After seeing the screen on the samsung galaxy s II i'm pretty confident that its what i'll be getting, but...I'm concerned about burn in.
One of the reasons I was leaning towards the htc sensation is that with slcd I don't have to worry about burn in at all, but how much do i really have to worry about it?
I havn't seen many people complain about burn in on the first galaxy s, but there are still some cases.
Is it reduced on the galaxy s II?
Are the chances of this happening so low that I shouldnt worry about it?
How cheap/easy is it to replace the screen if this happens?
im interested in this as well
Hi,
I´m an Omnia 2 I8000 owner since 10.2009. It was the first phone on market with Samsungs Amoled-screen.
I allways use Black themes.
I don´t have any problems with screen burn up to now. You can see it slightly on testimages, but in normal use, you won´t notice it at all! I would post pictures, but my Display was replaced(Dust under the screen) a month ago, so its new again...
Rgds
Is there even such a problem on AMOLED screens? I came from a Nexus One with AMOLED screen and never had such issues, and I believe the screen was made by Samsung too.
hycian said:
Is there even such a problem on AMOLED screens?
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Amoled screens are basically plasma screens for phones.
They're completely different technologies, but the pros/cons are almost the same.
lcds make a picture but the backlight is what allows us to see it so clearly.
amoled make their own light, but they have a lifespan.
so the pixels that get the most use tend to fade, and leave a 'burn in' effect.
Berserk87 said:
After seeing the screen on the samsung galaxy s II i'm pretty confident that its what i'll be getting, but...I'm concerned about burn in.
One of the reasons I was leaning towards the htc sensation is that with slcd I don't have to worry about burn in at all, but how much do i really have to worry about it?
I havn't seen many people complain about burn in on the first galaxy s, but there are still some cases.
Is it reduced on the galaxy s II?
Are the chances of this happening so low that I shouldnt worry about it?
How cheap/easy is it to replace the screen if this happens?
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Burn in happens as early as 4-6 months of use with most AMOLED based screens, this happens mostly on the clock section of the notification bar, there is a long thread about this on the SGS1 forums. Honestly burn in is the least of concerns, be more concerned about the yellow tinting issue on most SAMOLED Plus screens.
Well ive had a samsung jet for some 3-4 years, one of the first amoleds (i think)
and i dont have a hint of burn in, i also got a htc desire after that because i fell in love with amoled and that doesnt have any burn in either. Now i have my sgs2 and the amoled love continues. I have a plasma screen at home so i am very familliar with burn in (nasty shock in the morning when falling asleep with it on!).
I think if samsung thought these were going to burn in they would have put screen protection/pixel flushing just like they did with my samsung plasma tv. Its really not a worry in my mind and i use bright blue glowing themes which are the most aggressive on amoled pixels.
Ive read horror stories of burn in but those are just faulty screens/handsets.
Heres the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892498&page=16&highlight=amoled+burnin
what im still unable to find is how easy it would be to replace the screen if it were to burn in, and what it would cost.
never knew these AMOLED screens have image retention problems.
My Nexus One had terrible screen burn, the Froyo notification bar was clearly visable when not actually displayed. Hope the SGS2 does not go this way.
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Is there even such a problem on AMOLED screens? I came from a Nexus One with AMOLED screen and never had such issues, and I believe the screen was made by Samsung too.
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Yes there is a problem. My nexus one has permanent burn in. And I made a thread with many others posting pics of their burn in.
Its just a trait of amoled screens. My status bar, clock am pm, and keyboard are all burnt in to the screen on my nexus one.
Search the forum, this topic has already been covered.
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Yes, but i cant find anything saying if its been improved on the amoled plus screens.
I would assume that the efficiency boost would lessen the effect a bit because it should boost the pixel lifespan, but im not 100%.
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Yes, but i cant find anything saying if its been improved on the amoled plus screens.
I would assume that the efficiency boost would lessen the effect a bit because it should boost the pixel lifespan, but im not 100%.
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Yes that is the question now, we don't know how much amoled plus improves this issue. I have to think that its gonna be much improved with this new generation.
Mine already seems to suffer from burn-in, most noticeable whenever my auto-brightness shifts to lower thresholds (had my SGS2 since the last day of June 2011). I wonder if Sammy can do any replacement for me.
