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The various apps like bedside, and the clock app included with the n1 allows users to keep their screen on all night long to use as a clock. i did some research and it appears that oleds are susceptable to burn in.
do you think using your n1 as a clock could result in burn in? or does the decreased brightness make this unlikely? ive been holding off on using my n1 as a clock until im sure its safe, and since its so new and oleds are so new there is very little information or problems that have surfaced yet.
any thoughts?
Theres a reason why after, I think 10 minutes, it goes to the "LED" displays that gets moved around the screen
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Theres a reason why after, I think 10 minutes, it goes to the "LED" displays that gets moved around the screen
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mine doesnt do that
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mine doesnt do that
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That's how it works with the dock - that doesn't appear to be the behavior when just plugged in though.
Amoled screens have many advantages over other categories of display screens. Unlike Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens, these screens do not require backlight because of the self luminous diodes. And for that reason it consumes almost fifty percent less power than its counterparts. As such it is well suited for portable devices which operate on battery power. Amoled screens are comparatively cheaper and are ideal medium for large sized display screens. Further they are environment friendly as there is no problem like burn-in as in the case of plasma screens.
It says they do not have burn-in problems.
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That's how it works with the dock - that doesn't appear to be the behavior when just plugged in though.
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Just tried it with mine and it works without the dock!
Pretty cool as well.
EDIT: Don't press the dim button and after a few minutes it goes black and green text.
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Amoled screens have many advantages over other categories of display screens. Unlike Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screens, these screens do not require backlight because of the self luminous diodes. And for that reason it consumes almost fifty percent less power than its counterparts. As such it is well suited for portable devices which operate on battery power. Amoled screens are comparatively cheaper and are ideal medium for large sized display screens. Further they are environment friendly as there is no problem like burn-in as in the case of plasma screens.
It says they do not have burn-in problems.
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wait how does burn in effect environmental friendliness?
this is what i read
# Dynamic display efficiency. While you can write a few lines of static text with great efficiency, video requires more power than an LCD. OLEDs are more efficient for small graphics or text because they only consume power in the area where they are addressed.
# To date, the reliability has not come up to the levels of LCDs.
# It is particularly difficult to drive the blue colors where the luminance efficiency is very low. As a consequence, the lifetime is reduced, and burn-in is also an issue
source http://www.sharpsma.com/Page.aspx/americas/en/b3fad008-bf63-4e66-ab68-7a52cae8fa1e
anything even hinting that i could mess up my shiny new phone i cant ignore
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wait how does burn in effect environmental friendliness?
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Last longer so no need to bin them.
Pretty sure that's wrong and they do suffer burn in though.
I noticed when plugged in, it doesn't move when its on portrait mode, but landscape it does. I guess the portrait mode only moves round with the dock.
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mine doesnt do that
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stewart1988 said:
Just tried it with mine and it works without the dock!
Pretty cool as well.
EDIT: Don't press the dim button and after a few minutes it goes black and green text.
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Or you could just hold the dim button until it turns green on black
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Or you could just hold the dim button until it turns green on black
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Holy crap, that's awesome! I never noticed that before. Good call.
so should i be warry of leaving the clock on over night on dim? i dont want to burn my pretty screen!
I leave mine on every night in my dock. Since the default clock moves the time around the display, and the rest is all black (off), then the chances of burning the display are slim.
Worst case, my screen gets burned-in in the next 30 days and it forces me to buy an HTC Desire on AT&T
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Or you could just hold the dim button until it turns green on black
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Or dim it then hold the button
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Or dim it then hold the button
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Cool! Didn't know that one.
Hi all,
While I was using the phone, the screen suddenly turned neon color (all the colors were off the chart!)
Needless to say, I was shocked beyond words
Then I checked the battery graph and noticed a large spike in the battery usage
Anyone experienced this before? (Pls see the attachment)
Faulty battery perhaps?
I have not. But, I'd like to know if you've been drinking or used any other controlled substance prior to SGSII usage?...
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I have not. But, I'd like to know if you've been drinking or used any other controlled substance prior to SGSII usage?...
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he clearly spilled a diluted Viagra cocktail on the phone, but the effect was short lived, the phone climaxed in about 1 minute, and returned to its normal flaccid curve.
OP - this is very unusual, you should get this to support. Either battery is bad or something shorted in the phone??
What is the confusion? His phone has been unplugged 7 hours, and his graph shows the display on almost the entire time. Seems normal to me, most people get around 5 hours screen on time.
