The display of my Moto G5S Plus is showing some strange spots in its display. The spots are in the display itself, it is not dirt on top of it. The spots are slowly growing. At the moment the display is still working normally. If the display is off, the spots are visible. If the display is on the spots are invisible.
Attached images show the spots. The spot on the bottom left appeared yesterday, and has grown a bit today. The spots on the right have been there a bit longer, and are growing as well.
The phone has no damage, no drops, no contact with water.
Does anyone know what it is, and what I can do to stop it?
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I just got a tilt about a week ago and ive noticed that in the middle of the screen there seems to be a purple greenish tint when put against incandescent light. The size of said glint varies in size but i'm unable to see what changes the size. Not sure if its heat or pressure or something. The touch screen works perfectly its just really annoying to always see such an annoying glint.
An interesting discovery is that when i press all four corners of the screen it disappears and when i press in the middle of the little square it seems to spread out. I feel like theres some kind of material or something in the touch screen that is causing this due to pressure. I keep it in a hard case in my pocket so the screen isnt pressed on inadvertently.
I've searched the forum for any answers but i havent seen anything about it. Any response or help would be greatly appreciated. I'll try to get a picture of it up asap but i left my camera at a friends house and dont know when im getting it back...thanks in advanced
~sayazs
Do you see the same "annoying glint" under neon light (not day / sunlight)?
Lots of NOKIA and SONY ERICSSON phones for example get this screen recolorization under direct sunlight - this has nothing to do with the screen being defective but with the plastic above the screen which breaks the light and shows you this colored spots. If you can't see the same spot under direct neon light then this might be the cause.
It is normal that you get color changes while pressing the screen in. First of, you press / bent the protecting plastic and the liquid within the screen which causes the incoming light to break in a different angle, therefore the color changes. (BTW: you shouldn't do that too often, it can cause permanent stains on your screen!).
There sure is the possibility that your screen gets pressure from underneath due bad assembling! If you're still under warranty, try to get a replacement.
yeah you cant see it in day light. but i feel as though there is constant pressure on the screen between the plastic and liquid since the spot is always there and doesnt really go away (unless of course in daylight).
well im thinking im going to go back for a replacement. thanks for the quick answer!
Recently, I noticed the is a strange circle in the middle of the screen. When the screen backlight is off, it appears as a black circle. When the screen backlight is on, it appears as red/yellow/black ring. Somtimes it went away by itself, and other time I have to "wipe" it away with finger force.
Anyone know what is wrong?
2 questions
1) Have you tried removing the screen protection just to see whether its on the screen protection or on the main lcd screen
2) did you ever exposed lcd it to high electromagnetic waves??
1. I didn't remove the screen protector as I believe it's beneath the LCD film.
2. I don't think it has been exposed to any electromagnetic waves, as it appears after I pulled it out from my pocket.
I've had it too but it's gone now
I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago. The place I stayed was not well ventilated and I THINK it caused some water condensation to occur between the digitizer and lcd screen. I slept in an air-conditioned room the next day and it was gone!
My deduction is that you need a cool or cold environment for the stain to evaporate.
The same problem arises again, and this time it has been a couple days but it still did not go away.
It looks almost like a burn mark.
You may have a defective digitizer.
Found another thread talking about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439410
This is the so-called 'Newton ring' in optics/Physics. It means that in that area, the thickness of LCD is slightly thicker/thinner than rest of the area. This is normally due to stress at that point. It is annoying but if there are no repeated color rings, like red/yellow/blue/red/yellow/blue, it should be fine. If you have alot of repeated color rings, the LCD may approach its life end.
frank.lui said:
This is the so-called 'Newton ring' in optics/Physics. It means that in that area, the thickness of LCD is slightly thicker/thinner than rest of the area. This is normally due to stress at that point. It is annoying but if there are no repeated color rings, like red/yellow/blue/red/yellow/blue, it should be fine. If you have alot of repeated color rings, the LCD may approach its life end.
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Thanks for the info. When you said it should be fine, do you mean it will disappear, or it just won't affect usability?
