burn in - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Hi somebody knows how to fix burn in on note 8 i have it in the middle of the screen anyone?

I think you need to replace the whole screen. Curious to how long have you had your note8? I've had mine since launch and my screen is still burn free, though I rarely go beyond 75% brightness.

There is no fix for burned screens, but there some precautions to prevent it, resonable brightness level is a very important one

NIKKOTUASON said:
I think you need to replace the whole screen. Curious to how long have you had your note8? I've had mine since launch and my screen is still burn free, though I rarely go beyond 75% brightness.
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I've had it since launch too

I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...

kanej2006 said:
I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...
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Where do you derive the brightness percentage figures from?
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kanej2006 said:
I am surprised some of you are running the screen at 75% brightness. Mine is usually set to 50-60% at all times and it is more than bright enough. This is for general indoor use/night time that is...
In fact, my other phone, the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is set to 70% brightness yet is about as bright as my Note 8 at 50% brightness. Fantastic and very bright screen the Note 8 already has...
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As burn in would totally do my head in, I've got mine set to around 35-40% and I think that's plenty bright enough. Obviously, if it detects I'm in bright sunlight it gets brighter of its own accord, so the relatively low brightness works well for me, plus it saves a bit of battery too.

I got burn in just the status bar,but without clock and battery and other items,just the bar itself,i use the phone for about six mounths,and i stay over 75% everyday,i work outside ..and only that bar got burn,you need to be careful cuz the note 8 is a beautiful pice.

I just got a replacement for my Note 8 after having terrible burn in using the navigation app. on my motorcycle. I always had my brightness set to auto, but had the nav app display always on. I actually have bad burn in from both the copilot app as well as the Waze app. With the replacement, I will set the app to turn the display off after a few minutes. Kind of sucks, as I used my Note 3 for 3 years and never had this issue. I wonder if reducing the screen resolution would help? I always had it at the highest setting.

Lowering the resolution will in fact make it worse, as it groups pixels to behave as one, better do what you said, lower brightness, shorter times to screen off, etc

Motowojo said:
I just got a replacement for my Note 8 after having terrible burn in using the navigation app. on my motorcycle. I always had my brightness set to auto, but had the nav app display always on. I actually have bad burn in from both the copilot app as well as the Waze app. With the replacement, I will set the app to turn the display off after a few minutes. Kind of sucks, as I used my Note 3 for 3 years and never had this issue. I wonder if reducing the screen resolution would help? I always had it at the highest setting.
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I had a similar burn-in issue using Android Auto on my Note 4, so for my Note 8 I use Tasker to dim the screen to around 10% which is just about visible - I can restore normal brightness by using the proximity sensor to toggle it on and off.

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Is there a way to keep the display always on?

I couldn't find anything on this and was wondering if its possible. I know it will shorten battery life a lot but I would still like it if the display could always be on.
I think the screen will burn in, same as on the note 3
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microdot said:
I couldn't find anything on this and was wondering if its possible. I know it will shorten battery life a lot but I would still like it if the display could always be on.
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use this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nbondarchuk.android.keepscn
Sideloading the app above might work but I would not expected to say on more than a few hours due to battery life. It is not designed to stay on all the time. Change the screen time out to five minutes and set the wake up Motion and that will help.
highlordkram said:
Sideloading the app above might work but I would not expected to say on more than a few hours due to battery life. It is not designed to stay on all the time. Change the screen time out to five minutes and set the wake up Motion and that will help.
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It's a amoled screen, so black pixels are actually off, right ?
If i use a custom and ultra minimalist clock (2 pixels white on black font, one for hour, one for min) it will use a significant amount of battery if i keep it on ?
I know most of the drain comes from the screen but I wonder if the intensity is at 1 and you have a black background white text how long the gear would last.
At 4 my gear I charge every two days and even then there is a lot of life in the battery.
Baltyre said:
It's a amoled screen, so black pixels are actually off, right ?
If i use a custom and ultra minimalist clock (2 pixels white on black font, one for hour, one for min) it will use a significant amount of battery if i keep it on ?
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while black pixels are indeed off, i believe just waking up the gear itself will consume more battery, just because it stays 'ready' the whole time.
I thought it would be nice if the watch face was visible all the time but didn't think about burn in. It's probably for the best to leave it as is. Thanks for all the replies.

How dim can the screen get?

Often when I check the time on my phone (LG G5) at night, I get blinded by the brightness even when using lux's night mode and the screen brightness all the way down. How dim can the Note 9 go?
I don't think you'll have any problems in that regard. I use mine at minimum brightness in the dark sometimes and it's nowhere near bright enough to be irritating.
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Auto brightness? Or control % yourself?