That said, I have no clue about neon screen from heavy usage.
Wouldn't it be the opposite ? I mean, because the screen turned neon (so white/blue colors I think ?), it drained much more battery since OLED cells eats more battery when white.
#4 and #5 - guys did you open the OP's attachment? The battery graph spiked to 100% momentarily, and that is when the display turned neon.
The question is not about 7 hours of battery life, it is about that spike and color change. I bet something shorted somewhere
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#4 and #5 - guys did you open the OP's attachment? The battery graph spiked to 100% momentarily, and that is when the display turned neon.
The question is not about 7 hours of battery life, it is about that spike and color change. I bet something shorted somewhere
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probably that's the reason
Shucks... piss poor battery life and now this?
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Wouldn't it be the opposite ? I mean, because the screen turned neon (so white/blue colors I think ?), it drained much more battery since OLED cells eats more battery when white.
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Pink and white, but it was a sudden burst
I must be the lucky one in a million to experience this kaleidoscope of colors
And yes, bloody strange that it spiked to 100% instead of -100%!!
My phone must have given it a superturbo 1millisecond charge!
Or the battery might have zapped my screen when it malfunctioned
Damn!
Oh hell
oh i see it now. i opened the pic first time but glanced too fast. it looks like some type of voltage spike for a split second. interesting.
I had this once, the screen went bright red/pink but its never happened again but I don't recall seeing battery spike.
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I had this once, the screen went bright red/pink but its never happened again but I don't recall seeing battery spike.
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YAAAA!!!! Bright red/pink!!!
I was totally freaked out
Did you check the graph? It's really hard to miss the spike!
My screen also went pink/red at one point out of the blue. I can only say it looks sort of like Night Mode in Chainfire3D but at the time I did not even have it installed. It freaked me out and went away. It wasn't green though
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My screen also went pink/red at one point out of the blue. I can only say it looks sort of like Night Mode in Chainfire3D but at the time I did not even have it installed. It freaked me out and went away. It wasn't green though
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Ok, seems like I'm not the only one
Ya it was pink/red bright. No greenish colors
I also had this spike, whilst I was using the phone charging via USB.
I don't recall any colour changes though.
Just this second while I was charging my phone I unlocked it using the home button and the screen appeared MUCH brighter than usual (even set to 100% brightness) and all the colours seemed to be pumping out a lot more aggressivly. Maybe this is what the OP saw.
I locked the phone, unlocked it again and it was fine. But if I tried to turn the lock screen on by pressing the home button nothing would happen - only the unlock button. I unplugged the phone and plugged it back in and now it's back to normal.
I will try to take a photo next time but I may not in fear of burning the pixels out.
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Just this second while I was charging my phone I unlocked it using the home button and the screen appeared MUCH brighter than usual (even set to 100% brightness) and all the colours seemed to be pumping out a lot more aggressivly. Maybe this is what the OP saw.
I locked the phone, unlocked it again and it was fine. But if I tried to turn the lock screen on by pressing the home button nothing would happen - only the unlock button. I unplugged the phone and plugged it back in and now it's back to normal.
I will try to take a photo next time but I may not in fear of burning the pixels out.
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I'm pretty much sure what I saw was different
The colors on the screen were totally out of whack, only pink/red bright colors
It is probably the sudden power draw by the screen which caused the battery to overdraw and hence spike in voltage. The battery capacity chart is based on voltage and so it shows the spike.
If you draw too much power from the battery, the voltage should lower. Not spike to 100% ! Imho something is seriously wrong with the phone.
I had the funky coloured screen but mine went aqua and was upside down lol
I'm hearing a lot of different stories regarding the screen turning heavily pink when the brightness is at its lowest.
Thought i'd make a poll to see how many people are affected, then we can hopefully gather its its a hardware defect.
No pink here, even using an app that takes it lower than stock.
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I'd say it's more purple than pink but yes I have it. Same thing when I had a Galaxy S4. I'm pretty sure they're using the same AMOLED tech, which is a shame but yeah.
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I'd say it's more purple than pink but yes I have it. Same thing when I had a Galaxy S4. I'm pretty sure they're using the same AMOLED tech, which is a shame but yeah.
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No pink here, even using an app that takes it lower than stock.
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Make sure to actually vote guys, would help out a bunch
I have had two 6's and sent the first back because of the pink issue. 2nd phone is still pink below 1/3 brightness slider, just not as pink as the first. Called Google and talked with a hardware tech and they said it was part of the performance of the screen, and just to keep it above 1/3 brightness (wack). Both phones I had only turned pink with adaptive brightness on and the slider below 1/3 in a dark room. In normal lighting it doesn't seem to dim into the "pink" range.
