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Epic Display Freak Out - Any Others Experience This?

I had only owned my Epic a week and this is what happened to the screen! I thought I was seeing things at first, then it got BAD. My wife captured this short video with her Evo before I took it in and traded it for a new unit.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'm almost 2 weeks into my replacement unit and everything's fine so far.

That screen seems faulty to me.
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Or maybe even a loose wire?
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Looks like a connector to the screen may have been loose :/..

I had it happen. Took it back and exchanged it even though after rebooting it appeared fine. I believe it was an overheating graphics processor (I've had similar happen on a computer).

At first, the guy at Best Buy was hesitant to replace it. I told him I didn't mind if he did a hard reset on it so he could rule out a software conflict (personally, I was confident it was hardware-related). Less than 3 minutes after being reset it was doing it again.
Now, I'll probably root it have some real fun!
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I am having that issue right now! Anytime I even slide the keyboard out a little bit, my colors go all sorry and my wallpaper looks like old PC's with 256 colors! Lol or safe mode! I am 5 months into this phone, but hopefully it's still covered under some kind of warranty so I don't have to turn it on an insurance claim. Lol.

OperationMove said:
I am having that issue right now! Anytime I even slide the keyboard out a little bit, my colors go all sorry and my wallpaper looks like old PC's with 256 colors! Lol or safe mode! I am 5 months into this phone, but hopefully it's still covered under some kind of warranty so I don't have to turn it on an insurance claim. Lol.
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I hope you don't have too much trouble getting it taken care of!
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Wow! Seems to be a manufacturing defect in the latest round of shipments... Hope getting it swapped with a replacement was simple. Too much money to lay out to start with a defective unit like that, but as with anything, sh*t happens...just not cool when it happens to you!

With the amount of phones sold there are going to occasionally be defective ones.
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I've had a similar issue, except much more subtle. Best way I can describe it: There will be random changing horizontal color bars that overlay on top of what is on the screen at about 90% transparency. It looks like something is interfering with the video output to the AMOLED. This only happens when the phone appears to be processing something like the loading screen for the Android Market or during the melody test in the *#0*# menu. It also appears to be related somehow to the battery charge level. The lower the charge, the more the effect. I'm just noting this issue here, and kind of wondering if anyone else has this issue. It doesn't really bother me at all, to be honest.

farmsatguy said:
Wow! Seems to be a manufacturing defect in the latest round of shipments... Hope getting it swapped with a replacement was simple. Too much money to lay out to start with a defective unit like that, but as with anything, sh*t happens...just not cool when it happens to you!
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Getting it swapped was simple & quick once the Best Buy Mobile rep hard reset the unit and saw that the problem continued. As I said in the OP, my replacement is doing great so far.
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Lazz said:
I've had a similar issue, except much more subtle. Best way I can describe it: There will be random changing horizontal color bars that overlay on top of what is on the screen at about 90% transparency. It looks like something is interfering with the video output to the AMOLED. This only happens when the phone appears to be processing something like the loading screen for the Android Market or during the melody test in the *#0*# menu. It also appears to be related somehow to the battery charge level. The lower the charge, the more the effect. I'm just noting this issue here, and kind of wondering if anyone else has this issue. It doesn't really bother me at all, to be honest.
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I think I was having the same problem.
It only seemed to happen when the battery was nearly depleted, and even then only when the screen was on high brightness and displaying nearly all white.
Seems to me like at low charge levels the battery can't supply enough power to keep most of the pixels white at high brightness, so it starts getting distorted.

Go to sprint service and repair store and open a ticket. They will either charge you $35 or it will be free if you're under tep, so long that you have no liquid on the device and it's not rooted. I'm a tech at one of the stores.
OperationMove said:
I am having that issue right now! Anytime I even slide the keyboard out a little bit, my colors go all sorry and my wallpaper looks like old PC's with 256 colors! Lol or safe mode! I am 5 months into this phone, but hopefully it's still covered under some kind of warranty so I don't have to turn it on an insurance claim. Lol.
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Moto X Screen burn-in

I bought my Moto X around the end of September and about two weeks after getting it, I had a screen burn-in from the notification bar and navigation bar. I let Motorola know and they happily replaced it. However few weeks after owning the second one I experienced the issue again and I let them know. They told me they were stunned and that I was literally the only person who had reported the issue.
What I am wondering is if anyone else has experienced this. I know it is a common problem with AMOLEDs, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.
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I have never seen screen burn in on any phone. Not sure I would notice it in the notification and navigation areas since they always display the same things.
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Screen burn in after 2 weeks? On 2 devices? Come on now...
Love your avatar BTW. I can quote that entire movie.

The galaxy nexus had that issue
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_MetalHead_ said:
Love your avatar BTW. I can quote that entire movie.
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Me to !! Hehe
Sa sens le Rooting icite !!

