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[Q] Strange marks beneath the screen

I’ve a strange problem with the screen of my Note, I noticed this when switching off the phone in a complete dark room. The screen turns dark grey for a split second before switching off, this is when I noticed some strange black marks beneath the screen.
I made a jpeg to replicate this problem (1st attachment), along with a screen capture of the marks (2nd attachment). Can somebody please download the picture and check to see if there are any marks on their phone?
You need to be in a complete dark room for this to work, it helps if you turn the screen brightness to 100% and allow a bit of time for your eyes to adjust to the dark.
I also added roughly what the marks look like.
Many thanks
P.S. this does not affect the screen in normal use.

I have noticed that too....
Edit: forgot to mention that it does not affect usage in anyway
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Why.....
SH!T, not this crap again. The Galaxy S2 has this at a greater extent, but I was LEAST EXPECTING this on the Note, especially since they JUST starting manufacturing this model. I don't even think the demand is as high as the S2. I'm having mixed thoughts now. Those marks are NOT normal.

SAlmighty said:
SH!T, not this crap again. The Galaxy S2 has this at a greater extent, but I was LEAST EXPECTING this on the Note, especially since they JUST starting manufacturing this model. I don't even think the demand is as high as the S2. I'm having mixed thoughts now. Those marks are NOT normal.
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why is this a problem?

Bigmille said:
I’ve a strange problem with the screen of my Note, I noticed this when switching off the phone in a complete dark room. The screen turns dark grey for a split second before switching off, this is when I noticed some strange black marks beneath the screen.
I made a jpeg to replicate this problem (1st attachment), along with a screen capture of the marks (2nd attachment). Can somebody please download the picture and check to see if there are any marks on their phone?
You need to be in a complete dark room for this to work, it helps if you turn the screen brightness to 100% and allow a bit of time for your eyes to adjust to the dark.
I also added roughly what the marks look like.
Many thanks
P.S. this does not affect the screen in normal use.
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hi...is your phone UK or EU version?

This is the biggest manufacturing defect of the season! Go to the Samsung Herculus (T-Mobile S2) Forum and you have over 500 users observing the same exact problem! Samsung is carelessly sealing the back of the AMOLED display panel, therefore you will see lines and blotches everywhere. This is absurd!
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why is this a problem?
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Bigmille said:
I’ve a strange problem with the screen of my Note, I noticed this when switching off the phone in a complete dark room. The screen turns dark grey for a split second before switching off, this is when I noticed some strange black marks beneath the screen.
I made a jpeg to replicate this problem (1st attachment), along with a screen capture of the marks (2nd attachment). Can somebody please download the picture and check to see if there are any marks on their phone?
You need to be in a complete dark room for this to work, it helps if you turn the screen brightness to 100% and allow a bit of time for your eyes to adjust to the dark.
I also added roughly what the marks look like.
Many thanks
P.S. this does not affect the screen in normal use.
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I guess it could be a problem, but to be honest with you, I don't have any interest in trying this.
Go to a completely dark room and turn the screen to 100% and look for defects? Uhh, what?
When I'm in a very dark room, I find 3% quite comfortable, thank you. (10% brightness * screenfilter (30%)
- Frankt

SAlmighty said:
This is the biggest manufacturing defect of the season!
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Hmmm.... so something that you can only see when you are switching the phone off in a completely dark room is "the biggest manufacturing defect of the season"???
I understand that when you drop hundreds of £s/$s/€s on something, you want it to be perfect, but something that can only be seen for a split second as you turn the phone off in very specific circumstances, scarcely warrants such a title in my opinion!
I can certainly think of worse - lightbleed on Asus Transformer, or Newtons rings/oil click on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for example, which (if present) can be seen during use.
Regards,
Dave

I agree with foxmeister. Why try and find a fault when there's really no fault there!
So you've got dots on your screen when in a completely dark room, with screen set at 100%, that lasts for a second or two......so what! Don't sit and stare at your phone in the dark is the answer. Then the problem will go away.
Jeeez, some people are never satisfied or happy.
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Thanks for the feedbacks, I have the EU version from amazon.de.
There is definitely a fault with either the screen or how it was put together, otherwise I'll not be able to notice it. Those marks does not show up on my Galaxy Tab 10.1, the original Tab or any my pervious mobile devices as far as I can remember.
I did note this don't affect the screen in normal use. Also the 100% brightness suggestion is to make the problem easier to spot, I normally have the screen at 5% in the dark, and we have no control over the brightness when the phone is switching off (when I noticed the marks).
I started this thread to find out what is the course of this problem and how widespread it is before deciding if I should send it back to Germany for a replacement/refund.
BTW, under EU consumer law, we have 21 days to return the device either for a refund or replacement from the seller, after that we might have to send the phone for repair.

