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My Nexus One has Screen Burn In of Notification Bar

i just noticed that my 1 month old nexus one has the notification bar burnt in. go to landscape view in the browser, load a white background like google.com, and sure enough i can see very faintly the notification bar.
i've always kept the display on auto brightness. i'm very curious to hear if anyone else checks their screen if they have the same issue. the phone is only 1 month old, maybe 2 at the tops, so its very strange for this to happen. anyone else?

Had mine since end of March. No burn-in or any type of ghosting. I have my screen time-out set to 30 seconds. I wonder if that's got anything to do with it.

that's weird. my time out has always been at the default of 2 minutes. surely that isn't too much different though. 1.5 minutes shouldn't make or break it.

RogerPodacter said:
that's weird. my time out has always been at the default of 2 minutes. surely that isn't too much different though. 1.5 minutes shouldn't make or break it.
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how bad is it? Is it possible to show us a picture?

its not too bad, but definitely there. the concern is how new this phone is. what happens after 6 months?
I'll try to take a pic later, but don't have a good camera on me.

RogerPodacter said:
its not too bad, but definitely there. the concern is how new this phone is. what happens after 6 months?
I'll try to take a pic later, but don't have a good camera on me.
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Definately, you should give htc a call and tell them whats up. No rush on a picture.

AMOLED displays are worse for burn in than old CRT's, so br interesting to see how these fair
Got mine in late Jan and no sign of it.

RogerPodacter said:
that's weird. my time out has always been at the default of 2 minutes. surely that isn't too much different though. 1.5 minutes shouldn't make or break it.
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Can't say either way if 1.5 minutes more of screen-on time can create the burn-in. But compared to the standard 30-sec time-out on most phones (some have 15 sec), 2 minutes is pretty long. You may want to set it to a shorter time-out duration.

you REALLY have to look close to see it. I tried it on black screen and you can't see it all. except in landscape the notification bar switches so at the very left inside the bar you can see the small faded line of the portrait bar.
i don't care enough to call HTC for any type of exchange or repair. I've heard the horror stories of their service too!

I have slight burn in on mine too. It's expected and I doubt the screen time out has anything to do with it. Keep in mind that any use of the phone the notification bar usually stays in the same place. Sometimes I have maps nav going on and that alone keeps the display on for the length of a car trip.
Also you guys can test by getting Dead Pixel Detect from the market and cycling through a few different colors.

well I'm not gonna get all worked up about it. sucks it happened so soon, hopefully it doesn't get worse. I'll try that dead pixel app just to see.
I'll take a pic shortly, but I don't know if it will actually be visible from a photo.

thats bad if its true....still a new phone with this problem already? wow..mine is less than a week old ...I will keep an eye out for it though, and if anyone has a solution that would be nice...

Drawing white on AMOLED requires much more than drawing black.
One more reason for using Desire (or a black notification bar theme)

I have two Nexus One's. The first was the Tmobile version which I used on ATT EDGE. That device has the purple tint issue and also has some burn in(uneven wear)where the notification bar is. Unfortunately I ran it with the brightness at 100%, 24-7. Now, it is very slight, but it is there.
I also have the 3G ATT version and it has no purple tint and has no burn in(uneven wear) yet and I've used it more now that I did the EDGE version. BUT, I never run this one with 100% brightness unless I have to.
Also, it is better to run at very low brightness for the first say hundred hours because there is a sharper dropoff in brightness half life during that time, making burn in(uneven wear)detectable with the human eye more likely to occur.
At the end of the day, for my situation, I blame myself for running at 100% brightness. I should have known better. LCD, with as long as they have been around, have innovated to the point of having very long half lives making burn in possible, but very rare. I was operating the way I always had with mobile devices. BUT, with these new screens, new care must be taken until AMOLED matures with higher brightness half life.

100% brightness I understand, but auto setting and this still happened in a month?
that pixel detector app definitely shows the burn in. I can see the icons too for 3g, signal meter, M from the pm time stamp, etc.
I guess there's no way to fix other than replace the screen? cause I'll change my notification bar to black if I had known this could happen.
I wonder what I should do...repair, HTC warranty, live with it, etc

I have the same problem. t-mobile nexus one. Happened about 2 months after I first got it. HTC replaced it. And it happened again on the new one. I keep it on 100% brightness pretty much all the time except at night. Doesn't bother me much though. I hardly use my phone in landscape and it's only on white backgrounds.