I saw burn in on a display model at Best Buy. It was the big Motorola M logo that displays at the boot animation. If you looked at a white web page or any solid, but light colored image, you could see the ghostly circle the size of a quarter complete with the swishy M in the middle of the screen. Got them to open a second demo model and boot it up so I could see a clean screen and bring it to their attention. Weird thing to have burned in, too.
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Op did you leave both phones display on for 2weeks straight at 100% brightness? Lol
I have had mine for 2 months, do at least 4 hours sot daily, most of which is on reddit and xda, so nav and status are almost always static... I have zero sign of burn in.
I had it pretty good on my s3, but I blame ingress for that... Being outside playing so much and had it at 100% brightness because that screen was so dark... Even then it took at least 2 months before I saw any burn in and I was playing A LOT!
Can't imagine how you would get burn in on two devices, each in two weeks... Seems like that's a feat that you have to try and do, lol.
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_MetalHead_ said:
Screen burn in after 2 weeks? On 2 devices? Come on now...
Love your avatar BTW. I can quote that entire movie.
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What do you thing the man is making this up? Come on Now!

flacco40 said:
What do you thing the man is making this up? Come on Now!
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I'd be hard pressed to believe this as well... I've had numerous amoled devices and abused the crap out of them and even then, it took months to get any sort it noticeable burn in... If it were one device then I wouldn't second guess it, chalk it up to manufacture defect... But two in a row? I'm curious as to what the op uses his phones for and if he ever turns off the screens... Even store display models take a while to get burn in and they are on 3-4 times as much as a typical power user.
AT&T Moto X rocking rooted 4.4

scottjb said:
I have never seen screen burn in on any phone. Not sure I would notice it in the notification and navigation areas since they always display the same things.
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I'll have to send you a pic of my GNex then, so you can see the perfect "ghost" of a Pandora logo in the middle of the screen from running the display full time in my car dock.
I also remember similar complaints when the GNex first came out, of people claiming they were getting burn-in on the notification bar area, and I thought they were ridiculous at the time. Now, not so much.

It happened to my gnex, so I'm not surprised that it happened on this phone too.
I'm not saying you're faking it, but 2 weeks is a little too soon for it to be happening. The gnex only had the issue after a year or so. Are you keeping the display on all the time when charging or something?

They will eventually burn in if you set the screen to never time out and leave it displaying the same thing for hours or days on end. Most store models have some level of burn it. In normal use cases it should never be an issue though.

aooga said:
It happened to my gnex, so I'm not surprised that it happened on this phone too.
I'm not saying you're faking it, but 2 weeks is a little too soon for it to be happening. The gnex only had the issue after a year or so. Are you keeping the display on all the time when charging or something?
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It happened with my GNex too.

Main reason I can't use another amoled phone
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Just passing by, but 2 weeks is entirely possible.
If you keep using the phone with the notification bar displayed and then two weeks later open a full screen browser, you will most likely notice burn in if you look close enough.
It's extremely easy to do.

I bought an S3 from ebay with real bad screen burn in (that the seller didn't mention). She actually didn't believe me and accused me of scamming her until I replied back with a contact name and number that was burned into the top of the screen from the messaging app (the keyboard was also burned in, I guess she constantly texted this person).
I think burn in is more likely to happen when brightness is higher. I had a GNex and GS3 that never got any sort of burn in but I also rarely had the brightness above 50%.

you know, now that I look, I have it too. It's faint, and I thought it was from the Nova Launcher beta, but ****, this is screen burn in. Damn.
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I don't even use my phone that much. Generally around 1.5 or 2 hours screen time per day. Brightness is about half. Kinda crazy.

Recommend using an app such as:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feetstech.screenburn&hl=en
to minimize this. Most plasma TV's have something like this built in as they are also prone to burn-in. Use it for 10 minutes every once in a while (even if you don't see burn in) and it should prevent it.

I got screen burn in on my S4 after 2 months. But I also blame ingress for that. I have a X coming and hope to minimize that by not playing ingress so much or play on another device. One thing that I do for the status bar to help out is with nova launcher I have it set to swipe the notification bar on top away. I try to leave it off the screen as much as possible. But yes amoled screens suck for burn in.

I usually turn my phone to the 270 degree position to have the navigation bars switch sides every now and then. That helps a bit.
And with AMOLEDs, it's more important to turn off the screen when not in use rather than let it time out. I have mine set to 10 minutes, but I usually manually turn off the screen because I know AMOLEDs are prone to burn-in over time.

LCD pixel over voltage?