How do you control screen brightness on your Pixel 4 / 4 XL?
To help battery life, I have read that Ambient display or Adaptive Brightness and that EQ thing too, can be a bit of a battery drainer, and it's best to just set your brightness yourself. But there's no easy quick way to do that it seems? Other than going into Settings - Display, and sliding the bar up or down to get the specific % you want.
Is there an app, or what are you guys doing?
Zorachus said:
How do you control screen brightness on your Pixel 4 / 4 XL?
To help battery life, I have read that Ambient display or Adaptive Brightness and that EQ thing too, can be a bit of a battery drainer, and it's best to just set your brightness yourself. But there's no easy quick way to do that it seems? Other than going into Settings - Display, and sliding the bar up or down to get the specific % you want.
Is there an app, or what are you guys doing?
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I'm a full manual kinda dude. Inside, i'll set it at 50, then up to 90 or so when I go outside. If it's really bright, then i'll hit my HBM widget :good:
I run it with adaptive brightness on and ambient EQ on. Time saved on micro managing something like brightness is worth a little battery life. I calibrate my adaptive brightness to 0% in pitch dark and don't touch it anymore.
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EeZeEpEe said:
I run it with adaptive brightness on and ambient EQ on. Time saved on micro managing something like brightness is worth a little battery life. I calibrate my adaptive brightness to 0% in pitch dark and don't touch it anymore.
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I like doing that thanks.
Auto!
I used to use manual for my OnePlus 7 Pro because that thing was horrible with setting brightness for me. It would always get too dim. This Pixel, however, has solid auto brightness and doesn't drastically increase or decrease.
Battery life part isn't an issue for me since I don't really notice a huge drain with it on + I'm almost always around a charger anyway.
For those that aren't aware the auto-brightness on these phones takes quite some time to fully adjust to your preferences. You need to keep fiddling it every time you're not satisfied and it will remember the setting you made, make note of ambient light, time of day, etc. and adjust accordingly until it has you pegged. This takes days, a week, more or less. Dutifully counsel it as to correct brightness and you may just find it works very well and can be left alone once you've got it in line. Think of it as a stubborn dog that must corrected until trained.
krabman said:
For those that aren't aware the auto-brightness on these phones takes quite some time to fully adjust to your preferences. You need to keep fiddling it every time you're not satisfied and it will remember the setting you made, make note of ambient light, time of day, etc. and adjust accordingly until it has you pegged. This takes days, a week, more or less. Dutifully counsel it as to correct brightness and you may just find it works very well and can be left alone once you've got it in line. Think of it as a stubborn dog that must corrected until trained.
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Not for me. I literally just put it to 0% in pitch black and, for me, it's adjustments to all other ambient lights is perfectly fine for me. But you are correct that it can take some time but I say within a week and not multiple weeks.
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I didn't say multiple weeks, I meant the time can be days or up to a week more or less, sorry if I didn't phrase that well. Mine was about a week as was the previous pixels before it. Anecdotally it seems it takes longer if you prefer your phone brighter in general but that's just based on my reading different observations people have had of it. Your own tend to fit that mold, you clearly prefer it dim(mer) simply because the phone really likes to keep it down in the stock model so if you were good to go with just one adjustment you lean that way.

How to turn off always on display during charge?

Hello! So, I installed Android 10 and now when i wireless charge my 10+ I always have always on display on the bottom of the screen (% and estimated waiting time to 100%). How do i turn it off? Even if the light is low, I really dont want it to be always displayed during charge (and maybe it could also cause burn in problems, altho i read always on display text isnt always using same pixels, so who knows).
Thanks!
I wouldn't worry about burn in. I use my phone a lot for youtube and waze and both caused serious burn in on my note 8 (max brightness usually), but on my s10 there is zero burn since release with the same usage.
You can however disable it. It's under Display and the option is called Show charging information

Question Prevent screen brightness dropping automatically

This is probably the worst issue I have with the phone, it seems to drop screen brightness when it heats up, which more likely than not happens when using the phone in direct sunlight, making what is generally a bright screen under sunlight become a pain to use.
I'm not exactly a heavy phone user, so I'd much rather keep the phone at max brightness for short periods, even if it heats up a little. Anyone had any luck disabling this safety feature?
inpression said:
This is probably the worst issue I have with the phone, it seems to drop screen brightness when it heats up, which more likely than not happens when using the phone in direct sunlight, making what is generally a bright screen under sunlight become a pain to use.
I'm not exactly a heavy phone user, so I'd much rather keep the phone at max brightness for short periods, even if it heats up a little. Anyone had any luck disabling this safety feature?
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Have you tried turning off Adaptive Brightness in Display settings?
And also have you got the latest firmware update?
babyboy3265 said:
Have you tried turning off Adaptive Brightness in Display settings?
And also have you got the latest firmware update?
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Yes, it was all turned off, but in the meanwhile I cleared the data for Device Health Services and it seems to have stopped sudden changes in brightness, it would visibly brighten up the display going from indoors to outdoors before.
Seems it was still retaining some adaptive brightness settings even after having disabled it. Will test if further tomorrow to see if that fixed it.
inpression said:
Yes, it was all turned off, but in the meanwhile I cleared the data for Device Health Services and it seems to have stopped sudden changes in brightness, it would visibly brighten up the display going from indoors to outdoors before.
Seems it was still retaining some adaptive brightness settings even after having disabled it. Will test if further tomorrow to see if that fixed it.
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Well good luck bud!
Well, it still dims and brightens the display, to a lesser extent now, but I'm starting to doubt it's due to heating. Heating it up with intensive use while keeping it in bright conditions keeps the display at maximum, but changing lighting conditions like going indoors or covering the light sensor causes it to dim the display.
Is this a bug or a feature, I've seen people elsewhere complaining about this, so it's not a unique occurence.

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