Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
Azurren said:
Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
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Sorry buddy, but It's really no prob.
It's an effect called CTR-animation (on or off)
This is an effect from an old TV turning on oder off.
So the display get crashed on a small line and goes off (CTR-off) or the display build up from white line (CTR-on)
If u using a Rom, just check ur apps for JKAY Deluxe... That's the app which manage such things.
There u can search for the two effects and turn on or off.
CHEERS ;-)
Sent from my Galaxy S2 - I9100 with SensatioN Rom!
Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
Azurren said:
Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
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Oh... Then sorry buddy.
Hmm if also on stock u maybe should think about using ur guarantee (flashing on original back first, for sure).
That's really strange.
CHEERS ;-)
Sent from my Galaxy S2 - I9100 with SensatioN Rom!
Ahhh well, was hoping I wasn't going to have to go down the warranty line
So, directly to samsung or through Mobiles.co.uk?
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
JJEgan said:
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
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Cheers guys..
Guess I'm going to be without a phone for a while
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Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
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Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
designgears said:
crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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You right, it coming back soon as I type my pin number, before pin is alright.thanks
Sent from my GT-I9100
Obecny said:
My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom
As you void warranty by rooting and or custom rom you would need to restore to original or at least stock firmware and reset the custom rom counter to zero via usb jig .
jje
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When in airplane mode it works correctly. Everyone has this problem, I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible.
Even in airplane mode it does not look like it should, its all white. But it is supposed to look like your screen distorting to red green and blue and then stretch out to the sides.
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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oh so no point to flash screeenOff animation because is lagg, and only reboot can fix, but it will come back in time?
I was think is only me like that !!! !!
OK so I agree with:
"I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible"
Every once in a while when I turn on the screen the lockscreen is upside down and all the controls are reversed. Usually I need to reboot the phone to get it out of it. Sometimes it will rotate to normal fashion on its own. This only happens when I have auto rotate enabled. I am rooted running Phantom Hackers Blazer rom latest edition(great rom by the way) and I am using magic locker for custom lock screens. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
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I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
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Ya your right I cant post there untill I get at least 10 posts here. I honestly think its more of a magic locker problem. I will try just running the stock lock screen and see if it still happens. Thanks for the input though and I will keep you posted as to how it goes.
O ya and also just out of curiosity if you think it is a rom related issue do you know of any other roms out there that are better? I do like this rom but the more I think about it you might be right because when I turn the screen off it flashes my homescreen upside down before it does the crt off animation.
Phantom Hackers Blazer Rom from the Epic 4G Touch forum ?????????
jje
A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
BigMrB said:
A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
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Thanks for that missed it .
jje
ctomgee said:
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
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WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
rbtrucking said:
WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
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If you bricked your phone, trust me, you'd know. I'm right about what? Did you flash an Epic 4G Touch ROM to your International GSII? If you did, I'm surprised it worked.
I'm guessing JKay is installed on your ROM. Did you check to see if the screen on/off animations are turned on or not? And if so, did you try turning off the screen on animation?
No I know I didnt brick it I was just asking if I could have by installing the wrong rom on here. You were right about the fact that the rom I installed was for the international galaxy and not the one I have. I am surprised it worked too but trust me it was very buggy like the screen problem and it would reboot sometimes and i would get force closes. I am going to flash that rom you recommended. The Illusion. Thank you very much again. you saved me from allot of frustration!
Alright I flashed the illusion rom but now for some reason the phone is acting very funny It is stuck in landscape mode I cant access the desktop it keeps asking me to connect to my google account but for some reason I have no service and it wont connect to my wifi. Is this a final release or is this still in production?
also now my soft keys are all messed up. They dont light up and dont do what they are originally assigned to do. Just to clarify to make sure I am using the right rom I am on a samsung galaxy s2 I9100 sprint version.
I am pretty sure this rom is not for my phone because absoluetly nothing is working. I cannot even connect it to the computer anymore. It doesnt show up.
Ok give me your phone info and how your flashing etc... full wipes?
Sent from my GT-I9100
Its the Samsung galaxy sII epic 4g touch. On the first screen when it goes on it says Samsung galaxy sII I9100 it is the united states sprint version. When I flashed I did a full factory wipe, wiped delvic, then cache partition and then I rebooted. Absoluetly nothing works! It is all messed up On my box it says sphd710kit I dont know what that is thats the only thing it says besides the esn# and the name of the phone.
Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
are u sure you have an international version? how come "sprint" come into play? if i am not wrong, international version is also call unbranded phone/european version. if i am not wrong, different carrier in USA, come with different "modified" samsung galaxy s2 (eg. T-mobile, At & t, and so on), and they are not I9100 version.
i am not sure about "sprint". someone living in US might have some idea?
btw, does your s2 has any physical button? how many touch sensitive button you have?
it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
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Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
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DUDE! what you are holding in your hand is Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710)! -_-"""
you get yourself confuse twice...
ok, let's try this, reflash the kernel, and reflash your ROM back to stock ROM. i am pretty sure the kernel is messed up and confused right now, like you!
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it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
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oh boy, bad news for you. you bricked your phone!
edit: wait a minute, so you are able to boot your phone?
hey ppl wish you a happy new year..i recently bought SII and i was wondering if there was something wrong with my display...every time the display turns on there is a white line which appears for a sec(this appears in random places on the display)and then the display turns on..i see it when i unlock,reboot,turn on...like i said before every time the display turns on..is this a software fault or hardware fault.Enlighten me..
Regardless of what kind of fault it is, you should get the phone replaced.
Sent from my GT-I9100
anto.danny said:
hey ppl wish you a happy new year..i recently bought SII and i was wondering if there was something wrong with my display...every time the display turns on there is a white line which appears for a sec(this appears in random places on the display)and then the display turns on..i see it when i unlock,reboot,turn on...like i said before every time the display turns on..is this a software fault or hardware fault.Enlighten me..
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I had it too sometimes. It's normal in my opinion.
But if you want you can try to get a replacement.
Backup data and factory reset is first step .
jje
software bug. I used to get it in GB roms, but after a bit of testing it seems it's gone in XXKP8 (4.0.3). either way imo it's too minor to warrant a replacement.
@lonathe is the problem still there in your device? or has it been solved by updating to ICS???
@JJEgan i even flashed a new rom
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@lonathe is the problem still there in your device? or has it been solved by updating to ICS???
@JJEgan i even flashed a new rom
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it's gone in ICS.
its still present am on CM9
so now u hav flashd diff roms an checked ...but the line is still there....imo let work work for some days then if dosnt go ,,go for claim...cause display is the first preference in sgs2......good luck
britness and colours droped suddenly
suddenly brightness decreased ,colors contrasts decreased and are not true for example battery icon changed from green to yellow and also when i start every page, image of last page is visible in background, i have done many software attempts like full wiping resetting changing roms but no result what should i do and why the problem issued. thanks
Hi,
How do I 100% revert to stock ??
I can flash a stock rom via Odin and lock the bootloader. if I do those 2 things .. is my tablet 100% stock again??
I'm having some problems which I believe are not really custom rom related.. So I wanna check by putting it 100% back to stock first.. and if those problems still exist RMA the poor thing..
viper2000k said:
Hi,
How do I 100% revert to stock ??
I can flash a stock rom via Odin and lock the bootloader. if I do those 2 things .. is my tablet 100% stock again??
I'm having some problems which I believe are not really custom rom related.. So I wanna check by putting it 100% back to stock first.. and if those problems still exist RMA the poor thing..
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Hello,
I had my tab sent out for repair (screen came loose), and got it back with bootloader unlocked....
But yes you can flash stock and send it in for repair.
Whats the problem if i may ask
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The screen is all messed up .. when I turn the device on .. colors are a bit fuzzy.
But after a few minutes .. lines starts to go through my screen and later on there is nothing I can see except running lines and dots running to the screen in different collors..
Strange thing is .. it also does this on the splash screen, battery charging screen, clockwork and even the bootloader screen :S...
Like my tegra2 chip is fried :S ...
I remember seeing something like this back on my 8800m geforce card .. Turned out then, that the gpu chip's soldering was just bad and it needed to reflow.. Back then it was an issue with the type of soldering nvidia used, the whole serie suffered from it..
But first off all.. I guess Nvidia learnt from that.. Second of all .. I haven't really come across others with this problem on the p7100 :S ..
Strange thing is ... I haven't really changed anything on my tab the last few weeks. I'm not overclocking..
The last few days I did notice some pixels of weird colors on my wallpaper, but I figured it was just a bug in the livewallpaper which I installed a day before (skyrim live wallpaper from the tegra market)
I dunno what happened of what exactly causes this .. but it does really sting :S..
Try flashing (stock) rom, maybe that will fix your problems.
But by the sound of it it doesnt look like a rom problem....
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Indeed thats what I figured...
Other then locking bootloader and flashing stock.. is there any other way samsung could see my device was rooted??