It may disappear if the stress is released, e.g., you push the area a bit or you put it into different temperature environment. But I doubt it will disappear for ever. It was not there in the first place then it came. This means some sort of stress/pressure built up there. It should not affect your daily use a lot. It is just a visual effect. But if it gets worse, the colour rings will become very dense and sharp. It will affect you visual. I had a phone pinged on LCD sometime ago. It had similar rings like yours. But it was so dense I could not see any thing behind it. I had to change it for £35.
Also I looked at another previous comment about the humidity. It could give you the same effect. Maybe you can bake your phone a bit?
I found an interesting issue with my 2 years old Touch Diamond 2. Don't know whether someone had the same so I'd like to post here for reference.
Few months ago after a phone drop I found a circle of black pixels on the screen after I (as in the attached image), that didn't react on any actions. So I though those were dead pixels - a lot of them!!! BTW, I dropped the phone many times before that.
The most interesting I found later is that in the last winter, the screen had recovered itself - the "dead" black pixels became lighter and lighter and fully recovered - no traces at all
Last week the similar appeared again - this time 3 areas with black dots - and again, after a phone drop. Thinking about the winter time - I tried putting the phone in a plastic bag and left it in the fridge for a night. As the result the black dots became lighter. So I decided to leave it in the fridge (without battery) for the whole weekend. And as expected - the issue is "fixed" - no traces of "dead" pixels remain Already one week since then, the phone still OK.
Can anyone explain me what is behind the issue and the way it could be fixed as above?
I believe the "dead pixels" are just collapsed layers of the digitizer.
The coldness probably just firms up and separates the layers.
You could also try pulling the layers apart with duct tape.
Bruce Inman said:
I believe the "dead pixels" are just collapsed layers of the digitizer.
The coldness probably just firms up and separates the layers.
You could also try pulling the layers apart with duct tape.
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The "dead pixels" I was about are "on" the inner screen, not the outer. So I think it is more likely a LCD issue rather than digitizer, which is sticked with the outer protection layer as I understand. Am I right?
Exactly the same
mttca,
when I read your post I thought you were talking about my Topaz
I really dont know why or wat is the cause of this type of circle.
Last summer i had the same issue and it disappers after 3 days like you say;
the "dead" black pixels became lighter and lighter and fully recovered - no traces at all
but aprox. two month ago i get the "dead pixels" back, but this time my screen wont recover. This pixels are darker after using for some time the phone and became lighter after some hours without use.
I`am not sure to leave the phone in the fridge.
Circle of Dead Pixels
Hi all, sorry to revive this thread - but the same thing happened to be about 2 months ago.
Got the infamous circle of pixels after dropping the phone - I thought the LCD was damaged, so I bought a new one off ebay and replaced it and it worked great.
Now I've managed to drop the phone again and have an almost identical circle of pixels on the new LCD.
So I'm thinking, does the FRIDGE TECHNIQUE actually work? Should i pull apart the phone and just put the LCD in the fridge overnight? Might even try that with the old LCD as I still have it.
The fridge technique does seem to work. A few months ago I dropped my phone and got the "dead" pixels in random clusters on the screen. They were blue in my case when the background on the screen was white. They went away after a day or so.
With the more recent second drop, they did not go away. They did seem to become lighter over night (phone screen off, thus no heat) and became darker when I used the phone. After waiting 4 days and the blue stuck pixels not going away, I decided to try the fridge technique.
I took out the battery, SIM and SD card and put the phone in the fridge for an hour. After removing the phone and powering it on, I noticed that most of the blue pixels had vanished, but some still remained. The ones that did remain were indeed lighter. I did not put the phone in the fridge again that night. The next day, the blue pixels that had vanished because of the fridge technique had come back, but this time it seemed like they were forming a slightly different pattern. In fact they started forming small vertical lines. I guess that's why it's called a Liquid Crystal Display?