I got a burn in too. The four bottom icons start to be visible with notification bar pulled down.
Looks like I ain't the only one with an sgs2 with this issue then. I notice it's only visible at low brightness - approximately 10-15%. And my notification bar has always been black.
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Got mine since it's release in May, always used very low brightness settings and a low screen-off-timer, 30 seconds or one minute.
Status bar is visible on red background and very visible on blue, some icons and the clock time are present all the time.
Really pathetic after very moderate and careful use in five month.
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Got mine since it's release in May, always used very low brightness settings and a low screen-off-timer, 30 seconds or one minute.
Status bar is visible on red background and very visible on blue, some icons and the clock time are present all the time.
Really pathetic after very moderate and careful use in five month.
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Similar to my usage pattern mate. Pathetic is the word. Damn.
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I have used a Galaxy S from an year until recently last week, i exchanged it to get a new Galaxy S II. I like the phone very much and i still think its the best phone ever made. But i notice that even my screen has the yellow discoloration problem as others. I don't bother much about it but what made me curious was that a friend of mine purchased a new Galaxy S a few days back when i brought my S II. I put both the displays side by side and noticed this
1) The display of the Galaxy S was much brighter than my S II at 0 and 100 levels of brightness. I felt that my S II screen was more dull and yellowish while that of S was brighter and greyish
2) In direct sunlight, the visibility of the Galaxy S screen was more than my S II at both 0 and 100 levels of brightness.
I was surprised by these findings and I want to know whether
a) Super AMOLED+ brightness is supposed to be better than Super AMOLED ?
b) Or does my SII have a faulty screen and can i get it replaced ( purchased mine a week back) ?
To be honest, i always used my old Galaxy S at 0% brightness and even at times i felt it was too much brightness in a dark room, so used the Screenfilter app. But thats not the case with my S II, i have to use it at around 20% in the same dark room. So, i want to know whether my particular screen is defective or is it the same for everyone else ?
Settings display background effect: choose dynamic
And you can turn off the adjust screen for power option in display settings
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u sure u disabled power saving mode for the display? That usually causes a duller/greyish screen...
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I have used a Galaxy S from an year until recently last week, i exchanged it to get a new Galaxy S II. I like the phone very much and i still think its the best phone ever made. But i notice that even my screen has the yellow discoloration problem as others. I don't bother much about it but what made me curious was that a friend of mine purchased a new Galaxy S a few days back when i brought my S II. I put both the displays side by side and noticed this
1) The display of the Galaxy S was much brighter than my S II at 0 and 100 levels of brightness. I felt that my S II screen was more dull and yellowish while that of S was brighter and greyish
2) In direct sunlight, the visibility of the Galaxy S screen was more than my S II at both 0 and 100 levels of brightness.
I was surprised by these findings and I want to know whether
a) Is Super AMOLED+ supposed to be better than Super AMOLED ?
b) Or does my SII have a faulty screen and can i get it replaced ( purchased a week back) ?
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All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
Regards.
I have disabled the Power saving mode, and also tried the three different modes- standard, dynamic, and movie. But i didn't find much difference. SAMOLED+ is supposed to be brighter than SAMOLED, right ? Other than this the phone is marvelous !!!
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All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
Regards.
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I used a Galaxy S and it was an excellent phone with Lagfix and Darkys ROM. Briefly, in between I used an Xperia Play for a few days and it was so laggy, many apps used to force close, etc. So i decided to go for a dual core and I think there is no match for S II in this regard. I am very satisified with this but just wanted to know about this SAMOLED+ screen and it was supposed to be better than SAMOLED. To be honest, i always used my old Galaxy S at 0% brightness and even at times i felt it was too much brightness in a dark room and hence used the Screenfilter app. But thats not the case with my S II, i have to use it at around 20% in the same dark room. So, i want to know whether is my particular screen defective or it is the same for everyone else ?
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So, i want to know whether is my particular screen defective or it is the same for everyone else ?