RogerPodacter said:
100% brightness I understand, but auto setting and this still happened in a month?
that pixel detector app definitely shows the burn in. I can see the icons too for 3g, signal meter, M from the pm time stamp, etc.
I guess there's no way to fix other than replace the screen? cause I'll change my notification bar to black if I had known this could happen.
I wonder what I should do...repair, HTC warranty, live with it, etc
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If you get a new one just remember that even with a black notification bar, you're at risk. You will also need to run dark or black backgrounds to stay even with the black bar. Otherwise you will end up with a very bright bar and the rest of the screen will look yellowish/grey compared to it. It's always about making sure all the pixels are as evenly worn as possible. Another thing you can do is switch to a black notification bar now and run bright backgrounds and you can reverse some damage. It will never be perfect but you can get the wear more even again thus making the issue even less noticeable than it already is.
I agree about auto setting should have prevented this. At least you would think, but I'm no expert.
Several more things that can be done to help prevent this issue: if browsers or apps you use have the option to turn off the notification bar, use it. The more you can keep that notification bar off the screen, the more evenly you can wear the screen. Also, set your screen timeout to a shorter level. I used to use two minutes but now I use 30 seconds. The time that the screen is on and the bar is on the screen add up and can eventually contribute to uneven wear, and it's just wasted time waiting for the screen to timeout.

i'm seeing some faint burn in too

I don't feel so bad since I'm not the only one.
even with a black notification bar you would prob need white letters which would still burn in the white letters.

why the hell did I read this thread... lol mine is slight but I have some and I didn't notice it before because the only time I'm in landscape is in navigation most of the time.

just bought an incredible s. questions?

hi there. i bought this phone yesterday and it's great. i love it. best phone i've ever owned.
however i have a few niggling questions;
i find the touch buttons to be very difficult to see in sunlight. is there a way to brighten them? or are all the phones like this. my mother has a galaxy s and i feel her touch buttons are brighter.
is the power button meant to be so slim to the phone? i can find it hard to press sometimes.
secondly, how come my LED notification light only stays on for a short time when i receive a text? i would have thought it stayed on until the text was read, but when i get a text and don't notice for half an hour to an hour the LED isn't flashing. if i receive a text (and i'm there to notice it) the LED flashes. again, is this just my phone or everyones?
also, how safe is it to install the swype beta on your phone? and how safe is it downloading pdf's (accidentally, opened a link on a reputable train website) on to my phone over the 3G network?
and finally, not as important, but the standard version of angry birds seems to always lag/crash at startup. i don't know whether it's due to the ads, but i have to hit home before i am able to click 'start', and then the same again when the level loads up before i can move the birds. i've played rio and that seems fine.
OH, and one more thing. if i go from an area with good 3g reception to an area with poor 3g, and then back again, my phone takes a while to catch up, so i have to turn off mobile networks and then back on again to get 3g back. normal?
sorry for all the questions.
thanks. peace.

Hi there martyfly1990,
Congratulations on your purchase and I hope you'll enjoy your phone as much as everyone here!
I won't be able to answer all of your questions but I'll try to help you out the best I can:
i find the touch buttons to be very difficult to see in sunlight. is there a way to brighten them? or are all the phones like this. my mother has a galaxy s and i feel her touch buttons are brighter.
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The Incredible S's capacitive buttons have a unique feature compared to other devices, they get to turn when you put your phone in landscape mode (only in one direction). In order to achieve this, they use a different method of illumination. What you may also notice is a kind of ghost of the buttons secondary positions beneath what is displayed in a round border if looked at at the right angle. However, it also gives the possibility to have nothing at all showing up when the lights are off giving it a cool look (I find ). Compared to other phones I've seen, I'd say that it's normal for the IS to have slightly less bright touch buttons.
is the power button meant to be so slim to the phone? i can find it hard to press sometimes.
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The IS was given what some people call a very industrial look. Aside from the back cover, the phone is very minimal in the sense that nothing extrudes from it. The power as well as the volume rocker buttons are even the same colour as the body. All to give it that slab look. The volume rocker sticks close to the body too, and I'm sure your phone is perfectly fine. You'll get used to it
and how safe is it downloading pdf's (accidentally, opened a link on a reputable train website) on to my phone over the 3G network?
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If you trust the source (and are sure that the file is indeed a pdf, there is no problem at all.
and finally, not as important, but the standard version of angry birds seems to always lag/crash at startup. i don't know whether it's due to the ads, but i have to hit home before i am able to click 'start', and then the same again when the level loads up before i can move the birds. i've played rio and that seems fine.
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I will presume that your phone is still stock? I haven't had that problem with Angry Birds, but did you try uninstalling it and installing it back on? Worth giving a try.
OH, and one more thing. if i go from an area with good 3g reception to an area with poor 3g, and then back again, my phone takes a while to catch up, so i have to turn off mobile networks and then back on again to get 3g back. normal?
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The reaction time not being immediate is normal, but how long do mean by "a while"? 10 seconds or 10minutes? I could only think of a radio problem if it's really bad. Could you share what version of android and what's your baseband version on your phone?