Sounds like there is a manufacture defects with the EU version?!

Head over to the International Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile) Forums and the answers behold. Hundreds of comments stating the same exact issue. I'm just surprised how this slipped into the SAMOLED HD display. I don't recall the original Galaxy S (which also had a Pentile Matrix) having such an issue, or did it?
foxmeister said:
Hmmm.... so something that you can only see when you are switching the phone off in a completely dark room is "the biggest manufacturing defect of the season"???
I understand that when you drop hundreds of £s/$s/€s on something, you want it to be perfect, but something that can only be seen for a split second as you turn the phone off in very specific circumstances, scarcely warrants such a title in my opinion!
I can certainly think of worse - lightbleed on Asus Transformer, or Newtons rings/oil click on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 for example, which (if present) can be seen during use.
Regards,
Dave
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Perhaps we should ask folks from India, they just got their stocks as well.
DMax99 said:
Sounds like there is a manufacture defects with the EU version?!
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SAlmighty said:
Head over to the International Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile) Forums and the answers behold. Hundreds of comments stating the same exact issue. I'm just surprised how this slipped into the SAMOLED HD display. I don't recall the original Galaxy S (which also had a Pentile Matrix) having such an issue, or did it?
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Do you have some links?
Also is there somewhere photos that show the issue?

Common Indeed!
T-Mobile Galaxy S2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1300133
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320942
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310945
International-Based Galaxy S2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1217047
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079444
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197743

SAlmighty said:
Head over to the International Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile) Forums and the answers behold. Hundreds of comments stating the same exact issue. I'm just surprised how this slipped into the SAMOLED HD display. I don't recall the original Galaxy S (which also had a Pentile Matrix) having such an issue, or did it?
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I have a Galaxy S II, and regularly frequent those the international forum, and I've not seen this come up as an issue (though I don't disbelieve you that it probably does somewhere). I looked in the TMo US Galaxy S II specific forum and I did find such a thread, but I was unwillingly to pour through 50+ pages to see the final outcome as it was filled with people who have the issue, don't have the issue, or have the issue but don't care.
I've not noticed this issue with either my Note or my Galaxy S II, and I'm not going to go look for it in artificial environments that I'd typically never be using my device in.
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"​
According to the OP, on the Note, this only appears for a brief moment whilst the phone is being switched off in pretty much total darkness, so my point is - does it really matter?
Regards,
Dave

Well, many EU owners are already reporting black spots on their Note!
http://www.golem.de/1111/87475-3.html
http://www.android-hilfe.de/samsung...iche-displayverhalten-beim-galaxy-note-2.html
and
http://www.android-hilfe.de/samsung...s-der-farbtiefe-des-galaxy-note-displays.html
Translate to English, this is serious!

Bigmille said:
I’ve a strange problem with the screen of my Note, I noticed this when switching off the phone in a complete dark room. The screen turns dark grey for a split second before switching off, this is when I noticed some strange black marks beneath the screen.
I made a jpeg to replicate this problem (1st attachment), along with a screen capture of the marks (2nd attachment). Can somebody please download the picture and check to see if there are any marks on their phone?
You need to be in a complete dark room for this to work, it helps if you turn the screen brightness to 100% and allow a bit of time for your eyes to adjust to the dark.
I also added roughly what the marks look like.
Many thanks
P.S. this does not affect the screen in normal use.
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I was lying in bed last night and saw what you are talking about. I think. I has used my phone heavily for the last week and didn't notice anything else.
So I suspect we all have it but uhhhhh whatever.

See this link for another photo of the problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337499
The photo is taken with a small Canon camera, with ISO = 200, and a 15 seconds of exposure time.

Post removed. I started a new thread.

The Note is going back to Amazon. I was able to see the some of the black marks against black border when watching film in the dark last night with the screen brightness of 5%.
I was going to keep it before it started to affect my normal use, lets hope the replacement has less or no marks.