So I have had this issue of one spot in upper right corner that is way brighter than any other. Not a dead but maybe over voltage in the display to that pixel. Its not really bothering me but its there. So I am wondering 11-13 is return deadline through amazon. Should I return it? Will this progressively get worse or is there no way to know. Will post pic if necessary. Also its only really noticeable on a white screen background.

jmileti said:
So I have had this issue of one spot in upper right corner that is way brighter than any other. Not a dead but maybe over voltage in the display to that pixel. Its not really bothering me but its there. So I am wondering 11-13 is return deadline through amazon. Should I return it? Will this progressively get worse or is there no way to know. Will post pic if necessary. Also its only really noticeable on a white screen background.
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I know how it feels I got the same on the bottom of the screen and asked for a return since I couldn't solve it anyway. By the way, it's called an hot pixel. I think you should do the same, it's an opportunity, at least for that kind of money I expect a phone to deliver integrity of its parts. If you liked the phone you will be able to rebuy, even with the chance of buying cheaper

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I know how it feels I got the same on the bottom of the screen and asked for a return since I couldn't solve it anyway. By the way, it's called an hot pixel. I think you should do the same, it's an opportunity, at least for that kind of money I expect a phone to deliver integrity of its parts. If you liked the phone you will be able to rebuy, even with the chance of buying cheaper
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Just decided to return. This is second return too. First one was SIM/radio issues. Maybe 3rd times a charm. Didn't want a return for replacement. Glad Amazon does 30 days. Gonna have to think about waiting for a qc820 phone after New year. Probably nothing global carrier unlocked and as easy to unlock and root other than nexus. New nexus 6P riddled with issues. 5x not a big enough upgrade from LG g2 which I am back to using and have to say it really is just as good as MXP.
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Pixel XL issues and defects

Probably not the best type of thread but it's for anyone who has faced any issues or defects with Pixel XL. When I'm expected to fork out £819 for a top end of phone I don't really expect any types of defects.
Overall I'm quite pleased with the phone but I've noticed the pulse notification light is bit odd. Green colour is perfect but red or orange colours show as white and pink!!!
I'm sure that's not how it's supposed to be?
I've reported this to google who are looking into it and will get back to me.
Anyone else tested any features which aren't as expected or noticed any defects please let us know.

The power button feels weird, like it doesn't wanna press unless I push a certain way. Might be just me, though

There's a dead pixel on the left hand side of my screen. I've tried to ignore it, but it's really bothering me. I think I'm just going to return it and hope that the replacement doesn't take months to arrive.

neilmcd said:
There's a dead pixel on the left hand side of my screen. I've tried to ignore it, but it's really bothering me. I think I'm just going to return it and hope that the replacement doesn't take months to arrive.
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I would replace it for sure!

neilmcd said:
There's a dead pixel on the left hand side of my screen. I've tried to ignore it, but it's really bothering me. I think I'm just going to return it and hope that the replacement doesn't take months to arrive.
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I second that replace it, not worth it riding more dead pixels. I'm returning my black one due to notification light issue.
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I would replace it for sure!
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ChrisAC84 said:
The power button feels weird, like it doesn't wanna press unless I push a certain way. Might be just me, though
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That doesn't sound right to me, power button on both my silver and black can be pushed from any angle or part and it works.
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I don't know how to test LED light, is it turned off with ambient display?
my only issue so far is the lack of double tap to wake. The phone is super fast and responsive. I'm at work, so I can't play too much, but damn is it going to get used all night.

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I don't know how to test LED light, is it turned off with ambient display?
my only issue so far is the lack of double tap to wake. The phone is super fast and responsive. I'm at work, so I can't play too much, but damn is it going to get used all night.
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Going into settings, notifications then tap on the settings icon and toggle on pulse notification light.
Took me a while to figure.
I couldn't find option to change colour so installed light manager to switch between different colours.
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neilmcd said:
There's a dead pixel on the left hand side of my screen. I've tried to ignore it, but it's really bothering me. I think I'm just going to return it and hope that the replacement doesn't take months to arrive.
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From now on, a dead pixel sounds so much worse than it is...

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wait, the notification led isn't enabled by default? that strikes me as rather silly

Is anyone having problems with very slow 4G speeds? Compare to my Samsung Galaxy S7 and the speed on this phone for the 4G networks is very slow I wonder why that is

is there anyway to get a charging LED? always liked to be able to see how charged my phone is by a quick glance without having to keep turning the screen on.

Belimawr said:
is there anyway to get a charging LED? always liked to be able to see how charged my phone is by a quick glance without having to keep turning the screen on.
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Download LightFlow. There is an option for that.

El Daddy said:
Download LightFlow. There is an option for that.
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thanks, never needed to do anything like that before.

