For the past week or so my phone has had flickering multicolored lines flash across the homescreen(s)/lockscreen when I turn the display back on. Sometimes it will also happen if I'm sitting on the homescreen with the display already on.
Here is my Rom history as the problem began:
Was on supernexus (Android 4.2.2 I believe) - issue was not present
Flashed Unofficial Slim build 6 (wiped cache/dalvik/factory reset before install)- started having the issue
Flashed Unofficial Slim build 6.2 (wiped cache/dalvik)- issue still present
Flashed AOCP 5.7 yesterday (wiped cache/dalvik/factory reset and formatted internal SD)- thought issue was gone, but it started happening again today.
I tried taking screenshots but the issue disappears as soon as I press the volume+power button to take the screenshot. This only seems to happen when I'm on the homescreen/lockscreen, I dont think it has happened while in any other apps.
I'm wondering if this might be an issue with the specific version of the Nova launcher, as I believe that is the common denominator between these Roms (isn't AOCPs launcher based on CM's nova?). I just installed go launcher and the problem seems to be gone (for now).
Has anyone else seen something like this? I apologize if this has been discussed somewhere, I spent several hours searching Google and XDA before posting. I can post a picture later when I have access to another camera phone.
Same issue here
I have the same issue at the lock screen. Prevalent on all JB roms I have tried, carbon, revolt & slim bean.
I'm currently using Carbon nightly. I have not seen a fix for this yet. I have heard it might be an issue with the processor waking up from sleep.
After installing Go Launcher Ex opening it a couple times and then going back to using the Aspire launcher that came with AOCP, I haven't had this issue again all afternoon. Didn't have it at all yesterday though, so it might come back.
I played around with all the brightness settings but it didn't seem to do anything. Do you happen to have any pictures of the effect you are getting? I'll try and post a picture of mine tonight if it happens again. Thanks!
About 3 hours ago, I changed some GPU & lock screen settings and the issue has not reappeared.
I will post back either later tonight or tomorrow morning with some info.
I haven't taken any photos of the problem yet. By the way, do you usually experience the issue on lock screen coming from a screen off state?
ditto on this. I have Cyanogenmod 10.1 installed and I get these lines intermittently.
Try turning off CRT animations and disable hw overlays.
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disabling hardware overlays always fixes it for me
same issue
Have the same issue going on had freezing and resolved that now I'm stuck on these lines multiple diff ROMs I am running cm10 I see people saying he overlays can someone provide a little more info on what that is and where to find it? Attaching screen shots of these multi color lines we speak of
Nvm can do it with the browser will edit this later and add them with a pc
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I am running cm10 I see people saying he overlays can someone provide a little more info on what that is and where to find it?
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Go to settings, developer options scroll half way down and you will find it. You will have to disable it every time you reboot or you can use two paid apps from the market. These apps are tasker and secure setting they are both worth every cent.
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Do you have any backlight handling apps? I used lux all the time and it stopped after I disabled it.
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Just enabled "Disabled HW overlay" and "Force GPU rendering". Like some of the users suggested, I found about the possible solution from this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhhPPke_Nbw
(go to 1:40)
I usually get the flickering with the lock screen (I use WidgetLocker Lockscreen). I was having some flickering this morning and checking both of those options seemed to immediately cut out the flickering.
I ran across it(the flickering lines) on one of the 4.2.2 roms, can't remember exactly which one but what I ended up having to do was disable one of the tweak apps it came with and install Trickster Mod only. Worked for me, no more flickering or rebooting, not sure what the cause may have been but have had no other issues after that for I believe it was 2 weeks
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I ran across it(the flickering lines) on one of the 4.2.2 roms, can't remember exactly which one but what I ended up having to do was disable one of the tweak apps it came with and install Trickster Mod only. Worked for me, no more flickering or rebooting, not sure what the cause may have been but have had no other issues after that for I believe it was 2 weeks
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By chance can you give some more details about this Trickster Mod like where to find it and what it is supposed to do?
A link to a thread would be great
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nimixes said:
By chance can you give some more details about this Trickster Mod like where to find it and what it is supposed to do?
A link to a thread would be great
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301558&page=22
Scroll down to my post there. If you still need help, just let me know.
Trickster mod I believe is mainly for Rom's that have Kernels that can be OC'd or Under Clocked. Kind of the same as Android Tweaker or SetCPU but is a little smoother for me IMO.
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Sometimes my touchscreen will be terrible, their will be no response at all.. and it will grab, but it will be in the wrong places, ive only found this problem whenever i rooted and reflashed with das bamf so far, and it blows because its literally the only problem i have now after being so happy with this root/rom deal so far.. i never flashed a kernal, so would that have something to do with it, or are kernals necessary to do? i have no idea what one even is to begin with so if that will improve the keyboard and or permit it from failing that would be worth looking into.. or is their a way to increase sensitivity on the phone somehow?
Thanks!
It's not going to be a kernel issue. Kernels do effect how some things work, but the Bamf team pair their roms with a kernel they find most suitable with their work. Kernels are mostly for setting CPU speed and Voltages.