[Q] [camera] pink spot

hello guys, is anyone experiencing this issue with both the z3c cameras? i've noticed that the problem seems to be partially related to the white balance and exposure and it's also a common deal with many other smartphones and tablets cameras (not just sony branded ones). i've tried with all the shooting modes possible and with 3th part camera apps as well but the pink spot at the center of the picture is still there.
i was wondering if it was a common issue (software maybe) or my unit was damaged,in this case i will give my device back to sony.
here some samples:

Looks exactly like the pink spot in my Z2 tablet's pictures.

Here is your answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/questions-belong-t2868300

I'm having the same issue and apparently Clove doesn't cover return shipping costs which is pretty frustrating.
EDIT: it also seems to disappear later in the day.

Got my Z3C today, no pink spot on mine.

I'm getting the Pink Spot too, but I think it only started happening after I dunked my phone in the water...
degraaff, can you take a photo of something white? Thanks!

tocirah1 said:
degraaff, can you take a photo of something white? Thanks!
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Sure, I'll do it tomorrow in the day light.

brand new device from sony but same pink spot camera issue.... i guess its a software problem now but nobody is noticing this issue apparently .

fafa90 said:
brand new device from sony but same pink spot camera issue.... i guess its a software problem now but nobody is noticing this issue apparently .
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This is a common "problem" the camera app and post-processing will almost remove it. To see it go in diagnostics (you have to switch the developer mode) and thn camera, so you see unprocessed camera picture. I don't think it is a defect, most smartphones suffer from it.

Answer
See the answer on this link:
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...e-purple-tint-pink-spots-on-my-camera-htc-one
Hoping that Sony will fix it somehow, as I am planning to get a Z3C too..

Have it on HTC one too. It should be the ISO value in dark
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vetko said:
See the answer on this link:
http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...e-purple-tint-pink-spots-on-my-camera-htc-one
Hoping that Sony will fix it somehow, as I am planning to get a Z3C too..
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But it is related to the design of the sensor, iPhone also exhibit it some more than others but it is normally corrected by the software as it is normal.

Apparently mine does also have a pink spot, ever so slightly in my test picture:

I'm also getting the pink spot.
Has Sony officially said anything about this issue yet?
I just bought the phone 2 days ago...I'm gonna see if I can get it exchanged.

Poor Image Quality ( lens flare)

I upgraded from the P20 pro to the P30 pro,must say the camera is a huge disappointment,lens flare and heat spots make taken a photo in the dark pretty pointless.
Never had one of these problems with the P20 pro
Is it a fault or is it effecting many others??

This is normal.
White spots on photos can be caused by light reflecting off a strong light source. It commonly appears when taking images around bright lights.

Yeah it's normal. Just use night mode when you take a photo with lights at night to lessen the lens flare

It's not normal,I am a freelance photographer and this is a fault which Huawei won't admit to.
Look at the examples below both shot in night mode of the same object,the P20 quality is superb the P30 is so bad it's unusable

madjester67 said:
It's not normal,I am a freelance photographer and this is a fault which Huawei won't admit to.
Look at the examples below both shot in night mode of the same object,the P20 quality is superb the P30 is so bad it's unusable
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But P20 look weird

madjester67 said:
I upgraded from the P20 pro to the P30 pro,must say the camera is a huge disappointment,lens flare and heat spots make taken a photo in the dark pretty pointless.
Never had one of these problems with the P20 pro
Is it a fault or is it effecting many others??
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It's not normal, why? Because you have smudgy camera. Try to clean and wipe your camera lens first and you'll get better result

IamNumber25 said:
It's not normal, why? Because you have smudgy camera. Try to clean and wipe your camera lens first and you'll get better result
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It's not smudgy,Huawei think it's a firmware problem as handsets in store did not replicate this problem

madjester67 said:
It's not smudgy,Huawei think it's a firmware problem as handsets in store did not replicate this problem
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Try to not use the night mode. Night mode is suggested to be used only in very dark places. If you want to use night mode, set the ISO as low as possible and the AI will avoid luminescence from artificial lights.

