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Wow! The pink screen sure is annoying!
I just got my replacement phone from HTC (at&t N1) for my reception / audio issues.
The new screen looks horribly pink - noticeably so.
I think its just luck of the draw with these screens. My first phone had a slight green tint, but was pretty close to natural colors; the replacement is very red'ish tinted. My original phone had an issue with the cpu throttling not working properly any more. the replacement screen causes the grey areas to appear pink/purple'ish. (even the black areas)
Marine6680 said:
I think its just luck of the draw with these screens. My first phone had a slight green tint, but was pretty close to natural colors; the replacement is very red'ish tinted. My original phone had an issue with the cpu throttling not working properly any more. the replacement screen causes the grey areas to appear pink/purple'ish. (even the black areas)
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This is really bad - I will probably ask for another replacement, especially since the new phone has really bad reconnection issues. QC on the nexus one is just beyond bad! This should NOT happen.
I wonder what percentage of people have this tint problem...
[POLL] do you have the red tinted screen?
If you do not know what I am talking abut, or never noticed it; turn your screen brightness down to its lowest setting and then open up the stock android keyboard. (it becomes most pronounced at brightness settings below 50%) If you have the problem, then the keys an surrounding dark grey will have a red tint to it. The red tint is only an issue for the various shades of grey; black and other colors are not affected. (on my screen anyway, and white may be a bit off as well)
The reason I ask, is that I recently had an issue with my CPU getting stuck at 100% load at random, so I sent in for a replacement. I got the new phone in the mail, and it appears to be a new, or at least a failed/repaired assembly line unit. (received a -04 part number btw)
This thing has a bad red tint to the screen, worse than my GFs nexus which we also received a replacement for. (both replacements had worse red screen) I might could get used to it, but currently it is distracting to no end.
Problem is, is that my original device has seemed to stop getting the random 100% CPU load problem. I wiped and flashed back to shipped ROM and then re-did the update path through to 2.2 build. (completely stock no root or unlocked bootloader) I did have an issue with the CPU getting stuck at 100% after that, until I uninstalled an app and reinstalled it; seems that when switching from this app to another app would cause it to get stuck. So now I am on the fence about wether to keep the new device or the old one; the CPU issue may actually be a hardware issue and come back at random sometime, or it may not.
edit: BTW is there a way to edit the poll? Iy seems that some have the tint issue at first and then it gets better. I would like to add that option.
edit 2: Pictures of the new and old devices. If you can also see my trackball is also sunk in too deep.
New on left, old on right.
No red tint on mine.
none on mine either
The first couple weeks with my nexus it had a purple tint at the lowest brightness. This is now gone.
wsrider said:
The first couple weeks with my nexus it had a purple tint at the lowest brightness. This is now gone.
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So it got better? This could explain why the GFs screen has much less red tint than the new devices. Just sucks that my original phone is near perfect in the color area.
As far as it being purple tint, the darker colors tinted with red would appear purple-ish. The only colors I have noticed being "off" was grays and brown. (when displaying full screen single colors)
easiest test is to go to htc's website, ash/grey deigns of the site are in pinkish tint. Which is the case for me and as well as my friends, he is on Tmobile, I'm on At&T. I think this is a problem in the newer batchs of nexus. I bought mine this April.
In any case, it doesnt bother me, not a deal breaker considering I have Flash 10.1 on my phone
I would say majority of the recent owners from last 4-6months.
Marine6680 said:
So it got better? This could explain why the GFs screen has much less red tint than the new devices. Just sucks that my original phone is near perfect in the color area.
As far as it being purple tint, the darker colors tinted with red would appear purple-ish. The only colors I have noticed being "off" was grays and brown. (when displaying full screen single colors)
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Yes overtime it fixed itself. I remember it begin annoying and now i cant see it
wsrider said:
Yes overtime it fixed itself. I remember it begin annoying and now i cant see it
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Did it fix itself, or did you just get used to it?
mythamp said:
I would say majority of the recent owners from last 4-6months.
