You ready to see if your screen is defective? - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

Turn all the lights off, make sure the room is very dark.
Turn on auto brightness in settings.
Turn on auto screen power adjustment.
Click the following link and make the imagine full screen.
Look specifically for black horizontal lines going down the screen. I have one, my best friend has one in a different spot, my girlfriend has none. All bought from the same store.
http://www.webdesign.org/img_articles/8229/gllayo2.gif
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Ok now listen very carefully. In order to see this picture you need to have your brightness all the way UP.
You have to do the exact opposite that you have to do when trying to find the defect on your own screen.
This is a picture of my screen taken in total darkness with a damn playskool camera:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/seh6183/Roseville-20111017-00591.jpg
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Your link is no good.

Strange.
Added a second one without the html code.
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Looks like that site doesn't allow hot linking... can you attach the file?

It's a GIF and wont allow me to attach. Let me try through the full site.
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Now attached.
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Dont see anything guess my screen is fine
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I guess you can claim that it's a defect...
It doesn't make the same line looking at an image that isn't that, so.. I dunno.

roadrash7 said:
Dont see anything guess my screen is fine
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Make sure its totally dark in the room! If so you're good, nothing to worry about.
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Interesting... I have a solid darker line going from top to bottom slightly to the left from the center. I also see some spots around the screen that I thought at first might have been fingerprints as they're a little more blurred than the rest.
Never noticed anything until I viewed this image.

Kadin said:
Interesting... I have a solid darker line going from top to bottom slightly to the left from the center. I also see some spots around the screen that I thought at first might have been fingerprints as they're a little more blurred than the rest.
Never noticed anything until I viewed this image.
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That's exactly where mine is at.
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I don't know if I'm doing this right. I don't really see "lines", just two boxes at the bottom that I can move left and right. Then the whole middle of the screen isn't as "dark" as the top 25%.

WillEat4F00d said:
I don't know if I'm doing this right. I don't really see "lines", just two boxes at the bottom that I can move left and right. Then the whole middle of the screen isn't as "dark" as the top 25%.
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You need to take one of the attached grey images and open it full screen on your phone so that nothing else is showing on the screen. Then follow the rest of the instructions to check for defects.
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yep mine has a black strip coming down from top to bottom.. noticed this 2 nights ago

seh6183 said:
Turn all the lights off, make sure the room is very dark.
Turn on auto brightness in settings.
Turn on auto screen power adjustment.
Click the following link and make the imagine full screen.
Look specifically for black horizontal lines going down the screen. I have one, my best friend has one in a different spot, my girlfriend has none. All bought from the same store.
http://www.webdesign.org/img_articles/8229/gllayo2.gif
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Do you mean vertical lines going down the screen?
Horizontal is left->right Vertical is top->bottom...

nomisunrider said:
Do you mean vertical lines going down the screen?
Horizontal is left->right Vertical is top->bottom...
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Haha yes thank you.
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Ya I have one too that's slightly left, same as was described already in this thread. When did you get yours? I got mine the first day, if you got yours on the same day then both screens were probably in the same batch and all have this defect. It isn't visible outside of a gray picture in complete darkness, and doesn't effect the screen otherwise, so I'm pretty sure that the screen passed QA testing wihtout anyone noticing.

everyone ive showed this to has a line from top to bottom slightly to the left....you sure its not just in the wallpaper....because ive looked at similar dark grey wallpapers with the same settings on in dark light and none of thoes have ever showed a line

mine doesnt have any !

Boobie Watcher said:
everyone ive showed this to has a line from top to bottom slightly to the left....you sure its not just in the wallpaper....because ive looked at similar dark grey wallpapers with the same settings on in dark light and none of thoes have ever showed a line
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Yes I'm sure its not the wallpaper. I can tell because when I turn the phone sideways the picture rotates but the line doesn't.

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So I swap my phone out and get a free battery