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As I said in my previous post, 100/100 phones are like that, including me
ithehappy said:
All I can say, we all have the same GS II, same screen, same Yellowish tint, Bluish white in Auto/Low Brightness, some admit it, some not. If you wanna exchange it, exchange it, but I bet you will a same screen like before. And the comparison about Super AMOLED and Super AMOLED +, I too think that S-AMOLED is better than Plus in case of Low/Auto Brightness. I previously had a Wave S8500, and I never turned the Brightness to even 1 in one year as on lowest settings the screen was gorgeous. But I can't say that for GS II. I disabled the Auto brightness already, I just can't take that Bluish White effect. I am on 20%, the screen is cool now, still I am not that impressed with it as I thought I'd be. I don't think it's a feature of S-AMOLED Plus screens but a manufacturing fault, now Samsung admits it or not it's a different story. But I still hope that a Firmware update could turn things in the right way, just a hope. I purchased this device for only having another OLED screen, cause I've saw ARC and Play, and they just couldn't stand against my Wave, but if I knew that GS II would have this type of screen I'd not ignored those phones. Let one more OLED+ device from Samsung get released and if that one has this problem too, I am out from Samsung forever, yea I know they simply don't care for one customer, but I do care for me.
Regards.
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
krishelnino said:
I have disabled the Power saving mode, and also tried the three different modes- standard, dynamic, and movie. But i didn't find much difference. SAMOLED+ is supposed to be brighter than SAMOLED, right ? Other than this the phone is marvelous !!!
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The plus got nothing to do with brightness but with subpixels. Its red blue and green in every subpixel where amoled got red green and blue green. Makes the image sharper to read.
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
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Yes, that's correct. It's not an improvement for me coming from S-AMOLED and I don't like it. When I've seen better I won't bear a lesser.
You are correct in that part.
Regards.
Does anyone know, how much power is saved by using the display powersave mode? I just tried turning it off and the screen looks much brighter and crisper. Is activating power save mode worth it?
My SGS1 not as bright as this one and not ad good in sunlight.
Yellow tint if i have it i dont care i dont see it.
Dont like SGS2 sell it simple answer.
jje
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Does anyone know, how much power is saved by using the display powersave mode? I just tried turning it off and the screen looks much brighter and crisper. Is activating power save mode worth it?
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I never have power saver switched on and my battery manages to make it thru a day with moderate use..havent seen too much diff with it switched on..
Same problem for me..i also believe SGS1 is brighter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118532
SGS is slightly brighter than SGS II. It's in almost every review that measures screen brightness. AMOLED Plus was updated for sharpness, not brightness.
DJTaurus said:
Same problem for me..i also believe SGS1 is brighter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1118532
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What do you think your screenshots will tell us? If you want to prove anything, post *photos* not screenshots.
JJEgan said:
My SGS1 not as bright as this one and not ad good in sunlight.
Yellow tint if i have it i dont care i dont see it.
Dont like SGS2 sell it simple answer.
jje
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I am not bothered about the yellow tint either. What bothers me is the brightness level of SGSII when compared to a SGSI. Having used a SGSI for an year, the new SGS II has to be atleast equal to it. But lesser than the previous one is unacceptable. Thats my point
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I am not bothered about the yellow tint either. What bothers me is the brightness level of SGSII when compared to a SGSI. Having used a SGSI for an year, the new SGS II has to be atleast equal to it. But lesser than the previous one is unacceptable. Thats my point
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Well all i can say is bought SGS2 and one week later sold SGS1 in that one week it was noticeable that SGS2 was brighter clearer more vibrant better screen .Thats not memory thats matching both side by side .
jje
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Whoa there! Extreme much? You'll never get another Samsung because the screen isn't bright enough at 0% brightness? Lol. Are you serious? Oh well, to each his own.
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Yeah it seems a strange comment.... one thing that always annoyed me about the original Galaxy S was the screen was TOO bright on the lowest setting - it was a nightmare if you were using it in bed with the lights off.
Hey everyone, normally there is a setting under development that you can put a check to leave the screen on while charging the GSII. I looked and no box to check. Anyone know if there is a different way to do this on the GSI?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288070
Probably not a good idea. AMOLED screens can suffer from burn in. Likely why Samsung removed the option. Many Nexus One owners will testify to this because they have a faint image of the Froyo notification bar forever on their screen.
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Correct. Burn in is a real concern on any OLED/AMOLED screens as blue pixels have very short life span. Don't leave it on for extended period. Don't use the max brightness all the time.
Thanks everyone. That makes sense, they removed this option from the phone. I always use the Auto brightness on my GSII. I did always use this option on my Nexus S to leave screen on while charging.