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I have had two 6's and sent the first back because of the pink issue. 2nd phone is still pink below 1/3 brightness slider, just not as pink as the first. Called Google and talked with a hardware tech and they said it was part of the performance of the screen, and just to keep it above 1/3 brightness (wack). Both phones I had only turned pink with adaptive brightness on and the slider below 1/3 in a dark room. In normal lighting it doesn't seem to dim into the "pink" range.
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Same. I use adaptive brightness. My grays have a pinkish hue at very low brightness settings. Doesn't bother me, don't usually have brightness so low.
Just part of being an early adopter, I suppose. Not that big a deal to me, but I can see how others might be upset. It's my first phone of this caliber so I'm still totally stoked with it.
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My device turns pink with adaptive on in a dark room. Also without adaptive only when the screen is just about to turn off.
Mine does this of course, because it is something that happens with every AMOLED phone I can think of. It was something I forgot about of course being on a phone with a regular LCD screen for the last year, but as soon as I got my Nexus 6 I remembered about this little quirk of AMOLED. Hopefully custom kernels can minimize how much we notice it with custom color calibration.
Mine is also much more purple than pink, if it is actually a really pink color them maybe something is wrong, IDK. My purple tint doesnt start to happen till I am about 25% of the way down the brightness slider. All the way down and the screen is very heavily tinted purple. But that is too dark to see with anyway so I never turn things down low enough to make things look bad enough that I would actually care about. The screen look beautiful in any normal lighting conditions. I just think of it as a "night time feature" to be easier on tired eyes. lol.
Wasn't this talked about before release? I thought it was part of the brightness setting and to make it more of a battery saver?
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On... So if I jack my brightness down, it gets a little pink. Whoopty-do... Why care? It looks fine at whatever brightness I use and I've never expected a display to look perfect when it's almost off. It's not some damning evidence that the thing is low rent.
Everyone's looking to complain. Omg, If I click on back 19 times while shaking the phone and switching back and forth into chrome, I drop a frame.... A $650 shouldn't do that!
Smh
Oh I'm not looking to complain at all, I just wanted to see if it's something everyone had or not.
I've just heard so much Conflicting info on this it's driving g me nuts... Either way, I'm super excited about getting it ?
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... Either way, I'm super excited about getting it ?
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You should, it's a great phone. But like every other phone out there, there will be some that have issues and others that are just here to stir the pot.
Heck, I thought it was a feature to make it easier to read text with the brightness super low...
*shrug*
Well, I guess if it's a bug I am glad I got a bad one. Sure as heck not sending it back with the PVS 13. With my luck I'd end up with a 2.
My 2014 Moto X screen turns pink when I crank the brightness down also on lollipop. I think it's due to the AMOLED screen because I can do the same to my N7 and it doesn't turn pink. I've noticed on lollipop that the screen can be made a lot dimmer than on kk
This is all due to amoled folks. And partly how it is calibrated. But it is an inherent quality in these display panels. As long as it's not pink at your "normal" viewing brightness then :thumbup:
Sorry my screen is pretty:good:
One thing I have noticed is that with adaptive brightness on...if I turn my brightness all the way down I do see tint pinkish hue. If I turn my adaptive brightness off and turn my brightness all the way down...I don't have a pinkish tint on the screen.
Anyone else's screen reacts this way?
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I've been reading about this issue all over. Maybe I lucked out but I don't have the pink issue at all.
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One thing I have noticed is that with adaptive brightness on...if I turn my brightness all the way down I do see tint pinkish hue. If I turn my adaptive brightness off and turn my brightness all the way down...I don't have a pinkish tint on the screen.
Anyone else's screen reacts this way?
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Yeah mine does. Lol I am now learning that adaptive is not the same as auto-brightness. But seems like with adaptive on it keeps the screen a bit darker than without. I noticed with the slider maxed out or turned all the way down it gets much brighter and dimmer respectively with it off.
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I've been reading about this issue all over. Maybe I lucked out but I don't have the pink issue at all.
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If you turn adaptive on, and manually turn the brightness all the way down (something you would likely never do in real word use) you will see it. Even in a dark room I don't see it since my display is still bright enough to stay over the threshold where this phenomenon manifests. If I go lower the brightness way down however, it appears.
