I just bought a new Mega 6.3 after dropping my old one and breaking it beyond a feasible repair cost. But even though it's SIM unlocked, it came with a nasty ugly splash screen of a stupid carrier instead of the simple one that should be the simple black background with white letters that says "Samsung Galaxy Mega i9205" like I had before (.. just to be clear, I'm talking about the screen that immediately comes up when the phone is turned on, before the boot-up animation).
This splash screen NOT in the ROM itself (that I already flashed into a custom one and the splash screen remained). This needs be flashed separately. Anyone knows how to flash this screen to get rid of it or replace it with the Samsung stock one or something else? Thanks much
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I just bought a new Mega 6.3 after dropping my old one and breaking it beyond a feasible repair cost. But even though it's SIM unlocked, it came with a nasty ugly splash screen of a stupid carrier instead of the simple one that should be the simple black background with white letters that says "Samsung Galaxy Mega i9205" like I had before (.. just to be clear, I'm talking about the screen that immediately comes up when the phone is turned on, before the boot-up animation).
This splash screen NOT in the ROM itself (that I already flashed into a custom one and the splash screen remained). This needs be flashed separately. Anyone knows how to flash this screen to get rid of it or replace it with the Samsung stock one or something else? Thanks much
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I believe that is with the Kernal
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I believe that is with the Kernal
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It's not, nothing to do with kernel. I flashed a custom kernel on my Mega, on top of a custom ROM and didn't affect the splash screen.. in fact I think maybe part of the bootloader..
That is odd... Was the custom kernel a modified stock kernel?
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That is odd... Was the custom kernel a modified stock kernel?
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Yes, over clocking Kernel for the Mega running 4.2.2.. has nothing to do with the kernel..
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Ok so I was a victim of theft and got my Thunderbolt stolen, sux I know so I got my replacement brand new. I rooted following jcase's thread then proceeded to flash B.A.M.F. 1.7, clean wiped everything about 4 times to be on the safe side. The problem is it wont boot past the splash screen...just flashes goes black vibrates flashes goes black. Thought it was the Rom so tried The perfect Storm and same thing also tried flashing different kernels and still the the same s**t and its really starting to piss me off. With a battery pull i can get into recovery but i dunno what the f**k is up. I succeeded once at a full boot but when i reboot for whatever reason its the same s**t all over again. I don't know what to do or how to figure this out any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all for reading and thanks for your time!
Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
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Are you wiping data and cache before flashing each ROM?
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yes sir religiously
How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
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How long have you waited for it to go past the boot flash screen? Sometimes it might take a while to boot up because it is your first time booting up after all.......
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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I wish I could take video it'd be more easy to understand, so screen lights up says HTC with white background then goes blank then flashes HTC screen again then goes blank I don't even see the bootanimation it never reaches that point i let it do this till the battery died....nothing no change....
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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That sounds bad, can you get it back to stock to see if it works?
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When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
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When I hboot Jcase's custom mr1 it all works out good but it just doesn't have all the goodies the custom Roms have, (sigh) well ima try gingerbread see how that works out...any developer or anyone with far more knowledge than me got any idea what i could try or any more help...
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Be very careful using GB. It has a somewhat annoying habit of bricking phones. I wish I could offer some better advice about the ROMs. I used to have that happen on my D1. Some ROMs just didn't like it. Have you tried flashing the ROM, when it gets hung, do a battery pull and then try to reboot it? Sometimes that will get it past whatever is messing with it.
Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
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Hi just bought my sgs2 few days ago and installed my first custom r roms, some of it come with nice crt off animation and all of them on my phone don't look as should, so I start to worry about my device.
When I press the power button in standard behaviour of this animation screen getting plain white colour for a moment and than is covered by a black bars from all four sides but in my phone the white background is full of some rubbish black/white dots and lines as typical memory bug or something with gpu, there is no other problems with this phone. I have tried many times with different roms, formatted cache and data, dalvik and all what possible but with no results.
Any of you noticed something like that? My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom so no option to explain in shop what actually is wrong.
Or maybe this is a normal behaviour in this phone?
Another thing if I trying to get back to any of 2.3.3 stock rom I finishing with bootloop every time.