Only issue I have is that it burns my toast. Besides that it puts butter on perfectly fine lol
No issue. So far so good!!

guaneet said:
Only issue I have is that it burns my toast. Besides that it puts butter on perfectly fine lol
No issue. So far so good!!
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So basically the phone runs hot??
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Slicktune said:
So basically the phone runs hot??
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No I was making a joke lol
I can't make claims about heat yet. I'm sitting in a car with the a/c blasting on the backside of it while charging. Lol

After some exhaustive testing against my Samsung Galaxy S 7 Edge I concluded that the upload speed using 4G with the pixel XL is about 10% of that of the Galaxy S 7 Edge I wonder why that is and I hope that it will be an update to the modem that will fix this problem I would love to hear from the rest of you what kind of upload speeds you are getting using the 4G network with your new pixel XL phone thank you very much for your help

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After some exhaustive testing against my Samsung Galaxy S 7 Edge I concluded that the upload speed using 4G with the pixel XL is about 10% of that of the Galaxy S 7 Edge I wonder why that is and I hope that it will be an update to the modem that will fix this problem I would love to hear from the rest of you what kind of upload speeds you are getting using the 4G network with your new pixel XL phone thank you very much for your help
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Mine is actually a tiny bit higher than my wife's note 5. My download was a 1.5 slower though. Same server same network. This is on Verizon btw.

Oh boy oh boy! My screen has a burn in!

My Nexus 6p is showing signs of burn in on my screen, it's kinda annoying to see now it's very obvious on the status bar as I can see the WiFi, battery and time imprinted on my screen . I used the AMOLED burn in fixer used it overnight I'm not too sure if it worked or what not (I'll keep using it and see if it works) Is there any fixes that makes the ghosting go away on my phone or is it going to be stuck on there permanently?
Your tips can be really appreciated :good:

ZuneYT said:
My Nexus 6p is showing signs of burn in on my screen, it's kinda annoying to see now it's very obvious on the status bar as I can see the WiFi, battery and time imprinted on my screen . I used the AMOLED burn in fixer used it overnight I'm not too sure if it worked or what not (I'll keep using it and see if it works) Is there any fixes that makes the ghosting go away on my phone or is it going to be stuck on there permanently?
Your tips can be really appreciated :good:
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Phone is a few years old, if you plan on using it awhile I would replace the screen/digitizer, fairly easy to do on your own. There is lots of diy videos out there. What I would prob do anyways. I use mine for my work phone. I haven't replaced the digitizer yet on this phone but I did do the battery once . If you do replace it, I would replace the battery while you have it apart. Only like 10 or 15 bucks for a new one.

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Phone is a few years old, if you plan on using it awhile I would replace the screen/digitizer, fairly easy to do on your own. There is lots of diy videos out there. What I would prob do anyways. I use mine for my work phone. I haven't replaced the digitizer yet on this phone but I did do the battery once . If you do replace it, I would replace the battery while you have it apart. Only like 10 or 15 bucks for a new one.
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Yeah I already replaced my battery as it was shutting down around 30% which was pretty annoying. So you're saying that to fix the burn in, is to replace the whole screen? If its the way to be done to just get rid of the burn in then I'll probably consider doing it. Thanks :good:

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Yeah I already replaced my battery as it was shutting down around 30% which was pretty annoying. So you're saying that to fix the burn in, is to replace the whole screen? If its the way to be done to just get rid of the burn in then I'll probably consider doing it. Thanks :good:
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I'm almost positive a new digitizer will start you off brand new as far as burn in. But I haven't done that on the 6p yet only the battery.

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I'm almost positive a new digitizer will start you off brand new as far as burn in. But I haven't done that on the 6p yet only the battery.
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Thats true if its the only way to get rid of the burn ins then I'll may start looking for a new digitizer/ screen now then. But as I said Im using that burn in fixer app to see if that can cure the problem, I do it over night as the app says its best to leave the app running for 8 hours in order to fix the problem. I use my phone in in the day quite consistently.

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Thats true if its the only way to get rid of the burn ins then I'll may start looking for a new digitizer/ screen now then. But as I said Im using that burn in fixer app to see if that can cure the problem, I do it over night as the app says its best to leave the app running for 8 hours in order to fix the problem. I use my phone in in the day quite consistently.
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any updates? did the app work?
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any updates? did the app work?
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Slow process on mine Nardow. I've been using that app for the past 2 - 3 days now and I can see a very small difference but I think its gonna take a while to get rid of it. Either to get rid of the whole burn in is either replace the screen or just keep using the tool to clear off the ghosting.

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Slow process on mine Nardow. I've been using that app for the past 2 - 3 days now and I can see a very small difference but I think its gonna take a while to get rid of it. Either to get rid of the whole burn in is either replace the screen or just keep using the tool to clear off the ghosting.
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I see. Which app are you using? Can you link it?

nardow said:
I see. Which app are you using? Can you link it?
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Sorry for the late reply, This is the app that I use on my phone.
App link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blasterbyte.burn_infix