The screen on my Note II flickers for no apparent reason. Can anyone suggest a fix?? Thanks in advance.
beckmill said:
The screen on my Note II flickers for no apparent reason. Can anyone suggest a fix?? Thanks in advance.
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Return it if you can.
There seems to be a lot of issues with the screen. Color variance, brightness variance, dead spots, etc... I would jsut return it if i can.
might be a long shot but does disabling hardware overlays in settings/dev options do anything?
Oh, i forgot to mention too... i had this issue before. do you have power saving settings enabled? one of the settings is use low power for screen/change bg color in internet.
take it off and see if that helps.
Another thought, do you have Auto brightness on? If so the changes in brightness on this phone are not very smooth, it's kind of stuttery and looks like flickering a little bit.
beckmill said:
The screen on my Note II flickers for no apparent reason. Can anyone suggest a fix?? Thanks in advance.
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Mine only flickers in my email..it only started on the ROM I'm on now.
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Is it just me, or is there some problems with the auto brightness feature on this phone? From time to time the screen suddenly get a lot darker, even without the lightning in the room changing at all.
My phone is Telenor(Norway) branded, with the firmware: PDA:XWKF3| PHONE:XXKE7| CSC:TENKF1
Did some searching on the issue, and found some articles saying this should have been fixed in a firmware update, checked with Kies and i got the latest firmware, so either this wasn't really fixed, or is there something weird with my phone? Or something else maybe?
Nitrius said:
Is it just me, or is there some problems with the auto brightness feature on this phone? From time to time the screen suddenly get a lot darker, even without the lightning in the room changing at all.
My phone is Telenor(Norway) branded, with the firmware: PDA:XWKF3| PHONE:XXKE7| CSC:TENKF1
Did some searching on the issue, and found some articles saying this should have been fixed in a firmware update, checked with Kies and i got the latest firmware, so either this wasn't really fixed, or is there something weird with my phone? Or something else maybe?
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I notice this, but its always because I'm holding my phone in landscape do my fingers cover up the lightsensor...
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norpan111 said:
I notice this, but its always because I'm holding my phone in landscape do my fingers cover up the lightsensor...
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Yeah that happens alot with me. No worries just watch your fingers, boy
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Yep your hand is over the sensor. I run with it disabled since it doesn't work well at all, and it's so easy to manually adjust brightness by swiping the notification bar.
Gotten a clearer view on what the problem is now, the auto brightness it self seems to work, but it's a bit slow and very direct. If am in a light environment and it gets dark, it doesn't start lowering brightness right away, but it takes 3-5 seconds and boom brightness goes very low. That's why i thought it was something wrong with it.
In my opinion they need to smooth the auto brightness out, and let it react faster, would make it a lot better.
My Sony Tablet S gets into auto dim when I am using it with battery. This is irritating.
Does any one have a fix for this issue or is it a known issue with this product.
Would be greatful if someone could help
seenuyal said:
My Sony Tablet S gets into auto dim when I am using it with battery. This is irritating.
Does any one have a fix for this issue or is it a known issue with this product.
Would be greatful if someone could help
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Dont have that problem, if it gets darker i just touch the screen and voila its bright
Mahaco said:
Dont have that problem, if it gets darker i just touch the screen and voila its bright
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Tried and does not work with my Tab.
Any other suggestions / solution, please help.
Unfortunately the "Dim Bug" forced me to return my Mega 6.3
You can read more about it here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382134
Sometimes the screen on my i9205 dims the screen down to maybe 50% brightness even though I have manually set it to 100% and the screen timeout to 10min. When checking the brightness slider it's still at 100% and there's nothing I can do to make the screen bright again besides rebooting the phone. Anyone else seeing this "Dim Bug"?
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Brgds... /Tubgirl
I have the exact problem as well.
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Refund or replace Tubgirl?
Tubgirl said:
Unfortunately the "Dim Bug" forced me to return my Mega 6.3
You can read more about it here --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2382134
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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its a factory mistake you should have told them to replace it
Troute said:
Refund or replace Tubgirl?
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Warnahly said:
its a factory mistake you should have told them to replace it
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I was going to ask for a replacement unit because I really liked the Mega, but after starting the dim bug thread I noticed that I wasn't the only one with this problem so I asked for a refund instead.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
This does not sound like a hardware problem.
If Samsung acknowledges it they should be able to fix it by an update.
It's a feature, when the phone gets hot its reduces the brightness.
SquirtingCherry said:
It's a feature, when the phone gets hot its reduces the brightness.
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First of all... if it is a feature it very poorly implemented. There should be a message about it and the brightness slider shouldn't stay at the maximum position while forced at 50%.
Is there a program that can display the temperature you claim dims the screen? When it happened to me I could see the battery temp on my homescreen and it was only 33°C... not warm at all.