The thing is.. I don't overclock because the device is fast enough and I prefer battery time over extra performance. But .. if the tegra chip is somehow fried.. Samsung could blame rooting.. Which is understandable .. therefor I don't want them to jump to false conclusions.
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Hey guys, so I just updated my att galaxy s2 via kies to android ICS however after that I've ran into some problems.
After updating however I encountered a period where the screen went black and the phone kinda just died on me. After restarting I began to encounter some problems. For some reason, whenever the phone goes to sleep and and then wakes up, my screen gets flipped upside down and the screen gets really bright. Despite that, I still have to press the screen like usual. Which means that if the call button is at the top after flipping, I still have to press the bottom of my screen. Also the screen isn't perfectly flipped and there is space above the top bar.
However, the phone does work fine on bootup, and only fails after it sleeps. Also, very recently my phone just went through a screen repair after the screen cracked under the glass, but otherwise that I have no clue what's going on.
Is this just a poor repair and a hardware problem or is their another problem here?
Also I've tried a factory reset and that didn't help.
Thanks for any help you can give.
(Hopefully I got the right board)
Kovath said:
(Hopefully I got the right board)
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considering this board is all about CUSTOMIZING devices... I dunno about that. Maybe try the AT&T site?
Maybe one of our divas will be kind enough to help anyway.
Yes, I mean divas, also referred to around here as devs. I <3 u all!
Clay
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Yeah I kinda got that gist =P
but, after searching through the web, there weren't really a lot of sites that I came across detailing about my problem, but this was one of the sites that came up a lot so I was just hoping if anybody, just anybody could help me out with this.
Kovath said:
Hey guys, so I just updated my att galaxy s2 via kies to android ICS however after that I've ran into some problems.
After updating however I encountered a period where the screen went black and the phone kinda just died on me. After restarting I began to encounter some problems. For some reason, whenever the phone goes to sleep and and then wakes up, my screen gets flipped upside down and the screen gets really bright. Despite that, I still have to press the screen like usual. Which means that if the call button is at the top after flipping, I still have to press the bottom of my screen. Also the screen isn't perfectly flipped and there is space above the top bar.
However, the phone does work fine on bootup, and only fails after it sleeps. Also, very recently my phone just went through a screen repair after the screen cracked under the glass, but otherwise that I have no clue what's going on.
Is this just a poor repair and a hardware problem or is their another problem here?
Also I've tried a factory reset and that didn't help.
Thanks for any help you can give.
(Hopefully I got the right board)
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There are alot of things that could go wrong when flashing ROMs.
All of the custom ROMs here have built in safeguards which allow users to recover from issues involved with flashing. The same cannot be said about stock builds.
Unfortunately, your options are limited if you're going to stay stock. You can either try a factory reset and re-installing the update via KIES or you can call AT&T. That's pretty much it.
Personally, i'd Mobile Odin a rooted package with CWM and start flashing some of the wonderful work the developers have graciously allowed us to partake.
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Personally, i'd Mobile Odin a rooted package with CWM and start flashing some of the wonderful work the developers have graciously allowed us to partake.
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OP, I agree with the sentiment here, but you can't use mobile odin until your are already rooted. One option you could follow the guide linked in my signature to root the phone and go from there.
My personal suggest is that if you're running stock ROM, updating an official stock ROM and having problem, I call the provider for help.
My download and install went fine but I incounterd some unusual problems afterwards. My phone doesn't always keep a data signal while browsing the internet and a phone reboot makes it return. Setting browsers home to Google instead of default AT&T doesn't stick. I also had few dropped calls and very low signal bars in status bar at my house which gingerbread gave me full ones.
same here
Kovath said:
Hey guys, so I just updated my att galaxy s2 via kies to android ICS however after that I've ran into some problems.
After updating however I encountered a period where the screen went black and the phone kinda just died on me. After restarting I began to encounter some problems. For some reason, whenever the phone goes to sleep and and then wakes up, my screen gets flipped upside down and the screen gets really bright. Despite that, I still have to press the screen like usual. Which means that if the call button is at the top after flipping, I still have to press the bottom of my screen. Also the screen isn't perfectly flipped and there is space above the top bar.
However, the phone does work fine on bootup, and only fails after it sleeps. Also, very recently my phone just went through a screen repair after the screen cracked under the glass, but otherwise that I have no clue what's going on.
Is this just a poor repair and a hardware problem or is their another problem here?
Also I've tried a factory reset and that didn't help.
Thanks for any help you can give.
(Hopefully I got the right board)
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I just got my screen replaced and have the exact same problem, factory reset did not help either.
Did you managed to fix it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated