Stupid Question..
Has anyone burned here burned out a smartphone's camera flash?
I used the "assistive light " last night and put the phone down, but I guess I forgot the turn it off..When I got up this morning and picked up the phone, the flash was still on.
I know that LED's have a conditional lifetime of thousands of hours, but I was just curious if anyone burned theirs out due to heat or excessive use, etc.
metalunna said:
Stupid Question..
Has anyone burned here burned out a smartphone's camera flash?
I used the "assistive light " last night and put the phone down, but I guess I forgot the turn it off..When I got up this morning and picked up the phone, the flash was still on.
I know that LED's have a conditional lifetime of thousands of hours, but I was just curious if anyone burned theirs out due to heat or excessive use, etc.
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It's very possible and I have seen people melt the lens for the LED, since the LED is only meant to be a flash and not run continuously. It can get quite hot too.
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Since I knew everyone would think I lost my mind, I verified this for weeks before posting it...so here it goes!
When I charge the device at work (with the power on), it sits on my desk about 16 inches under my overhead cabinet that has fluorescent lights underneath. The lights somehow triggers screen actions on my HD2! It's the strangest thing I've ever seen! After about 30 seconds, the device looks like a ghost is randomly tapping the screen, randomly starting programs!
This NEVER EVER happens in any other condition--outside under sunlight or while the device is on any other surface where the fluorescent light is higher up, like on the ceiling. I have no problems with using the device otherwise.
It's just strange and I'm wondering if anyone else has ever seen this...
hmm interesting.
Might there be power running up inside the wall near the phone too? PC and monitior around it?
could be patches of field building up just enough to fool the capacitive screen, or maybe exciting the grease on teh screen or some such.
Course there has been a lot of talk about ghost taps, is it really only ever happening there?
Could be you need to change the starter plug in the fluorescent, if its a standard strip, they can hold quite a charge, and if its on its way out it could be losing charge to the air.
Especially when you look at how many electrical items we have on/near our desks, easy to build up a standing charge.
samsamuel said:
hmm interesting...Could be you need to change the starter plug in the fluorescent, if its a standard strip, they can hold quite a charge...QUOTE]
Someone also mentioned the fact that the flicker on my fluorescent desk lamp could be the cause. I saw a video where someone was able to "tap" their capacitive screen using beams of light, lasers, etc.
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I dropped my phone in the ocean but the flash light was on so I swam down and got it back. I took the battery out and put it in rice but it still wouldn't turn on. So I took it apart and cleaned all the salt out of it and put it back together. Now it works but it still has some issues with the touch screen functioning and for some reason the LED light stays on. Even when the phone is turned off and off the charger and it doesn't change colors for notifications any more. Could I have hooked it back up wrong some how ? Does it matter ie affect anything else/ indicate other problems? Thanks so much for any help you can offer. ?
B. J. said:
for some reason the LED light stays on. Even when the phone is turned off and off the charger and it doesn't change colors for notifications any more.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's because it took a swim in the ocean [emoji16]
I dropped my RAZR into a pool and was never the same again. It worked but just acted.. Well like it got wet. Not sure if anyone will be able to give you definate answers. Could look again at the connections I suppose.
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Hey guys, can anyone tell me what the heck is this and how did I manage to get one after 12 months of using this phone?
edit] sorry for not explaining it, it goes along left edge of the phone, yellow mark near the charging port. I didn't notice it until yesterday and its visible a lot in live, I don't know how good can you see it over picture
hey guys, anyone?
Most phone screens go yellow from exposure to heat, perhaps your screen on that spesific are has been exposed to heat or preassurr
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Most phone screens go yellow from exposure to heat, perhaps your screen on that spesific are has been exposed to heat or preassurr
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I'd say locked pixels but seeing it happen with phone turned off, yeah it's probably from heat.