I really hope this is a bug and not a feature, because if it's a feature then I will never be able to buy the Mega again.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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Tubgirl said:
First of all... if it is a feature it very poorly implemented. There should be a message about it and the brightness slider shouldn't stay at the maximum position while forced at 50%.
Is there a program that can display the temperature you claim dims the screen? When it happened to me I could see the battery temp on my homescreen and it was only 33°C... not warm at all.
I really hope this is a bug and not a feature, because if it's a feature then I will never be able to buy the Mega again.
Brgds... /Tubgirl
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Does your screen dim when the phone gets hot? I heard in another website that the Mega displays 'brightness adjusted to avoid overheating' before it dims. Never happened to me though and I have played NFS for hours on my Mega that is inside a gel case. Could be a software issue that can be corrected with an update.
I don't think it was a heat issue. Wasn't playing games or doing anything intense... just web browsing and reading. Didn't use a case.
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Hi everyone.
I love the TrueSmart but I've got a problem with the screen.
There's a flicker on it. The whole screen flickers and it's particularly noticeable when the background is white or any other light colour.
Has anyone else experienced this and what are my chances of getting it fixed or replaced under warranty?
Thanks for any advice in advance,
HRH.
sounds normal, mine too
jeremy.chan said:
sounds normal, mine too
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Shouldn't be normal though. Anyone else? In fact does anyone have a TS with a screen which doesn't flicker?
DrHRH said:
Shouldn't be normal though. Anyone else? In fact does anyone have a TS with a screen which doesn't flicker?
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now THAT'S not normal lol
jeremy.chan said:
now THAT'S not normal lol
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Sorry, your comment is really unclear - does your screen flicker or not?
DrHRH said:
Sorry, your comment is really unclear - does your screen flicker or not?
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FWIW mine does not, at least I've not noticed it - recent batch - does screen brightness setting have anything to do with it?
Ozpeter said:
FWIW mine does not, at least I've not noticed it - recent batch - does screen brightness setting have anything to do with it?
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Now that's a helpful comment. Thank you. If I set the screen brightness to maximum then the flicker goes away. Not ideal, as I've never set any device to max brightness in my life. Never needed to. But at least the flicker goes away.
I just hope it doesn't make the rubbish battery life even worse.
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Now that's a helpful comment. Thank you. If I set the screen brightness to maximum then the flicker goes away. Not ideal, as I've never set any device to max brightness in my life. Never needed to. But at least the flicker goes away.
I just hope it doesn't make the rubbish battery life even worse.
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Ah. I was thinking more in terms of down rather than up (but I didn't say so...). Indeed, it's bright in the first place and raising it will probably have an impact on battery life.
I think Lokifish reported some time ago that the screen was ridiculously over bright even at the minimum setting and that there was no change in brightness if raised over 50%.
I used Lux on mine to drop the brightness way into negative values. I have noticed no annoying flickering, but there were early reports of nasty flickering on some samples back last Fall.
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Well i am calling it a possible fix as i am still testing it. I am talking about the full brightness issue that many others are facing too. The issue was the brightness would still vary automatically depending on the ambient light even when the auto brightness was switched off. So when you are in a dark room even if you wanted you could not turn the brightness to 100%. Initially when i just bought the phone for few days i felt the screen looked a little less brighter compared to how it looked in the showroom, so when i searched for it found out that so many of them out there have the same issue. You can just test it by switching off the auto brightness and keeping the brightness to 100% in a dark room and when you project a flash light or some light source on the sensor next to the ear piece the screen would get brighter and when you take off that light the screen would again become a little dimmer. I for a second thought it could be some kind of feature as well. But what ever that was i dint like it as could not pump up the brightness in a dark room to its full capacity even if i wanted it. And thats such a shame for such a beautiful display.
So i first wanted to flash some custom ROMs and see if that makes any difference. First i flashed a custom rom from the S6E android development section but the issue still persisted and after a day's observation i again flashed a ROM today from the s-6--s-6-edge-unified-development thread and after flashing the ROM i went in to settings-accessibility-vision-colour adjustment and switched it on, since then the brightness varied just once right after the colour adjustment was switched on but now i am continuously able to pop up the brightness to 100% even in the low light area and seems like the issue has been fixed !! I have been observing it for the last 3 to 4 hours.
So who ever has this issue can try this out and let me know if it worked. I would not say the ROM installation is a must, first try turning on the colour adjustment under settings-accessibility-vision-colour adjustment and if it doesnt work then try flashing the ROM and again doing the colour adjustment and let me know if it worked for you !! But after what ever changes you make do a reboot and give it an hour or so.
EDIT : As i was still testing it unfortunately the bug showed up again so i finally decided to flash an S6 ROM ( Not S6 edge) on to my S6E and to my surprise the issue was solved !! Now i can confirm that its just a software bug and hopefully samsung will fix it !! If any one wants to try flashing a flat S6 ROM let me know i will leave a link here with the kernel to be flashed. Hopefully this helped !!