Thanks for all help
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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You right, it coming back soon as I type my pin number, before pin is alright.thanks
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Obecny said:
My phone is still under warranty or even can exchange it in shop for new one if broken but this animation is not included in any stock rom
As you void warranty by rooting and or custom rom you would need to restore to original or at least stock firmware and reset the custom rom counter to zero via usb jig .
jje
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When in airplane mode it works correctly. Everyone has this problem, I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible.
Even in airplane mode it does not look like it should, its all white. But it is supposed to look like your screen distorting to red green and blue and then stretch out to the sides.
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crt animation has been messed up from day 1, reboot fixes it, but it will come back in time.
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oh so no point to flash screeenOff animation because is lagg, and only reboot can fix, but it will come back in time?
I was think is only me like that !!! !!
OK so I agree with:
"I really dont understand why rom devs put the effect in because it looks horrible"
Every once in a while when I turn on the screen the lockscreen is upside down and all the controls are reversed. Usually I need to reboot the phone to get it out of it. Sometimes it will rotate to normal fashion on its own. This only happens when I have auto rotate enabled. I am rooted running Phantom Hackers Blazer rom latest edition(great rom by the way) and I am using magic locker for custom lock screens. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
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I would think it's rom related, I suggest posting in their specific forum - except you can't until you increase your post count I don't think
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Ya your right I cant post there untill I get at least 10 posts here. I honestly think its more of a magic locker problem. I will try just running the stock lock screen and see if it still happens. Thanks for the input though and I will keep you posted as to how it goes.
O ya and also just out of curiosity if you think it is a rom related issue do you know of any other roms out there that are better? I do like this rom but the more I think about it you might be right because when I turn the screen off it flashes my homescreen upside down before it does the crt off animation.
Phantom Hackers Blazer Rom from the Epic 4G Touch forum ?????????
jje
A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
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A very new rom -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1403044&page=4
If it's not THE best - it WILL be, neo's work is infamous!
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Thanks for that missed it .
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ctomgee said:
What you're describing happens to me when I have two things active:
1. Screen rotation animation, and
2. CRT screen animation (on and/or off)
If you have both of these things, check your CRT screen animation. There should be a screen on animation, and a screen off animation. Screen on is the one you need to worry about. If you have this turned on, turn it off. The screen off animation flips and mirrors the image as well, but only during the actual animation that occurs during screen off; the screen is normal when the screen is turned back on. (provided the screen ON animation isn't active)
EDIT: Hmm, JJEgan raises a good point. The only device I see the "Phantom Hackers Blazer" ROM for, is the Samsung Epic 4G Touch, in THAT forum. You DO realize that the Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710) and the international Galaxy SII (model GT-I9100) are actually different phones, right? This post is currently in the forum for GT-I9100.
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WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
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WOW Holy **** you are right LOL I cant believe I did that. I am running the galaxy s2 I9100. THANK YOU for pointing that out! I better switch roms quickly! By doing what I did with the wrong rom was there a chance I could have bricked my phone?
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If you bricked your phone, trust me, you'd know. I'm right about what? Did you flash an Epic 4G Touch ROM to your International GSII? If you did, I'm surprised it worked.
I'm guessing JKay is installed on your ROM. Did you check to see if the screen on/off animations are turned on or not? And if so, did you try turning off the screen on animation?
No I know I didnt brick it I was just asking if I could have by installing the wrong rom on here. You were right about the fact that the rom I installed was for the international galaxy and not the one I have. I am surprised it worked too but trust me it was very buggy like the screen problem and it would reboot sometimes and i would get force closes. I am going to flash that rom you recommended. The Illusion. Thank you very much again. you saved me from allot of frustration!
Alright I flashed the illusion rom but now for some reason the phone is acting very funny It is stuck in landscape mode I cant access the desktop it keeps asking me to connect to my google account but for some reason I have no service and it wont connect to my wifi. Is this a final release or is this still in production?
also now my soft keys are all messed up. They dont light up and dont do what they are originally assigned to do. Just to clarify to make sure I am using the right rom I am on a samsung galaxy s2 I9100 sprint version.
I am pretty sure this rom is not for my phone because absoluetly nothing is working. I cannot even connect it to the computer anymore. It doesnt show up.
Ok give me your phone info and how your flashing etc... full wipes?
