I have two DNAs (Work/personal) and both are now showing 3~5 white pixels near the edges of the display. There were no dead nor stuck pixels when I purchased them, but 2~4 white pixels are stuck permanently and 1~3 pixles flashes randomly on both devices now. I have tried leaving the phones off for 24 hours and rapidly screening solid colors to see if the white pixels go off, but they still remain permanent. Other people can't see them, but as I have abnormaly good near-sighted eyes, they are irritating, especially in dark environments.
My only guess is that changing the voltage/clock speed caused this, since it happened after installing the Cube kernel (NOT blaming the kernel nor its developer.) with adjustments to voltage and clock speed settings. Or perhaps the 1080p LCD panels are just more vulnerable to pixel-related defects than lower resolution LCD panels.
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I also have several stick pixels, but I have not even flashed a new rom yet so I doubt it has anything to do with ocing
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I have had stuck pixels for a while after undervolting the screen voltage output on my Galaxy S before, so I would say that it is probable.
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I had two white pixels on two different DNA's until I got my third one which didn't have any. In short, I don't have a DNA anymore so I couldn't say if my third would have developed these.
I did a Google search at the time and we definitely aren't alone unfortunately.
Good luck if you get replacements!
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I had several dead pixels in the middle of the screen and it looked horrible. I factory reset to stock and it didn't go away so I too it back to VZW. The salesman looked at it for two seconds and said it was bad and instantly ordered me a new one. The entire casing of the phone creaked really bad before and even worse after the plug broke off the bottom so maybe I had a lemon.
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Hey everyone, normally there is a setting under development that you can put a check to leave the screen on while charging the GSII. I looked and no box to check. Anyone know if there is a different way to do this on the GSI?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1288070
Probably not a good idea. AMOLED screens can suffer from burn in. Likely why Samsung removed the option. Many Nexus One owners will testify to this because they have a faint image of the Froyo notification bar forever on their screen.
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Correct. Burn in is a real concern on any OLED/AMOLED screens as blue pixels have very short life span. Don't leave it on for extended period. Don't use the max brightness all the time.
Thanks everyone. That makes sense, they removed this option from the phone. I always use the Auto brightness on my GSII. I did always use this option on my Nexus S to leave screen on while charging.
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I use screebl from my htc inspire and it seems to work good on this device.
Inspire is a LCD screen and won't get burn-in. DON'T do it for any OLED/AMOLED screens. You get burn-in very easily.
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Inspire is a LCD screen and won't get burn-in. DON'T do it for any OLED/AMOLED screens. You get burn-in very easily.
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I've left my Cappy AMOLED screen on for hours at a time and pretty much always while charging. I've never had (or heard of) any issues with burn in. Is the AMOLED Plus on the SGSII the issue or am I just lucky with my Cappy?
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I've left my Cappy AMOLED screen on for hours at a time and pretty much always while charging. I've never had (or heard of) any issues with burn in. Is the AMOLED Plus on the SGSII the issue or am I just lucky with my Cappy?
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Sometimes you will have to be on special background to see the effect. A lot of Captivate onwers, Galaxy S owners and Samsung Focus owners found out the hardway. Just search screen burn-in in the respective forums. The blue pixles used to be only 2000 to 4000 hours of life span. I'm pretty sure Samsung has improved it to something like 8000 to 14000 hours but there is no specifics released by Samsung. So, you can count those hours to see how that will affect your screen burn-in.
Some phone screens get burn-in quite easily than others. So there is manufacture variations as well. I personally don't want to risk it. It's easier to get burn-in on these screens than today's Plasma TVs which typically has 80,000 to 100,000 hours half-brightness lifespan, or 10 times less likely to get burn-in than our phone screen. And TVs usually display motion videos instead of static text on the phone.
Thanks for clearing it up. Agreed--I do not want to risk it.
So being that im a tv whore (own a krp kuro) i was playing some pioneer demo material on my gs2. The demo has a ton of awesome dark scenes that really show off how black these amoled displays can get.
There was one part where there was just a black screen for about 10 seconds. Since i was in a dark room my eyes adjusted and noticed all these Blotches all over the black screen. Is this normal? I see it on a 100% black background that i created as well. Any one else have this issue? It kinda dumb i know since i only see this in a dark room with a black screen but its bugging me now. I would be devastated if my kuro looked like that in a dark scene so my phone isnt any different.