I can confirm, mine does not do this, so I would suspect it's specific to your device and thus a warrant claim. I find the P30 Pro camera superior to my old P20 in almost every aspect...

deus_ex_yue said:
Try to not use the night mode. Night mode is suggested to be used only in very dark places. If you want to use night mode, set the ISO as low as possible and the AI will avoid luminescence from artificial lights.
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Same in all modes

NJ72 said:
I can confirm, mine does not do this, so I would suspect it's specific to your device and thus a warrant claim. I find the P30 Pro camera superior to my old P20 in almost every aspect...
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6 store handsets did work completely fine ( but all on old firmware )
My firmware is the 9.1.0.185 issued last week

Mine is also running .185, however I haven't taken a picture in the right conditions since the update to potentially recreate. I will test it later and let you know.

madjester67 said:
It's not normal,I am a freelance photographer and this is a fault which Huawei won't admit to.
Look at the examples below both shot in night mode of the same object,the P20 quality is superb the P30 is so bad it's unusable
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Hello,
I have the same configuration, have a p20pro and 'upgraded' to p30pro.
I made some kind of quick 'mirror' tests, like you did.
At first I was really disappointed because : yes the 'same' picture was so blurry and flared as yours.
I cleaned minutely the p30pro lenses and the next picture was the same as the p20pro but with more definition/details when you zoom in.
I'll try again tonight to see if it still the same.
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When I bought it, and after a few times using it, I already feel that the p30pro is way more dust, finger prints, etc...catching device than the p20pro.
And, it's also more slippy in the hand, on the couch, desk, etc...when 'naked'.
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My though is the lenses glass is also need to be cleaned with a soft tissue before taking pictures.
Tell me if it worked for you.
I'm really interesting in that behaviour, because the camera is an important feature for me too.
Cheers
ps: same mess and answer from the 'real life' thread.
Tapa'DoC'eD

NJ72 said:
Mine is also running .185, however I haven't taken a picture in the right conditions since the update to potentially recreate. I will test it later and let you know.
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I reset mine,same results so going to a different Service center today to see if I can get answers

My wife had p20 pro and night mode shots was perfect. I bought p30 pro with verry hight hope and night mode dissapoint me. I went to waranty service and they check camera and they said that nothing is wrong. The sensor is verry sensible and got to be clean all the time.with P20 pro we dont had that problem never. With p30 pro 80% picrure in night mode has glance flare. Is awefull. And we are verry dissapointed. Huawei refuse to do something about our problem.
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Yes, dirty lens will give you bad pictures.

I may add...
No clear crystal clean lenses
Screw our pictures !!
Done some late test last night during full moon.
P30pro vs p20pro
With very clean lenses
And tripod
Really better details from p30pro.. Ok it's obvious
But color are way more natural with my p20pro!!
Yet not so much flare, but still, but also on p20pro
The point is, from my pov, as the p20pro's pictures are much natural its not as disturbing than the p30pro which the so (too) much 'fancy' that the blur and flare feel awkward.
Yes the settings were exactly the same on both devices.
I'm back on my p20pro now and waiting the next p30pro update... Hope they'll do something
Tapa'DoC'eD

Flare on Mate 30 Pro
The flare is way worse in Mate 30 Pro. Taking night shots using normal mode is just sooo bad I have refrained from it. Even the antilight in day time causes intense flare. Huawei should fix this with an update. Petition anyone? Lol.

I see this thread is from August so apologies for dragging up a old thread but I can't stress enough that this issue was either a defective device or was just s bad update, I can confirm from at least November's OTA onwards the flare is nowhere near as bad as on the OPs photos

Weird banding on photos

I've noticed banding on bright photos this evening. The bizarre thing is that it affects both 48MP and normal photos; so two different cameras. Both in the Xiaomi camera app and other apps. I think it may just be the fact that I'm pointing it at a TV... but what was alarming is that the banding was essentially like an overlay; not moving as I panned the phone.
Is this hardware related or software related or normal?

Those lines are Very normal, when capturing screens.
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droident said:
Is this hardware related or software related or normal?
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Normal. It's TV screen display limitations.

droident said:
I've noticed banding on bright photos this evening. The bizarre thing is that it affects both 48MP and normal photos; so two different cameras. Both in the Xiaomi camera app and other apps. I think it may just be the fact that I'm pointing it at a TV... but what was alarming is that the banding was essentially like an overlay; not moving as I panned the phone.
Is this hardware related or software related or normal?
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Same on my 9T Pro. I have a 5 years old Galaxy Note 5 and I compared them same time with the same objects and while nothing is seen in Note 5, Xiaomi suffered. But if you're using default miui cam, switching antibanding to auto helps a bit.