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Its the Samsung galaxy sII epic 4g touch. On the first screen when it goes on it says Samsung galaxy sII I9100 it is the united states sprint version. When I flashed I did a full factory wipe, wiped delvic, then cache partition and then I rebooted. Absoluetly nothing works! It is all messed up On my box it says sphd710kit I dont know what that is thats the only thing it says besides the esn# and the name of the phone.
Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
are u sure you have an international version? how come "sprint" come into play? if i am not wrong, international version is also call unbranded phone/european version. if i am not wrong, different carrier in USA, come with different "modified" samsung galaxy s2 (eg. T-mobile, At & t, and so on), and they are not I9100 version.
i am not sure about "sprint". someone living in US might have some idea?
btw, does your s2 has any physical button? how many touch sensitive button you have?
it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
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Now for some reason in clockworkmod I cant acess my sd card it says sd card cannot be mounted this is big trouble I was working allot better with the other rom. Did I destroy my phone? If anyone wants to help me a little quicker and wouldnt mind jumping on aim I would greatly appreciate it. My screename is
Rb trucking4
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DUDE! what you are holding in your hand is Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (model SPH-D710)! -_-"""
you get yourself confuse twice...
ok, let's try this, reflash the kernel, and reflash your ROM back to stock ROM. i am pretty sure the kernel is messed up and confused right now, like you!
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it has 4 they go from left to right menu, home, back, and search I know I messed somethin up real good here because now I cant acess my sd card from clockwork to flash a new rom. When I boot the phone up and connect it to the computer it just says device install failed. What can I do to get out of this mess?
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oh boy, bad news for you. you bricked your phone!
edit: wait a minute, so you are able to boot your phone?
Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
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Heya
I've been searching around and havn't found any issues like this
But granted it's hard to describe and thus hard to search for
My Galaxy S2 is new (A few weeks) yet since new has had this issue. When powering the screen on (Lockscreen) the screen displays a white vertical line just left of the middle of the screen before powering on.
This line is NOT visible at all at any other time. Ran some screen tests without any evidence. Seems only to occur before unlocking
I have compared it side-by-side with my brothers Galaxy S2 so I know this isn't normal
Occasionally it will power-on normally but this is quite rare.
Had this issue from Stock, moved from rom to rom without change
Is this something to worry about? Could this be a sign of a failing screen, lose cable, crappy connection etc?
Is it worth sending it back under warranty?
The last thing I want it to do is to fail after the warranty expires
Cheers!
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Sorry buddy, but It's really no prob.
It's an effect called CTR-animation (on or off)
This is an effect from an old TV turning on oder off.
So the display get crashed on a small line and goes off (CTR-off) or the display build up from white line (CTR-on)
If u using a Rom, just check ur apps for JKAY Deluxe... That's the app which manage such things.
There u can search for the two effects and turn on or off.
CHEERS ;-)
Sent from my Galaxy S2 - I9100 with SensatioN Rom!
Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
Azurren said:
Heh thanks for your input
But it doesn't look anything like the CRT animations, nor is it pretty and well animated (And its a vertical, non-centred line. not a horizontal one
Also this was still present on the stock Samsung Rom
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Oh... Then sorry buddy.
Hmm if also on stock u maybe should think about using ur guarantee (flashing on original back first, for sure).
That's really strange.
CHEERS ;-)
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Ahhh well, was hoping I wasn't going to have to go down the warranty line
So, directly to samsung or through Mobiles.co.uk?
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
JJEgan said:
In the UK the seller is responsible for the warranty .
But you can go direct to Samsung .
Root or custom rom will void warranty restore to stock and reset custom rom counter .
jje
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Cheers guys..
Guess I'm going to be without a phone for a while
Ok guys here's my situation. I purchased a brand new galaxy s2 (at&t) about 3 months ago (craigslist) and an issue has recently popped up. When I press the power button to turn on the lockscreen, a white line very briefly flashes down the screen. This doesn't happen at any other point at all, only when i turn to the lockscreen. I contacted samsung about it and they told me to take it to an At&T store to get it checked out. The problem is i purchased this from craigslist so I am not the original owner and I do not have the original receipt. There's no way AT&T is going to replace my phone then, right? what do i do?? any help would be appreciated.