martyfly1990 said:
secondly, how come my LED notification light only stays on for a short time when i receive a text? i would have thought it stayed on until the text was read, but when i get a text and don't notice for half an hour to an hour the LED isn't flashing. if i receive a text (and i'm there to notice it) the LED flashes. again, is this just my phone or everyones?
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I think that other question has been answered so i will skip it.
LED notification i will only last for 5 minutes, so far i haven found out any ways to stretch up the time until we read the message or any other notification.
I think they set it to only 5 minutes properly of the battery drain?
Hope its help.

[Q] LG G Flex screen burn in...

Hello! I have somehow managed to get a reallllllly annyoing screen burn in on my G Flex. Its the status bar and another part under it that's maybe .7cm wide, going from side to side. It perfectly matches the blue Facebook "bar" thing and the Chrome webbrowser search field.
I wonder, how the hell could this happen? I know that it is an Oled display and that it risks getting a burn in, but I've never used it for an extended period of time, I just can't understand how it happend. All displaytypes can get burn-ins I've read, but they shouldn't get it from moderate use. Now is there any way to fix this? It i reaally annoying considering I payed alot of money for it. I have googled it and found nothing useful. Do you think it's possible to get a new device?
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Well i had a little at the the bottom i noticed and i turned the phone off for awhile and it got rid of it maybe you should try that and see if it works. Hope it helps burn in sucks.
HIT EM WIT DAT FLEX

Maybe it's just temporary image retention you see. Doesn't it go away after a little while? If you keep away from the home screen for a long time does the same burn-in still show?

dannejanne said:
Maybe it's just temporary image retention you see. Doesn't it go away after a little while? If you keep away from the home screen for a long time does the same burn-in still show?
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It's definately not just temporarily, I've had it for maybe 2-3 weeks and not cared very much. Now though it starts to annoy me more and more.
I also shut off my phone every night for around 8 hours so, yeah, it's permanent... Could this just be a bad display as it is an early sample, or is this just how it is?

Grollman said:
It's definately not just temporarily, I've had it for maybe 2-3 weeks and not cared very much. Now though it starts to annoy me more and more.
I also shut off my phone every night for around 8 hours so, yeah, it's permanent... Could this just be a bad display as it is an early sample, or is this just how it is?
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You shouldn't get permanent burn-in unless you use the mobile with maximum brightness all the time and letting it show static images most of the time. The screen is most sensitive to burn-in while it's new. You could try to exchange it if they accept it as a fault.
However you can also try to "wash" it out first. Put the phone on maximum brightness showing an 100% white screen. No statusbar or navbar just plain white all over the screen. Doing this for a few hours can get rid of burn-in.

dannejanne said:
You shouldn't get permanent burn-in unless you use the mobile with maximum brightness all the time and letting it show static images most of the time. The screen is most sensitive to burn-in while it's new. You could try to exchange it if they accept it as a fault.
However you can also try to "wash" it out first. Put the phone on maximum brightness showing an 100% white screen. No statusbar or navbar just plain white all over the screen. Doing this for a few hours can get rid of burn-in.
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That's the annoying part, I have owned alot of phones with displaytypes from S-AMOLED to LCD and so on, and NEVER had this problem before. This phone has only seen normal, regular use and I always take care of my phones.
And this wash out thing, is it safe to do? I've read that it isn't safe for OLED/AMOLED displays, it could be total bs though, as it came from other threads that i read.

