification panel is blacked out and part of it green and it doesn't wake up. Sometimes it doesn't even flash. It used to take about 10 tries to wake it up but today I couldn't wake it up. I performed soft reset, I couldn't see the booting animation at all but it rebooted, buttons lit up and I was able to get in. It's like the phone is working fine in the background but the screen doesn't light up. I can turn down/up the volume, take a screenshot, get into settings, open apps, write a message but the screen is black. Even my alarm went off this morning but I couldn't dismiss it.
I downloaded an Always On Display app. Although I don't actually see the screensaver when it's locked, it's still on and it's easy to get in beacuse of it.
It all started with the screen flickering on minimum brightness. In February this year I had the screen replaced for the same issue but this time it's worse because of the blacked out screen.
Any ideas what it could be? Faulty display again?
Thank you
tessicorn said:
Hi,
I have this phone for little over 2 years. For over 1 week now I'm experiencing my phone not being able to wake up when I use the power button/home button. Whenever I push the button, the screen flashes for like 1s blue color, you can also see that the notification panel is blacked out and part of it green and it doesn't wake up. Sometimes it doesn't even flash. It used to take about 10 tries to wake it up but today I couldn't wake it up. I performed soft reset, I couldn't see the booting animation at all but it rebooted, buttons lit up and I was able to get in. It's like the phone is working fine in the background but the screen doesn't light up. I can turn down/up the volume, take a screenshot, get into settings, open apps, write a message but the screen is black. Even my alarm went off this morning but I couldn't dismiss it.
I downloaded an Always On Display app. Although I don't actually see the screensaver when it's locked, it's still on and it's easy to get in beacuse of it.
It all started with the screen flickering on minimum brightness. In February this year I had the screen replaced for the same issue but this time it's worse because of the blacked out screen.
Any ideas what it could be? Faulty display again?
Thank you
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It's over to have this phone for little over 2 years now you should have to change
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Flash a new stock rom of your phone from sammobile via ODIN.
Sophia.xda said:
It's over to have this phone for little over 2 years now you should have to change
TIP:
Flash a new stock rom of your phone from sammobile via ODIN.
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That would be great, but I'm not a person that buys new phone every 2 years. I was thinking about it though .
When it comes to flashing. Do you think that would help? I don't want to end up with a black screen unable to set the phone up again. Cause overall it's working great .
Hi, i have the same problem, i'm from Belgium, and I have blinking screen problem and wake up screen problem :s
is it a software issue (nougat???)
before the big update (marshmallow i dont have any problem)
i'm on firmware A510FXXS7CRJ6_A510FLUX7CRJ1_A510FXXU7CRJ6_HOME.tar.md5
Turn screen brightness up abit to stop the blinking of screen. It's an issue of the screen hardware itself at low brightness after wear and tear. As for the hanging issue, maybe it has to do with your AOD app? Try uninstalling the AOD app OR flashing a stock Rom OR custom rom OR factory reset and use your phone at a higher brightness that the screen does not blink and see whether it still persists.
conanDO98 said:
Turn screen brightness up abit to stop the blinking of screen. It's an issue of the screen hardware itself at low brightness after wear and tear. As for the hanging issue, maybe it has to do with your AOD app? Try uninstalling the AOD app OR flashing a stock Rom OR custom rom OR factory reset and use your phone at a higher brightness that the screen does not blink and see whether it still persists.
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Thanks, because of my past experience with the same problem earlier this year I know about that "solution". Unfortunately, it makes the battery die faster as expected. Which is sad because I used it mainly on low brightness. So it's really not a solution at all.
I got rid of the AOD app because I found out that the phone lights up on 2nd try. AOD didn't work at all. I have to wake it up, put it to sleep and wake it up again which is always successful and the screen lights up. The screen flashes white about 3 times in a row now otherwise it works.
I haven't flashed it yet although I wanted to. But I will see what can I do. Thank you though!
I'm having the exact same issue using LineageOS.
It's already been 2 years, but since this thread is one of the first results on Google, I'll gladly add a solution.
Exact same problem for me, went through two screen repairs under warranty, and it would always come back a year later. No difference between Samsung OS and LineageOS, though I haven't tried rooting it.
Found on Ifixit: this issue is related to the AMOLED screen technology used by Samsung (among others). You can look it up, apparently there is a bad (?) voltage management in low brightness which worsen with time.
I could fix it with the "OLED Saver" application on Play Store. It works around this voltage management and allows you to reduce the brightness without the green flickering.
I still got white flashes after the installation, but not anymore the day after. I could even disable this application without the issue coming back.
I don't know what kind of magic cleanup this app performed, but it really is a (screen) life saver.