first of all, guys its a temporary fix, but will work for sure.
so u just have to put your device on max brightness(100%) for atleast 1 or 2 days,
and the flickering will stop next day.
i hope it ll work for you guys too, it worked for me.
its not purely a hardware issue sometimes it happens because of moisture, or when device is in low temperature for sometime.
putting brightness at max will warm the display, and flickering will stop.
tell me if it works.
beinghunny said:
first of all, guys its a temporary fix, but will work for sure.
so u just have to put your device on max brightness(100%) for atleast 1 or 2 days,
and the flickering will stop next day.
i hope it ll work for you guys too, it worked for me.
its not purely a hardware issue sometimes it happens because of moisture, or when device is in low temperature for sometime.
putting brightness at max will warm the display, and flickering will stop.
tell me if it works.
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I suggest using Blue light filter or night mode app they can lower screen brightness and protect eyes..
Yeah i think it worked for me, thanks for the idea.
Install cf.lumen by chainfire and configure it as your need. In master filter mode select temperatures and turn brightness up then darken it as your needs. Cf.lumen uses driver, not a screen filter. By this your screen won't flicker and you can save you battery too.
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Hi, My T-Mobile DVP's auto brightness doesn't work after i upgrade it to mango. It worked in pre-mango, if i cover the light sensor or light it up, the screen brightness would be changed. But it isn't like that in mango (version 7720), no matter i do, it is always at the lowest brightness level. The light sensor still works well in EM, it can detect lux value so i think this is a faulty OS firmware.
So after upgrading to mango i lost two sensors: compass and light sensor (Well, compass still worked in EM in pre-mango but in mango it doesn't work, even in EM). I lost my faith in Dell, too . My Dell laptop dead one month after end of its warranty and cannot be repaired, now this one ...
Anyone have the same problem ?
A reset fixed mine.
techrack said:
A reset fixed mine.
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I had reset mine in the past but it didn't do much :s
dilzo said:
I had reset mine in the past but it didn't do much :s
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Hmm its not instant and it takes 5-6 seconds to adjust, because the light sensor is working fine in the EM app it means its working fine with the phone, also covering with hand doesn't work. Try putting it under a couch then put it by a windows on a sunny day.
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Hmm its not instant and it takes 5-6 seconds to adjust, because the light sensor is working fine in the EM app it means its working fine with the phone, also covering with hand doesn't work. Try putting it under a couch then put it by a windows on a sunny day.
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Doesn't work for my DVP. I think this should be mango firmware's fault, so all DVP should have this problem. Could you please let us know which version your DVP is ?
Anyone who has upgraded to 8107, do you have this problem ? If the problem is fixed in 8107 i'll think about upgrading it manually
Try this: Turn off auto brightness, change the brightness from low to either medium or high, then turn auto brightness back on.
For some reason the brightness setting (that is inaccessible when autobrightness is on) functions as a limit when autobrightness is on. If it's set to low then autobrightness will never raise the brightness above low. Set it to high and try it again.
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Try this: Turn off auto brightness, change the brightness from low to either medium or high, then turn auto brightness back on.
For some reason the brightness setting (that is inaccessible when autobrightness is on) functions as a limit when autobrightness is on. If it's set to low then autobrightness will never raise the brightness above low. Set it to high and try it again.
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Good finding ! It worked ! But there is another problem . That is when i light up the sensor, it bring the screen brightness to the highest level, but it suck in that level even when i cover the sensor. I waited 2 minutes but it just didn't change, it was always on the highest level. Then after i locked/unlocked, it turned back to the lowest level.
So auto-brightness is not a completely unusable like compass, it's just too faulty to be able to use
I have set my S4 up so that it runs at 100% display illumination when charging. No autobrightness.
What is bothering me know is that the screen dims to about 50% very quickly after I stop touching the display and jumps up to 100% while I touch it.
Toggling smart stay doesn't change anything. Smart stay on doesn't help even when I look at the display (though it should just prevent it from going off .. not from dimming if I understand correctly.
I would like to display to stay at 100% when charging .. or at least set dimming to "after 15 secs" or so.
What needs to be done?