I can also explain how.Sony uses a "liquid cooling thermal pipe" which takes the heat from your chipset (approximately below the N (NFC) letter on your phone's back) and delivers it to the left edge of your phone, towards the charging port to be more precise (your yellow mark is also at that spot)
You may have used your phone very heavily in extremely hot environment.I've seen my previous phone's screen go all weird due to heat (chipset @90 C) but it was fixed after a bit of waiting, to do this kind of permanent damage you must have used it heavily for long period of time, long enough to burn the screen via the heat coming from the heat pipe.
I doubt you could get it repaired for free, they would know it was because of heat and if your phone is unlocked, you have no chances at all because they can just assume that you overclocked your phone.
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hey guys, anyone?
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Mine goes yellow on the nav bar but only when its hpt usually when the battery is above 40°c but this occurs mostly when I'm charging
First of all, thanks for answering to all,
Second, you cannot see it when the phone is off, the first picture is with gray picture on it so you think it's off. When the phone is cold started, the mark is almost invisible but after some minutes of using it becomes visible.
The phone was never unlocked, neither was heavily uses, such as maybe gaming.
I just wanna know can I claim my warranty on it since I'm sure no pressure was made nor was it exposed to heat, but I first need to probably repair my cracked back screen.
Hello everyone,
As the title suggests I'm now another proud owner of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (SM-G925F) and immediately a few questions rose.
First of all, I unboxed my device and did the first power on. However, I noticed something weird. From the 1st power on it only had 3% battery ! Is this normal guys? From all of the unboxing videos I watched on YouTube all of them where 40% + after the 1st power on! Is it normal to be so low ?? So, I immediately shut it down and got it charging.
Second, after plugging it in to charge it started from 0%. Probably it even lost these 3% it had lol. Anyway, charging started nice and fast but I noticed another thing. The phone got really hot while charging! Is this normal again? The back was quite hot and the aluminum bezels on the sides as well (especially side lower parts). I know that this device has fast charging so it may be this and also maybe that it started charging from too low , 0% .
(UPDATE: now that it is at 99% it's has really cooled down)
My 3rd question is probably a foolish one but forgive me please. :silly: When I got it out of the box, since I'm a crazy perfectionist, I started examining the body of this jewel with a really bright torch light hahaha. Everything seemed flawless apart from a couple of tiny little marks on the lower left part of the home button. (not scratched some kind of marks like tiny glue residue maybe) They didn't get away after wiping them, even with little water on a cloth. Also, they are not really visible. Maybe they are a bit in really bright conditions but still you should look for them to see them. So, are these kind of tiny imperfections normal too? I guess so, but just wanted to say hahahha.
One more. My heart rate sensor seem to have a little plastic protector applied on it. Am I right? I'm quite afraid to pull it so, is there a little membrane there? In camera, I'm not sure.
Thanks in advance and have fun happy owners!
When I got my first smartphone, the Motorola Droid Ultra on initial boot it had 1% battery, so battery being low on first boot is not unheard of. Yet you are right that it should have 40% on initial boot. The battery going to zero before going up again is something I have experienced as well. The phone getting hot is expected with how rapidly energy enters the battery. The last two I am unsure about. If you can remove the plastic do so
Snowby123 said:
When I got my first smartphone, the Motorola Droid Ultra on initial boot it had 1% battery, so battery being low on first boot is not unheard of. Yet you are right that it should have 40% on initial boot. The battery going to zero before going up again is something I have experienced as well. The phone getting hot is expected with how rapidly energy enters the battery. The last two I am unsure about. If you can remove the plastic do so
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Thanks for your quick response!
Alright, so yea the low 1st power-on battery seems normal. I also asked Samsung and they say it's normal since they don't set any specific charge amount from factory but they just use it as much as needed (for quality control, I assume).
About the heart rate sensor yea, I realized that it has a little protector film which can be removed.