Im on a bravia engine Rom with screen mode on movie.
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Normal, and might have come up in searches for "screen." People have complained here, asking people to go in closets and perform rituals to see if spots and lines appear. I will have your TV now. Thank you.
Righto. So I just took a picture of all black, then let my eyes adjust to the screen in the dar.... AND HOLY MOTHER OF MAY I? YES YOU CAN, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY SCREEN?!
Are all screens like this? Is there something that causes this? Because I honestly don't remember ever seeing these blotches on my screen, and i even looked once before.
Now it's so bad it looks like my phone has some venireal disease or skin-touchscreen cancer.
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Seems like people are getting into a very humorous mood with the holidays, and it's spilling over to even serious threads.
What you describe is a defect of the screen. When the phone first came out, and for the first few weeks, there were a number of people who reported problems with the screen. The way to test the screen that was suggested at that time is exactly what you did with the black screen in a darkened room. I tried that test, and my phone has a completely black screen, with no light patches.
For some reason, there havn't been many reports at all since the first few weeks. You are only the second person I've seen to mention it, I think, since then.
The people that had the bad screens just exchanged their phones until they got a good one. Of course, at that time everyone was still within the 30 day period.
I was bein serious creep. I might have been comical in reply, but i genuinely want to know why my screen looks like crap now.
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lol. Actually I was calling brent8577 out for humor more than you. Anyway, it's a holiday and we all have the fun loving spirit.
Thanks for the replies. I see if i can find one with out blotches at best buy
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I have a blotchy screen.don't care too much to replace it. I should check my g/f's...
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Actually, I'm quite certain this isn't a defect. In fact, it's just something that samsung says comes along with the Amoled technology, if you do a thorough search in google, you'll find multiple articles stating this. Do I think that since samsung screwed up on all these screens they are just saying that? Absolutely. But I also think that anyone who says they don't have it at all just maybe doesn't have it as bad. When I had the T989, it was so visible it annoyed the **** outta me, and it wasn't just splotches, but it was lines and stuff too. Now, I'm on my 2nd i777, and the first one had the splotches, not too bad though, and the current one I have is even less, but it is there, although you really have to stare and allow your eyes to adjust to see it. I think the next generation of amoled displays should have this little kink worked out, but if you look on the Razr forums, the t989 forum, and the skyrocket forum, they all have it as well. Its an all around AMOLED issue, and i dont think any displays with a Super AMOLED+ display are without it.
I'm the one who said my phone has a completely dark screen with no light patches. Well, that was a couple of months ago that I tested it, and I decided to do another test today. My house has a room with no window, so it is easy to get a completely darkened room.
When you put a black image on the screen in a dark room, the screen is not completely black. If you set the screen timeout to 30 minutes, and let your eyes completely adjust to the dark, the screen actually looks rather light, a sort of greyish. But the shade of grey and amount of light intensity theoretically should be uniform across the screen.
My screen is actually pretty uniform, but there is a slight gradation to darker arount the edges, a little more pronounced toward the top and bottom than on the sides. There is one very tiny area at the very top of the screen right on the edge directly below the AT&T logo, that is significantly darker than the rest of the screen. The difference in light intensity is not very much, but it is noticable.
The gradation of light intensity on this screen is so slight that it would be impossible to detect any difference in light intensity in normal screen use. People who have reported this problem are the ones whose screen is so variable, that they can see the difference during normal screen use. And if you would test one of those screens in a dark room, I'm told you would see a very marked difference in the light intensity.
So I say that if a screen is such that you can tell the difference when using the screen under normal conditions, then it is defective. But what Samsung or AT&T will say and do about it, I don't know. I havn't seen any reports from anyone that has tried to exchange their phone for that reason.
I tested screen out last night too and saw a few darker splotches around the bottom and side. Then my ocd kicked in. I was considering exchanging the phone today, but after reading this thread decided against it. Thank you all for the info
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I'm not really concerned if my screen suffers from this but I have a question:
If it matters, at what brightness is your screen set to when you do this?
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I had mine set to maximum brightness.
My screen also has the blotchiness but honestly i cant think of one time where this was a problem. you just dont notice it ever in day to day use and if you have to get in a dark room with an all black screen to notice it then i dont care.
I didn't want to start a new thread so I'll bump this one...
