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it doesn't always happen but I noticed sometimes my screen glitches out after I take a picture and goto view it in gallery. it gets some weird lines through it, and hitting home does nothing. must turn screen off then on for it to return to norm. seems weird... i have force 2d rendering checked in dev options.. going to turn that off now and see if it still does it. but it's a weird little glitch. has anyone else seen this before?
ok I turned off 2d rendering and it still does it. It's as if the screen just fades out into black, and that's that... it's every time you take a pic and then hit the gallery icon to see the last pic.. image sense bug maybe?
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i'm so glad that i think i figured this out.
i had my screen animations set to 0.5x instead of the stock 1.0, which nobody else probably did, that's why even HTC couldn't replicate this problem when i told them. here's a video of what happens when this does it. i'm pretty sure it has to do with screen animations...i hope, anyway.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5wwa5557ap1esi/MVI_6579.AVI
I've never had this happen to me before
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it's very weird. it seems as if when you hit the gallery icon, the screen just fades out. now, it's not a screen problem, as it won't happen in any other app, so i don't believe it's hardware. i believe it's just a small little glitch. i've since reset my phone for the first time since friday, so maybe that would fix it, who knows. haven't noticed it yet.
anyone get this yet?? it happens if you quickly tap the gallery icon after taking a pic to review it. the screen fades out and you have to turn screen off then on to work again. touching the screen in this period does things.. like i did the drop down motion when my screen went black, and hit where settings would be. then I shut screen off, turned on, unlocked and bam, i was in settings.
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I have tried to replicate this, but cannot.
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damn. i really hope I don't have a bad phone. It doesn't happen always, and it's just a minor annoyance. it seems to me like a software bug switching between the camera and the gallery really quick. i'll make a video ASAP to show ya guys
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i'm so glad that i think i figured this out.
i had my screen animations set to 0.5x instead of the stock 1.0, which nobody else probably did, that's why even HTC couldn't replicate this problem when i told them. here's a video of what happens when this does it. i'm pretty sure it has to do with screen animations...i hope, anyway.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5wwa5557ap1esi/MVI_6579.AVI
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I've had my Evo for 1.5 weeks now and last Thursday I started having an odd flickering issue with the screen. On any light colors, ie pictures, lighter app backgrounds...you can see the colors flickering as if the refresh rate isn't quick enough. It's not the whole screen, only the area of color that the screen doesn't like. It started with only on max brightness, but now I can notice it on 50% brightness. I'm assuming this isn't normal and I should exchange my phone? Thanks.
Completely stock rom unrooted.
Sounds like bad backlight, replace.
I have noticed this as well. Especially going to the Play Store. The odd part is that it doesn't show up within games, at least for me.
If you turn off auto backlight does it happen? I think I see what appears to be flicker but it is the backlight adjusting. Happens when I first turn the screen on as the weather comes in. Also, it happens when I go back and forth from my messaging app to the homescreen. It is like the backlight is adjusting the brightness slightly. If I turn off auto brightness I get nothing.
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If you turn off auto backlight does it happen? I think I see what appears to be flicker but it is the backlight adjusting. Happens when I first turn the screen on as the weather comes in. Also, it happens when I go back and forth from my messaging app to the homescreen. It is like the backlight is adjusting the brightness slightly. If I turn off auto brightness I get nothing.
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Mine is not set on auto. It does it when I manually set it to around 60 percent or higher. It's not obnoxious but it is obvious on lighter colors. Light grays, some whites, light blues. Otherwise my phone is perfect and I hesitate to take it back in case a replacement brings a worse problem. I just wonder if it is something that would get worse. It has stayed the same so far.
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FYI to OP and anyone else who may see the flicker. After doing a little reading it looks like the One X was plagued with this as well. HTC released an OTA that seems to have fixed the issue. You can follow a lot of the progress regarding it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597448
Looks like it was the exact same thing that I have noticed on my device. To save you some reading, you can skip to the last 10 pages or so and see that the update they sent out fixed most peoples issues. Hopefully they will have one pushed for us at some point.
Thanks for the link. so now I don't know if I hold onto my phone and hope for an update, or go and exchange for a new one.
I want to root my phone, but not until this screen flicker is taken care of!
I ONLY have this issue in the stock messaging app. Never any other time! It's so odd. But I'm not worried because of the fact that it's isolated to an app.
