Hello, I'm not seeing any others with this issue...don't know if it's normal or not but I often get a "screen flicker" when using the phone with the brightness lower than half. I really notice this when the app has a black background. For example using the dark themed XDA app. It looks like you see with old computer monitors when you tried to take video of them.
I have no such issue, and i use it on a very dark setting, sometimes with an app to make it even darker, amoled is great for this. Only thing i have noticed is that some apps override the set brightness.
Get it to stock and if it continues get it replaced.
i believe ive noticed the same thing but when using the quick charger. when plugged in the screen will constantly flicker but stops as soon as i unplug it. if im using my computer to charge i dont have this issue.
It flickers sometimes only with the quick charger on lowest brightness w/ adaptive on.
Max-o said:
i believe ive noticed the same thing but when using the quick charger. when plugged in the screen will constantly flicker but stops as soon as i unplug it. if im using my computer to charge i dont have this issue.
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OK thanks. Can't recall if I was using the quick charger but I may have been since the likely time I'm using it that dim is while laying in bed. I'm going to keep note of that for a few days and see if that's it.
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has motorola fixed that little LED after this update?
I don't see how they could release this phone without noticing that... so stupid.
Moto's official explanation is that it isn't a charging light but a "sign of life". It only comes on(blinks) when battery is too dead for the phone to turn on charging mode. This is to let you know its still alive. Would be nice if it was a charging light though.
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Charging at Night
To be honest, I'm really glad that they decided for it to be a "sign of life" light. With my previous phone (Milestone/OG DROID), the light would bother the hell outta me when I'd go to bed at night and charge it on my nightstand.
Thanks Moto for this one !
Light Flow
Light Flow has an option for this and a lot more. you can make the LED one color for charging and another for when its full.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow&hl=en
kern417 said:
Light Flow has an option for this and a lot more. you can make the LED one color for charging and another for when its full.
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That app is for the front LED. Not the side tiny little light next to the microUSB port.
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That app is for the front LED. Not the side tiny little light next to the microUSB port.
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There's a light on the side?! I just had to look now to see it. I had never seen it before. I'm running the leaked OTA, when does it even light up?
Read about 4 posts up
With the OTA applied, the light now works if the phone is OFF.
Once the phone is switched on, the light goes out.
And the phone is plugged into a charging source, of course.
Wow I never knew this existed. Interesting...I guess. I don't think I've ever seen it light up.
I tried it too and it lights up a second then the phone is turning on, the led then turns off. Glad its working.
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I saw that it existed, but had never seen it light up. Until I plugged in my phone with no battery in. Then it lit up. I was running .890 and that was the first time I ever saw it.
When I put my phone on the wireless charger at night, the screen turns on. Its like a beacon in my bedroom.
Anyone know how to disable this? I found the xposed module to turn off the sound, but that's just half of the problem.
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Mine only makes a chime. Does yours stay on?
Do you have 'Stay awake' enabled in Developer options (see attached)?
Is the wireless charger magnetized?
Well, it doesn't stay on for long, but its bright enough to cast a light on the celing for a few seconds before turning off.
I dont want it to light up at all.
Its not a magnetic charger, just the little Nokia puck. Worked well withy Nexus 5.
Use a dark black background and the pixels will be off. You could even set it up so it switches to that wallpaper around your bed time or when it gets plugged in.
Just take the battery out.
groo said:
When I put my phone on the wireless charger at night, the screen turns on. Its like a beacon in my bedroom.
Anyone know how to disable this? I found the xposed module to turn off the sound, but that's just half of the problem.
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You can't do that actually. One thing you do is to turn on the adaptive brightness and then put the brightness to lowest, now put it into charging. brightness is too much low with this
My camera flash diode is always on, even when the phone is powered off. I first noticed it when I went to charge my phone over night next to my bed. I lay the phone on its face so the LED notification doesn't show. I noticed a slight glow from the flash diode. I thought at first it only happened when I was charging my phone. Today, while at work, I powered down my phone and again noticed the light. For me, its always on. I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and they are going to over night me a replacement. My friend's S6 does not have this issue, so not all of them are having this. I encourage everyone to go into a dark room and check your flash diode.
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My camera flash diode is always on, even when the phone is powered off. I first noticed it when I went to charge my phone over night next to my bed. I lay the phone on its face so the LED notification doesn't show. I noticed a slight glow from the flash diode. I thought at first it only happened when I was charging my phone. Today, while at work, I powered down my phone and again noticed the light. For me, its always on. I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and they are going to over night me a replacement. My friend's S6 does not have this issue, so not all of them are having this. I encourage everyone to go into a dark room and check your flash diode.
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I don't notice this on mone, but here's a complete guess. Do you have the quick reply feature enabled? I'm referring to the one that lets you hold your finger over the heart rate monitor for a couple seconds to reject a call and reply with a text. Maybe that required the diode to be on in order to detect your finger?