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I have set my S4 up so that it runs at 100% display illumination when charging. No autobrightness.
What is bothering me know is that the screen dims to about 50% very quickly after I stop touching the display and jumps up to 100% while I touch it.
Smart stay toggling smart stay doesn't change anything. Smart stay on doesn't help even when I look at the display (though it should just prevent it from going off .. not from dimming if I understand correctly.
I would like to display to stay at 100% when charging.
What needs to be done?
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I was reading about that and i found something about the chipset SnapDragon has an inside feature to adjust the screen brightness independently of the software (firmware on this case). Maybe you are watching that effect..
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I was reading about that and i found something about the chipset SnapDragon has an inside feature to adjust the screen brightness independently of the software (firmware on this case). Maybe you are watching that effect..
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There is a small tool that fixes it: "Caffeine" .. obviously
Intelliscreen also does the trick .. and there is a timeout you can set (not sure if it messes up the timeout for regular use when not charging though).
daniello8 said:
There is a small tool that fixes it: "Caffeine" .. obviously
Intelliscreen also does the trick .. and there is a timeout you can set (not sure if it messes up the timeout for regular use when not charging though).
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Is not the solution because caffeine prevents from time up screen brightness but it doesn't prevent from cpu feature. Even if the screen is always wake up and the autobrightness is off, the brightness will be changed because the chipset.
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Is not the solution because caffeine prevents from time up screen brightness but it doesn't prevent from cpu feature. Even if the screen is always wake up and the autobrightness is off, the brightness will be changed because the chipset.
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Well .. it works for me.
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I have set my S4 up so that it runs at 100% display illumination when charging. No autobrightness.
What is bothering me know is that the screen dims to about 50% very quickly after I stop touching the display and jumps up to 100% while I touch it.
Toggling smart stay doesn't change anything. Smart stay on doesn't help even when I look at the display (though it should just prevent it from going off .. not from dimming if I understand correctly.
I would like to display to stay at 100% when charging .. or at least set dimming to "after 15 secs" or so.
What needs to be done?
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Could this be related to heat? With the screen on and charging + what ever other task you have the S4 doing it may be the S600 is governing the screen to reduce heat... just a theory like.
I'm having the same problem too.
If i unlock the phone the screens dims to about minimum brightness.
I can touch the brightness bar to make it brighter and it stays that way for as long as i don't lock the phone
If i lock the phone and unlock it again the screen dims again?
Tried all different settings bur nothing helps...
Very annoying....
Yesterday i bought and installed lightflow to control my led indicator.
Just a minute ago i removed the app and voila! No more screen dimming!
Damn, really love that app but rather no led control than having my screen dimmed to the lowest possible brightness.
Hi everyone
I want to share a workaround to all of us who owns a defective S5
Symptom: You unlock your phone and it doesn't show anything. Actually, the phone is working. Capacitive buttons light up and you may heard some activity in the phone
Your phone has a defective screen. There are a lot S5 which have this problem, according to several forums. After several tries, unlock and lock over and over, the screen light up and you are able to use your phone. The problem is when you receive a call and you want to know who is calling you, the screen doesn't illuminate and you won’t be able to know who is.
Here's a workaround which makes your powerful S5 usable and take out from your drawer.
Solution:
The more effective way to fix it is: change defective screen! But sometimes it could cost as much as a new phone, or simply you can't afford it, and it's better to change your phone instead, and you put your S5 in a drawer.
The technical explanation of this problem is: Screen doesn't receive enough electrical current at low brightness levels (maybe the flex is defective, get old, etc)
Most probably the wake up problem exist together with screen flicker at low brightness levels
The wake up problem rises up more in dark environment, when light sensor make low bright screen
The lock screen light up screen, with a dim effect: when you lock the phone, it slowly turn screen off, and when you unlock, it make and effect of dim screen.
When you are is in dark environment, the effect is very slow, preventing the screen illuminate because the technical problem explained before.
When you are in very light environment, you lock screen and sensor light make the screen very brilliant and chances are you defective phone wakes up correctly.