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finally i know I'm not crazy!! This has been happening to me too. Hope an OTA will resolve.
I'd say maybe message HTC support and let them know so that if they aren't aware already they will be.
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diestarbucks said:
I'd say maybe message HTC support and let them know so that if they aren't aware already they will be.
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I went ahead and contacted support, I'll let you know what they say if they get back to me before I leave for vacation tomorrow. I suggest anyone else having an issue do the same.
i get a weird flicker too, but its like the app closes real fast and opens back up at lightning speed.
it doesnt look hardware related, just software.
Gordon Ramsay said:
finally i know I'm not crazy!! This has been happening to me too. Hope an OTA will resolve.
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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Sry.. more than just messaging
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There's a setting in the developers options for flickering the screen, check there?
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Rocklee99 said:
There's a setting in the developers options for flickering the screen, check there?
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That is a whole different kind of flickering, I think that option is to help induce seizures Thank you though!
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Is this happening to you in the messaging app only, or all the time? I wasn't sure who you were responding to.
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I'm having this issue too. I've only seen it maybe a half dozen times and it's always been while typing a text message if I remember correctly. Mine is just like a brief millisecond blur.
so am I one of the VERY few having this issue? It looks like it's ALL OVER the One X forums, but no one is saying anything here. Most of the replies in this thread don't sound like my issue either, but the majority of the OneX complaints sound exactly like my issue. It's isolated to lighter colors, especially grays. It gets worse as my brightness is turned up. For example, if I look at a picture, only the blues may flicker, while the rest of the picture is solid.
Anyone?
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so am I one of the VERY few having this issue? It looks like it's ALL OVER the One X forums, but no one is saying anything here. Most of the replies in this thread don't sound like my issue either, but the majority of the OneX complaints sound exactly like my issue. It's isolated to lighter colors, especially grays. It gets worse as my brightness is turned up. For example, if I look at a picture, only the blues may flicker, while the rest of the picture is solid.
Anyone?
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I am having what you are having. I did get a reply back from HTC. It was a generic reply and one of the things they suggested was to do a battery pull. This was an email I sent to the EVO 4G LTE specific thread. I just sort of laughed it off. Mine hasn't become any worse and everything else on my device is perfect, even the color balance settled in, so I just decided to hang on to it and maybe they will fix it in an update like they did with the One X.
great to see a new thread picking up more attention than the one i started. i noticed this on my first evo and replaced it twice! all three had/have the screen flicker. i strongly believe its software related like others have mentioned, so dont give up on it yet
So i got my new EVO LTE June 3 . Every thing seemed to be going smooth until i started to notice like a red flashing square everytime a page was loading in cluding pictures,music,and videos.Next when im on a call and take the phone away from my face the screen wont turn on it stays black! And now im noticing that the camera doesn't focus to well! Any suggestions on what to do thanks.
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So i got my new EVO LTE June 3 . Every thing seemed to be going smooth until i started to notice like a red flashing square everytime a page was loading in cluding pictures,music,and videos.Next when im on a call and take the phone away from my face the screen wont turn on it stays black! And now im noticing that the camera doesn't focus to well! Any suggestions on what to do thanks.
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do u have a screen protector on it?? cause i saw that for some people it was the screen protector messing with the sensor..
If I were you I'll just take it back where ever you got it from and get a new 1
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Well, for the red square flashing....that's a setting in developer options. Make sure "strict mode enabled" is unchecked. And as far as the screen not turning back on after a call or during.....like the other guy said, do u have a screen cover?? That could be a cause.
Troubleshoot your problems before you prematurely freak out and return this awesome phone.
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So when I'm on the phone, my screen will black out.. give you a good example: was talking to my wife this morning about an accident.. I was trying to take a pic while on the phone, but every time I tried to use the camera, my screen kept shutting off.. as soon as I hung up, it worked fine.. not just the camera, anything does this.. this a normal issue, or something worse?
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Sounds like the proximity sensor, try playing with it in phone settings
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So when I'm on the phone, my screen will black out.. give you a good example: was talking to my wife this morning about an accident.. I was trying to take a pic while on the phone, but every time I tried to use the camera, my screen kept shutting off.. as soon as I hung up, it worked fine.. not just the camera, anything does this.. this a normal issue, or something worse?