Then again, it would only need to be on while your phone is ringing... Anyway, just a thought. Hope you get it resolved!
Edit: I'm dumb. Nevermind. I read it again and realized it even happens while the phone is off. It's late, I'm gonna sleep now...
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My camera flash diode is always on, even when the phone is powered off. I first noticed it when I went to charge my phone over night next to my bed. I lay the phone on its face so the LED notification doesn't show. I noticed a slight glow from the flash diode. I thought at first it only happened when I was charging my phone. Today, while at work, I powered down my phone and again noticed the light. For me, its always on. I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and they are going to over night me a replacement. My friend's S6 does not have this issue, so not all of them are having this. I encourage everyone to go into a dark room and check your flash diode.
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Do you mean the red light from the fingerprint sensor (sits right next to the flash)
I noticed this as well. Its definitely the flash and it is very dim. To see it I had to be in a pitch black room and let my eyes adjust. Its probably some small leakage current through whatever off "switch" that controls the flash. I doubt its a battery drain because of the low intensity of the light. It would be easy to test by turning the phone off for a day (i think the light is still dimly lit even with phone off) and observing the battery drop over a day. Who has time for that though.
Great Work .
This could also be responsible for additional battery drain in Sleep Mode , right ?
I am researching Battery Problems before possible purchase so ...Thanks and publicize this.
I may quote you on Reddit if OK.
I have this issue too and supposedly it's going to be fixed when we get 5.1 but I don't find this a huge issue as I'm sure it doesn't affect the battery to any significance. This phone has had so many issues which sucks cuz Samsung did something right for once but little things have been a huge nuisance.
i dont ever use a wired charger, i use wireless chargers since its built into a stand on my desk, when i put it on i have to power off my phone evry night since it keeps the lock screen on, resulting in major burn in.. ive gone through 3 note 8s under my warranty due to major burn in, the first one never had this issue, the seccond and 3rd (i actualy just got yesterday) did and does,. i thought it was a glitch with phone number 2 but i just got a 3rd and it has the same issue, its happenign with android 7 and 8 so its not android, how do i fix it? id like to prevent burn in of a large clock on my new phone since i probably cant get it replaced free again
ive heard about it happening at 100% but this is at any %, i turn off lock screen to AOD, put it on the charger,and a minute later it gets stuck on a lock screen!
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i dont ever use a wired charger, i use wireless chargers since its built into a stand on my desk, when i put it on i have to power off my phone evry night since it keeps the lock screen on, resulting in major burn in.. ive gone through 3 note 8s under my warranty due to major burn in, the first one never had this issue, the seccond and 3rd (i actualy just got yesterday) did and does,. i thought it was a glitch with phone number 2 but i just got a 3rd and it has the same issue, its happenign with android 7 and 8 so its not android, how do i fix it? id like to prevent burn in of a large clock on my new phone since i probably cant get it replaced free again
ive heard about it happening at 100% but this is at any %, i turn off lock screen to AOD, put it on the charger,and a minute later it gets stuck on a lock screen!
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i just charged the phone from 20% to 100% and the screen stayed only on AOD not on lock screen the entire time, until it got to 100%
its just a problem when wireless charging
LamoidZombieDog said:
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i just charged the phone from 20% to 100% and the screen stayed only on AOD not on lock screen the entire time, until it got to 100%
its just a problem when wireless charging
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I wireless charge my phone overnight. I have AOD switched off, and don't have any problems with the screen staying off during charge, and when fully charged. Have you got any 3rd party apps that might be waking the phone?
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I wireless charge my phone overnight. I have AOD switched off, and don't have any problems with the screen staying off during charge, and when fully charged. Have you got any 3rd party apps that might be waking the phone?
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no, i know for fact its nto a third party app since i tested it with a new phone with basicly no apps installed, and it still did it
so i dont know why it does it
but it does it
and its annoying af
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no, i know for fact its nto a third party app since i tested it with a new phone with basicly no apps installed, and it still did it
so i dont know why it does it
but it does it
and its annoying af
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Have you tried a different wireless charger?
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Have you tried a different wireless charger?
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no
i just tried one of my other wireless chargers (i have 2 others)
i put it on the charger, about a minute later it went to lock screen and turjned on, then it went dim like it was goign to turn off but stayed on dim
which the other charger doesnt do
Keep in mind the phone is at 100% (when charging non wirelessly, the screen doesnt get stuck on, but it does get stuck at 100% only which apparently is common)
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i just tried one of my other wireless chargers (i have 2 others)
i put it on the charger, about a minute later it went to lock screen and turjned on, then it went dim like it was goign to turn off but stayed on dim
which the other charger doesnt do
Keep in mind the phone is at 100% (when charging non wirelessly, the screen doesnt get stuck on, but it does get stuck at 100% only which apparently is common)
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Weird. Just checked mine - if the screen is off, then when put on the wireless charger it comes on with the lock screen for less than five seconds before switching off again. If the phone is on, then it stays on for my 1 minute screen timeout, and then goes off (it dims about 10 seconds before going off completely).