Also, what I told about the little "marks" on home button let me explain. You can't actually see this normally. You have to have your home button fully clean and then point a bright torch to it and then look carefully on the bottom left part of it and you can see some tiny little "marks" but still can't see them at every angle. However, they are not scratches, it may just be some little debris or glue residue under the button surface, probably on the fingerprint scanner. (maybe during assembly) But again this is from a crazy perfectionist's eye! :laugh::laugh::laugh: You can't see it in normal use. I guess if you take many S6 Edges out of the box and start examining them with a powerful torch, mm by mm for sure you will find different kind of "imperfections" in any of those. This thing must be the same for every device. But I like doing it just to know if there's something there in the first place.
Also, about the warm up thing. I updated to Android 6 and performed a hard reset afterwards. Also I disabled fast-charging from the menu. (don't know if it's also disabled when you charge the phone fully shut down tho.) In normal use the temperature is fine. When charging tho (when shut down) it warms up quite a bit on rear and on side bezels. So, you S6 Edge does the same?
Thanks a lot.
Snowby123 said:
When I got my first smartphone, the Motorola Droid Ultra on initial boot it had 1% battery, so battery being low on first boot is not unheard of. Yet you are right that it should have 40% on initial boot. The battery going to zero before going up again is something I have experienced as well. The phone getting hot is expected with how rapidly energy enters the battery. The last two I am unsure about. If you can remove the plastic do so
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Also, 1 last question (detail style again).
When you start up the notification led lights dark blue and then lighter blue in sequences. So when it does that, I can tell that there is a little "2nd" led that lights up on the right side of the notification led and makes it brighter blue. My question is that, can you see that in yours? I ask this because in my Galaxy Alpha you can't tell where the "little leds" are but you just see a clean light changing colors. On S6 Edge though, you can tell that the notification led area must be somehow "splitted" so like there is "another little led" on the right side lighting up and changing the color. Is it the same to you?
Thanks
The low battery percentage you had in your phone is just normal.
The phone gets hot when it's being charged especially when it starts from a very low percentage. Do you imagine the amount of energy getting into your phone's battery? That's a lot.
Speaking of leds, mine has the same too.
Hope you have a great time with your phone!
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TheLegend975 said:
The low battery percentage you had in your phone is just normal.
The phone gets hot when it's being charged especially when it starts from a very low percentage. Do you imagine the amount of energy getting into your phone's battery? That's a lot.
Speaking of leds, mine has the same too.
Hope you have a great time with your phone!
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Thank you man. I noticed something else too though which worried me quite a lot. I will post it on another topic itself though so it can maybe be helpful for other owners too.
SGAlpha said:
Thank you man. I noticed something else too though which worried me quite a lot. I will post it on another topic itself though so it can maybe be helpful for other owners too.
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Okay.
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Hi guys,
my girlfriend hike with her friends, was really rainy. She forgot to put the phone in a "safe" spot, the phone got quite humid she said.
She didnt think much (obviously ), after the hike cleaned with a towel, scrolled though the pictures, so far so good - than a bit later (not sure how long it survived, maybe 30min?), the displayed showed some rainbow colors and turned off. At that point I suppose she couldnt tell whether the display/connction is just broken, or the chips are dead (short circuit?) and hence the phone was completely shut down.
I told her to keep it off, let it dry a few days. If chips are short circuited, I guess it's dead anyhow. But just to give it a try.
Unfortunately, she cant take off the backplate on Samsung (not sure which mode, but backcover seems to be fixed) because she's still on the trip - no heat gun or anything...
Now after keeping it drying in the sun for 3 days, she once tried to power it on, the displayed SHORTLY showed a logo, but immediately turned back off. At that point it wasnt clear whether the battery is just empty, hence she charged it, but no battery-charging-sign (with the status) is being shown on the display.
So: Is there anything else that can be tried?
Or is it simply dead now? Apparantly the display kinda worked, but it seems to not charge anymore, hence maybe directly turning off the display while trying to turn it on!?
Thanks!