Grollman said:
That's the annoying part, I have owned alot of phones with displaytypes from S-AMOLED to LCD and so on, and NEVER had this problem before. This phone has only seen normal, regular use and I always take care of my phones.
And this wash out thing, is it safe to do? I've read that it isn't safe for OLED/AMOLED displays, it could be total bs though, as it came from other threads that i read.
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Well nothing bad can really happen when you "wash" the screen that way. As long as you make sure ALL of the screen is white and have no statusbar or navbar present.
This technique is often used on Plasma TV's when they get burn-in. What happens is you "age" all of the pixels when doing this and sometimes it can get rid of burn-in. No garantuee for it though. But it never hurts to try. I've never heard that it's unsafe in any way. It's a normal thing to do.
This phone seems to have different screen revisions. I have two G-Flex at the moment and one of them is much more noticeably grainer in the texture even though they are on the same firmware. On one example I can hardly notice it if I don't look for it while the other one looks noisy as heck and I see it easily and can't ignore it. Really big difference between the two. The noisy one is also a LOT more prone to image retention. I will get rid of the one with the noisy screen for a good price and keep the good one only.

dannejanne said:
Well nothing bad can really happen when you "wash" the screen that way. As long as you make sure ALL of the screen is white and have no statusbar or navbar present.
This technique is often used on Plasma TV's when they get burn-in. What happens is you "age" all of the pixels when doing this and sometimes it can get rid of burn-in. No garantuee for it though. But it never hurts to try. I've never heard that it's unsafe in any way. It's a normal thing to do.
This phone seems to have different screen revisions. I have two G-Flex at the moment and one of them is much more noticeably grainer in the texture even though they are on the same firmware. On one example I can hardly notice it if I don't look for it while the other one looks noisy as heck and I see it easily and can't ignore it. Really big difference between the two. The noisy one is also a LOT more prone to image retention. I will get rid of the one with the noisy screen for a good price and keep the good one only.
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Ah, well I'm going to try that then! And btw, my statusbar has burned in, but not my navbar buttons... Kinda weird, huh?
And I think that I have the "bad" revision, as my screen is REALLY grainy at lower brightness and when displaying dark images. If this problem doesnt solve I'll try to send it in, and if they replace it I hope that I get a less grainy one, even though that I don't really care about that haha. I'll run in a couple of hours and come back with results!

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Ah, well I'm going to try that then! And btw, my statusbar has burned in, but not my navbar buttons... Kinda weird, huh?
And I think that I have the "bad" revision, as my screen is REALLY grainy at lower brightness and when displaying dark images. If this problem doesnt solve I'll try to send it in, and if they replace it I hope that I get a less grainy one, even though that I don't really care about that haha. I'll run in a couple of hours and come back with results!
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Quick update, I can now see when displaying a full white image that there is minor burn ins all over the screen... This is not acceptable for an expensive phone...

Grollman said:
Quick update, I can now see when displaying a full white image that there is minor burn ins all over the screen... This is not acceptable for an expensive phone...
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I believe you have a defective display then. Even my worse panel does not suffer from permanent burn-in. It all goes away in seconds.

I've had this happen last night on my flex where I was watching a movie that was letterboxed, half way through and I had to reload the movie due to a bathroom break and noticed the letterboxing in Facebook. But as of today its gone.
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I have horrible image retention on pretty bad on mine primarily the onscreen softkeys. When I go in a game after I've been browsing the web I can clearly see a line where the soft keys bar is and clearly make out all three buttons. It's horribly annoying and I'm wondering if it's a defective phone or is this just the crappy way the G FLEX is?

That's it. Couldn't take it any more. Its going back.

Why does Samsung have to change something thats beautiful from pure Android
Status bar: Whats with the stupid up/down arrows under the WiFi icon and the broadcast lines on the data icon. Does anyone care? It makes the icons look smaller and the status bar look really weird. Are the UI folks all blind? Why does the font on the status bar huge? If I enable battery percentage, thats half the width of the bar. On second thought, maybe they are blind. My N5 status bar looks absolutely beautiful.
Tweaks are nice...but: Its nice they provide some tweaks. I like the fact the phone call notification has mute ,vol, and end buttons. Nice touch but can't Samsung keep the material design in tact and add these features?
And for ****s sake, its Back, Home, and Task Viewer. Not the other way around. Sheesh.
Occasional heating of the phone (almost never happens with Nexus 5).
Horrendous battery. I think the battery life is same as my 1.5 year-old Nexus 5.
Great screen and awesome camera.
I wish they offer this phone in two flavors. Pure Android and Samsung Crap.
Sorry, had to vent.