I gave Google a call about the pink hue after trying to ignore it all day. I was told that anyone with a pink or yellow hue should return the device as soon as possible and that those units are from an early batch. The engineers are apparently trying to resolve the issue now. The glue curing advice is incorrect and I suggest you don't wait their suggested 10 day wait time.
As for the speakers, they should both be equal. This includes both bass and treble and the sound (including volume) from both speakers should be identical.
For anyone who isn't aware, stock is kept aside and priority is given to replacements. So if that's all that's holding you back, get sending.
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I gave Google a call about the pink hue after trying to ignore it all day. I was told that anyone with a pink or yellow hue should return the device as soon as possible and that those units are from an early batch. The engineers are apparently trying to resolve the issue now. The glue curing advice is incorrect and I suggest you don't wait their suggested 10 day wait time.
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What's the number to get in touch with Google to talk to them about it?
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I gave Google a call about the pink hue after trying to ignore it all day. I was told that anyone with a pink or yellow hue should return the device as soon as possible and that those units are from an early batch. The engineers are apparently trying to resolve the issue now. The glue curing advice is incorrect and I suggest you don't wait their suggested 10 day wait time.
As for the speakers, they should both be equal. This includes both bass and treble and the sound (including volume) from both speakers should be identical.
For anyone who isn't aware, stock is kept aside and priority is given to replacements. So if that's all that's holding you back, get sending.
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Have you gotten your device replaced? I have a slight link hue and don't want to risk getting a device with a worse screen. I'm just going to RMA it in a month to be extra careful.
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Google Nexus Support, then screen, then screen not working. It requests a call for you. I'd link but I'm restricted with less than ten posts.
I had to keep pushing for him to admit it was a defect and that they are working on it. So there's a little bit of tippy toeing happening I think.
Sadly I can't go through Google for my replacement (with an Aussie carrier). I'll be returning it tomorrow.
Yea, I googled it, lol what was I thinking.
Anyway, thanks for post. After talking to my rep (who was awesome about everything, no tip toeing around, he just wanted to make sure I was happy with my phone) he had me test the screen a little and decided that a replacement was required. Just have to tell my bank another charge is coming and it'll be on its way. I highly recommend giving them a call if you're having color issues with the screen. (I never saw pinks, just yellow)
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Yea, I googled it, lol what was I thinking.
Anyway, thanks for post. After talking to my rep (who was awesome about everything, no tip toeing around, he just wanted to make sure I was happy with my phone) he had me test the screen a little and decided that a replacement was required. Just have to tell my bank another charge is coming and it'll be on its way. I highly recommend giving them a call if you're having color issues with the screen. (I never saw pinks, just yellow)
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What kind of test did you do?
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All he had me do was crank brightness to max, no adaptive or auto brightness, then scale it back to about 1/3 brightness and report what I saw.
Thankfully I'll get to at least check out the two next to each other when the new one gets here. I didn't wanna take one of the replacements if I didn't need to.
For anyone wondering what the best way to identify the fault is, this is what I did:
First turn off Adaptive Brightness and then slide the brightness to the lowest setting possible. Then open up a white page and slide it back and forwards. Then turn on the Adaptive and try again. If it's hugely noticeable, then you have a defective unit.
Generally the pink or yellow hue issue decreases slightly with Adaptive Brightness off + sRBG mode in the developer options. The hue is increased on lower brightness, with Adaptive on.
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For anyone wondering what the best way to identify the fault is, this is what I did:
First turn off Adaptive Brightness and then slide the brightness to the lowest setting possible. Then open up a white page and slide it back and forwards. Then turn on the Adaptive and try again. If it's hugely noticeable, then you have a defective unit.
Generally the pink or yellow hue issue decreases slightly with Adaptive Brightness off + sRBG mode in the developer options. The hue is increased on lower brightness, with Adaptive on.
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This is not a defect, AMOLED screens at the lowest possible setting shift more than IPS LCD towards a pinkish/red hue. Yours may just be slightly worse, but if the effect is only noticeable on the lowest brightness setting then this is not a reason to RMA. Your unit is not defective
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This is not a defect, AMOLED screens at the lowest possible setting shift more than IPS LCD towards a pinkish/red hue. Yours may just be slightly worse, but if the effect is only noticeable on the lowest brightness setting then this is not a reason to RMA. Your unit is not defective
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I would agree with that if the pink is even on the entire screen. Mine is coming from the bottom this time. Visible in high and more on low brightness. Top is yellow bottom pink that's not an Amoled feature lol
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I would agree with that if the pink is even on the entire screen. Mine is coming from the bottom this time. Visible in high and more on low brightness. Top is yellow bottom pink that's not an Amoled feature lol
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If it's even slightly visible on high it is a defect. My point is a lot of people have said they only see it on low brightness, which isn't a defect.
easy tiger, @andreoidb. it may be defective. Who are you to say what is noticeable or not without witnessing it? I've had lots of amoled displays without this hue.
