I know already a thread about diagonal flickering but this is different.
Screenshots do not show the scramble.
I just upgraded to ICS, now when I am watching videos I will get the following issues: (btw prime is in landscape mode).
a) .5 inch wide column on far left edge of screen scrambled with horizontal lines from top to bottom.
b) during this time the bottom taskbar jitters or shutters slightly by 1cm up and down.
Only way to fix it is to walk away and come back in about 15min, or reboot prime.
I have tried reset, factory defaults. Never had this issue until ICS.
Other then this issue my prime is great.
I had something like issue (a), but I can't reproduce it. It happened to me on HC, while sitting on the bathroom counter. When I picked it up, it went away, came back when I put it down, went away again when I picked it up again, and never happened again. It happened while viewing Gizmodo in a browser that opened via an RSS link in Google Reader.
I would described the lines as dancing ~1/2 inch long lines that were spaced maybe 1/8 inch apart, along the left edge in landscape mode. I didn't have the taskbar moving, but the lines did extend into the taskbar.
mikevipe said:
I know already a thread about diagonal flickering but this is different.
Screenshots do not show the scramble.
I just upgraded to ICS, now when I am watching videos I will get the following issues: (btw prime is in landscape mode).
a) .5 inch wide column on far left edge of screen scrambled with horizontal lines from top to bottom.
b) during this time the bottom taskbar jitters or shutters slightly by 1cm up and down.
Only way to fix it is to walk away and come back in about 15min, or reboot prime.
I have tried reset, factory defaults. Never had this issue until ICS.
Other then this issue my prime is great.
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I had a similar problem on HC, the unit would also lock up sometimes. I factory reset, didnt let google reinstall all my apps on my account. I just installed my apps slowly waiting to see if caused a problem. I never reinstalled all my apps, so I never did find out which, if any, it was. Its been fine ever since.
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So there's a (what I thought was a dead spot) sensitive spot near the top of my screen. It's about an inch tall and spans the whole screen wide. If you press normal to hard it'll do a instant single click. But I found out if you touch it really lightly it'll function like normal.
Now the weird part is it stays w/ the rotation. If you turn it upside down or sideways the bar always effects the same icons and widgets in its path so I don't believe its a hardware problem.
Anyone else have this problem?
i'm assuming you're using a 101 as this seems to be a normal defect of the device. there is a fix where you have to dig inside your archos to get rid of the flex or you can just make a habit of lightly touching it. it's a pain trying to drag widgets on the screen b/c of this.
you can try to recalibrate the screen to see if it may help any.
Yea on a 101 and the recalibrate doesn't help. What is this fix your talking about?
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The fix that madsquabbles is referring to can be found here:
forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=41717
(You will have to copy and paste the link. I don't have enough posts to enter a URL. )
I have also read that it may go away with time and multiple recalibrations, or that it may be caused by a "rogue" application and/or widget that has issues with the device.
http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=41717
Try that one.
For those who are still getting home screen flickering after .14 update and thinking it's a random thing, here's how to reproduce the problem regardless of docking or performance mode:
1. Go to the home screen (you should have a decent amount of apps, widgets and folders on it).
2. Bring up something that overlays the home screen. This includes:
a. Recent Apps on the left
b. ASUS (or Android) Quick Setting on the lower right
c. Mouse cursor (arrow or circle)
(Opened folders don't seem to trigger the problem.)
3. Keep the overlay on the screen and wait. Within 10 seconds you should see a big black triangle on the lower left of the screen flickering. It takes longer for the flickering to appear for the first time, but afterwards you almost always see it after a few seconds.
4. Once the overlay is gone (for the mouse cursor, just wait about 10 seconds and the cursor will disappear automatically), the flickering will not occur regardless of how long you wait!
Hopefully this issue can be addressed in the next update!! It's starting to annoy me.
P.S. The home screen will also show some very occasional black or white horizontal lines flickering. Now I think this one is truly random. Usually you need to stare at the screen for a long time to see it.
** UPDATE **
As I've mentioned in the reply, I've discovered that having News and Weather widget in the screen on either side of the center Home Screen (but not on the center screen itself) will increase the chance of reproducibility. Also, having a lot of widgets and apps on the home screen will also do it. Having more than 7 or 8 apps in Recent Apps will definitely do it.
I have the triangle thing too but only if I have a couple of apps (enough that I can scroll the list) open.
I can't recreate it but I have seen it before
You also get some 'flickering' when you have SD card mounted and some other app is updating an ongoing notification.
It seems to forget it's place and the ordering of the notifications jump around.