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I use screebl from my htc inspire and it seems to work good on this device.
Inspire is a LCD screen and won't get burn-in. DON'T do it for any OLED/AMOLED screens. You get burn-in very easily.
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Inspire is a LCD screen and won't get burn-in. DON'T do it for any OLED/AMOLED screens. You get burn-in very easily.
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I've left my Cappy AMOLED screen on for hours at a time and pretty much always while charging. I've never had (or heard of) any issues with burn in. Is the AMOLED Plus on the SGSII the issue or am I just lucky with my Cappy?
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I've left my Cappy AMOLED screen on for hours at a time and pretty much always while charging. I've never had (or heard of) any issues with burn in. Is the AMOLED Plus on the SGSII the issue or am I just lucky with my Cappy?
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Sometimes you will have to be on special background to see the effect. A lot of Captivate onwers, Galaxy S owners and Samsung Focus owners found out the hardway. Just search screen burn-in in the respective forums. The blue pixles used to be only 2000 to 4000 hours of life span. I'm pretty sure Samsung has improved it to something like 8000 to 14000 hours but there is no specifics released by Samsung. So, you can count those hours to see how that will affect your screen burn-in.
Some phone screens get burn-in quite easily than others. So there is manufacture variations as well. I personally don't want to risk it. It's easier to get burn-in on these screens than today's Plasma TVs which typically has 80,000 to 100,000 hours half-brightness lifespan, or 10 times less likely to get burn-in than our phone screen. And TVs usually display motion videos instead of static text on the phone.
Thanks for clearing it up. Agreed--I do not want to risk it.
I went to the Microsoft Store today to check out a Lumia 800. I knew about the pentile matrix and all that. But what I wasn't expecting was to see burn-in images on the screen.
I noticed that no matter which application I open up, there was always a slight remnant of the "messaging" and "e-mail" tiles. It came as a surprise because I have never seen burn-ins on recent displays.
Has anyone experienced this? Or perhaps should I just assume that it's a phone that's likely been heavily stressed at the Microsoft Store? I hope it's just the unit I played with.
Also the whites aren't quite as white as my HD2. Can anyone give an opinion on the display of whites compared to other phones?
Thanks in advance. It's a great phone and I will most likely be getting one.
AMOLED screens do indeed suffer from burn in, unfortunately.
I haven't heard about burn-in of AMOLED screens, i must research it. Hopefully it'll fade. However i have noticed the whites are light blue. Really caught my attention because the blacks are so black.
EDIT: well apparently the burn in is permanent.
Apparently the burn-ins only happened while the same image is displayed.
And since it was a store and the demo models are usually stuck on the same menu screen for an excessive amount of time (especially if sleep is disabled and left over night).. burn in can easily occur.
I can say that in my 2 years of having the original Galaxy S, I've never experienced a burn-in
I have seen burn-ins on LCD and plasma screens as well. But AMOLED is more susceptible of the three technologies. More details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in#Plasma.2C_LCD_and_OLED_displays
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I have seen burn-ins on LCD and plasma screens as well.
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Comparatively speaking the chances of burn-in on LCD is negligible compared to OLED and plasma. You usually just get some temporary ghosting which disappears after a while.
I don't think you'll get a burn in on your Lumia with normal use. It sleeps automatically after a while, so this sort of things is prevented. I have never been looking at the same screen for hours, so a burn in won't happen very easily I think...
If you run your phone for hours at full brightness with a static image being displayed - as it is done in stores - you will notice burn-in on AMOLEDs. You will notice it on some other popular display technologies as well, but AMOLED is more susceptible for that kind of problem.
In real usage scenarios, you won't normally have to deal with burn-in.
Gave a thanks to everyone for your help.
It sounds like the unit I saw at the Microsoft Store is just under abnormal conditions. It's probably just overworked.
I'm going to assume that under normal operations, the screen should do just fine without burn-ins.
Time to buy Amazon U.S. is selling for $529, good deal?
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Gave a thanks to everyone for your help.
It sounds like the unit I saw at the Microsoft Store is just under abnormal conditions. It's probably just overworked.
I'm going to assume that under normal operations, the screen should do just fine without burn-ins.
Time to buy Amazon U.S. is selling for $529, good deal?