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If it's even slightly visible on high it is a defect. My point is a lot of people have said they only see it on low brightness, which isn't a defect.
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Putting mine to 100% brightness on xda app. Top is still nice warm yellow but bottom very bright white/pink cold white as if someone was pointing the torch from the corner of the screen lol
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easy tiger, @andreoidb. it may be defective. Who are you to say what is noticeable or not without witnessing it? I've had lots of amoled displays without this hue.
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I'm not saying it isn't defective. I'm saying that that method of testing is flawed. Just turning down the brightness and looking to see if it turns red is not a great way of testing. AMOLED screens, at the lowest brightness a significant amount of color shift to red/pink. Even if it's only in a portion of the screen, if its only visible on the lowest brightness it isn't a defect. I can say that without seeing the screen. If, though, its red/pink on higher brightness its likely defective.
I must have been confused by the statement "Your unit is not defective".
does anyone have any pictures of what the blue/yellow/pink hues look like?
Just wanted say that not all amoled screens have this pink/yellow hue and it's definitely not normal. My Nexus 6 amoled has none of that...so considering the 6P has even a better display it shouldn't have that either.
I have two nexus 6p and there's a difference in screen color for sure
I'm hoping that some of these super-delayed 128GB models (such as mine!) are delayed due to taking steps to minimize issues such as this. I'm probably dreaming, but hey, it could happen!
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I'm not saying it isn't defective. I'm saying that that method of testing is flawed. Just turning down the brightness and looking to see if it turns red is not a great way of testing. AMOLED screens, at the lowest brightness a significant amount of color shift to red/pink. Even if it's only in a portion of the screen, if its only visible on the lowest brightness it isn't a defect. I can say that without seeing the screen. If, though, its red/pink on higher brightness its likely defective.
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Apologies, I should have clarified. That method of testing simply helps view the color changes a bit more clearly. You're able to see it increase and decrease, instead of having nothing to compare the current screen with. Doing that gives the numerous color changes.
The pink tint at the lower brightness (at least to the level mine was), is not normal. It's almost a deep purple. It's also there at a higher brightness. Place this phone next to another and it's pretty obvious . You're never going to get a perfect screen with AMOLED , but this is terrible.
Doesn't seem like the clock or battery icon move around like Always On mode. Will this eventually cause burn in?
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No. Amoled displays don't suffer from that. Even high quality LCD displays like found on the iPhone will have a hard time causing burn in.
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The information provided above is false. Amoled screens can suffer from burn in. However, with the Always On Display, the clock moves around every 3 minutes or so to avoid burn in.
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The information provided above is false. Amoled screens can suffer from burn in. However, with the Always On Display, the clock moves around every 3 minutes or so to avoid burn in.
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He's asking about the night mode, which puts the clock on the edge of the screen. It doesn't move around in that mode.
I don't know the answer, but I don't use it for that fear.
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He's asking about the night mode, which puts the clock on the edge of the screen. It doesn't move around in that mode.
I don't know the answer, but I don't use it for that fear.
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Ah!
I imagine the night clock woukd cause burn in ad it does stay in one place.
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Well the numbers do change every hour and minute so I think it would be hard to get any noticeable burn in.
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Well the numbers do change every hour and minute so I think it would be hard to get any noticeable burn in.
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Unfortunately the battery icon and next alarm displayed doesn't change.
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I was wondering this and also worried about burn in , so I turned off night clock because it doesn't move, and I'm asleep so I don't need it on.
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I doubt it, the brightness would be low enough to minimize the risk of burn-in.
I don't think it would. I have mine set to only stay on from 1AM until 5AM (the hours I'm most likely to wake up in the middle of the night and want to see the time.)
I don't think 4 hours is enough to cause burn in being how the pixels are lit up very dim when using the night clock.
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I doubt it, the brightness would be low enough to minimize the risk of burn-in.