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Actually, I'm quite certain this isn't a defect. In fact, it's just something that samsung says comes along with the Amoled technology, if you do a thorough search in google, you'll find multiple articles stating this. Do I think that since samsung screwed up on all these screens they are just saying that? Absolutely. But I also think that anyone who says they don't have it at all just maybe doesn't have it as bad. When I had the T989, it was so visible it annoyed the **** outta me, and it wasn't just splotches, but it was lines and stuff too. Now, I'm on my 2nd i777, and the first one had the splotches, not too bad though, and the current one I have is even less, but it is there, although you really have to stare and allow your eyes to adjust to see it. I think the next generation of amoled displays should have this little kink worked out, but if you look on the Razr forums, the t989 forum, and the skyrocket forum, they all have it as well. Its an all around AMOLED issue, and i dont think any displays with a Super AMOLED+ display are without it.
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So I've noticed lines and stuff when I go into the market/google play (the grey shows multiple verticle and horizontal lines, but I have to look a little hard. Not too big a deal.) However, I tried using auto brightness which defaults much lower than I had it set to manually and the screen shows tons of lines everywhere. For instance, I use ryude's unoriginal rom, and with the stock messenger (bright white) I get a ton of lines. I was wondering how many people use auto brightness and if anybody else has this issue. I'm out of the 30 day replacement warranty, but I have an upgrade coming up soon so I'm not super worried about it. But still...
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Actually, I'm quite certain this isn't a defect. In fact, it's just something that samsung says comes along with the Amoled technology, if you do a thorough search in google, you'll find multiple articles stating this. Do I think that since samsung screwed up on all these screens they are just saying that? Absolutely. But I also think that anyone who says they don't have it at all just maybe doesn't have it as bad. When I had the T989, it was so visible it annoyed the **** outta me, and it wasn't just splotches, but it was lines and stuff too. Now, I'm on my 2nd i777, and the first one had the splotches, not too bad though, and the current one I have is even less, but it is there, although you really have to stare and allow your eyes to adjust to see it. I think the next generation of amoled displays should have this little kink worked out, but if you look on the Razr forums, the t989 forum, and the skyrocket forum, they all have it as well. Its an all around AMOLED issue, and i dont think any displays with a Super AMOLED+ display are without it.
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This. I am on my fourth phone and all of the screens have been jacked up with splotches. Some worse than others.I'm going with a super amoled+ thing and less of a defect. Don't get me wrong, it drives my ocd nuts knowing that its there, I just try to avoid situations where you can see the splotches.... especially if I'm trying to show the phone off lol
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I just recently bought a refurb S2 from ATT as an upgrade. I also just read up on how these screens quickly burn out and leave imprints from static images. So for you guys that have had this phone since launch, how bad is it? Is it even noticeable?
I saw this video and it looks pretty terrible : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdbTuMamqSA
Wow that's bad! Best way to protect yourself is to get a screenprotector...
Honestly, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Burn in is about the same on most display panels. You would have to leave you screen on permanently for extended periods of time to experience anything like what the host of that video is talking about. This is the first I've even heard of it and I've had the same gs2 since launch.
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Don't fret it man, I've had my captivate since launch day and have yet to experience any screen burn it.
I bought my phone the day it released. I use my phone a lot and I have yet to see what you shared with that Video on my phone. I think you'll be alright.
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Wow that's bad! Best way to protect yourself is to get a screenprotector...
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Uhhhhhhhh. No.
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Mine has some slight burn in in the status bar, nothing really major but it's noticeable on all blue or light gray backgrounds and low brightness.
At first it drove me crazy but you kinda get used to it and I now don't mind it.
By the way, the i9100 forum has more topics on this if you want a reference.
i got my refurb from AT&T a little over a week and a half ago and my screen is pretty bad in low light conditions. i dunno if its screen burn in but there are noticeable blotches on the screen when dark images are shown. luckily you cant really see it during normal conditions.
The only devices I've ever seen with burn-in are store display units - which are kept with the screen on nearly all the time displaying the same damn thing.
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The only devices I've ever seen with burn-in are store display units - which are kept with the screen on nearly all the time displaying the same damn thing.
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The SG2 is especially bad about this since they usually don't play any "demo" on that model in the stores, the phone is kept on the home screen all hours of the day and night, or at least that's what the AT&T reps told me
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After a few months I noticed that the the color is slightly off in full screen apps where the notification area is. I do tend to keep the screen on quite a bit though.
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Don't fret it man, I've had my captivate since launch day and have yet to experience any screen burn it.