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Put it on speaker phone next time. Cause its the sensor. The sensor is next to the speaker on the top of the phone. So next time just put it on speaker phone
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So when I'm on the phone, my screen will black out.. give you a good example: was talking to my wife this morning about an accident.. I was trying to take a pic while on the phone, but every time I tried to use the camera, my screen kept shutting off.. as soon as I hung up, it worked fine.. not just the camera, anything does this.. this a normal issue, or something worse?
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You don't have your thumb over the sensor do u? Mine is pretty sensitive as well. If my hand even gets close to the side of the sensor my screen goes black.
This issue has been discussed in the forums before but I can't find the link I was looking for. Apparently this issue w/the proximity sensor was on some, not all, early model HTC EVO 4g LTE's and required you to send bak to manufacture for fix. I have the same issue n this works for me 'most of the time'... Just take your phone away from your ear, in upper lefthand corner wipe screen a few times with thumb/finger. I'm not guaranteeing it will work for you. Like I said, works for me.
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I have been having an issue when I close the camera on my DNA. When I close the camera the video sometimes flakes out like there is a problem with the screen. I always keep auto brightness off and I leave the brightness the whole way down. It only seems to do this when the brightness is the entire way down. When opening the camera the screen gets very bright and the problem seems to happen when the screen is rapidly getting darker when the camera closes. Like I said, I can only produce the problem when the brightness is the whole way down. Once I lock the screen and unlock it, the phone goes back to normal. I have taken multiple screenshots when the problem happens too, and they always turn out normal almost making me think its a problem with the screen.
I am rooted and running the stock deodexed ROM and I have been able to produce the same problem on UKB ROM and also Genome, however I cant seem to reproduce it on the stock odexed rom. So because of this I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the same problem? I can't really get the phone replaced when I can't produce the problem on the stock ROM.
Here is a youtube video I uploaded of the issue to show exactly what's goin on.
http://youtu.be/QAm_nTDuXa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyaoJ7tlrC8&list=UUQeWRDHdCiwUvXMksB2vr2w&index=11
same issue, different way of getting it (or same actually, i always got it going into the gallery)
whats your screen animation set to under dev options? whenever i was set to 0.5x, this would ALWAYS happen. 1.0 and above, NEVEr. now i have animations OFF, and it has never happened since.
moral of the story: don't use window transition animation at 0.5x or else this glitch occurs. it was the first thing i reported to HTC in my thread but yeah, no animations and i'm fine...and 1x animations and it's fine too
btw, my brightness was at 40% when it happened. doesn't matter what % it was for m.e
Yeah my transition animations are also set to .5 so I'll have to try it turned off. Is your phone rooted or is it running stock ROM? One of my friends has a rooted DNA and he can't produce the problem with his phone so I thought it was only mine. You are the first person I've seen have the same issue but I was hoping it was a more widespread bug and not just my phone.
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stock No root. I guarantee its the transition animations at less than 1. have him set it to that and do what I did in the video... that's how I was able to quickly reproduce it.
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stock No root. I guarantee its the transition animations at less than 1. have him set it to that and do what I did in the video... that's how I was able to quickly reproduce it.
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OK well my wife's DNA is stock unrooted and i set her transition animations to .5 and brightness all the way down and I cannot get her phone to do it in portrait or landscape. Mine has the problem constantly. I just wonder if the problem only happens on certain phones.
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OK well my wife's DNA is stock unrooted and i set her transition animations to .5 and brightness all the way down and I cannot get her phone to do it in portrait or landscape. Mine has the problem constantly. I just wonder if the problem only happens on certain phones.
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turn her brightness up. do it at 50% or so. that's when mine did it.
DUDE way to jinx me! wtf. hahaha i turned animations on to 1.0x for the first time in like 3 weeks, and after taking a pic, my screen faded out again!
ugh. anyway, it's back to off, so lets see if it does it..
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DUDE way to jinx me! wtf. hahaha i turned animations on to 1.0x for the first time in like 3 weeks, and after taking a pic, my screen faded out again!
ugh. anyway, it's back to off, so lets see if it does it..
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Haha sorry man!
BTW, I have tried everything with my wifes phone and I cannot get hers to do it. I do know one thing with mine was I use nova launcher and I had the slide transition enabled. I turned it to stock JB animations and haven't been able to get mine to do it since then. Even on .5 transition speed and brightness the whole way down. I'm just happy I don't have faulty hardware.