Same Bug here...
i can recreate it using texttab and pressing any overlay item. its irritating
I get this bug as well in .14. I don't remember seeing it in previous ICS builds (.11 or .13), but I wasn't exactly looking for it either.
I used to get this just when it was charging in the dock... now its worse.
I've found that swiping away a few apps from the recent item overlay fixes things for me whenever it happens. It's annoying though
Yes I had this issue as well but I did a Factory Reset and re-installed my apps last night and cannot reproduce this problem now. Anyone else?
I've had this bug in every build except the current one. Seems gone for me. Only problem I've (luckily) seen with my Prime.
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Before upgrading to ICS I didn't see the screen flicker at all, but now that I've upgraded I see it all the time when I use a live wallpaper
Mine occurs with use youtube & thumb keyboard
Open youtube app, quickly in the search bar, and as the keyboard and the video loads in the background it'll flicker
also as you type
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Yes I had this issue as well but I did a Factory Reset and re-installed my apps last night and cannot reproduce this problem now. Anyone else?
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Yes I finally gave in and did a complete data wipe. Initially the problem went away as expected (because the Home screens were mostly empty after the factory reset). After all the apps and Home screen states were restored, the problem came back as before, completely reproducible.
So this got me thinking: perhaps it was one of the widgets, or too many widgets/folders/apps on the home screen that's causing this flickering. I finally narrowed down to just one: the stock News and Weather widget. As long as this widget is on either side of the center home screen (but not on the center home screen itself), the flickering will appear, completely reproducible! Since this widget is not really functioning properly under ICS (no setup screen) so no lost there.
Oh, and that more-than-7-or-8-apps-in-Recent-Apps thing will also produce flickering regardless of anything, but only when you first open it up. Otherwise it works the same as other overlays if other conditions are met.
Now I have to go restore about 20GB of stuff. Factor reset wiped it all clean. The thing is, I could've figured all this out without the factory reset. Oh well.
OP has been updated.
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Yes I finally gave in and did a complete data wipe. Initially the problem went away as expected (because the Home screens were mostly empty after the factory reset). After all the apps and Home screen states were restored, the problem came back as before, completely reproducible.
So this got me thinking: perhaps it was one of the widgets, or too many widgets/folders/apps on the home screen that's causing this flickering. I finally narrowed down to just one: the stock News and Weather widget. As long as this widget is on either side of the center home screen (but not on the center home screen itself), the flickering will appear, completely reproducible! Since this widget is not really functioning properly under ICS (no setup screen) so no lost there.
Oh, and that more-than-7-or-8-apps-in-Recent-Apps thing will also produce flickering regardless of anything, but only when you first open it up. Otherwise it works the same as other overlays if other conditions are met.
Now I have to go restore about 20GB of stuff. Factor reset wiped it all clean. The thing is, I could've figured all this out without the factory reset. Oh well.
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The News and Weather made no difference for me, but the number of items in Recent Apps did. Swiping items out of the list made the triangle flicker disappear from the home screen and from within other apps.
This bug only popped up for me once the jitter came back for me - any and all overlays (including the bottom bar, notification popup, and a couple monitoring apps) constantly move up and down a few pixels. I can't capture on my cell phone because the frame rate is apparently in sync, but this video from another poster here shows it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIO2LBMG-dc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I really hope Gary and Asus will address this issue shortly.
I sometimes have a flickering and screen freeze during games like Reckless Racing 2 or some other too. A workaround is to go back to homescreen then and close the app where it happened.
Not sure if it's the same problem you guys are talking about.
Got still the 9.4.2.11 build here in germany. This never happened to me in the last weeks, but since 2 or 3 days I got it a few times while running games (without the dock).
The .14 update has greatly reduced this issue for me, but there is still a very brief flicker when showing the recent apps menu if there are a lot of apps in it
same problem
I always had this problem. I did factory reset once and the problem remained. After the .14 update, i still have the problem. Really really really want to have the problem solved..But thank you so much for telling me how to reproduce the problem
can't reproduce it either, but i still experience it once in a while. a minor bug, but still among a long list
Hello everyone
Has anyone else been experiencing graphical glitches on their tablet ever since .28 update? These glitches were completely fixed on .21, regardless of which program I used. On .28, these have returned and happen mostly in gallery, Polaris Office, and Smart Office 2 application while editing any document (PDF, word, excel) which I do ALOT.
Also, beside graphical glitches, I have also noticed an increase in Browser crashes. Again, on .21 browser crashes were almost non-existent.
I was perfectly happy with .21 with EZOverclock and custom build file. The new .28 update is really ruining the experience for me.