Went to Sprint and told them my pictures all had a green tint, and the screen was yellow and overall performance was laggy...all I had to show him was one green pic and he swapped the phone out. Told him battery was not that much better than the EVO and he gave me a new battery and let me keep my current battery.
Overall this phone is better. Screen is not a dull yellowish color, camera seems to be working, and the home screen lag is gone....
What HW version was your old one and what is your new one?
Most likely going to be a 0002
the green tint to the pictures is gone? mine is always doing that.
I didn't even think to look at the old HW version. This this one is 0002. The green tint is there for a second or 2 and after it auto focus, its gone. My old phone it just stayed green. And my grass looked like I was at the masters tournament and my grass don't look that damn good LOL
But the difference in scrolling through my home screens is a big difference. Even the guy there said it was pretty bad. I got the same widgets up now and its smooth
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phyba said:
I didn't even think to look at the old HW version. This this one is 0002. The green tint is there for a second or 2 and after it auto focus, its gone. My old phone it just stayed green. And my grass looked like I was at the masters tournament and my grass don't look that damn good LOL
But the difference in scrolling through my home screens is a big difference. Even the guy there said it was pretty bad. I got the same widgets up now and its smooth
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Hahahahaha the master tournament!
Oh and I couldn't run a live wallpaper at all. Phone would bog down. Now its running without a hitch so maybe I had a defective phone but now I'm not so tempted to turn this bad boy in like i was yesterday
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good to know. i will have to take mine back tomorrow then. my phone also won't play the weather live wallpaper for more than 10 sec before it freezes up.
The live weather app stops after about 10 seconds. And restarts when you turn the screen back on fyi
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The weather wallpaper does? That kids defeats the purpose of it being a live wallpaper doesn't it?
Also anyone have the little menu that allows you to select live,HTC,or gallery wallpaper have a distorted glitch as it pops up? Also when I click on HTC wallpaper and it brings up the previews of the wallpapers it takes a long time for them all to show up. It's almost like It's downloading them over a slow connection.
I'm just trying to figure this out before I take my phone back here in a couple hours.
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DualSportDad said:
The weather wallpaper does? That kids defeats the purpose of it being a live wallpaper doesn't it?
Also anyone have the little menu that allows you to select live,HTC,or gallery wallpaper have a distorted glitch as it pops up? Also when I click on HTC wallpaper and it brings up the previews of the wallpapers it takes a long time for them all to show up. It's almost like It's downloading them over a slow connection.
I'm just trying to figure this out before I take my phone back here in a couple hours.
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How long is a long time? Mine takes maybe 3 to 5 seconds.
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I'd say over 5sec the first time I look at them. Sometimes they don't even come up and I just give up all together. Also I constantly ha e stuff stop working and i have to reboot the phone. Like right now when i get a new email the notification tone isn't working. I'm not going to reboot the phone tho I'm going to show it to the Sprint store.
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Yea...that's what i would do. Your issues seem like they are beyond what the phone should be doing.
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DualSportDad said:
The weather wallpaper does? That kids defeats the purpose of it being a live wallpaper doesn't it?
Also anyone have the little menu that allows you to select live,HTC,or gallery wallpaper have a distorted glitch as it pops up? Also when I click on HTC wallpaper and it brings up the previews of the wallpapers it takes a long time for them all to show up. It's almost like It's downloading them over a slow connection.
I'm just trying to figure this out before I take my phone back here in a couple hours.
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Mine still does this. You would assume that a dual core with 1 gb of RAM wouldn't have these kinda delays. I.get the glitch in the menu as well. Think that's all software related. Hopefully there is a fix soon to knock out the kinks
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i was going to take mine in today but i didn't have time. no reboot and now all the sudden the e-mail notification sound is working. all the bugs with this phone really suck.

[TIP][HACK] Black status bar for TW roms

This is just sorta a little tip that i found...its not completely black...but close to it
1. Go into settings, and display
2. Make sure the display mode is set to standard
3. Uncheck the box that says analyze LCD brightness.
Thats it...colors should be more dark now and the status bar is not that annoying gray!!!
Aaarrgghhh my eyes!
The grey background of the settings window got so bright when I unchecked the box, it actually hurt my eyes.
I had a tf101 before the tab and I actually prefer the look of the touchwiz stuff to stock HC, but I might just be weird...
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jstockto2000 said:
Aaarrgghhh my eyes!
The grey background of the settings window got so bright when I unchecked the box, it actually hurt my eyes.
I had a tf101 before the tab and I actually prefer the look of the touchwiz stuff to stock HC, but I might just be weird...
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the background of the settings are white so....don't know what you mean by that...
you do know there is a thing called brightness right?
nice tips. thanks!
albert emmer said:
nice tips. thanks!
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Your welcome...I like it when I find totally random things that work.
Another tip, if you change dpi to 157 it will be completly black not dark gray
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hoss_n2 said:
Another tip, if you change dpi to 157 it will be completly black not dark gray
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Yeah then you won't get market updates....then that turn into more problems where the market becomes unusable...its fine until the market apk has an update...trust me...might want to go back to 160.

messaging wont change color

its stuck in white. but its set to black. changed to white, checked, changed to black checked and still white. restarted, wtill white
my international changes no problem. just rooted thats all
carhigh said:
its stuck in white. but its set to black. changed to white, checked, changed to black checked and still white. restarted, wtill white
my international changes no problem. just rooted thats all
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Mine works...
Mine doesn't change either.
Can't seem to get mine to change either.
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Same here, I'm just going to use Go SMS Pro.
Mine won't change colors either.
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Lol I thought it was just me that was going crazy.
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The demo wouldn't change at ATT either. I really hate hate hate white texting. Can't wait for a fix. And no I'm not replacing texting with an app
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Mine works...
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Can you show a screen shot please
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LOOK LOOK LOOK......
that stupid option to change the color is ONLY reffering to the box your typing in not the messaging background. i know it sucks, it had me puzzled as well. but thats the answer your looking for.
change it to black and start writing a text....the box your writing in will be black with white letters....change it back to white and the box your typing in will white with black letters and that is it.
the2rrell said:
LOOK LOOK LOOK......
that stupid option to change the color is ONLY reffering to the box your typing in not the messaging background. i know it sucks, it had me puzzled as well. but thats the answer your looking for.
change it to black and start writing a text....the box your writing in will be black with white letters....change it back to white and the box your typing in will white with black letters and that is it.
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Holy crap...... you are right. That just sux. I'm torn. Back to the international one or stay with lte LOL
I'm sure it will get fixed eventually.
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Black smudges when screen is displaying all black.