So recently my z ultra has been acting up there's a single black line that flickers across the screen at time and then the screen turns sort of white and whatever image is on the screen at the time of this happening stays there if you scroll to another home screen or open an app it eventually goes away if you turn the screen on and off multiple times but then it happens again sooner or later......i will upload pics or a video later to give you guys a better idea on what im talking about
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So recently my z ultra has been acting up there's a single black line that flickers across the screen at time and then the screen turns sort of white and whatever image is on the screen at the time of this happening stays there if you scroll to another home screen or open an app it eventually goes away if you turn the screen on and off multiple times but then it happens again sooner or later......i will upload pics or a video later to give you guys a better idea on what im talking about
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Go to phone > *#*#7378423#*#* > Service test > Display
If the screen is not all white then you have LCD problem.
If all white that's mean your LCD is good,maybe try flash another ROM or factory reset.
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Sounds like you're having the same problem as me. You only have a single line though, while 2/3 of my display is like this. Mine gets like this whenever it's a little under room temperature, and it's a hardware defect according to Sony.
Post some pictures though. It could be software related (if you're lucky).
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My XZU has this 1x1 cms 'purple cloud' at top mid center of screen all the time. I see it at the phone boot animation also. Its not captured on screen. So I guess its an LCD burn mark
Its visible only at medium and high brightness on a black background. Not on white background.
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So recently my z ultra has been acting up there's a single black line that flickers across the screen at time and then the screen turns sort of white and whatever image is on the screen at the time of this happening stays there if you scroll to another home screen or open an app it eventually goes away if you turn the screen on and off multiple times but then it happens again sooner or later......i will upload pics or a video later to give you guys a better idea on what im talking about
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I did a factory reset twice ...and its running the stock rom
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LordManhattan said:
Sounds like you're having the same problem as me. You only have a single line though, while 2/3 of my display is like this. Mine gets like this whenever it's a little under room temperature, and it's a hardware defect according to Sony.
Post some pictures though. It could be software related (if you're lucky).
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It does happen when the phone gets a little cold so maybe we have the same problem
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aeazy617 said:
It does happen when the phone gets a little cold so maybe we have the same problem
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Just checked out your video, and i'm having this issue too. That's called "ghosting", and that means that the response time of the screen has gone to hell. The issue gets triggered on mine when the temperature drops a little.
Try this:
- Is it functioning normally in room temperature? If yes, put the phone in your refrigerator for 2-3 minutes and see if it's still functioning properly. If not, well.. then you're having the same issue as me, and i've talked to Sony, and it's a hardware defect and you'll have to use your warrenty and get a new screen. I sent mine in for repairs today, so i'm crossing my fingers.
IF you decide to send it in for repairs, remember to call them and ask them to do whatever triggers the issue, or else they'll simply re-flash the firmware and call it a day. That's what happened to me the first time, and you don't want that to happen
LordManhattan said:
Just checked out your video, and i'm having this issue too. That's called "ghosting", and that means that the response time of the screen has gone to hell. The issue gets triggered on mine when the temperature drops a little.
Try this:
- Is it functioning normally in room temperature? If yes, put the phone in your refrigerator for 2-3 minutes and see if it's still functioning properly. If not, well.. then you're having the same issue as me, and i've talked to Sony, and it's a hardware defect and you'll have to use your warrenty and get a new screen. I sent mine in for repairs today, so i'm crossing my fingers.
IF you decide to send it in for repairs, remember to call them and ask them to do whatever triggers the issue, or else they'll simply re-flash the firmware and call it a day. That's what happened to me the first time, and you don't want that to happen
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It was working fine then I put it in the fridge for two minutes and it started malfunctioning as soon as I took it out like you said it would
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aeazy617 said:
It was working fine then I put it in the fridge for two minutes and it started malfunctioning as soon as I took it out like you said it would
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Alright, so it's the same issues as i have, and it's a production error according to Sony, so you'll have to send it in for repair. This is strangly enough only the second case where this happens, that i've read or heard about (including my own Ultra), so it doesn't seem to be that big of an issue. It could simply be an issue on a batch of Ultras that we got. It's a really strange defect though.
Alright, so I got my Ultra back yesterday with a new screen, and the problem is solved. I tested it by leaving it in my refrigerator for about 5 minutes, and there were no signs of slowdowns or other defects, so that's the way to go
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