How to prevent burn in - Nexus 6P General

I use my phone very often throughout the day, flash ROMs. The usual with such device as many of you know. To cut to the chase the navbar is almost always lit. So there is a likely hood of the navbar burning in, or the status bar.
More important things will be bolded, and the most important bolded and underlined
1. Go to Settings => Display => Set sleep to the lowest time that will work for you, the lowest - 15 seconds - is the best for your screen.
2. You can turn on inverted colors, this will turn the largely white UI to black. Although this will not look very aesthetically pleasing. It will reduce the burn in probability. - Not desirable I know
3. Change your wallpaper to a solid black color, I don't do this personally. But it does reduce the risk. You can also go for Black and gray wallpapers - you can find very good looking ones - but it won't be as great as just the black wallpaper.
4. Keep your brightness low, this keeps the diodes - pixels - from being at full brightness the entire time. Which lengthens their life span.
5. Change your theme to a black theme, or dark. As this will also help. You can change your keyboard to black from the Google Keyboard app. If you want a absolute black background on a keyboard, use the wallpaper from #3 after hitting "my image" under theme.
6. After extensive use, run a Burn in fixer even if you don't see the affects of burn in. As it changes the pixels that stayed the same for a long period of time. These work by flashing a variety of colors on your screen in semi-rapid succession. Which can also undo some minor burn in. The one I use is here (playstore link) . Run this for around 5-10 minutes before you go to sleep for example, or while you're doing something on your computer.
Hope this helps! This is what I use and I haven't yet gotten burn in on my Nexus 6P after extensive use day to day.

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I've never had a problem with burn in on any OLED phone I've had and I've had many.
The most important thing for power savings is a dark theme.

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Also, no burn in on my devices, but use a dark wallpaper, theme, etc....

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This thread is pure dumbness...it's almost imposible to burn an amoled screen unless it remains lit and static one whole day...normal use will never burn the screen.
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Only poor quality OLED panels exhibit burn in. Except if you display a static image at full brightness for days non stop, something that doesn't happen in normal usage. If you are so paranoid then never buy an amoled phone. It's the same with the silly "battery friendly" battery tips for charging and quick charging. Use your phone like normal. This is why you bought it. It's a device that's built to last only few years and you will change it before major problems arise. That unless you have a very crappy made device.

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My Nexus 6p has burn in, I can see the navigation and status bars burnt into the top and bottom. I attribute it to using navigation on long trips and Pokemon Go always needing the screen on. Just started noting it in the last month (got it in the initial preorders).

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The app says its for LCD..?

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My device has burn on the top and bottom of the screen pretty badly actually and I have the navigation bars hide them selves. I think the screen degrading.

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Mines has burn on top and bottom
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This has always been a minor concern with any smart phone I've had, but can't say it's ever happened to me. I did however find a much better way to prevent this that works flawlessly on my [rooted] Nexus 6P. In one of the last few major android versions we got immersive mode (L methinks?), but it's not always accessible depending on phone/manufacturer (haven't seen an option on a stock ROM yet). I use Tasker to run root shell commands from notifications and found the following command a while back (source stack overflow or similar answer site via Google):
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
This will toggle full immersive mode. It persists across reboots and fits me perfectly as I enjoy the extra screen estate and I can just swipe from top/bottom to get those bars. Basically makes it like you are always in video mode. This only has to be run once, but I have a companion command to disable just in case:
settings put global policy_control null*
I figure if my normal apps are putting different designs and colors in those areas, I shouldn't have to ever worry about pixel burn in. Plus it's way better than crippling a devices usability with color inversion.

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sevro said:
This has always been a minor concern with any smart phone I've had, but can't say it's ever happened to me. I did however find a much better way to prevent this that works flawlessly on my [rooted] Nexus 6P. In one of the last few major android versions we got immersive mode (L methinks?), but it's not always accessible depending on phone/manufacturer (haven't seen an option on a stock ROM yet). I use Tasker to run root shell commands from notifications and found the following command a while back (source stack overflow or similar answer site via Google):
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
This will toggle full immersive mode. It persists across reboots and fits me perfectly as I enjoy the extra screen estate and I can just swipe from top/bottom to get those bars. Basically makes it like you are always in video mode. This only has to be run once, but I have a companion command to disable just in case:
settings put global policy_control null*
I figure if my normal apps are putting different designs and colors in those areas, I shouldn't have to ever worry about pixel burn in. Plus it's way better than crippling a devices usability with color inversion.
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THANKS!! :good::highfive:

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sevro said:
This has always been a minor concern with any smart phone I've had, but can't say it's ever happened to me. I did however find a much better way to prevent this that works flawlessly on my [rooted] Nexus 6P. In one of the last few major android versions we got immersive mode (L methinks?), but it's not always accessible depending on phone/manufacturer (haven't seen an option on a stock ROM yet). I use Tasker to run root shell commands from notifications and found the following command a while back (source stack overflow or similar answer site via Google):
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
This will toggle full immersive mode. It persists across reboots and fits me perfectly as I enjoy the extra screen estate and I can just swipe from top/bottom to get those bars. Basically makes it like you are always in video mode. This only has to be run once, but I have a companion command to disable just in case:
settings put global policy_control null*
I figure if my normal apps are putting different designs and colors in those areas, I shouldn't have to ever worry about pixel burn in. Plus it's way better than crippling a devices usability with color inversion.
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I had that for a while its baked into my rom but I found it annoying.

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Riardon said:
Only poor quality OLED panels exhibit burn in.
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That is not true. All OLED panels exhibit "burn in", it's the nature of the technology. It's not really burning in though but rather "burning out".
That being said, burn in during normal usage is very unlikely and pretty much impossible unless you use apps that keep the screen on with static picture or UI elements. The only thing that WILL "burn in " on any device, and is just a matter of time, is the status bar and nav bar. But they are both there almost always anyway so you won't even see it unless you decide to switch to pie controls down the road and turn the nav bar off.
As for OP, using a full black wallpaper would actually INCREASE chances of burn in but you don't spend that much time on homescreen for it to matter. Running any burn in "fixers" is absolutely unnecessary and is very unlikely to help once the pixels on your display do degrade unevenly. Basically the only thing you need to do to prevent it is to use common sense. Don't use higher brightness than necessary and don't (over)use apps that leave the screen on with static picture.
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sevro said:
This has always been a minor concern with any smart phone I've had, but can't say it's ever happened to me. I did however find a much better way to prevent this that works flawlessly on my [rooted] Nexus 6P. In one of the last few major android versions we got immersive mode (L methinks?), but it's not always accessible depending on phone/manufacturer (haven't seen an option on a stock ROM yet). I use Tasker to run root shell commands from notifications and found the following command a while back (source stack overflow or similar answer site via Google):
settings put global policy_control immersive.full=*
This will toggle full immersive mode. It persists across reboots and fits me perfectly as I enjoy the extra screen estate and I can just swipe from top/bottom to get those bars. Basically makes it like you are always in video mode. This only has to be run once, but I have a companion command to disable just in case:
settings put global policy_control null*
I figure if my normal apps are putting different designs and colors in those areas, I shouldn't have to ever worry about pixel burn in. Plus it's way better than crippling a devices usability with color inversion.
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LMT launcher is your friend. Swiping up just to reveal the nav bar is too much of a hassle. With pie controls you can navigate with just one continuos swipe and you can configure it in any way you want. At first I did this to get back the screen space wasted by navbar but I've realized navigation is actually better than with the nav bar itself. It's also easier to do one handed because it can not only be activated from the bottom but from the sides as well. I urge anyone who dislikes the nav bar to try it. Works flawlessly and for those concerned, it prevents burn in as well.

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Jockson said:
LMT launcher is your friend. Swiping up just to reveal the nav bar is too much of a hassle. With pie controls you can navigate with just one continuos swipe and you can configure it in any way you want. At first I did this to get back the screen space wasted by navbar but I've realized navigation is actually better than with the nav bar itself. It's also easier to do one handed because it can not only be activated from the bottom but from the sides as well. I urge anyone who dislikes the nav bar to try it. Works flawlessly and for those concerned, it prevents burn in as well.
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I actually ran across LMT and used it before I found immersive mode. Extremely robust and customizable. However I use the swipe kinda like a "confirmation" that I want to navigate away. The swipe up and tap is almost second nature now