I don't think your issue is a rom/kernel related issue. Does this problem persist when you turn off the screen and turn it back on? Sometimes if you get sweat or moisture on the screen, it tends to freak out. Another thing you can try doing is just reflashing your rom. I remember putting the leaked OTA Gingerbread on my ex's Droid X and after 2 weeks, the screen started selected itself dead center of the screen. Reflashed the rom, and it hasn't done it since.
If all of these things fail, than you have a hardware issue I presume. I wish you luck
Does your problem occur consistently all the time, or only in certain situations?
I.e: When the screen has been off? When exiting certain apps, etc?
If it only happens in certain situations, it may be a clocking issue that is causing the "lag" response.
The only way ive found to fix it so far has been to wipe the screen down every time before use, but i find that odd because with the factory rom back when i never had to.. so i guess its just more suspectable to elememts interfearing with the actual screen.. i havent changed screen protectors or anything.. The craziest thing to me so far..
Which version of DasBAMF are you running? I have a similar problem with their Sense 3.0 roms. The buttons on the MLB at bat widget and the refresh button for the Pulse news widget seem to work only intermittently.
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Which version of DasBAMF are you running? I have a similar problem with their Sense 3.0 roms. The buttons on the MLB at bat widget and the refresh button for the Pulse news widget seem to work only intermittently.
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2.01.605.0_Bamf_GingerREMIX_v2.1
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Which version of DasBAMF are you running? I have a similar problem with their Sense 3.0 roms. The buttons on the MLB at bat widget and the refresh button for the Pulse news widget seem to work only intermittently.
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The problems with your widgets may be related to the resizing issues with the 3.0 rom and where on the screen you have to tap for it to recognize the tap. I think many have been fixed, but there may be still some odd ones here and there.
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The problems with your widgets may be related to the resizing issues with the 3.0 rom and where on the screen you have to tap for it to recognize the tap. I think many have been fixed, but there may be still some odd ones here and there.
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The Widget? i dont understand how that can effect the touch screen.. i had the news one on my home screen.. or am i not reading this correctly?
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The Widget? i dont understand how that can effect the touch screen.. i had the news one on my home screen.. or am i not reading this correctly?
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I was pointing out an issue with widgets on Das BAMF 3.0 as a specific example of an issue you might have. This point is not relevant since you are running 2.1.
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The problems with your widgets may be related to the resizing issues with the 3.0 rom and where on the screen you have to tap for it to recognize the tap. I think many have been fixed, but there may be still some odd ones here and there.
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On RC5, the 2 widgets I mentioned are still wonky. I'm sticking with 2.1 remix for now.
Do you have any kind of screen protector? I get that from time to time when my screen is dirty and as you said wiping it down has always fixed it.
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Do you have any kind of screen protector? I get that from time to time when my screen is dirty and as you said wiping it down has always fixed it.
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Yeah, do screen protectors fade over time? as stupid as that sounds ive had this one on my phone for six months.. is it starting to break down or something?
also my next theory is temperature.. when my phone is exposed to hot areas it doesnt react.. i noticed that tonight
ok, so I read around the web and xda and didn't found any reasonable solution to this frustrating bug...
when the screen is of, it takes around 1-2 seconds to wake up...regardless if I press home button or power button...
I tried stock rom, flashed another samsung based, AOSP, AOKP and the lag is present on every rom...even with a fresh install, restored apps, installed everything manually...
tried removing sd card and still nothing
is anyone experiencing this also? is there a fix?
please help out, it is driving me crazy!!
btw can this be used to fix this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744655
What's so important in your life that you can't wait one second?
Install an app to keep a wakelock and you'll have instant-wake. But get used to plugging your phone in.
BTW, linking to a kernel for the Samsung Vibrant and asking if it will help ... wow.
why the flame? no one is born perfect, not even you
it is annoying because the sg2 is the one of the best phones out there with impressive hardware and it sould be without bugs like this...
I linked that topic because there is something about this lag that may be helpful...
btw, xda search engine provided the link
JKAY's framework v 14.0
have you tried JKAY's new framework for ICS v14.0 .. it has a lot of new options and settings to personalize or S2 just the way u want it
including it has 2 precious options :
1)fast unlock ( can be found under lockscreen options >>set common options )
2)fast lock ( can be found under set misc settings )
I found a topic related to this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29994420#post29994420
so even though JKAY has this feature, it is not a fix but a battery drain...
the app softlocker cures it but does use a little more battery
I have zero lag at all.. You can try my setup in my signature if you care that much
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they say wake lock app is even better
I updated cm 10 nightly 3 days ago and after a day, noticed when I opened the browser or chrome and hit menu either on screen or menu button, phone instantly locks up. Tried reinstalling previous, newer, and older nightly but had same problem. Totally uninstalled and formatted phone. Reinstalled cm10 to a previous version and have same problem. WTF. Any suggestions?
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Yeah here's a suggestion: it happens to me and plenty others, my suggestion is to run CM9.1 until CM10 is actually STABLE and not experimental. There's going to be bugs man.
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Two solutions.