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My Cappy before the digitizer broke on me, had burn in from the status of time/signal strength. My GS2 no issues at all.
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i got my refurb from AT&T a little over a week and a half ago and my screen is pretty bad in low light conditions. i dunno if its screen burn in but there are noticeable blotches on the screen when dark images are shown. luckily you cant really see it during normal conditions.
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That isn't burn in. It's just variance during the manufacturing process.
Have had phone from the 1st day it came out. No problems here.
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Have had phone from the 1st day it came out. No problems here.
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Same here, got it release day and have had no problems. I usually keep auto brightness on but towards the dim side. Screen is plenty bright anyways.
I can vouch for amoled screens getting some burn in if you're not careful. My nexus one has a permanent mail box burned in from a text message reminder app that I used to use that would keep the screen awake with that static image. I'm sure all screens will do this though and I'm just more careful with this phone
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The ICS launchers have caused burn in on my screen because of the app drawer launcher. You don't notice it unless you are on low light levels with a grey image though.
I got my hands on a Razr x910 and it has screen burn. what are my solutions for this? Can i order a screen from someplace on the web ? what are my options?
please post a picture, i ve never seen a problem like this in a so short amount of time
Do you mean like black dots when the the screen is black?
I thought only plasma screens have burn marks
There are a couple apps that can attempt to reverse it, like Display Tester, fixes the burn by scrubbing the pixels with white and black nars, try it, couldnt hurt
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here is a picture of the burnt screen. its a yellowish tinge in the screen. whenever there is a white or light screen you can usually see them. However it doesnt effect games/videos, so its not to bad..
I ran that display tester and no luck!
I'm not even absolutely certain that's screen burn. AMOLED is kind of notorious for... inconsistent... colors (especially whites). And the RAZR in particular has some artifacts that are especially visible in the dark. They don't impair usage generally. But then the display I'm on typing at the moment isn't the best so it's hard for me to be sure how bad it is on your screen.
EDIT: scratch that, looked closer and I can make out the launcher icons at the bottom. That kind of sucks, actually.
its not to bad, and again only on light screens. I am always going to run a dark background so its unnoticeable. But when i run into some extra money ill just buy a new screen This place http://www.repairsuniverse.com/motorola-razr-lcd-screen-replacement.html
seems legit for a not bad price.
Might want to turn down your screen-on time as well. The only other RAZR I've seen like that was the demo unit at the Verizon store & its screen is on all the time.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... I've never heard of this on a mobile device, a tablet, or a laptop. Although cheaper LCD TVs (like my POS Westinghouse) can have it happen. An impractical solution would simply be to leave it off for a few days. But, that's not going to happen with a phone. If you can find a video of static... like a TV screen on a channel with no signal... and can have it run in a repeating loop, leave it plugged in and run it over night. The random white/black pixels will clear out LCD burn in. It might take a few sessions.
There's an app called JScreenFix that can be used to exercise the display as well. This issue was a problem on the first generation Fascinates. The samoled screens would retain the image of the status bar clock or the whole status bar.
Technically, it's not burn-in I guess, it's more like pixel degradation in certain color spectrums.
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Hi!
My Atrix began to develop what seemed to be standard dead (black, unmoving) pixels at first. The dead pixels started spreading as they do quite normally as well.
But then I saw that they are actually translucent grey as in I can kinda see text and other things behind the 'dead' pixels since the 'dead' pixels get darker if text is meant to be on it.
Also, the 'dead' pixels move. MOVE. Like from one place to another. They don't move very far, but they definitely move, leaving a working pixel behind where the 'dead' pixel originally was.
You might want to know that the glass in front of the digitizer and the lcd is cracked from dropping (so touch works totally fine) but the 'dead' pixels started appearing about 8 months after the drop. The dead pixels are nowhere near the main impact point.
Can anyone help me fix this? Since it seems they aren't actually 'dead' is there a way to repair the pixels somehow? I have tried rubbing the pixels with some pressure with my fingers/wet cloth etc. but they didn't work.
PS: Warranty is void since I dropped the phone and because the warranty time finished.
Cheers
Honestly, sounds to me like you got some dust in between the layers that make up the TFT display. Not sure what to do, since this is an extremely tricky operation... I've had something like that on a few screens (not on the Atrix though), what I do is usually just simply get used to it.
Definitely not dust. Its clearly pixels.
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