We can use an app which give us complete control over brightness subsystem. I use an app called Velis AutoBrightness:
Once installed from Play Store, it shows a Setting Wizard. Follow the instructions. Below are some notes
• 1/7: Welcome Screen
• 2/7: How bright... Most probably is your phone always have flicker in low brightness. Choose "AMOLED" or "AMOLED bright". By the way choosing any one of those cure always minimum brightness failure!
• 3/7: Choose High sensitivity
• 4/7: On, if you want additional brightness when charging. Irrelevant for this thead. Choose your favorite setting
• 5/7: Same of 4/7
• 6/7: Choose enable: That enable the app
• 7/7: Some additional notes: Press Done
Now important settings: go to Menu > Settings > General: Settings Mode > Advanced
Service Activation settings:
• Disable system handler > ON: When you use Power saving mode, you surely noted screen flicker, which is very annoying, and make unusable power saving mode. By set this ON: Android doesn't set screen too dim; instead Velis have a minimum of brightness set by Wizard 2/7. (Surely you find out that you avoid screen flicker, by setting autobrightness off and slider in 8-10%)
Sensors settings:
• Screen-on sensor value override: Set this value to 30000. Read below this post if you want technical explanation of this setting
After you establish these settings, you'll be able to unlock your phone all the time!
This is the trick: When you unlock your phone, you'll note that the screen is very bright (because Screen-on to 30000) and quickly adjust to the environment light. The failure is that electrical current to screen is defective, and when exterior light is dark, the screen make a dim effect and doesn't light up.
Note to Marshmallow users:
• This app make use of Screen overlay permisions: And marshmallow is very restrict with this kind of app. This is specially true when you are installing an app. All you have to do is deactivate the app in notification screen: press "OFF" button, adjust system brightness upper enough to not flicker the screen, install your app, and activate Velis Autobrightness again
• Because of Doze mode, wake up from this mode may avoid your screen light up, the first time you use your phone. Let 10-15 seconds your phone wake up, lock again, and unlock again, and velis will make its work!
I hope this post make your smartphone usable. I barely apply this trick to two phones, but I think this is a good workaround!
I used this app & the flickering is still available
What worked for me is downgrading the firmware on my g900f all the way back to Android 4.0. My phone came with version 5.0 and I noticed the problem only after I kept installing samsung's system updates. Will report if the problem starts up again but I'm running rooted and running nougat just fine so I don't see a reason to keep upgrading the firmware.
Edit: nevermind, this didn't work
Reyse said:
The technical explanation of this problem is: Screen doesn't receive enough electrical current at low brightness levels (maybe the flex is defective, get old, etc)
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Does anyone know for sure if it's the flex cable or some capacitors? I notice only the lower half of my screen flickers.. I bet there's a simple electrical fix for it instead of replacing the whoooole display
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Does anyone know for sure if it's the flex cable or some capacitors? I notice only the lower half of my screen flickers.. I bet there's a simple electrical fix for it instead of replacing the whoooole display
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Hello,
Have you change jour battery? If it s old it could cause some issues...
But try to buy a genuine one, I think that your battery must be old now.
Bye
cedouic said:
Hello,
Have you change jour battery? If it s old it could cause some issues...
But try to buy a genuine one, I think that your battery must be old now.
Bye
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it doesn't make any sense. the lower half of the screen flickers in green even on charger
fbs said:
it doesn't make any sense. the lower half of the screen flickers in green even on charger
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I noticed that screen only flickers at low brightness when using Boeffla kernel for LOS14 and others based on it.
No issue for the same device with LOS or Stock based kernels.
zlazaar said:
I noticed that screen only flickers at low brightness when using Boeffla kernel for LOS14 and others based on it.
No issue for the same device with LOS or Stock based kernels.
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you're wrong
I was using los16 with stock kernel for months with flicker everyday
fbs said:
you're wrong
I was using los16 with stock kernel for months with flicker everyday
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+1 to that , i even went back to stock and the screen flicker appeared and such issues are well known already with samsung amoled panels back in 2014-even some panels from 2018 . So def not kernel related.
I was using los 15.1 and this problem got worse. The phone was barely usable as mentioned by the op. In my case, the screen would start flickering below 60%. Then I switched back to stock marshmallow. I noticed that 100% brightness in los 15.1 is actually only about 70% in the stock rom.