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The pixels are stilll active though, shortening their "life". Will you notice any burn in or difference in screen quality in that area within a month or six? Probably not, but it'll burn in (or, leave a mark if you want) no matter what after 24+ months. AMOLED is a tricky technology, so I personally stay away from "AMOLED black" themes and whatnot. Why? The black areas are turned off, while the colored/lightened pixels are lit up. The areas that are "off" will have a longer "pixel life" than the ones most used, so it'll make a sort of "ghosting" effect after a while (2 years+). Using a theme or whatever that's "even", i.e not on and off at different places will give me an even "burn out".
I have no idea how good the EDGE's panel is though, so this is pretty much pure speculation, with some facts mixed in!
At first I was also worried that the pixels don't change position, but having it on for a week, I think it's too dark to cause a burn-in.
The Always-On clock looks like it'll burn in more because it's bright even though it moves around every couple minutes.
I use a black background. I don't think it'll cause uneven wear. Every time I use a web browser, the background is mostly white. I think that's enough to evenly burn in the screen. I usually keep the screen little dimmer than normal to avoid burn in., but I'm not afraid of ramping up the brightness when I'm outside under the sun or reviewing photos.
One thing I don't like about the night clock is that it shows the alarm that's couple days out. I think Samsung really need to fix this as this is obviously a bug, or they didn't test it enough.
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At first I was also worried that the pixels don't change position, but having it on for a week, I think it's too dark to cause a burn-in.
The Always-On clock looks like it'll burn in more because it's bright even though it moves around every couple minutes.
I use a black background. I don't think it'll cause uneven wear. Every time I use a web browser, the background is mostly white. I think that's enough to evenly burn in the screen. I usually keep the screen little dimmer than normal to avoid burn in., but I'm not afraid of ramping up the brightness when I'm outside under the sun or reviewing photos.
One thing I don't like about the night clock is that it shows the alarm that's couple days out. I think Samsung really need to fix this as this is obviously a bug, or they didn't test it enough.
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Everything is pure speculation regarding the AMOLED panel around here, so we won't really know anything concrete until something happens, or someone gets a nasty burn-in. I doubt anyone will get a nasty burn-in though, but I guess someone will get some burn-in down the road, but that's pretty much expected.
I have a Galaxy Note (first gen.) that I used for about 18 months before getting a new device, and I've borrowed it to my mom. I checked it out again this week after not checking it out for about two years, and the display looks like ****, but it doesn't look more **** as it did the day I gave it to her, so it's "bad" if I'm trying to edit some photos, but it's not catastrophically bad at all. The only place it's burnt in is the statusbar, which is black on pre-lollipop versions if I remember correctly.
Hi clever people
So I'm a bit confused. I found this thread because I was afraid of a burn-in caused by the night clock too.
And I won't use it. But how about the always on display, then - by using that, is there a risk of shortening the life of the pixels? In that case, I'd just turn it off. But if not, well, then it's a neat feature
Well, I have set night clock every night, It doesn't burn the AMOLED screen. It's completely safe. Try it on your own, no risk They prevent burn in, because of brightness help keep prevent burn-in.
kylelopez20 said:
Well, I have set night clock every night, It doesn't burn the AMOLED screen. It's completely safe. Try it on your own, no risk They prevent burn in, because of brightness help keep prevent burn-in.
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Thanks. I was more curious, though, as to how the Always on Display feature might affect pixels and the screen lifetime too, and thus, if it'd be better to not use this feature
brawlysnake66 said:
No. Amoled displays don't suffer from that. Even high quality LCD displays like found on the iPhone will have a hard time causing burn in.
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False. AMOLEDS suffer burn in, and LCDs will rarely ever experience it.
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J.Biden said:
The pixels are stilll active though, shortening their "life". Will you notice any burn in or difference in screen quality in that area within a month or six? Probably not, but it'll burn in (or, leave a mark if you want) no matter what after 24+ months. AMOLED is a tricky technology, so I personally stay away from "AMOLED black" themes and whatnot. Why? The black areas are turned off, while the colored/lightened pixels are lit up. The areas that are "off" will have a longer "pixel life" than the ones most used, so it'll make a sort of "ghosting" effect after a while (2 years+). Using a theme or whatever that's "even", i.e not on and off at different places will give me an even "burn out".
I have no idea how good the EDGE's panel is though, so this is pretty much pure speculation, with some facts mixed in!
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No offense that is the most stupid reason I've heard not to use dark/black themes. White themes ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO CAUSE BURN IN, PERIOD. You reduce burn in by reducing energy consumption and pixel usage.