Anyway, this time I decided to put the phone in the fridge over night. So again I took it apart and wrapped it in a plastic bag. The next morning I had a perfectly clear screen - all the stuck blue pixels / line fragments had vanished. A few hours later of me using the phone, two or three adjacent blue pixels appeared.
It has been two days now and the two or the pixels that reappeared turned into a group of about 20, again tending to become small vertical lines. This, however is a small percentage of the stuck pixels originally showing due to the second drop. The rest of the stuck pixels seem to be gone.
My plan is to put the phone in the fridge again over night, hopefully eliminating all stuck pixels for good this time.
P.S. Sorry for the long post, I got a bit carried away
your touch screen will die soon
It means your touch screen will die soon. I sggest replacing the digitzer or whole front cover. More details are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22821614&postcount=18
DroidConvert said:
The fridge technique does seem to work. A few months ago I dropped my phone and got the "dead" pixels in random clusters on the screen. They were blue in my case when the background on the screen was white. They went away after a day or so.
With the more recent second drop, they did not go away. They did seem to become lighter over night (phone screen off, thus no heat) and became darker when I used the phone. After waiting 4 days and the blue stuck pixels not going away, I decided to try the fridge technique.
I took out the battery, SIM and SD card and put the phone in the fridge for an hour. After removing the phone and powering it on, I noticed that most of the blue pixels had vanished, but some still remained. The ones that did remain were indeed lighter. I did not put the phone in the fridge again that night. The next day, the blue pixels that had vanished because of the fridge technique had come back, but this time it seemed like they were forming a slightly different pattern. In fact they started forming small vertical lines. I guess that's why it's called a Liquid Crystal Display?
Anyway, this time I decided to put the phone in the fridge over night. So again I took it apart and wrapped it in a plastic bag. The next morning I had a perfectly clear screen - all the stuck blue pixels / line fragments had vanished. A few hours later of me using the phone, two or three adjacent blue pixels appeared.
It has been two days now and the two or the pixels that reappeared turned into a group of about 20, again tending to become small vertical lines. This, however is a small percentage of the stuck pixels originally showing due to the second drop. The rest of the stuck pixels seem to be gone.
My plan is to put the phone in the fridge again over night, hopefully eliminating all stuck pixels for good this time.
P.S. Sorry for the long post, I got a bit carried away
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have u kept the phone in the freezer or just fridge ?
happened to me last winter. i thought it's going to be dead soon.... and circle disappeared after 2-3 months without any intervention. no clue, but the screen still works and no dead pixels/circles since
My phone is having small spots on the moto logo dimple. The spots are visible to eyes but cant be felt until scratched by nails. I am finding the way to get rid of it else maybe to prevent it.
Did you just notice it one time, all of these spots on it or did they start showing up over a period of time?
I saw a few spots all of a sudden then npw they are increasing. Should i go for a lamination on thr dimple or is there any solution or should i talk to moto care?
I've been having this same problem on mine, but way worse, have you fixed this?
Story: I have 2 horizontal stripes on my touchscreen, that do not react on touch. The Touchscreen service menu lets me "clean" the touchscreen to show exactly these 2 bars that cannot be touched/touch doesn't react. Hence I decided to change the display (LCD+digitizer, as separating them is to difficult for me)
Now: Phone disassembled to the point, where I can unplug the display on the back, remove it and plug the new one in. Working so far.
Then I try to glue the new display in (display glue tape applied) which means I have to bend the cable a bit to go under the display. Before I push it firmly on the glue I test it again: LCD not working anymore. I see vertical artefacts.
Basically: The boot screen shows the white "SONY" centred on black background. But there are also artefacts from the "SONY" to the top and bottom. Like lines of error pixels with random colors. Not completely solid but visibly exactly where the "SONY" is.
Those lines are not static. They appear where bright objects are and are always top to bottom. Start is similar to this (during run it is not as bad as in the video, for me it is mostly e.g. when the symbols from the launchbar (WIFI, GPS,...) or the battery is shown) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2kBUXdGJtk
This happened to me twice now and I can't figure out, what I could have done wrong. Does anyone knows what happened here and how to avoid it?