I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?

schhy said:
I like the way the wifi icon is set up. And since I'm a right, the back on left is nice for me. Heating is much of a problem i noticed and battery lasts well for me. Have you cleared the cache partition?
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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).

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Yes, that was one of the first things I did. Also, brightness is usually set between and 5 and 10%. The screen is very bright. So you actually find the up/down data arrows under the WiFi icon useful? How? All I always ever cared was whether I had a WiFi connection or how strong the signal was. Both were well represented in the Lollipop/Marshmallow implementations (filled in white with no discreet bars).
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Yeah I've found it useful sometimes. When apps or webpages get stuck or slow, the indicater is useful to me in telling my phone's network usage.

I use the data symbols as well. Especially when uploading files to Google drive etc... Sometimes the uploads stop and the indicators help determine if it's the case. Hope they leave them there.

I love the arrows, as well. When I don't see them, I know it's time to kick my kids' tablets of the network...
I am very concerned with the heating issue. Something is drawing on my battery hardcore, which obviously increases heat. I have to power off, then back on to stop it. A standard reboot doesn't solve it.

Then get a nexus

How to prevent amoled burn in?

Every amoled screen I had was burned after some time. Mostly on the status bar. Once it was WhatsApp.
This time I want to prevent or delay it as long as possible. What recommendations do you have?

Never understood how people managed with burn ins. Well, stop watching a static picture with 100% brightness for 5hrs in a row is a good start.

i have owned more than a dozen samsung products with amoled screens, never had burn in on one of them. I always keep the screen very bright because my eyesight isnt that great. the one lg amoled phone i owned had terrible screen burn

The factors involved are: heat (ext), brightness (curr), uneven degradation rate of each color (rgb), persistent elements, and age (of panel). If half a screen is black and the other is blue, at max brightness, the blue subpixels are under the most stress. Their decay rate will overshadow the resting blue lights - plus that of green and red.
5yrs from now you're going to look at an all white image. Half of it will look awful.

Thanks guys, but not really helping, are you?
Fall asleep once with your phone under your face and you'll have a burn in your amoled screen. Probably many other ways.
This is a common issue that most people don't even notice.
I get how it happens. I'm looking for ways to prevent it.

Setting a screen timeout is helpful

Had every Samsung for years and never had this, so I've no idea.
Maybe some people don't have a screen timeout and fall asleep sometimes dunno
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Do i remember wrong, but didint Samsung add pixel shifting at least for their launcher elements which stay at same of screen all the time?

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Do i remember wrong, but didint Samsung add pixel shifting at least for their launcher elements which stay at same of screen all the time?
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I don't remember that. I know they had it on their Plasma TVs. I thought the Pixel phones with OLED screens also had it but don't know about Samsung phones. I do think that 99.9% of people that use a phone normally will never experience burn-in for the time they own the phone.

Use full immersive mode to hide the status bar and the top and bottom. Turn off auto brightness because if you leave it on and go in sun the brightness get high.
Screen time out to 15 seconds
Leave the brightness slider 50 percent or less
If you use aod make sure to flip the phone so it turns off when not using it
Use youtube in full screen if you use it a lot
These are my tips as I've had my screen changed 4 times due to burn in on my note 8.now using these methods my screen so far has no burn in
For me it's always was the top status bar that would burn in
But now I should never experience burn in ever again now I've actively tried to avoid it

Everyone I know that swears blind they don't have burn and have never had that issue on any device I immediately grab there phone and look closely on a complety grey background and 100 percent of them have status bar burn in at the top at the very least

No way am I turning stuff off to avoid something I've never seen
900 quid to have to suffer immersive mode utter lols, if I have to did that I'll sell it
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I also honestly don't know what you're talking about. I've had s3, s5, s7, s9 and now to s10. Never had anything of the sort and since s7 I've been using AOD. Nothing happend. For the love of me I can't imagine how you may have had anything wrong with the display....