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I think indeed that the unit in the MS Store was just on the home screen for hours and hours. Not a real use scenario
Seems like a nice deal, over here it's €470, it's almost the same.
I got burn in on my focus; since then I've been very careful with my focus s and lumia. My best advice, besides the obvious of not leaving the screen on for extended periods, is to move your top 4 tiles around from time to time.
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I got burn in on my focus; since then I've been very careful with my focus s and lumia. My best advice, besides the obvious of not leaving the screen on for extended periods, is to move your top 4 tiles around from time to time.
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You mean you've got a burn in with your tiles on normal usage? Hmm, I'll be careful
Depends on what you mean by normal usage. I had my screen on high, 5 minute timeout. Sometimes I remembered to lock it, sometimes I didn't and it sat there for 5 minutes. I won't do that again ;-)
Yeah that's not good for AMOLED.
Lock time 1 minute won't cause a problem, I guess?
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Lock time 1 minute won't cause a problem, I guess?
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I doubt it, but at the very least I'd have it set to dim at 30 seconds just to be safe.
To OP, can you post some SS?
one of my phone was the omnia hd witch has the first AMOLED screen and after 2 years my screen is perfect, now i bought a lumia 800 but i still have the omnia hd and the screen is simply perfect.
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To OP, can you post some SS?
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I haven't been back to the Microsoft store. If I go back and take a look at it in the near future, I'll try to get a few pictures. Chances are I won't though because my Lumia's coming in the mail
Im having the same issue, but mines 10x worse. It started with a small dark patch in the corner but slowly spread and now I have a really severe burn-in of my messaging, complete with "April" and my girlfriends name and the keyboard burned into it.
Hey guys I'm getting this phone on Wednesday.
Just before I get it and use it can anymore comment on any issue with burn in? Subpixel life etc.
I'm going to use this phone quite often. It'll be on at least 9 hours a day on charge and off.
What kind of life can I expect from the screen? Not bothered about battery life.
If its bad I'll return it and get htc one x or something with LCD or else.
Thanks in advance!
pauliebb said:
Hey guys I'm getting this phone on Wednesday.
Just before I get it and use it can anymore comment on any issue with burn in? Subpixel life etc.
I'm going to use this phone quite often. It'll be on at least 9 hours a day on charge and off.
What kind of life can I expect from the screen? Not bothered about battery life.
If its bad I'll return it and get htc one x or something with LCD or else.
Thanks in advance!
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If you are worried out burning then make sure you switch back and forth between portrait and landscape so the status bar won't always be in the same spot.
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Funny enough how (most) people never really cared about screen burn-in on plasma televisions, LED televisions and good old CRT's but go frenzy about AMOLED screen burnin.
I've had my S1 for 2 years with probably more like 12 hours per day screen-on and it really is fine. On uniform backgrouns (e.g. all red, green, blue..) you can see the lines (most prominently the status bar).
On several launchers (e.g. GO) you can hide the status bar if that's of concern to you, there are additionally several apps trying to make it far less visible by uniformly burning colors in your screen.
Of course there are always "bad" screens which burn in easily just as there are bad LCD's with stuck/dead pixels.
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Funny enough how (most) people never really cared about screen burn-in on plasma televisions, LED televisions and good old CRT's but go frenzy about AMOLED screen burnin.
I've had my S1 for 2 years with probably more like 12 hours per day screen-on and it really is fine. On uniform backgrouns (e.g. all red, green, blue..) you can see the lines (most prominently the status bar).
On several launchers (e.g. GO) you can hide the status bar if that's of concern to you, there are additionally several apps trying to make it far less visible by uniformly burning colors in your screen.
Of course there are always "bad" screens which burn in easily just as there are bad LCD's with stuck/dead pixels.
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I think people do go crazy about screen burn ins. You're just not taking a good pool from different kinds of people, tech geeks vs average consumers, where there are more average consumers who do not care.
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Ok so it doesn't burn that much? I've had burn in on plasma before it was really annoying. I'm planning on using this phone for 2 years+ for games and camera mostly. is there an auto wallpaper changer/cycler?
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All IPS screens have some degree of ghosting, it's the nature of IPS technology, but that's totally perceived differently amongst users. Some see it, some don't (I don't see it not even in games), but I know it's there.
However IPS displays do not have the dreaded AMOLED burn in problems, where static images (blues and whites are the most problematic) eventually burn in like those old ATM CRT screens (some people have burn in screens after just a couple of months), so I rather have IPS screen over AMOLEDs!
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However IPS displays do not have the dreaded AMOLED burn in problems, where static images (blues and whites are the most problematic) eventually burn in like those old ATM CRT screens (some people have burn in screens after just a couple of months), so I rather have IPS screen over AMOLEDs!
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That does not happen on real life usage. Maybe after using for 2-3 years, the burn in would be visible.
Only time the burn in is visible after months, is on the showroom models which is turned on all the time.
I have my 2 years old S2 and still there's no burn in .
I only get "ghost" if I force the screen to move a million mph. Never on a game or elsewhere.
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That does not happen on real life usage. Maybe after using for 2-3 years, the burn in would be visible.
Only time the burn in is visible after months, is on the showroom models which is turned on all the time.
I have my 2 years old S2 and still there's no burn in .
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tell that to my galaxy nexus with a burned in status bar and navigation bar. better yet, tell that to my galaxy s4 where I did the black status bar mod and within a month those pixels degraded from not being used.
amoled sucks.
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eggman89 said:
That does not happen on real life usage. Maybe after using for 2-3 years, the burn in would be visible.
Only time the burn in is visible after months, is on the showroom models which is turned on all the time.
I have my 2 years old S2 and still there's no burn in .
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I beg to differ. Happened to me with 2 fascinates. The status bar burned in after about 3 mos. Strangely enough though, I never got it on Motorola amoled screens. We have 3 og razrs in the family, all around 2yrs old, and have no burn-in at all.
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eggman89 said:
That does not happen on real life usage. Maybe after using for 2-3 years, the burn in would be visible.
Only time the burn in is visible after months, is on the showroom models which is turned on all the time.
I have my 2 years old S2 and still there's no burn in .
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I hope you are talking about ATM Screens burning-in after a few years right? Because AMOLEDS tend to burn in just after a few months under certain conditions and usage.
And to make matters worse, it also burns in WITHOUT EVEN USING IT! UV light also degrades the screen, and if you consider UV to be present even on office lighting then you better place your phone screen side down while on your desk!
If you don't believe me, do some research right here in XDA, there are many examples (with photos) demonstrating such facts!
EDIT: Heck, here's some photos demonstrating a brand new Galaxy Note which had the screen protector (with Ads) on a store shelf. When removed, it revealed screen burn-in! (see the round shape imprinted on the screen).
Cheers!
What is the ghost effect... Time to Google and YouTube I guess...
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ceo.mtcl said:
What is the ghost effect... Time to Google and YouTube I guess...
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Short answer is: When you scroll a list on your screen, you will notice the letters are somewhat smudged or blurred, and also screen elements leave a trail behind.
Also on high action games some people see the same effect.
For me it's not that noticeable even at 20/20 eyesight. Or at least I don't perceive it as an annoyance.\
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Oh yes. I know about this effect. I have experienced this in past, and strangely on amoled devices. I've never experienced this on G2. Damn you guys and my ocd, now everytime I'll be scrolling I'll be looking for this 'ghost effect'.
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eggman89 said:
That does not happen on real life usage. Maybe after using for 2-3 years, the burn in would be visible.
Only time the burn in is visible after months, is on the showroom models which is turned on all the time.
I have my 2 years old S2 and still there's no burn in .
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My gnexus had burn in twice. First time was about 6 months after getting it. Got a replacement. Second time was about 9 months later. The first burn in was a web page that I had only looked at for a few seconds. It happened almost instantly. I don't know why, but it did. I was always very careful to not leave the screen on and it still happened. Second burn in was the home screen clock widget. This one made a little more sense. Either way, I love not having to worry about it anymore with the g2. I will personally never get a amoled phone ever again.
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I can see the ghost effect,its easy to see when scrooling in apps folder where all the aps are.Doesnt bother me abit tho.The amoleds also have the same problem there arent free from this effect.The only thing i miss is the colors,(but G2 is close enough) i wont talk about blacks,cause they werent that black when you were looking in a dark room.. And until they fix the degration that causes the burn in and all,i wont go back to amoled (so no galaxy ever again for me...).And man the amoled tvs will soon have huge problems lol