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I bought my nexus at the tail end on January. (around the 25th) I bought the GFs nexus a few days later. (she has the tint issue)
And I added pics in one of my prior posts.
Really would like to edit this poll; add about the self fixing and about when you bought/received your device.
This poll will determine if I bother with having a third replacement sent out. I'm also running a solid red screen at full brightness for about an hour, see if that helps take out some of the red's over saturation. It affects yellows as well, I just noticed.
I ordered my Nexus when it was released and also had a purplish tint when brightness was down. I think androidandme did an article about it... maybe. Anyway it didn't bother me because I always leave it on full brightness anyway. Just checked it out on low brightness for the first time since I got it and I can confirm that the tint went away.
There is a stickied thread in the Desire forum about screens with a pink tint, might be worth reading if you have it. No idea what's in it though
Rusty! said:
There is a stickied thread in the Desire forum about screens with a pink tint, might be worth reading if you have it. No idea what's in it though
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I agree it is something to do with the type of display, but it seems that many do not have this issue; my first device did not. If I had always had the issue, I would not be noticing it now, but the difference is jarring.
I'm tempted to be careful with the "void" stickers and swapping the displays out myself.
Leaving the solid color running helped a small bit, but not enough to really matter.
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Did it fix itself, or did you just get used to it?
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Haha I got a second opinion its not pink or purple anymore.
wsrider said:
Haha I got a second opinion its not pink or purple anymore.
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I don't notice the tint as much unless I have the two phones side by side; though I still see it. As you can see by the pics I posted on the first page of this thread, the difference is huge.
Hi Guys,
After hearing so much problems with the Note screen, I had another good look of mine tonight and found these weird looking white lines/dots at the bottom left of my screen.
Are these dead pixels or stuff underneath the screen?
HELP Please.....might have to get an exchange with handtec...so much hassles....
Those look like stuck pixels to me.
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You have taken a pic with the default scratch guard on just remove and slightly clean the screen and see if it goes away, but most probably its 2 dead pixels, mine 1st one had 1. Quality issues with samsung !
eallan said:
Those look like stuck pixels to me.
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What are Stuck Pixels?
ankydu said:
You have taken a pic with the default scratch guard on just remove and slightly clean the screen and see if it goes away, but most probably its 2 dead pixels, mine 1st one had 1. Quality issues with samsung !
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I'm pretty sure it's not between the screen and the default protector....where did you buy yours from?
Seriously...I'm very disappointed with Samsung now....I mean, I have heard many people having problems with their screens, but never thought I would get one of them defected ones....
Looks like dead/stuck pixels I'm afraid.
Can you get a macro shot? It's kind of hard to tell without a closer view. When I've had stuck/dead pixels in the past, they've always been very discrete, tiny dots without any haze or blur, which it looks like yours has. I also wonder if it's something to do with the screen protection film. When you do a macro shot will you lift it and clean the screen?
Here....I have lifted up the screen protector....I didn't take off the screen protector was because maybe if I didn't handtec might exchange me the phone quicker....but what the heck...I need to be sure anyways...so here are the pictures.
Man.....so much trouble for this phone....very disappointed with the build quality of the screen now....
Now I will have to wait for a while to get my exchanged new phone ....
Any ideas how long it might take? I read on handtec that if the item is returned after 10 days...it will go under warranty and so does that mean they won't exchange my phone straight away??? Anyone got any experience with them??
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Can you get a macro shot? It's kind of hard to tell without a closer view. When I've had stuck/dead pixels in the past, they've always been very discrete, tiny dots without any haze or blur, which it looks like yours has. I also wonder if it's something to do with the screen protection film. When you do a macro shot will you lift it and clean the screen?
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nuh...I have tried to count them...there are a least 4 dots plus a line....very strange....they are also bright green instead of being white.....can't see them with the black background....
Shows you how bad of quality the phone I got....
I am very surprised I have not noticed them before.
Just found out online...there is a difference between stuck and dead pixels, and apparently stuck pixels can possibly be fixed yourself...might give it a try....
nuh...none of the apps seem to work
Been using JScreenFix for the phone for about half a day....just flashing the screen.....