1) Check, Disable HW Overlays in Developer Options under Settings. Unfortunately, you'll need to do this every reboot so it's not a great solution.
2) In build.prop, set debug.composition.type=gpu and debug.mdpcomp.maxlayer=2
This slightly reduces smoothness but survives a reboot.
3) the 9-21 nightly supposedly fixes this and I'm going to test it now.
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Two solutions.
1) Check, Disable HW Overlays in Developer Options under Settings. Unfortunately, you'll need to do this every reboot so it's not a great solution.
2) In build.prop, set debug.composition.type=gpu and debug.mdpcomp.maxlayer=2
This slightly reduces smoothness but survives a reboot.
3) the 9-21 nightly supposedly fixes this and I'm going to test it now.
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unfortunately, 9/21 build does not fix this.. i did dirty flash, however.
build.prop settings above DO work..
i used the build.prop editor here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.bwulfert.buildpropedit
via http://www.xda-developers.com/android/edit-your-build-prop-the-easy-way-with-buildprop-editor/
on a side note.. any idea where i can view official nightly changelogs for quincyatt?
9-21 does fix it for me but I flashed clean.
I used hw setting to fix the flickering issue I had previously but it did nothing for this, however, the 9/21 update did the trick.
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Hi all,
I've recently flashed my GS3 to UltimaRom 4.0. (Very nice Rom btw)
I have no complaints, other than this one small thingy. (don't know if it's a known issue or not but a search didn't reveal anything)
When I press the 'power' button to turn off the display and to put away my phone, it sometimes keeps turning the display on.
Pressing the power button turns it off and immediately turns it back on.
I have to unlock the phone first before I can lock it again and the display stays disabled.
It's not a big deal but annoying if you just want to check something fast and the screen keeps popping up.
Is there any known fix for this? Or am I just forgetting something configuration wise?
Thx for any advise.
No issue here. Maybe one of your apps is causing this.
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Same here
I've got the same problem, I've not managed to nail it down to a single rogue app yet that may or may not be causing the issue. I'm running Omega v28 Jelly Bean, so I presume this isn't something wrong in either ROM, just an app like Arsaw says.
It could be:
The CRT bug (fixed in 5.1)
or
Something waking your screen a rogue app, or perhaps something asking for permissions and waking to do that (I had that once).
I'll place money on it being the CRT bug, though
Update to 4.1. There's lots of new features
So it was a bug, I had that too at 4.0 but I didn't pay much attention to it.
Quite late reply, but only had yesterday the chance to flash v4.1 i havent had the issue yet.
So it was probably indeed the problem mentioned above.
Thanks for you help!
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[Q] Flashing/blinky screen in black but only on "application level" of display
Hey folks,
So what I'm seeing is the application area/layer of the screen blacking-out in a blinky way, and this seems to happen when there's screen updates like from the application or when I'm scrolling with my finger. The weird thing is this only seems to affect the "application level" layer -- the Status bar and other things like CPU usage (and overlay apps like SwipePad) are unaffected and don't black-flash.
I'm running PAC-MAN ROM (Android 4.4.4) but have experienced this on other ROMS so I think this is either a Note i717 thing and/or something that I'm doing to create this issue. It actually happened with less intensity with other roms of previous Android versions. (probably back to 4.4.2)
What I done wrong? I'm getting a hurt real bad. (a Russell Peters reference, for those who haven't heard his older material)
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Hey folks,
So what I'm seeing is the application area/layer of the screen blacking-out in a blinky way, and this seems to happen when there's screen updates like from the application or when I'm scrolling with my finger. The weird thing is this only seems to affect the "application level" layer -- the Status bar and other things like CPU usage (and overlay apps like SwipePad) are unaffected and don't black-flash.
I'm running PAC-MAN ROM (Android 4.4.4) but have experienced this on other ROMS so I think this is either a Note i717 thing and/or something that I'm doing to create this issue. It actually happened with less intensity with other roms of previous Android versions. (probably back to 4.4.2)
What I done wrong? I'm getting a hurt real bad. (a Russell Peters reference, for those who haven't heard his older material)
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If you would consider this a screen flicker, you may want to try disabling HW Overlay in the developer options.
Another option may be to read up on POLLUTIONS "Patch". There is a thread for it, but I cannot say as to what issues it will fix. Apparently it is a miracle cure in tye Beanstalk thread.
Thats why I say....read on it first.
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captemo said:
If you would consider this a screen flicker, you may want to try disabling HW Overlay in the developer options.
Another option may be to read up on POLLUTIONS "Patch". There is a thread for it, but I cannot say as to what issues it will fix. Apparently it is a miracle cure in tye Beanstalk thread.
Thats why I say....read on it first.
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Yeah those are some good ideas, but here's some more info:
I don't have the HW Overlay option enabled.
The "flickering" is not the entire screen, and it's more like a "black flicker", and ONLY on the "application layer"
I found the patch you mentioned in this thread and I'll see if it addresses it when I get a chance to work on the device.
Oddly, I just booted the phone with OTG HDMI connected to a monitor and the flicker is gone! :/ Not really a solution but an interesting oddity.