I have been using the phone at 80% brightness for some weeks now and the problem has significantly reduced. But not completely gone, it's much much better. Also, you might want to avoid using dark wallpapers.
Good afternoon,
I do not know if it is something normal or it is a real problem that requires technical support. The case is that I have the mobile without automatic brightness, and when I set the brightness to very low levels, when unlocking the terminal, when you turn on the lock screen with the wallpapers, it appears as a slight flicker of the screen, thousandths of a second, almost imperceptible if you do not stare. Something like when you start to light a light bulb until you get to have light at all, but with a very slight flicker.
It is not an extreme flicker that completely turns off the screen or any of that, it may even be the operation of the brightness sensors (which happens to be strange because the automatic brightness is off), but I worry that it may have more problems in the future. Also I have noticed that having the brightness to the maximum of half of this problem does not occur, only with low brightness. There is also no blinking once unlocked using the phone itself, everything works perfectly. It is as if the lock screen was automatically adjusted when unlocked.
Should I contact technical support or just foolishness of mine?
Regards and thank you very much in advance.
PD: I have EMUI 4.0, NXT L29 with b192
Maybe you can upload a video so we know what ur talking about.
I think I've actually noticed something like what you're describing in my device. In summary, ever so slight flicker of brightness when display is on low/lowest level with automatic level off. I assumed it was normal
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Maybe you can upload a video so we know what ur talking about.
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I have tried to record videos, but it is very difficult to appreciate.
MuPp3t33r said:
I think I've actually noticed something like what you're describing in my device. In summary, ever so slight flicker of brightness when display is on low/lowest level with automatic level off. I assumed it was normal
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I also think it's normal. It's like an automatic contrast adjustment to accommodate the eye to the screen. I think it's a matter of the IPS NEO screen.
Does anyone else have this?
I would take a video of this issue, but I don't have a good enough camera. It's really, really hard to capture unless you have good video recording tech, which I don't have. :crying:
My issue is that, when I set the brightness to its lowest level on my Zenfone 3, the screen starts flickering. This is especially noticeable with white backgrounds. You can tell that the screen is flickering (perhaps refreshing?) rapidly and it makes the phone painful to look at.
Someone actually created a thread about this issue here on XDA a few months ago, with a video showing this issue, but unfortunately, the video doesn't capture the flickering properly. Here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3/help/ze520kl-low-screen-light-level-20-t3603502
How to reproduce:
-Turn auto-brightness off
-Slide brightness bar all the way to the left (AKA to the lowest level)
-Open a white background/grayish background or blank page in Chrome
-Screen starts flickering
It happens across the phone, and intermittently. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. In Chrome, in games, whatever. I once thought it could be related to charging the phone, but the screen has flickered on low brightness even when my phone wasn't plugged in, and at 70-80% battery. I might try resetting the phone to see if it's a software defect; I really hope it is.
Turning off hardware overlays in Developer Options does not resolve this issue.
I'm currently on ASUS stock Nougat, unrooted. I can't root right now. I don't have any screen overlays apart from CF.Lumen, which isn't set to come on during the day, when the flickering happens, and I don't use any screen color modes apart from the default settings. I also always have auto-brightness turned off.
Just wondering if anyone else is having this issue. I might try recording it one day.
Thanks.
Update 1: Removed my 64GB SD Card from the phone to see if that made a difference. It didn't. So the flickering isn't related to power management, AFAIK.
Next step is to wipe the phone completely, including its cache partition from stock recovery, and set the phone up as new again. It might be a hardware issue, but my fingers are crossed.
I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
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I've had this issue since I got the phone, ZE552KL. Turning off auto brightness fixes it for me, so I have a feeling it has more to do with ASUS' auto brightness algorithms than anything else.
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I always have auto-brightness turned off. I think it might have to do with the ambient light sensor. I've tested it using SMMI and it works just fine. But I wish there was a way to disable it, since I don't need it. I'm kind of disappointed in this phone.
I'm going to try a full reset, and perhaps a custom ROM to see if it's a hardware or software issue.