I think the pixels have gotten a bit darker......don't know if it's my eyes playing tricks on me or not....but will continue to flash the screen for the rest of the day and then check it again tonight....hopefully then will be gone
The thing I don't really get is why the green dots (more than 3 of them) would only appear on Green, White and Grey backgrounds, and not appear on the Red, Blue and Black Backgrounds.....Anyone got any ideas?
because every colour of the spectrum uses green except for red, blue and some combination of red blue
black is when the screen is off
DMax99 said:
Been using JScreenFix for the phone for about half a day....just flashing the screen.....
The thing I don't really get is why the green dots (more than 3 of them) would only appear on Green, White and Grey backgrounds, and not appear on the Red, Blue and Black Backgrounds.....Anyone got any ideas?
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Hi there. I just bought the Note few days ago and I can confirm that I have the EXACT problem as yours. Except mine is just a dot. It's like a pixel that seems to be the only brighter pixel when the screen displays full green, white or grey background (specifically used the LCD test *#0*# & Burn-In Tester Pro app).
I assume that it is a stuck or a hot pixel simply because.. it lights up. Unlike dead pixel is like.. a dead bulb/pixel (Assumptions. HEHE.)
Actually on the day that I bought the Galaxy Note, I was really careful. I even dialed the *#0*# LCD TEST at the shop to look out for screen defects. It was FLAWLESS. So I bought it. And I have this habit to look out for defects even after purchase, so I always go to the LCD Test and Burn-In Tester Pro app to check, and is still perfect.
Not until, last night, I dialed *#0*# and hit "Black (Vibrate)" with the intention to check for the "blemishes/blobs" in a totally dark room. It was only apparent after my eyes had adjusted to the darkness and I do see the not so obvious blobs. So after noticing that, it didn't bother me so I happily watched an Blu-Ray quality video (Despicable Me) and that's when I noticed the BRIGHT pixel which I assume it to be a STUCK/HOT pixel. I hope it is just a stuck pixel which hopefully can be fixed over time. Don't know about hot pixels..
Right now I'm playing a Full HD video of a downloaded YouTube video called Pixel Fix, on loop, with Video Brightness set to full. My instinct says to try it out but i do know that after awhile, since it's an AMOLED technology, colors could be darker over time as the pixels slowly 'burn-out'.
AND if it doesn't work, I might try to turn off the phone and leave it somewhere really cool/chilled. And switch it on after awhile when it reaches room temperature. I read it somewhere that it works to remove stuck pixels. They put their phones in a fridge in a wrapping and they said it worked. I forgot though where I read it from.
Oh, it's this one --> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21025093
Someone managed to fix a dead pixel. Hmm, but it's a phone with an LCD screen. Nyeh.
Good luck to us. Man, it was only few days ago when I bought the Note. *sniffs*
Seems quiet here. Seems like not many people have or aware of this bright spot defect.
But I found this which seems to concern about the matter. http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7955151.html
I guess it gives some idea of what it really is. Cheers.
And I am gonna let this 'problem' go this time cos it's so small but I do hope that it won't get any worse. Or if it fixes itself that would be a miracle
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And was wondering. Is the camera flash on all N1's a really bright bright blue? I'm not sure if the flash on mine is messed up or not but it is so blue you can't even take pictures with it.
Is there a way to fix this? Thanks in advance.
Flash is white, very bright but white
Hmm.. Well here is a picture I took with my N1. I assure my flash is not white. How can I change this?
http://tinypic.com/r/34grfj5/5
your led burnt the paint that covers it and makes it white, that's because the real led underneath is blue. It was probably on for a long long time. Also, if you scratch the led it turns blue.
you can often find replacements on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=nexus+one+led&_sacat=0
it is a very simple fix
trschober said:
your led burnt the paint that covers it and makes it white, that's because the real led underneath is blue. It was probably on for a long long time. Also, if you scratch the led it turns blue.
you can often find replacements on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=nexus+one+led&_sacat=0
it is a very simple fix
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Ohh okay, thanks for the reply. I'm just not going to worry about it. My 2 years are up in September so I'm just going to deal with it till then.