Not sure if it's relevant, but my screen brightness slider is set to about 20% (I'm really not keen on the prospect of burn-in).
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Weird. Just checked mine - if the screen is off, then when put on the wireless charger it comes on with the lock screen for less than five seconds before switching off again. If the phone is on, then it stays on for my 1 minute screen timeout, and then goes off (it dims about 10 seconds before going off completely).
Not sure if it's relevant, but my screen brightness slider is set to about 20% (I'm really not keen on the prospect of burn-in).
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yeah ive gotten my phone replaced twice because of major burn in (under warranty) i just got my 3rd note 8 2 days ago..
i keep it at 100% because i should be able to use my phone how i like
anyone who says it blinds them to keep their phone at 100% is just an idiot it doesnt BLIND you its not the sun
it pissed me off so much when they came out with the dont put ur brightness at 100% it will strain ur eyes warning
i almost wanna root by phone just to get rid of it
but yeah it just gets stuck on and its gonna burn a clock in again if i leave it
so i have to let it always play a yotuueb video
LamoidZombieDog said:
yeah ive gotten my phone replaced twice because of major burn in (under warranty) i just got my 3rd note 8 2 days ago..
i keep it at 100% because i should be able to use my phone how i like
anyone who says it blinds them to keep their phone at 100% is just an idiot it doesnt BLIND you its not the sun
it pissed me off so much when they came out with the dont put ur brightness at 100% it will strain ur eyes warning
i almost wanna root by phone just to get rid of it
but yeah it just gets stuck on and its gonna burn a clock in again if i leave it
so i have to let it always play a yotuueb video
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3rd phone, dam I'd be pissed as hell. I'd try talking to manager and ask for a brand new phone and not a refurb. I also hate that brightness warning and sound one as well. The super bright screen definitely helps in sunlight. Still on my 1st note and no screen burn ins.
Don't have that issue with wireless charger either.
Nick216ohio said:
3rd phone, dam I'd be pissed as hell. I'd try talking to manager and ask for a brand new phone and not a refurb. I also hate that brightness warning and sound one as well. The super bright screen definitely helps in sunlight. Still on my 1st note and no screen burn ins.
Don't have that issue with wireless charger either.
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yeah.. i have a verizon buisness account with 7 phone numbers linked so if i need it replaced, they overnight one through fedex and i get it the next day no matter what
only time i had to fight with them about getting a replacement was this note 8 they wanted me to go to samsung for some reason instead
i got a little burn in on my first phone i preordered, then on my seccond phone it has insane burn in and the whole screen is yellow, the whole screen has yellow burn in from just being on all the time
if my 3rd phone gets burn in.. im gonna be even more pissed then i am now
my first phone was flawless, so was my seccond one, this 3rd one they sent me was dirty on the back i had to clean it, and it has scratches on the bottom back of the glass (minor microscratches but they are visible) and lots of scratches on the aluminum ring arround the camera
so im pissed at that :I
Nick216ohio said:
3rd phone, dam I'd be pissed as hell. I'd try talking to manager and ask for a brand new phone and not a refurb. I also hate that brightness warning and sound one as well. The super bright screen definitely helps in sunlight. Still on my 1st note and no screen burn ins.
Don't have that issue with wireless charger either.
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ive already replaced it twice.. idk if they would be happy ot send me another one
plus when i get one, it takes hours and hours of transferign everything over because i have to get everything perfect
so its not just an easy quick swap and done
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Going to bed each night, I place my phone in the Samsung Duo wireless charger and, 3 or so hours later, it's flashing the screen randomly @ full brightness, the red charging light on the Duo is blinking rapidly and some sort of text is popping up on the screen but doesn't stay long enough for my sleep weary eyes to be able to read.
Honestly, it's flickering like lightning!
Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on & how to stop it? My dog is petrified of storms and, every night, he's thinking there's a lightning storm headed in and shaking jn terror. Somethings gotta give and the wife is attached to the dog, so I figure have to solve the weirdness with the screen flashing...
Any help is appreciated!
Do you have Samsung USB Cable & Adaptive Charger?
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Do you have Samsung USB Cable & Adaptive Charger?
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I finally figured it out. Don't know exactly where I found the setting or the forum I found the fix in, but it was a setting that had to be turned off for full battery notification. Once I turned it off, the issue stopped
Thanks for the reply!
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I finally figured it out. Don't know exactly where I found the setting or the forum I found the fix in, but it was a setting that had to be turned off for full battery notification. Once I turned it off, the issue stopped
Thanks for the reply!
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That's quite a light show, for 'full battery' notification, GEES
pizza_pablo said:
That's quite a light show, for 'full battery' notification, GEES
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It was insane! Woke both my wife & I on multiple occasions. And drove my dog to insane levels of anxiety. He was sure it was lightning and acted accordingly.
Glad I got it fixed. Really a useless function