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Use full immersive mode to hide the status bar and the top and bottom. Turn off auto brightness because if you leave it on and go in sun the brightness get high.
Screen time out to 15 seconds
Leave the brightness slider 50 percent or less
If you use aod make sure to flip the phone so it turns off when not using it
Use youtube in full screen if you use it a lot
These are my tips as I've had my screen changed 4 times due to burn in on my note 8.now using these methods my screen so far has no burn in
For me it's always was the top status bar that would burn in
But now I should never experience burn in ever again now I've actively tried to avoid it
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Exactly, it's always the status bar. I think there is no immersive mode on s10+ yet, but I removed all the icons.

haircut123 said:
Everyone I know that swears blind they don't have burn and have never had that issue on any device I immediately grab there phone and look closely on a complety grey background and 100 percent of them have status bar burn in at the top at the very least
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THANK YOU
I'm pretty sure many think they never had a burn in on their precious amoled screen, but they actually had.

Well they probably aren't looking for it that closely
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lumiden said:
Every amoled screen I had was burned after some time. Mostly on the status bar. Once it was WhatsApp.
This time I want to prevent or delay it as long as possible. What recommendations do you have?
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Lol, sorry to see everyone busting you up on this....because you know, it's always more helpful to give someone a bad time to ensure a post count increment, than to be useful and offer up some insight.
Well, I have had screen burn in occur on 3 different galaxy phones. Not from falling asleep, not from being clueless...but from using my phone with games. 2 were mine and 1 on My wife's..hers occurred from youtube.
I used to play clash of clans tons, got burn in from the smaller stats numbers at the top- over time...But replaced the phone no sweat. Verizon insurance took the phone as a defect, noted as screen image ghosting, no charge. I just didn't realize that it was an issue playing, but it was over time. I think it was an s6. The reps in the store were as surprised as I was that it had occurred.
Different device & model, S7 , but same thing occurred, not in the same game either...This time with clash royale- the towers and little cloud icon burned in from too much playing and too often, apparently. I thought I had been a bit more careful, but i think it was the frequency in which I was playing versus overall time.
This time I simply contacted support in the chat about the ghosting, they replaced it again as a defect, no charge.
My wife's occurred on the s7, hers was the top bar because of YouTube, too much & too often. So, did the same for my wife's phone through Verizon insurance, they replaced as a screen ghosting defect.
After I noted what was going on, she made adjustments, didn't happen again to either of us.
Both of us are on the 10s now and very aware this can occur. So, you just need to make sure you're not on those static images or bars or icons for either long periods or frequent shorter periods...it takes time, but it happens, despite popular misconception.
It is only really noticable on a white background, like when looking at mostly blank new tab in chrome.
On the last device, the S7, I made sure to cut the amount of time spent on static images, especially the games. I still kept the brightness always max during the day, nights it was at the lowest setting.
And yes, I kept my settings the same after the replacement, just made adjustments to my gaming approach. I didn't want to baby the phone screen settings, shouldn't have to. No issues on that one after adjusting my approach.
So, it's certainly possible to avoid and I bet there's many out there that use certain apps for long periods and frequently just do not really notice it may have occurred, even if slightly.. and I'm taking heavy users.
A note app with a clean page or white blank background reveals it, most of the time you're not using that, so ignorance is bliss...and makes It's easier for folks to bust on someone else for asking about screen burn in because they themselves are simply clueless it even remotely occured with them.
Heavy user naysayers, check your old phones, just for the heck of it... and then keep the findings to yourself because no one actually cares about you being right or wrong.
Anyway, it was an inconvenient lesson at the time,for me but good to know and learn from. Didn't cost me much but time, as it just took up time set up the phones again.
I know Samsung isn't too concerned about it or they wouldn't have preinstalled games on the phone (ie. solataire).
Just do your best to adjust your screen settings, like those that mentioned, if you're into that. Or simply adjust your apps/usage habits.
Don't overlook the Digital Wellbeing settings on the S10...that may also help you target certain apps with a timer also. Might be something useful for you.
Hope that helps some.
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sainthooligan said:
Lol, sorry to see everyone busting you up on this....because you know, it's always more helpful to give someone a bad time to ensure a post count increment, than to be useful and offer up some insight.
Well, I have had screen burn in occur on 3 different galaxy phones. Not from falling asleep, not from being clueless...but from using my phone with games. 2 were mine and 1 on My wife's..hers occurred from youtube.
I used to play clash of clans tons, got burn in from the smaller stats numbers at the top- over time...But replaced the phone no sweat. Verizon insurance took the phone as a defect, noted as screen image ghosting, no charge. I just didn't realize that it was an issue playing, but it was over time. I think it was an s6. The reps in the store were as surprised as I was that it had occurred.
Different device & model, S7 , but same thing occurred, not in the same game either...This time with clash royale- the towers and little cloud icon burned in from too much playing and too often, apparently. I thought I had been a bit more careful, but i think it was the frequency in which I was playing versus overall time.
This time I simply contacted support in the chat about the ghosting, they replaced it again as a defect, no charge.
My wife's occurred on the s7, hers was the top bar because of YouTube, too much & too often. So, did the same for my wife's phone through Verizon insurance, they replaced as a screen ghosting defect.
After I noted what was going on, she made adjustments, didn't happen again to either of us.
Both of us are on the 10s now and very aware this can occur. So, you just need to make sure you're not on those static images or bars or icons for either long periods or frequent shorter periods...it takes time, but it happens, despite popular misconception.
It is only really noticable on a white background, like when looking at mostly blank new tab in chrome.
On the last device, the S7, I made sure to cut the amount of time spent on static images, especially the games. I still kept the brightness always max during the day, nights it was at the lowest setting.
And yes, I kept my settings the same after the replacement, just made adjustments to my gaming approach. I didn't want to baby the phone screen settings, shouldn't have to. No issues on that one after adjusting my approach.
So, it's certainly possible to avoid and I bet there's many out there that use certain apps for long periods and frequently just do not really notice it may have occurred, even if slightly.. and I'm taking heavy users.
A note app with a clean page or white blank background reveals it, most of the time you're not using that, so ignorance is bliss...and makes It's easier for folks to bust on someone else for asking about screen burn in because they themselves are simply clueless it even remotely occured with them.
Heavy user naysayers, check your old phones, just for the heck of it... and then keep the findings to yourself because no one actually cares about you being right or wrong.
Anyway, it was an inconvenient lesson at the time,for me but good to know and learn from. Didn't cost me much but time, as it just took up time set up the phones again.
I know Samsung isn't too concerned about it or they wouldn't have preinstalled games on the phone (ie. solataire).
Just do your best to adjust your screen settings, like those that mentioned, if you're into that. Or simply adjust your apps/usage habits.
Don't overlook the Digital Wellbeing settings on the S10...that may also help you target certain apps with a timer also. Might be something useful for you.
Hope that helps some.
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Thank you for your insight. I wouldn't be able to return it if it happens.
I'm also worry the AOD can cause burn in. I never used it before because I had a notification led...
I know it moves around, but is that enough? I also turn it off 8hs a day.