So on the white Note 4 the metal sides are painted white. Do you guys think the paint will fade or chip with use over time?
heaven_boi303 said:
So on the white Note 4 the metal sides are painted white. Do you guys think the paint will fade or chip with use over time?
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yes.
nick2k said:
yes.
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mmmm that suck because I got the white one
if you plan to get a case, it won't be a problem. what would piss me off more is the light bleed and the amount of light reflection of the face of the phone from the indicator lights (or any other source of light hitting it directly). i tend to do a lot of my work at night (or in the dark) and i found the white face more of an annoyance and a liability. the white variant of the device looks nice, don't get me wrong... i'm just over it now. function over aesthetics i guess.
I won't have my Note's till tomorrow, but there is a drop test of the white Note 4 where the paint held up quite well from what I could see. The unpainted metal parts didn't do as well.
http://youtu.be/FgJOu2ukni8
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if you plan to get a case, it won't be a problem. what would piss me off more is the light bleed and the amount of light reflection of the face of the phone from the indicator lights (or any other source of light hitting it directly). i tend to do a lot of my work at night (or in the dark) and i found the white face more of an annoyance and a liability. the white variant of the device looks nice, don't get me wrong... i'm just over it now. function over aesthetics i guess.
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I think exactly the same... I like the white... But the light bleed is horrible... I think I will end up exactly as my Note 3... Black with white back door...this is the best combination in my opinion, looks awesome.
TEKHD said:
Black with white back door...
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that's actually a GREAT idea. the reason i got my Note 2 in 'white' was so that i could find it easily in low light conditions. and out of all the dumb times i've dropped the phone, it's always landed face down. lols.
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So on the white Note 4 the metal sides are painted white. Do you guys think the paint will fade or chip with use over time?
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Black version would chip also so I don't think it's an issue.
I've noticed a lot of screen burn apps on Playstore...
which is most effective?
Is it really the only fix out there on screenburns.... by burning a lot more of your screen eradicating the previous burns...
Ouch! Haven't considered their bare existence on AMOLEDs yet. But I think this is permanent, like on CRTs. Part of the screen is more worn out than the rest. On a TFT just the liquid crystals must be depolarized.
Those aren't fixes those are screen destroyers. You're just literally burning your screen more. Better use the negative effect of your device to fix the issue.
you cant fix the issue, at all. all the "fix" software apps do is burn the rest of the leds down a bit so its less noticeable
I saw one that claimed to fix it by inverting all the colours on the screen
No idea if that would help, unlikely
*Detection* said:
I saw one that claimed to fix it by inverting all the colours on the screen
No idea if that would help, unlikely
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no it wouldnt, basically once you have screen burn it means all those pixels have had their luminosity strength permanently altered. if you get the apps that fill the screen with solid colors then all ur doing is possibly weakening more leds. by inverting the colors what you do is invert those of the leds which have been worn out.
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no it wouldnt, basically once you have screen burn it means all those pixels have had their luminosity strength permanently altered. if you get the apps that fill the screen with solid colors then all ur doing is possibly weakening more leds. by inverting the colors what you do is invert those of the leds which have been worn out.
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Yea that makes sense, like trying to repair a worn down carpet by rubbing your feet on it the opposite way
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Yea that makes sense, like trying to repair a worn down carpet by rubbing your feet on it the opposite way
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more like repairing the carpet by wearing the rest of the carpet around the hole so it matches the worn out patch
lol, not a great solution
I've tried the screen burn-in tool app that flashes full screen primary colours and ran it overnight 4 times and hasn't made the slightest difference so I'm sending it back to Samsung for repair because I can see the screen burn through anything that's on screen even when the image is dark colours, and on light colours everything is just yellow.
Michael_P said:
I've tried the screen burn-in tool app that flashes full screen primary colours and ran it overnight 4 times and hasn't made the slightest difference..
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yeah becuase they dont work