tunado said:
Same on my 9T Pro. I have a 5 years old Galaxy Note 5 and I compared them same time with the same objects and while nothing is seen in Note 5, Xiaomi suffered. But if you're using default miui cam, switching antibanding to auto helps a bit.
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What threw me was that the banding acted like the origin was the sensor. Seemingly, it didn't move with panning the device. Weirder still is that pointing the sensor away from the TV still elicited some minor banding; almost vertical portions of the sensor had gone screwy.
Since I couldn't reproduce it once I'd gone into another room nor on another bright white LED screen I deduced that it must be the flat-screen in question - it's a plasma screen. And for whatever reason, whilst the banding looks normal in a still, the behavior was odd enough to give me the heebies that something was seriously wrong with the phone's cameras. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say plasma screens and camera sensors don't mix well. I generally find plasma panels a little flickery to the naked eye to begin with.
The fact that both camera modules behaved identically gives me some peace of mind. Didn't have much luck with the antibanding. I think the plasma refresh is just that implicative.

Question Green tint ? Lolz

Just wondering if the green tint issue synonymous on Samsung 2020 panels has continued its trend onto the S21U? Asking for a mate.

Limeybastard said:
Just wondering if the green tint issue synonymous on Samsung 2020 panels has continued its trend onto the S21U? Asking for a mate.
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Hi.
Haven't noticed any green tinting on my panel yet. Even on the lowest brightness. There is a teeny tiny smidge of motion smearing at the minimum brigntness when scrolling dark web-pages, but that's about the only fault I can find with the screen so far.

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Hi.
Haven't noticed any green tinting on my panel yet. Even on the lowest brightness. There is a teeny tiny smidge of motion smearing at the minimum brigntness when scrolling dark web-pages, but that's about the only fault I can find with the screen so far.
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That’s good to know. Thanks.

Limeybastard said:
Just wondering if the green tint issue synonymous on Samsung 2020 panels has continued its trend onto the S21U? Asking for a mate.
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I had the S20 (6 different devices). All had a green/red tint issue. The S21 Ultra has a much better display. Mine at least.

iamnotkurtcobain said:
I had the S20 (6 different devices). All had a green/red tint issue. The S21 Ultra has a much better display. Mine at least.
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Yeah. One of my Note 20 Ultras was more green tintish than the other. I couldn’t stand it, the Oneplus 8 pro also had it slightly. As did the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Thanks for sharing your experience.

adamlee2012 said:
You can change the colour temperature anyway under display settings. If you get a display with green tint just turn down the green and up the red.
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Cheers. It didn’t quite work that way in practice.

I had the screen show a like a green background for split second , does this mean the screen is starting to get faulty or is it a software issue? I had this phone since launch (for about 4 months now)

oae08 said:
I had the screen show a like a green background for split second , does this mean the screen is starting to get faulty or is it a software issue? I had this phone since launch (for about 4 months now)
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If it was a one-time occurence, it could be due to anything. Difficult to diagnose it based on a split-second incidence. If it doesn't happen again, don't worry about it. But if the same issue keeps occuring, then it may be worthwhile investigating.

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If it was a one-time occurence, it could be due to anything. Difficult to diagnose it based on a split-second incidence. If it doesn't happen again, don't worry about it. But if the same issue keeps occuring, then it may be worthwhile investigating.
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Its a one-time thing for now, but it got me scared. especially since I am currently having another issue with the phone (its crashing and rebooting randomly).

oae08 said:
Its a one-time thing for now, but it got me scared. especially since I am currently having another issue with the phone (its crashing and rebooting randomly).
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I saw your post in the other thread. This wouldn't have been a cause of concern in isloation but if you add your reports of system crashes and erratic behaviour, there may be something serious wrong with your phone under the surface. Would'nt be the first time this has happened to someone (at least not me).
This is exactly the kind of situation warranty is for.
I cannot profess to know what you should do next but i can only tell you what I would do faced with your situation. And that is to head to the nearest service centre and explain the issue and ask for a resolution. If that fails, escalate it upwards.

Looks like I jinxed myself by creating this post before receiving my device. Since I got it yesterday it has a very aggressive green to pink tint when slightly tilting the viewing the angel. I sent it back. The lord taketh away green tint and replaced it with this LOLzzz.