I will test it..thanks for this
Can somebody confirm this as a possible solution to the bug?
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the problem stills persists
LuanTeles said:
the problem stills persists
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Ok so unfortunately samsung still has to work to solve it. I start to think it's really a serious issue if after 2 months there is still no solution. Samsung addressed the issue about the toggles desappeared almost immediately because it was probably really easy to solve...
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I'm surprised not everyone is using lux. Just get the app and be done with it..
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I'm surprised not everyone is using lux. Just get the app and be done with it..
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I tried with that also. Doesn't solve the issue unfortunately
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What about reset or Odin stock.
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What about reset or Odin stock.
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Unfortunately doesn't solve it as well
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Must be a feature then, or some other reason Sammy did this.
On a side note, why worry about this? It's not a practical issue, is it?
Oliv3 said:
I'm surprised not everyone is using lux. Just get the app and be done with it..
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I'm surprise so many people still recommend Lux app when it is useless for this issue. The issue is that the phone always has some autobrightness turned on even when we set it to be off. Even when you set Max brightness in Lux app, it's still only Max what the phone will do without Lux. Therefore, for those that want super bright all the time, Lux is useless.
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nyknight77 said:
I'm surprise so many people still recommend Lux app when it is useless for this issue. The issue is that the phone always has some autobrightness turned on even when we set it to be off. Even when you set Max brightness in Lux app, it's still only Max what the phone will do without Lux. Therefore, for those that want super bright all the time, Lux is useless.
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I'm "surprised" people still cry about impractical problems, just so they can have something to whine about.
This isn't widespread knowledge, I didn't even know this even existed.
Oliv3 said:
Must be a feature then, or some other reason Sammy did this.
On a side note, why worry about this? It's not a practical issue, is it?
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Let's say that it is a really annoying issue in darken places because the brightness is too low. Try to compare the s6 edge with any other phone (s6 flat for example) and you will see how the issue is annoying! It is surely not a feature because the s6 flat doesn't do that. Moreover samsung admitted it is an issue (I have spoken with them several times), the funny thing is that after 2 months it is not solved yet.
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I put some thing called velis auto brightness on and once set up seemed to solve it for me .
before always seemed to dark indoors
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Let's say that it is a really annoying issue in darken places because the brightness is too low. Try to compare the s6 edge with any other phone (s6 flat for example) and you will see how the issue is annoying! It is surely not a feature because the s6 flat doesn't do that. Moreover samsung admitted it is an issue (I have spoken with them several times), the funny thing is that after 2 months it is not solved yet.
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What? That's not the problem OP is talking about? Brightness too low in dark places? No one has this problem, and if they did, a 3rd party app like lux would have fixed the issue.
Lux does not fix the issue. Many tried. I tried. I set Max brightness using Lux and its not as bright as it could be. You could try for yourself, turn off auto brightness, manually set Max brightness in both settings and Lux, go to a dark place and shine a flashlight on the light sensor. Screen will become brighter.
Then you'll understand that Max brightness does not work with setting and with Lux. Then you'll be enlightened... but then you can also choose not to try this and go on with your life as ignorance is bliss. When something doesn't work, most people call it a bug while some people choose to call it a feature
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I thought the extra boost to brightness was a feature and helped battery?
Set to a certain maximum, on bright light situations (outside in sunlight, maglight on sensor) the display will boost to an unnatural brightness to aid visibility. On return to inside light levels the phone returns to normal.
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Oliv3 said:
What? That's not the problem OP is talking about? Brightness too low in dark places? No one has this problem, and if they did, a 3rd party app like lux would have fixed the issue.
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It's not a feature its a bug. Every s6 edge has this issue . Maybe not everyone realized as you for example but it's for all s6 edge.
You can see it clearly comparing in a dark place a s6 flat and a s6 edge. The flat is way brighter than the edge so this is clearly a bug
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Oliv3 said:
I'm "surprised" people still cry about impractical problems, just so they can have something to whine about.
This isn't widespread knowledge, I didn't even know this even existed.
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Impractical? I always thought being able to control my screens brightness was fairly practical!
Surely the point of manual brightness is to be able to control it manually?
Oliv3 said:
Must be a feature then, or some other reason Sammy did this.
On a side note, why worry about this? It's not a practical issue, is it?
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I also think this is more of a "feature" then a bug.
It originally was a bug before the maintenance update because the screen would not dim to 50% brightness before timing out completely. Unless the screen was in the (what im calling) super bright mode.
Since the maintenance update the screen will now dim to 50% before timing out altogether.
But we still see the screen go into super bright mode in very well lit areas (ie direct sun) When i look at the screen in this mode though i notice the colors dont look real. Which leads me to believe that this is more of a feature to ramp up the screens brightness when you are in situations that might make the screen hard to see (ie direct sunlight)