lumiden said:
Thank you for your insight. I wouldn't be able to return it if it happens.
I'm also worry the AOD can cause burn in. I never used it before because I had a notification led...
I know it moves around, but is that enough? I also turn it off 8hs a day.
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You can set the schedule for the time for the AOD is active and either use the AOD auto brightness option or set the brightness lower, if that helps you feel more confident with it. The movement should help avoid issues.
FWIW, I used AOD with my previous phone without any issue and I anticipate the same with this one.
My burn in issue was only with the games & YouTube as noted.
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This is my main issue with AMOLED screens. They look nice but they wear out. The nature of Android means they will wear out unevenly which is why people see burn in. The wearing out of your screen is cumulative. Meaning that it isn't like an old CRT TV where it would take weeks of a static image to burn in but just showing the same image over time day in and day out. The only way to prevent it is to use the entire screen with moving images, like full screen movies, so that the panel wears evenly.
The status bar and navigation bar tend to be on the screen all the time those images will burn in first. Dark mode can also cause issues because if the area is dark it isn't being used and if it isn't being used it will look brighter than other areas that were used more frequently. The s10 has a full screen mode option for some apps. Some apps like Netflix will show the full screen movie even around the camera cutout and that is ideal. Youtube will also allow you to zoom in and show the video around the camera. cutout Chrome and the Samsung browser keep the status bar but it will change colors based on the site and if the bar is white it will invert the status icons which will help keep the panel wearing evenly. I have the dolphin browser which runs in full screen but the top portion of the panel is not used so that is less than ideal.
Auto brightness can be used but in the bright sun that panel is wearing much faster. The screen time out should be set to 15 seconds. These panels are designed to look great but not be super durable and in many cases that's what Samsung wants. They benefit when you have to buy a new device. It's sad to say but its business.