Well, I woke up this morning to find that my phone had been stuck on the Google boot logo for at least a few hours. I cursed to myself because I already knew it was going to be burned. I booted my phone and as soon as it got to the MultiROM boot screen, man did I feel it. There was a big fat "Google" right in the middle of the screen. I've had an app I found on the Play Store running for ~8 hours, filling the screen with colors flashing back and forth. It's gotten better and I can't notice it anywhere but the MultiROM boot screen anymore (I tested it with multiple burn-in test apps). I guess it's okay but the the concept of a very expensive phone being burned like that kills me inside. One request, can someone get me an exact image of what the screen looks like when it's turning on so I can invert the colors and hopefully get it gone all the way?
I had some burn in that was bad a while back and this app
Display Tester fixed it up well. I used the burn in fix method with the black and white stripes.
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So my poor i9000m went for a faceplant earlier this year and the glass was badly cracked. I continued using it for a while until the amoled started displaying messed up colors and finally turned a harsh shade of green so you could barely see what was on the screen.
I disassembled the phone, and discovered the amoled itself had started to crack. Okay, so dead screen. I ordered one of the replacement amoled that include the frame and buttons (for a few bucks more then only the amoled it seemed like a worthwhile convenience).
I got the replacement today, and carefully reassembled the phone around it. Power on... Samsung logo, cyanogenmod logo, startup animation! Awesome I think to myself! But then the cyanogen animation goes weird colors (as if the display was set to 16 color). Phone boots and looks okay, colors maybe a bit faded. Then the screen timeout hits, so I hit the power button to start up again. This time no Samsung logo, just a small green line at the top. After a while cid appears on the boot animation. In the OS, colors look poor (like it is in 256 color mode), and gradients look horribly jaggy.
If I boot into recovery or download mode, I get a little green line that slowly fades to random pixels across the whole screen. Only if I boot into the OS can I see anything. And still, colors look horrible.
I took the phone apart again, cleaned the connectors carefully, but same thing.
Any thoughts? Did I get a dud screen or does this sound like something else is wrong in the phone?
Looks as if I'm going to have to join the return game on this device. I've been a very happy TF700 owner on CROMi-X for the last year and still had that WOW effect when I started playing with this tablet.
Until it got dark.... I mean - the attached picture is with the tablet in sleep mode!!!!! That's gotta suck the battery dry like nothing.....
Opened a ticket with Asus for what it's worth...
I'm going to update to 4.3 manually, but don't expect that'll do much.
Does anybody have something similar?
Edit: After about an hour of reading the screen dimmed and had dark shadows on both sides. I flashed the 4.3 update manually since the System Update wouldn't - now everything seems to be fine.
Light bleed gone when in sleep mode and no shadows either... ?????????
Weird, glad you got it sorted out.
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Wow - good outcome - never seen anything like that - keep your eyes on it obviously
sbdags said:
Wow - good outcome - never seen anything like that - keep your eyes on it obviously
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Unfortunately it's not resolved to the point that I feel confident to unlock.
I still have have weird and uneven dimming of the screen. Sometimes just part of the screen dims and shows a dark, uneven shadow across it (in reading mode). What I don't understand is, taking a screen shot in that situation shows nothing of the shadow....??
What I consistently see is when the screen times out, it dims just before it turns off, but only on part of the screen (more or less the left half, but fading out from left to right).
Smart Saving is off.. Can't think of anything else to try...
I'd hate to return it, but I think I'll have to - this does not inspire confidence....
berndblb said:
Unfortunately it's not resolved to the point that I feel confident to unlock.
I still have have weird and uneven dimming of the screen. Sometimes just part of the screen dims and shows a dark, uneven shadow across it (in reading mode). What I don't understand is, taking a screen shot in that situation shows nothing of the shadow....??
What I consistently see is when the screen times out, it dims just before it turns off, but only on part of the screen (more or less the left half, but fading out from left to right).
Smart Saving is off.. Can't think of anything else to try...
I'd hate to return it, but I think I'll have to - this does not inspire confidence....