Is there anyway to downgrade to .21? I manually updated to .28 by placing the update file on my MicroSD card, can I downgrade that way as well?
.28 glitches
I just updated last week and began noticing these glitches.
They occur for me in the bottom left corner and makes certain rows of pixels on the back button flip the opposite direction and when in certain applications the bottom left corner/side has rows of pixels that go haywire.
I also noticed that with this update occasionally my status bar on the bottom will move a pixel row up and back down (same with the keyboard on occasion) giving a bouncing look.
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I just updated last week and began noticing these glitches.
They occur for me in the bottom left corner and makes certain rows of pixels on the back button flip the opposite direction and when in certain applications the bottom left corner/side has rows of pixels that go haywire.
I also noticed that with this update occasionally my status bar on the bottom will move a pixel row up and back down (same with the keyboard on occasion) giving a bouncing look.
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lol sweet its not just me
it was bugging me for a while lol i'm just staring at it moving up and down up and down xDD
zurcaled11 said:
I just updated last week and began noticing these glitches.
They occur for me in the bottom left corner and makes certain rows of pixels on the back button flip the opposite direction and when in certain applications the bottom left corner/side has rows of pixels that go haywire.
I also noticed that with this update occasionally my status bar on the bottom will move a pixel row up and back down (same with the keyboard on occasion) giving a bouncing look.
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This is exactly what happens to me. Particularly when viewing videos and pdfs. Sometimes I get the left edge crazy lines thing. Hate to say it but .28 does seem to be a bust for my machine, .21 was pretty sweet.
Tritium
I too was getting the glitches, I did a factory reset (several actually) and re-installed everything on my non rooted non unlocked Prime and it seems to be doing much better now.
I would mainly see the glitches while using the YouTube app or Firefox.
Defiant79 said:
I too was getting the glitches, I did a factory reset (several actually) and re-installed everything on my non rooted non unlocked Prime and it seems to be doing much better now.
I would mainly see the glitches while using the YouTube app or Firefox.
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I'll have to try some factory resets. Hopefully they'll put out a fix soon. Thanks.
I've begun to have very odd screen tearing, I'll try to describe it the best I can, as I haven't been able to get a proper screenshot of it happening, and I hope someone can help me out
Almost all the time the bottom bar, where the nav buttons and notifications are, will "jump" up and down about 1-2 pixels. It didn't notice it much at first, but it's really starting to annoy me.
When I play music, play any kind of game, open the gallery, the left side of my screen (about 1-2 cm) will start flickering and tear the picture.
When in gallery and swiping from picture to picture, the flickering/tear will start, but when just looking at a picture (aka nothing moving on the screen), it will stop completely.
The left side flicker/tear covers all the way from the top to the bottom, including the nav "back" button. The home and recent apps aren't affected.
Most of the screen flicker/tear stops when I'm just on my homescreens, the only part still affected by it is the "back" nav button.
It never happens when i'm in the browser (i use ICS Browser+).
I've tried restarting the device many times, I've tried turning it off and letting it rest for 24 hours, turned it on and within 5min it started again.
I haven't tried factory reset yet, since I wanted to check if it was fixable without doing so.
I'm currently running "almost" stock .28 update, rooted (not unlocked), I edited the SystemUI.apk, the keyboard layout for the dock and the bootanimation.
I hope someone can help me out
- Moon
PS: It isn't the old "recent apps" screen tear, it never affects recent apps.
You're experience what nearly everyone hear has experienced. Sometimes it'll fix itself, sometimes I have to reboot. So far, there's nothing you can do about it.
Hi all,
Using dolphin tonight I was loading some pics in the browser when I noticed some small horizontal lines, 1 some times 2 next to each other,
When I scroll they disappeared and come back but in differnet heights (location on screen) on the screen but seem to be very similar location towards the left, checked on my wife's sg3 and she had no issues, I also tried chrome on my browser with the same issue, they were only a few pixels wide,
No the weird thing is after I cleared sg3 cache and ended all tasks the issue went away, just wanted to see if anyone has ever seen this?
DzRBenson said:
Hi all,
Using dolphin tonight I was loading some pics in the browser when I noticed some small horizontal lines, 1 some times 2 next to each other,
When I scroll they disappeared and come back but in differnet heights (location on screen) on the screen but seem to be very similar location towards the left, checked on my wife's sg3 and she had no issues, I also tried chrome on my browser with the same issue, they were only a few pixels wide,
No the weird thing is after I cleared sg3 cache and ended all tasks the issue went away, just wanted to see if anyone has ever seen this?
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the good thing is it isn't a hardware problem. yes i had experienced that before
I've seen that a couple times. Switch to Boat Browser.