[Q] White pixel lines in browser images? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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Half inch scrambled column with figiting task bar

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.

Here's how to reproduce home screen flickering

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.
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda premium
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
Mickeylittle said:
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.
luminus69 said:
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

[Q] .28 Update returned graphical glitches

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.
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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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.

Unresponsive touch screen.

Got it quite a few times now. I cant knock on, second screen wont scroll. Turn screen on cant unlock. Have to toggle on and off a few times or just leave it alone for a while and try again.. It doesnt respond to touches at all. Anyone else?
It's happened to me a few times as well, usually when my alarm is going off so it's doubly annoying because i can't hit snooze. I usually end up pulling the battery out for a second, but I really hope they're working on a fix for this.
I just noticed this problem today as well.
I have the AT&T model.
The top left corner of the screen (right below the double cameras) was not responsive at all until I restarted the phone.
Not sure what caused this issue.
The top left off The screen has been unresponsive a number of times. A restart works for a few hours. Then it stops working again...
clockcycle said:
Got it quite a few times now. I cant knock on, second screen wont scroll. Turn screen on cant unlock. Have to toggle on and off a few times or just leave it alone for a while and try again.. It doesnt respond to touches at all. Anyone else?
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I'm having an issue with the touch screen in the corners. Top left and bottom right are unresponsive at times, rendering the backspace button on my keyboard useless from time to time, and also won't let me start chrome from my home screen (my rightmost icon in the bottom row). On the top left, it prevents me from hitting the back button in gmail and other apps. Super annoying.
I didn't see any articles about it or find the unresponsiveness noted in any other reviews, have had the phone about 2 months now. I'm also not sure if recalibrating the screen would help since that is not in the default settings (maybe it is In the hidden menu?)
I have the T-Mobile V10.
Are any of you guys using Nova Launcher?
This started happening to me as well. I thought it was an issue with giving Nova Launcher root permission however the issue came back. There is a thread on the reddit as well with people having the same issue. I've been in contact with T-Mobile as well as LG. I'll update if I find anything else.
Sent from my LG-H901 using Tapatalk
Could we include carrier and what launcher, even if it's stock.
I ask because there's got to be a common denominator and I'm guessing it's going to be a combo - and with more info we'll be able to figure out the issue.
It can only help.
I just had this for the first time and only once during typing in whatsapp. I'm using a whatsapp mod.
which i believe is the cause for mine. i had to click the power button and then turn it on again to work, after that no problem anymore.
Same problem. I have the Verizon lg v10 stock. The left too corner under the cameras goes dead and won't respond until I reboot. After reboot all is fine for a few hours, then boom, it happens again.
I thought it was an issue with just my phone cuz I couldn't find anything about it, went to Verizon for the 14 day worry free guarantee, got a brand new one out of the wrapper, all was fine for a day, then same issue.
Same issue here. The upper left corner of my screen will become unresponsive at times and the only thing to fix it is a reboot. I have AT&T stock V10.
Not just an LG issue.
I have a ZTE ZMAX. In the last few days it is doing the same thing. The dead spot in the top left follows the rotation of the screen. I have done a factory reset and problem returned. Seems like its a problem for many phones. It happens with the original launcher and Zeam launcher as well. It would be great if someone figured this out.
I have the same issue with my verizon v10, i have not found out the cause but i did find something that works for me. I reset my app preferences in application manager and everything went back to normal and no issues since. Hope this helps
@jstringn1 thanks for the info I'll try it out.
Honestly it's sounding like and android issue.
Hopefully Google addresses it soon.
SAME. Just bought the V10 on Sunday and I've already noticed the same thing; the upper left hand side of the screen is unresponsive. It seems to ONLY be for certain things though. Stupidly I rebooted to fix it before I fully tested that theory, but I think it's only with certain things. For example, when I open GoogleMaps, I can't hit the "Menu" button in the top right hand side. But if I close the app and go to a screen where I have an App in that same corner, tapping on it seems to open it right up. I hope that info helps to troubleshoot....because I'm ready to take this phone back....but not before I post my review on my YouTube channel.
@jstring I just tried your suggestions. Seems to be ok thus far, but I'll check back in with you all later to let you know if the issue has come back. Because a reboot fixes too...but only temporarily. We'll see.
jstringn1 said:
I have the same issue with my verizon v10, i have not found out the cause but i did find something that works for me. I reset my app preferences in application manager and everything went back to normal and no issues since. Hope this helps
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Did you go to Settings -> Device -> Apps -> Downloaded -> More Options (three dots) -> Reset app preferences?
If so, I tried this , but the top left corner of the screen is still unresponsive.
I also completed reset my phone to factory. No Nova launcher or anything else.
Really puzzled here.....
New findings:
Every time when I open the LG music app (the purple one that came preinstalled), it will trigger the issue. (Please try this on your phone and post your findings )
same issue here
the bttom right is not responsive
and i need to restart it every now and then
i am using it without any mods
but
any one would relate this issue with the latest update as as far as i remeber it showed only after the software update
my software version is
V10 ame xx
I think it started happening after I got the AT&T update. Didn't think it was related, since Verizon V10 has the issues too.
Same here
Verizon
stock
Nova Launcher
Top left unresponsive, follows on rotate
Reboot fixes for a few hours
cHiLLyWiLLy78 said:
Verizon
stock
Nova Launcher
Top left unresponsive, follows on rotate
Reboot fixes for a few hours
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Did your phone get an update from Verizon recently?
v10 AT&T, has the issue. Using NOVA Launcher. Willing to change launchers if I can use that back button.

Question Jittery images in Google Photos galery

Hi folks,
I've got a VERY STOCK NON-ROOTED Pixel 6. It's fully up to date including the latest June update that I took this morning; all apps up to date.
For several days, maybe a week or more (who knows how long, but not more than a month), images in Google Photos appear jittery. These are static photo images, no animation or re-rendering should be needed. but, if I watch that screen, some, not all of the photos in there, look like they are being re-rendered, ever-so-slightly differently (like off by a pixel, back and forth) flickering maybe two or three times a second, on the Google Photos home screen (the one you get as soon as you launch the app, before scrolling and tapping into any particular picture) When the flicker happens, typically the main picture in the middle of the screen and at least one of the partially visible pictures below it will flicker at the same time. If I don't touch it, the flicker sometimes settles down after some time (20-30).
Anybody else see this? It's easy for me to reproduce: just make sure Photos is closed, then tap on the home screen icon for Google Photos. The flicker persists if you scroll down; it's not just the pics at the top that flicker/jitter. Again, it settles down afte some amount of time. It's only this app, not the phone generally, and only for the first half minute or so of using the app before closing it.
Any ideas what's going on here?
I'm curious if I'm the only one seeing this. I'd be interested to hear replies even if it's just "me too" without any ideas for solution.
My present theory, which accounts for it "settling down" over time is that after it loads the visible initial pictures, it's still loading pics below into memory to have them ready for scrolling; this loading action may trigger occasional redraws that cause the jitter I see.
Frankenscript said:
I'm curious if I'm the only one seeing this. I'd be interested to hear replies even if it's just "me too" without any ideas for solution.
My present theory, which accounts for it "settling down" over time is that after it loads the visible initial pictures, it's still loading pics below into memory to have them ready for scrolling; this loading action may trigger occasional redraws that cause the jitter I see.
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I've been trying to help a friend with a Pixel 6 Pro with this exact thing happening, so it's not just you. (I just checked mine, and while I hadn't noticed it before, I can see it happen on a larger image on my Pixel 6 Pro as well.)
I have pixel 6 pro I don't have that problem I think I found out why it has an update I just checked now

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