Just likr title says. When i use the free pixle test app to display black or pull up an all black photo theres little black smuges here and there. Usually no larger than a mm or 2.
Please test your devices and see if you have this as well. Be advised i had to go under the covers in my room with all my lights off. Your bathroom would work perfect too if you dont have a window in it as you need pitch black surroundings to see this.
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This is happening to a lot of folks. I don't think there's a resolution to this problem at this point. You could try to exchange if you want.
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This happens on our Skyrocket as well. But with that one the darker the screen you see lines appearing. I would guess its just the way the screen is because its on multiple devices.
Tunix2 said:
Just likr title says. When i use the free pixle test app to display black or pull up an all black photo theres little black smuges here and there. Usually no larger than a mm or 2.
Please test your devices and see if you have this as well. Be advised i had to go under the covers in my room with all my lights off. Your bathroom would work perfect too if you dont have a window in it as you need pitch black surroundings to see this.
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This is purely software related. I flashed dagr8's r2 from today and my video is fantastic now.
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small red dots problem

Dear xda,
I don't know if anyone else has this weird problem.
I had it before the .475 update, after the .475 update ot went away and now has returned in the .510+ updates.
Please look at screen shot. Top right corner. Funny that even the screenshot captures the glitch.
Only happens on black areas.
My unit is from hong kong.
Thanks
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Whoops, this one has the problem
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Forgive me but is it really top right?
I saw some on the upperightmost left corner on your first screenshot.
Or is it the one on top of the WiFi symbol?
I havent seen anything odd on the second pic..
Or is it because my phone wont load the whole pic because of slow internet connection?
Anyways, since it is visible on a screenshot, i'm pretty sure it is not an lcd/hardware issue..
Tried flashing again? The one where they say that it would fully clean your phone.. I think it is by using SEUS... :what:
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Top and left. I think that is software's problem. If that is hardware problem, you can't find any red dot in screenshot.
My device is in HK
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I can see a red dot in the second image (BOTTOM LEFT), but it's a screenshot and a hardware error shouldn't really show up on a screenshot. And the fact that the red dot is nowhere to be found on the first image says it all. Let me also guess that the red dot only appears in one specific app?
LordManhattan said:
I can see a red dot in the second image (BOTTOM LEFT), but it's a screenshot and a hardware error shouldn't really show up on a screenshot. And the fact that the red dot is nowhere to be found on the first image says it all. Let me also guess that the red dot only appears in one specific app?
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Its actually there on the first screen shot also. The resolution just isn't good. But if you zoom in you will see it.
No it isn't specific to one app. I don't believe its a hardware problem. Software for sure, went away @.475. Just wondering if anyone else got it.
Thanks,
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aaronqui said:
Its actually there on the first screen shot also. The resolution just isn't good. But if you zoom in you will see it.
No it isn't specific to one app. I don't believe its a hardware problem. Software for sure, went away @.475. Just wondering if anyone else got it.
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No red dots on any screenshot for me. I zoomed and looked everywhere, but all look normal.
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bASKOU said:
No red dots on any screenshot for me. I zoomed and looked everywhere, but all look normal.
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Red dots go away. They don't stay. I know how to emulate it.
Pull down your settings menu. At the bottom near the home button you will see your mobile providers name. There are 3 lines that indicate where you can pull up the menu again. Keep taping them. See if you can see red dots near the bottom left of the screen.
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aaronqui said:
Red dots go away. They don't stay. I know how to emulate it.
Pull down your settings menu. At the bottom near the home button you will see your mobile providers name. There are 3 lines that indicate where you can pull up the menu again. Keep taping them. See if you can see red dots near the bottom left of the screen.
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Nope nothing here. No red dots, maybe you should go to your reseller and show it.
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bASKOU said:
Nope nothing here. No red dots, maybe you should go to your reseller and show it.
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No use too. I think it is random.
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small red dot problems
i got the same problems on The top left and bottom side of my screen rooting or any other app. such as flashing ,installing different stok rom could be The solution of my mentioned problems...
Bu The way im using xperia z ultra c6802
Were you able to fix the problem? I'm still having the red issues. At least I know I'm not the only one
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