Just let them know that you bought it on craigslist I'm sure as long as it wasn't reported stolen they should do something for you. Tho you might have to pay
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Same kind of thing happened to me when I was on Verizon (so take this with a grain of salt), I traded my DroidX2 for a Thunderbolt. When I activated, Verizon informed me, I would retain the balance of the original warranty. AT&T does not warranty your phone, nor do they repair it, they act as an agent for Samsung in this regard. You should be able to find out when the phone was purchased from Samsung and you'd have 1 years warranty from that date.
If not, do you have insurance? Do you have a receipt from whomever you bought it from? The warranty is applied to the device not the owner usually, it should be transferable, although the laws on this would vary from state to state.
it still has the 1 year warranty but i don't have the original receipt nor is at&t my service provider. I unlocked the phone to work on another carrier. So if i were to walk in to an AT&T store would they replace it on the spot?
Call Samsung. I bought a Motorola Atrix from some girl on Craigslist. It ended up breaking a week later. I called Motorola and they said it was still covered under the one year warranty and told me to send it in. I got it a few weeks later working fine.
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Ok guys here's my situation. I purchased a brand new galaxy s2 (at&t) about 3 months ago (craigslist) and an issue has recently popped up. When I press the power button to turn on the lockscreen, a white line very briefly flashes down the screen. This doesn't happen at any other point at all, only when i turn to the lockscreen. . . .
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The problem you mention. . .you didn't happen to flash or install something that uses CRT animation did you? My phone does the same thing (horizontal line flash, middle of the screen) but it's built into the ROM. My apologies if you know the difference between the animation and a glitch. Just checking.
That sounds exactly like crt animation to me..
Assuming that isn't it, simply call Samsung USA. They will want the imei number to verify its not stolen and in warranty.
They will then email you a ups shipping label and rma info free of charge. Send it to Texas and you should see it back in 5-7 days.
They don't care if you are the original owner or not, just that it has a good imei.
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i don't know what crt animation is but i know that its a hardware issue because it happens even on the stock rom.
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i don't know what crt animation is but i know that its a hardware issue because it happens even on the stock rom.
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Are you absolutely certain you're completely stock? Maybe the previous owner was on stock rooted?
that might be it... what is crt anyway? how do i get rid of the line?
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that might be it... what is crt anyway? how do i get rid of the line?
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CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. Old television. The CRT animation others are talking about is the emulation of the slow screen shutdown that ended with a white line across the middle of the screen that flicked off.
Where is the line your talking about, is it across the narrow part of the screen or along the long axis?
You can also check your phone under settings>About Phone> Build Number: See what is says. Also check your settings for an app called SU or SuperSU, that indicate superuser and root.
Wink
CRT animation is a feature on some phone that makes the display "flash" like an old-timey CRT monitor when you turn it on or off. It can be enabled on rooted Galaxy S2s.
First off, let's figure out if you're rooted or not. Do you have either the SuperUser app or the SuperSU app in your app drawer?
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CRT = Cathode Ray Tube. Old television. The CRT animation others are talking about is the emulation of the slow screen shutdown that ended with a white line across the middle of the screen that flicked off.
Where is the line your talking about, is it across the narrow part of the screen or along the long axis?
You can also check your phone under settings>About Phone> Build Number: See what is says. Also check your settings for an app called SU or SuperSU, that indicate superuser and root.
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ohhh i knew what that was... i just didn't know its called crt. The white line flashes from the top of the phone to bottom of the phone when i TURN ON the lockscreen, not turn it off. so it's not crt... correct?
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ohhh i knew what that was... i just didn't know its called crt. The white line flashes from the top of the phone to bottom of the phone when i TURN ON the lockscreen, not turn it off. so it's not crt... correct?
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Top to bottom?? It's not any CRT animation that I've ever seen...
ok thanks. that's what i thought. crt doesn't even have animation for turning the lockscreen ON. so it definitely has to be a hardware issue. I'll call AT&T, thanks.
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crt doesn't even have animation for turning the lockscreen ON.
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Yes it does. There is a CRT On animation and a CRT Off animation.
not on the aokp rom
CRT is the effect of old school TVs. When you turn the screen off, closes up into a horizontal line in the center of the screen for like half a second.
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Sorry I was way late.
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Yes it does. There is a CRT On animation and a CRT Off animation.
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This.
And the on animation is usually vertical vs the horizontal off animation.
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