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Smart saving has nothing to do with smart dimming unfortunately. You can only turn smart dimming off if you are rooted. I'd take it back and get a replacement as what you are seeing is not normal.
berndblb said:
Unfortunately it's not resolved to the point that I feel confident to unlock.
I still have have weird and uneven dimming of the screen. Sometimes just part of the screen dims and shows a dark, uneven shadow across it (in reading mode). What I don't understand is, taking a screen shot in that situation shows nothing of the shadow....??
What I consistently see is when the screen times out, it dims just before it turns off, but only on part of the screen (more or less the left half, but fading out from left to right).
Smart Saving is off.. Can't think of anything else to try...
I'd hate to return it, but I think I'll have to - this does not inspire confidence....
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Never seen this on any tablet.
To me it seems that some parts of the Led backlight are not working correct or totally not.
Better try to get it swapped or Rma'd ASAP.
R.I.P
I was filling out the Amazon return form and picked it up 'cause I got a notification about new mail - and that's when the digitizer gave up completely.
I was able to wipe my data by hooking it up to the TV and got it to reset with a lot of huntin' and pecking.
A replacement is on it's way. You gotta love Amazon :cyclops:
I'm randomly getting a split screen, half of the screen turns upside down, half stays right side up. Screenshots do not show it however. I have to turn off the screen for it to go away. Happens periodically after several minutes of use. Any thoughts?
looks a bit like a slot machine yes? I have a vertical split where the the image is not flipped, but it does scroll up/wrap around the screen so that the notification bar is somewhere in the bottom half of the screen and the bottom of the image is wrapped around to the top.
I only really get it on custom kernels, I reported it to the maker of Elite and he said from what he has heard its a hardware issue and the only fix would be to RMA. Haven't done that yet as it fairly occasional, but plan to soonish.
kinda sucky how we are getting screen issues on this phone, i also have a screen issue with vertical gradient line appearing on some material themes.
sadly i cant RMA it. if i could i would have, i have ordered it all the way from the Middle east. :/ i will stick to the phone for a while longer as i love it.. and hoping that the line somehow dissappears by its own.
Hey! So I just bought a Nexus 6 on Amazon last week. Yesterday night, I clicked the invert colors button so that I could read without hurting my eyes at night. However, I forgot to turn it off before I slept and just woke up to an ugly screen with messed up greens and reds. I’ve tried running the screen burn in apps but they don’t seem to work. Should I hit Motorola up? Also, it’s not rooted.
Edit: I took a screen shot and an image of the screen using another device (moto g) the one with the regular greens is the screenshot and is how it used to look. The one with dull stuff is how it looks now.
Woah. That's insane. I'd return it, OP. Looks like you got a **** screen.
Color blind mode is active. But honestly i wanna find out if thw support would replqce your device.
Did you play with the 'Simulate colour space' under 'Developer Options'? Check if the option is 'Disabled'.
I bought a screen of eBay which said it was OEM but who knows? Anyway I had the screen installed at a phone repair shop and it seemed to work fine until I walked out of the store and turned it on to notice that the screen was black and white. I turned it on and off again and it went back to normal but i went in to tell them anyway when i was walking in I turned the screen in and off a couple times to see if I could get it to go black and white again and sure enough if did. It seems to turn black and white every couple times I turn it on and off. It doesn't flicker back and forth and it doesn't charge when I'm using the phone also i had a custom ROM installed so I got rid of that to see if it would fix it it didn't and I reset the entire device to no avail but I did notice that to this point I haven't had it go black and white while in the boot-loader and i have tried a lot turning it on and off again and again. I also noticed that there are lines bouncing in the background when the screen is black and white which are also visible when the screen is normal but only barely. Apart from that the screen seems to shake when its in black and white and sometimes the touch wont work for a couple seconds its not a big deal because you can just turn the screen on and off to fix it but its a very strange problem i have contacted the seller and I talked to the man who installed it but I was wondering if it was possible that it was some kind of software issue it seems unlikely but the fact that it doesn't flicker on and off its just either on or off and the fact that i cant seem to get it to happen in the boot-loader is making me wonder I also tried recording my screen and the screen was recorded normally when it was black and white to me.